skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some reason, people in Europe back in the 60s believed that creating dense housing only units with no sense of scale, long commutes and walks and 100% car dependence was the way forward.

To be fair, there were pressing issues with large slums all across Europe at that time, and they needed to build lots of homes very quickly. I am not sure there were many alternative to blocks of flats back in the day. The problem is also not really high densities, because it also means that there is a local market for shops, restaurants, etc, which can make the neighbourhoods very walkable and nice. Most large projects had plans for things like cinemas, swimming pools, gyms, shops, and stuff. Often these were not built and instead there were these rows after rows of blocks of concrete.

Transport is a real problem, because these places became less and less attractive as they aged and became more and more isolated.

But smaller population densities would not have helped one bit with that. It would just have encouraged urban sprawl which is even worse in terms of public transport and walkability.
The solution here isn't to keep bank branches open longer, it's to design more accessible ATMs.
In almost every country with a dictator and human right abuses, you will find a constitution guarantying civil rights and liberties of the individual...

[1] - "The Constitution of the Russian Federation"

Article 17

1. In the Russian Federation recognition and guarantees shall be provided for the rights and freedoms of man and citizen according to the universally recognized principles and norms of international law and according to the present Constitution.

2. Fundamental human rights and freedoms are inalienable and shall be enjoyed by everyone since the day of birth.

3. The exercise of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen shall not violate the rights and freedoms of other people.

Article 18

The rights and freedoms of man and citizen shall be directly operative. They determine the essence, meaning and implementation of laws, the activities of the legislative and executive authorities, local self-government and shall be ensured by the administration of justice.

Article 19

1. All people shall be equal before the law and court.

2. The State shall guarantee the equality of rights and freedoms of man and citizen, regardless of sex, race, nationality, language, origin, property and official status, place of residence, religion, convictions, membership of public associations, and also of other circumstances. All forms of limitations of human rights on social, racial, national, linguistic or religious grounds shall be banned.

3. Man and woman shall enjoy equal rights and freedoms and have equal possibilities to exercise them.

and so on...

[1] http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-03.htm
You're right, it's hard to take such a complex topic, whose definition does not always match colloquial use, and boil it down to two paragraphs (I guess asking for a definition was unfair). Like most debates that people take to polarities there is always an in-between. Back to my China example, they move on the scales whose polarities are laissez-faire and command economy. The Western markets would fall closer to a competitive market than market socialism today. But, In the 90s China was almost more hands off than Western countries. Under Xi the government has consolidated more control and influences the market much more. They are still not a command economy, but also not a fully competitive market, they use markets with "Chinese characteristics."
Refactor Organisation – to build the technology right
Well, it didn't end the company but only because the company was bought and bought again - then killed.

The new head of engineering had no experience in software. He developed a dislike for the language the product had originally been built in for his own reasons. He ordered a complete rewrite of the software in a different language. He hired contractors since we had no in house skills in the new language.

This lack of in house skills also meant that oversight of the code the contractors produced was poor. Several of us raised alarms over this but we were ignored. Eventually, the day came when the first paying customer was signed for the new platform. It was a complete disaster. The code was very unstable and full of bugs. The deadline kept getting pushed farther and farther out.

The new owners concluded the entire division was a failure. They fired the head of engineering who had been in charge of the disaster and his boss too. Then they started work on a new version of the platform using entirely different people. The ones left behind on the old platform (in the old language) had nothing to do but provide support for the dwindling number of open contracts.

Millions of dollars went down the drain, years of time were wasted, customers were badly served and a lot of people were incredibly frustrated, all because one executive decided to ignore the in-house talent and experience and follow his own inflated ego instead.
I hate all these new 3D imaging things.

I wonder how much difference there really is with the older tech based on looking at outcomes. For standard surveillance, does the new 3D dental xray actually benefit me? Granted the cost is low (<10% normal yearly exposure), but I still wonder.
You can easily “win” an IQ test: just memorize the answers (ignoring the fact that not everyone, in fact, can easily memorize a lot of random stuff like that). Of course, no reasonable person would say that a person who memorized all answers in IQ test to get a score of 150 has really improved her mental ability.

The situation is somewhat the same with SAT, but it’s not so bad in actual reality: there is no single SAT test, there are multiple instantiatons, and you can’t just memorize all answers for all SAT tests. At the same time, the actual problems on the test come from a rather limited pool of patterns, and if one learns to tackle each pattern, one can really improve their SAT score. This is, in fact, perfectly commonplace: everyone significantly improves their SAT score between grades 8 and 12 (at least among people who do take SAT at both ages).

