skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of Womack & Jones's "Lean Thinking". This is all about Lean manufacturing, which I think is partly rooted in Deming's work. The focus is more on how to optimise the overall system than the management of individuals.

The content of that book isn't directly applicable to e.g. software companies but if you think a bit you can see quite a lot of analogous situations (e.g. warehoused inventory is incomplete projects or not-yet-shipped code, "monuments" could be inappropriate central test / build systems, etc).
Great discussion! I think we can both agree that in the end, when we are dealing with people's lives at stake, there should be more scrutiny of both design and code across the board. Hopefully in the future there is a consortium of experts from each respective Government body meeting with tech industry e.g. Department of Transportation meeting with tech industry experts from the likes of ACM Special Interest Groups[1], to create a regulatory framework for releasing safe and responsible tech innovations into transportation and other emerging spaces.

1. https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/alphabetical-lis...
GTA IV actually reduced the map size compared to San Andreas, but they made the map more detailed. San Andreas is a whole lot of nothing in many places.
It's going to suck without Lazlow.
With the pile of cash GTA already makes them it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Cosmic inflation?
Youtube didn't remove the downvotes, just everyone's (besides the creator) ability to see them. But they still matter for internal algorithm and the creators are still affected by them - by both being pushed down in relevancy, and also psychological impact?

Twitter is also apparently keeping the downvote number secret except for the poster.
>Ironically, this 30% and the pivot to "Service" is why iOS devices get updates after 3 years while Android phones just become paperweights.

Apple's support window advantage long predates their services initiative.

Every flagship iPhone since the iPhone 4s in 2011 has gotten at least five years of OS and security updates.

If you count years where you only get a security update, but not an OS update the way the Android ecosystem does, they have devices that have gotten eight years of support.
New drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed
A mix of both might be interesting. Very different type of games, but I played both Factorio and Satisfactory. The procedural world of factorio make it more replayable and interesting for finding resources. The hand crafted world of satisfactory is impressive, and even more interesting to explore the first time, but less replayibility value once you know the world. If it were somehow possible to combine randomness with also a good amount of hand-crafted design, you could get the best of both worlds...
>50% of students dropping out of engineering from freshman -> sophomore year is not normal.

Of course it's normal. It's the "normal" that society chose. It's just only sustainable during an indefinite glut of applicants, which lets everyone pretend that the problems in our pedagogical methods are the kids' fault.
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog
https://deming.org/blog/

Deming on various management topics
https://deming.org/category/deming-on-management/

More resources on Deming's ideas
https://deming.org/online-resources-on-w-edwards-demings-man...
But these are internal details that shouldn't matter at all when deciding if a business practice is valid or not. If I want to sell a toaster (regardless of whether it's sold at loss or gain) that only toasts bread that I bake, I should be perfectly entitled to do so. And if users flock to my toaster due to its simplicity, predictability, and ease of use, then the fact that other bakers are upset about this shouldn't matter in the least bit.

Whether a toaster or console or smartphone is sold at a loss or gain is an internal detail that isn't even public. It's totally irrelevant.
I don't understand the point that you are trying to make.

This is what it looks to me: "the problem with gravity is that since the objects fall down people rationalize everything (e.g. give explanations why they should fall down). If the objects went up year after year forever I guarantee people would shout up about it even though none of the underlying reasons for supporting it should have changed"
If you have a model that says the brain is a singular entity there will always be problems how to phrase meta-activity such as self-awareness and consciousness. If the brain is singular, what does the observing? Does the observing part belong to the brain or not? If the brain is observing itself, which part does the observing and which is the observed? Can we change the roles, and make the observee the observer? How does "the brain" decide what "the brain" is thinking about?

The problem with this model is that it's regarding the brain as a whole as if it's a single processing entity, since that's how we experience it, but physically that's far from the truth: the brain is a highly segmented parallel processing machine and (for as far as I know) there is no clear control hierarchy within the brain to point at a single location to say "this is where [thought/sensation/self] originates".

So my theory is that consciousness is the emergent property of many separate specialized brain areas responding to and interacting with each other: either directly (neuronal links), via the body (flexing a muscle tightens the skin, creating a sensory feedback loop), and through the world (turning your head changes what your eyes perceive).

So speaking in terms of functionality, there is no "brain" as a single entity. The brain is like an ant colony, using hormones and electrical impulses to keep its disparate parts acting in unity. Under this model, consciousness can be defined as the push and pull between these parts, and self-awareness as the consensus model under which the separate parts reached some equilibrium. You won't have problems defining which parts do the observing and which parts are observed: what we "experience" as our mind is the tug-of-war between the processing areas, not the processor activities themselves. And similarly, what we experience as consciousness is the ability of our "mind" to drown out that cacophony and purposefully cede control ("focus") to different brain areas at different times.

