skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is so important to understand. The fundamentals of creating safe systems revolve around putting in place good procedures and systems, not just by 'being better'. A great example is one of the ways that surgery was made safer was simply by introducing check-list to ensure all pre-surgery checks were done. Surgeons didn't get smarter or more diligent, they simply had to check off all the basic things before a surgery and that forced them into a situation where they couldn't miss obvious things. Just introducing that basic checklist according to studies reduced in-hospital mortality for surgeries by close to 50%.[1]

[1]:https://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/faq_introducti...
if you read the article, you'll find that the authors discuss how the amount of production has absolutely nothing to do with "earning more" when it comes to economy-scale concentration of wealth.
If I had a company that made even 0.1% of Google, I'd probably start each day running around the room in feats of joy and delight.

Seriously, if I could pay talented people many hundreds of thousands of dollars, have a nice office, happy customers, a decent product, and only make a paltry 136 million a year, where do I sign up?!
"New"? Pinboard-guy Maciej Cegłowski has been harping on this for years now: https://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
#fakenews
Dams are obviously better than fossil, but I think a case can be made that fusion would be better than dams.
Here is a gofundme for him. Not many funders, it looks like:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-ransomware-hero-michael-gille...

And a Patreon as well: https://www.patreon.com/demonslay335
In Minnesota, the school buses have stop signs that swing out with lights on them when the bus is boarding or letting off children. It is illegal to go around the bus when the sign is displayed. I hope I never find out how much the ticket is.
Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
Is anyone else offended by the non-dismissable email signup pop-over on this page? Ctrl/Cmd-R refresh allows continuing to read from the same point, but still....
Or just use fission, which is renewable through uranium seaewter extraction.
Sound like you got there exactly by the method described above.
A neighbor got a call from a local realtor five years ago asking why they were selling the house. They weren’t and discovered that they forgot to pay property taxes for the previous year. They quickly paid the taxes and all was good.

On the flip side: a friend buys up many tax lien properties, usually for very little money.
Fusion will never make energy "free". Currently fuel only takes up about a third of the cost of electricity, the remaining two thirds spread between the cost of maintaining a grid, and running/building a power station.

So best case you will save about 30% on your bill. A fusion power station is probably going to be more expensive however, so you will be more likely to save less than 30% on bills.
> and how Chick'Fil'A is different from KFC (sandwiches over buckets; Chick'Fil'A sauce; lighter frying)

Assuming they've eaten at Chick'Fil'A in the past decade, of course. Most people I know boycott it because of its horrendous anti-LGBT politics. (To wit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/uganda-murder-gay-chick-fi...)
> But it should work for the vast majority of projects and if you really need to think about scaling, you should think about scalable architecture to be able to scale to multiple machines.

Or not. To me, that's like saying "If you need to worry about how to fit your data in memory, you should just move to Hadoop, or something like that instead".

Async/Await is especially suited to Rust though because Rust is all about safety/performance/ergonmics. Async/Await in particular allows eliminating of unsafe blocks that one would have to use to achieve the same level of performance by manually implementing state machines for futures.

Also, generally speaking, I think futures are good, performant abstraction over asynchronous code. It's required a lot of work to get it to stable, and there's still a lot of work to be done to address the multitude of paper-cuts left, but the dividends are huge.
California AG petitions court to require Facebook to comply in probe
I feel like I must have really lucked out with our HOA. No drama. We pay a fee. They take care of the trees, common areas and keeping ice off the roads. Last year they cut down a bunch of trees that were being killed off by emerald ash borers, and this year planted new trees all along the road ways. We have 6 new trees on our property planted by the HOA.
http://archive.is/7q806
This topic frequently comes up with the "Zombie Homes" in my NY town. A non-incumbent mayoral candidate actually proposed a 3 month window where the land owner is notified before the city seizes the property, condemns the home, and demolishes it.

No one wins in these institution vs. institution battles. The government does not have the agility to act as an intermediary between a public that wants land utilized and property owners who may be a single citizen or a multinational conglomerate. In my opinion, the more I hear about squatters rights, the more it sounds like the only appropriate solution.
Skepticism is entirely warranted, I was just pointing out that there seems to be some unanimity amongst analysts about undervaluation currently.
> The system should have started applying brake at this point. If a 3500lb vehicle can't decide what it is about to impact, it needs to slow down (to a stop if necessary).

I suspect there's a big problem in the other direction, too. If the system starts to brake every time it thinks it might need to, it will happen all the time. It might see false positives like this all the time and that's why it doesn't act on them right away.

