skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NTSB does a fantastic job and should be held up as a model of how to include post-failure analyses and actions into your process. When the report is released, it should be good reading for many in the tech and engineering world.

>The Joint Authorities Technical Review, which produced the report, was led by Chris Hart, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, and included representatives from the F.A.A., NASA and aviation regulators from Europe, China, Brazil and other countries.
In Java we would use `String.format`.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.h...
Right, but ACPI has a standard (even if using the standard has onerous restrictions) and so firmware projects like coreboot can (and do) implement their own.

For AtomBIOS, you have a single vendor virtual machine environment (bytecode + semantics) describing whatever they need in a custom form. There's no other documentation for the things out there than AtomBIOS speciment, making reimplementation rather complex.
However, computer science is also one of the fields with the largest need for professors partially because of the competition with industry jobs. My experience from a Canadian perspective was that computer science PhDs also tend to be better funded than those in the social sciences so the overall risk is much lower.
I can't read the article due to the the paywall, but any halfway decent study should be attempting to control for these things. Propensity score matching, or simply including these factors in a regression model should help remove some of the effects. Obviously, there is potentially an unlimited number of possible cofounders, and therefore the assumption that they've all been accounted for should always be met with skepticism, and is why the mantra "correlation is not causation" is so often repeated.

If a modern research paper cited by the Economist has failed to even account for some of the potential confounding here, then I have great concerns for the future of science.
Ah yes, the Go mantra. Make your code as dumb and long as possible.
I'll caveat that I've never lived in California...But in New Jersey, we have the same sorts of expensive pain that you just described...but at least your weather is better, and you have a tad more elbow room. ;-)
I think it's anything but. If the USA and other superpowers really wanted it they could send people up on short notice. Just look at the space race that started 50+ years ago. We have vastly better technology now and a lot more experience.

It's not an organizational problem, it's a money problem and a lack of goal problem. Sending people up is vastly more expensive than unmanned probes and as technology improves there's not a whole lot a human can do that can't be achieved remotely with those probes.

It's a bit sad but at the same time it makes complete scientific sense not to send squishy humans when a robot would be vastly more efficient overall.

Our best chance to get humans in space again is another propaganda war starting a new space race. Maybe between USA and China this time around, to find out who gets to Mars first?
Morphological erosion is one solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion_(morphology)
The research referred to in the article is my evidence for what I called 'product shrinkage' and what the article calls 'reduced material needs', namely:

He had found substantial evidence not only that Americans were consuming fewer resources per capita but also that they were consuming less in total of some of the most important building blocks of an economy: things such as steel, copper, fertilizer, timber, and paper. Total annual U.S. consumption of all of these had been increasing rapidly prior to 1970. But since then, consumption had reached a peak and then declined.

The rolodex and the ice cream were just examples to ground the idea. I'm sure there's more to the story than spreadsheet-wielding MBAs, but I think it's reasonable to claim (and evidence can be provided for):
1) Spreadsheets have been used for two generations (VisiCalc, 1979)
2) MBAs are trained to optimize things like capital and labor costs, including the price and quantity of materials used in the products and services they manage.
While robots will carry a certain array of sensors, imo a robotic mission has better ability to choose what to examine and choose what to spend time on, because the mission has experts that can think about these decisions for a week before making a call. The mission is under no significant time pressure when things go off-script.

The time pressure of a manned mission is significant - this ability to make decisions quickly is only necessary because of the time constraints of a manned mission and the need to be careful enough to get back. This time pressure can be a factor in making mistakes and irrepairably damaging the instruments or hardware you brought. In one instance, Apollo crew has destroyed a camera they brought by accidentally pointing it into the sun for example.

The flexibility of humans does not give any significant benefit if those humans don't have the time to use it. When every minute is planned for something, with some buffers to make mistakes, your ability to improvise only comes in to remedy your mistakes. And some are not fixable. The operation is exciting and all rests on the ability of 2-3 people and the preparation of dozens and their skill under time pressure.

A robotic mission has months to remedy some fuckups and come up with workarounds. Some things are not fixable either. But a robotic mission has all the knowledge of a team of experts and is not put on the spot - they don't need to be as superhuman. The operation is comparatively boring and rests on the ability of dozens of scientists and engineers. They don't have to prepare for contingencies as much, they can analyze a situation, compare plans, simulate consequences (such as software patches, hardware operation) and act on them.
I’ve tried to make the case for this a few times on HN. Here are some threads from 2012 and 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750114 - 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314781 - 2012

Put the effort into developing advanced robotics to explore space:

“In 100 years, more humans will live off earth if we iterate with machines, etc now than if we move slowly trying to reduce the risk in order to keep humans safe."”
In 3 months time: Off-topic: I see 'dev.to' and I don't tap because I can't face the pop-ups and nag modal. Sad to think, at one time Medium used to be the cleanest reading experience.
"They are now working with a large online chess platform to determine if increased pollution exposure is correlated with worse chess performance."

https://scitechdaily.com/fascinating-and-scary-is-something-...
That's a sunk cost fallacy. If they don't have anything important to do on said space station it's better to leave it empty and save the money for other projects. Mind you, I don't know if that's the case but I'm just pointing out that the station being expensive doesn't justify pouring even more money into it if you don't have a clear objective.
Blizzard Silencing Lgbtqa+ Members
Saltwater is very expensive to use, since the remaining salt would clog evaporators, and the salt-concentrated water is pretty bad for the environment, so can't just be discharged.
Just to make your observation easier to see in the paper:

Note that the table 2 has 16 tests results. Only one of them in "significant". Where "significant" means that if the juice has absolutely no effect, the random noise in the test will cause a fake interesting result only 1/20 of the times (approximately). They have 16 test, so there is a good chance to get a fake interesting result.

In the table they don't include the 120ms and 500ms test in the MANT test, but both are not "significant" anyway. So IIUC there are 18 test (or more) instead of 16.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/882/
Could this be as simple as people with asthma being less able to evade the perpetrators?
Quantum Mechanics Framework for C++
Do you know if they controlled for daytime population? As in weekdays vs weekends?
The site appeared as "Find the right rapist, free" because the width of my browser cut off the static text in the splash graphic. Not a joke, not an exaggeration. My browser width is fairly standard.
MERN Stack with Docker
On iPhones running google services, either Apple is in it just for the money or they aren't. Apple maps cost them a fortune and makes them no money, that's just a fact. They could also have easily played Google, facebook and twitter against each other, instead they said no to them all.

Lawful Intercept has a fatal flaw. It doesn't require the service provider to have encryption keys for the traffic, and they can't provide what they don't have.
Lots of people using your site.
In the UK the Amazon returns policy isn't that great. It's quite a pain to return something to them (requires printing, packaging, registration on the website or over the phone, etc), and most other retailers will take returns with no real issue anyway. There are many retailers with better returns experiences.
I'm just over 100k miles on my 2015 fit, and I see it going about 100k more without any thing more than a tune up and new brakes.
Apple has far less to do with USB C’s adoption than the tens or hundreds of millions of Android phones.

Once peripheral makers etc are already have in house experience and knowledge with USB C thanks to their phone departments, it makes far more sense to release USB C peripherals even at the desktop level, so the removal of USB A ports from the MBP likely played a very small to no role in the transition.

Even if the MBP had both USB C and USB A ports, peripheral makers would likely have preferred making their peripherals USB C compatible.
Agreed. When Sj died a power vacuum opened. His presence really was so big that there is no way a single person or even a couple people could fill the charisma and power he wielded over the company. Anytime there is a vacuum, the power plays and turf wars become the goal over delivering product.
I have broken my both knee cartilages. First time when I was 23 and recently when I was 35. Fist knee recovered successfully after some years (I'd say about 5 years). The second injury was 2 years ago and the knee is almost 100% recovered, I feel some little pain only after running 10K and also after playing soccer.

Both injuries were in the outer meniscus. There is a difference in the inner and the outer meniscus (perhaps the inner cannot recover because of less blood flow?). I didn't go to surgery.

Things I can do without any pain whatsoever: running 5K at a fast pace, karate, barbell squat.
It's funny how there are two concurrent narratives:

...the media portrays Amazon as this awful company that stiffs its employees and is destroying jobs and making the world a terrible place in the name of lower price and convenience.

...and yet Amazon is hugely popular with consumers, and Amazon is the second-biggest employer in the US, and there is huge demand for Amazon jobs in spite of the media's insistence of how bad Amazon is and how bad such jobs are.

All these people looking to work at Amazon apparently didn't get the media's memo
> had no idea what "graupel" was

funny. Here in Germany, "Graupel" is commonly used in normal weather reports. I didn't even know the word existed like that in english and didn't realize it when I read the paper. It's weird that you don't really notice words of your native language in a foreign language text. Or at least I rarely do. Same with the (originally German) words "Doppelgänger" and "Kindergarten".
Not just on the spot decision making (there are human operators behind Curiosity after all), but improvising a solution to a problem that was not contemplated.

