skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One study suggested the metal was unusually brittle and that is likely a significant factor in the disaster. Another found that the Captain's decision to leave the doors closed -- which has been questioned by some people -- was the right call and slowed the sinking. All other scenarios sank dramatically faster and had other issues, though I don't recall the details.

I can imagine that some sort of mistake in judgement occured rooted in confidence that was somewhat misplaced. His track record of safety was with ships other than the Titanic. I can also well imagine I've misspoken or misremembered and it was some other error that was made that was attributed to "overconfidence" due to his impeccable record.

But overall I agree that much was out of his hands and repeating what I've heard might be one possible factor is not intended to malign his character.
This country needs a lot more talented & gifted students to excel and if we are to compete with China and others. Instead, now a lot of these NYC school kids will instead be waiting while the teacher calms down the trouble-makers/unmotivated kids instead of behind challenged further academically.
Like you said, it's leftist progressive dogma. To what extent can the incoming mayor reverse this?
I think it's literally a case of it was getting done with or without the Irish government, so they took the "all members will have a minumum of at least 15%" to "all members will have a minimum of 15%" change so they had something to present as a win and to avoid a later discussion raising the minimum further.
Don't be "pro-active" be "re-active"

Balance being proactive with being responsive.

I feel you would of received a better response if you used the word Responsive not Reactive in this context and replaced "Don't" with Balance.

Being responsive to things that happen on a daily basis acknowledges that the company we are employed in is messy and stuff happens that you may need to urgently attend to. Yet it doesn't mean that you still can't achieve things that make your place of employment a better place for others.
> It appears r/hermancainaward is 100% based on posts that the deceased willingly shared with the public. I think that's a meaningful difference.

Just a minor correction there: The majority of posts from the death people in HCA are from Facebook. I think that normally, people posts would only be shared with their Friends (unless you specifically change it to be public).

In that respect, posters in HCA would be publishing posts that were originally not meant to be public.

As an example, I might write a post in Facebook about me and my wife going on vacation to X place for 1 week. While it is OK for me for my friends to know that, I may not want this information to be public for fear of my house getting robbed while I am gone.

Although I completely agree with the sentiment and main point of HCA (and I actually have enjoyed the schadenfreude of some of the awarded people there), I concede that it is definitely a subreddit that is of quite bad taste and brings the worst of the "pro-vaccine" side of the argument.
I trust ZFS for providing RAID-like features via an HBA, just as much as using ZFS as a volume manager on top of a hardware RAID. My experience with BTRFS for RAID was disastrous.

I really like the ability to use zfs send/receive over ssh for offsite backups.

I'll admit, I haven't kept up with BTRFS features after abandoning it, so some of the features may have improved.
might need a patch for that. the rest of America requires a support system and some distribution of self motivated exist through any set up
>Math promotes white nationalism

Jesus they've completely lost their minds!
Yes and no. But the broad implications are an issue. I've been a licensed ham for over a decade and dropping money on a nice HF radio and antenna is something I have not had the luxury of. Luckily now there are things like QrpLab kits and the Bitx, which do make it way more affordable, but they also require time, patience and willing to learn at least a little electronics. Which comes back around that for quiet a few people, cost is a barrier. I know plenty of people who would love to play with antennas, but have no interest in soldering components and they are not in a position to drop $700 bucks on a yeasu.
Most[0] countries would still make you pay income tax for whatever you earn for your personal services and not class it as part of the business' revenue. I believe in the UK this was addressed with IR35[0] and in Australia it is called as PSI[1]

[0] This loophole started being closed in the late 90s/early 00s and continues to be closed in the remaining countries that haven't yet addressed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR35

[2] https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Personal-services-income/
Have you been to Texas? We like it here.
Even without the crisis, what upside does the UK have over the EU proper?

I feel like the UK was competitive when it was competing with European countries. Competing with countries in the EU? I just have no idea why anyone would invest in businesses there. It just feels like an inferior option, unless labor costs fall like a rock.

I think over time, the deals the UK gets will get worse and worse, not just on investment, but on everything.

It doesn't help that China still thinks of opium wars when the UK comes up, India things of the British Empire, and much of the rest of the world feels the same way. The UK was always respected, but never loved. If that respect goes away...
> What if OP is an extremely productive programmer who lives to build product and has a huge impact,

Thankfully there are dozens of thousands of people as capable who do not intent to discuss social justice on the clock.
'Acknowledging discrimination in our industry is distracting, so to stop being distracted I'm going to focus on writing on how un-distracted we are because we're _mission focused._ I'm going to do this several times.'