If it's (appropriately) conservative about starting to brake it will be braking/slowing all the time. If it's not conservative, people or cars will occasionally get hit. The former could make people uncomfortable or carsick or create some subtler danger by stopping short needlessly. The latter might mostly work and mostly not kill people, except for when it does.
> I don't think people who earn more should pay a higher percentage of their taxes, mainly for the reasons you list.

And I assume you mean that extends to gains on housing as well.

Sorry if it seemed I was implying that, I considered putting some comment in noting the fact that whenever these things are being discussed (anything involving behavior of groups....so basically politics in general), it is literally not possible to know who belongs to what group.

Reality is now so complex, I'm starting to wonder if it may be possible that democracy, at least in its current form and with its current constituents in their current form, is literally incapable of handling the world the scientists and indutrialists have built. I think it is perfectly plausible that a benevolent, authoritarian dictatorship is the only thing that has a chance of getting things right. Not that this isn't fixable, necessarily, but I suspect it would require us to spend a considerable amount of time investing the same effort we've put into developing science, technology, industry, supply chains, etc into understanding how individuals and societies work, and modify our institutions and methodologies accordingly (once again, something an authoritarian state doesn't have to bother with).

Everyone seems to think and behave as if we know well enough how they work, but I highly doubt this is the case based on the rapidly increasingly amount of inequality, emotional polarization, and outright bizarre and chaotic behavior that can easily be observed in Western democratic societies. And very few powerful, influential, or even simply intelligent people seem the slightest bit curious(!) about why people are increasingly behaving this way....rather, most of what I hear is Group X is "just wrong" and needs to be educated on how it is, and then the problem will be solved. To that I say, good luck expecting shallow thinking like this to solve multiple interrelated problems in the most complex systems in existence.

It seems to me there is some saying like ~"before man can learn humility, first he must be destroyed", but can't recall the exact words.
> Because capitalism and free enterprise are predicated on fair competition and equal access.

This is so important and seldom mentioned in internet discussions.

> Extreme inequality undermines this by allowing those who already have significant wealth to put their finger on the scales (lobbying, anticompetitive practices, etc.)

There is a number os scholars who will point that as we currently stand, those things, including the extreme inequality, are consequence of the current system.
He didn't pay the 2011 tax bill that was due on time. A year later, entered into a multi-year payment plan to paid the overdue tax + interest, and failed to pay the full amount owed during the payment plan. The state eventually seized and auctioned the property and now the owner and his marketing firm claims he is owed all the money the state made above his unpaid bills.
Most average users don't notice IP addresses and would have no idea if their system is using IPv4 or IPv6 in ordinary day-to-day life, so long as it works. Statistically it's average home users that are already using IPv6-first if not IPv6-only and ISP/Carrier-Grade NAT6TO4 (most mobile networks, and a plurality of home networks), where it's increasingly Enterprises and certain types of power users holding on to IPv4 addresses that seem to be the biggest hold outs on IPv6.
At some point I suspect laws will change if self driving cars become good enough. I don't know where the liability will lie, perhaps the car manufacturers, or the insurance companies.
> I was threatened with demotion for taking a 2-day weekend backpacking vacation out of cell phone range once (not an on call job).

No amount of money would ever make me put up with this. I would rather work retail, because at least there I know I am not valued as an employee.
I'm only a third of the way into it, but so far it's been about how ADD generally appears in a child as a response to a parent's heightened stress levels over a prolonged period of time. He shows a few examples that parallel what I remember from my childhood, so I'm interested in seeing where it goes from here. All "origins" and no "healing" yet though, which is what I'm primarily interested in. It's too early to say if I'd recommend it but it's promising so far.
Could you expand further? Firefox version, platform, screensize, console log of warnings/errors, screenshots? I assume you are referring to the collapsible toggleable sections and not the 'popups' (which is what we call the things that pop up when you mouse over a link, but that doesn't make sense since that wouldn't affect reading the poems - none of the popups involve the poems in any way). Although if you are referring to the popups, closing when you move the mouse away is very much by design; it doesn't make sense to leave them open when the user moves away and is done with them.

I use Firefox all the time, and things seem to work fine and we aren't doing anything non-FF supported I know of, so it should be working for you...
> I can confirm the excessive dryness problem.

You just need to cook more pasta: large pots of boiling water. :)

More seriously: a very airtight house, which is generally desirable, does need a properly balance HVAC system. In some climate zones this means perhaps having a humidifier and in other zones a dehumidifier.

