skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you kindly expound on how the incentive example I described would be like a command economy? And how would that be different from the capital gains tax rates we have now ( in the sense the government providing an incentive for investment)?

With regards to:
>We can't count on noblesse oblige to do it, and involving the state is how we involve democracy in the process.

I believe it's the democratic part that bothers me - as, and excuse me if this is a poor analogy, like 3 wolves an one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

I don't want you to think that I am ignorant of the fact that we do need some level of economic leveling for a well functioning society. My concern is how to best achieve that while preserving an individual liberty.

Again, appreciate the response.
Similar thoughts but we dont have the spec for the hardware yet, this is merely what we think it supports
> Using humans as a standard is really foolish given how objectively terrible we are at this.

Yeah, it would be foolish to use my grandmother as a benchmark for driverless cars. Humanity would experience a net increase in safety if she were to take a driverless car to church.

But even the best driverless car today with all their LIDARs can't outperform my father, a 40 year veteran of UPS with literally millions of accident free miles under his belt in every driving condition imaginable - rain, sleet, snow, fog, bright sun. All with binocular cameras, and a finely tuned driving ethic. If I presented UPS with a fleet of similarly capable driverless trucks, I would be a billionaire, and the world would be net-safer.
Just don't go supersonic until the plane is over the ocean?
Biofuels have been a disaster inasmuch as we've destroyed enormous amounts of rainforest to grow them, releasing quite a bit of carbon in the process (and destroying wildlife habitat, of course)
It's generally well accepted that Struensee was an Enlightenment and liberal thinker. He believed in these values deeply, and when he saw an opportunity to impose them on a people, he took it. Plus, I'd imagine that Struensee was a man of Enlightened Absolutism, believing in a strong benevolent executive, preferably a King, and was possibly against a Republic.

The thing about Struensee is that he went way too far. The fact that he never spoke any Danish, speaking only German, did not make him a favourite among the populace. Additionally, to help his government reforms, he would often dismiss entire departments (without pension and compensation, no less!) with people of his own likening.

The fact that a German was running Denmark was a scandal of the highest order. And with the free press laws granted, they went out and wrote anti-Struensee pamphlets.

Just because you give them some favours, doesn't mean they will look the other way at your other less popular actions.
Lobbyists are not trying to bring expert information to elected officials. They are trying to influence public policy to the benefit of the people or organizations paying them.
I think most people on business trips where they could be reimbursed for valet parking at an airport probably take Uber or Lyft already, which saves the same amount of time.
No, that's unknowable conjecture without a safe-as-possible double-blind placebo of the relevant, individual ligands under hospital supervision.
Out of curiosity, who do you usually use for your assembly service? I've ordered boards from JLCPCB, but only ever done assembly myself. Can you typically send your JLCPCB orders straight to the assembly house? Would love to hear more about the process of using an assembly service.
In my part of North America, you can do better than any weather forecasts that I've ever seen by simply predicting that tomorrow's weather will be pretty much the same as today's. And all forecasts beyond three days are essentially worthless.
Yes. It is from geonames.org
I note you say "genuine," but in many cultures perceived social value is definitely inheritable.
Pros and cons to the libc ABI approach. It works very well for things that are C or mostly C-compatible (C++, maybe Rust, maybe other more esoteric languages), or interpreters with a strong grounding in C (Python; Ruby; historically, Java). It doesn't mesh well with Golang's choice to avoid linking libc, which in practice probably only works out because Linux maintains syscall ABI stability forever.
I think slower flight might be best for long distance travel. Something like an airship. I don't know much about the technology, but my naive view is that the technology is undervalued. An airship has VTOL, is quieter, is more spacious, produces less carbon emissions, etc.
> We can't count on noblesse oblige to do it

Exactly the problem. If the people with the big resources were taking care of the big problems, government would have a lot less to do.

And although I get that the taxation system is ultimately undergirded by the threat of force, so is most property ownership. E.g., consider John McCcain's 4-8 houses. [1] He obviously could only be in 1 at a time. If homeless people took the rest over, they would be ejected by force. Government force in specific. That's how democracy works: we come to agreements on how things should be run, and people who disagree sufficiently end up complying at the point of a gun. Libertarians who get the vapors at the violence underlying taxation but not property are not actually concerned about violence.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2008/08/mccain-unsure-how-man...
Indeed, leveraging an information asymmetry between their employers and the officials they are lobbying is a key technique here.
As someone who went through this couple of months ago.

