skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read that Dobelli and Taleb had a major falling out. Not clear who is plagiarizing who and not terribly important for me. I thought Dobelli's book was excellent and not 'drivel' but each to their own
One additional thing I got out of it that wasn't totally obvious to me beforehand about checklists is that they work better if they don't attempt to be exhaustive. Focus on the major items that should be "checked".
Im looking at the terms and the grammer being used,

we have to put our bullshit detector hats on for this.
its a controversial and political subject, thus vulnerable to spin.

the considerations required for a realistic view are not impossible,
sophisticated, yes, but humanly understandable.

there are phrases and terms [ie ICE accumulation] that mask the real description of the situation, and an appropriate model is not expounded upon.

ICE != snow , mass != density

ice accumulation != snow accumulation vice.versa.
The Latin term it was derived from is "nova stella", meaning "new star".
We have already done a few low-Earth-orbit radio dishes for VLBI [0]. IIRC correlating the data from a single on-orbit dish was difficult because it was moving way faster, over larger distance, than the other elements of the array. Still learning how.

[0]: https://tinyurl.com/google-search-vsop
I'm also biased, as I'm the author of Brotli. With Brotli you get about 5 % more density. Brotli decompresses about 500 MB/s while Zstd decompresses about 700 MB/s. Typical web page is 100 kB, so you need to wait 200 us for decompression. For zstd, you'd only need to wait 140 us.

That 60 us saving comes with a cost: you'll be transferring 5 % more bytes, which can cost you a hundreds of milliseconds. Brotli is also more streaming, so you get your bytes our earlier during the data transfer. This allows for pages to be rendered with partial content and further fetches to be issued earlier.

Zstd supporters have used comparisons against brotli where they compare a small window brotli against large window zstd. This makes it seem like zstd can compete in density, too, but that is just apples to oranges comparisons.
This is my only account on this site.
Doesn't that seem a little like you're imposing your own belief system onto them? I get it, this guy doesn't seem particularly Christian, but Bush seems like he could have very well been a fervent believer.
VW says China to become global software development hub to autonomous tech
Oddly, thanks to fixed point wireless broadband, outlying areas often have more competition than urban areas (at least in the US)
The process was introduced in 2008.

This news is that we've now run research across an entire country (Scotland) for the surgery carried out between 2000 to 2012 to find out how much harm has been prevented.
dogpile.cache [1] implements this pattern (or at least a very similar pattern) for both memcache and redis using locks. If the cache value doesn't exist, attempt to acquire the lock and generate the value. If the lock can't be acquired, wait until it frees then check for the value again.

[1] https://dogpilecache.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/
Calling XP "working together" is extremely reductive. And pair programming is only a small part of it. When it was introduced as a methodology, it was a pretty radical departure from widely accepted development practices at that time.
I get the point of checklist for critical process. But I think it's counterproductive to drone your life away following task lists full of feature creep.

First with a little training you can put mental reminders in your mind, trusting yourself that they will show up when needed. It also helps with keeping your brain and memory in good working condition, and force you to stay in mental clarity and not being so overworked and tired that you have to rely on external list.

Second it's not robust to rely 100% on a task list being completed, sometimes forgetting something means that it's not that important. It's more important to rely on situational awareness to know what's need to be done and in what priority. The logic behind is pick something from the hot mess and make the whole better.

Third we can automate and delegate more easily now, quite often if you need to use a checklist, a script would be even better.
> I'm not Russian (you don't have to believe me, but surely you can find some non Russians in your vicinity with the same ideas that wasn't installed by ...trolls in them)

> NATO has been surrounding Russia with bases

There is strong contradiction between these statements. You are either Russian or you have been strongly (perhaps without your own knowledge) influenced by the Russian propaganda.

If you do not believe this then ask yourself, why were the countries near the Russian border so desperate to join NATO?
Typing isn't always silent; not everyone has quiet keyboards.
> however the article doesn't discuss the implementation of the Promise.

Its not a "thundering herd" problem either. The Thundering herd is classically a scheduling problem.

You have 100-threads waiting on a resource (classically: a Mutex). The Mutex unlocks, which causes all 100-threads to wakeup. You KNOW that only one thread will win the Mutex, so 99 of the threads wasted CPU-time as they wokeup. When the next thread is done, 98 threads will wakeup (again, all wasting CPU time because only one can win).

Solving the thundering herd requires your scheduler to know all the resources that could be blocking a thread. The scheduler then only wakes ONE thread up at a time in these cases.

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I'm not entirely sure what the problem should be named in the blog, but it definitely isn't a "thundering herd". I will admit that its a similar looking problem though.
> Remember the days when postings were about serious technical advancements and not random hobbyist activities?