Most people only think about furnaces and air conditioners when considering HVAC, but those mostly deal with temperature. Humidity has to be considered separately, often by different equipment.
Propulsive landing on Mars doesn't take anywhere near that much. The atmosphere is thick enough that you can bleed 90% of your energy with a heat shield.
Webpages on the server should be read-only... just in case!
I look for a company that doesn't make me sign all of my rights away.
I recently had a job offer I accepted, but after seeing the fine print, I had to tell them I couldn't work there.

They wanted me to sign away all rights to all inventions I'd ever made in the past, while I would have been working there, and six months into the future.
When I asked for a revision, they informed me that they expected my full time dedication to the company.

My suggestion was to limit the scope of surrendered inventions to those created on company time, using company resources or directly relating to company business.
So..

1. A morally acceptable company.
2. Rate of pay/ Salary.
3. Flexibility of work. flex hours, or work from home.
4. Workstation/laptop
5. Office lighting.
6. I don't care for open offices.
I've always wondered about those adverts for the website I'm searching for. If I type its name into Google, I'm already 100% committed to going there. Sometimes I click the advert (it generally depends how much I like the company).

The other aspect of online ads that strikes me as ingenious but probably not sustainable is the way Google inflates the auction system with fake money. Anyone who's run a website will have received a letter offering hundreds of dollars of free advertising with Google. Of course, it's an auction so the presence of that money just drives up the cost for everyone. Google wins every time!
Your experience sounds unacceptable.

My best work experience was in Germany with a strict 35 hour week. Overtime was difficult to get approved and also required 1.5x pay. You got to the office and actually worked until you went home. Nobody had time to sit in endless meetings or to be indecisive.

It was very productive and you actually had a life during the week.
Let's not be hyperbolic here. SWAT doesn't have missiles. They will send a bomb in on a robot and blow you up instead.
I guess I meant spectrum. Spectrum is far from cheap. You have to buy it from whoever won it at auction. The spectrum suitable for cellular signals is limited.
Pareto principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
On the other hand, flyjng this flag might be his best bet at landing a decent job.
Housing prices are dictated by supply and demand. The supply is artificially low due to zoning (this needs to be fixed), the supply was artificially high due to the issues you stated.

None of that has anything to do with taxing home owners. When you buy a house you should be taxed on what you paid for it. The government shouldn't have a back door to come and raise your taxes as high as it wants.
FAANG disagrees. Money and proper oncall rotations and comp, because you don't run a world class site with a bus factor of 1.
Vice News Startup of the Week: A $139 Internet of Things Toilet Cleaner
Assuming stable project funding, which is probable at best.
What's the point of even having a particular regulatory agency if they just let the entities they're supposed to regulate to "self-regulate"?
> a Super Bowl ad cost three million dollars. Why? Because that’s how much it cost. What does it yield? Who knows.

This article is awesome. In my free time I'm building an advertising platform that topic matches ads off the content of the web pages. No tracking of users.

I'm hoping to allow people to host and run their own all inclusive self contained advertising platform for just a licensing fee. I also have a way to beat adblockers that I'm afraid of bringing to light since I only want it tied to my own companies completely non tracking and ethical ads.

Hope it's not a bubble! Though first I have to finish the work and get a few customers so it's not like I can't pivot if it is.
Your examples are all big companies, but the question is being asked about startups. That's a category error.
Yup, it's always the same SNPs.

They can only test a relatively small group of SNPs, and they chose the ones that (at the time) believed differed the most from one person to the next, so as to maximize the probability of being able to distinguish between individuals.

But if you've got everyone's DNA, then you can calculate those SNPs for everyone, and then easily create kits that would allow you to frame anyone you want just by leaving behind samples of "their" DNA at the crime scene of choice.
I don't think the home experience is already fully competitive without spending a lot. Just that the theater experience has enough inconveniences that it's getting close. For things like very wide/large formats and immersion maybe when VR gets really good resolution it will be competitive but I agree a theater still has the edge.
Quit. You’re worth better than this.
My mind silently filled in a missing “MM” after the amount in the title. I had to go back and read it again to clear to my confusion. That is how ridiculous it is.
The idea that the second amendment exists to protect us from a tyrannical government has never manifested in reality. What history has demonstrated is that the only time second amendment advocates have shown any willingness to defend their rights is over the question of gun ownership.

Slavery? Military conscription? No problem.

Regulations in the 19th century? Income taxes in the early 20th? No problem.

Farming regulations? Corn quotas? Gold seizures? No problem.

Price and wage controls? Wealth redistribution? Healthcare centralization? Tariffs? No problem.