1. Code by writing utilities to help your engineers.

2. Never code something which is critical for the release, you will end up blocking everyone.

3. Let engineers make mistakes( which are not critical) without blaming them.

4. Facilitate communication not lone wolf culture.

5. Avoid taking decisions without consulting your team, which invloves them.

6. Keep practicing leetcode or puzzles or programming or whatever you do, because you will be replaced sooner or later.

7. Don't get emotionally attached to people, it's not your company. Work hard and fair. But look out for yourself.

8. Manage expectations clearly with upper management, don't let team feel unnecessary pressure from hyperactive product teams.

9. Clearly set expectations, chalk out a plan and work towards it with each Engineer.

10. Relax, it is not a 1 week task, it will take years if not months to see some visible change.
The US has banned overland commercial supersonic flights, so yea, going cross country is still an issue but there's still very lucrative oceanic routes that would be unaffected. Also, there's large, sparsely settled parts of the US, Canada and Russia that aircraft routinely fly great circle routes over where sonic booms would be of little to no concern.
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Oh, a free app is tracking its users again....and why are weather apps often unscrupulous
It's uncertain if microdosing a particular ligand has any scientifically-proven evidence of efficacy without studying it. In many instances, it maybe a shared delusion placebo effect and/or socially-reinforced fad.
Medium-2-md: Convert Medium posts to markdown with front matter
Ethereum is - as the founders have repeated - very much an experiment and still in "beta". The currency aspect of Ethereum is even more of an experiment. So invest/trade/speculate at your own risk.
> Thinking about it, readiness based reading from disk only works if you tell the system up front where to read and how much

> It would also be nice to have completion-based network I/O with AIO for symmetry reasons

I.e., you want something like NT IO completion ports, introduced in 1994.
Directly, sure.

Indirectly? In the post-Citizens United world, it's literally unbounded. Not to mention a lobbyist is free to:

1. Organize a fund-raises for the politicians campaign. They can't pay $100k directly, but they can sell 100 seats for $1000 each.

2. With a wink and hand=-shake, pffer the politician a job in the future.
An assumption that is unsaid in all these pro-tax articles is that somehow taxation is some innately good thing, and letting those evil rich people keep their money is some fundamentally wrong thing. Why is it assumed so moral and good to give your money to the government?

>Why is maximizing government revenue a good idea?
Why indeed. Arguments say it is because that money can be spent for higher purposes, fancy projects private investors will never do, etc... But if that is the case, and you extend that line of thinking ad absurdum, what is the point of letting people earn money at all? Why not confiscate 100% of it to spend more efficiently and better by the government? Obviously that would not work, as it would be communism.
(yet another) one liner:

ed the_file <<< $'398d\nwq'

edit: another one liner but still using ed I guess.
A basic podcast that I’ve found useful is Manager Tooks. It contains a lot of good habits and tools. Listen to it on your commute for a month or two and you’ll get the gist of it.

The Effective Executive by Drucker is a great intro to leadership. He puts the role in the context of getting results.

A couple other thoughts:

1 - Communicate the same message over and over. Do it verbally and in writing.

2 - Have weekly 1 on 1s with all your reports. They should own the first 20 mins. You own the last 10. Take notes.

3 - Make sure Meeting notes go out for every meeting.

4 - Talent is your job, not HRs. It’s up to you to hire and train the good, and nudge out the bad.

5 - Assume you only get your best people for 1-2 years. Plan for succession.

6 - A good relationship is “My top 20% will work for me again” and not “Everyone is my buddy”

7 - Be careful about off work socializing. If you go to a happy hour with subordinates, disappear after the first round. Don’t make these events mandatory.

8 - Keep performance discussions between you and your reports. Don’t belittle anyone to their peers.
I think you're missing something about Utility - specifically that ethically, if we're going to talk about this notion of utility, we should increase aggregate utility (the sum of utility of all people).

The utility of money to a single individual decreases as the individual acquires more money, i.e. utility of money is higher for poor people and lower for rich people. This notion applies directly to the things purchased by that money. The aggregate utility (benefit to humanity) of a yacht that a single individual purchases is therefore far lower than the aggregate utility of a bunch of smaller things that are purchased by a bunch of less wealthy individuals.

And then what follows from that is by purchasing yachts, you are promoting an industry that lowers aggregate utility. It can be argued that if you're going to "feel bad" about money, this spending is what is the potentially unethical part, which was the author's point.
> I will probably burn all my virtual karma, but I just need to say this: I hated Catcher in the Rye with a passion. I used to do a lot of reading, still do my fair share, but just could not stand that book.

