skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true.

I just wanted to add how much farther that the "Spreadsheets" analogy goes with a few examples:

There are actually custom ERP and management resources that have been developed by the eve community like the Alliance Auth project and a large group has even a issued a cryptocurrency to automatically manage in-game payouts for certain types of ship losses.
There are the requisite and copious discord, irc, and xmpp integrations, but there are also automated mapping projects, and large scale data analysis projects.
There are projects which seek to analyze ship losses for intelligence and counter intelligence purposes. There are background checks, escrow services, automatic billing service for eg logistics (trucking services) and in fact there have been several functional _casinos_.

The excel plugin looks to add a lot of additional capability to the spreadsheets, since now you can integrate all of this information into whatever analytics you would like to create with excel, which is of course quite powerful.
I don't think I'd go on a shuttle, but I would definitely on a crew dragon and I'd probably go on new shephard (I might buy a ticket if the price comes down a bit).

There's no way in hell I'm getting on one of virgin galactic's death traps, that looks 10 times worse than the space shuttle.
"I Landed A Rocket Like SpaceX - Scout F" - https://youtu.be/SH3lR2GLgT0
Wagner PMC has responded to the pleas of RU generals for them to not to listen to Prigozhin:

> Все генералы, которые с трясущимися руками обращаются к музыкантам с призывами остановиться уже фактически подписали себе приговор. Трибунал обязательно будет. Суровикин еще ответит за сдачу Херсона.

> (Google Translate) All the generals who, with trembling hands, appeal to the musicians to stop, have actually signed their own sentence. There will be a tribunal. Surovikin will still answer for the surrender of Kherson.

https://t.me/apwagner/9116
Labor costs dominate.
A local burger place in my town makes you sign a waiver before consuming certain burgers.
Apologies, groggy morning.
You know the guy has been pushing for war economy, closed borders, full mobilization and total war? Stabilizing my ass — if he ever takes power, it's likely to become even worse for everyone involved.
> EU-wide booking system.

Maybe they can achieve what we had in America back in the 60's with SABRE [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation
One should note that carbon composites are not for external pressure situations since they delaminate...in shorts words they were playing a dice rolling game and lost on damn stupidity.

The whole reason they were not classed is that carbon composites would not pass any class certifications due to the limits indicated above.
Unfortunately, academia is just as much a slave to geopolitics as governments, media, tech, sports, etc. Hopefully things will get better in the future.
Facebook’s code name to make a Twitter-like product that federates w/ Mastodon and friends.
Is this a serious attempt at a military coup?

Wagner's command is competent. The recent border incursions show Russia is lightly fortified, possibly Moscow, too. The wild card would appear to be the FSB. Do they tend ultranationalist? Or will they be loyal to Shoigu?
This is absurd. It makes no sense. I'm calling psyop.
The horror of every tyrant: when one of his commanders realizes that he has more power than his boss.
Here's a few things to try :

1. Ask the meeting organizer if you're needed and why. You'd be surprised how many times meeting organizers just want to include everyone, and don't actually need you.

2. Ask for an agenda from the meeting organizer beforehand. If there isn't one, skip it. Meetings without an agenda before hand have a low value in general.

3. If you're not necessary for a meeting, consider skipping it and reading the notes afterwards.

4. Ask if the meeting will be recorded, so that you can time shift your viewing of it and watch it at 2x.

5. If someone schedules a meeting with you, ask what the question they're trying to answer is beforehand, and if you can reply to them by email, or ideally send them a document or FAQ to refer to - success! You've managed to remove the need for a meeting.
US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data
FYI for all: the cheapest source of standards available in English (that I have found) is the Estonian Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation: https://www.evs.ee/en

Prices are generally single to low double-digit Euros (even for standards that are hundreds or 1000+ dollars).

If you are a solo contractor like me (and hence only need one copy), DON'T get the single licence copies. You need to use some BS DRM software that binds the file to your computer and is a PITA.

Get the organisation one, pay for two licenses, and you'll be given a regular PDF instead (and still save hundreds of dollars).

You obviously will only get the Estonian specific annexes, but those are normally optional anyway, and generally available for free when downloading the "free sample" of a standard for a specific country.
https://archive.is/UlFTr
I think a smaller N number of more dives would yield better results. Down, up, down up...repeat until failure.

In parallel do it with another hull at the same time. Or maybe more than one. Compare.

Testing to failure is a nice option because it finds certain types of unwelcome surprises.

But it's not really complete, either -- there are probably a lot of ways that a submersible can be compromised, and there's no way to be sure what caused this particular failure.
Sure, but there’s a limit. You wouldn’t complain that there’s no beef on a vegan restaurant.

