skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but as you clearly stated the law was "strict" before that they could not impair water quality, yet over the course of time the courts changed that. I understand the notion of converting everything to private property and having property rights infringements as being the mechanism for enhanced stewardship. However in such a system all matters are then resolved in a civil court. Perhaps I dont understand how the court system works well enough but I would argue that there is a tendency for those who can afford good council to be victorious.

Now given the historical context it sounds like you dont actually have a right to sue for water contamination. If you were suddenly granted this right it would constitute an unearned reward as the existing property doesnt contain those rights. So if this were to change I think it would make sense that you pay for this new right and thereby the price of food would decrease.

Finally I would agree that it is "loosey-goosey" the way the commons is today. However this is because there is now no concept of the public good because the world has entered zero sum dynamics. Peter Thiel explains this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkhfm6CYjE&feature=youtu.be...
His privilege is showing. Just like only 10% of the America is rich, only 10% of the world has at most a lower class American standard of living.
Can you point to a violation of this observation? Operating systems, CPUs, compilers, and software at large have all had bugs. Can you point to anything meaningful that has not been susceptible to bugs in production?

> good development practices, good requirements, good change control, and good testing can prevent the vast majority of bugs

prevention of the vast majority of bugs does not negate the claim that bugs will always happen in production.
I went to a conference put on by a vendor of products I supported at my then current employer. I had met people over the years at this conference and was at the dinner table with some folks and someone said "hey, aren't you looking for new opportunities?" and introduced me to the person who would become my new boss.
Just one thing to check. Have you at any point used Erlang?

Because I believe http://wiki.c2.com/?LetItCrash is primarily associated with Erlang/OTP.
You can have a decentralised package manager that has support for a centralised package listing. This is what Nimble (Nim's package manager) does, there is a packages repo[1] which simply maps package names to Git/Hg repo URLs. So you can easily depend on URLs or package names.

Of course, even this can be considered decentralised since different package repos can be used easily. This is especially useful for private packages.

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/packages
>The Chinese and Roman road systems were built (independently) over the course of five centuries during the same period in history. Curiously, due to (unrelated) political reasons, both systems also started to disintegrate side by side from the third century AD onwards

All ancient societies were Malthusian, living at the limit of their food supplies. A period of global cooling started in the third century, knocking down the Roman and Chinese empires at the same time, for the same reason: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/12/famine-fever-and-the-fal...
That’s precisely what’s wrong. How can people who have “unimaginable existences” represent me?
Doctors Call for Overhaul of Electronic Health Records
A couple of Norwegian conscripts technically invaded Finland earlier this year; while patrolling the border, they accidentally strayed onto the other side.

(Not as hard as it may sound; the border isn’t marked as such, only with the occasional pole here and there.)
I've been out of undergrad for about 8 months now and I'm working for a university doing research programming, what I've known I've wanted to do for years. It took six months of searching university job postings and applying to hundreds of positions before I landed mine, and I had to take an awful electrical contracting job for 1.5 months just to have something to do. Searching for jobs was really hard, so much harder than working, IMO. It feels like you'll never get a job until you finally do, but you never know when that will be.
This law was created in 1968 IIRC. Ghettos still exist today, in 2018, 50 years laters. It seems to me the law is not doing anything.
Nice work! Thanks!
Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time
Well no, I don't have 'evidence'. I just report what the expats in question tell me. I'm not singling them out, they just came to my mind due to recent conversations. I'm not trying to make a grander point or anything, and not every remark has to be completely exhaustive and evidenced to be 'allowed' into a casual conversation. If you want me to source every statement I make, you're going to have to pay me, just like my boss does when I write papers.
Whether or not it is better depends on "better for what?" It's probably more work for you and maybe not what you want to do... a critical issue in terms of your sustainable effort. It's a different not necessarily better creative exercise. It's a place where the project might or might not go as it evolves.
Freelancing agencies. More specifically, Toptal, Gigster and Pilot.co.
I researched interesting companies in my area that were hiring and would fit my current planned career trajectory. I went to a few interviews, other went well until I interviewed the hiring manager, the second went much better and after 7 years I'm still in the same company.
The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012)
Well, it depends. Any F500 hiring manager would pay top dollar for an ex-Amazon guy to work on their cloud effort, maybe not as much as a FANG but 9-5 with decent job security. If you were looking to settle down somewhere long-term it might be worth the hit.
If you think that's step one you are too far down idolizing ecomonics and marketing to ever live a good life. You will spend your life imprisoned within their confines.
I can't figure out what it is about drones, except maybe because [to me] they sound kinda like a swarm of bees, but when they are flying around our neighborhood I find it very irritating. All the other random sounds, people, cars, whatever, generally don't get to me, but a drone is instantly grating on my nerves.
Between me and two friends who are all early in our careers, we’ve had very difficult times getting companies to move on salary. This was in SF, all within in the last 6 months.

