skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Not sports here, but military. I will take a dressing down, public or otherwise, over office politics and some of the corporate shenanigans that I have encountered in my private sector career. Give it to me straight, let me know how bad I fucked up, and what we can do to fix it, or walk me out the door.

That said, I also understand that this doesn't work for alot of people.
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I was thinking something similar myself (more on weld quality, "welds should be as strong as the rest of the material"), but then I realized that this doesn't matter, and having an unoptimized test vehicle a week earlier is always going to be the better option for SpaceX.

1. Is it light enough to fly?

2. Is it strong enough to not cause a failure?

#shipit
Wearing a grocery bag instead of a condom will likely also reduce your risk of unwanted pregnancy, that doesn't translate into being effectively protective.

Masks help lower droplets and aerosol in the air from your breath. So they slow the contagion. But they do not stop it, if the average person were likely to contract a contagion within 6 months with normal behavior and a mask reduces transmissibility by 50%, this just means the average person is now likely to contract it within a year. It slows the spread. It does not reduce your risk of contracting the virus over your lifetime. And if you have comorbidities and are at risk, you are just as likely to die when you get it 1 year from now or 6 months from now.

Masks did give us more time to develop a vaccine. So in the end they helped society. But they do not protect you. The only ways to protect yourself are a vaccine, social isolation until the contagion is eradicated, or hermetically sealing yourself in a plastic bodysuit every time you are in close proximity to other people.

A lot of people confuse these two concepts (managing a population vs managing individuals) and think that they apply to and correlate directly with one another. They do not. It is the same counterintuitive mistake as misunderstanding test accuracy and false positive rate. This is the only point I was trying to make. CDC guidelines are not designed to protect you in a pandemic, they're designed to manage a population.
You're basically watching the CI/CD workflow for the best aerospace organization in the world, live on YouTube.
Jambi Did It
> I am just responding to blaming them for not having enough cash on hand to meet the DTC's new deposit requirement, which did come out of the blue ... given that it is a possibility that is laid out in the DTC rules

These two clauses contradict each other. If it's in the rules, it can't be "out of the blue".

If anything, the clearing house raising margin requirements in this situation is both expected and desirable behavior. It's the clearing house's job to both prevent RH from getting over-leveraged and to step in and cover in the case RH goes insolvent. And frankly it looks like RH was way over-extended, and that the clearing house was totally right in stepping in to stop them. Who knows how much worse this might have gotten without their interference.

> But I don't think any brokerage is well-capitalized enough to handle that for every scenario.

Which is why you don't let yourself get into this situation. You'll note that other brokerages did things like raise margin requirements on GME, block margin trading on GME entirely, or stop trading on GME options. These are tools that brokerages have available to them to both cool off the market shift the burden of margin requirements onto their customers. Other brokerages did this specifically to avoid ending up in RH's position, which is why RH had to raise more money and they did not. And they did this even though the bulk of GME trades weren't even on their systems. RH either did not have these controls in place, or they waited far too long to use them
Who do you think is a legitimate contender to the smart contract space based on white papers, etc?
OP here! Thanks for putting together the Svelte demo. I'm a big fan of Svelte too, and I concur... everything I've tried to build with it so far has felt simple and easy compared to React.

FWIW this post wasn't written around the idea that modals in React are so hard they require a state machine to get them right, more that I wanted a minimal-ish example to show off how to build something with a state machine, and ideally something real-world-ish, but that wouldn't require special domain knowledge.

It's always a tough balance to strike when choosing examples... too simple and they come off as overengineering, too complex and you lose the forest for the trees. Thanks for checking it out, at any rate!
Have you tried the Logitech MX Ergo? It’s got a scroll wheel and lots of buttons. It can also pair with two devices which is really handy for switching between work and home machines.
Certainly not the U.K, many people don’t pay for a license fee, there’s no law saying you have to. Everyone pays elevated prices for itv even though we don’t watch it though as the funding comes from tesco, sainsburys, etc increasing prices to pay for it.

a lot of European counties pay for state tv from a tax on things like electricity, but saying “it’s illegal not to pay tax” is an odd statement.
Up until a few days ago I wasn't aware of the existence of https://www.popsci.com/tags/science-confirms-obvious/ and now I see it everywhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989234 and an image in this article).
Did China have a legal system that made the emperor accountable to any temporal authority? (As a legal matter, not simply a practical one.) In the received political systems of the West, authority has at least been nominally shared for millennia, albeit across varying dimensions and with brief lapses into absolute rule.