Does it make SAT useless, as everyone learn all the patterns and gets perfect score? Empirically, no: there is large variation in actual obtained scores, and the results are mostly in expected directions: “better”, “smarter” students get better scores and vice versa.

Why doesn’t everyone get perfect score? Quite simply, because variation in mental ability also makes it so that learning the pattern is easier to some people than it is to others. This is by far the source of most of the variation: there is some residual component of conscientiousness, but it’s much less important: spending more time cramming has lower returns the less able you are, and for everyone, there are significant diminishing returns to extra hour of cramming, and ultimately high scorers don’t differ that much in terms of how much time they spend prepping to SAT compared to mid-scorers.
Hard to even say on some of them. Discord for instance will only really ban you if they think you are spamming even though they say you can't use them at all
> So stuff like this it feels like they should just eat the cost of 12 letters per year until the remaining people availing of it age out.

I worked in a related field and the cost of this is really not the postage. Your billing system needs to support sending paper bills, everywhere you have customer communication you'll need to add the paper way, the format is different, you still need a way for your billing system to actually send those letters, you accounting needs to check for it etc etc. Also, every time you discuss a change in your systems, you need to consider the edge case of these 12 customers.

The letters themselves are cheap, supporting paper in every system you have is the real cost. I agree that they should have handled this better, no questions asked, but it's not like we're just talking about pennies in postage.
We are social creatures, there is something quite unnatural only interacting with your wife/kid or worse - with no one else at all, for weeks and months.
If not the office, workers are better off using some social working space, but unfortunately WFH is so tempting and easy most will resort to that.
Psychologically it's not ideal.
Yes the office can be a pain, commute and what not, but loneliness could be worse.
A Podcast That Makes Itself
Speaking of South Park, this season has to be the best yet. They have really outdone themselves in the satire department.
NASA Orders Additional Cargo Flights to Space Station
Superbly written and argued. Assessing an argument's Epistemic Legibility is a new tool in my toolbox for identifying weak arguments.

> I expect having a handle with which to say “no I don’t have a concise argument about why this work is wrong, and that’s a fact about the work” to be very useful.

This was my favorite quote from the article
How would that qualify as getting something wrong?
Kind of a non sequitur but anyone else working on this stuff? I am writing a mammo rendering engine for the browser and it would be nice to have people to talk shop with. This shit is hard.
I suppose it depends what you're going for, but in general I don't think being able to fully support some very old PCI devices should be the determining factor.
That reminds me of an experience targeting x86 Windows and G3 Mac (IBM 750 PowerPC) with some C networking code (a thin client). Immediately I got a “bus error” on the Mac, even though it worked fine on the Penguin III. I found the problem was a misaligned memory access - a blatant mistake on my part - that the Penguin III just covered for somehow. You can read this as an example of the robustness principle, but I recall feeling I’d prefer the CPU just tell me something is wrong and not cover it up.
As a thriving contractor, you should hire him, coach him, and make some money off of him.
I have a feeling that any piece of closed-source software that becomes important enough will inevitably be reverse engineered by highly motivated people. This is doubly so for Vanced: The original team took pains to not release the source, but it merely took a few weeks for someone else to reverse engineer the reverse engineered codebase.

I've worked on preserving a few games with decompilers long after the original creators have moved on. Anecdotally, the death of Flash all but killed off a couple of assorted communities that didn't have enough motivation to hack the binaries themselves.

My guess is the only software that can perpetually maintain a community is software where the source code is available to be modified.
I suppose it really depends on your perspective. It has pure static hosting, in that anything in the public directory is directly served, so static sites that are built with pre-processing have no at-serve-time processing other than the normal web server block.

For files in site/ that end in .md it does do rendering at the point of serving in some situations. Once it does, it both serves the file and spits out an .html file to serve for the next request. The way I thought about it is that the first request for the file generates it — like a mini hugo build or Jekyll build command running for just one path, and only running after a request has been made to it. This makes the compilation of the HTML just in time and saves processing for files that may never be rendered.

It does have draw backs, and could prove not to be the best path, and perhaps the preprocessing isn’t that big of a deal.
Also, Michael Jordan's golf handicap was 1.3, which is not PGA level, but extremely good (top 3% of all gofers). On any given day on a random golf course, good chance he'd be the best golfer there.
> I'm only 59, but without my paper bills, I've missed a few deadlines for credit card.

