skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also have this intention. I am about 15-20 years from retirement but I have palpable fears that I will forsake my dreams of doing something creative, falling into the rut that I've seen my older relatives and friends follow.

I really hope to shift down from 5 days / 40 hours a week to something that allows me to start pursuing my dreams long before I retire. It should help me develop the habit instead of being paralyzed by the sudden shock at an older age.

Actually the thought of having to wait to retire & be an old fart before you can get really started on the things you always wanted to do sounds very very depressing. (Unless you're making FU money and retire early, which I'm not)
It's helpful to measure design quality and build quality - not just build quality. Software developers are mostly concerned about build quality. Software development should always proceed from complete and accurate specifications and the specification process is a key design process - not a build process.

Poor design quality increases the chance of poor build quality. That's why it's important to measure both.

As an aside, I've always felt that 'Defect' is a more useful term than 'Bug'. 'Bug' seems to be too open to interpretation (i.e. one persons bug is another persons feature). 'Defect' however, has a useful definition:

'An operation is defective if it doesn't conform to the specification.'

This provides a solid basis for identifying Defects. Once you can formally and accurately establish what a Defect (i.e. Bug) is, you can use the following two simple formulas as KPIs.

1. Design Quality Change Requests/Requirement Specification (DQ = CR/RS)
2. Build Quality Defect Reports/Requirement Specification (BQ = DR/RS)

The ideal is zero. In other words, zero Change Requests per Requirement Specification and zero Defect Reports per Requirement Specification. However, I suspect that no project in history has ever achieved that. Nevertheless, it's the quality target to aim for. Once you start treating these values as KPIs you can start to monitor the two numbers over time and steadily work to reduce them, thus improving quality in a measurable way. For instance, you may find that the project you're working on has a DQ of 2.5 and a BQ of 3.6. Your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to steadily increase quality so that those two numbers reduce over time.

By viewing the results across a date rand you can start to see quality trends.

Design Quality is an important metric to monitor because that's often where the weakness lies in software projects. Managers love to offload design to developers in an ad-hoc way, largely because design is hard and time consuming (and no-one likes to write specs).

If you're concerned about build quality, first check the design quality. If you're building a product from poor, incomplete, inaccurate specifications, you're going to find it much harder to achieve decent build quality.
I partially fixed that by splitting the mdb into a front end and a back end where the back end was only tables (no UI, no queries) and launching the front end mdb from a simple command script that copied it to the users tmp directory first.

Then at least I could fix bugs in the UI and after a while that's where most of the bugs were.
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The title is a bit of a stretch...My office does payroll, sales, purchasing, IT support, does this help with any of that?

Is this in fact 'building automation' or a 'slack switch'

'Fan on', anyone who thinks that the hard part of maintaining office temperature is switching has never worked in a real office. Get me a slack bot that can successfully negotiate what the temperature should be and then I will be interested.
If you want a quick video overview:

"BPS.Space - Channel Trailer - 2019"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0_-g7YV1M
Fox’s Almost Family aims to build a quirky family dramedy around medical rape
Impraise (YC S14) is hiring a senior engineers and product manager in Amsterdam, NL
You seem to be confusing lack of polically correct lies with anti-feminism and racism.
As linked somewhere else, but for video affine people, and directly relevant, see this old Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_...
INTJ = "incredibly tiring jerk"?
I have but regret it.
The Falcon Heavy model launch is one of the funniest and inspiring things I’ve seen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5245EBfis
Binance US Lists Cryptocurrency That Surged Nearly 100% Last Week
Seems like it's Windows and Linux only, at least according to the (outdated) web, and the download page.
There was a similar, though less spectacular, case in the UK, in which the police spent more on lawyers successfully defending the case than it would have cost to compensate the person whose door they had smashed down in the middle of the night because they had incompetently got the wrong address.
I'm 34 and already sometimes freaked out by minor UI changes.
Facebook Faces Another Congressional Grilling
There's a New Moto 360, but It Isn't Made by Motorola
Below someone quoted this: "it will be assumed that all foie gras came from duck or geese that have been force-fed unless “documentary” evidence is provided to the contrary."

So, non-force-feed remains legal.
Personally I’m using a Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 on iOS 13 with an open source on device firewall. That way I can still use the official Apps like MiFit or AmazFit to sync all data to Apple Health without it being uploaded from their App to elsewhere. Make sure to use iOS12 or upwards and you’ll have to enable 2 Factor Authentication in order for your Apple Health data to be end to end encrypted.

I’m not sure how Android holds up but it should be possible to achieve something similar there, I’d guess. On Android there are third party Apps for syncing which should make things easier.

