skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the bad surprise category was the 50-ish guy I admitted as an intern for uncomplicated chest pain. He got married that day but left the ceremony in an ambulance instead of a limousine. The plan was cardiac enzymes and put him on a stress test in the morning. First set was negative and the anginal pain had abated. All the right things were done. Seemed straightforward.

Three hours later while I was trying to sleep I get a frantic call from the ED that he was coding. He was sitting up watching TV, suddenly turned grey and clutched his chest, and fell back in ventricular fibrillation. We shocked him into pulseless electrical activity and then did a three hour futile code because his new wife couldn't grasp the fact her new husband had died right in front of her. And really, who can?

Surprise.
The bigger issue is that there should be no price discrimination on safety gear unless it's complex and expensive.
There’s at least one piece of data on every call that the network operator has—-the identity of the prior network hop.

In the early days of fighting email spam, that was enough. Every network operator was responsible for receiving spam complaints and responding appropriately. Network providers that couldn’t or wouldn’t prevent spammers from using their networks were blacklisted and other networks would refuse to route mail originating from them.

It wasn’t perfect, but it was far better than nothing.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/03/20/retire-sta...
As does specie.

"On the Continuous Devaluation of the Roman Currency"

http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/~lukacs/ROMLAS.htm

http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/~lukacs/ROMLAS_files/image008.gif

"For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
> This could easily cripple people on low incomes.

To keep this in perspective, Google Fi costs substantially more than every other phone plan unless you travel internationally on a regular basis.
So, I support her right to have personal opinions about what constitutes a person of the female gender.

However, I also support her employers right to choose not to continue to employ someone who creates a toxic environment for other employees, especially when the only crime those other employees might have committed was to be born into a body of the wrong pairing of X and Y chromosomes.
If you demonstrate that government employees changed files all over your hard drive during a "search" then I wonder if recourse or compensation or legal action is possible.

I understand the law permits CBSA agents to perform warrantless searches. e.g. reading the contents of your hard drive. This is, rightly, controversial. But then does the law also permit them to modify the contents of your hard drive?

The act of logging in and browsing your computer will make many changes to system log files, to metadata of documents (e.g. last accessed date), etc. (Just thinking out loud about technicalities and other angles on this.)
TruePush is doing 100Mn Notifications / month. Achieved in less than 100 days
> landlords eventually capture all income gains in the form of rent increases

This is exactly the strongest argument against universal basic income, that nobody wants to address.
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And at least where I live in California, housing is much more expensive to build in real terms than it used to be.

I lived in a house that would be illegal to build today (the house was too large for the lot; note that it's total square footage, not the housing footprint that is the problem, which might explain why ranches seem to be so popular around here). That's ignoring things like tighter building regulation for safety and environmental reasons.

It also means that the house itself will appreciate because if you tore down the house, you would have to build a much smaller house on the lot.

I looked into buying a lot and building, and estimates were showing that the permitting process could cost more than the lot itself.
Relevant context: the AXS app is required for this year's BlizzCon: https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22938865

Which is how the permissions issues resurfaced: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/bkd5ew/you_need_to_hav...
That's interesting! I wonder when this strong preference for plural verbs appeared in British English.
> and you had a lot of intellectual whining

Downvoted for that.
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Holographic tech could be key to future quantum computers
Reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode where Rimmer wants to go to red alert and Kryten asks "are you SURE sir? it does mean changing the bulb!".
Well, in a country with a for-profit, for-"performance" law enforcement system, where prosecutors are paid by how many people they put in jail and cops are paid by how many traffic tickets they write, do you really think some paper from 1787 is going to have much influence on a TSA agent if their paycheck depends on sorting out as many "bad guys" as possible?
from paper: "However, the rental yield component is typically considerably higher and more stable than the dividend yield of equities so that total returns are of comparable magnitude"

my take away was that equities produce a lot of wealth, but squander it by not returning it to shareholders (lack of dividends). look how many tech companies refuse to pay dividends because 'we are a growth company, we are always a start up". i hate stock buy backs, I think it just rewards people exiting the stock.