I can't be the only person feeling a sense of irony, here. A big argument you see a lot is that people who raise concerns around equitable treatment only do it for clout, the ever popular 'virtue signaling' phrase. Is this not, to some extent or another, similar behavior but for a different audience?

Virtual signal* for thee but not for me? Is this something we've discussed yet?

* I've never been a fan of this term, anyway. Even if someone were 100%, consciously and purposefully 'virtue signaling', it has little baring on the validity of their argument.
Also that there's a test/license in general. I don't participate in hobbies with government-endorsed gatekeeping.

Same as drones - it's more fun to be a rogue operator anyway.
Maybe this is a bit naive of me, but has anyone been of the impression that keystrokes in an address bar are not public (or at least un-private)?

I have been under the operating assumption since circa 2006 that anything done in a browser is potentially sent of somewhere to somebody's server. If I want privacy, I use tor.

Anything that's not the body of an https request is at minimum going to be logged somewhere.
No, the article describes the ancient surgeon(s) who conducted this operation as "sophisticated". Instead of framing him as some folk medicine-man blindly following some ancient principle. To me it's pointing more to the Byzantines being people of knowledge. Certainly, I wouldn't consider the people of a culture drawing upon history to implicitly signal them as primitive, in fact I consider it mark of a progressive and learned society!
> Basing any large educational fork in the road on a 4-year-old taking a test has always struck me as bizarre

This is also my problem with the program...
Perfect. There are many companies that want to do these performative acts.

I like to work with companies and buy from companies that don’t make these statements but also don’t use slave labour to make their products. (Nike)

You can have your values and I can have mine.
If I point a camera into my neighbor's yard and run it 24/7 for 3 months, I'm probably in deep doo-doo even if he has no fence at all. With a fence, I'd refer to Kyllo v. US, though that disturbingly was a 5-4 decision rather than 9-0 :(.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Doesn't this rub pretty strongly against Florida v. Riley, which ruled overhead surveillance is legal as long as the viewer was somewhere a person could've reasonably been?
Microsoft Defender is really bad at false positives. I think especially the "!ml" ones – I believe that means it is using heuristics rather than a direct signature match.

I have my own parental control software I wrote. (Maybe one of these days I will open source it, but not in its current state.) I wanted to use text-to-speech to send audio messages to our son ("Your time is up in five minutes!" kind of thing). Windows has a bunch of different APIs for this – there is an older COM API (which supports IDispatch so you can use it from VBScript etc), a newer .Net API, an even newer WinRT one. I decided, for my purposes, the easiest thing to do was just call the .Net API from PowerShell. So, I embedded a PowerShell script in my executable.

All works – except suddenly Microsoft Defender says it is a Trojan. (Forget which one, it was one of those !ml ones, so it could have even been the same one.) Only when it sees the embedded Powershell script in the executable, took it out and it doesn't.

I found a trick – I gzipped the PowerShell script, and embedded the gzipped PowerShell script in the executable instead. I included in the executable a zlib decompressor library so it could decompress it at runtime. Suddenly, no more false positive, Defender thinks my executable is fine.

I also found it gets upset if a Windows service runs PowerShell as a subprocess with certain command line arguments (passing the PowerShell code to run on the command line)–it will block the PowerShell subprocess from starting. Again, various tricks – such as Base64-ing the code to be run, and having PowerShell decode it and then evaluate it dynamically – and it no longer complains. I suppose other approaches, such as putting the code to run in a temporary file, or passing it to PowerShell over a named pipe, might also do the trick.

Makes me think the whole thing is pretty stupid – if I can use these simple tricks to get around their false positives, why can't malware authors use the same tricks to turn true positives into false negatives?
>A tax on revenues would kill a lot of high growth businesses

And also low-margin businesses. If you tax a business on its total sales rather than profits, a low-margin and high-volume operation cannot survive as easily.

Example. A supermarket chain makes many sales, collecting average 5% margins on a sale. A seller of high-end automobiles moves fewer units, but can take a 15% margin. Assume both businesses make the same $1m sales in a year.

If you're taxing profits at 20% the supermarket pays $10k on $50k profit while the car dealer pays $30k on $150k profit, for a total tax take of $40k.

If you're instead taxing total sales at 2%, each will pay $20k on their $1m sales. The same total taxes were raised, but the tax burden (at least in terms of retained earnings that are now available for reinvestment) has fallen differently. The supermarket is paying 40% of their profits in taxes, the car dealer is paying 13.3% of their profits in taxes.

