skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is, to borrow an analogy, the frame has gotten really big and the space for the painting is smaller. We recently finished a two or four sprint to ... deploy yellow world. It has bitbucket pieces, Jenkins pieces, EKS terraform, et.c etc., we were all super happy that it worked, but it doesn’t do as much as you can do with twenty minutes in basic in a 1990 PC. And most of the people that wired all this stuff together can’t even write code to draw parabolas or calculate or whatever. It used to be I would develop for a few months then spend a week or two getting stuff in production, for new projects, or few days adding features/bug fixing form existing code, then get it shipped in a few days. There was thorough testing thru code all along, and evil network layers, and so on., and most of the head space was in the code. Now it seems like teams end up spending months trying to get a docker image with all their dependencies and yaml files and so on. And the code is just taking some SQL that ran in a database and running it on some new cloud platform that is still solving acid problems Oracle mastered twenty years ago. Half the code is just orchestration run this hello world Spark job that moves data from here to there. It is cobol level Scala.
Mtrees – Modular Transnational Robust Extreme Environment Syste
https://books.apple.com/us/book/mtrees-2-4-documentation-docs/id1568336630
Oh, the N1 rocket is an interesting story.

Originally a design by Korolev, it had to be built by another team because Korolev died. It was so big that it needed over 160 railway wagons to be transported to Baikonur in piecemeal fashion (Baikonur is inland - no water transport available). It had an ungodly number of engines for its age, but a very subpar computer system (KORD) for monitoring them, which was a recipe for disaster. The budgets were so tight that the assembled first stage was never statically fired (the engines were ablatively cooled, so a static fire would probably require a separate set of engines).

And yet the engineers tried their best.
This is one-sided fluff. None of the stats in the main article are correlated to actual working hours. People have been buying lots more alcohol and weed, okay: when did they consume it?

And the linked survey completely ignores the question of how much people are working when they're not
on the clock. Taking a nap during the day and then making up the time afterwards (by working late) is not accounted for.
In the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd article, they mention an event where he "held a pistol to a woman's stomach", but leave out that she was pregnant so it doesn't look as bad.

Example 2, there was two mass shooting in March:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Boulder_shooting

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atlanta_spa_shootings

In the Boulder shooting, all victims where white and the shooter was targeting white people but they don't mention any of that.

In the Atlanta shootings, the article goes out of its way to mention 6 of 8 victims where asian (asian-hate narrative). In reality, many spa owners are asian.

Theres is definitely a bias in their editing.
The central premise of the argument is false.

People involved in the insurrection, weren't going against universally agreed moral standards — i.e. the need for democracy.

While I don't agree with their motivation or interpretation, these people felt that democracy was being attacked. It was a desire to uphold moral principles that fuelled the raids.
Arguably the benefits don’t outweigh the financial burden of taxes.

The human element is the common denominator to all failing (or failed) policy and there will always be winners and losers.
mIn my opinion the only way to succeed is to give people a chance at winning instead of taxing them into poverty.
SourceForge was sold to a new owner a few years ago. All of that type of thing ended with the new ownership.
I’d advise against this unless you have an insane appetite for risk. The problem with going there as a white tourist (and not a Turkish backpacker) is that you will look like you belong in some way to coalition forces. This poses a kidnapping risk in a country that doesn’t have a functional legal system, but also has a internal passport system enforced by semi-state militias.

Problem is, if something does go wrong, it is not entirely clear who’s responsibility it is to get you out.

Your life is not necessarily in danger, but if anything does go wrong you’re in deep shit.

But if you want to see Abbasid and Mesopotamian ruins all the power to you. Just remember, you’re going to be in rural areas with a very flakey state.

Iraq isn’t a poor country either, it’s just incredibly poorly managed. You’ll find the food and hotels there surprisingly expensive and bad. Bribes will also cost you western sums. Infuriatingly, if you’re American you might even be committing a federal crime by giving one demanded at a checkpoint.

One thing that’s properly weird about getting an Iraqi visa is that the process is like stepping back into the late 70s. The USA disbanded rather than reformed the civil service (before it engorged itself to an absurd size post civil war again) but what’s left of it is properly dysfunctional and dated.

Another thing now that precludes actually going is that there are regular ‘lockdowns’ ostensibly for COVID, but are just really an excuse to stymie protests.
The parent company of Air France is AirFrance-KLM which is a publicly traded company. France and the Netherlands are the largest shareholders and hold about 14 and 12 % of the stock each. So it is probably not correct to identify Air France as a company owned by the French State.