For example, while as a practical matter the Roman Catholic Pope's role during the Holy Roman Empire was largely constrained to spiritual and religious matters, the Pope nonetheless retained significant secular authority (e.g. over lands, etc) that the Emperor was obliged to respect. Failing to do so would result in illegality. Likewise the Emperor was at least in principle equal with other monarchs in Europe, so had obligations viz-a-viz them that couldn't be unilaterally skirted. Contrast that with the Westphalian system, where legal sovereignty is absolute within a territorial domain and where failure to respect an interstate obligation doesn't necessarily manifest as any kind of domestic illegality. Thus, when a state violates a treaty there's no expectation that its citizens construe the violation as illegitimate and to act and be responsible accordingly. (Modern international human rights theory being a very recent exception.)

I know Chinese legal, political, and religious systems were rich and sophisticated, but AFAIU in Imperial China, which accounts for most of the past 2000 years of mainland Chinese political history, the emperor was legally accountable to no temporal authority. Though, of course, it behooved emperors to abstain from exercising that absolute authority, obey legal and other norms, and adhere to their heavenly mandate.

It's an important distinction because it reflects cultures' (and thus its peoples') conceptions of power and legitimacy, which in turn directly constrains what is practically achievable by authority figures within and without their domain. It's no accident the Westphalian system of states arose in the West, nor the successful, widespread systemization of democratic political systems. Similarly, it's not surprising why Westerns in particular (which is not to say uniquely) would find interesting such an abstruse question regarding the exoneration of Dante.
Would love to use this to run user generated code in our workflow engine. It would be heavily sandboxed.

I like cloudflare’s isolate based implementation even more. Wish OpenFaas had that as an option.
Multiling-O/Honso keyboard. Any aspect of the keyboard can be customized, but it is obviously a slight hassle
This links to full article though, not just a tweet. Now its killed as dupe...
Yes! There's a strong tendency toward measuring unvalidated proxies because they are easy or convenient to measure, without even constructing a hypothesis about how these proxies relate to more important things, much less testing it.

Measuring productivity has to start with what matters: do your end-users (these are not necessarily your customers) like what you do? And often it is hard to get this information. Just asking them will lead to biased responses, but there are ways to deal with that.

I happen to be in a business (let's call it food) where I can observe the end user using more of their money with our customers rather than their competitors when we do things right. That's a strong signal -- probably stronger than asking them -- so a very fortunate starting point. (Of course, there are still confounding terms like seasonality, economy etc to grapple with, but there are ways to deal with that too.)

Starting with that one measurement that matters, one can begin exploring proxies. Set up a hypothesis: "Velocity would be easier to measure and the number would be available faster. Does it correlate with our one good metric?" And then you run the experiment. It might take weeks or months to get back the end-user-happiness data that corresponds to this week's velocity, so these tests are expensive (but pay off many times over when you find good proxies.

In the end, you should be able to construct a somewhat sensible model of user happiness, and answer questions like, "if we hire another team member and therefore increase velocity by 3 %, how much happier will our users be? And what is that worth in sales?"

When you can convert everything to the same unit of measurement (dollars are an easily explained option, but log-dollars are a personal favourite of mine) you get intense clarity and alignment around priorities and decisions.

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All of that said, development speed, as defined in the Accelerate study in particular, is one of those generally good things you pretty much unconditionally want. The reason is given in the study and expanded on further in Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development.

The reason speed is important is that successful product development is controlled by surprises. You will discover something tomorrow that will make you wish you had prioritised differently today, and being able to pivot quickly on surprises is how you both de-fang the biggest risks, but also how you throw yourself at opportunities before your competition even realises there is one.
Also using a KeyOne without a case. After one too many drops on concrete, the frame ended up ever-so-slightly bent out of shape. As per TFA though, everything about the KeyOne is relatively easy to repair when compared to all the other glass-and-glue phones. So far, I've replaced the midframe, keyboard, back cover, and battery, making my phone a mish-mash of the bronze, silver, and black edition.