Pros:
* Mi Band 4 is very cheap
* Reliable HR, steps, activity & sleep tracking
* Easy and quick setup
* > 20 days battery life
* Custumizable watch faces
* 5ATM water resistant

Cons:
* Xiaomi and Huami are Chinese companies
* No always on display (but raising watch turns on display)
* Some data could leak should the firewall fail
* Currently no third party Apps for syncing to iOS

I wrote a short article about using the Mi Band 4 on iOS with a focus on privacy on my website if you’d like to know a bit more.
Yeah, fine.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Remini#Scientology

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-be-opposed...

- https://www.self.com/story/from-anti-to-pro-vaccine

As far as challenges of the put your money where your mouth is kind, this one was pretty easy. So easy in fact, that you should take a moment to reflect on why you were so quick to get on a moral high-horse of burden of proof.
Well done Protonmail. I hope this is only the beginning for them and we will see more of their estate open-sourced
Hooray!
This is unequivocally a good thing.

Twitter is admitting it can't police political advertising on the scale that it runs. So it's banning it.

This is a good move.
>In addition to that, America is a country that works forwards from principles much more often than European nations, which very often work backwards from objectives.

Have any examples to back this up?

I dont even necessarily disagree with your original argument, but can we get away from the Europe vs America debate that always pops up on this board as if they can be compared in a reasonable way? Europe is made up of a bunch of independent countries alot of which have objectives and principles that conflict with other entities within Europe, let alone outside of it
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It's not a strawman for multiple reasons. For one, you have suggested that pointing out outright lies does not suffer from many of the same issues as asserting truth.

"American jobs are being taken by illegal immigrants from Mexico."

Is this a lie? No. But is this disingenuous and misrepresenting much more significant contributors to job loss? Yes. Is it a lie then?

"Transgender women are women."

Is this a lie? Depends entirely on definitions and presuppositions.

Secondly, I think the more important takeaway is that the vast majority of the issues we're having in regards to political discourse have absolutely nothing to do with us not agreeing on facts. Neither side for most of the hard issues are relying on outright incorrect facts.

So not only do I not think that identifying outright lies is as simple and free from bias as you suggest it to be, I also think that the cases in which this could be universally agreed upon would contribute very little to the majority of serious political discussions happening today.
I'm just amazed at how the theft of two belts and a shirt from Walmart escalated to the point where a house blew up. It's like something out of a comedy calamity movie.

How common is escalation like this during the course of law enforcement? (I'm hoping this is an extreme case?)
> Can the punishment also be scaled to the harm, or potential harm, caused by the fraud? In a case like this, that would be nothing.

The harm is indeed relevant! "Crimes" without a victim, or where the victim and the perpetrator are the same person, should not be crimes.

But in this case, the harm is decidedly not nothing:

(1) How many consumers chose "Cakes of Deceit" over their competition, "A Taste of Honesty", on account of those premium ingredients? This pushes other businesses to engage in dishonest behavior in order to level the playing field.

(2) How many customers paid more for the "premium" offering because of its ingredients? What would they have paid had they known the truth? The difference between these two is the amount of money stolen from the customers.

(3) What is the economic impact to the sellers of the premium ingredients? Presumably, customers eating at "Cakes of Deceit" will come out with the opinion that "Kashmir Saffron" and "True Cinnamon" aren't any different than the cheap stuff.

This is far from a case of "no harm, no foul"

Also, you scale punishment to fit the difficulty of detection -- and I would argue, the guilty's ability to pay -- as it keeps the risk-reward equation balanced.

Imagine a shoplifter, Alice. She is caught stealing a $10 pack of cigarettes from the corner liquor store.

Alice offers to pay for the cigarettes once she is caught.

Sounds fair, right?

Suppose that we know that there is a one in ten chance of catching a shoplifter. That means for every ten times Alice tries to shoplift those $10 packs of cigarettes, she'll escape punishment nine times, and get caught once.

The corner store would be out $90 in goods in this case. Alice would be out the $10 for a single legitimate purchase. So we adjust the punishment upwards to make the process of shoplifting unpalatable to Alice in any case.

Now, what if Alice is wealthy, and just stealing for the thrill of it?

Well, a $200 fine probably won't mean much to her. So we scale the punishment until it does.

The Swiss do this, and I highly support it. If we are going to make something illegal -- which we do far too much, I must admit -- being wealthy shouldn't be equivalent to a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
> Authorities say the suspect stole two belts and a shirt from a Walmart. After he left the store, police say, he broke into Lech's house for protection and was firing at officers with a handgun. Eventually, SWAT officers entered the home and apprehended him.

...

> The court noted that if police officers "willfully or wantonly" destroy property, they can be sued in a civil tort case. Lech tried to pursue that legal argument in Colorado state court, but he was not successful.

