skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps my opinion is a bit stupid, but I frankly don’t view attending a top college as such an important thing. The point of a career is to eat and live with some dignity. I don’t think you need a top school for this. If you’re much more ambitious, maybe you want to contribute in a higher way to society with your career. If you’re on a path where it’s obvious to others you’re doing this and likely to be successful, you’ll probably end up at the top school naturally. If not, you’ll probably end up somewhere better fit for your level. I frankly consider the state school honors kids to be the intellectual elites of their communities and the top school kids to be some weird combination of academic parents, childhood interventions (extra math tutoring etc.), extreme striving, VERY abnormal talent in a specific academic area, or, as recent events have shown, nepotism
It seems as expected to me. These planes cost tens of thousands per flight hour plus a huge support staff is needed. I don’t think they even fly that much.
And here is the checklist [1]

These seem like very common-sense things to check - Is this the right patient? Are the instruments sterile? Have we counted all the surgical equipment after the procedure?

[1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44186/97892...
A filler vowel is needed with certain consonant clusters. 100 is "stu" and "st" requires it, whereas "dwustu" (200), "trzystu" (300), "czterystu" (400) don't. I don't remember the list. "mn" is another combo that needs the vowel: "ze mnóstwa".
Can science survive without statistical significance?
Capcom Home Arcade is a pricey plug-and-play arcade stick with 16 games
I struggle with this occasionally. My partner is a hydrographer and her job is to create electronic navigation charts for the Western Canadian and Arctic coastline. This involves surveying the waters, studying tides, and generating the charts from all of the data. Sometimes she gets to go for weeks or a month at a time on the surveying boats, or they fly out to check on remote tide stations.

The rest of her time is much like ours, just sitting at a desk tapping away at a keyboard or mouse. But 1.5-2 months of her year are booked by her employer to be off surveying. They see whales, go fishing and dive for food in their spare time, visit remote waters in the arctic or BC coast, stay in interesting communities along the coast, and all kinds of neat stuff.

Of course it isn't perfect and the ~10 months spent charting is so tedious that it gives me mild discomfort from a distance. I think the value of having quality navigation charts for the ocean is a little known but incredibly important asset to any place in the world though. Vessels travelling safely is the backbone of trade, tourism, fishing, and many kinds of recreation. I suspect there's some satisfaction in that at least.
How about we drop all criteria for admitting students into colleges ? Instead we increase the coursework load and passing requirements ? They can all get in but they can't get out unless they are exceptional students ?
I saw this last night in NW Washington, DC (10:57 local time) while walking my dogs.

It was very large and very bright. For several seconds after it had disappeared, I expected a large "boom" to occur. Quite an unsettling moment.

edit: Looks like some dash cams caught it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbXdL5YTu50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdGhRNg6h0
The potential benefit of having checklists is enormous, and people's lives are on the line.

Many people rightfully ask

> Why has this not been adopted everywhere _yesterday_?

A book I read a few years ago might have the answer.

_Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It _ [0]

Here's the description, to evaluate if you want to give it a read:

> In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill was for several hundred thousand dollars--and Medicare paid it.

> These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how it was possible that world-class technology and well-trained personnel could result in such simple, inexcusable carelessness--and how a business that failed so miserably could be rewarded with full payment.

> Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result.

> Goldhill explicates a health-care system that now costs nearly $2.5 trillion annually, bars many from treatment, provides inconsistent quality of care, offers negligible customer service, and in which an estimated 200,000 Americans die each year from errors. Above all, he exposes the fundamental fallacy of our entire system--that Medicare and insurance coverage make care cheaper and improve our health--and suggests a comprehensive new approach that could produce better results at more acceptable costs immediately by giving us, the patients, a real role in the process.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642523-catastrophic-ca...

edit: formatting
E Ink’s digital blackboard won’t kick up chalk dust (2018)
A great book on this subject is The Checklist Manifesto [0]. An interesting point made in the book is that checklists help to correct the subtle psychological problems that occur in an operating theatre. Without a checklist a nurse who sees a potential problem might be hesitant to halt the procedure when the surgeon is ready to start. But with a checklist the surgeon must get explicit permission to begin from the nurse who is performing the checklist.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
Do you study atmospheric analysis? Weather prediction is not great currently and the weather is getting more volatile.

Why should someone be allowed to implement a design at scale without testing and solving the downstream problems first? That's not how engineering works.
I have never heard that either but I guess that impression might come from the first line of the MIT license:

> Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Where <copyright holders> is often filled as the company of the primary developer, e.g. "Facebook". What I often see (and use) to avoid this, is filling it in with "The <project> developers", e.g. "The React developers".
Several of those are available already. https://bellard.org/tcc/ is one example, although not "portable" in the sense that it only has an x86 backend.
>>Given the health risks, I'm not sure that's a good thing

There's also "health risks" in going to a restaurant, or storing bleach in your home. You show me a study that gives a marked decline in health or life expectancy among heavily tattooed individuals, or else this is just some low quality fear mongering.

