skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this.

I spend a bunch of time reading accident reports from agencies like RAIB and MAIB, but my real jobs have been closer to the Web PKI and thus m.d.s.policy

Back in 2015, Symantec's CA issued some certificates that shouldn't have existed, including for names owned by Google. What's wrong there? Well, a blameless postmortem would probably tell you that your processes and procedures are bad, you are creating bogus certificates to "test" a real CA whose certificates are actually trusted in the real world. Need better processes, training, oversight to ensure things improve. What did Symantec do when they were caught? They fired the low-level employees who conducted the tests and wrote a blog post "A Tough Day as Leaders" which blamed the fired employees for getting it wrong. Some leadership (the blog post of course no longer exists although I assume it's archived somewhere).

Less than two years later, Symantec is back in trouble again because an RA they've worked with has been issuing certificates, using their CA infrastructure (and thus, from our point of view they were issuing these certificates even if they unaccountably believed this isn't their fault) that should not exist. This time Symantec's bosses blame not only low-level employees, but also auditors, bosses at the Korean RA, and anybody else they can think of... except themselves.

This is a gross failure of leadership. Once upon a time a US President said "The buck stops here", but Donald Trump was very clear, "The buck stops with everybody" and "I take no responsibility" and it seems Symantec's leadership were made in that image. They quit the CA business rather than do what it would take to fix the problem.

If you conduct a "postmortem" after an incident, then "Nobody was to blame and nothing needs to change" is almost certainly just as much the wrong outcome as "It's Jane's fault, fire her".

I mentioned I read MAIB reports. One MAIB report sticks out, after many years, in the following way:

Unlike every other MAIB report I've read, this one has No recommendations. Someone died, and yet there is nothing to recommend. Why not? Well, the cause is very simple, two men on a fishing boat took a lot of heroin, and their boat crashed, it sank and one died. No need to recommend that you shouldn't take heroin while operating a fishing boat since heroin is an illegal drug already and operating a vessel under the influence of drugs or alcohol is already a crime too.

If your next "blameless portmortem" doesn't have any recommendations, ask yourself, was what happened already a crime? Are the people involved dead or in prison and so either way beyond the value of recommending a different course of action next time? No? Then we need to recommend how to actually avoid it happening again.
Maybe some kind of strong elastic band which you use to apply constant pressure on the brake lever(s)?
I have a copy of the one the US Navy gave to Seabees deploying to Iraq around 2006-08 (I don't remember when he was deployed offhand). It's very similar with local customs and a tourist-level intro to road signs, money, language and numbers.
> there are seven words no competent showrunner should ever say: "I'll know it when I see it."

> To say "I'll know it when I see it" is to abdicate the hard work of creation while hoarding the authority to declare what is or isn't good.

critical product leadership advice. listen to users yes, but at any given point you have to know what your vision is and how features speak to strategy

stuff on p6 about defining problems and decision aversion on 7 also very good.
In my system, templates are contained in config tree. I avoid unnecessary restriction, and allow a theme to override any config setting, not just templates. As a bonus, you can stack themes on top of each other. :)
> An interesting thing we saw was that investing in D-list creators could have a way higher ROI than A-list creators.

Nobody cares about an “ROI” metric, “marginal minutes of viewing content gained per marginal dollar given to personality.” If you meant real ROI (“dollars of revenue minus ad expense per attributed channel”) there’s no way this is true. This is how people observe that only the top 10 or so web destinations make any sense to advertise on but Google sends you traffic from 99,990 more trash websites that never convert, because in aggregate you might barely break even but the extra non converting traffic enabled Google to spend all your budget faster. D-Listers are definitely not ROI positive and anyone who measures that to be so is almost certainly making an attribution error or has a product that is already good enough to sell without targeted ads.

I'm not saying D-Listers are worthless. They aren't! They are ROI negative today. D-Listers are exclusively valuable for the potential of becoming A-Listers.

Anyway this parasocial relationship stuff is a huge red herring because people who aren't sick in the head and need followers for weird reasons are only doing this to become Hollywood stars.
The fact that database engines written in Java exhibit high latency is not a reason to dismiss all other programming languages except C and C++. It still makes sense to consider modern languages like Rust, Go, Zig, etc.
Thanks! These are some very specific notes about how cities can be more appealing. I’m still kinda confused about what “solarpunk” is aside from some loosely worded articles with anime screenshots.
TIL

1 Iraqi Dinar was 4.02 USD in 1945 and in 2021 1 Iraqi Dinar is 0.00069 USD

https://history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-roo...

https://google.com/search?q=1+dinar+to+usd&oq=1+&aqs=chrome....
The vast majority of research authors want their work to be freely available. The industry is just organized in a way that prevents that from happening without harming your research career.
I kind of don't think Starlink would be a big target at least until they have satellite to satellite comunication; if they get multiple hops in space communications working and especially it can be used from end-user to end-user without spaceX ground stations, then satellites become a target. Otherwise if you want to disrupt communications, the SpaceX ground stations are in known (or knowable) locations and easy to target.

