skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m really happy to see valuable research like this published.

Attributing mental health issues to physiology might look like a convenient way for a distressed individual to escape the associated social stigma, but in absence of causal mechanisms pointing that way it is a dangerous assumption to make, prompting symptomatic treatments that leave the underlying cause to fester.

Unintentionally perpetuating the stigma of mental illness through e.g. mindlessly used unfortunate figures of speech is among the worst casual slips one can make.
My RSI does not thank you. (good game though)
With the slight, but noticeable, advantage of a breatheable atmosphere, potable water, odd bits of vegetation just lying around hither and yon, and wee bundles of fresh meat scurrying about the place.
NanoLog: A Nanosecond Scale Logging System (2018)
What really impresses here is their ability to document the recall to the point that a product that old still has its full history available, allowing them to work out which specific cameras to recall.
VisiCalc [1], the first spreadsheet program and the "killer app" for business on the Apple II, also used left-to-right evaluation. Dan Bricklin said he needed people to be able to quickly enter equations as they did on a cheap (non-RPN) calculator [2, at around 35:10].

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

[2] https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=...
It would make sense to do a handful of transactions for that purpose, but hundreds of transactions totaling over a hundred thousand dollars?
For planes that are being retired, they usually take the engines off pretty early because they have some of the most valuable parts for resale in them.

They’d also be drained of all fluids. For planes in storage to be used again later, they fill all the fuel, hydraulic, etc. lines with special liquids to keep them preserved. So it’d be at least a week’s work for a team to get a stored plane going.
Not just unemployment systems. There's a graveyard of broken systems made for governments, all over the world.

I genuinely believe that their business model is to ship out unfinished and broken software, and then spend xx years billing them (steeply) for upgrades and maintenance.

That's of the few explanations that makes a lot of sense.

edit: This isn't only aimed at Deloitte, lots of habitual offenders out there.
It's embedded in the human psyche. Thousands a day will step over a street beggar to begrudgingly buy a barely palatable coffee from the kiosk they're sitting beside.
Colonizing Mars is cool and I hope it happens for that reason, but it’s a really expensive way to make our species more resilient. A network of hardened bunkers and people paid to live in them part-time in shifts would be cheaper. And if Earth goes through a nuclear war and an fairly bad asteroid strike you’d still rather be on Earth, in a bunker, than on Mars, in a bunker. Mars is that bad.
I have worked with some amazing consulting firms, but those came with a $250/hr per developer price tag at the cheap end. It says something though that large companies wouldn't blink at paying that much for a lawyer or skilled mechanic, but when it comes to software they'll go for the cheap option and then complain about bugs.
Because... Because it's not confirmed?
The FBI's history is a lot to go into in the space of a Hacker News comment thread, but to summarize the thought: yes, the long tail of crimes go unsolved, but high-profile crimes or crimes embarrassing to the state tend to get resolved because the organization has many resources to devote to such a task (especially in the digital era). For example, this was embarrassing to the government because it hit national news, and the cost of the tools put on the task of finding the woman are disproportionate to the damage to the car.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/...

In this case, someone trying a major stock market manipulation would have drawn a lot of org resources. And given that even without those resources, it appears the dragnet may be closing in on them (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...), it would have likely been a bad call to try actual stock manipulation with their hack.
GDP(PPP) is useful for observing changes within domestic markets but not global economic power. As per the page you linked: "GDP comparisons using PPP are arguably more useful than those using nominal GDP when assessing a nation's domestic market . . . It is however limited when measuring financial flows between countries." When we are discussing a Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer stopping shipments to Huawei due to US-led pressure, GDP(PPP) isn't particularly relevant. TSMC doesn't care how much the cost of production in the US is; it produces chips in Taiwan, not America. But it does care about the total dollar value of American economic support, which nominal GDP measures, and GDP(PPP) does not.

And for the result of GDP(PPP) on individuals within domestic markets — which was another of the OP's claims, that individuals are likely to obtain more impact and success in China than in the West — you want GDP(PPP) per capita, not overall GDP(PPP). And the numbers still don't back up that claim: China is closer to Iraq than it is to even a fairly economically-challenged Western country like Greece, and nowhere near the US. [1]

Hong Kong — when measured separately from the rest of China — is actually very close to US-level GDP(PPP) per capita. But... I think HK's futures in that respect have declined significantly due to the PRC. In fact, Hong Kong used to be slightly higher than the US, and HK has declined on that metric over time while the US has risen.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
I believe just like storing a car for a long time, fluids are drained and other items removed/wrapped for storage. You can't just jump in the cockpit and taxi out to the runway. They are kept in a state that is relatively easy to restore to functioning status but not in functioning status.
They're almost always building an API to a legacy system and a modern front end. There's a bunch of BPM solutions like Salesforce, Pega, Appian, IBM has one, Oracle has one, and Microsoft has one as well.