As a publicly traded company they are to some extent required to choose employment options that are financially beneficial, I would guess that's happening here.
> It will decimate the ecosystem

If 90% of the ecosystem survives just fine I would call that an unqualified success.
Foreign adoptions from China were popular a decade or two ago, now they pretty much don’t exist. Still, those flows should have had some effect on today’s numbers.
there are plural resources, not one winner-take-all right?
There's also the question of if these homes are located near where tourists go. If someone's looking to visit Tokyo, they're not going to be interested in staying in Wakayama.
Windows Your Phone now runs multiple Android apps on more phones
If you're on twitter, search for the tag #wordtsar. There's some screen shots there.
> perhaps they can get the ball rolling?

A European plane with European passengers was downed. No Americans. Putin would not have signed off on a similar operation with an American plane.

U.S. geopolitical focus is presently in the Pacific. Getting sidetracked with whatever is going on between Berlin and Moscow doesn’t serve our interests.
"If you want to attract the best talents you also need sufficient benefits."

Oh come on! What talent do they need that a million much lower paid people don't have?
While what you say isn't wrong, it doesn't really address gps point: the article is bad. It points out that according to the supreme court that fire in theater isn't first amendment violating, but the article mostly focuses on non-first amendment free speech, a much broader concept.

So it needs to convince me being able to shout fire in a crowded theater is morally right. It doesn't even try, except perhaps in the xkcd subsection, where it ultimately avoids the difficult question posed, by saying sure kicking someone out is okay, unless people do it collectively, then it's really bad. But there's no difference between those two things.

The article also makes the an all too common mistake here:

> If it were true that hate speech laws reduce intolerance, we would expect to see fewer hate crimes where such laws exist. Yet, in 2019, in the United States, there were 2.61 hate crimes per 100,000 people; in Denmark, there were 8.08 per 100,000 people; in Germany, 10.34; and in the United Kingdom, a whopping 157.67.

Forgetting that a place that enshrines certain things in the law is probably going to (culturally) take them more seriously in terms of reporting. One thing I think we've can ask agree on is that if you ask a black American if they think 2.61 is representative, they'll tell you no, hate crimes are far more common.

This is the same as for example sexual assault tracking in Nordic countries, where definitions are broader and reporting more common, so a naive look at the stats suggests rape is rampant in Norway and Denmark when it probably isn't any more common than in the us.

> Censors always claim that whatever they want to censor is false or misleading or harmful

Are you talking government censors or little-l liberal other individuals who choose to deplatform you "censors"?

He also gets some things confused:

> For example, the government has a duty to protect you from being attacked by a hostile mob that doesn’t like your ideas or having your public speech disrupted by a heckler’s veto.

Is only true on government platforms, like publicly funded universities or k-12 schools except those violate speech laws all the time actually and no one cares. And of course you can't threaten the president in certain ways that don't violate clear and present danger or you'll be arrested.

And of course your argument, as with mill's trident, assumes everyone is rational. What happens when the right answer is emotionally difficult to process and the wrong answer is simple?
I see utility poles and neighboring homes in the photos, so most likely gigabit wired and LTE wireless are available. Amazon Prime next day delivery probably works too.
> Google does not officially even operate in China

Google lists three offices in mainland China:

https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-paci...
And that is different how, as far as a sign the programmer didn’t think the code thru and maybe you can get around some security controls?
You're quite right. Arguably, an attempt at formulating an objective morality has been made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism . However, it is anathema on HN.
I suppose for why you would have to take that context from the article; the argument that was in the "out there" parts of AR (e.g. glasses/goggles) nobody has shipped anything with real impact, but in the less flashy areas (e.g. assistive touch) Apple is years ahead. Plus a bit about M&A shifting apples capability in these areas. All sounds plausible. What this translates to in some potential future where more ambitious AR projects find a fit with consumers, who knows. But it terms of systems that ship today, article seems pretty accurate, and not at all deserving of your "what a joke".
first result for "japanese house depreciation": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

>Unlike in other countries, Japanese homes gradually depreciate over time, becoming completely valueless within 20 or 30 years.
Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
It’s a myth that whiteboarding problems are the only criteria used in FAANG interviews. Being able to complete coding challenges is necessary but not sufficient for getting one of these jobs.

These companies that spend $300K or more on their developers aren’t keen on keeping under-performers around, either.

The idea that you can bluff your way into a FAANG job by memorizing enough LeetCode problems yet by somehow remaining an under qualified programmer is a myth.
Going slightly tangential:

It seems like there are a lot more political activists working at Google. It also seems likely that this will backfire in a spectacular way at some point.

The risk here is politically strategic data leaks of individual user data - not Cambridge Analytica-like situations. Could be blackmail material on a few key people, or perhaps a giant data leak on millions of people from the "enemy side".

The point is that sharing data with Google is just as dangerous.
> Most clinics definitely do not co-administer benzodiazepines.

