skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in the process of introducing checklists into a process, and the hardest part of the entire endeavor is giving the people who are using the checklist the power to modify them, and keeping other people from forcing the system to have chiseled into stone type checklists.

So far, the biggest contributor to 'checklist fatigue' among people using the system is from them not being able to modify the checklist to suit the task at hand. Checklists really need to be living documents, so errors and usability improvements can be made. The article does mention that the more proscribed from on-high the checklist was, the more the performance of the checklist was degraded.
What if they offer to rewrite your components as well to ensure quality across the board. Could lose a project that way.
Medicare Part D (which covers all Medicare patients) and Medicare Advantage are run by private insurers.
Does anyone here use point-and-call or something similar for more mundane activities than trains and planes? I started doing this while driving a few years ago. I've gotten a good bit of shit over the years for it from skeptical passengers. Hard to point at a clear-cut win when it is about prevention.
Accusations of elitism from people who think they're better than everyone else are a weird feature of modern culture. I think it's somehow historically related to Calvinism (the best at being of service are the saved, not the best at being smart, or the best at asking questions.)

It's virtuous not to think too much, it means you aren't wasting time on things other than salvation (or making money.) Just do the obvious thing. Whatever everybody else is doing. Do it harder, though.
not yet, I'm trying to insert more interesting french sounding words than "double-entendre" in english. When I get them to use "poncif" I'll start working them on contrepèteries.
Is the Boston one seeing any progress (admittedly its current incarnation is rather recent)? I am moving there soon and would love to join a mesh network, but from my (superficial) reading of their materials, they do not have yet any nodes you can connect to (as a person not owning roof access for a "super node").
One thing I notice sometimes is that insightful, well-written comments will sink to the bottom of a thread (presumably from posters without a high karma), leaving less interesting comments percolating at the top of the discussion (presumably from posters with high karma). That's a shame and I don't really know how it could be resolved. But it's also a problem on many discussion sites (Reddit, Slashdot etc)

In long threads, I suspect many posters will never scroll towards the bottom of the discussion. Thus, the comments at the top of the discussion continue to accumulate upvotes while good quality comments further down never get a chance to rise up. But I guess that is more due to user behaviour rather than some algorithmic logic.
> ruin chrome as an intranet browser in the last few years with TLS handling, self signed cert handling, and general settings window changing malarkey

Just put it in the OS certificate store? It's worked like that since Chrome was released.
I have a few sticky notes on the bottom of my monitor to remind me to do things that I daresay work just as well as this at keeping me focused. Without all the privacy concerns, tracking, futzing, and yak-shaving I could see creeping into this.
Its crazy my 2.5" SSD died last week and I opted to go from 2 different SSDs to 1 2 tb nvme SSD. I too have a USB to Sata adapter but now I can't use it on my personal computer.

I do have a thunderbolt external nvme adapter they have got a lot cheaper.
Hadn't people spread out from Africa, longer ago than that?
This article is about migrants/human traffickers leaving from Libya, and does not mention Syria. It is very incorrect to conflate the two situations.

Here is a vague overview with a map if you are unaware: http://www.msnbc.com/specials/migrant-crisis/libya
this is the problem with hosting it at home on your own server with your own hardware. Your kids will hack it when you're not looking and install a Roblox server and let every idiot into your server to do whatever they want with it. Also, kids are stupidly easy to bribe.
Not Finnish. But Finland has fought two wars with the Russians in the last century, and without a protective alliance, really is at Russia's mercy. Look at what happened to Georgia.

I'm a realpolitik guy, so I don't often mince my words.
Barrier to entry for indies.
Do these mesh networks support TLS? Even if they do support TLS, it might be possible for a node on the mesh to successfully carry out a SSL strip attack. Or aggregate leaked metadata from the requests that pass through it. I am not familiar with these mesh networks, there may be many lurking attack vectors if the creators are not particularly concerned with privacy / security.
I'd call it "monotonically expanding" along some particular direction vector.
Same with Comcast, if not worse. For some reason their systems appear to take forever to load a customer account. One could probably find and pull a physical file of a user account faster in the pre-computer days out of a huge room full of wall to wall filing cabinets. I am not sure if it's ineptness or they pretend to take long to make support calls as frustrating as possible.
Checklists have been incredibly effective in improving aviation safety. But just having checklists doesn't help much - there has to be a culture of following them and a ritual to following them.
No, eligibility for marketplace plans ends when Medicare eligibility starts.
This is one of those pieces of startup advice that once I learned about it, I started seeing lots of connections to my own life. I think one of the more dangerous things about doing something on your own is the risk that you'll go down the rat hole on something unprofitable or unproductive.

