skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add SQLite is missing access control, it is a big all or nothing. Usually it doesn't matter as much since the scope is so much smaller, but if you really want to back a major website with it some defense in depth would be nice.
I imagine it's quite well aligned with their goals of getting increased user engagement metrics from increased clicks to read stuff from casual browsers to the site, and convincing regular users they should download the app

Of course it's extremely badly aligned with their regular user's goals of reading comments, but that's solved by using the old.reddit urls if not the app, whilst the casual browser coming in from Google or a link gets the full on contempt for users' desire to actually read threads UX until they've bumped the user engagement metrics up by clicking on more stuff.
Honestly, I don't think UV return air would work as well as you think. The real solution is increased ventilation rates.

UV bulbs are expensive (and invisible unless you get to poke around a buildings mechanical room.), they need to be replaced typically ~annually (they won't be). If they get dust on them, they don't work as well. Etc. etc.

And here's the issue: To actually deal with high concentration infectious aerosols you need to get that air out of the room ASAP. (i.e. negative pressure rooms) If you can sterilize the return air that's great, but frankly I suspect dilution and air movement is going to be the dominant effect in reducing infection chains.
CloudMensis Detection: New Malware to Steal macOS Users’ Data
Yep I believe that is a pretty well established cognitive bias called Illusion of Control [1]. Going down the rabbit hole of cognitive biases is a fascinating journey, and lot of them are relevant when driving a car.

One I found especially interesting is specifically about how improving safety features may not reduce accidents as much as it could, because when people feel safer, they tend to take greater risks [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation#Peltzman_eff...
Hum... Space telescopes are one of those projects that have a very low probability of an extremely high benefit.

It will acquire data pertinent to most of the open problems of physics.
If you're hit from the side, you were already traveling forward.
Billable Hours! This is why contracts should be outcome based and not based on hours. I don't care if the solution takes you ten days, or 10 minutes, it's the outcome that matters.
Polio case confirmed in New York, health-care providers told to look for more
Because it's not a real problem, but rather one you've invented, and in the real world we have the exact opposite problem, of huge swathes of desirable residential land all SFZ'd, so you can't even build town homes on a parcel.
This has to be the future of gaming laptops
> reactivating automatically is probably a conscious decision

Not probably, definitely. Apple said so in the bug report.

> motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users

Or motivated by the desire to sell Apple products and services that require Bluetooth? Motivated by the desire to keep pushing people like me until they give up and give in? Anyone less stubborn than me probably would have given up by now and just kept Bluetooth enabled. Clearly, Apple wants you to have Bluetooth on, for whatever reason.

Why even have a toggle in Settings if it keeps getting turned back on? The user has to consciously go into Settings and turn off Bluetooth; it may be true as you say that most users don't do that, but for those who do specifically go into Settings and disable Bluetooth, there's no excuse for undoing their preference. Less technical users aren't disabling Bluetooth in the first place.

Would you also say the "Try the new Safari" nag is motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users?
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html
“ Until further notice, Emirates plans to operate as scheduled to and from LHR.” Anyone more familiar with airport operations care to explain how this is feasible, if LHR doesn’t think they have what it takes to handle the load?
Large corporations are enabled by big government, not limited by government. Monopolies do not withstand competitive forces for the long run, unless propped up by government privilege. This symbiotic relationship creates cronyism
This is interesting considering the level of contempt with which the modern left treats the middle American working class. Nowadays it looks more like the party of the Laptop Class.

The 20th century left and it’s postmodern incarnation are two very different things.
1. Are you paid for the value you bring to the company, or are you paid for some function of the value you bring and the market value of your skills? Seems to me the largest portion of your pay is the market value. Collective bargaining is playing with the market value, not the value you bring.

2. "Value you bring to the company" is an odd way to look at most jobs. Like what's the impact on productivity of the 25 engineers in an office if the trash hasn't been taken out in three weeks? Janitorial labor is contributing to the overall income of the company in ways that may not be direct, but ARE real. Same would apply for junior engineering tasks.

3. While I'm a fan of the idea of everyone earning the same hourly wage within a company for above reasons, unions MIGHT flatten the payscale a bhit, but they don't usually result in a FLAT payscale. So you will still earn more based on some ladder - years with the company, title, value you bring, etc.
> Some people defend war spending

I prefer to think of military spending during peacetime as "peace spending" not "war spending".

Spending on actual wars, once they start, is another matter. Some wars are just (like the support of Ukraine, at present, I would say, or the liberation of Kuwait), some are unjust, many are some shade of gray.

But generally, it is preferable when democratic countries have enough military might during peacetime to make would-be conquerors put aside their dreams of being the new Peter the Great, Saladin or Qin Shi Huang.
> How many lives do you think would be saved by capping speeds to 60 MPH on I5? If alcohol or distracted driving are not factors, I would say probably close to zero.