I'm 29 and the same thing also happened to me. It's also so annoying that every time you have to log in into their website to download the bill... They could at least email it to you.
Often it's a volumetric view of the same data, which is usually viewed as 2D slices. Doctors tend to prefer the slices.
The title is technically accurate, but you have to take into account uninformed people's priors in order to efficiently convey information that might update their beliefs. Just my personal opinion on this issue. If you say "new technique [X] has [high] false positive rate," you're going to make people who don't know the status quo think there is a deficit in the new technique. Also, I'm not just talking about the title.
Yeah this is gonna be a human "problem", an emotional level requirement, if both are chill sharing their viewpoints, being positive then things are possible.
Every generation has to re-learn this lesson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
Of course banks create money. You don't think that they hold enough money to pay all their creditors at once do you? Never heard of fractional reserve banking? See https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
Security? Are they not behind a firewall? What security vector are exposed plugging them into the internet? I don't see Samsung and co letting their telemetry domains lapse. Privacy and annoying updates are something totally different though.
Not limiting access to production.

It’s both an operational and technical decision because it results in inadequate tooling and specials.

A service I know well had an issue, and as a result they started doing what modern services do - nuking things going it will clear as clean versions come up.

But unknown to the ops team, they nuked a bunch of custom stuff that no one knew how to build or really what they contained. Developers with direct access to production had rolled them out.

7 days of partial outage later they covered this up by hiding parts of the app until they could straighten things out.
YouTube has both shorts & stories as separate things, and I believe Vanced could remove both
There is a lot of supposition from the article based on a single source that these payments were bribes. These kinds of articles are really calling wolf when there are none. And potentially downplay instances when actual wolves are spotted. This is a hit piece from a potential competitor trying to do business in the same market.

Going to add further the article has way too much fluff. It’s a play on reader psychology to turn them against Microsoft.
> It's a basic desire to connect with others we share our time with.

I think you're creating a universal here where there is none. I have secure boundaries, and I can enjoy a coworker's company and work without having to be friends with them. And there's also an ugly side to this, where people don't want to have coworkers that they wouldn't want to be friends with. That's not some natural urge, that's something that people impose on a situation that is alienating to people who don't share your politics, or your tastes, or even like the way you treat people (I'm referring to the hypothetical "you" here.)

I have really enjoyed working with people who I'd never want to know outside of work, and have a huge amount of respect for those people whose work ethic and trustworthiness showed a real thoughtfulness and concern about what they were doing and for their coworkers' time and development. That's good enough for me, we don't have to share musical tastes or hobbies. On the other side, I've certainly made friends with people at work, but some of the people I made friends with I hated working with. The two things are barely connected.
I don't like it but I think this is a realistic opinion.

Maybe overseas bribes become legal, but must be disclosed in a publicly-accessible format.
Well that's really exciting!

Time to work on bringing back java applets ;)
I'm curious at which point you were considered valuable ? what did you have to show ? some theoretical knowledge ? actually used products ?
Those trainings are just ass coverings for when the company goes to court.
I had one of these as well that you could print just by writing to a device file. I'm sure it had fancier formats for graphics and stuff but it was fun to just use some ascii art to get something printed.
I can see issues even now as a long-time computer user that older people or even younger than me (52) maybe have problems figuring out. Trends like popup menus that suddenly obscures what you were just looking at, "helpful" auto suggest that you may click by mistake, font size, fine motor control, mild dementia, just nervous around a complex expensive device.

Computers or at least services should be intuitive you a noob or an expert should not need to decipher what to do next.
> Hybrid is a sufficient compromise.

No it isn't.
This is a great presentation.

A similar project worth mentioning is Voltron, which can decorate your gdb session with accesory windows. (Use tmux for window layout).

No experience with this dashboard but looking forward to trying it.
It's a shame that apple has been so obstinate for so long. Their behaviour is very clearly about money and not consumer protection, which is just used as a convenient excuse to hide behind.

They could have allowed third-party payments through vetted providers. They could have reduced their rates to match those providers and no one would be so keen to use them anyway. They could mandate subscriptions must be cancellable with one click and even mandate using an api to make these all appear in the settings app. They could have ensured that their review staff were better trained to prevent capricious rejections.

They instead decided to ride the wave of the apple tax for as long as they possibly could and then deal with whatever that caused later. And this is what it's caused.
This is, incidentally, the same basic reason why so many knee-jerk policies produce systems that can never do anything but fail. When trying to find needles in hay stacks, since the needle (let's say terrorists trying to board airplanes) is so tiny relative to the hay (the millions of other people doing same), the people responsible for reacting are essentially trained only on false positives and still miss the real events when they (highly infrequently) occur.

