skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been pointed out that, while replacing the existing the existing water system is infeasible, building a new, downsized system for drinking water, with the existing option being used for non-potable water, may be an option:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/2/7/chipping-flint

Hong Kong, for example, has separate water infrastructure for salt water, which is used for flushing toilets and other non-drinking uses.
I took Boeing's order list[1], and made a list of 737 MAX Operators with numbers of orders and already delivered:

https://gist.github.com/tyingq/5c45907c22ec62c00e02079e1fecf...

[1]http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/displaystandardre...
I like my package delivery person because they bring gifts. But I don't like my mail delivery person because they bring bills.
From the readme: "SipHash is not secure enough for security purposes"

There's been nothing published to that effect, even though he has claimed for years that he can recover bits from the seed.
Bananas contain L-tryptophan. Your body converts L-tryptophan to melatonin (+ serotonin and vitamin B6).
Yes, but filing a police report against a client isn't good for business.
I've been having the same existential crisis for a couple years now. I started working at a FAANG company right out of college, then after a bunch of personal health problems ended up taking a leave of absence that I didn't return from.

I took a long break from software and started learning politics, philosophy, and history, and eventually came to the conclusion that most of the world's problems are social/political and won't be fixed by technology.

And in many ways, the type of work we do directly cause harm to people. (Unfortunately, with the long gap in my career I need to build up work experience before switching to anything else)

How can I continue to work at a corporation that directly causes wealth inequality? Sure, I might personally enjoy working on math and software related problems. But why is my own intellectual curiosity more important than whether someone else gets to eat?

I don't want to just donate to charities, I want to end systemic problems that lead to charities needing to exist in the first place.
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For the love of dirt just go outside and plant some vegetables. With half the loving care that you put into your tech you can have a beautiful productive garden.

My mother is an amazing gardener because she pays careful attention to her crops and applies reasoning and careful experimentation to grow her knowledge.

Have patience, read up, and dig in. You can grow things yourself too.

Perhaps I’m becoming a Luddite...
I'd like to prefix this as _anecdotal_ as it is only some speculation I've done on the matter, but here is my take on it:

The brain is in the end a neural network, and like all such devices, can get stuck in various local minima that are difficult to get out of. An old habit that has been reinforced through many years can take a considerable "shock" to dislodge. All the little cognitive and behavioral biases that one accumulates through their life get in the way in very subtle forms that are entirely sub-conscious.

What psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and others can do, is remove or downregulate these internal filters for some time. To give an example: the visual cortex normally applies a filtering mechanism to what the eyes see and correct problems. It acts as a common-sense filter to remove improbable or impossible information and augment, perhaps even add some extra detail to save the conscious part from being swamped with ridiculous data. Mostly it just lets the sensory input through with little synthetic stuff. This means that the visual cortex has to have some sort of model of reality that it builds over time (with feedback from the consciousness). This filtering mechanism is one way mostly, the visual cortex modulates the input and adds information here and there, and then reinforces the internal model with feedback form the consciousness.

Now, under psychedelics, one gets all the output that the visual cortex can generate together with the actual real data from the eyes. The previously subtle filter applies the full transformation described by the internal model to the sensory data. This results in wacky outlandish shapes and impossible landscapes as reality is modified fully with all the information that the visual cortex has accumulated. Quite like the bizarre images generated by artificial CNNs when ran backwards!

So to arrive at my point, I posit that psychedelics can (not guaranteed of course), remove the long standing subconscious filters and biases that one has built over their life and offer the raw perspective on things. They remove all the useful illusions that the brain pulls over our eyes to get through our days. A thing that one tends to lose during a "trip" is control over the thought process, some call it ego death, a profound sensation of being able to observe one's thoughts from outside - as if unburdened by one's own insecurities and from an objective view. It isn't unpleasant at all, if anything it is liberating. It is always difficult to face one's own shortcomings, because of the importance that we place on the ego. Once that burden is removed, it becomes an experience of resignation and healing.

I want to avoid ascribing religious or transcendental characteristics to the process, far from it. It's a mere result of some very pleasant time spent being free from the tyranny of the ego and the subsequent introspection.
if you wait until the extant fleet is already grounded, then re-ground them, then there is no political influence.
Maybe software for specifically Linux is kinda KDE's whole thing. I'm just happy they go out of their way to package and test their code against other OSs in the first place.
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Seaborn.

It is fabulous. I use it regularly.
https://seaborn.pydata.org/
Although Kdenlive has had its fair share of crashes, maybe of them happen due to bad packaging, mostly by using wrong MLT version. Using the AppImage is a good solution.
People ultimately hear what they want to hear until evidence is so overwhelming to the contrary that it can no longer be ignored.
As much as I appreciate Shotcut, it is still missing many NLE features, like multiselect
> The industry is immature and is bottom heavy.