Not really no? Certainly not in the last 20 years at least.
Yes, sorry Social Media readers will not pay, because as you say the content they are consuming is mostly snippets of thought and links elsewhere, it's not the sort of service you'd subscribe to, but it is the sort of service lots of people like to use.

I do think there is a segment of users who would pay though - those who use the platform to broadcast and want to have a bit more control over their feeds/profile/comments.
Yep, completely agree.

You'd also have to convince me that this doesn't have unintended consequences as well if HR suddenly reaches out to you with a message around them being concerned you'd leave, but you have no idea why.

"Wait... Why should I want to leave? Is there something I'm missing out on that I'm not aware of?"

There's also an immediate extension of this where they do begin to snoop on email and communications between employees to try to measure this. While IBM clarifies that they don't do this today, it's in people operation's incentives to begin to do this if it improves the metrics they're assessed against.
> Question everything' is a good approach to assessing information from all sources

No it's not. Questioning climate science at a time where the consensus is near-universal and the consequences are dire and imminent is itself destructive. You need to question what doesn't make sense or isn't supported by evidence, and believe the rest.
Except they aren't. I'd bet most people saying this haven't used Firefox dev tools in a long time.
Well... IMO "unification" is the wrong term, "invasion" is what China is actually doing.
Stripe backs $40M investment in AI accounting service Pilot.com
There is no hidden depth in "the right thing": perform the intended action with as little time/memory complexity as possible. I disagree completely with what you're saying. If anything, the examples in the post show we still have a lot of opportunities to build better tools at the micro level. We didn't even try To build better tools for complex systems yet.
People feel more stress when they feel watched.
Stress increases productivity in the short term, before you burn out. But who cares about that right?
No. They’re saying Systrom finds the hamburger menu is ugly, crude, and completely out of place on Instagram.
Two genes linked with violent crime (2014)
Use incognito mode for this site... your back button will thank me
I feel like if people are bothered by people talking nearby, they're going to be using headphones anyway. Honestly, you do you. Talking to yourself is far less disruptive than say, somebody tapping a pen consistently for extended periods of time or co-workers holding a loud conversation nearby or just even a mechanical keyboard.

On that note, sometimes I do wonder what my colleagues think, since I sometimes do the talking myself through a task as well.
Google is trying to turn the entire internet into their own walled garden.
One of my previous employers had an open-plan office, and after a management change introduced mandatory hotdesking. You had to move desks every day -- management checked every morning and wrote people up if they sat at the same desk for two consecutive days.

Then they introduced a mandatory uniform and a complete ban on personal items -- all the Wallace and Gromit coffee mugs, the photos of family disappeared overnight.

It's the most sterile, depersonalising, demotivating work environment I've ever encountered.

Incidentally, BPS covered this in another article... "Why it’s important that employers let staff personalise their workspaces" -- https://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/03/27/why-its-important-that-... . It's well worth a read.
When origami meets rocket science
> An entire generation has been romanticized that if you "do what you love" you'll end up a billionaire. The complete opposite is true.

The implication that flipping burgers will make you a billionaire is patently absurd. You should never feel ashamed about your work, but menial work in $current_year actually leads to poverty and hunger because it doesn't pay a living wage. An "entire generation" doesn't have illusions about how the world works. The 2008 recession was more than sufficient to dispel that. They just want food and shelter.
Fired After 4 Days
Funny I have started programming for about 3 months. I got an internship position at a company and 4 days later they fired me for not having enough experience. no feedback or help was offered to me during this period. I did deliver based on my self-study. but There is still this feeling inside me telling me that you were not good enough. I just need some insights.
Not much of a contribution, though; it's just a string of rhetorical questions that have no relevance if you're not a believer. The follow-up comment below is from the same POV but has some substance.
You are probably also oblivious to the very real consequences of other people knowing various things or having partial information, etc.

It's stressful because it has consequences. If you don't find it stressful, you probably are failing to connect the dots and see that x outcome is related to y behavior.
He'd have my vote if he could pull off "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" in a debate.
Agreed, checklists can become a cargo cult. Also, checklists don't always need to be written down; just systematizing some mental checks can be helpful enough (e.g. "phone-keys-wallet").
The Guardian wrote a false headline stating man with a gun his car was unarmed:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/23/pcc-guardian-m...

Additionally there has been a culture of rivalry and personal dislike between the Graun (and now Buzzfeed news) staff towards Wikileaks from staff who previously worked with them, namely Janine Gibson and James Ball - it's worth following them and reading their tweets. It would be very naive to think this doesn't affect their (now very negative) Wikileaks & Assange coverage.
If you made your conclusion's from https://blog.cloudflare.com/results-experimenting-brotli/ be warned that both of it's results and conclusions are flawed, because of a significant methodology flaw.