API layer is usually Mulesoft.

They usually pay 6-7 figures annually for licenses and then $75-250 hourly rates for developers. It adds up very quickly.
Of course it's risky. I haven't heard people say it isn't risky. Even me, an avid Mars settlement enthusiast.

Since the article touches on BO at the end, it's worth mentioning that Bezos' changing messaging about BO has me saddened. At first I recall him emphasizing the goal of BO as the reduction of mining and heavy industry on Earth. That is admirable. Earth as a place to live and space as a place to do dirty industry. It makes sense.

But the newer espoused vision of BO is to allow humanity to grow to trillions in population so that we can discover the wonder of having '15,000' Einsteins or whatever. To me this is tone deaf to the extreme and is ignoring that we probably already have 15,000 Einsteins but they are spending their whole lives in poverty or working at Amazon warehouses to make barely enough to live (or not even) without having much time in the day to read, study, experiment, self-improve and otherwise become the kind of 'genius' that Bezos hopes to have in plenty in the future.
Because the person he is doxxing isn't behind this. Unnamed telco source is not credible or is a rectangle swimming pools being used as a fingerprint.
Well, this is sound, but then again this is also exactly what groups content with status quo (say, a government that continues to kill innocent people) would like you to do – nothing
The Google Cloud machine type m2-ultramem-4164 has 11,776 GB of memory. How does it accomplish that then?
Maybe because the person he is pointing to may herself become a target of attacks/harassment other. If he (or she) is really the perpetrator, he should ideally be arrested and convicted. But it may also not be him.

I'm not sure I understand your comment actually.
Are you saying that if the government was bigger, it would spend taxpayer dollars more efficiently?
My wife works for a state in a department using software being made by a company mentioned. The weekly meetings and calls are so astonishingly slow and deal with such meaningless minutiae that I am sadly not surprised at this article. Heartbroken a bit, nit not surprised.
Seems to me this article entirely misses the point.

If we had sustainable industrial civilization on both Earth and Mars, then if one planet gets hit we can repopulate it from the other planet, i.e. to kill off humanity any disaster would have to hit both planets at once, and of course the probability of unguided space rocks doing this is effectively zero.

I'm skeptical about the value of settling Mars myself, but the article's estimation of the probability of Mars being hit by civilization-killing rocks is pretty much irrelevant to the value of settling Mars.

(And it kind of bothers me that "the director of astrobiology at Columbia University" doesn't see this. It bothers me enough to wonder whether I'm the one missing something obvious.)
Cool idea, and thanks for the answer! I'll have to look more closely at the paper :)
Yes, but that doesn't mean the events are related. The countries that opened their schools in spring and has since not seen an increase in Covid-19 cases instructed people to remain vigilant. Israel's PM Netanyahu in May declared "victory" over the virus and told Israelis to go out "enjoy yourselves." Perhaps with a more cautious strategy Israel wouldn't have seen a second outbreak.

But even if they would have, what's the alternative? Let kids sit at home and wait for a vaccine?
The best solution I've seen for this is to have a separate subforum for highly contentious discussions, and anything with more than a threshold number of comments per hour gets automatically moved there and flagged for moderator review. Then the moderator can move it back, delete it entirely or just leave it in the separate subforum so that interested parties can flame each other in the fire pit instead of out where everybody else hangs out.
Do you use the Neo Vim extension, it uses real neovim? Not to be confused with VSCodeVim.
Well, to the defense of VB - it's .NET, so that shouldn't be much of a big deal these days.
The first time I flew was as a grubby college student. It was upstairs on a 747. The people near me gave me dirty looks. I didn’t know what business class was or why I had been upgraded. I slept through the entire flight. I wish I had been able to appreciate it!
Because doxxing as a strategy has a nasty habit of ruining the lives of people that turn out to be innocent. Skipping legal process and all that.
Not familiar with PPP calculations around currency differentials, does it account for Chinese currency manipulation or that would not impact the PPP?

Source of currency manipulation claims: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm751

Yes its US Gov source, but there is a lot of data presented here which I frankly can not grasp: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/206/2019-05-28-May-20...
Or fuel in the tank.

And it’s probably being blocked in by other planes. Those desert boneyards don’t park planes with random access in mind.
Would they potentially overturn the dismissal in that case?
Erased as in moved to other markets only to return a short time later.
i don't see the words "correlated" or "decorrelated" in there, so they can't be addressing the fact that the risks on mars (however great!) are decorrelated from the risks of earth.

which is the point. not that mars is somehow magically safe.
The severance was several months of pay and usually a few months of health insurance too. It's the most generous package I've ever heard of.

For high level execs it got up into a whole year's salary sometimes.

Even for the lowest levels of engineers, the severance would be in the $40,000 range.