Strangely enough, my screen has never broken either. It must be something about the keyboard and the nice big bezel.
I think part of it is having chip people being able to work closely with the people writing software for it. I remember something about the M1 chip being able to do simple things like releasing an object and it taking much less time than on x86 as an example. https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1326238434235568128?s...
The History of Remote Work
A quick look back before we zoom too far into the future - from the Workforce Futurist Newsletter
> "code oracling"

Congrats, according to Google it seems like you invented a new word. Could you define it for us?
Big airliners do parabolic arcs - "vomit comet", so it's not a huge problem. 737 MAX crashed for different reasons. E.g. Soyuz capsule returns safely despite different loads and different distributions of mass - control systems, even relatively modest ones, can compensate. It's failures which provide most useful information about shortcomings of the system at some point, so they are welcome during testing - if you think that at this point they shouldn't explode, you'd better bring good arguments. Shuttle had much better aerodynamic shape than Starship, and their landing modes are different.
Very few companies have run into the scaling issues described in the article, off the top of my head it’s just Google and Bloomberg. It’s really interesting to see the TypeScript compiler used within another build system with full type-checking and using the compilers emit itself. Most other toolchains use neither and remove the type annotations with Babel, leaving the user to run tsc manually.
> I am debating against someone who claims free will is what will stop child trafficking.

I have made no such claim. I have said that, on net, a society where people's right to make free choices is respected will have less suffering and more good things than a society where it isn't. But that doesn't mean no bad things will ever happen in the former type of society. Nor is respecting others' right to make free choices the same as "free will" by itself.

If you can't see why respecting other people's right to make free choices is inconsistent with child trafficking, isn't it obvious? Child traffickers don't respect the right to make free choices of the children they traffic in. So getting more people to respect other people's right to make free choices would obviously reduce the prevalence of child trafficking.
> I am debating...

And to you, this counts as stopping everything you are doing and fighting child trafficking immediately? Hm.
And me thinking that C follows B in the US English alphabet.
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Falcon 9 now flies and lands with no crashes, especially comparing to expendable rockets. Of course a modification big enough will require changing control parameters, but that's a routine task for engineering.

Some day we'll have good enough models for air flows in all necessary modes and good enough computers to run those models; we aren't there yet. Testing is still required.
Kensington expert mouse has that. I use it, it's the best I found but its still far from great. The way the ring spins feels as you were moving plastic over plastic without any bearings - which is actually what's happening.

Btw I think your picture is a Slimblade model in which you have to rotate the ball.

Logitech Ergo MX is fine, it's built much better but Kensigton design is superior. It's not possible to be that accurate with a thumb and you also move slower because of a smaller ball. With KEM you can be fast and accurate. And scroll design is great, just badly implemented.
My laptop has four 40 Gb/s ports on it. None of them are Ethernet.
Those kind of prepositions are not science. We have experimental evidence showing that a planet we call Jupiter behaves in a certain way, but whether anything exists is a philosophical question. Further, reaching out and touching it would not provide better evidence than we currently have.
>Is this going to feed someone who's hungry? Shelter someone who's homeless? Do anything that will make any actual difference in the life of any living person? No? Then why are we wasting time on it?

I don't really understand the point of inquiries like this. Obviously you are here "wasting" time that could be spent on those activities as well, and yet you (rightfully) aren't hostile toward yourself for it.
> How can you claim things that happen inside the human brain have causal influences on things outside the brain and yet at the same time ignore the causal influences the outside world has on the internal brain processes?

I have done no such thing. Obviously the causal influences go both ways.

> What you seem to not grasp is the idea that external events can influence your behavior.

What you seem not to grasp is that one of the key roles that causal processes inside a person's brain play is to control how external events influence the person's behavior. The brain is not just a big switchboard where input A always leads to output B. Of course, vastly oversimplifying what actually happens in people's brains in order to avoid having to question one's theoretical model is a common mistake, going back at least to B. F. Skinner.
> Engineering activities productivity can be measured the same way the productivity can be measured for any economic activities.

The economy is basically a population based evolutionary process. Its nature is open ended - things that seem important now might have been seen as being useless or stupid a decade or two ago, like neural nets in 1985 and personal computing in 1950's. So we can't tell ahead of time which will become important, but the exploration process and extreme diversity are the main gain. It's all about getting to those stepping stones that we don't even know we will need. Inspired engineering is eventually rewarded with economic success, just like biological evolution.
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> Is this a viable landing strategy in the long run?

I prefer Dream Chaser's approach, but Elon Musk has his own ideas. Together with SpaceX team. Of course to fly to the Moon there are no such options.
> Sadly Gobo has few users

Honestly, there's nothing sad about this.
*on sustained writes. They will absolutely trash a spinning drive on reads.
I would still see the difference if you switched the e.g. and i.e. without batting an eye though.
There’s a specific setting, enabled by default, that removes or reduces other noise whenever Windows detects “communications activity”: https://appuals.com/stop-skype-lowering-volume-sounds/
Sorry, yes you are right.
Danielle Baskin is IMHO uncannily good at this kind of thing that makes you wonder if it's real or fake for just that tiny bit longer than other satire.
I find conspiracy theories fun so I search for them. You can never get the actual conspiracy websites on Google, just debunking articles and often a Google warning box as well.