You just cannot compare two things with a commutative function, and that blog post is based on an assumption that you can. Math just doesn't work like that.

Brotli's fastest compression modes are 3-5x faster than zlib's fastest modes. For every gzip quality setting there is a brotli setting that is both faster and more dense than that gzip setting.
Show HN: Compare employee commute for multiple properties (commutestudy.com)
You got me to go back and watch it. It was great.
Our negotiating position as engineers is way too good to put up with shit like this. I have savings precisely so that I can walk off the job the instant hot desking is announced.
For middlemen it can cost significantly more, as they often have to pay the businesses for the service anyway (e.g. food delivery)
Especially when the code in the SMS is visible in the notification even if the phone is locked (at least in default phone configurations).
> You know what would really fix this? Developers doing their work.

That's merely replacing one problem by another, which is: how do you get developers to do their work?
4/7 Engineer
I've been at a new job for about a month. So far it's great, catered meals, WFH days, nice work-life balance and so-on.

Yesterday I had my first 1:1 with my manager, in which he told me the company has rated me as a "4 out of 7" in terms of skill. The conversation was pretty friendly, we were laughing etc. but as the day went on I kept thinking "4 out of 7? Based on what metrics?". I asked my manager what the rating is based on over Slack, no response. Later in the day after we had talked about other stuff, asked again briefly, no response.

What the job has been like so far:

• I worked with design in my 1st week to prototype 3 different design systems in CRA apps – basically todo-list apps using different UI libraries. The goal was to see which React app was easiest for designers or Rails devs (and anyone else who is anti-styled components) to jump in and modify styles, and which system seemed easiest to extend. Ended up choosing a system, and building a bridge between CSS and styled so devs can use styled-components and designers can use SASS and both will work, design seemed happy, we presented to the company, everyone clapped. Yay, great first week.

• The next week was training 8 hours a day with the other new hires, and I got no tasks for a week.

• Third week I'm back into the mix. We just switched to Auth0 so I was tasked to write the e2e tests to test logging in with our new provider, using various authentication methods. I also reviewed a number of PRs, and fixed some small/easy front-end bugs.

• 4th week I had my 1:1 where they said I'm a "4 out of 7". I know I haven't exactly been doing rocket science in my first month here, but I've done everything they've told me to within the allotted time. We have 2-week sprints and usually only have a couple of tasks. From my perspective this job is really easy, so I'm confused.

Anyone heard of this system, or know what I can do to improve my rating?
Yea good question, who wants him out? The journalists, a lot of people, but probably not the shareholders.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17572141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513843
You forget that there is no force in the universe as powerful as compound interest.
Simpler life. Less productive.

Perhaps more time to wonder, explore, and waste.

Perhaps less fulfilling and more difficult to achieve goals.
> Despite my strong skepticism of this technology being used as a replacement or even supplement for solar panels anytime in the near future

I doubt the point is to replace or supplement solar. The point is probably to have a less bulky or expensive way to run remote sensors
> GitHub, which pretty much exists to make contributions easy across institutional boundaries

No, GitHub exists to somehow benefit the current owners, Microsoft, however they decide is the best way.

> No one benefits from the choice of MIT as a GitHub default.

Actually, there is a good argument to be made that Microsoft actually benefits from MIT being the default, as
nickpsecurity pointed out in a sibling comment.
Of course there is consequences for everything, I just embrace it. Having to be stressful because of this is in itself stressfull.
How many Muslims in Sweden are going to be watching a comedy that lampoons their religion?

How exactly is lampooning Islam going to help Christians, ex-Christians or ex-Hindus?
No assigned desks with a badly implemented "flat structure" is a special kind of hell. You're a nobody with nowhere to go. No title, no fixed desk, no fixed chair, no identity. Developer #13 sitting at desk #21.
Bing implements AMP, and there's nothing technically stopping other search engines from adding support.

Also, links in the Twitter app default to AMP as well.
They get to launch* their own stuff for only the rocket cost, that part is fine.

I mean if they have Boeing, NASA, etc. as paying customers at a standard $X they can't just go "Well Google you're launching a competitor to us so we're gonna charge you 20 * $X instead to prevent you from launching".
Like other mention, it costs a good chunk of money, but also you may have to write supplemental statements for each school depending on the application system they use.
> User do want AMP-like technologies.

Some users do. Some don't. I certainly don't want AMP-like technologies, regardless of where the cache is.

> I want the browser to restrict the publishers as much as possible

In the browser where I can control it, sure. I don't disagree at all. On a third party server where I have no control over it, no.
> And what makes university textbooks more authoritative than a scientific paper?