But, if you did attack the satellites, I suspect you'd do something MIRVish, so assume 10ish strikes per launch, and there's some number of strikes less than the fleet that ruins the orbits for everyone for a few years.
> you can't throw neurons and emergence together to explain away the precise structural and functional integration of those components that bring out consciousness.

> You have to have a continuity of explanation between the "list of parts" and the final thing.

That's exactly the argument I am making. I believe the most plausible explanation is that there is a precise structural and functional integration located in the brain which gives rise to consciousness. It's many many orders of magnitude more complex than an engine, we don't understand all the details and maybe we never will, but even based on the current understanding of neurobiology there is no reason to believe we have to look elsewhere for an explanation.

> So a live brain in a vat would have consciousness? If not, what are the minimal components of the body you have to add before you can observe consciousness?

There are psychoactive drugs which can effectively dampen sensory inputs to the brain, which is similar to your "brain in a vat" case, and people who have used them self-report having subjective experience while they were under.
Yes. The lottery is (supposed to be) uniformly random. You cannot do better than choosing a random number. If you could do so provably, that would mean the lottery wasn't fair.
I have found Dr K's interviews and videos to be profoundly helpful on a personal level. He and his guests have touched on issues that relate closely to my own experiences and several times I've come away with concrete changes in perspective and ideas for action. I guess you could call that "entertainment", but I don't see it that way and I don't switch to one of his videos when I just want to be entertained.
Well, my point is this – if you try to justify laws against genocide denial, it is easier to justify them if those laws are consistent, and based on principle rather than politics. If there is a real possibility that we have unprincipled inconsistencies in them, that is a problem for their justification.
The whole point of having a database is that you need persistent data that is consistent for all clients. You can’t have a bunch of SQLite dbs and get that.
Of course they’re the same! I’m a man but if I identify as a women then I too can shit out children and make milk.
Can we fix the "An" in the title?
I am also not describing a scenario where we limit hours. While I do have ideas on solutions, I am not even proscribing a particular solution. As I said, we must first agree that we are capable of changing things. Some want to imagine everything is as it is due to unchanging natural laws, when in fact individuals and collectives made a lot of decisions along the way. I suggest we question those decisions and imagine how things would be different.

One thing I can be extremely clear on is that I do NOT think the US government legally limiting work hours is any kind of solution. I am all about looking at society as a whole and reasoning on society-wide changes we can make voluntarily to achieve a better world.
I attributed no intent.
Freelancing is how I broke out of the shit job loop. But freelancing is not widely available and I consider myself extremely lucky and blessed to have been able to do it.
"We solved it but the solution failed."
> $Millions, and in some cases $billions, in tax money pour into projects that almost invariably run late, over budget, fail to deliver

In many, perhaps most, such cases, projects running late and over budget are performing exactly as intended by their sponsors.

All too often, the nominal purpose for a project is just cover for a totally legal conduit from the public purse to politically-selected private pockets. Thus, in the US, we get the F-35, the SLS, the California bullet train. Sometimes we get something out the other end, many years late. (The delay is to keep the gravy train running longer.) Sometimes, nothing.

In New York, we did end up with a 2nd Avenue Subway extension. There actually are F-35 planes at air bases, some of which can actually fly. They are stacking an SLS in Florida as I write this. They probably will launch at least the one, maybe a second, at $2B each.
The first 10 Apollo missions didn’t go to the moon. They were baby steps to get 11 kids n the more on.
Anonymously? They call him by name (Mark McCarter) and show a picture.
I’m sorry, who are you referring to?
I'd like to understand why you're being downvoted. Your comment isn't suggesting the factory owners/managers aren't at fault, but isn't the purpose of the union to protect the workers from exactly this?

Frito-Lay should be ashamed of themselves, and the union is an absolute disgrace as well. Both the union and Frito-Lay are stealing these peoples lives.
don't know if you read or watched Catch-22. There's phrase - what's good for the enterprise, is good for the country, hence good for the citizen. But if you're educated enough, you soon realize it's a lie. Hence why the `ills` of socialism are played all over the news n media.

Then of course, the propaganda that you're poor because you don't work hard. Which again forces people to work hard. Then you put in incentives such as tying employment to healthcare - hence no choice to be unemployed. n now you've the perfect recipe oh sorry I meant endless supply of labor / soldiers you can abuse at your whim.!!
I downloaded OpenStreetMap data from OpenAndroMaps, and was viewing it in c:geo geocaching app.
I figured out the difference between contour lines and trails, the second time around.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted, because this was exactly my point. Some folks just want to make money off software, not reach enlightenment with every line.
Yeah. "True" is murkier than you think.
A decision is a situation in which you did one thing but could have imagined doing something else. It is a necessary concept due to human uncertainty about what will happen in the world -- including our own behavior.

