skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you have a lot of good advice in the comments, thought I'd throw in how I like to think about this.

Being practical means things that are doable. So it makes sense to limit whatever you do to that, otherwise you'll be in the domain of unrealistic / never gonna work.

The problem is, what is doable is not an absolute. What's practical is different for everyone. You'll define it based on what you experienced / heard about. Fact is you only hear what resonates with you, aka you're not even going to consider things that seem ridiculous, based on your experience.

There's two sides to every story and it seems you're missing one. In my view, being practical is a way of talking yourself out of ideas that you don't want to do.

Look at this way, if you stick to being practical you'll only every do things that have a close to 100% chance of working (in your view). This would only work if you knew everything. Absolute knowledge.

You have no idea what is possible, so do your best (keep trying) and don't overanalyze.

I've heard somewhere you can turn this mentality around by forcing yourself to come up with reasons this could work, rather than why it couldn't. Make a list.
If I were in a spooky business, I'd never hire somebody who's too eager to work in this line of work. Too easy to hire a Snowden this way. And I have no idea how they solve this problem... must be tough to be a spook.
This. See https://www.autonews.com/article/19960122/ANA/601220731/deco...
Note that the article says bypass surgeries and stents are still considered life saving for heart attacks and main coronary blockages but likely unnecessary otherwise, since the outcomes for drug regimens and improved lifestyles are just as good for those other cases. Furthermore the doubt cast on drug/lifestyle regimens (they patients won’t stick to it) is also called out here as false since the drug regimen for stents can be more intensive.

My additional take away is that it is good for people to maintain healthy skepticism about our medical system, its incentives, and the accuracy of our current knowledge.
Then NASA should completely give up being the uber for space, instead of spending gobs of money on SLS. But if you are going to get into the launch business, then do it right.
Robotaxis should roughly drop the cost of “Uber’s” to 1/3.

Currently Uber only collects 25% of the fair for itself. The rest is for the human driving.

Robotaxis can also be used 24/7 so better capital utilization on the initial investment for the car.

Maintenance costs reduce with scale (+in house mechanics to improve margins). Maintenance costs reduce with electric drive trains. Maintenance costs reduce with better initial manufacturing (to optimize overall car costs rather than optimizing for initial sale costs to sell to individuals).

Increased scale can mean reduced margins i.e. Amazon.

And this is all before the tech is democratized. Once there is competition, Uber’s 25% cut of current fairs (for software engineering and support) starts to drop too.
Not passing the secret means not spending the output in HTLC, which will then be claimed back by sender due to timeout.
It’s handled as non card present, similar to e-commerce. At some point, 3DS will be required.
Changing the saturation of the red and causing it to look messy alongside surrounding elements/images? Or introducing colorblindness concerns elsewhere in the app?
I live in Iran and I am lucky enough to have a connected link right now, but this is the last link among the others I lost in the previous hours. I was wondering is there any stable solution like satellite internet or something without direct affiliation with government for people like me, desperate enough to ask questions like this.
You could even make the question more precise. If you market a product where you know it could be safe, but also know X% of the users will accidentally kill themselves (and maybe others), then for what X is it unethical? I think there are probably values on each end where it's clearly either. 100-epsilon is bad. epsilon is fine. Somewhere in between it gets fuzzy.

Another interesting question is that when accidents come up, do you get to blame those X% of users for failing, even though at the design stage you already knew and decided they would fail and be killed.

It's really more of a trolley problem, in that it's interesting to think about, but in reality there's more context and circumstances that make specific cases clearer.
This is a novel take that I have not heard before. Thanks.
Why would they buy it if they weren't interested in the prospect of suing other people with it? In hindsight it would be a great defensive buy,but there's no way they could foresee this shit storm caused by this absurd lawsuit.
What Docker image security scanning is capable of
I can say I worked on one.

But because it was well managed, small team, everyone listened to each other's areas of respective expertise and authority, we wrapped it up in a year on a 6 digit budget.

Meanwhile, a previous project elsewhere i have experience with, had a team of approx 30 cycle through, 10 to 20 external consultants (some flown in and put up in hotels, but who had no actual experience in the things they were consulting on) , had been running for several years, estimated 8 digit budget, and by the time i left had been running for several years with no discernable output compared to the status quo except reports and presentations taking about how good things would be one day in the indeterminate future.