Take for example the lunar rover fender that broke, and they patched together a solution on the spot. And compare that to the Insight Lander mole, which found a particularly hard-to-drill rock and can't move from the spot (after all, it's a lander, not a rover). Now they are trying to push it with the landers arm, but there's only so much that can be done.
One possible use is for high traffic websites. For example, StackExchange peaked at 500k concurrent websocket connections back in 2016. [0]

[0] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Blizzard bans all names with sexual connotations, not just LGBTQA+
Handbook of Graphical Models [pdf]
Evaporative coolers in low country South Carolina? Is there a more humid place on Earth?
Not any more - you can take it to a shop, they print the label and you drop it off there. If you keep the original packaging it is really trivial.
Cryptoindex Talks: Crypto Market Review. October 2019
Have you seen the blueberries Chick-fil-A is putting in their fruit cups? Yuge!
There are several fusion reactors currently in existence and operational as of this day.

The problem is none of those reactors produce more energy than they consume.
This is in the ball park for a patent being filed and managed internationally (say Japan, USA and Europe) through all the stages to grant. Which takes ~5 years. And then over it's life cycle - there's a lot of admin. I've been regularly quoted £20k.
As far as I know, it's quite uncommon an any OECD state other than the US to be without quite good coverage for health care bills and medical bankruptcy is even less common—I hesitate to write "unheard of" because I'm sure there are some exceptions somewhere, but it fits the colloquial use of "unheard of", certainly.
Build Systems à La Carte
> if you don't follow your urgent need for a house or car

Unfortunately these are not the sole concerns in the US. Costs for rentals are spiraling out of control in many places, so whether you are renting or buying is often a moot point. And healthcare is a huge problem as well.
A portable, interactive console for your tabletop game library
I do think there are certain niches where this style can make code much more readable (e.g. parser combinator libraries) but otherwise I think it's just a really really poor imitation of proper currying support.
In my field, it seems most PhD students spend the majority of at least their first year taking classes. But it's true that the overall course load is significantly less than bachelor's degree. Of course you don't come into a PhD program already being an expert. Even if you are, there's certainly much to learn about related fields.
I think it's weird that Blizzard would choose to anger another portion of their fan base, while in the midst of also dealing with the negative PR from their Hearthstone decisions
To be fair, this particular power outage in California isn't to save money. It's to prevent forest fires. Also, how important can these experiments be (in CA) if they don't have sufficient backup power at a university??

Edit: If a Uni has a multi-million dollar laser, it should have a few thousand dollar backup generator!
there is no comparison though. this time is really different. there is nothing that can compete and compare to amazon's distribution network and marketshare in the same way that Apple was able to upset the smartphone market.
is the word "gay" in and of itself a sexual connotation?
I'm no gold bug, but, looking at the graphs in the article, it's interesting how GDP decouples from resource use around the same time that the US went off of the gold standard.
> How do you make Mac Catalyst or Sidecar happen with 4 people silos who hardly ever meet and adjust ?

You don't. What happens is those features are broken or just barely work, and only once they become public can Apple finally get them working. Look at the new iCloud shared folders that's now been pushed to next Spring after early Catalina betas were wiping out people's iCloud.
The study solved this problem by looking at changes in the same areas, not between areas.

Slow traffic would increase pollution. Noise could be an interesting one, I'm not sure whether there are statistics that measure noise pollution over a country, and how would noise pollution be coincident with air pollution? Overpopulation wouldn't count as they are measuring the same areas with the same population. Daytime population could be an issue (e.g. weekends vs weekdays) but I can't access the study.
Why does anybody still use Chrome? Really, Google is a criminal data theft organization.

Why not just take all of your browsing data and publish it online, skip the middle man?
Aren't all nuclear weapons doomsday weapons?
How can normal people help Hong Kong?
I don't disagree with you at all.

One thing that struck me was that her rTMS I think was for concussive syndrome/symptoms. Whereas I thought rTMS was primarily marketed for depression and anxiety (seems some of the other posters here have personally tried rTMS for depression). Her personal story includes the tragedy of her husband committing suicide leaving her behind with their young daughter, so maybe she also has/had some depression issues and was seeing benefits with respect to that...anyway give the podcast a listen, she is an interesting person anyway.
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This is interesting because if this happened in other states or countries, i might disagree with you...but considering it happened in California - where much innovation happens - i wonder how many existing and start-up firms will look to innovate on decentralized power generation even if only just for their own itch to scratch. I'm hoping that firms in California get pissed off enough to really increase the push for more decentralized modes of power...so instead of having engineers figure out how to invade our privacy or click online ads more, perhaps they can work on decentralized, reliable, and yes cheaper power generation.
> most of the PhD programmers I know are not any different from the average