You're welcome to call and conduct your own survey, I have no way to document mine for you.

Clinics don't tend to detail their procedures at this level online but I found a random internet one for you: https://www.universityhealthsystem.com/~/media/files/clinica.... You should check page 8, item b "Prior to administration of the first bolus, patients will receive midazolam 1 mg IV push."

> What’s your reference to patients not remembering their experiences?

That's what versed (midazolam) specifically does. It is used in other outpatient procedures like endoscopies too.

> What’s your reference to ketamine being tied to the opioid system? Never heard that.

Literally the first Google result for "ketamine opioid" is
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/08/ketamines-ant.... There is tons of other primary research too.

> Honestly, your comment seems totally misinformed.

Sorry to hear you feel that way but I know what I am talking about. I wish you researched a bit more on your own before writing your comment.
white

At this point it affects most countries outside of Africa.

immigration

I believe in diversity. Immigration will forever change the countries it affects, typically making them more like the source countries.

boosting hard

One might be able to push it just above 2.1, but fundamentally the causes are significant, unprecedented technological and social changes since the industrial revolution. Nowhere is it guaranteed that these changes produce a stable, lasting order.
Former director of a coffee shop here. If we could limit our rent, business rates, etc. etc. to 30% (or indeed 15% as per the new small business rate) we’d have been very happy.
Sourceforge is one of the few left that support Mercurial, which I use.
They use a form of key exchange (using RSA, Diffie-Hellman etc) to transfer the (symmetric) key used by the symmetric block cipher. So typically ECDHE and AES-256-GCM for e.g. so the symmetric key is wrapped.
Tribalism is always going to exist. It's always going to be important in societies that democratically elect their leaders. Even if you rise above tribal thinking, othera are going to see you through that lense, so you can't escape it. Any tribe that is sufficiently successful will split aa it grows. This is emergence. This is nature. And thus article is crap.
This article reminds me that
A) Most philosophy writings sounds like the ramblings of cranks
B) There is still a lot of value in thinking about them.

I think that this article is missing a few insights that I value. One is that I’ve come to view something like philosophical truth essentially unknowable- There may be universal truths, but proving that across all scenarios is not feasible. They may even (or likely) be contradictory. Even morality derived from written religious texts has been subject to countless interpretations and reinterpretations. This it’s best to treat morality as probabilistic- I might be highly confident that my stance is correct, but I must always accept that I may be wrong and update on new information.

The other is that authors desire to “give up tribalism” is too simplistic. Tribalism is deeply intertwined with identity, and I don’t think it’s possible to get humans to give up on the concept of identity. However, identity is a complex multilayered thing. I identify as an engineer, as an American, as a man, as a Catholic, as an ethnic Jew, as a Seahawks fan, as a skier, as an alumnus, and many other things. These groups do not share a common morality, but I find ways of coping and moving between them. I think we'd have more success getting people to embrace multiple identities and seeking tolerance between them then to abandon tribe seeking behavior.
Last time they tried it caused massive protests and unrest in France, so the government had to scrap the nex taxes...
These are not in touristy areas. There would be little to no demand. If you want to stay in small town rural nowhere there is no reason to go all the way to Japan for that.
For a second I thought that someone in Wikimedia is getting a 55M salary. But no, we're talking about one person earning 375k and a bunch of ~200k. The 55M is for the total ~450 employees. It's really far from outrageous.

Sure, some of these positions sound a bit surprising. But, having checked just the last one, it existed only for a part of 2016. So, eh, what's your point again?
Because that is what the markets have determined. There weren’t always post match pressers and clearly the sport has determined that there is a value to having them.

Also, inappropriate questions are very rare but I was just using that as a personal example of what I enjoy but there are also good bits in those pressers on mentality and good examples of composure with a loss that people can learn from. There’s a lot people can get out from a champions mindset which you otherwise wouldn’t get unless they choose to release a book later in life.
Fish embryos look often like that
Russia has been getting away with far too much for far too long on the international stage. Putin is out of control. The rest of the world should extract their people and ban all flights in/out of Russia.
My experience with morality is that it's definition varies from person to person even in like-groups. The illustration you and GP have painted is the same political struggle we've always had, just now painted inside morality instead of secular laws. It is wild to see secular people debating a new wave of American moralism, as if that time period wasn't bad enough the first go-around.
To give an opposite opinion form the same time period. I found WordStar much more difficult to come to grips with than WordPerfect. WordPerfect 4.2 with a XT layout keyboard is by far my favorite word processor experience to date.
> The WHO was pressured into saying not to ban flights from China

As I just explained, the WHO's recommendations on travel restrictions are based on the International Health Regulations (2005). The US was intimately involved in the drafting of that document. The WHO was following the mandate it had been given.