VPs could walk away with $1M+ in severance. CxOs even more.
Plot Against America: GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election
The companies seem to be claiming that their products work fine in other places and blaming their customers for the places where they fail.

> The consulting company defended its performance at the time, saying it was continuing to improve the system and it would run more smoothly as employees from the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) learned to use it properly.

> “As we have communicated to DEO, we believe that any remaining issues deemed ‘high impact’ by DEO’s own definition either require Departmental actions or are otherwise beyond Deloitte’s control,” they said.

> Price also said the company had worked on systems in states including Minnesota and New Mexico, which he said have weathered problems relatively well.
Grasses that have been developed for pastoral farming still lead to more methane burps. Current research seems to be focused on breading grasses / other pasture crops, and breading animals that produce less methane, Vaccines that could be given to animals, Inhibitors that could be added to their diet[1], and modeling of the methane formation process. But yes, the simplest way to reduce it would be to reduce the number of animals, by eating less meat.

[1] https://www.pggrc.co.nz/files/1501479614891.pdf
I guess my point is that they ARE visible (karma). Click on a username of someone. Yours is at, "888". Popularity contests are alive and well on hn.
Or used a more believable scam? They took over coinbase’s Twitter. They could have announced some new trading system and to reserve your spot in the line for the beta deposit $100 worth of bitcoin to this address.
It certainly fits the government's definition of an entitlement[1].

It's also structured as a non-optional, government-ran insurance scheme predominantly funded through explicit payroll tax obligations[2], which employers aren't entitled to opt out of.

As long as you meet your states particular flavor of requirements, you're entitled to your unemployment insurance benefits. Despite any statements to the contrary states may push in their mandatory unemployment class.

[1] https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/entitlement.h...

[2] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-unemploym...
Ex Deloitte here:

In several years I never once saw the firm not deliver what they agreed to in writing.

There’s one way to deal with a consulting firm: a rock solid statement of work and people on the client side to verify you got exactly what you paid for.

If the system didn’t work as agreed in the statement of work and that was clear, Deloitte would be footing the bill.

If you gave out a time and materials contract without clear acceptance criteria, testing requirements, and verification / support / warranty detailed, you probably shouldn’t be handling 100 million dollar budgets.
I find it most fascinating that when Little Boy was detonated the portion of only about one kilogram underwent fission out of the total Uranium mass of 64 kg. So much destruction from such a tiny amount of stuff...
There is no "theory". This is a sickening attempt at using a farcical medical diagnosis to ruin the entire life of a prisoner, even worse, a youth prisoner. History is littered with examples of lobotomies and chemical pacifiers being used to control "oppositional defiant" prisoners.

A doctor with medical credentials would know far better than anyone else, the foundational and fundamental damage done to someone with induced gender dysphoria, the practical effect of giving an ordinary man estrogen. This is psychopathic behaviour that has become all too routine in our national prison complex.
You both said exactly what's been on my mind lately. I keep thinking, "There's got to be a better way.", in regards to fighting these issues.
> most of the other clown shops out there

Who, in your experience? Because the smaller shops tend to have brighter people, often with the founder involved (or one-step removed), in my experience
They'll almost certainly become cargo carriers. It's the main use for 747s these days.
It probably isn't with current technology, but it has the potential to become substantially less risky in the near future.

It has no earthquakes, no volcanoes, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no floods, no forest fires, and so on. It has exactly two types of natural disasters - meteor strikes, and dust storms. The former are very rare. The latter can be mitigated much more thoroughly than natural disasters on earth.

Humans have to live indoors, which mean that it has no shared ecosystem. We can control the spread of pathogens by isolating populations perfectly. We don't have to worry about the atmosphere at large becoming poisonous because we are already managing the local atmosphere as a distinct entity.

It has no large groups of people who do not have the technology to survive in hostile environments who can come try and steal (and in effect destroy) your technology.
> Now, after many years of taking various SSRIs I'm beginning to realize

So a failure to transmit or receive sufficient chemical stimulus in the brain describes a failure of hardware that may or may not be correctable with drugs. Because we live in a culture of convenience it is common to misrepresent a difference of personality as a defect correctable with a drug, which may explain the drive to consume and abuse stimulants.

Some people, myself, literally enjoy working 80+ hours a weeks with less sleep and without preconditions, like increased compensation. Many people see that as bizarre and wonder where the increased energy and focus come from. It’s not a product of increased energy or focus, but really just a minor difference of personal interest and emotional concerns. Stimulants won’t buy you a necessary change of personal goals or the necessary continuous interest of where you value your time, and certainly won’t buy you enjoyment of working 80+ hours a week. Instead people tend to be most productive where they naturally find increased output due to personal interests whether that’s just from spending time with other people or reading literature.