Compare the results for ‘fake moon landing’ on Google and bing. The results are pretty stark.
The only time I would use "that is" as a distinctive phrase is to mean "for example" though.
This is nearly always missed in my experience. A good product is "winning" for your engineering team, if you do not have a good product, you have lost. Would you have made a good product if your team spent less time in the locker room(meetings)? Maybe, and certainly more time on the field probably will increase your odds of winning, but it won't ensure it.

This always takes me to USE YOUR PRODUCT. If you don't use your product, you'll never know if it is good. My team builds internal tools for our support folks, we also use these tools every day to try and answer our own questions about internal problems. Are the tools we make getting better? Well, just consult our "How long does it take to answer X?" KPI, we have a set of known common problems; if our support folks are spending less time figuring out the answer to these gold standards, our product is improving, if they're spending longer, we've regressed and we need to change something.

I'll grant that making internal tools grants us a lot of gimmes, we're not tasked with taking advantage of users, and we can spend time training users intensively on new releases, but the underlying principle is the same; a chef will never know if a recipe is good without tasting it himself, and you'll never know if your team is successful if you don't know if the product you've created is good.
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Consider that some teenagers run away from bad situations. I’m not sure that identifying and locating them is in their best interests.
So, who should control that great central database? In some countries, law enforcement would have a tendencies to blackmail people who are trying not to be found.
One of those things that puts me closer and closer to the edge of misanthropy. I mean, Nazi Germany just happened not more than a hundred years ago. We, the different countries of the world, are supposed to already know how this kind of things unfold and that we should not just stand here watching!
If you are mostly at a desk, I can't recommend the rollermouse enough. Love this thing.
This is awesome!

You should collaborate with this guy on Reddit who made a trackball sanding rig:

https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/ko2vvs/i_d...

https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/kptk0h/ver...

https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/l0g8ml/fin...

for his custom trackballs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/knkcnx...
Analysis of 265,000 rows of SEC Short Fails-to-Deliver data on Game Stop
> Drop the price with shorts and let panic set in. Retailers sell due to panic, dropping it further. This goes into a nice little spiral, which lets the shorters cover.

What makes manipulating the price with short selling worse than manipulating the price with buying?

Your reference to "short and distort" suggests you're surely familiar with "pump and dump". They are two sides of the same coin. In both, it's not the stock trades themselves that make it a scam, it's the misinformation fed to the suckers on the losing end of the deal.
It likely was, depending on timeframe. Others have mentioned the Passport and KeyTwo, and I know my KeyOne supports it. That combination would cover at least 2014 and on.
No, the multiplier is from the "Margin Liquidity Adjustment Charge". It was raised so the brokers had to front 100% of purchase prices for 2 days.

People keep referring to a super transparent formula, yet nobody has actually been able to point me to what this formula actually is.

Seems quite opaque to me, actually.
You absolutely do not want to scale the page to the same physical size on different screens because you also need to take into account distance between screen and your eyes. Text on phones can be smaller physically than text on a desktop monitor because you hold your phone closer. As an even more extreme example, think of browsing the web on a TV screen while sitting on the couch and how small the text would be if it is physically the same as it is on your phone.
The Useless Web
just wanted to thank you for the update
Ethernet has wide adoption and standards tested for years. It's going to be hard to knock it for a different solution anytime soon. But we'll see :)
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I love the *Applies to full time employees...

The most basic of caste systems.
I haven't seen a single case study that conclusively demonstrates that fomite transmission occurs at all.

There have been a few cases from New Zealand that have been attributed to fomites, but then when you go look at it, it's "they were infected by touching the same elevator button." It's certainly curious that fomite transmission happens in a very small enclosed space with relatively little air circulation.

What I've never seen is a case such as "they were infected by picking up a package dropped off outside their door", or "they were infected by using the same playground equipment a few minutes later." All of the cases have some element of people sharing the same air.
Yuck. After that particular piece of slimy corporate propaganda I suddenly feel the urge to join a union. And I don't even work for Amazon.

I guess when you can't make a proper case, just use 50pt fonts and stock-art-esque images of people giving thumbs up. That'll convince 'em!
Why be humble when you're that successful?