On the other hand, all three companies increased our starting bonus substantially with hardly a fight.

For two of us the reasons were more or less “you’re already at the top of your salary band” and for the last the reason was they pay all new grads the same (only one of us is a new grad).
The link isn’t working for me—I get a Cloudflare error saying the site doesn’t allow hotlinking
How do you go to the next slide on mobile?
I live in the Hampton Roads area and realtors are very up front about jet noise and crash danger. There are maps of high and low noise areas, you are asked to sign a waiver stating that you are aware your home is in a high noise area, etc.
I've gotten bolder and last time job hunting my answer the first time the recruiter asked for my range: "if you offer $300k right now, I'll take the job today."
Obsessive attention to details. Tell them that it is imperative that they indent their code correctly all the time. Those who take that advice to heart can become good programmers, those who can't will forever be lousy.
> Unstable API is just another way to say that there is no API

No, it doesn't mean there is no API, it means there is no compatibility promise; it means there is an API per version, and the relationship between them i s not known.

> And with zero API any change is compatible and cannot break anything

That would be true, but this isn't "zero API", it's "zero promise of API compatibility"

That makes your statement "With zero API compatibility any change is compatible"...

That's very obviously wrong.

Please don't jump through these bizarre logic hoops to try and justify what go does here.
> Statistically, you’re probably not a special snowflake. Everyone thinks that they are and deserve way above what the local market is paying. You probably don’t.

It's certainly possible that everyone deserves (or more precisely, is able to negotiate) a salary much higher than they have, but social pressures and norms and the fact that potential employees have much more to lose than potential employers over a single negotiation failing means that market value is much lower than it should be.

The efficient market hypothesis, if it is even true, is only true in liquid markets with free flow of information. Hiring is neither.
Just to balance the "70% of websites" number, I've worked on a number of websites where there was still some legacy jQuery floating around, but where all new development is expected to happen in a modern framework like React, and new code using jQuery would be unlikely to pass code review. Or, perhaps, where jQuery is legitimately used as part of the occasional escape hatch when you can't use React for some technical reason, but is discouraged and only used with careful scrutiny.

I suspect that if you refined it to "How many new websites in the last year use jQuery as their primary UI library?", the number would be much lower.
Most of them were not elected President of the United States.
Android (and IOS too) needs a user setting that will not just turn off location reporting, but will cause the lowest-level device drivers of GPS and other location sensors to provide spoofed data to all layers above it. That's the only way to stop this crap. It should automatically provide unfiltered data when the user dials 911, but in no other circumstances unless the user explicitly authorizes it.
Cute, but your analogy is somewhat flawed as fentanyl is like heroin on steroids. (As long as we’re mixing metaphors...)

What the world really needs is the naloxone of social networks.
Ask HN: Best way to make diagram for GitHub project?
I want to make great documentation for my open source Github project related to data engineering.

My project involves parsing and rearranging blocks of data extensively. This makes it confusing to describe in writing, but trivial to understand visually (for that kind of thinker).

The diagram is basically lots of multicolored rectangles being grouped and rearranged.

What do people here recommend?
I am skeptical deploying a non trivial project to production without bugs is a viable strategy, even for safety critical projects. I imagine the bugs are just much less severe.

It is not even easy to tell whether a piece of software has no bugs or just none you have seen.
I remember reading the earliest posts on the Prenda case, when Steele was full of blister and thrwatenening to sue everyone who criticized him. How times have changed.
Most enterprise customers I've dealt with don't even care about things breaking that much, they care about control. That's the much bigger thing. Things break. Let's just make sure we don't break things while our customer is dumping silly amounts of money into an EU-wide advertisement campaign. Or we tend to freeze updates during christmas, due to the christmas business of our customers.

With those guys, it's fine to execute risky changes on productive systems, as long as those changes are tested, communicated, scheduled to a non-critical time of the customers and include backoff-plans.

But yes, this naturally slows things down, or makes systems more complex and expensive due to redundancy and staged rollouts.
"Rejoice everyone! We've fixed the issue...by admitting we're going to keep tracking you."

I don't think this is legal under GDPR at all, but I'm sure I'll be proven either wrong or wrong in the multiple legal complaints and lawsuits Google will have to face in the EU over this in the next few years.