>>(like most other fads)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing

I think judging people is extremely tacky, especially when you do so in a way that makes you sound poorly informed about the subject matter. We get it, you don't like tattoos or how they look. That's really your problem though, nobody else's. Policing other people's bodies is a bad look.
You can easily achieve this with tax cuts....
Human behavior isn't always explicable. This is one of those deleterious behaviors which boils down to a bunch of smart people exploiting the cognitive, emotional biases of parents and students.
AMP pages take forever to load, I hate seeing a white screen > 1 second. with amp that's all I see on mobile. A white screen burning my eyeballs, seemingly forever. And then I snap out of it and hit back to escape from AMPs empty void.
I can think of a few choice words.
But isn't the point that sufficiently smart compilers are supposed to compile to faster than C?
Apple and Google block video sharing app TikTok in India over pornography fears
Oh wow, that's amazing. I had been using "Everything" and WOX integrates with it for an even better experience.
A lot of comments here seem to be missing the point. This isn't supposed to add electricity to the grid. It just makes a self sufficient weather station to measure snowfall. Which is cool.

A lot of times you'd want to measure such things away from the grid without having to worry about batteries.

Something I'm curious about is whether similar tech could be used to self sufficiently measure pollen.
Right but not connected to the intentional store.
Yes, some poor word choice for journalism. “aesthetic sensibilities” would have had fewer negative connotations.
>be american
>get in debt to attend college
>work your ass out
>get shot
> so why do you get it all

Because it is available, and I paid for it...
Per Wikipedia a B2 bomber has an hourly operational cost of $135,000.

No idea how many hours you have to train on the thing in real life to become proficient; but at that rate...yeesh!
Swift lets you use any unicode characters, so emoji are perfectly valid variable names.

I've seen some "cute" github projects that use them, but they're obviously not for real life use since emojis are tough to type.
If I remember correctly, they had similar results (>30% improvements) with their pilot study in Michigan
Thanks for the detailed answer.

Right now I'm using qt translation system, it handles nicely various plural forms, just like Fluent.

But it requires special code in each message that has "X of Y" to handle the "ze 100" correctly in Polish. It might be done for Polish, because we have Polish developers, but many languages have similar quirks and it's not done for them. And it would result in combinatorial explosion of translation message versions if source code had to add special case for each quirk in each language.

This seems to be a much better solution.
When I was young and considering college in the 80's, I knew that they considered grades as well as extracurriculars - sports, clubs, activities, volunteerism, etc. Where I lived, there were few opportunities for that sort of thing and I couldn't afford the ones that there were, so I hoped my grades would be enough. I did OK, I suppose, but now that I'm a parent and coaching my own teenagers through college prep, I can't help but notice how expensive, time-consuming and out-of-reach all of these college-admissions-approved extracurricular activities are for all but the upper-middle class. My kids have done sports, band, dance, church and camps their whole lives, and all of those have been time consuming, expensive or both.
He titles it "college" and mostly uses Harvard as the example. About 0.1% of students attend Harvard, and their admissions experience is atypical.
Because getting into US college is all about compliance, commitment and leverage.

This is the ideal person for an ivy league:
- Parents moved to an expensive zip code so kid gets into good schools
- Parents and kids deal with lots of bureaucracies. Clubs, pastimes and volunteering... which are all specifically designed to get you into college. These places don't motivate critical thinking. They REQUIRE constant observance of rules and compliance to the rule makers.
- Massive student loans for the majority

The whole idea is that if someone graduates as a reporter, that person might voluntarily choose to not talk about things like, how we started a war of aggression to further our economic interest.

This goes also for the engineer working on the latest westernization of some random object/system.

Colleges don't want the best and the brightest. They want the best and the brightest... who are compliant and who have lots invested in the 'system'... commitment leads to leverage. They want 'team players'.

They also want to give as much advantage as they can to the existing elites. So... they require things that require money. That way they can say, 'we aren't turning away the best and brightest'... we are just turning away people who are smarter in favor of 'team players' who went to school practice, and ballet, and the model UN, and etc... which are of course out of reach for the average US family.
How do you personally feel about AMP? It looks like an attempt to make the web a walled garden.
Why not just administer an IQ test then?
I'm not convinced about using a lot of checklists. I have no doubt when checklists first come in everyone follows them and there are some measurable improvements.

The problem I have twofold. A few years down the road will people still really follow the checklists religiously, or quickly just fill out the boxes.