Very few computer science PhDs are set up to make you better at programming. In fact, the unstructured and unreviewed quality of much research code might make you worse at programming. The goal of a PhD is to get better at research and communicating your research. If you’re not interested in research, do not do a PhD.
Reasoning is a tool we as humans use to justify our beliefs and actions (and not an internal process which shapes belief as often depicted). Communication is naturally enviable to help strengthen that reasoning. Communication <-> reasoning -> belief+action is not natural and should not be the expected process from one's future self or other from humans.
Mastering Oscillation: How Peak Performance in Sports and Business Are Related
why should we want to? The are providing a service million of people use and it employ thousands of people. Why is there such an impetus by certain people to attack successful companies and people. It's like "hey this company is doing too well! let's go after it!"
Well, when just rendering text the text and the postscript for it can correspond pretty much one-to-one. On the other hand, if you start to include the necessary fonts it quickly becomes big.
>I don’t see why Macau would have a stronger cultural identity than Hong Kong

They actually have their own language, Macanese Patois[0], which is a Portuguese-based creole, in addition to Cantonese, English and maybe Portuguese. Their cuisine is also a blend of Cantonese and Portuguese cuisines.[1] They don't really have a film industry, but my impression is that neither does Hong Kong these days.

It's interesting to compare and contrast the two SARs. You hardly ever hear about Macau, and Beijing didn't seem to have been as compelled to spell out what it thinks "one country two systems" should mean for Macau, as it did for Hong Kong in 2014.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macanese_Patois

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macanese_cuisine

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140618000943/http://mobile.nyt...
Florida data collection scheme for schoolchildren criticized
Possibly, but I don't think there was much of a risk. Boeing already had--presumably--at least a pretty decent idea about the review's contents by piecing together hints from document requests and questions or maybe even someone calling in a favor to get a draft copy. The Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR) involved a lot of agencies and personnel from multiple countries.

On the other hand, that also poses a problem for any attempt to change the report. There are a lot of iterative copies out there, with both Reuters[0] and the Times obtaining copies independently. Pressuring the JATR team to change its findings would leave an absolute ton of fingerprints, and be instantly obvious once reporters start reviewing a diff of the report.

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-boeing-airplane-faa/f...
Alternatively, could this name be a pseudonym for the research group writ large? It assigns the patent to the whole group to avoid giving any particular team member the credit, and it also avoids identifying any individual who may be regularly dealing with classified information.

I’ve no idea if this is actually possible within the rules of the patent system, though.
Compared to what? I used to do scripting languages and Go code is usually more verbose. Not much more verbose though. Think it's mostly the static typing.

While keeping things short is a goal, it's not the only goal..
This is about Unix stderr, not about Gauss's Central Limit Theorem and related statistical topics.
I see medium and I don't go because most of the content on it tends to be very opinionated
It's certainly true that there are reasons for getting a PhD other than becoming a professor, but it's also true that in many fields having a PhD is also completely unnecessary. And yet in many fields there seems to a qualification arms race where, due to the glut of PhDs and lack of jobs where PhDs are truly required, jobs for which a PhD is not necessary or beneficial are starting to become expected. I've definitely begun to see this in the fields of machine learning and data science. I'm sure other fields are similar.
It forces and tests improvements in life-support systems?Generation, recycling, shielding, long term impact of humans on these systems.

All things that are needed for future exploration/colonization.
The thing is, even a shit job at Amazon is better than no job at all, which is what Amazon (and other logistics and low wage employers) exploits.

The only thing to fix this power difference is job safety and conditions regulation.
Yes, audiobooks/podcasts at night are great.

Lack of sleep ages you, makes you overweight, and susceptible to many health issues. Here's what I did to get enough sleep:

* Make sure every monitor/portable device is using Redshift / Night Light blue light filter.
* Set a "sleep alarm" After which no work on a screen. Only reading books/audiobooks
* 0.5mg of Melatonin helps sleep naturally (more gives trippy dreams)
* AVOID sleeping pills (they're more addictive than crack)
* Exercise 3-5 times a week
* Get some natural sunlight during the day
This matches Bob Lazar’s description only in the very general sense of using the same alien-technology buzzwords that are used everywhere by cranks and conspiracy theorists. The details though are very different from what Bob Lazar described.
If it's possible to do this analysis why does twitter not routinely shutdown these networks?
100LL is used in such vanishingly small quantities compared to basically every other source of lead it may as well be rounding error.

Someone always brings this into any discussion of lead as though we should all be outraged that lead isn't technically banned in all fuel.
Thinking along those lines isn’t helpful.

Big complex systems fail, sometimes there is a good target to point fingers, sometimes there isn’t.

Fear of punishment is a really bad way to reduce future failures, and being satisfied having found somebody to punish makes you stop looking for systematic issues which caused and will continue to cause failures.

The FAA/Boeing oversight process failed or more correctly happened much too late (this report being a part of that, post mortem)