I'm convinced the later is the norm, and it's even harder to go back to once you've worked on a project that 'just works', but I'm sure several people used the later one to land themselves high paying jobs by putting it on their resume using management speak to make it sound impressive, so I guess success depends on whose point of view you're looking from...
Stents, surgery show no benefit in heart disease mortality in stable patients
I use them and I don't care about the trampolines because I don't have protected memory. Having used them, they are really useful. Leading me to think that the biggest thing missing from C is closures. Fix that and C becomes a lot better language.
I agree, but the title of the article we are commenting on is "You Promised Me Mars Colonies but I got Facebook"

I didn't mean to say NASA is failing (although they are a political entity and have a lot of ups and downs as a result), but literally to say "how else could you possibly fund this if NASA isn't going to do it?"

If NASA is meant for exploration and we don't need VC funding (the point of the original comment I responded to), what do you consider the best way to fund a Mars colony?
https://www.ischemiatrial.org/ischemia-study-results
That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. Stripe gets 2.9% regardless of how many users I have. It’s just volume to them.
Join the Creation of an Open-Source “Trello”: Hackachieve
Hey guys!

I am a founder of the Hackachieve project, developed here in Vancouver, BC and am considering opening the project to the open-source community.

Link: www.hackachieve.com

It's a personal productivity and business management service where you can organize your long-term, short-term goals, tasks, upload files, and so on, all in Kanban style. The main difference between this project and trello would be that Hackachieve is more of a framework than a generic project management system. It helps you define your short or long term plans in a chronological logical sequence.

You can also use the platform to work together with a team (or your own family).

In total, it's 6 months of development on its own, but since several devs have already shown interest in the project, I'm interested in making it open source. I just want to know if there are enough interested devs.

Technologies used:

- Front End: React, Redux
- Backend: Django, Django Rest Framework
There has been no progress on the quality of life front expected from technology advances either.

Advent of dish washers, washing machines etc, made our life simpler. But even now, these are not “end-to-end” solutions - someone has to load and unload these machines and maintain them. These problems are not as complex as the ones mentioned in the article. However, nothing has changed for the last 50-60 years. Solving these do not involve any political changes or other forms of complex coordination. We’ve talked about personal robots, but nothing exists that can solve these problems.
Probably some of the issue, yes. I will say this is chiefly a company-side problem. Lot's of companies still have manufacturing jobs in the US, but they are typically high-skill manufacturing, like Boeing or Tesla.
I never thought of that.. you know another way Reno’s are like software... you often have to debug other people’s work. Simple example, in one house there were wide door jams that met in the middle of the top of the door frame. Why would anyone do that. Turns out, you take the two long pieces and the two short pieces and you get two 96” pieces... answer, they didn’t want to buy a third piece of lumber. Now to tell you how really stupid this is, you buy lumber at Home Depot by the foot and they even have a saw station in the store for you to trim pieces and even if you didn’t trim there you can bring the unused portion back and get a credit. Now... I would bet most software devs on here have seen code equivalents at least as dumb as that. It’s been fun doing this but it’s been cool to see just how many parallels there are.. don’t get me started on the 1x, 10x, 100x analogues!
I did both as a preventative measure about 2 years ago and am very glad I did. Extra bonus is the Kinesis Advantage2 is absolutely excellent to type on once you adjust to it.
Spotify's central office in Stockholm has ~1000 employees.

So, at 6pm a thousand people call up the efficient fast driverless cars to go home....

And that's just one office out of a dozen on that street.
Can't be spied upon?
Generate reverse shell from CLI for Linux and Windows
Peter Carey’s early novel Illywhacker [1] has a central character that is both practical and imaginative, and is a brilliant description of these two coexisting. Well worth a read.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illywhacker
“This project is a free and open source webmail solution with a desktop-like user interface which is easy to install/configure and that runs on a standard LAMPP server.”
> upper body strength to avoid supporting yourself

> And core strength helps prevent back pain

Sounds like a sales pitch for deadlifts.

Deadlifts are probably the most trainable movement for building strength in the most muscles, and muscles (upper back) that are weak if you sit at a desk.
Iran's national bank, is as far as I know, not independent from Iran's government. Just like Bolivia's, Venezuela's, Cuba's, and North Korea's.

Saddam's Iraq also used to be like that before w. bush waged war on them.
I agree with what you're saying in general. I don't know whether you really quantitatively disagree with me. I think without any deep immersion like you describe, the IMO team members would still have done well enough on the AMC/AIME to qualify for the USAMO. Do you disagree with that? (Again, my difficulty scale is based off the early 2000's.)

I mean, my basis for that estimate is that I know a bunch of people without such immersion who got that far when I was a kid, who were on the regular school education track, didn't self-educate outside that, and didn't have much external pressure either.

Edit: But I don't mean to imply these people absolutely never thought about math or numbers outside of the classroom, because it's interesting, and they most certainly did, just no traversal through a curriculum, or deep immersion.
I'm with you.