The second part is people's jobs get dumbed down by this, I'm sure we've been in some situation where there is a structured system which you have no control, you just fill out forms, its disempowering so you learn not to think, just do your part of the system and hope it turns out OK. Its where bureaucracy and red tape starts. I've quit jobs like that because I found it demoralizing.

Will be interesting if there was a follow up 5 years later.

EDIT: Didn't you get the memo about your TPS reports? That is what I'm trying to avoid.
I find it very concerning, using a checklist seems like common sense.
World of chaos and waste at Panasonic's battery-making operation for Tesla
The article (really a blurb) mentions Atul Gawande, he's written extensively and accessibly on how to improve healthcare both cost and quality. I can't recommend his writing enough, especially his New Yorker articles where he tackles subjects like unnecessary care, electronic health records, doctor training, etc.

Article on checklists in the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
Physicians are the leading cause of problems in America.

Artificially limiting the number of Physicians gives them higher pay at the expense of the Masses.
There genuinely needs to be more of this sort of thing.

The overall 'productionisation' of our industry has led us into a cookie cutter style of work and away from genuine problem solving like that. Ironically that sort of productivity boosting work has been wrapped up in a nonsense 'process automation consultant' role that is inflated beyond sense and often dismissed by the receiving company as an unnecessary expense.
They already do. It's just more subtle and complex... but they do review social media. And narcissism and psychopathy is going to bring you big points. Those things let you get the things they want to see (school president, etc)
My point is that all the interesting stuff is not in the center. There is some interesting stuff there, but there's just as much (if not more) interesting stuff and urban/natural beauty in other less central neighborhoods like Richmond, Sunset, Pac Heights, NoPa, Castro, North Beach, Mission-Bernal, Noe Valley, Lower Haight, and a bunch more. All of those neighborhoods are safe, walkable, have plenty of things to do, and compare well on just about every dimension to any neighborhood in any big city in the world. So while the drug and homelessness problems radiating out from SoMa/Tenderloin are very serious and not to be diminished, trying to paint the whole city as a cesspool just indicates that you haven't seen much of it.
I don't known much about AMP so my question is why can't it be a standard?

If there are some benefits to it why shouldn't those benefits be standardized? Is Google preventing the standardization of AMP?
Horrible for who? Who would it be horrible for, who would it benefit, and who is in a position to decide what the default is? Cui bono?
At least it's guaranteed that there won't be Intel modems in iPhones when 5G becomes the norm.

"Intel to Exit 5G Smartphone Modem Business, Focus 5G Efforts on Network Infrastructure and Other Data-Centric Opportunities"
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-modem-stateme...
rejection. solo, international technical founder. rant here: https://twitter.com/mluggy/status/1118481093831876608
Here's the actual 19-point checklist in English[0, pdf]

and other languages[1]

[0]: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44186/97892...

[1]: https://www.who.int/patientsafety/topics/safe-surgery/checkl...
Why Notre-Dame Was a Tinderbox
That's horrible for your son! I was in the top 2% of my class and applied to one college, under early acceptance. This was back in the mid-90's.
"The Checklist Manifesto" by Dr Atul Gawande details how resistant to change Medical Professionals can be to procedure. I thought it was hyperbole until I sat in on a certification training for a hospital group and the toxic cloud of chatter about not changing anything because it didn't make a difference was jaw-dropping.
Wasn't that old Big Data/ML joke how big corporation supplied ML solution vendor with all available data to search for correlations and the result was: "People are more likely to quit job if they visit linkedIn".
Cost of flying F-22 for an hour is reported anywhere between $33k and $70k, with most estimates in the $60k range. Let's assume $50k/hour to be safe - 200 hours of flight time gets you to the $10 million figure on its own, with no other costs accounted for.

Pilot still ends up the cheap part of the equation, given ~$200mil+ per airplane cost.

Whee - are we having budgetary fun yet :-)
I wonder how much of this is due to the self-selection of the profession in terms of personalities. Surgery in particular is known to attract Type-A personalities. I witnessed similar attitudes in healthcare and other high-status positions where hubris makes them think they know better...until they have an accident. And even then, there's a strong urge to rationalize the outcome as unavoidable
>No animal can throw a spear, or even a rock, more accurately than a human.

Not only accurately, but powerfully. Chimpanzees are much stronger than humans, but we can throw far harder thanks to different shoulder structures and muscle attachments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6dCFCMGq4

Baseball (a sport I love dearly) has "fundamentally absurd" rules. You have to touch the base to be safe? If someone catches the ball in the air I have to go back to the base? but then I can run again? Stealing isn't against the rules? What on earth is a balk? Yet, since the sport revolves around throwing (even batting is throwing without letting go) and we're the best at throwing it's okay to play baseball? This article profoundly misunderstands sport and why competition is fun.
I read in probably another HN thread that using an adblocker will actually slow down an AMP page - there's a hardcoded 3 second CSS delay which is cancelled if (via JS) it's detected the page is loaded.
I use macOS as a development machine but usually deploy code to a headless Ubuntu Server instance in the cloud.