Consider that you spend a huge potion of your life on very well-worn paths that were cut by others. From the subjects you study in school to the business models you drive forward at work, everything has been done before by someone else and you are only doing it now because of a sort of survivor bias. The bad ideas and bad approaches have failed or been discarded and the better ideas have turned into Fortune 500 companies and academic departments. Walking those proven paths, you just have to do a reasonable job, follow the formula, and you're not likely to fail.

Now lets say you've struck out on your own and you want to do something new that no one's ever been successful at before. Now you're essentially guaranteed failure. There's no more formula to follow. There's no more boss or teacher to tell you you're not on the right track anymore. You can no longer just plug into an existing money-making machine and start spinning, you have to build one from scratch. The best strategy is to get out of failing situations fast before they swallow you up.

An analogy from skiing: When you're on the marked trails, everything has a name and difficulty rating so you know what to expect in advance. Hazards have been roped off and the trail is guaranteed to lead to a lodge or a lift. This is life within school and companies. Then you go off-piste and out of bounds. There's no longer any ropes or trail names or safety patrol, just a wild mountain. Some people have been through here before as you can see from the ski tracks in the snow. If you follow those tracks you might be ok. They will probably lead somewhere safe like a road where you can hitch-hike or a valley you can traverse back to the resort. But if you turn instead into the fresh snow where no-one has tracked before, you're in very dangerous territory. Who knows where this leads, hypothermia in a wilderness area, under an avalanche or very likely off a cliff. But it's a whole mountain of fresh snow just for you. This is entrepreneurship.
I will never sell anyone's data, or use it for any purpose that the user doesn't want and explicitly agree to.

For this assessment, nothing is being stored unless you submit your email address, it's all front-end JavaScript. Even then, I will just be deleting anything that comes in.

The future intent is to offer the assessment as a gateway to a SaaS product, and also have a marketplace of immigration lawyers that you could pick one to share the info with if you wanted to engage their service. But right now none of that is in place.

Thanks!
SATA, M2, now this. What other interfaces are there?
They could have just done a better job and not been shady. Not that hard really.
France Creates Space Command to Help Bid to Be Third Space Power
That can happen because unison uses OCaml's built in serialization, which isn't guaranteed to be stable across OCaml versions. It doesn't often change, but the representation of arrays was changed in OCaml 4.02, which meant unison compiled with 4.01 couldn't sync with unison compiled with 4.02. Debian bug discussing the issue: https://bugs.debian.org/802919
I can't tell you how many times I've been on the team and decided on X, and years latter someone asks why not Y. I can remember many discussions and Y was part of it, there often were good reasons not Y - but I no longer remember them.
Small farms that keep grain-fed livestock absolutely do.
I worked on a project where we did the research and it came back saying "meh", or "no", or "only if it had this impossible feature".

Our management just discounted the research, "we asked the wrong population" etc, and drove forward with their vision

Approx $100m later the project was quietly folded, senior managers who had been promoted during the process quietly moved to pastures new, everyone else given 6 weeks to find something else.

I saw the warning signs and left before the crunch, but in hindsight I had concerns that weren't answered from day 1 but I let my enthusiasm allow me to ignore them

A learning experience
One of the manifestations of my OCD is that if I hit a bump on the road, something as simple as a manhole cover that’s a few millimeters different in height or less, or if I spy someone emerging into my rear view mirror that I didn’t expect, or if someone is hiding behind a pole and I suddenly see them in my peripheral after passing them, my immediate and inconsolable thought is that I’ve hit them.

To deal with it, I’ll do a lap around that spot to make sure I didn’t hit them. That lap can result in other bumps that I then have to make sure I didn’t hit anyone during.

This can repeat for a very, very long time.

To deal with it, I have a front and rear dashcam that I can go review the footage after I park.

Of course I haven’t hit anyone, but the fear and stress that I might have is debilitating and can be for an hour.

The dashcam allows me to review footage later; or, more often, calm myself long enough to think rationally and recognize what has happened as a moment of OCD and move on.
You’re Not the Product – You’re the Server
He derailed the lives of AT&T shareholders, who lost 4/10 penny per share!
It's cool to see all the different ways one can implement such services. So I'll throw my hat into the ring with liveshell.

* https://liveshell.43z.one
Utility companies historically pay high dividends. Also companies that are in trouble pay higher dividends. You probably should avoid the latter.
> think of and also communicate the research phase as stage of the project itself with a report at the end as a deliverable

Yes. This is the classic funded feasibility study / scoping study phase. The report deliverable can include a price estimate and also a risk estimate, e.g. expressed as the cost of additional rework, especially where there is a residual uncertainty (e.g. the use of a new component / framework, etc) at the end of the initial study. How companies manage their risk 'pots' is extremely telling.