Of course, there's no evidence that any of this is true, and there's still plenty of questions about the mechanism through which this would happen, but for me personally this model has allowed me to move on from the vicious cycle of having to first define "brain" in order to define "thought" in order to define "awareness" in order to define "mind" in order to define "self" in order to define "brain".
or they could go Blizzard way, keep cashing in on old games, and deliver no new products
I mean the industry has a consistent history of bait & switch (or straight up lying) so I am not holding my breath.
It's almost certain that EBV has no benefit. We have a nice control group of people without EBV and as far as I'm aware absolutely no benefit is apparent.
Proper compile time sum types would be great. I find myself reimplementing sum types at runtime far too often, especially when it comes to parsing JSON. My go to is a function with a signature along the lines of the reflect packages dynamic select:

func UnmarshalOneOf(data []byte, args []interface{}) (index int, err error)

Which I use like this:

variants := []interface{}{
&T1{}, &T2{}}

i, err := UnmarshalOneOf(data, variants)

// …

return variants[i]
The original comment stated that the bailouts have been profitable for the taxpayer and cited the ProPublica bailout tracker as evidence of this.

I said that they have not been profitable to the taxpayer. I pointed out that the conclusion that they've been profitable to the tax payer is based on flawed cost accounting methods and cited the paper.

In the paper, the author very explicitly stated it was not profitable to the tax payer, directly calls out the misleading nature of the ProPublica tracker, explains why it's misleading, verbosely explains and justifies a more accurate cost accounting methodology, describes the results of using this methodology, and commentates on how these results and the methodologies that produce them may be used in the future to make more accurate and less misleading cost assessments of bailouts in the future.

I've directly quoted the paper numerous times in which the author clearly states that the bailouts were not profitable to the taxpayer, flaws in methodologies that indicate they were profitable to the taxpayer, and why different methodologies are needed that more accurately reflect whether the true cost of a bailout results in a situation that is profitable to the taxpayer.

In conclusion, and to reiterate my original point. The bailouts were not profitable to the taxpayer except when using deeply flawed cost accounting methodologies such as ex post cash flow analysis, which the author, in great detail, explains is a woefully inadequate for measuring the cost to the taxpayer of a bailout.
I suspect they will add some of the most impactful RP elements from the GTA 5 RP mod 'nopixel'. They could even make the entire game VR compatible.
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The problem is that they aren't offering the same service. The payment processor is not maintaining the ecosystem or doing anything outside of the relatively narrow scope of accepting payments and maybe dealing with taxes.

Even if you think Apple's (and Google's, and Microsoft's, and so on) cut is too high, the idea that the entirety or even the bulk of the value that they offer is strictly in facilitating transactions is incorrect.
That'd be really cool. I tried Stadia when I moved countries and before I had a TV or Xbox and was completely shocked at how good it was.
I am unsure of the exact state of play but believe that small mets (eg a few mm in size) are better seen with MRI. MR is probably easier to get than PET too.

There are usually a few radiologists lurking here and they would have better knowledge than me (I’m an MR tech).

https://appliedradiology.com/articles/diagnosing-brain-metas...
There's something more wrong with the situation where an academic institution routinely, reliably induces mental-health problems in a double-digit fraction of students.
Maybe the wealthy avatars will pay to increase the distance at which others can approach them!
There are still plenty of games like that.
$99/year is literally nothing for most companies. Furthermore, Android has competing app stores, yet by far the biggest one is still the Play Store. Lots of developers (and users) did not and would not chose other distribution methods.
Full support of the PRC is more than a "hill"
With how much money gta makes they could make a handcrafted huge world. Probably won't, but still.
Trees are nice, but I'd care much more about distinct NPCs , preferably with some ML aided dialog.
I'll try to whip up an Excel macro over the weekend, but I can't promise anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_g...

Minecraft is number 1. I'm surprised GTA V beats Tetris though, pretty wild.
You know what else emits the CO2 of half a million cars? Half a million cars, and there are 580 halfs of millions of cars in the U.S. alone.