Amazing how you'd think it's actually close to zero. So many dangerous situations are removed once speeding is at least attempted to be removed from the equation.

To name two: reaction times are increased, stopping distances are reduced. I probably know what you'd say next: the driver is distracted. Not the speed's problem. To which I'll say, yeah of course the driver's distracted -- it's because the driver's human and will never be paying attention to the road 100% at all times.

IMO driving speeds, and how a community feels about it, are huge indicators on how hostile and how selfish a community can be.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition will soon arrive with Ubuntu Linux 22.04
You can only do this when you're really pissed and you no longer care about working cooperatively with your counterparties, particularly LHR's management team.
True. While presumption of innocence doesn't strictly apply, as a practical matter the plaintiff still is required to show evidence.
Scientists create new phase of matter that seems to occupy TWO time dimensions
Here is what I will say. If you always leave when you feel this way you'll never get better. I used to be you, I was always awkward and felt awkward around my co-workers. For me this wasn't just at work this was in every aspect of my life, I was very anxious all the time. It was an underlying insecurity that I hadn't dealt with yet.

It took me years to overcome the anxiety and feeling of awkwardness but it's because I didn't understand why I was feeling that way.

Here is what I'll say as some closing advice. No one else thinks you're weird, or awkward or an outcast. You do. They think you're the new guy and it's just going to take some time to break that barrier. Running away is not going to fix it.
Yes, United or sunbelt for sure, they rent construction equipment.
It's normal to have typos. Not everyone's first language is English. I'd rather read a statement like this with typos than a typical BS.
The number of deaths would objectively be larger if people had access to accurate numbers, because even more would avoid vaccination and then die of the infection vaccinated against.

It is a tragic calculus. "Trolley Problems" are very far from theoretical in public health management. We are forced by distrust to sub-optimal choices that themselves promote distrust. Managing risk of a better population would be easier, but you battle pandemic in the population you have, not the population you want.
Generally those things are helpful but I think China has pretty well demonstrated that there’s no alternative universe where fully locking everything down eliminates Covid.
Boy, I bet the founder of TinyPilot doesn't feel so bad anymore.
Is Netflix’s best hope an acquisition by Microsoft?
One advantage this model has is that once someone has bought a framework (and is happy with it) they are even more likely to stay brand loyal for their next laptop purchase than they would be with other brands, since it'll be cheaper to upgrade their existing framework rather than buying an all new laptop.
I've seen seemingly immortal tech giants die to the newcomer, but MS's office is just too ubiquitous and embedded everywhere. So even if there's a superior excel alternative, who would use it when they already have Excel along with tons of other office tools.
Kraken's offers are not affected by geography in any way. The are engineering salary bands are completely agnostic of region.
Since my point wasn't obvious, let me explain. Ukraine had a very weak military. If it was stronger, Putin would never have invaded.
My first 'agency' gig was late 90s - I was making $21/hr, and being billed out at .. $175/hr I think. Varied a bit, but most billing was $150-$180 when I started, and I think most new projects were $180-$200/hr by the time I left (20 months later)

1998 - walking around you saw dozens of copies of "ASP for Dummies" on various desks.

I started at $21/hr, then found out later some other folks hired after me came in even a bit less ($19?! - but hey, you get 'benefits' too!). They'd hired a 'real' HR person right after hiring me, and they clamped down a bit more. My interview was one of the last ones where there was no HR screening, and I was just talking to the top dev/eng folks directly.
Also known as the preparedness paradox.
You just trade them as dollars. In places like Lebanon, Turkey, etc many people will just use them as dollars. You can send them around in crypto wallets.
Those people are generally more focused on making sure that cars can go fast than on preventing deaths.
The closing of that Borders was a tragic loss and the end of an era in Palo Alto.
> You have a right to be stupid

To _be_ stupid, sure.
Trust, but don't verify, because verification is expensive and unrewarding both financially and career-wise
I recommend caution to crypto engineers

Fraud is everywhere in crypto but it has very little to do with *crypto engineers*.

In other words, lots of *engineers* are bedazzled by blockchain but this isn't the source or the cause of most of the fraud. Blockchain is just an accounting system. As this example shows, there are lots of way to commit fraud outside of forging the books.
Thanks for reading!

>I would like to ask how you made the correlation between the new site and the increase of sales, I believe that your product is a very good one and would have expected that your intended target, if anything, is less sensible to site design

Yeah, I tried not to lean too hard on this because I don't have rigorous evidence that the redesign caused the improvement. But anecdotally, it seems like it did.