There's a very short window in which one can read Catcher for the first time and still enjoy it. It's that 3 year window between 13ish and 16 where you've just begun having all these angsty thoughts about the world, yet have no context or understanding for them. Outside of that, it just comes off as a whiny entitled kid doing nothing. But within that context, it's a seminal coming of age story. I can distinctly remember the ending being the first work of art to move me to tears.
At a minimum it could tell you if the first byte at the fd offset is in cache, which it does not today. That'd at least get you a filesystem block (or more likely, 4k page). I agree this is less useful than, say, the full generality of NT IO completion.
Yeah, I can see how that would be an issue. The HMO I'm on actually specifically covers private practitioners because their in-house practitioners are totally full for months. And it was pretty damn easy to get an appointment. I just had to call in and get a preapproval.
You can’t disrupt physics. It is the most unforgiving regulator.
Get them to fix their broken systems? The concept of a "label" exists only in the user agent. To everyone else the '+' character is just part of the account identifier, and a perfectly valid element of any e-mail address. The entire portion before the '@' sign is potentially significant. If someone hands you an address abc+def@example.com, there is no guarantee whatsoever that mail sent to abc@example.com will end up in the same individual's inbox—that could be a completely unrelated account.

On the e-mail provider's side, one way to work around such broken systems would be to let users generate random, opaque aliases which do not contain their primary e-mail username but route to the same account, with a predetermined label applied on receipt. These would look just like ordinary addresses and there would be no way for services to strip out the identifying elements.
Tesla'll lose the last strong differentiation from competition and Kona follow-ups will eat model 3 margins. Tesla will get back where is profitable (sport cars) and will likely want to double down on electric trucks, probably with a specialized highway autopilot.
You were downvoted for this, and I agree that it’s a controversial stance, but there is a genuine point to be made here.

It’s not uncommon for teenagers to be misdiagnosed with mental illness or ADHD and either of those are disqualifiers for FAA medical certification, military pilot careers, and likely many other military, law enforcement, and intelligence careers. IIRC, a prolonged history of ADHD treatment is enough to disqualify military entrance for any MOS without waiver. Waivering prior ADHD diagnosis requires a costly and difficult process to undiagnose the patient and prove that he or she no longer has the condition and was incorrectly diagnosed in the first place, at least if you are trying to get FAA certified for a Class 1.
Where was a report recently that said some parts of Antarctica have grown in amount of snow. So that might make it harder or make there be more "land" to cover?
The Dell C62x0 series high density compute systems are pretty cool too. Up to 4 nodes per chassis, dual cpu 48 gb per node.

Biggest issue is fan noise. You have to tuck them away somewhere.

e.g. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-C6220-GEN-II-4-x-Nod...
A good model would have a flag that allowed databases to disable caching and everyone else to enable it, because not everything is a database engine. The absence of choice is not a feature.
Ask HN: What are the scientifically realistic (or accuarate) sci-fi novels?
I came to that video after watching the one about children doing ASMR.

On the one hand, there's a woman providing hours and hours of gratuitous upskirt shots and flashing her panties, made creepy because of the role the children play in it. The sheer scale of the content being uploaded makes it feel less innocuous to me, so it's hard to think this is just a woman indulging in a mild fetish...something else must be going on.

After watching the ASMR video though, I felt utterly disgusted. The mother was on record saying it was fine, and that she was writing 'sassy' role-play stuff that has blatant sexual undertones. It felt to me like a clear case of child exploitation, given the number of subscribers and the mildly pornographic subtext.

I remember some time ago there was another popular youtube channel that was basically a case study on the root cause of Complex PTSD: the father would consistently gaslight one of his kids, under the guise of horseplay, in order to broadcast his kid's reaction to such bullying to a wider audience. Presumably because the parents were making bank from it.

This should not come as a surprise—the internet is full of anything you could imagine and 'rule 34' came about for a reason—but I didn't expect to see something bordering CP on Youtube. Given the monetisation model Youtube has now, I can see why popular YT 'stars' will completely detach from their humanity in order to bring home more bacon.
Fractional ownership works for the likes of Netjets buying existing aircraft types, but it's another niche-sized market and essentially a way for the superrich to avoid buying aircraft.
The ones that aren't unsubstantive or flamey are welcome here.
Spring '19 Updates to Translated Terminology
I think, by definition, science fiction assumes some technology that we don't have (not realistic?). P.K. Dick was famous for writing novels that included only one small leap in technology and showing how people would respond to them. His book, "The World Jones Made" doesn't include any particular high tech but is terrific nonetheless. Isaac Asimov tried to do this, too. "Foundation" comes to mind as a book that seems entirely realistic.
> With a progressive web app if they like your app they can add it to their device home screen without installing via the app store and without using up space on their device.

Just no. As near as I can tell, PWAs are worse than apps from a security point of view. The odds approach zero that I'd ever dare to use one.
This story is absolutely heartbreaking. This young man died alone, trying to ration his $1300/mo insulin.

Does anyone know if there are startups trying to tackle this specific problem? I would be curious about learning more about them. I don't understand why a company doesn't just come in and massively undercut the competition.
> Keep in mind that this is the market speaking, not a 'specific need of some group'.