Here is the real problem. Eminent domain is clearly not the right strategy.

But when a police department is so out of control that they damage a home enough to get it condemned, over a single armed man, and they are not considered to have acted to wantonly destroy property, our society is seriously screwed up.

Every day, these sort of toxic over reactions and abuse of power are making people think less and less of police power. Even those that the police do not abuse are starting to believe the "ACAB" line.

Police need to start admitting to being able to make mistakes, because when they refuse to admit to any error when they have made obvious errors, they look morally weak and we stop thinking they deserve any of the massive amount of power we see them abuse.
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Establishing precedent is important, especially in common law jurisdictions.
As in, largest cities population-wise: in the top 5
I had missed that, thanks!
What are you thalking about?

Bezos put all cards on table to avoid being blackmailed.
What's the point of the law if you can get lost dealing in technicalities at the cost of complete and utter disregard for outcomes?

Sure, everybody is technically correct. Loosely reminds of of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_t... -- people getting caught in admiring the cleverness of their arguments and forgetting what the whole original purpose was. Or when some gamers spending more time in the virtual fantasy world then in the real one, solving "challenges" there rather than here.
WhatsApp: Israeli spyware was used to snoop on Indian journalists, activists
I'd rather finance an iOS Thunderbird with GPG support.
That's, sadly, the Web these days.

Even with adblockers, I see the "advertisement" lines remaining in articles. Often every paragraph or two.
Still, someone should have been checking the backups on a regular basis, because anything can fail.
>>> if it's about finding meaning in life and not about paying the bills.

It's a lot easier to pursue existential philosophical musings after your mortgage is paid and your kids are fed.
I also use a CC from a bank that does not have a presence in my town to withdraw. I think it just depends on the ATM.
Came here for this was not disappointed
If panic was never appropriate, the ability to panic either would never have developed or disappeared in humans a long time ago.
Considering how bad their latest redesign is, I'm not surprised that they've got low quality standards.
The requirement I've set for myself is that I should not lose access to my accounts of data if I lose some or all of my hardware, be it to mechanical failure, theft or me losing my phone somewhere.

I don't think there's any way around having a safe physical location to store backup codes / secrets on paper.
Suret+Sanat+Logo+Tasarım+Çalışması
I live in Germany and I am in the camp of those who believe that paying for pretty clean and sustainable energy source with having a couple of turbines installed and "ruining" the view of some places is worth it (as long as it is planned with at least some degree of care). But of course a lot of it is nimbyism as support for renewables and clean sources or energy is rather high.
Explicitly the opposite of what was said.
Can a Wave of New Technology Slash Natural Gas Leaks?
There more extreme cases:

>Who Pays When The DEA Destroys Your Vehicle And Kills Your Employee During A Botched Sting? Hint: Not The DEA

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150428/16401530826/who-p...
> 100 officers, 19 hours and a Bearcat APC

Man, when you have staff and resources, I guess you need to justify the bills. Instead of, you know, putting a couple units outside the house and waiting a week.

Those must have been some expensive belts and shirts. Though there's no way the use of force here is comparable with the value of items being reclaimed.
But "narratives" about actual facts it's just bringing on your view of the world, and that's perfectly normal (even if I may not agree with it). The big problem here is spreading information based on invented, not actual facts.

Obviously you can still manipulate real facts and tell a lie (like the classic photo cropping example): that should be prohibited as well.
Trick of SpaceX success wasn't in vertically landing rockets - with mass being concentrated in the bottom in form of engines, thrust structure, and legs, it's not all that hard.

What was extremely hard, is havigation and control to enable return back to launch site optimally, going through narrow corridors of acceptable parameters (go too shallow and you risk being unable to correct your position in the end as precision drops, go too steep and rocket breaks up due to aerodynamic forces, and so on), while burning minimum fuel. That was an insanely difficult GNC task which took so many iterations to perfect out...

Plus yes, on landing they didn't have a second chance as rocket couldn't hover - minimum engine thrust was bigger than it's mass so if it missed, it either crashed, or flew back up until running out of fuel and crashing, too.
With the notable exception of anti satellite weapons which have often been fired from military aircraft. It’s cheaper because an individual flight on an existing high altitude high velocity aircraft is cheap. Unfortunately, it would require an enormous number of space flights for this first stage to be worthwhile otherwise.
Business travel isn't getting easier or less stressful
... seeking extremes won't work, otherwise we'd rule out everything that's not supported by current theories. Also we can't let ourselves be deceived by the everyday cold-fusion perpetuum-mobile crackpot.

But we should make it easy for crackpots to test their shtick. So we should invest in better metrology.

And when something actually breaks through, then we should jump on it.