The Mac’s thing has always been resizable overlapping windows with a menu bar at the top of the screen. If you’re hoping for a great tiling window manager, you’ll be disappointed. You can kind of get a poor man’s tiling setup with some hacks, but it’s not what the platform is about.
Do you remember the other ones?
This seems related to Chesterton's Fence

> Chesterton’s Fence is a principle that says change should not be made until the reasoning behind the current state of affairs is understood. It says the rash move, upon coming across a fence, would be to tear it down without understanding why it was put up.
A place known for tight regulations
Too soon to say for real - but something seems to be happening. There is quite a lot of noise from Russia.
> the guy has been pushing for war economy, closed borders, full mobilization and total war

He's also saying the war was a mistake.

Prigozhin's base is ultranationalist–that's what's propelling him now. If he succeeds in taking the reins of the state, his base and thus incentives shift. The new rhetoric may reflect him realizing he's closer to that than anyone realized.
Yep, no oil for an air popper. You get the popcorn and that's it. If you want to add fats, you do it afterward.
I see so many similarities between oceangate and FTX. same sort of laid-back culture (which is fine when it's your own money or lives at stake, not others), disregard for safety and security measures and cutting corners (game controller to steer sub), hubris from CEO, and the suddenness it all imploded (literally and figuratively) etc.
> when one of his commanders realizes that he has more power than his boss

When one of the commanders realizes they're physically between the army and the unguarded palace.
Rather: for every customer who slightly informs himself, it should be insanely obvious that signing up might be quite dangerous (with a risk that is likely very hard to actually measure - this is a huge red flag for any risk-averse person).

So if you neverthess sign up, you are very aware that things might go insanely wrong (and there is actually a very realistic probability of dying). So you really know what you are up to.
On most cases law doesn't cite a specific standard however refers to the "state of the art" which then is commonly interpreted as "as defined in a standard" It is possible (but often impractical) to prove to be "state the art" without following a standard.

Purpose is that the government doesn't have to rule all details, but can leave that to domain experts and ongoing research.
"all over the world".

The Northern Hemisphere is not "all over the world" for heatwaves.

On the other hand, Winter heating does stress out power grids in the Southern Hemisphere.
the competitive fighting genre evolved into fortnite. it will be interesting to see where it goes next.
Been a full-stack Clojure dev for 5 years now, and yeah, fully agree with everything you've said. I'm actually seeing how modern languages these days have a vastly superior debugging process than Clojure can provide, and with much more helpful and easier to understand error messages.

Personally am slowly transitioning away from Clojure. The language is great, but the tooling is not. I care a lot more about tooling these days than the language.
> Another simple risk mitigation step we take, that we believe to be unique to OceanGate is that we draw a small vacuum on the inside of the sub at the start of each dive. This step verifies the integrity of the low-pressure O-ring seal and eliminates the risk of leaks

I wonder what that low-pressure o-ring is sealing. I assume the vacuum would only simulate a one atmosphere differential, so that o-ring must not be sealing something exposed to the external pressures at the depths they go down to.
> Yes but you can never sell this to the right.

Just don't delude yourself that "the right" is the Republican parties. Both large political parties in the US are staunchly right-wing parties by most criteria.

> Conservatives and liberals alike agree on job creation programs

No, they do not. I mean, they agree on funding large corporations and the military as though that's a job creation program.
> > The tour guide had to awkwardly answer

> That bit made me think otherwise.

I could have phrased that better. It was clearly awkward for the tour guide. I think the guide could have handled it in a less awkward way— maybe with some humor.

I found it amusing by way of the image it created in my mind, but that shouldn’t be taken as me discouraging others asking questions.
> It also reminds me of a story from, I believe, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink about the tennis coach who knew before a tennis player served if they would double fault.

I believe it was from watching the serve, but not seeing where the ball went. As someone who has played tennis for many years (but not remotely professionally), it always seemed to me that the coach could simply be reading the player's expression. When you're serving, you can typically tell based on how the contact felt, and the sound it made, whether your serve was going in. It wouldn't be surprising if that could be 'read' from your face.
Could be form of surrendering troops from Ukraine without loosing face or “excuse” for tactical nukes or dogwhistle for US spies to aid the revolution
Lol thought experiment. Your driving in a new area and don't see a change in speed limit because a large truck blocked your view of the sign as you passed it. You get pulled over a short period later for going 20 above the speed limit. Do you think you can be fined or not? Should you be fined or not?
> Block your time so people literally can't schedule you

This is the correct answer. There are probably more people doing this than you'd think, including managers.

Don't push back, that's your manager's job and you will only upset people. If you have a "conflict", though, they will respect that.

Get creative if you have to. Nobody will question your "sprint checkpoint", "brainstorm session", "ticket review board", "architecture planning", etc.
And every time this happens from now on, the fine should be doubled. When the fine gets too high for the lazy lawyer to pay, they may instead relinquish their bar admission (lose their license to practice law) for five years.