Caring about the greenhouse impact of gas appliances is like profiling your computer system and then trying to optimize the thing at the bottom of the list.
My favorites, in no particular order:

* Nextcloud Synchronization client (File sync)
* Syncthing (File sync)
* KeepassDX (Keepass app)
* Aegis (TOTP Generator)
* Element (Matrix client)

* Simple Gallery Pro (Image gallery and editor)
* KDE Connect (mobile companion app for connecting to a desktop via KDE Connect)
* KOReader (ebook reader)
* Antenna Pod (Podcatcher)

My kids also enjoy Shattered Pixel Dungeon (Rogue-like game) and RetroArch (game console emulator)
I have heard the hypothesis that the main reason Silicon Valley was able to grow is because non compete clauses are invalid in California. So people can start a side business competing with their employer, and only risk being fired (as long as they dont steal IP) They could also freely hop from company to company without waiting in between.
School cafeteria food is the nutrition-of-last-resort for many American children.

There are obvious environmental and health benefits to making the American diet more plant-based, but given the nutritional and caloric density that lean meat can offer, I'm not sure that depriving kids without enough good food at home the option to eat meat at school is a good thing.

I don't know what NYC public school is like compared to the average district, but doesn't the general problem of low quality, highly processed food in schools dwarf the issue of meat?
(Disclaimer: I don't do anything even slightly related to this field, and I somehow managed to skip taking any physics in college except quantum, which I literally slept through and dropped because it was too early in the morning three times before simply giving up. So, my question is probably super super dumb ;P.)

Isn't a sigma a lot? Like, I think that's a standard deviation? If there is even a longshot chance that we are might be off on that constant by multiple standard deviations, isn't that certainly a less-determined constant than, say, the acceleration of gravity? I feel like there is no chance in hell we could one day discover that our calculations are that far off for gravity.
People say this but I've been in like interstates and such and never seen the milky way??
Other payments processors charge 30c + 3%, so it would be interesting to see how it would work here for smaller payments
I imagine it's better than the coal and wood stoves that previous generations used. I have gas appliances and would not trade them for anything.
Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
> Spectrum is kind of a weird case though because it kind of has to be monopolistic - if you allow multiple, independent systems to share the same frequency band, none of them will work.

In theory you could actually do this by using TDM with real time auctions for spectrum access.

But "monopoly" is still the wrong word because you don't have to allocate 100% of the spectrum to the same company. If there are a hundred and they each have a "monopoly" on a specific 1% of it, they're still in competition with each other.

> This would work if the government or some common third party were responsible for putting up towers (and lease them to the telecoms like MVNOs)

So have the third parties do that. "That would work if we do that thing that would work" means it would work.
> If you have a hand of cards you want to optimize it makes sense to keep discarding and redrawing your worst cards.

But this makes sense _in a game with a fixed hand size_. But a company's staff should grow over time. So shouldn't one have an ROI-based criteria where you want each team member to help grow generate meaningfully more revenue than they cost to employ. If my "lowest" performing team members still make meaningfully more money than they cost to employ, they still increase my ability to hire more.
If it were only abusive for the developers, why is EU intervening on behalf of all users, including developers? It’s harmful to competition, and the harm to developers is the cherry on top.
> The first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive.

It might be more than it was a month ago, but it seems to me that we had worse disruption earlier in the pandemic than we have right now.
> lazy manager.

No, this sociopath manager pushed the big red button in order to goose their own ghoulish metrics and perhaps get an extra on call shift or two out of the engineer.
you are forgetting Facebook. it is Amazon culture on steroids
Nike Accuses StockX of Trademark Infringement in Sales of NFTs
Half-Life: Alyx has entered the chat.
I don't think it's about education specifically on vaccines on the immune system. I've never been interested in biology. Nor in elementary neither in high school. Actually I pretty much disliked the topic. It was boring, so the information didn't stick and I never liked the process of learning. (Nor did I have to learn anything I was really interested in before going to university. Maybe except for history.)

However, since I did learn how science and discovery worked and I always loved systems and understanding how they work, once it became an important topic, I couldn't stop reading up on it and had a lot of a-ha! moments. (Partly because of not learning this in high school, I have to admit.)

So not knowing is not the problem. Actually no person on Earth knows everything. Not even the basics. And sometimes, when you listen to people who are in denial, some of them actually do know the basics. (Just think of the antivaxxer doctors...) It's more about not willing to admit the situation. It's also about not knowing what they don't know. Now that's one heck of an important lesson I was taught by my excellent physics teacher in high school. He had this saying "knowledge begins with knowing what you don't know" (or knowing/being aware of your lack of knowledge). Which is likely a way of paraphrasing Socrates.

And I see a lot of people are just unaware of this. (Yes, Dunning-Kruger.) More educated and more intelligent people fall for this less often probably, but still some of them do, big time. They'll think that they cannot be wrong exactly because they are smart and are usually right. Or, at least this is how they seem to explain it to themselves. But it's simply a lack of self-reflection and humility and a willingness to accept inconvenient consequences.
As an old engineer who’s written a number of compilers in their time, I very much disagree with your analysis there.