> The WHO is supposed to care about health, not be the World Trade Organization.

If you look at the WHO's history and read through the International Health Regulations, you'll find that the WHO is supposed to be concerned with the economy. It's not supposed to overreact and tank the world economy. Whatever measures it recommends are supposed to be in line with the IHR, and backed by the best available scientific evidence. The WHO is also not supposed to punish countries that suffer outbreaks, because everyone recognizes that if you start doing that, countries will simply lie and hide outbreaks. This is one of the reasons why the IHR discourage travel restrictions.

> Ah, yes, banning flights will have little effect, because there are already Chinese tourists there, is defeatist, not effective pandemic control.

It's not defeatist. It's rational. Closing the barn door after the horse has bolted is useless. If there are already sick people inside your country, your first priority has to be finding them, isolating them, and quarantining their contacts. By the time the US stopped inbound travel from China, there was already community spread inside the US.

> So you are effectively saying the US did not ban travel hard enough for it to be effective?

Neither hard enough nor early enough. By the time anyone (including the Chinese government) realized that the new coronavirus was a big deal, there were probably already people with the virus inside the US. The US' travel ban in late January was a political stunt, but it had little practical effect on the development of the pandemic in the US.

> Expats in Wuhan who got hospitalized in November 2019 were told in December that they had contracted viral pneumonia SARS.

This is false. The first detection of a SARS-related coronavirus in a patient was on 27 December 2019. The virus may have already been spreading around the world by then, but it had not yet been identified as a novel virus.

> Not a lack of testing. Testing only makes the problem formally worse.

What? Testing lets you know what's actually happening. If you start testing early enough in an outbreak and if you put enough resources into contact tracing, you can significantly slow - or even reverse - the spread of the virus. If you're not quick enough, you can at least figure out that you have to start implementing lockdowns. But only finding out that you have an outbreak when hospitals start filling up is the absolute worst thing that can happen.

By the way, the blog you linked to is full of false claims. Right off the bat, it claims that in late January 2020,

> China, intentionally or otherwise, was able to lockdown its cities unknown to the world.

Probably every newspaper, news radio station and TV news show around the world covered the lockdown of Chinese cities in late January 2020. It was the #1 story worldwide.
The natural background of rocks/dust should be evenly distributed, with exceptions for things like comet tails.
These people could work from anywhere.. especially today that working remote has become the norm, but even if working remote wasn't an option there's no reason they have to live in an expensive city. They could commute, just like most of the rest of us who can't afford to live in rich cities.

Wikimedia is a global foundation, so they don't have to live in the US even.

They could have easily hired someone from a country with a much lower cost of living.
either give it back to them, stuck under one of thier cars, or leave it in place and start hanging around near the local precinct
On the contrary I think splitting society on trivial lines is exactly what we need to encourage. It’s healthy and beneficial. Not everyone has to care about the same sports, the same hobbies, the same tv shows or even the same politics.

Two people can support different football teams, but still serve in the same army side by side, or work for the same company. They can support different politics and even be friends. Yes really.

Erasing group identities is user dumb. Why not just promote and encourage tolerant civilised behaviour. Since when did that become unthinkable?

Well, we need to buckle down and think it. That is the way forward.
"""A non-empirical alternative to the factor of safety has been around since the 1940s, but still doesn’t have widespread adoption. I think the image below describes the concept, called probabilistic design, best.

"""

This is _exactly_ LRFD (Load Factor Resistance Design) which has been in the Civil Engineering building codes since the mid 80's, and became common in use the 90's when I was an Engineer (in training).

(It's the difference between the older green book and the newer (at the time) silver steel design handbook)

It was absolutely drilled into us in school though, that Safety Factors and LRFD factors covered material and other uncertainty, they did not cover blunders.
Obviously natural language is never absolutely discrete. Let's say there's a spectrum between fairly discrete and fairly meaningless. I'm saying we should move toward the discrete side of things.

If we need to invent a new word to describe something, we can, we don't need to repurpose an old word and in doing so rob it of its meaning.
https://archive.is/5eFO6
Embracing Design Constraints
Probabalistic failure analysis is certainly something engineers do for determining system risk, else how do you determine how many redundant components to include? I seems like having a higher safety factor just means having a lower probability of failure, and these two concepts are very compatible.
Isn't it easier to switch your version control than keep trying to run a project on SourceForge? I know I find it almost impossible to interact with a project hosted there.
MtGox rehabilitation plan open for voting [pdf]
you act like the blind EU leaders

you swallow what ever USA says, and you deny what ever bad thing they do to you

they get the lead, you bow, worse, you endorse them, without questioning how the fuck they keep getting the lead

you BDSM lover, except they don't like you, but you don't care, since you are a blind slave