Handbooks have broader scope, giving you overview of the field. Their job isn't to push agendas or most recent research, but to give you understanding of the basics of a field of study, and an ability to understand other, specialized sources of knowledge.
this is correct however its not all sea ice. permafrost is melting and running off into the sea. the permafrost remnants, mostly silt subside but the lithostrat[bedrock] rebounds like a slow trampoline. this causes rate of permafrost melt and effluence to increase.
Fox News is an easy target because of their motto. I wonder if that was originally conceived as satire.
Deductive verification is a large extension of designing by contract: The addition of a SMT solver to verify the contracts at compile time for instance. On the other hand libhoare only adds the contracts as a runtime addition with no mention of formally verifying these.

The same with the RFC, it dismissed automatic verification: "Automated proof systems are very hard, especially when AFAIK Rust's type system doesn't even have partial formal proofs yet."

This paper shows a similar approach to OP's but applied to Curry: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04816. It shows how no formal proofs are needed. However Curry is significantly more pure.
>"...Afros, braids, twists and other hairstyles popular among black women."

They literally say so in the subtitle. The discrimination exists before people enter the airport, and it comes in the form of what hairstyle to choose. This is partly done on a cultural basis, and partly because of a different hair composition. But the important thing is, the machine does not differentiate on the basis of race, it's a machine that detects areas of suspect density that could presumably be hiding contraband. I am a white man with long dense hair, and my hair triggers the machine almost every time. Not because I look like a hippy, and Nixon is still running the show, but because I could hide things in my hair.

The fact that certain hairstyles are more popular within a racial group IS the discriminating factor, not the machine.
Yes, that limits the number of identities a review can come from, but it cannot tell if they're lying. It's powerless against approaches like: "Buy my product from Amazon, leave me a 5 star review and I'll pay your fees, a $10 bonus and let you keep the item".
Notably, out of school detention is punishment aimed at the student's parents, not at the student, in most cases. Rarely a student who actually cares about school and their grades will receive it as punishment, and even more rarely this will be for non-BS (political) reasons. Good students can avoid BS (and much non-BS) punishment by being on a sports team, the more important (well-funded), the better, and the more important their role on it, the better.

School in the US is weird.
Could like point out the studies you mentioned?

The studies concerning long-term impact of surgical checklists I found all claim an improvement.

> Sustained use of the checklist was observed with continued improvements in process measures and reductions in 30-day surgical complications almost 2 years after a structured implementation effort that demonstrated marked, short-term reductions in harm. The sustained effect occurred despite the absence of continued oversight by the research team, indicating the important role that local leadership and local champions play in the success of quality improvement initiatives, especially in resource-limited settings.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25806951
Notes on AI Bias
These tiers are ridiculous. The only reason I am not in the Air Force is that ROTC would not give a type 1 for a two year scholarship to a prior active duty at Harvey Mudd. The remaining cost was too much, so I went elsewhere on academic scholarship.
They're super useful for filing road debris insurance claims. I was able to pull a frame from my dashcam video to show my insurance the airborne tire tread that destroyed the front end of my car.
What Should I Read to Understand Zoning? – Market Urbanism
>We shouldn't neglect the impact on the brain a professional sports career has. I've seen it many times. The amount of sacrifice and energy put into something like this leads to a very unbalanced lifestyle, which is usually encouraged from all sides (parents, coaches, friends).

I think you might have the causal relationship backwards, at least for a lot of athletes. Elite sport is a really good way of not dealing with your emotional problems. It's a socially legitimate form of obsession, a path in life that makes eating disorders and self-harm look like the determination to win. You can lead a lifestyle that would be obviously pathological for anyone but an elite athlete and people will applaud you for it. It's an all-consuming kind of avoidance coping that nobody scrutinises too deeply.

When athletes retire, they lose their structure, they lose their support network, but they also lose their excuses. All the problems you used sport to escape from are now front-and-center, and you've got nowhere left to run. It's like sobering up after a 20-year bender.
People that don't need to concentrate or that are not easely disturbed have no problem with it.

I dislike it with passion and open office together with no parking spaces close by later than 08:15 made me look for a new job. These everyday problems are the most annoying.
So do educate us with facts. Because, you know, many of us don't think your position is correct, given what we think we know of history and politics. You may in fact know more, but merely stating the claim does nothing. It neither educates nor persuades - it merely argues.
Back when his reputation wasn’t so low: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/mark-zu...
For people interested in this, I strongly recommend reading the Checklist Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto

A checklist is a practical tool to document processes.
In my family's case, yes, they have all been illegals. I cannot speak for others.

Why they commit the crime is not my point, the fact is they are committing the crime and endangering citizens living there.
Do you also do this when the 'conversation' is just you making statements about yourself that serve no purpose other than providing you with the pleasure of making statements about yourself?