This and other similar moves we're seen from Google in the past few years seem like they are "ballsy". I don't think Google is being ballsy, I just think they've figured out that whatever the cost/fines governments will ask them to pay, it will be worth it as a cost of doing business. Hopefully they'll be proven wrong on this eventually and that the fines will keep escalating until they learn their lesson.
I worked at a competitor to GD for about 7 years. Had a great career trajectory until a managerial fuckup cost the company one third of the revenue and they had to ax 50 percent of the staff. Be careful, those big, stable companies can tend to lull you into thinking things can't go left quickly. They most assuredly can, and do.
> If I agree with you right here and now, have we not technically formed our own 'echo chamber'?

Good point, but no.

Agreement is not necessarily an indication of conformance. You have to also consider to what degree that agreement, or disagreement, must be exercised. I agree and disagree with many political opinions, but I don't join groups who share my political opinions. My personal opinions often remain personal. Even if I did join a group of politically like-minded persons I would not go on regular protests to merely advertise my opinion. I certainly wouldn't take it to a higher level by going to a counter-protest or berating those I disagree with.

Typically the more important and advertised a social agreement becomes the less it is about the subject matter agreed upon and the more it is about exercising forced social norms of a group. In math and logic agreement is attained by a proof and not by some social pressure to force a predetermined outcome.
Where FD-SOI Works Best
Poll: How did you find your current job?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791766.

I've taken the most common answers and collected them in this pool to gather some statistics.
Freelance Agencies (gig platforms)
Founded my own company
Friends / acquaintances / personal network
Submitting résumés
Company contacted me
Job listing site
HN / Who's Hiring!
Internship - Job offer
It depends on what you need. You could use the grid without jquery
So, basically, telling them something will only hurt you and never help you. So don’t do it. Now, here’s exactly what to say when asked to name the first number:

At this point, I don’t feel equipped to throw out a number because I’d like to find out more about the opportunity first – right now, I simply don’t have the data to be able to say something concrete. If you end up making me an offer, I would be more than happy to iterate on it if needed and figure out something that works. I also promise not to accept other offers until I have a chance to discuss them with you.

And they answer, "Sorry, I cannot move forward without a number."

Stalemate.

I've been there and maybe I just don't enjoy awkward silences enough but my strategy is to have two numbers ready:

1. My Public Number: the inflated number I give out when pressed. It's grounded in reality but vigorously optimistic. I'll often offer this up front just to anchor the discussion. I make sure it's a number I will be more than happy with, even it turns out that maybe it wasn't as much as they were prepared to offer. If the other side finds it out of the question, I've saved myself time and stress.

2. My Walkaway Number: in the event the offer is lower, which it often is, the number below which the offer gets rejected. I don't share this publicly.

These vary based on other factors of the offer. But I have them ready. And I stick to the second number.
It looks like they had been taken by a rip current and the lady had exhausted her energy. In such a case one is very close to drowning. Most likely the guys managed to bring her back close to shore before the drone had arrived, at which point she received the lifejacket. Women are normally much shorter than men, so that could be a reason. The beach in the video tends to have uneven grounds with deeper areas (rip currents tend to take place at the deepest point, that is if you swim sideways you might step on higher grounds).

Still, a very decent solution if a drone can deliver a lifejacket before the jet skis/swimmers arrive.
As a general rule, I steer away from review sites, and instead I look for professionals using the product. For example I follow some photographers, carpenters, etc, and see what equipment they use for themselves and why they use it. They are not reviewing products, they are using them and posting a list of products for my convenience.

If I decide to buy the same equipment, I see nothing wrong using their affiliate links.
My wife had something like that happen to her. Twice. Without even an onsite (at both times she worked across the country) they gave her an offer. In one case she countered, in the other she waited to think it over (though it was still well within the deadline they had given her). In both cases they rescinded the offer. In both cases she feels she dodged a bullet.
I had a defective keyboard in my XPS 13 9333, many of the keys just straight up didn't register - I called Dell and two days later I had a tech in my dining room tearing the laptop apart and replacing the keyboard. No, I didn't have ProSupport or anything on it - this was the included one year warranty.
Have you considered virtualization? I tend to use MacOS merely as a hypervisor, where I can step into as many different OS environments as I wish. You mentioned how you like to use Windows; what about using it in a virtual machine?
The 4 Kind of ICOs
I wrote a React tutorial in 2015.

A React core dev starred it on GitHub.

I got about 4k stars for this and some news coverage (front-end/JS/React news)

Some publisher asked me if I want to turn it into a book, so he can sell it for/with me.

Later I had a few interviews where I was asked to show my GitHub account. When the interviewers saw the 4k repo they told me they read about it a few days ago in the news and now they were impressed because they talking to the creator of it in person.
>Final note, 180,000 US$/year in REVENUE (not profits) is quite impressive. Over 80% of startups don't even see that much revenue in their entire life-cycle, stuggle for years to get people to pay for their product or service, and then die.

I am sorry for those startups, but if the gross margin is 30% it will likely become 10-15% profit after expenses and taxes.