I think Trello's CSS guide they put out a few years back was the sanest approach to writing manageable CSS I've found. It's something I try to follow in every project.

https://github.com/trello/trellisheets/blob/master/styleguid...
Like OBL hiding in their country and the general assumption senior military leaders knew.

I dont doubt Pakistan want to appear to toe the line for their dollars but beyond that I don't think there is a strong alliance to support US agenda.
A mortgage is usually a contract between two parties, so...both parties can agree to change anything about the contract at any time anyway.
I use a roller mouse, a bar below the keyboard. Feel it's even better than an ergonomic-but-standard-mouse, as I don't have to move my arm to the side. Fixed my stupid elbow.
That really looks interesting, with 12 acres of desert property, but even assuming that there are no toxic chemicals in the bunker, it would cost a lot of money to fix up as a nice residence.

Some people with a lot of money like to have a comfortable bunker. Assuming that it was not used for survivalists purposes, adding a clear dome to let in daylight, and lots of room for workshops, hobby trains, etc. I live in Arizona (central mountains) and I am familiar with the general area around Tucson where I think this is located.

That for posting this - fun link, and I enjoyed the 3D tour.
Read the Airworthiness Directive sent to all MAX crews after the first crash:

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

which deals specifically with that:

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any
stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be
used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB
TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be
used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved
to CUTOUT."
I use Medium to direct traffic to my personal blog. This is what 3rd party publishing channels are for, be it Medium, LinkedIn or FB groups/pages.
Uber too, Adam Neumann is Ashkenazi Jewish.
Does anyone know what the hell happened to Monterey Jack a couple years ago?

It went from very available to much less available, and I've never figured out why.
I'd love to hang out on the martian web. Sounds cool as hell, and a lot healthier than earth web.
The irony is: how does a company that conducts itself thusly manage to retain people?

To which the answer is: pay well above median wage

The mind boggles.

One of my founding tenants for any company would be "Never assume work done in service of profit is inherently profitable work."
Ask HN: How do you test applications against one another?
We have tests that from app A that spin up app B (via docker compose) and hit endpoints. It is very brittle but we have not come up with anything better.
Hah, haven’t seen any myself but I’ll ask him. Why do you ask?
>The final argument someone’s inevitably going to make is, survival of the race. Yeah, okay. You might want to self-reflect on our existence as deeply terrestrial beings that are intrinsically connected to the Earth. Even if you spend all of your day hidden in a bedroom, you can’t escape your bond with this planet. Instead of trying to find a mistress in the form of another moon/planet, we need to spend more time working on the marriage.

There's plenty of ways for life to end on this planet that don't require any human interaction.[1] Many have occurred in the past, it's naive to think it won't happen again. There's no reason why anyone has to choose between the stars and not killing ourselves on this planet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events
I've found that using the same class name for styling and attaching behaviors to be dangerous... refactor the styling and lose the functionality, or break the tests, or disable the analytics.

I'm glad that backbone and jQuery apps are in my rear view mirror at this point.
> I've literally never seen a challenging and well run project in almost 10 years in this business.

I'm not sure the direction of causality here. Reminds me of "In theory, practice is just like theory, but in practice it rarely is."

I think your ideals are pushing you to great places, but your experience is showing you that it either doesn't exist or at least you haven't found it yet. I've been a part of projects that I'm very proud of that have all kinds of awfulness that I'd rather have not done. Still pretty good work in my opinion, and I'm not sure that good work is fully purposeful and correct at every point.
"In war everything is simple, but the simplest things are difficult."-Clauswitz. I would trust SNAFU exists for a reason.
”On average a car is used 1-2 hrs a day out of 12-16 hrs it could be used as a robotaxi.”

…assuming demand for cars is flat 12-16 hours per day, and that you could somehow, make all their operating hours useful operating hours. For example, society would have to change for commuter cars to end up in places where they immediately can be used productively.

”Why would Tesla sell a car to you for $10k profit if they can make $70k profit?”

Because, if they don’t, somebody else (e.g, a Chinese car manufacturer) will sell me a car for that $10k profit, and Tesla will make zilch.

If cars become that much cheaper, and wouldn’t need a driver’s license to use them, I don’t see why, by necessity, fewer people would own cars.

Your scenario assumes some manufacturer will gain a near-perfect monopoly. That might happen, but it’s not a given.

Also, I don’t think it is a given that the government wouldn’t break up such a monopoly.
Right. You go to the opera, you order the car to drive around the block for two hours and then pick you up. Cost of gas is cheaper than parking and by definition, you're not affected by any traffic congestion caused as you're sitting watching your show. Sure, 1000 other people in the theater are also doing it, but that's not your problem.