in short, if you are a property owner, you can garentee cash flows. economy goes up, down, you more less have an income stream. stocks, they will always go out of business. a company that never returns money to share holders in the end is always worthless, but today, that is in vogue.
... and also France, where ~17% (4,5 millions) of main residences are "HLM" (habitations à loyers modérés).
Utah also allows EVs and hybrids to use the commuter lane with single occupants, but it is utterly pointless since the money-grubbing fuck-ups who run the state also implemented a toll system that allows any single-occupant vehicle to use the commuter lane. This makes it so the commuter lane is always more backed up than the rest of the lanes. The police typically move crashed vehicles into this lane as well, making it even worse. There is ZERO incentive to car pool because you’re typically better off not being in the commuter lane.
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My rules:

* If it isn't from someone I don't have whitelisted, don't answer it, unless I am expecting a call

* If I am not expecting a call and it is from my area code, answer it if I feel like it

* Otherwise, if it is not important enough to leave a voice mail, then it is not important enough for me to call back.
That isn't surprising. A security bug that is known only to the vendor does not cause any damage in reputation or finances. In fact, fixing it costs money for no perceived economic benefit.

I guess the "responsible disclosure" culture is partly to blame here. If you get 90+ days to fix any vulnerability, then software that ships with (internally) known security issues is much more viable.
they are doing what everyone do at wildly successful silicon valley companies: building silos/fiefdoms to be the leader behind their money burning next-big-thing-nobody-asked-for project, such as cashierless store or 1984 listening device or whatever.
Is Boeing's problem lack of competition?
> if the AoA isn't shown anywhere in the default configuration, there is no way for the pilots to crosscheck them and see the fault. Which is why you need the AoA disagree warning message.

But the article buried the lede!

There is much bigger problem reported now in this article:

The warning wouldn't have helped even when flying with those companies that paid extra for it!

Note:

"“We were told that if the A.O.A. vane, like on Lion Air, was in a massive difference, we would receive an alert on the ground and therefore not even take off,” said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union representing American Airlines pilots. “That gave us additional confidence in continuing to fly that aircraft.”

But in the last several weeks, Boeing has been saying something different. Mr. Tajer said the company recently told American pilots that the system would not alert pilots about any sensor disagreement until the aircraft is 400 feet above the ground."

Note what happens then: at the moment you are above the ground, and the MCAS activates, we already know that if you "just follow the procedure" the forces against pilot corrections could be too big to do anything. That's what can be concluded from the analysis of the Ethiopian crash.

That means the plane from the "20%" with "paid option" would still eventually crash as soon as AoA vanes fail, just there would be one more of many alerts in the cockpit for some short time before everybody dies.

The sense of "security" Boeing gave the American pilots flying for the companies who paid for that additional feature was completely false. They would have been doomed too as soon as a single AoA vane that the MCAS depended on failed: The warning worked only at the moment it was completely useless.

The U.S. MAX planes were grounded the last, yet they were in the same danger as the other planes.
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BTW that certificate list if fairly long, has no scrollbar and no search box. That's a bad UI.

Is there a way to report this without spending hours to register at Bugzilla and file a proper bug report?
I don't like keyboards that need charging so I've been using the Logitech K750 for Mac (white) keyboard. It's solar powered and daily exposure to indoor lighting will keep it going.

The keys are quiet but feel jiggly at first compared to how little MacBook keys move but you don't notice after a few minutes. The only problem I've had is trying to use it with a desk with an under table keyboard drawer which didn't keep it charged.
For example? Can you give some concrete examples of consequences for you in the two cases?
I don't mind occasional code reviews, but I would not want to work somewhere where they're mandatory.

In my experience, mandatory code reviews lead to diffusion of responsibility; because everything is reviewed, changers take less care, even when reviewers treat at least some reviews as perfunctory, leading to preventable errors that weren't caught in review (although I've heard code reviews are supposed to catch preventable errors like this). If changers take more individual responsibility in their change, or a review is a special occasion, demanding and receiving a thorough and thoughtful review, the results seem better from what I've seen by observing groups I work in, and others I'm exposed to.