We will never be able to perfectly calculate the causal chains of the universe before they unfold, so we operate in a world of uncertain chances and maybes.
> Anyone knows why people decide to do this kind of time consuming work? Is the world getting hard enough that there is no alternative?

I don't think anyone works 12/7 in a dingy factory doing repetitive work for fun. So the answer must be yes, there is no alternative for them.
If the terms of the lease dictate that Tesla get final say and he signed it. I don't really see how this has anything to do with right to repair, and is a contract dispute, one the renter won't likely have a leg to stand on.
Burnout is a legitimate health issue for many people in this forum, and elsewhere.
> Sounds like real humanitarian disaster, but how do they get a 50% case fatality rate in a country with an average age of 28.

That's probably not the assumption, they are probably counting indirect effects, such as those from:

(1) Medical resource exhaustion impacting death rate from non-COVID direct causes,

(2) Impact on necessary life-sustaining non-medical services from people being sick or dead

(3) Increase in poverty-related mortality from lost work (due to laborer sickness, and due to service disruptions from other people being sick or dead).

#2 and #3 are potentially particularly significant given that Myanmar has a large portion of the population that is already good insecure or otherwise marginal.
I can't believe this an actual question. Fuck me hackernews is a dumpster fire sometimes.
Any place that have good governance as for now should be a good place to start with. You would want low crime rate, good public service, good hospitals etc. Note that I sat good _public_ *** because money can practically buy all those but I doubt everyone on HN has the money as of year 2050.

If you are anticipating climate change and societal collapse the more reason to go for a strong central government (as well as a strong standing army). There is not a lot of choices out there.
> But at what exact what point did the UK postmaster system "fail" enough for an investigation?

The moment it came to light that postmasters were being improperly convicted? The moment it came to light that some improperly convicted postmasters committed suicide?
> So it is happening to US diplomats on two unrelated locations, which indicates that the common element is the US.

1) Does not automatically follow. The US has the same geopolitical enemies with the same capabilities regardless of location of agents.

2) A public report engenders more reports since someone doesn't have to worry about losing their position/security clearance/etc. because they are "mentally unstable".

3) I don't think it's a side-effect that wasn't disclosed. If anything, it's a side-effect that is unknown from something trying to be protective. Gulf War Syndrome is a good example of that.
As far as I can tell - correct me if I'm wrong - management is just easier compared to (say) manual labor in a factory.

They're also paid more per expected hour.
This might help https://youtu.be/S3bZOSlNFGo?t=99
Notion has no doubt taken note that a lot of people (myself included) use them as a quick and dirty wswyg web site builder. This new feature can be used for a lot of things, but it strikes me as particularly good for that use case. In fact, if I were a gambling man, I'd wager that their product roadmap is full of gems like this and are leading to them positioning themselves as a competitor to the likes of Squarespace and Wordpress.
We're in hypothetical, but yeah I would trust it more than myself, and also would trust more other cars to be driven by software. The standards for driving software validation will likely be very high, while those for getting a driving license are ridiculously low.
Done! Thanks for the heads up.
In the US its rare for a supervisor to divulge what your coworkers are making. It's normally not "forbidden" just not done. Heck, look how antsy some people are at telling other people their salary in this thread. Does your boss tell you what your peers make?
At a glance, they don’t publish a price list. There might be a 500 GB trial version behind “You are not authorized to access this page.”
outdoor fiber with support-long cables gonna die tho
My first gig out of school was consulting.

Heck, I did consulting in school to support tuition.

I think there are a few factors to consider.

(1) Ability isn't one-dimensional. Consulting is a different skillset than full-time work. It's not harder or easier -- you just have to be more of a package deal -- finding business, contracts, billing, etc.

(2) Interest. Most people are happier in a full time job not because consulting is hard but because they'd rather not do all those things. If you don't want to deal with contracts and billing, consulting isn't for you.

(3) Consulting goes all the way from cheap Indian contractors, through boutique UX shops, through Caltech professors consulting on esoteric issues.

You definitely don't need to be a rock star. Companies hire consultants for a variety of reasons. Some need some particularly hard technical problem, but plenty simply need a talent for a short amount of time. It's the same difference between in-house counsel (which is good for ongoing legal issues) versus law firm (which is good for one-off issues). Or if you're worried about a tree falling down on your house, you might bring in a random arborist to consult.

I picked up the skillset because I needed to pay tuition, not out of any innate interest or talent. You might not have the skillset for it, but it's not rocket science. You could pick it up too pretty quickly if the situation arose.