TSA? NSA? Free speech zones? Warrantless wiretapping? No problem.

If/when gun confiscation happens, I doubt there will be any resistance.
Where did he assume that?
Just as Google won the search engine wars by helping people find what they are looking for, the e-commerce winners will be the companies that help people find what they want to buy (reliably and with confidence).

Retail companies are blind to just what a shit-show their websites are (a lot of them even have ads in their online store). Any company that solves this problem for their sector will win it, and this is good news for techies as every company can and should have a unique solution.
This. The right way to think is that each component, in parallel, have a chance of succeeding, so chance of total system failure is exponentially small in the number of components. Not: oh if this layer fails, the next one will catch it... which makes the chance of failure as high as the weakest link.
First of all, the “I don’t understand it therefore I assume it is bad and wrong until proven otherwise” trope is a tired one. Secondly, Rust does a great job of documenting its features so these questions are usually already answered.

Why Async?

https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/02...
Yeah, the A380 designed for a longer fuselage so it's inefficient in the -800 variant.
> These organization often sell genetic screening services, and I don't see how that is not providing medical services.

HIPPA only matters if the organization deals in medical insurance. Most people are surprised to learn this fact.
Yes, we are all different.
Potted plants do not improve indoor air quality
>In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 before scowling at foreign companies for using a standardized country list.

Why should China's foreign policy be so privileged as to define intenational standards?
I have to question the meaning of their result.

it's a known and inituitive result that a random walk on a lattice eventually reaches every point. This has no practical meaning whatsoever. it's not an interesting result because, just like the random walk on a lattice, after one person becomes an oligarchy, eventually a different person will also become an oligarch.

why did you choose to stop when the first became an oligarch? to make a click baity title?

people need to understand probabilities to read through bullshit like this article.
That would require a whole lot of violence.
Possible hijacking of dutch airplane in Amsterdam
Regulating private companies for the benefit of society? I didn't think that idea was still within the current Overton window at this point.

The phrase "hoist by their own petard" seems appropriate here.
It's not just about viability, it's about complexity and timeline. There's very little appetite for projects with a 30+ year timeline among private investment. You can't expect VC backing for stuff like ITER.
As it is now, the IRS has a pretty good idea of what you owe, but offers virtually no help figuring it out. If you're wrong, they can come after you with punitive fees years later. In my case, they told me my employer had sent them an updated form with a corrected date on it 2 years earlier - which my employer neglected to tell me. I never knew about the mistake and my accountant assumed it was correct too. So not only did I owe $40,000 in back taxes and interest, my request to not pay fines because it was an honest mistake was denied, and I also had to pay $6,000 in fines. Because of a mistake they knew about and didn't tell me about for 2 years, that EVEN A FUCKING PROFESSIONAL TAX ACCOUNTANT MISSED.

But no - they don't know in advance who will have additional deductions so why bother with any of it for the 90% that don't? People are already going to, and often paying for, private services that they implicitly trust to tell them what they owe. Why can't the literal authority on the matter tell you first?
Oh, that's not being fair; they checked in a fix after all!

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sleep(60 * 1000)
I keep ublock on all the time except on some sites. Sometimes, there is a worthy ad (e.g. one month free audible, cause I visited the site).

I don't resent ads, I am totally fine with them, and if they help sustain some site I use, I am happy.

The problem is when they are taking over the whole experience.
This would be a fine response from the FAA depending on what is actually going on behind the scenes.

It is not like some guy in the FAA calls some guy at Boeing and gets "we're working on it" literally and that's all there is.

The would be a process, there would be reports, there would be plans. It would never be a matter of simple deferring. It would be something in that process of following up with a problem report that is missing.
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Then they would have given that raise earlier and wouldn't have waited until Orion was already ready to leave. The company is also not going to rely long term on someone who already has expressed a desire to leave. They will still look for a replacement.
Seems mid 30s is a good number then. High achievers still get plenty of reward but whatever tide lifts them will also lift the rest of the country.
Better World Books has in my experience been purposefully misleading about the structure and purpose of their business. They put book donation boxes everywhere that are covered in "save the children" style graphics and messages.

But the reality is, they are a for profit company that very much enriched the owners while donating a very small percentage to charity. And it's one thing to have a corporation that does social good. But their entire business is based on receiving donated books from people who think they are donating to charity. They also make deals with public libraries to sell their books online and take a big cut.

Which makes me suspicious of this new arrangement. So it is now a for profit corporation owned by a non-profit?

Did the owners decide to reorganize or donate the whole business or something?