I posted more about my point below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30208039) little point repeating myself here too
This is the most recent one I've seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_7XOMO7nJE

IMO, GTA IV 1.0.4.0 actually looks better when done properly.
https://external-preview.redd.it/MjjuKj_N4Rn6jyXjZc5ikVk_N3m...
When someone reports to me "The website is down" I roll my eyes and immediately seek more information. I wrote up information below, imagining that one day I'd share it with someone reporting that "The website is down". Of course, I probably never will because I try not to be a dick. But I'll share it here:

FYI, "down" has a lot of meanings which most people don't differentiate between when reporting the problem:
1) Site can't be connected to at all (connection timeout), due to one of the following:
a) DNS doesn't resolve to any IP
b) DNS resolves to the wrong IP
c) DNS resolves to the right IP, but the server is powered off or otherwise unreachable over the network
2) Site responds with a connection reset
3) Site responds with "connection refused"
4) Site responds, but is slow to load
5) Site responds but has invalid or misconfigured TLS settings, resulting in the browser showing a security error.
6) Site responds with a server error (HTTP code in the 5xx range)
7) Site responds with a 404 Object Not Found error
8) Site responds with a redirect loop, causing the browser to give a "too many redirects" error page
9) Site responds with little or no content. (Empty page)
10) Site responds with the right content, but it is abnormal:
a) Missing Images
b) Odd formatting (i.e. missing CSS)
c) Some dynamic behavior doesn't work (i.e missing JavaScript)
11) Site responds with other, unexpected content.

Saying a website is "down" is WAY too vague to be useful. Heck, at my old job I was told "Our dev site is down" and I'd have to ask "Which dev site?!" because we had several sites. Ugh.
Teachers may not be overpaid on average, but there's way too many of them that are badly underqualified, do not have a proper education in their specific subjects (and let's face it, it's not like a degree in "Education" has much useful content, either) and just do a very poor job of supporting their students. I'm quite willing to believe that the very best teachers should be paid no less than any highly-skilled STEM professional, but the institutional arrangements in K12 education make it unfeasible to spot these effective teachers and pay them what they're truly worth.
Great point. Apple is lauded for their 5-6 year of iOS updates but it's not an altruistic move - the updates enable users to keep using their apps/services.

Also there's an upper-bound on price for an iPhone Apple is able to charge and if I can speculate, the "Pro" lineup does not outsell the "base" iPhone significantly. For one, there isn't enough product differentiation for an average consumer to pay the $300/40% price premium.

So in the world of 3-4 year iPhone cycles, keeping up the walled garden and monetizing those within is the surest path to revenue growth.
> - Reporting (Metabase, Superset, Quicksight?)

SeekTable may be useful for tabular reports, also it is good for embedding.
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Agree. It's probably more of an indicator than a strict rule.
Totally agree better than coal, and to each their own on your personal risk tolerance. Although if it's the heat control/speed of gas that you love maybe look into induction? I've heard great things and thats what I plan on using (coil stoves are just not very good) once I buy a stove (currently a renter).
Would you watch a boxing match between Mike Tyson and some rando pulled out of a grocery store? By setting up the match, with equal time and equal terms between these two opposing ideas, the host is implicitly saying that these ideas are starting on near-equal footing. If you try to give every random crazy idea equal time with the truth, the truth gets drowned out.

The truth is subtle, nuanced, and complex. It takes long, in-depth study to understand. It's not always obvious to a layperson who is "debunking" whom. Just as we don't automatically expect a beautiful or useful crop to outcompete noxious weeds just because we like them better, we should not expect the truth to outcompete crazy in 20-minute podcast segments. Crazy is much better at spreading into brains than the truth, because that's exactly the selection pressure that led the crazy to evolve in the first place. True ideas don't evolve by being extremely good at sticking in your brain; they evolve when humans sit down and realize that that's not the appropriate arena for them.
haha. I don’t have any direct experience with tadalafil...

Sildenafil and it’s ilk conceivably could fall into the category of “smart drug” if my anecdote is typical...

The article reports growing in vitro brain tissue from stem cells enhanced by sildenafil. What’s the odds on in vivo finding a use, I wonder? I assume repairing the brain with a bunch of untrained new neurons will also make a person regress a bit...but a little neuroplasticity can be good, right? This seems like it could lead to another facet of life extension therapy.
It will be a live service game named GTA without suffix so they can milk it longer.