Usually when the website sees a significant uptick in sales, I can usually tie it to a particular event (e.g., a new review, new product launch), but nothing notable happened in May or June except that we finished the new designs, and they were some of our strongest months. It could just be that we're growing over time, so maybe the same thing would have happened either way.

One other change to the website that I feel like is well-supported by this point was changing how we present our products. We used to show four products in our catalog, but in November, we simplified the website to show only our flagship product, and it was almost an overnight doubling of sales that's persisted ever since:

https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2021/11/#simplifying-to-ju...
I’ve had it happen once, in a 1988 Toyota pickup. The (OEM) radio wiring caught fire while driving at slow speed.
Debugging Methodologies
Analysis: Starbucks can't be America's public bathroom
Probably much less. The issue is finding those folks (or getting hold of their time).
This is a week old. Emirates did agree to cap passengers: https://liveandletsfly.com/emirates-heathrow-compromise/
My money's on mid-west, honestly.
There are tons of ICE car fire recalls. My sister in law's car recently had a recall for the ABS system starting a fire. A neighbor of mine had their house burn down in the 90s from a car parked for several days in their garage from what would later be a recall. Ford had a massive recall of millions of cars because the steering column would catch fire.

I've owned multiple cars which have had some kind of recall which resulted in a fire risk. Zero of them have been EVs.

Sure, those aren't all starting in the passenger compartment, but a lot of these battery fires aren't always starting in the passenger compartment either.
> On the other hand, a mandatory breathalyzer for ignition would be useful to prevent a lone driver from driving drunk. We already have them for people with DUIs, so we should make them mandatory for all cars.

I don't drink often, and I have never and would never drink and drive, but please no. Mandatory breathalyzers for everyone is an immense expense and a huge inconvenience and I suspect would be easily bypassed by those who choose to drink and drive. And I don't want to live with the consequences of making it hard to bypass such a device, because it likely makes working on a vehicle nearly impossible.
Not sure if you are implying this or not, but how would lowering the BAC limit prevent fatal crashes?

Figure 3 in this report shows a somewhat normal distribution around .15 g/dl and the mode being around .17 g/dl:
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

This is already ~2x the legal limit.
> According to a presentation at a MuleSoft conference in 2018 they had at the time around 1,800 IT systems, 6 database vendors, and 30 rental processing systems

'30 rental processing systems' interesting opportunity. the airbnb / squarespace rental ecosystem has a bunch of standards for syncing bookings, but I think they mostly amount to exchanging ical files. would be neat to develop a modern open protocol for inventory + then develop a hosting business around it -- applications in cars, retail (like that 'pointy' company google bought), sharing economy

like IBM is doing this now, zero chance their system is usable https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/inventory-visibility?topic=data-...

or this mckinsey whitepaper that's clearly not a thing you can use without a bespoke contract https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Retail/...
This doesn't even have anything to do with the first language. Everyone makes typos.
>why this isn't more commonly known among people who call themselves rationalists

because most of these people do nothing else but writing blogs about rationalism. Same reason university tests are sometimes so removed from practicality compared to evaluation criteria in business, the people who make them do nothing else but write these tests.

I suspect if you put some rationalists into the trenches in the Donbass for a week they'd quickly have a more balanced view of what's needed to solve a problem besides rational contemplation.
Taking a position has a high social cost. Try defending any candidate and you'll get a 10 comment chain where you have to defend your position against multiple internet commenters who are arguing mutually exclusive positions against you but not against each other. These kind of comment chains generally devolve into the every issue and often touches on the history of mankind and the nature of government.

Both sides-ism has a low social cost. Everyone is bad to some extent, this can always be true in a vacuous sense, nobody is offended. You are not partisan nor biased if everyone is bad. If someone questions you you can infinitely motte-bailey backwards into an agreeable position, just by saying you are actually taking no position.
Random wallpaper with just bash and systemd
I worked alongside one of these firms on a government contract. I was impressed by how perfectly optimized they were to extract money. The team's function was to report perfect KPIs at all costs. Managers spent virtually all their time bringing in more developers.

Because "delivering a usable product" wasn't incentivized (specifically the 'usable' part, or what usability even meant), it was simply a race to generate specs, report on them with glowing optimism, and then stick as close to the letter of the specs as possible.
Safety regulations for the people inside the vehicles. Next to no regulations to protect those obligated to exist alongside them. Ex: No regulations for how a pedestrian body will react in a crash with an SUV
If I've learned anything from reading espionage fiction novels -- you book a flight for tomorrow and leave on the bus tonight.
I've never witnessed a single skilled professional working at Accenture in 10+ years of IT career. Period.
Or at least not without perfect worldwide coordination. And assuming there are no animal reservoirs
"wealthy white cyclists"