Primary API server development is in Elixir since it’s just an elegant beast and can handle the vast majority of “pure” business logic.

If I need a database, in-memory store, or anything that can run in Docker I use Docker compose to run it. If it needs a bigger box or something managed in production I’ll just use whatever the hosting provider exposes (e.g. DigitalOcean’s Managed Databases).

Some stuff like bulky user data, random binary files, etc. goes to AWS S3.

Automated tests are developed alongside features and get run with GitLab’s continuous integration. This configuration usually reflects the dependencies that are run in Docker in development, but sometimes for low-impact tests I’ll just have it hit stateless production services.

Documentation gets auto-generated by Elixir’s ExDoc, or whatever language’s mainstream solution. Generating this for production documentation gets handled by GitLab CI of course.

Clients that hit the API are variable based on my needs but I usually make a React + Redux SPA or something in the Unity game engine. Web development is always set up with Gulp so that I can run and forget about whatever Webpack, Sass, and the files are doing underneath, it just updates automagically. Depending on the size of the project I often have multiple clients accessing overlapping subsets of API actions.

If this sounds like what your company is using or wants to use, please feel free to reach out at sam (at) mangane.se (I am in the USA even though the TLD is Swedish).
Yeah that seems like a legit issue. Like where can I as a user find quality news about it, and if you're the dev... no way for you to reach me either.
Video: https://imgur.com/MoKD67j from Reddit at /r/nova.
Looks like this site is already experiencing the hug of death. Anyone have a mirror?
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
The app design makes it harder to repost something and nudges you to post your original content about your daily life. Casual, low-key, not polished every day life stories from friends and even people I don't know that well are the main reason I open Instagram, and unlike the main feed (where everything is polished and photoshopped), it feels authentic.
Is there any notion of expiration? If I present a signed page to a crawler, what’s to stop them and their partners from serving that page on behalf of my domain for all eternity, and browsers presenting it as valid and authorized by my domain? From retractions to right-to-be-forgotten, there are a billion reasons I would want the ability to disavow cached content.
That's totally fine - if my next razor was the Cthulhu Aeons, I'd be more inclined to purchase it. I just don't know if I'd elect a leader based upon their imaginary sea friend.
Ah I see, good point. I think management of code copyright is inherently complicated and not something that a license template can really fix. You do need to keep track of who has copyright of the code.
The 8-Question Framework for Successful Rebrands
I'm claiming that you are not having war on drug. At best you're doing jack shit, at worst you're actually sabotaging the war on drugs.

I wrote an exact same response to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682651
your comment implies there isn't.
1. Install Windows 10

2. Install Chrome

3. Install Git

4. Install Java

5. Install Maven

6. Install IntelliJ

7. Create a new Spring Boot project using Spring Initializr
>Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year [...] collegiate performance [2].

That's not what your cite says. The InsideHigherEd article actually shows a strong correlation between SAT and grades but Aquinas identified a minority % of schools where it didn't. Please carefully read the 3 bullet points again and notice the minority percentages.

Your qualifier of "Generally" in your comment is misrepresenting Aguinis' findings.
List of organizations with .int domain names
It's a network filesystem that can connect to a huge array of cloud storage services
Visible mistakes generate lawsuits. There used to be more processes, removing them was generally a legal necessity.
Listen --

Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing presidential candidacy advice is no basis for a system of government.

On a more serious note, can any readers from ROC or anyone who's more in touch with the situation there give an insight into whether he stands a chance given (a) the sea goddess angle, and (b) the apparently PRC-friendly platform?
What is "the right thing", though? When requirements get more and more complex, "better tools" stop working. Their built-in mechanisms are not the answer to anything and everything. Beyond some complexity treshold, you can't do with generic solutions, but need to tailor solutions to the problem.
My former roommate is a pilot. When I first met him, I noticed that he uses checklists for just about everything, even the most basic everyday tasks.

After some time, I decided to apply that same mentality to my own life. Both in private and work situations.

I get it now. Checklists reduce cognitive load tremendously well, even for basic tasks. As an example: I have a checklist for when I need to travel, it contains stuff like what to pack, asking someone to feed my cat, check windows are closed, dishwasher empty, heating turned down, etc. Before the checklist, I would always be worried I forgot something, now I can relax.

Also, checklists are a great way to improve processes. Basically a way to debug your life. For instance: I once forgot to empty the trash bin before a long trip, I added that to my checklist and haven't had a smelly surprise ever since ;)