15% of US$ 180,000/year is 27,000 US$/year, if the Author worked 2,000 hours in the year, he got net 13.50 US$/hour, which is not bad, but not something I would call personally a successful shop/activity.
Amusingly, that just encourages you to change jobs more often. Amortize that starting bonus over two years, basically.
Semantic nit: not "playing God" with the "billions who will be driven from their homes" would mean leaving them to that fate.
> Sometimes there is blame, though. Sometimes a root cause is simply that a person or group was not competent in their execution of a task.

It is true that some people are not good at their jobs. It's also true that the only way to discover that people are bad at their jobs is their performance.

However, I think the process approach is applicable to a much larger domain than many people give it credit.

One of the greatest software development quotes I've read comes from DJB [0]:

> For many years I have been systematically identifying error-prone programming habits—by reviewing the literature, analyzing other people’s mistakes, and analyzing my own mistakes—and redesigning my programming environment to eliminate those habits.

The difference in security bugs found in qmail and sendmail speaks for itself.

This is an example of the superiority of process: it shows that what some people consider a "root cause" is actually only a proximate cause - that the root cause is the programming environment that allows the bugs to occur.

[0] https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
I’d say another way to put that would be, economic factors influence ~everything about how a company goes about its business.
I can give you one better; giving an offer in all serious, that is a little aggressive but not out of line (at the top of the pay band on Linkedin for the area, but the job is in the higher price part of the city), and having -the hiring manager- laugh and say "No, seriously, I was thinking more" and quoting you -half- of that.
See wiki-page
"An investigation of the Riemann zeta-function by physical methods" for better undestanding
Perhaps that’s the thing. The commons should be recognized as more than that. In my opinion property should be seen as an agreement with the commons, you rent property to make it private, and you at liabale to the commons for damages made to it.
> military leadership experience

Do you have a security clearance?
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I'd really like to see a technical analysis of this project - I've checked the usual spots (JASA, INCE Journal, Journal of Sound & Vibration, etc) and couldn't find anything. Google searches just lead to Paul De Kort's writeup, and similar articles.

A little background about issues involved: if you have a noise source on (or just above) the ground, and a receiver on (or just above) the ground with line-of-sight to one another, there are three paths that noise can take from the source to the receiver:

1. The source can emit sound that goes up into the atmosphere, but under certain atmospheric conditions, that sound can be reflected back down to the receiver.

2. The sound travels directly, in straight line, between the source and receiver.

3. The source emits sound that travels downward at a shallow angle into the ground, and is reflected up to the receiver.

For path #3, if the ground is acoustically "hard" (generally meaning non-porous), the reflected ground path adds to the noise heard at the receiver. If the sound is acoustically "soft", generally porous, the sound is absorbed [0] so the reflected sound does not add to the direct sound, and the resulting total noise is quieter compared to the situation with hard ground. This explains the reduction in sound level when the land was plowed - the hard ground (dense, packed soil) was transformed into soft ground (loose, tilled soil). This also explains why background noise levels drop when snow is on the ground.

It looks like the Schiphol landscaping addresses mostly #3, possibly #2 (by blocking direct LOS between the source and receiver). This is interesting, but the same can also be achieved by a noise wall at the airport taxi and run-up areas (which is the typical solution), or creating a wide, dense tree belt. The claim is that spacing the berms by the wavelength of the (presumably dominant) airport frequency creates greater reduction, but I'd really like to view technical data to see how well that works.

The articles claims the berms have "reduced noise levels by more than half" - is that in terms of sound pressure, sound power, or sound perception?

If sound perception, that's ~10 dB and that's really impressive.

If sound power, that's around 6 dB, which is decent.

If sound pressure, that's 3 dB, which is strictly in the "meh" category.

[0] Technically the sound isn't absorbed, it goes through a phase change so that the reflected sound cancels out part of the direct sound.
An extreme resolution but there are governments out there that proudly stand up for their consumers' rights.

The EU has already made this business model a non-starter.
That's right, here's an article on the same site: http://www.thedrive.com/aerial/16913/drones-in-australia-hel...
Schools are using AI to track what students write on their computers
The APO part doesn't matter, but the flat field of focus of a macro lens might have relevant there given the subject.

Exotic gear only matters if your're trying to do something hard (for example big prints from 35mm film or extreme macro or high speed photography...) and I say this as a Contax/Leica/Hasselblad shooter/gear snob. Merely decent gear is important - smartphone pictures are universally awful when given a closer look.
> FAANG

What is N for? Or you meant FAAMG ?
Do You *Really* Need to Wash Fruit Before You Eat It?
“If it’s stupid but it works, it’s still stupid and you got lucky.”