What in the ever-living fuck are you even talking about?
I got one of these on the Kickstarter and for building key fobs and garage doors, it's been awesome. There's definitely room for growth but I'm happy with it so far!
There is nothing whatsoever that says that the given employee is Charlie Lee.
Since you are the one here making that claim, isn't that exposing you to slander if it turns out to be a false?
On top of it you seem confused by the two different things addressed by the linked CFTC statement, the litecoin related thing (Litecoin/Bitcoin trading pair) happened in August & September 2016 (6 weeks total) and you are confusing it with the inaccurate reports during January 2015 and September 2018 which is a separate point.
No, they are not. Cars must alert the driver if they are exceeding the speed limit, but there is no forced limiting.

https://jalopnik.com/no-europe-didnt-just-force-automakers-t...
Yeah I mean, even on the Framework I basically gave up on suspend. It wasn't freezing on the Framework like it was on the Dell, but there were definitely instances of things not working correctly upon wake, or with the machine never going to sleep, or with the machine waking itself, or with the battery draining too fast even in s2/deep. Switched to hibernate and I've been very happy.
obviously i am not at all suggesting that she had an ambition to take office to get rid of student debt. But clearly it is unreasonably to say "anyone that could pay off would do it"
It's amazing you keep saying this when I've said multiple times now that I'm living in exactly that kind of city (a large North American city), and it's not the only one with this exact problem. But sure, keep ignoring the data for your simplistic solution.
Yes the author seems to state that there are many more traffic deaths than commercial transport deaths as if the point is self evident but I do not see it. From my perspective its a minor miracle that there aren't more traffic deaths. We let any private individual drive up to a 20,000 something pound vehicle with pretty minimal licensing requirements (in most places in the US). The news story is that it mostly goes ok.
I would love something like this to help with dependencies between microservices as well.
> bunch of executives asleep at the wheel who lacked even the most basic technical skills needed to see that it was a fantasy...

At some point, someone with technical acumen took stock of the situation and said "this is garbage". Why does this step always come last?

WTF. "They said they were the best, but they lied!" I bet you as Hertz had some competent technical folks who could have vetted them. You either have them inhouse (but you've overlooked them for years) or you engage an inspector/reviewer to vet the claims or review previous work. I buy a car, I can get a private inspection done. I buy a house, I get a house inspector to verify the claims.
Emirates is less of a corporation and more an organ of the Emirate of Dubai. As such this conflict almost escalated into a diplomatic incident and the UK government hastily made an announcement soon after that they were investigating WTF is going on at Heathrow.
Yes, that's also why certified Oracle DBAs can earn $$$ for their expertise on this.
I wonder if the harrowing bit isn't a strength.

When you're driving in North America, even in a city center, it often feels like there's nothing to do except watch the car in front of you and the next light. I wonder if that makes drivers disengage and not notice dangers.

In contrast, things tend to be a lot denser and less regular here. Maybe that keeps peoples' heads on the road.
It boils down to who they are trying to appease. With the potential backlash they would have got from customers and damage to their brand it makes sense to position themselves as 'taking a stand on behalf of the customer'. If there was more to lose in regards to their relationship with LHR, we'd have seen a wishy washy 'we are sorry, here are some refunds'.

Furthermore, now they are in the position to put in another notice to the effect claiming - Look we tried, we are sorry it didn't work out, here are some refunds
Exactly. The article claims that the world is "better" because we have improved child mortality rates. They state (correctly) that the improvement is a consequence of alleviating poverty and improving material living conditions. But how did we DO that? Did we just put our heads down and chant "economic growth for everyone"?!

No. This growth was, and will continue to be, driven by industrial capital, mining, and fossil fuels. How are children born today going to raise grandchildren in the likely decline of those advantages? And there must be a discussion of the costs: pollution, climate change, resource depletion, species extinction, and myriad other social and environmental externalities.

Are things really "better" if more kids are born... into an unsustainable system? I think the younger generation today is ALREADY seeing the cracks, getting less from the system while paying higher costs to buy in. The energy-blind adherence to growth at all costs is a philosophy that does a disservice not just other species on earth, but future humans as well.
>Individual choices generally effect more than the individual

One of the fundamental principles of this country is that individual choices are up to the individual unless they present onerous effects on others. Simply, any choice can be construed to have externalities, much like anything can be considered interstate commerce if you squint at it strongly enough. To say nothing of the logical incongruity of allowing people to ride motorcycles.

Of course if you don't wear your seatbelt you're an idiot, but this doesn't feel like an epidemic reaching a reasonable threshold, e.g. being deleterious to national security.
speed increases the severity of collisions, but generally doesn’t cause them (most of what we classify as speed-related is really recklessness, which is also typically a misassessment of risk). distractedness, recklessness, and impairment are the overwhelming causes of collisions, with a small additional portion caused by vehicular homicide/suicide, mechanical failure, and environmental factors.