Mandatory reviews lead to excess communication, and the delays that cause. Stopping to get a review takes wall clock time, as well as the reviewer's time, and causes interruptions (or if done in batches to preserve reviewer's attention, takes a lot more wall clock time). This really breaks the glorious cycle of fast iteration. In my experience, 60 seconds of results from production is worth more than most review feedback.

In case of changes related to production issues, that means any event requiring a change needs two people to respond. Some events may require consensus, but others have clear solutions.

OTOH, it really depends on the cost to make changes, and the cost of making mistakes. In an environment where changes are expensive, and making mistakes is expensive, maybe mandatory reviews and extensive testing and actually having a specification make sense. Thankfully for me and the stakeholders involved, I don't work in such an environment.
Send the CEO to jail for life, only way to be sure.
> Jeff Bezos is not the only billionaire

True. You might get it up to a few thousand per American if you counted all billionaires.

> there's more that the government can do other than cash payments to individuals, they can invest in infrastructure (like education, housing, public transit, etc.) which pays long-term dividends to society

Sure, spend the $1T or so you would get from all the US billionaires on infrastructure. That's a decent fraction of US federal spending--for one year. Then it's gone. Now what do you do?

What all of this leaves out is that wealth is not a zero sum game. Wealth gets created. If you want to reduce wealth inequality, you need to help more people create wealth, not try to take it away from people who have already created it.

> I'm defending the general principle that concentration of wealth is unethical and ought to be redistributed

I don't agree with this principle. But I might if you added a qualifier; see below.

> money and capital should serve the needs of the people, not the wealthiest corporations

Jeff Bezos made his billions by serving the needs of the people; that's what Amazon does. Lots of people shop there because it gets them the stuff they need, when they need it, for an affordable price.

Another way of putting what I've just said is that Bezos, in creating and growing Amazon as a corporation, created lots of wealth. A huge, efficient distribution system for lots of goods people want now exists that didn't exist before; that's a huge creation of wealth.

But lots of billionaires didn't get their billions that way. Lots of them did so by not creating any wealth at all, just transferring wealth from other people to themselves. For example, investment banks transfer wealth to themselves by taking advantage of asymmetric information to get other parties to accept the wrong end of zero sum trades. (For that matter, the entire US banking and financial system transfer wealth to itself by getting the Federal Reserve to print money that they use for loans.)

So if you were to modify your principle to say that concentration of wealth that does not involve wealth creation is unethical, I would agree with you. But that wouldn't be fixed by redistributing Jeff Bezos' wealth. It wouldn't even be fixed by redistributing the wealth of all the investment banker billionaires. You would have to shut down the Federal Reserve and re-engineer the entire US monetary, financial, and banking systems.
I would add an analogy: wing loading is an extremely important concept, and there is absolutely zero plane with a direct force reading on the wing spars.
Sometimes code reviews can feel like being a carpenter and having to ask your coworkers their opinions after each nail you drive whether you did it right. And then having to spend time judging your coworkers' nail-driving skills rather than putting up the wall you've been given a deadline to build.

I've learned to accept code reviews as worthwhile overall, but there are definitely trade-offs.
> You charge for safety features that cost you nothing to deploy?

If you read the article, that's not what happened.

The warning message was meant to be supplied by default. Boeing though it was supplied by default. The airlines thought they were receiving it.

But they later discovered they had a bug which disabled the warning message unless another feature (an optional luxury feature) was enabled.

This situation is still bad. Boeing should have done something back when they discovered this bug: released a software update, given everyone the optional feature for free, or at the very least notified the pilots.