30 minutes before the show is over, you order the car to wait in the "no stopping" zone in front of the theater for easy access. You exit the theater and find your car is tangled in a mess of traffic that takes 45 minutes to clear as most of the cars are double-parked and blocking traffic, waiting for their owners. For the duration of the show, no useful traffic has been able to move for a mile in any direction, as empty cars are just idling around and are content to wait, fully stopped.

Tragedy of the commons.
Kind of like how the Federal Reserve is not independent from the US government?
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Huh, my company is basically throwing ergonomic things at us if we ask for them (chairs, standing desks, keyboards etc), as they know the cost is minuscule compared to us even being only a single day away from work.
Police robots are the ultimate rejection of what the British police hold as the Peelian principles: that policing is done by consent, by all members of the public where no one is better than anyone else, and where some of those members of the public — uniformed police officers with warrant cards to facilitate arrest — happen to be salaried full time employees of the state that perform the duties every citizen should do.

But I’ve also never interacted with a Knightscope enforcement droid. Maybe they have a friendly green button on the front that you press to talk to a rational human?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
A quick google and a few articles seemed to agree E.g.

"Spending during the last twelve months of life made up a modest share of aggregate spending, ranging from 8.5 percent in the United States to 11.2 percent in Taiwan, but spending in the last three calendar years of life reached 24.5 percent in Taiwan"

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2017....
Nest+Bedding+Mattress+Savings+$300
Cool project, thanks for sharing it. If you don’t need GPU/CUDA support, Haskell, Common Lisp, and other nice languages can make sense.
YAML has shorthand for objects. https://blog.daemonl.com/2016/02/yaml.html if you're repeating them, there's always this option.
Slack’s Exact Marketing Strategy
upvoted and agreed
Correct - a friend had a seizure on the stairs and was lucky to get away with just a cut lip...
What I figured out over the years, is that CSS is not an afterthought. You need to engineer a solution for your design as you are building the html.
This looks interesting. I’ve been looking into getting Keybase running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This might help.
What Do I Put in an Investor Data Room?
> they rarely encounter children these days who can have a conversation.

I think public schools do a pretty good job teaching kids to not speak openly with adults.
They had a nice scam going for them though, you have to give them that. Get $$$ to keep "searching for OBL" somewhere in the wilderness, meanwhile they knew exactly where he was.
Avoiding the new-manager syndrome in design
When people say they work in "technology" they're really shortening it from "high technology" (or perhaps "technology development".) This makes it a useful distinction; if you take it literally, everyone's working in technology one way or the other.
Well there’s only 1 farm still making it so maybe demand dropped? I think there’s a glut of cheese at the moment too, not Monterey Jack per se but other cheeses.
This it's how I read it:

1. Boeing is not blameless.
2. Boeing has a point about MCAS issues manifesting exactly like another well-known event in other models and having the exact same solution.
3. The well-known solution to the well-known event is one that pilots must memorize because they don't have time to look it up.
4. The pilots seem to have demonstrated that they recognized the problem and, in fact, executed the well-known solution in time. They just failed to complete all the steps for some unknown reason.
5. Points 2-4 don't mean that Boeing is perfect. MCAS needs to be fixed. But it isn't completely absurd to argue that MCAS really is so similar in its misbehavior and so identical in the correct response that a reasonable person might expect pilots to do the right thing even if they had never heard of MCAS.

Taken together, this paints a picture to me that is different than the completely evil, conniving picture I had. I'm not sure where to draw the line between them, but probably not on the extreme end where I had it.

But my point is not so much about Boeing. I was observing the actions of a person who took what I expect to be a very unpopular stand in the face of overwhelming popular opinion. For what? Who cares if somebody else is mischaracterized? There's nothing you can do about it except get yourself muddy. Just let it happen and keep your head down.

I don't know why Walter is speaking up now. I'm not sure how much it changes my opinion. But I still tip my hat to a person who will say what they think is right even when they know they will be burned at the stake for it.
I'll just mention there are a bunch of privately-funded fusion reactor projects, including TAE, General Fusion, Commonwealth, Tokamak Energy, LPP, Helion (funded in part by YCombinator), and others.

There are also lots of companies working on molten salt reactors. In theory that's easier than fusion, but governments are more prickly about letting you work on fission.
This issue apparently affected Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and their corresponding Server editions (32-bit and 64-bit) and has been patched since October 8th.
> "At Google, though, you're going to have both better average financial outcomes and lower risk."

this is a classic misaligned incentive problem though. getting more pay for lower risk just makes the google workers risk-averse, so their success rate will be lower than startup founders who put more on the line (and who are therefore incentivized to make tougher decisions faster/earlier). a former founder-turned-googler friend admitted as much to me in casual conversation.