Lawyers admitted to the bar aren't innocents. They're "officers of the court", meaning the legal system relies on them to avoid BS in their citation of other cases and of statutes and laws. It's never been acceptable for a lawyer to sign off on something without reading it and making sure it's right.

What if registered professional civil engineers started asking generative AI for sewer-system or bridge designs and then didn't inspect them before approving them and handing them off to the guys with dozers and cement trucks? Not only would people fall into rivers, but the rivers would be polluted.

The real world consequences are similarly serious when lawyers make stuff up, or let their interns or word-processing software make stuff up.
Then you'll know how I felt, some months back, when I suddenly realised that it's only two and a bit years till I turn 80.
It's not quantified though. Also, it's pretty bad engineering practice to rely on implied risk; it's much more preferred to explicitly state your risk assumptions.

E.g., one of the problems with the Shuttle disasters is that the implied risk was understood differently at various levels. (Making numbers up here but directionally accurate) After the fact, managers thought there was a 1/1000 risk of catastrophic failure while engineers put it a 1/172.
1200W Panasonic inverter microwave.

66g of popcorn (that's two servings, according to the label).

2 minutes and 8 seconds.

After cooking, add oil/butter and popcorn salt, then toss. Popcorn salt likes to fall to the bottom, so after tossing, I put on the popper lid, carefully flip it upside down, and shake.

Also, I use a silicone popper, not a paper bag. (Above, I meant to reply to a different comment.)

I'm eating some right now, turns out. When I'm done, I'll edit this comment with a count of unpopped kernels. :-)

---

EDIT: 2 unpopped kernels!
The ultimate version of this was done by Optimizely some years ago, where - let's assume here unintentional - bad UI design encouraged people to terminate their A/B tests early when the metrics favored the new version, leading to people without good understanding of statistics implementing dark patterns (or just stupid patterns), blissfully unaware that they've biased their own A/B tests so strongly that they could just as well be replaced by a piece of paper with words "NEW THING WORKS BETTER" written on it.
Is there a deal Kyiv can strike with Putin in this moment?
If you want feedback - go with third party recruiters, they are eager to collect feedback themselves and the hiring managers share with them more openly than with a random candidate. Of course, there are issues with this way of job search (recruiters pressuring you to take lowball offers, double submitting, putting a negative weight on your application with their fee, generally being unable to work with companies that do not work with such recruiters, etc) so it might be not worth it. After all, the only feedback that really matters is the number on your paystub.
Maybe. But I keep thinking it's not going to replace the single paralegal that a single lawyer has, but it might reduce the 9 paralegals to 6, and then 4, and then..
AlmaLinux's response to Red Hat's policy change
This piece focuses on data profiling and reviews ydata-profiling, dataprep, sweetviz, autoviz, and lux.
For me this is a complicated example with regard to regulation. I agree it's a reminder of why it can be a good thing but am not sure how I feel about it as an example of the need for regulation.

I'm outraged at OceanGate and feel as if the CEO and the company were grossly irresponsible. Any wrongful death lawsuits would be more than appropriate.

On the other hand, OceanGate and its CEO were very open about not seeking certification or classing. They didn't try to hide it. Elsewhere on HN now there's a post to an OceanGate blog page arguing about why they didn't seek certification.

So why would anyone sign up for anything involving that submersible? If you were going to go on a mission to the bottom of the ocean, wouldn't you do a lot of research? Wouldn't you demand it be third-party certified if that is industry practice?

I guess there's regulation and then there's regulation, so it's possible that international regulations could be codified to just formalize what is considered standard practice (that is, classing the vessel by an appropriate third party). But I worry that whenever regulations are drafted, they start to become the sort of monster the OceanGate CEO was falsely suggesting.

I'm not sure what I'm saying, because I'm not really even meaning to argue against this as being a good example of where there should maybe regulations. It probably is. But I could also envision this as maybe a case where the reminder is to take risks seriously and be deeply skeptical of persons and institutions not willing to have their work scrutinized by independent bodies.

I do have family who work in this specific area professionally; I haven't spoken to them yet about the incident but I suspect they would see this more as a case of gross negligence and irresponsibility rather than as an area in need of heavy regulation, but I could be wrong. As I think of it, from what I know from their professional experiences, there should have been a lot of red flags that I suspect will come to light in the near future.

Maybe I'm biased in that regard, because everyone I know doing oceanic and deep sea work have been deeply enmeshed in all things ocean and marine their entire lives, and probably would be aware of all these issues. My guess is this family member would have thought it irresponsible to bring those particular passengers anywhere in the deep sea in the first place, on any vessel.

In that regard it would be good to see this turn into some reflection on what it means about society that real world wisdom, expertise, and skills are somehow superceded by monetary net worth. Has it always been this way?