But it's not "charging for safety features" bad.
Google Express tried this and gave up on the idea after a year or two. I think Amazon Prime Now was what did them in.
We don't have a nationwide housing shortage. UBI might relieve pressure by letting some people relocate away from the local shortages in strong labor markets.
Really? It seems like most sellers use “fulfilled by amazon” so they can take part of Prime.
I don't use it, but it's probably great for people who use minimal mobile data, and perhaps a few other random use cases.
I pay around $35/month, is that substantially more than every other phone plan? I am planning to switch off in the future though, for whatever privacy gains are possible through avoiding Google.
A lot depends on how the code review is done. Where I'm currently working we have to do code reviews for an external auditing process and the whole thing has become farcical. It's not at all unusual to be asked to review thousands of lines of code that another developer has spent months working on for a part of the system you're totally unfamiliar with. When I started there and asked the lead developer on guidance for what to look out for, he admitted to just looking for potential null references and rogue code seeking to intentionally damage the system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os explains about MCAS
I also prefer US apps over China apps, but only because of UX. Not because of trust.
It is actually much much faster than Firefox "standard". Might stick with it too!
> I was once also part of such a weird cult which might be the oldest and powerful one - the catholic church.

I have a hard time vilifying any whole religion.

At the same time, the more successful a doctrine, the larger and more attractive it becomes to people seeking power.

Does this mean we should stop trying? Certainly not. I like Adler's "Individual Psychology" which I discovered from the book "The Courage to Be Disliked". He boils it down to three things,

1) Accept yourself

2) Have confidence in others

3) Contribute to others

There is some nuance in the book, like for #2 you should not allow yourself to be easily duped.
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This assumes each of their distribution centers has 100% of Amazon’s catalog available.
If you look at Boeing stock price over the year, it seems none of this has significantly affected it. It is actually up YoY. I can safely say that this scandal will have no major effect on the management.
For those who ask us Germans why we're so adamantly opposed to homeschooling and why we have mandatory medical checkups for children/infants ("Vorsorgeuntersuchungen"): this is why.

Having kids end up immersed in cults and brainwashed is a real risk, and the costs that society has to bear once these kids "wake up" is immense. Not to mention kids ending up totally uneducated and unfit for adult life due to plainly incompetent parents and the follow-up costs of that.
Would you buy it for a small amount of money on the app store, given that it will have new levels Everytime?
I know same day shipping was offered on Google Express, but it seemed very rare (at least in my area) so I was never able to use it. This was despite having locations of many of the partner stores within walking distance, so it seemed to defeat the purpose of taking advantage of the geographic coverage of existing physical retail.
What? How could you think this is remotely true. It's international news when a commercial aircraft crashes. Birds, not so much.
I'm a little jealous if I'm honest. I'm going to guess that the junior high I went to still doesn't have the resources for a club like this.
I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion.

Google Fi costs me substantially less than any other phone plan (that I'm aware of).

Perhaps if a person used a lot of mobile data (at $10/GB) it would. But I'm on WiFi for the most part with moderate mobile data usage and my bills are usually around $30/month or slightly less. Compared to $70+ GF pays.
It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in ... those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest....

But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches....

Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it. ... There could seldom be any scarcity of hands, nor could the masters be obliged to bid against one another in order to get them. The hands, on the contrary, would, in this case, naturally multiply beyond their employment. There would be a constant scarcity of employment, and the labourers would be obliged to bid against one another in order to get it....

But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. Many who had been bred in the superior classes, not being able to find employment in their own business, would be glad to seek it in the lowest. The lowest class being not only overstocked with its own workmen, but with the overflowings of all the other classes, the competition for employment would be so great in it, as to reduce the wages of labour to the most miserable and scanty subsistence of the labourer. Many would not be able to find employment even upon these hard terms, but would either starve, or be driven to seek a subsistence either by begging, or by the perpetration perhaps of the greatest enormities. Want, famine, and mortality would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes, till the number of inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it, and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest....

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they are going fast backwards.

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
Well I'd say that those limitations would bring us back around to recognizing ourselves in them with the small superiority pegging our "soulfulness meters" as it were. (I doubt I'd be able to gauge the difference between say a 3x and a 6x. They'd both seem maximally soulful)

As far as sufficiently advanced intelligences go, I'm not sure I'd even be able to tell if they're alive, much less soulful.
You’re looking at it from the wrong perspective. If r>>g, Rentierism becomes an ever increasing part of the economy.