In some situations there can be additional breakpoints, sometimes contractually, if third parties / subcontractors are involved.
I found suspicious data when looking at voter records:
https://enki.org/2018/12/07/finding-unusual-voters/
https://quark.cards/voters/Florida/oldest
Wouldn't you achieve the same feedback with minimal dev effort by simply modifying the sketch files with the client until they are signed off on it, which is what designers would be doing before discussing the technical feasibility/performance tradeoffs with devs for implementation? Assuming you are working with a designer that is creating sketch files.
Don't mention on your way through customs that you're there to work, if that's what you're asking.
People generalize personal experience and anecdotes they have heard. People may also generalize to cultures they think are similar without evidence.
I'm not arguing that the kernel devs are doing it wrong. I'm only pointing out that, in my opinion, the way C deals with error handling (that is, by not doing anything at all) is far from reasonable and the cause of many bugs. It's terrible ergonomics.

If you have a kernel function returning a pointer and you think that you're supposed to check for NULL when it actually returns a ERR_PTR in case of errors you will not only fail to do the check but on top of that end up with a garbage pointer somewhere in your program. If you have a MMU and you try to de-reference the pointer you'll have a violent crash, which at least shouldn't be too hard to debug. If you feed the pointer to some hardware module or if you're working on an MMU-less system then Good Luck; Have Fun.

C doesn't have your back here. It doesn't let you signal how a function reports errors, it doesn't even let you tag nullable pointers.
Or track your eye/ eye lens
Most dashcam I’ve seen have a running buffer of, e.g. 2 and a half hours. Would that be permitted?
> As a parent your primary duty is the safety and well-being of your child. That comes first, lessons second.

That's a false dichotomy. When you over-protect your children, you deprive them of the life lessons that will keep them safe in the future. You can't protect them forever.
Technical debt doesn't (usually) cause "quick death" to companies.

I think a good analogy is that technical debt is like having a poor diet - if you don't fix it you end up with diabetes and other issues. Sure they're treatable, but it becomes harder and harder to continue innovating.

When all is said and done, you don't know for sure if that poor diet was what lead to a companies demise - but there's no way it helped them.
Right now the data is correlating better with no-birth-certificate regions so I'll follow the data.
Posted the link on the fine above by mistake, here’s the one about the pop star (German as well): https://www.golem.de/news/datenmissbrauch-hessens-polizisten...
Text Based Business Game in Bash
Hmm, what a great way to inspire confidence Huawei isn't working with the Chinese government to add spyware to everything...
Hello! I am a 16 year old who just got into programming. I am fairly new, but I have been trying to learn Bash. I thought a fun project I can attempt is to to make a small text based game based on "Lemonade Stand" from the late 70s. I created a very simple version (works, most of the time) and put it on Github. It would be great if you guys can maybe take a look, give me some feedback (I know my code will be revolting, but hope to learn how to improve it) or even contribute!

I am actively working on it, adding new stuff every few days. It is still in it's really early stages, and I plan to make it something much much bigger then this. I would really appreciate it if you guys can watch the repository and give it a star. It would mean a lot!
I found it pretty offensive. Being Black does not imply speaking differently and your message seems to indicate that you think it does.
It really bothers me to see nothing going on in the Phoenix, Arizona region, where I live.

I'm planning on getting my Technicians HAM license sometime soon (I took one of the online practice tests "blind" and scored an 80 - so with some study it shouldn't be a problem).

Maybe after that if I can find some like-minded people nearby...
> - Unison synchronizes files to files, but for a Dropbox-like system you really want deduplication for space savings (i.e. server-side storage is a bunch of pointers to content-addressed blocks.)
> - in general, it's not clear to me that the client is really the hard part of Dropbox. Note e.g. the part where Dropbox now runs its own data centers for cost reasons.

The whole point of Unison is that you do not need a server. And certainly not a server run by a for-profit corporation in the United States of Surveillance.
Barneys New York files bankruptcy
I don't dispute your point, put those seem like examples when someone where someone picked up on a problem and said something, and still nothing was done.

Seems doubtful that everyone saying their name would have fixed any of those problems...
Is it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16387567
Interesting concept. From the FAQ [1]:

> Login into Hero Trainer when you go for a run (gym check-ins will come in the future)

How would you calculate points earned for each run or gym visit? For the former, does the app rely on step count during the "tracked" period or does it incorporate outdoor GPS?

[1] https://hero-trainer.com/faq/
What Is Hot Lightning? Satellites Reveal Which Strikes Are Likely to Start Fires
Great exchange, thanks for the link. Doesn't necessarily shine the best light on ESFA eh?