I wonder sometimes, though, which market is being served.

I think in some ways, it is actually the VC market itself that is being served, not the customers of the company the VCs are investing in.

There is so much VC money floating around, and they are 'in the market' for investments to make with that money. The problem is sometimes there just isn't a downstream market that needs to be served by a company funded with all that money, so the VC needs to try to find one. And they often times reach pretty far to find that investment opportunity, and try to force a downstream market where there is none.

There might not BE any market for the 'productized and supported' version of the open source project that a VC wants to fund, but since they have so much money they decide to try to force it to fit that model. They put a ton of money in, grow the company, and then are forced to monetize to support that big of a company.

Maybe the community was being served just fine without that much investment, but now that the investment has happened, the company is forced to act in ways that AREN'T serving that community.
I will second the podcast recommendation. I listened to it religiously when I first started in management and I continued its suggestions with modification until I went back to development. It was a great crutch to lean on until I got my bearings:

https://www.manager-tools.com/
The revealed track record of the various three-letter-agencies in the past decade does not vote in their favor in this case.
Sounds like a miserable way to browse the web. Why not just isolate your browsing in a VM and trash it when you’re done?

I’m not security expert but seems to me if you clicked on something malicious, it costs you nothing as you’re not really exposing anything. Obviously don’t do your banking, etc on the same VM then go clicking around warez sites
There's zero chance that they know it's safer per mile than humans. Incidents are so far in between you'd need way more more than what the paltry Tesla fleet is collecting before crash per mile could be accounted for with any meaningful accuracy
Why Dart instead of Typescript? How well does it integrate with npm modules? i.e. do I have to reinvent a lot of wheels compared to using Typescript?
That's really interesting, it hadn't occurred to me that an FPGA would ever fall under ITAR, then again, after quickly scanning Wikipedia, I didn't even realize things like night vision fall under that too, but I guess it makes sense.
No.

The Senate was created via legislation, you can't legislate it away.

You'd have to amend the constitution.
One thing comes to mind is that people making $10M+ have a lot more to lose and might benefit more from the safety that the defense budget provides.
it's been a while, do-178 is concerned with software while do-254 is hardware (both for aviation, FAA standards). Depending on the criticality of the component (e.g. engine control vs radios vs entertainment system) they will abide by different levels (ie DO-178A ... DO-178E).

For both software and hardware there will be requirements for documentation, design, verification, and testing. Some even go as far as to requir the implementation of certain functional logic in multiple ways and having concensus logic (eg hardware logic to interpret GPS accuracy/confidence That ends up being broadcast externally).

There's also DO-160 that's concerned with environmental requirements (eg temperature, humidity, lighting).

This is what makes a radio that should cost $300, cost $5000, and why FAA certified aviation components are expensive compared to uncertified components (eg hobby airplane builds).
Or year later they got bought by some other company and your account is transitioned to the new company but those emails automatically got sent to spam and now all of a sudden you’re a customer of a new company and you had no idea. It’s happened to me more than once.
HospitalRun: https://hospitalrun.io/

Built with the developing world in mind first its features (offline first) and its user experience aren't limited to resource-constrained environments.
nice suggestions, thanks!
I have read Martian and it is so far the most accurate novel that I have ever read. I am looking for a similar taste again.
Human genome editing: ask whether, not how
Or just taking a limo/taxi to the airport. Solved problem.
I'm having a hard time perceiving 3 fatalities in 1 billion miles of Tesla Autopilot as false advertising that resulted in preventable human loss. The average number of fatalities was 11.6 per 1 billion vehicle miles in 2017.

That's less than 1/3 the rate of average.*

I understand the comparison is not direct since autopilot driving happens on the highway and those are general miles, but it is the best number we have for comparison's sake right now.
I've noticed that any anti-nuclear comments on HN get downvoted. Hmmm... For my pro-nuke friends, I highly recommend "Nuclear Power is Not the Answer" by Helen Caldicott. If anyone can find fault with her research, I'd like to know about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Power-Answer-Helen-Caldicott/...
I've been collecting a list of things to read about managing humans over the past decade, and finally made the move to engineering manager in 2018. Here's my list:

https://github.com/skyzyx/managing-humans/blob/master/README...

In short, I would recommend subscribing to http://randsinrepose.com and https://blog.knowyourcompany.com and reading (and understanding) every single post. Even if you want to tweak things and go your own way, these are successful engineering leaders that you will want to learn from.

Managing humans is a very different job from managing code or managing machines.
Many folks that i know of don't keep browsing App stores for apps (some may look for new games now and then) and i wonder it may apply to substantial number of users out there.
The app has to be some how popular (either by word of mouth or ) before it gets installed, where as browsing web sites is
just a matter of clicking some link.