I feel as if society is trapped in some hall of mirrors maze, between fake and real expertise, and worthless and essential certifications and regulations. I'm not sure what's worse: OceanGate CEO Rush's dangerous and absurd arguments against certification, or the fact that his arguments resonate enough as truth with ostensibly successful individuals, that they can be conned by them.
Have you seen Louis Rossman’s collection of YouTube videos of block after block of unoccupied Manhattan real estate because of unrealistic asking prices?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Trz65P1gnA

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Yv1jx5I9TE

Also:

https://www.connectcre.com/stories/u-s-office-pricing-not-ex... (U.S. Office Pricing Not Expected to Recover Until 2040)

> U.S. office buildings are unlikely to regain their peak pre-pandemic values until at least 2040 as demand for desk space weakens, Bloomberg News reported, citing a forecast by Capital Economics. Values are expected to plunge 35% from the peak by the end of 2025 and take 15 years or more to recover as hybrid and remote work reshape real estate, acccording to London-based Capitol Economics.

> “Demolitions and conversions of the worst assets may partially counteract the impact on valuation-based indices,” economist Kiran Raichura wrote. “But ultimately landlords will have to bear those costs, so the road ahead for office owners is set to be an arduous one.”

> Major institutional investors, including Brookfield and Blackstone, have defaulted on some office buildings, choosing to stop loan payments rather than spend more on money-losing properties, Bloomberg reported. It’s estimated that office buildings account for $43 billion of $64 billion in potentially distressed assets.

Other major downtowns (and tangentially, mass transit systems) are in peril, but just as you don’t have to outrun the bear, just your slowest friend, SF is bearing the brunt of it.
I never said nothing can be done. I'm raising the view that solutions, and even government intervention, doesn't have to mean legislation.

Research and education is a huge help, for example. What I can't get behind is the idea that we're all such helpless children than only government punishment can keep us from ruining everything. What happens when the authority given to that government lands in the hands of a person or pay with whom you fundamentally disagree?
Yes, quit. You're not going to change the culture of the company if they're that far gone.
I believe the author should seek therapy, a lot of this read like a borderline manic rant.
Wagner leader Prigozhin is gambling and betting everything on red (or black?).

The problem for the Russian government is that many ordinary pro-war Russians see Prigozhin as a hero. If they kill him, he'll become a martyr.

For all I care both sides are war criminals and should answer for their atrocities in Ukraine. If they can kill each other without also killing civilians, don't think we should stand in their way too much.
We don't all die if there's a lack of silver.
There's a reasonable amount of confusion in the comments between Thomas and Oliver Cromwell.

Thomas Cromwell (1485 - 1540), who this article is about, was a relatively cosmopolitan man and chief minister to Henry VIII before being beheaded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658) was a puritan Christian anti-monarchist who had Charles I executed after the English Civil War and ruled as Lord Protector afterwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

(I am not a historian and encourage you to read the Wikipedia articles rather than relying on my very brief summaries!)
All the User-Facing States
Who cares if it's energy intensive or inefficient if our other option for using the energy is to run it through a big resistor or to not produce it in the first place? This is a tool for repeatedly storing and releasing excess energy from power plants that can't control their output in response to grid conditions. Let's supposed for the sake of argument that battery banks were prohibitively expensive in some applications, and that hydroelectric storage was too damaging to the local environment. In those cases, your only option is to either dissipate any excess energy or to not produce it in the first place.

What this does, then, is provide you an alternative storage medium that is relatively inert until you want to use it. And it provides you a simple self-sustatining scalable chemical reaction that can be started by supplying some initial heat and then goes on to produce even more heat steadily and continuously until you run out of fuel.
The shuttle did something nobody had done before and was viewed as a genuine step forward in human capability. It was also over 50 years ago and had to rely on technology of the time - uncrewed tests were much harder to perform.

This wasn't a particularly ground breaking vehicle in terms of capability and was taking paying tourists...
> I believe the stresses of the hull going through changing pressures is relevant.

It certainly does for aircraft, and I doubt the material science would be much different for subs (with the added challenge(s) that (salt) water often brings):

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-deter...

* https://simpleflying.com/pressurization-cycles-aircraft-life...
According to this interview with Bob Ballard, there have been no fatalities or catastrophic accidents in the deep sea submersible/exploration world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJ_SSU-ocU

He mentioned since 1960, but unclear if that was because that's when the deep sea submersible exploration started, or something happened in 1960.

That makes OceanGate's sub seem like a uniquely incompetent design.
Setting up a hypervisor with all the operating facilities that you didn't build into your unikernel isn't easier than setting up an operating system.
This is a really good point... from what I've seen they estimated the strength with Finite Element Analysis in Solidworks, and went for a ~2x margin of safety. There seems to have been no attempt to experimentally determine the expected number of load cycles to failure, they only considered the theoretical case of a perfectly flawless composite with no wear and tear.
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