And basically that's what's going on with the "EM drive". Currently even though it goes in the face of basic theories the test bench they used was not sensitive enough to rule it out.
I would argue that live plucking geese for goose down as is just as unpleasant for the goose as force-feeding. Some unfortunate geese even have to suffer through both.
That's the magic of the L1 Lagrangian point[1]; it takes basically no effort to stay there and it is exactly between the earth and the sun.

Now L1 is an unstable point, so eventually the shades will drift out of position, but I imagine that will take a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
I'm a little bit bothered by your comment that seems to be complaining about a service you use for free.
A lot of people spent their entire lives looking at a screen, performing some operations and little else. Above all people from the banking sector, where everything is organized in a hierarchical way. I remember bankers who only had one screen with a summary and that's all they saw before. Today everything has changed, as everything is done through computers, but if your father is an older person, he probably hardly ever used computers.
No, thanks. The rules of old Internet are different. HN would flip a shit at some old "guestbook" app and its GDPR incompatibility because the owner of the site stopped paying attention, for instance.

It's like Instagram ruining the nice spots. Now everyone knows where they are and they don't know how to behave.

Even lobste.rs is getting ropey, though the user tree does help with that.
>We're talking about organically farmed birds that are kept such that they are fattened up and delicious (aka. in good health)

A fatty liver is by definition the opposite of good health.
This may be an extreme outcome but excessive escalation by the police in America is also the norm. Look at recent encounters with NYPD in the subway over a man not paying the fare (value less than 5$).
To-Dos on Your Path to Productivity, Happiness and Creativity
My New York Times op-ed on quantum supremacy
> The judge points out that Villasana also testified that he was "not aware" of any policy instructing him to notify the vehicle's owner of its potential use in a drug sting operation

Ah, ignorance of the law. Fine for them, not for you.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
"Australian government has enjoyed..."

(The aboriginal didn't exactly have it hardship-free.)
Cool project, but ... that website gave my browser cancer (if you scroll down too far, your history is messed up and back button does not work).
This sounds like a nice, but dangerous idea: who decides what the truth is? Obviously some statements are blatantly false (2 + 2 = 5), but those don't need to be forbidden by a law: just ignore it, or laugh at it, and let the paper editing this lose its readership (or reduce it to the community of 2+2=5- believers).

The actual matter is for controversial statements. I very much prefer those statements to be allowed, discussed, debunked if needed, than outright forbidden. In liberal democracies, the press is generally considered to be a needed counterpower (along with the establish executive, legislative and judicial powers of the state). Putting it under the control of the judicial power kind of weakens it.
If it's configurable doesn't matter. I'm talking about the fact that I've had a lot of mac users tout this as one of the best things about the mac. OP only touches on it and I mean it's fine - it's just that I personally find it a horrible setting and keep wondering why everyone uses it :)
I'll go back when their hardware is beautiful again and when offline Spotify lands on Apple watch.
Why did he think to mention airplanes? The whole concept of airplanes would be obsolete with anti-gravity.
An app for employees to vote for menu for a month in their office kitchens. Respectively they can provide their review comments as well which will help to repeat or exclude some items from menu in future.
Russian Names in English and English Names in Russian
iPad Pro and the New iPadOS
> The cost of admission is a bag of dog food for McKamey’s five dogs.

> McKamey said he has invested more than $1 million in the attraction,

Something doesn't add up there. Also there seems to be a miles long wait list.
We had a certain coworker spamming IRC all day by closing the lid and thus disconnecting all the time, that's my most hilarious memory. On the plus side you always knew when he left his desk.
And yes, this can be fixed, it's just that not all connections are stateless.
Somebody stole 50$ worth of stuff. Instead of letting insurance pay and calling it a day, lest waste a couple of hundred thousand dollars and fully destroy somebody's home for another couple of hundred thousand dollars in damages.

What should happen here is that whoever thought this was the right course of action should be fired, and liable.
Annoying as hell
Did the guy seriously not consider what would happen if they were fired into the CBD, and the massive and tragic consequences if that had happened?

I'm not at all surprised that he has been shunned. What he did was treacherous and could have caused terribly casualties.
> That is a supremely American way of looking at the world.

It's based in European, and more specifically, British Enlightenment thinking, the apotheosis of which (with regard to freedom of speech) is On Liberty[0] by John Stuart Mill, an Englishman. To quote:

> THE TIME, it is to be hoped, is gone by, when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear. This aspect of the question, besides, has been so often and so triumphantly enforced by preceding writers, that it needs not be specially insisted on in this place.

It appears his hopes would bring disappointment were he still around.

[0] Chapter II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion https://www.bartleby.com/130/2.html

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