And if a business makes only 1% average margin on their sales, they are underwater by this scheme. ($1m sales, $10k profit, $20k tax).
The justice system holds a gun to my head. Threatening my life and liberty and that of my family.
Some legacy Cold War law I think
Who are these people? Who is ignoring them?

Have they contacted local and/or state and/or federal health and regulatory agencies?

Have their claims been evaluated by professionals or officials? Does "ignored" actually mean investigated, and found to not be credible?

On top of this, articles and videos from people claiming side effects fall squarely into the anecdata category. Evidence from billions of administered vaccine doses falls squarely into the empirical category.

Believing that these claims must be real because someone put them on the interwebz is making the same logical error as your economist.
People skirt those rules all the time. Either way the runtime value of $topic was secondary to my point.
The main thing I’ve learned is there is a glass ceiling of pay as
a SWE and although it seems to pay well, once you have a family to support its pretty much working class. Trying to make money in side hustle is futile for most (You are the commodity compliment to FAANG etc.). Investments are the way to go to increase comfort of living.

Why all the money focus and not about craft and blah blah? Because you are a worker for a business. You will unlikely get to build your magnum opus at work and probably won’t have the energy to do that at the weekend (for most of us). So programming as a job is heavily about earning a living. Work hard, do a great job. If you are 10x then what are
you doing working for someone else anyway? Are they paying you 1M a year?
exponential in what?
> The officers would spend at least 60 days on duty, often more.. without a vacation day

Note that after X weeks on this schedule, the officers commonly get X weeks off at home as well. (Source: my brother is one.) The ABs though are a different story…
Sure, but organisations do fail. Saying "oh, that's just an organisational failure" doesn't stop it from happening. Putting people in an office together is designed to let them recover from failure faster. When a randomly selected group of people are absent at any given time, gridlock happens.

There are also better examples than "one employee with AWS credentials," and I feel we're bikeshedding on the specific bad example, rather than talking about the broader principle of coping with blockers when the team doesn't work the same hours.
It's almost like you can be racist to anyone.
Blink isn't a standard, it's an implementation of multiple standards.

An implementation cannot be a standard since a standard describes what a implementation needs to do while a implementation will need to both decide what parts of standards to implement and how to implement them and will do many things that are not described in standards. There are many behaviors, bugs and implementation details of Blink that should not and cannot be part of a standard.

As soon as a implementation becomes a standard we get ossification and implementation bugs in the standard as the only way to conform to the standard is the exact original implementation.

Besides all that while Blink has contributors from many individuals and companies it is clear that google steers the ship.

The web standards were built on the idea that multiple independent implementations were crucial, and it is a required step for a proposal to become a standard.

Linux isn't a standard either, the standard in that case would be POSIX and linux is "Mostly POSIX-compliant".
Why don't they recognize natural immunity? Is there any reason not to?
Why doesnt this idiot write about all the data chrome collects on you?
> Yes, NYC's specialized public schools have become heavily disproportionately filled by its Asian and Asian-American population.

Have they? The admission criteria is based on scores. The school is disproportionately filled with over-achievers who happen to be Asian.

> When a 4.2 GPA overachieving student can't get selected to good universities or other opportunities because of all the 4.5 GPA students at the same school

How is that so?

> Mix the schools up, let cultural overachievers be dispersed instead of consolidated

How is that supposed to help anyone?

> all I can say is.. welcome to the rest of the country? Shitty public schools is the most American thing ever!

Because someone eats junk food I should have to eat it too?
Everytime I read posts like these it makes me wonder how much of this is really the truth? The notion of you-are-not-enjoying-fb-because-you-are-doing-it-wrong is regularly popping up on those discussions threads and it really feels like orchestrated corp-speak.
I dont think dropping the CW requirements were a bad move, as you mentioned it can be difficult to make a trip to a testing session. When I got my general ticket, I was stationed down in San Diego, which does have a pretty big HAM presence. Even then, it was still that hour and a half drive to a testing session.
Heck, they speak better than plenty of English people I know...
Context here in the thread was deadly diseases.
I somehow can't download TFA, but I can't imagine strict R being anything similar to the current language. A huge chunk of the language's functionality depends on non-standard evaluation
Well anyone who agrees to what microsoft forces on you by running windows is hardly going to object to anything firefox does. Firefox isn't spyware, windows clearly is nowadays.
> and do not save what you type

I think you are dreaming if you believe that.
Suisei no Gargantia. They actually manage to make it work relatively peacefully.