Obviously with low-impact false positives like requiring more expensive or invasive, but not really dangerous, additional medical tests this is an easily accepted and accounted for set of outcomes, but as we try to do things like apply ML to ever more specific cases of complex questions it's worth keeping in mind.
Not sure if it will sink the company, but moving from very good native apps to a single pwa/electron style app that was poorly written.

The business justification seemly makes sense to have a single development train. But the execution was horrible. Bugs, horrible performance. Inconsistent features copied over from the various native apps, etc.

It was released as a major upgrade, but it was almost alpha grade in reality.

That org probably saved a lot in engineering, but the customer backlash was immense and likely cost them more.

(It was a very popular and beloved note taking app. that tried to become an all-in-one day planner/calendar/todo/note platform).
I wonder if this explains the shocking incompetence of the Windows division...
The most common pattern I've seen, which dovetails with this analysis, is that new features are thus treated as more important as long as there is a path around existing bugs. Bugs gets treated as technical debt, and given as much priority.
There's a version of this that I was once told and now repeat to everyone else:

When you have a condition that affects only 1% of the population, a test that reads negative 100% of the time will be 99% accurate.
I think this community and the tech world in general overvalues engineering and I say this as an engineer myself. In my experience engineering or technology rarely seem to be the reason for a company's success or failure. There are certainly outliers in which a tech is so incredible that it alone can build a company. There are also some engineering mistakes that can be too costly to fix later and people can always be negligent and not do something obvious like proper backups. However those situations are usually extremely rare. The most common engineering mistakes can be fixed with more money. Typically some other factors are what make or break a company. That is what leads to not having the money to fix those engineering mistakes.
Hello!

To your first question, yes! The compensation paid is a dynamic fee determined by the score (karma of a kind) a user has.

There was a previous question on this page asking what determines quality. And fundamentally it is the fulfillment/satisfaction of the needs of the person who asked.

So people who give better answers on a consistent basis will earn more than people who don’t. This creates a virtuous cycle.

As for answers that are either trash or offensive, there is an extremely-viusal “report” button on every answer that if hit immediately triggers an investigation. If found true, you’ll get refunded for that answer and the offender will be drastically punished if not banned as there is minimal tolerance for this.

Finally, some examples are:
-Sourcing ideas
-Depression, anxiety, and loneliness advise
-Love life & relationship advise
-Embarrassing situations advise
-Parenting advise
-Feedback on content before posting on social media (content creators or public figures for example…)
-Product / service feedback
Market research
-Difficult life situation advise
-Important decisions advise
-Curious questions
-Random questions
-Sourcing memes or jokes
-Trivia

And honestly many more, it’s up to peoples creativity as the platform provides much flexibility.

Hope this helps and thank you so much for asking!
Ohh man my ESG ETF is suddenly evil..
> I like Fisher's theoretical stuff a lot but I never was a fan of that piece, because it reeks of personal animosity towards newer generations on the left.

That may be so, but it doesn't mean there's nothing to it. Those "newer generations on the left" tend to think and behave in ways that can be pretty alienating to the rest of society, and so doom their prospects.
Try Xpra, it's like X11 forwarding but much snappier.
Reports of huge fire at Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia
Strong vibes of "a glass of wine per day" study/ies. Would be curious to see who funded this one...
I work in government, and I remember a story told to me by a federal official who was involved in the arrest of a former member of congress for bribery. The official told me that, essentially what the congressman did was illegal under federal law, but it was what you had to do in order to "do business" in "those parts of the world."

I found that interesting. With what is going on today in the world, between nations committing human rights abuse and war, America still does business with them. Money exchanges hands, which furthers human rights abuses' and war because that's what our policymakers believe we needed to do to achieve our goals.

One is breaking the law to achieve a goal, but what is the other called?
A good portion of Indian engineers speak good English.
Anecdotal evidence only though.
> let alone the irrelevant blogs that so many cooking websites attach to their recipe pages

Recipes themselves can't be copyrighted.

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...

> Recipes are usually not protected by copyright due to the idea-expression dichotomy. The idea-expression dichotomy creates a dividing line between ideas, which are not protected by copyright law, and the expression of those ideas, which can be protected by copyright law.

> ...

> Recipes can be protected under copyright law if they are accompanied by “substantial literary expression.” This expression can be an explanation or detailed directions, which is likely why food and recipe bloggers often share stories and personal anecdotes alongside a recipe’s ingredients.