Now double the age, I find I don't actually like consulting very much. I need to charge about double to triple my salary to cover overhead, and overhead is all stuff I don't actually enjoy doing. It does have upsides. I do like the variety. The boom/bust of consulting works well if you have a bit saved up and a low cost-of-living -- booms are intense, and busts make for nice vacations. I also prefer not having to worry about things like overarching employment agreements and an employer owning me. But that doesn't outweigh the hassle of having to sell myself, send invoices, negotiate contracts, etc.
> What can I possibly gain by switching which DHCP client

Yesterday I switched to systemd-networkd on debian to gain the feature of having the hostname be set via DHCP and not have to write a script myself. In the process I pulled in a javascript dependency via policykit, which is giving me pause and I am re-evaluating if my approach is correct here.

But for this feature I had to switch DHCP server and client. TBF it's not something that comes up all the time, but it sure is something I thought was more commonly implemented.
>I think I'm missing what the problem with that is.

I'm complaining that publishing endless papers on your methods that are trained on endless amounts of synthetic data is more about paper churn than contributing something novel. like the person below says: no real control system uses an RL controller (e.g. boston dynamics uses only classical controls).
Half-life -> Black Mesa
This is daft. CockroachDB exhibits extremely strong isolation and consistency levels. I believe it is strictly serializable under most circumstances?

Also - anyone who says that x database must be rewritten “because GC” is just making an incredibly un nuanced argument about a nuanced problem. People have built production ready databases in both Java and Go. If you care about low/predictable tail latencies then you have a bunch of other more important problems to solve before you worry about the behaviour of a modern garbage collector. For example: how good is your cache hit ratio? How are your synchronous replication protocols affected by grey failures? That kind of thing.
You're referring to differences in individual TV overscan settings. For that reason, developers were told to not use a particular area around the outside of the screen for important information. However, by the 90s, most recent TV models were accurate in their overscan settings and a lot of games included HUD info right on the edge of the screen. Developers could be fairly certain that MOST users would see all or nearly all of the 256x224 output area. Certainly far more than 160 vertical pixels. So it's not really a surprise that ports to the GBA sometimes had to work around the limited resolution.
Yeah, definitely that and not making sure their members have security when it's time to retire.
Cobalt however.... To a lesser degree Nickel is being stressed as well.

It's why LFP chemistry is so important. If that can handle mainstream use cases (commuter cars, medium range busses/trucking, etc) then BEV scaling to the entire economy becomes a lot more feasible.
Before social media, back in the days of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Guns n Roses, Metallica...an artist going out of their way to create a relationship with fans was seen as "trying too hard" and immediately become uncool.

I think it's still true.

Leonardo Di Caprio is a surgeon picking his roles, he has had spells of 5+ years without a role. Doesn't interact or post on social media and he is seen as cooler than sellouts such as Dwayne Johnson who dilutes his brand on a daily basis acception roles in B movies and franchises, commercials and basically an all around dilution of his brand.

If you are a company looking for a face to the next marketing campaign you'll find yourself begging Di Caprio, not Johnson.

The problem with social media is that gives a raw number of followers, but it can't establish the "quality" of those followers.

If you have less followers than some other account it might be because your demographic maybe less impressionable, but for that exact reason they are bound to be more loaded then other demographics and if you try and sell them something the grand total in dollar terms will be higher even though the universe of followers is smaller.

I think this is true for entrepreneurs and businessmen as well...diluting the brand is something that affects everybody.

Musk tweeting daily and acting childish for example...compare him against a Jim Simons who keep his mouth shut, doesn't divulge his results and forces people to dig info on him and on the fact that his firm makes 10 M in profit for every employee
Mixture of table salt and no salt, the salt free alternative salt you see in grocery stores for potassium chloride
You're right about Okinawa (and the rest of your comment), but it was so lop-sided (if I recall correctly, even the captain of the Yamamoto understood it as a suicide mission) that I think it was hardly a test of the Navy's war-fighting capacity. I'd say the last true test of the "fighting culture" of the Navy came during the Samar phase of Leyte.
Think of how different everything would be if YouTube wasn't a part of Google. They would no doubt have ads but the entire Google universe wouldn't have access to the viewing habits of 2 billion people.
Er. Oops. My bad. See my EDIT note.
Ask HN: What are Ripple alternatives for building cross border payment service?
We are building a cross-border payment platform for global SMBs and freelancers to accept payments without any cost.
We are considering RippleNet and XRP ledger for this. What alternatives would you guys suggest?
These are the parameters for our decision: (a) settlement speed, (b) cost of transaction, (c) liquidity must be provided by the network.
how do you prevent people from pirating answers to earn rewards? because they will.
green flag: email us to apply

yellow flag: greenhouse.io

red flag: adp
Honestly, I played the original FF7 for the first time a few years ago, and it still holds up pretty well.

There’s something about graphics that are deliberately not photorealistic that makes them easy to accept.