Don't watch the dance episode.
Hah, good thought. DeBlasio is quite popular among the woke bourgeoisie. Most complaints I hear are about him not being radical enough.
I’ve never used Linode or OVH (I’m mainly using DigitalOcean) - interested to hear why you’re moving from Linode and why you chose OVH?
You don’t actually need encryption for thing like IP networks and IRC.

I believe you are even allowed to use digital signatures, you just can’t encrypt the payloads. I would argue a digital signature is not “messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning”

So yeah, you can’t use it as your ISP but you can do quite a lot. The problem is finding enough other people in your area to set up nodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio
'Music' with lyrics is using music as a carrier-wave to modulate in order to convey a message. Bound to be distracting.
There's also a path-dependent local optimisation aspect to HN comment threads. All things equal, threads that are higher up the page during the right time window get more eyeballs and more engagement, which might encourage people to hang their replies off the currently-popular thread. If we reran the "experiment" under essentially the same conditions we might find that a different bunch of responses get the most engagement.
It doesn’t matter if they are idiots or not. The only thing that matters is whether they care.

Probably not, which means that the game of tax competition just became less transparent.

Sure, the headline rate may now be 15%, but so what if the tax collectors don’t care?

Besides it’d probably still be significantly cheaper for companies to pay the fine for any “alleged wrongdoing” than to pay the headline tax rate.
I don't fucking care if this can be disabled. It's a shit default and the people at Mozilla should personally feel bad it shipped.
So what's the solution? Throw users into prison? We tried that. It doesn't work.
That's because "the right of black people to not be killed randomly" is the motte, and supporting the movement Black Lives Matters and all that it stands for is the bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy. I'll add that people "randomly killing black people" are mostly killed by black people https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-....
More like Alabama from stereotypes
You can listen to any frequency that the Baofeng can tune in, but you can transmit legally only on the ham bands.
This is really cool, most people don’t know we have essentially explored <0.01% of possible materials of interest for humans.

These numbers explode when you consider: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_entropy_alloys
COBRA means you’re still getting insurance through your (former) employer. How much does the same insurance benefit cost if you buy it fully on your own?

In my experience you can’t even buy a similar plan as an individual. And definitely not at the same price.
My supposition is that the mayor's reaction isn't because of the presence of Asian persons.

As a reflection of the American culture, the idea that the system is proposed to be dismantled because of Asian presence is also not supported.

I'm just here to argue that.
The tone implies that you think the first statement is wrong in some way, but it's still not clear why.

Their comment was bring it back around to the original topic of the thread: the entire scope of homo sapiens sapiens existence and how long it took us to figure things out in relation to that.

You're trying to limit the scope to just the time period where the rest of the necessary knowledge had been discovered, while everyone else is counting the discovery of that background knowledge as part of the process.
So they are robbing 4000 Black and Latino kids of the opportunity to participate in a program specifically tailored for overachievers like them?
Been doing it this way since 2005. I don't know why anyone thinks it's new.
> Healthcare (in civilized countries)

When you say things like this, you just push back the goal of national healthcare in America. Stop. I want national healthcare and the only way to get it involves not pissing people off by calling them uncivilized.
The vast majority of roads are managed at the state and local level. The overall expenditure for roads at the federal level is a very small portion of the budget.
Everything you type and your current city are sent to Mozilla “partners” to allow for personalized “suggestions”.
Toy OpenGL renderer

Working on adding support for PBR materials + image-based lighting from HDR environment maps

Will hopefully look really cool when done
This is the paper I had in mind: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584156221...

> Students of color are underrepresented in gifted programs relative to White students, but the reasons for this underrepresentation are poorly understood. We investigate the predictors of gifted assignment using nationally representative, longitudinal data on elementary students. We document that even among students with high standardized test scores, Black students are less likely to be assigned to gifted services in both math and reading, a pattern that persists when controlling for other background factors, such as health and socioeconomic status, and characteristics of classrooms and schools. We then investigate the role of teacher discretion, leveraging research from political science suggesting that clients of government services from traditionally underrepresented groups benefit from diversity in the providers of those services, including teachers. Even after conditioning on test scores and other factors, Black students indeed are referred to gifted programs, particularly in reading, at significantly lower rates when taught by non-Black teachers, a concerning result given the relatively low incidence of assignment to own-race teachers among Black students.