That’s the difference personal interests (personality) make which is not any indication of defect. There is a famous quote: “Know thyself”. The reflection to that is know what you are not or rather don’t lie to yourself.
Definitely not, adverts are blocked here and I had the stream on for a good 30mins.

edit: the layout/graphics were the same as the screenshot in this article linked downthread: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fake-spacex-youtube-channels-...

Archive of the Sony scam site: https://web.archive.org/web/20200612034440/http://ps-btc.inf...

Compare that to the one linked by the compromised Twitter accounts: https://web.archive.org/web/20200715192340/http://cryptoforh...
This is unfortunate news for BA and its fleet and is
reminiscent to the super-sonic concorde days (Which I still miss). I'm a huge fan of Boom Supersonic to take its place. Recently in the UK we lost two airliners to this pandemic, Thomas Cook Airlines and Flybe both fell into the adminstrators.

I guess this looks like magnificent news to flight-shamers and climate-change activists.
Has the 747 transported to most human-distance (people * (km|miles)) of any other make&model transportation machine? I would imagine so...
Looks like they leave fuel in the tank if it’s for short term storage, but they drain various fluids if it’s longer term storage. Probably depends on the circumstances.
One could argue that if you are relying on magic number schemas to decide if a library is stable enough for your usecase, it is you that is doing it wrong.
I'm not sure if science knows why yet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897047/ may be a good starting point, but IANAYD etc.
Here is a lovely tour by an amazing flight attendant on one of the last KLM 747 flights https://youtu.be/FgeHMW79MFU

The entire video sparks nostalgia and joy
Do you also support vigilante justice?
And there you said it - outsourced. It takes exceptionally good project managers and tech leads to develop a successful product using offshored labor. And from most situations I've experienced or read about, there are very few such managers/leads.
I don't think so. The last thing you want is to have someone working for a manager who tried to fire them. I don't recall any case where a dismissal was overturned.

Keep in mind, the HR person will still have at least a few hours warning, since they are invited to the meeting ahead of time and will know what the meeting is about, because they have to prep the paperwork. So if they disagree, they are most likely to ask the manager to discuss it first.
The question I have is if there is even a market for people people to build good software. It doesn't even seem like a money issue when I hear about tens of millions of dollars being sunk into projects that go nowhere.
tl;dr don't rely on a single source
If confirmed, that would definitely be an appropriate scenario for someone to be fired.
There is a difference between what the PRC says and reality; they have absolutely no control of Taiwan and no country (including the PRC) actually believes that the Chinese Communist Party has any true influence/power over Taiwan. So either you are seriously uninformed on geopolitics or you like to spout BS CCP propaganda.
Tbh, software consulting towards gov. entities is a almost guaranteed shitshow, from all perspectives. It's just a recipe for disaster, unless handled very carefully.

On one side, you have consulting companies that want to maximize their billing - no mater what.

On the other side, you have tons of red tape to navigate through, clients that may not know what they want, or just incompetent people in charge of writing the spec. And with huge expectations, at that.
I would guess it's actually the 737 or a320. Long haul flights are significantly less common.
I couldn't find any screenshots, archive.org link, or browser history for the tweet I saw. So, unfortunately I have no evidence that the scam tweets started before Wednesday. We'll see what Twitter finds.
The problem with pulse oximeters is the people who need them often can't use them. Yes I know it's not meant as a medical device.

My dad has COPD and IPF but he can't use the SPO2 meter on the Samsung phone I gave him (and Samsung disabled the SPO2 function for Canada). A Garmin VivoSmart 4 can't give a decent reading on him or me and it takes forever. Part of the problem is blood flow dad's fingers are ice cold due to his condition.

My dad uses a cheap oximeter from Walmart it works better than anything else. It's the type that clips over a finger it's fast and seems to be accurate. I'd like to get a wristband or watch that has a good SPO2 meter but nothing seems to exist.
Remember the healthcare.gov rollout? It was built by EY and I may have worked there.

It was being hosted from one of the main developers homes. Let that sink in for a few...
Not that I think "oppositional defiant disorder" is even a sound classification to begin with, but the lawyer's assertion that estrogen is not an accepted or common treatment for males with ODD is spot on. This was done solely with the intent to harm, by offending a deep and fundamental aspect of the person in question.
And extras are as well
I've been cutting my own hair for some time now, and I have to say that after a while you develop a certain level of proprioception for where the buzzer is at. I don't even look at the mirror for most of the time I'm cutting, only to check if I did it right. And almost always I know the instant I cut too much (because I get the same kind of cringe feeling you get right when you throw a basketball and know instantly that you missed).

Then again, I have a "good enough" attitude for haircuts - but people are genuinely surprised when I tell them I cut my own hair. I think this is because I've gotten better at cutting my own head of hair than what a random barber would be capable of.