Any idea if that bilateral meeting between IARC and ESFA ever happened? Doesn't look like they put up the minutes like they suggested they would, which leads me to believe it never happened. Maybe IARC felt like ESFA never did the corrections requested and the meeting fell through. Either way, that exchange is a beautiful illustration of scientists respectfully getting frosty with eachother.
AI, Virtual Reality, and Blockchain Will Change the Lives of the Poor
I read the article, but I don't see if/where there is responsibility given for the checklist(s).

Most QA systems have a source of responsibility and multiple levels of review.

I wonder what would happen if there was a QA team (with sufficient education) at a hospital that had complete control over checklists and associated procedures. Would that improve the outcome when utilizing checklists?

--- Anecdote ---

I've been in the hospital many times, and I've been present for pre-surgical checklists a few times. It was ALWAYS a nurse handling it, and it was never a nurse that I was familiar with during my care. All but once the interactions started with trying to figure out who I was... without asking me.

I can recall a number of times where there was a question, such as "Which body part is being operated on?", except I was told the answer. The "question" turned into "Looks like your right kidney is being removed", with a slight pause for me to object.

It always made me feel like the staff thought the purpose of the checklist was to complete the checklist, rather than to QA the system they're part of.

--- Anecdote Extended ---

I suffered an unpleasant complication from this during a procedure.

I do not respond to anesthetics the same way as most people. It takes a MUCH larger dose to knock me out, and to keep me out. (years of desensitizing medications
+ big (very tall) person + MC1R gene).

I know this. I can communicate my past procedures and the doses administered. USUALLY they are supposed to ask if you've had any prior procedures and potentially follow up with questions about allergies, anesthetics and other questions related to sedation.

I was not asked. I didn't think to speak up because I was already being inundated with stimulus.

The result? The first "count down from 10" resulted in me counting to 0 and asking "What next?".

I vividly remember the abject horror on the face of the nurse. She fumbled around, whispered to the anesthesiologist, whispered to other nurses. People shuffled around and nobody said a word to me.

I was scared. It felt like forever before I was asked to count down from 10 again. It worked that time...

Until I woke up in the middle of the procedure!

When I woke up in post-op, I asked the nurse about it and she told me that I wouldn't remember any of it. She told my wife that I wouldn't remember the couple hours after post-op.

I remember every single nurse's and doctor's name involved and the discussions my wife had with the doctor in post-op (which she confirms my recollection).

It could have all be avoided if someone just said, "Hey, have you had a procedure where you've been under general anesthesia before?"

I bet that checkbox was ticked though.
My grandmother cries when describing the poverty they lived in when she was a child (1930s) in Newcastle (Northern England). Nobody had it easy in the past.

Well done for falling for the propaganda that racially divides people and is frequently sold by activists to people like yourself who seem to have bought it.

People of all colours and creeds will try to garner sympathy from the other group by claiming how disadvantaged they are. The reality is that there are plenty of people from all races that have made it to the top of society.

These people constantly bring up slavery that happened during the colonial period but they never mention what is currently happening in Qatar where foreign workers building the world cup stadium are effectively slaves. This is happening today not over a hundred years in the past, if they feel so strongly about slavery why aren't they shouting from the rooftops about this?

That is why I know this is done because these actors (quite rightly I believe) think it will give them political power because they will claim they have no representation while being broadcast on the very media they claim to have no representation in.
That language replaced “Don’t drink and drive” in alcohol advertisements because the manufacturers wanted the lede to be “Please drink...” instead of “Don’t drink...”. It’s there either because there’s legislation requiring anti-drunk-driving statements in the ads or to head off legislators adding such a requirement.
This is a great use case for crypto. You can earn by supporting the network and spend it to use the network. It helps the incentive layer. Those supporting the network can pay for support personnel as they grow, or there can be a network tax that goes towards this. You can also decentralize the support personnel by rewarding people that successfully answer tickets and offer a premium for when questions are answered within a certain amount of time. These questions and answers would also be stored on-chain on a sidechain.
I especially liked the way it was presented on the website, with short videos for each step - made it really easy to follow!
Uniqueness is if anything an anti-pattern to success. If you are really unique that probably means there is no market - either that or there would be a market but the problem is not solved and you are unlikely to make progress.
Reddit Experiencing Issues Again
Sushma Swaraj, Former Minister Passed Away Today, Her Lifetime Achievements
This was very upsetting when it happened. The same version of unison was incompatible with itself if they had been built with different but consecutively released versions of the ocaml compiler. I feel like using compiler versions like 4.01 and 4.02 is irresponsible when it's documented that they produce binary incompatible products, but that is how it was. https://marc.info/?l=unison-users&m=142286809310149
The Messiah/God complex is a very real thing with MDs. It's dependant upon the enviroment and training, but a lot of them really do think that they are 'special' and that they have 'proved' themselves via the rigours of school and residency. Their sense of self is tied up into their job preformance. Like in other professions, if you 'attack' their job and their work, you are attacking them personally.