Depending upon your sub-sector of IT it can be completely inverted from that where there's far, far too many layers of management around maybe a handful of individual contributors. This is typical for most sub-fields of enterprise software that attract and retain a lot of non-technical people because the business requires interfacing with a culture of primarily non-technical-first customers. These companies tend to become the opposite of an IC-heavy IT shop - way too much positivity and a ton of stereotypical sales personalities (to be fair, the most common profession in the US specifically is salesperson). In fact, a lot of what the movie Office Space entails is what engineers at such an environment would go through in enterprise software and still does today, not what popular culture currently thinks of tech companies in the past 15 years.
Reminds me of part of that poem by Kipling...

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:"

(I highly recommend reading the whole thing. Not that long.)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
bing pays you rewards, which for me adds up to like $20/yr. I'd hope there would be more competition between search engines so they compete with benefits for users. For most queries google isn't that much better, use DuckDuckGo for privacy or other engines.
I don't see why it's a problem, caching solutions like Redis also store bytes. If you cache a JSON blob you don't have much choice.
R's ggplot2 follows The Grammar of Graphics. The closest and best implementation of it in Python is Altair (https://altair-viz.github.io). It's a fairly young library, but is very simple to use, and can do really powerful things (see the last chart here https://altair-viz.github.io/case_studies/exploring-weather....)
If it's a quote, it must be true ....
SquareSpace for restaurants. All menus in a common data format. They could also get into the physical menu printing business, as a service to entice restaurants. "Update once, reflect change everywhere."

They should consolidate the some of the loyalty programs, no one wants 55 loyalty apps.
(IanaL) Generally speaking, in the US, no.

Specifically speaking, if it's done in person, state law holds. In Virginia v Black (2003), the Supreme Court found [1] that states may ban speech which represents a "true threat" (i.e. one whose intent it to cause another party to fear for their lives). But there's generally a high bar and more aimed at allowing regulation of cross burning and neo Nazis than an angry co-worker.

If it's done via the Internet, federal §875 [2] governs. Because of some strange wording and first ammendment concerns, the Supreme Court has held that the intent to actually commit a crime must be present in order for the words to be illegal.

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/537/465.html

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/875
Make sure to try the refactoring version. It will be out for the 19.04 release schedule.
I have experienced everything you cited. Especially the death threats. Even when we shut off a customer for non-payment we would sometimes get them at my one job.

The negativity seems to be pervasive at companies where tech is viewed as a cost center. At those kind of companies, IT tries to be proactive at first, but being proactive usually costs money, so it's often ignored. And then a failure happens as a result of ignoring that issue and then the tech people get yelled at.

I've seen a major difference in attitude when the executives are involved/invested in the tech team. Even when things are really bad, failures happening all the time, it is still a positive environment and people want to help each other. It is stunning the difference it makes to just have everyone invested in the decisions from top-down so you don't feel all alone.

As for IT being understaffed, I do think this problem could be improved if companies invested more in their employees (e.g. training). And maybe took more chances on peoples capability, instead of requiring 2-3 years of experience on a range of skills prior to hiring them.
Yeah, I can't see how a professional services company overlooks this casually, unless they're really hurting for new work. Can you imagine a client treating their tax lawyers or accountants like this ?

But then, if the service company needs the new business that bad, that's hard to square with "there are not enough IT people".
If it’s Arab or Chinese money, that’s not likely to be any time soon.
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I disagree your conclusions, as the cause of the two crashes was not determined yet to my knowledge.
But your description of the problem sounds plausible at least, so I upvoted your comment anyway.
Here is another great article about statistics that was posted a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278839
Does repaired in this context also include a successful in-flight test?

At some point, the complexity of system integrations requires that you do something more than bare minimum component retesting.
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If good IT work is in high demand as claimed, that shouldn't be a problem. And "we make sure customers don't abuse our staff" should be the baseline of "how do I keep any good employees I might have", not a luxury.
We do still have the archives, and are thinking of how to bring back the pieces that are still relevant. A lot of the technical content rotted long before the links did, and the more human stuff was due for an update.
https://notion.so, in addition to being a really great product, is the most Victor-ian company I’ve seen. Really great thinking and product sense there.
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When seeing VM, I think about JIT, GC... This is "just" a bytecode interpreter (I don't mean to tell the project isn't worth sharing but it's quite misleading)
That's why I didn't say mail person. ;) (And yes, package delivery people can deliver legal packages... but I assume everyone gets the point)
For now in the refactoring version you are able to copy-paste clips between open instances. Multiple timelines and nesting are on the roadmap but only after finishing the refactoring and then adding advanced trimming tools.
Looking for a Co-Founder(s)
After 17 years in Financial Services, I resigned to solve macro problems plaguing the trading workflow. I'm going to work on the foreign exchange market first (5trillion average daily volume).

I'm looking for co-founders. I'd consider myself a below average coder now. I can get stuff done, but most of you hardcore techies would slap me, and rewrite it.

But the business problem is real, and there is significant revenue possibilities in the problem set.

I'm looking for people who love capital markets, love challenging status quo, and want to work on solving FinTech problems (plumbing to trading).

Let me know if you know anyone.
I mean, if we're going to tear this apart, sometimes my mail person brings gifts, if they're small enough to fit in the mailbox.
Good idea, bad implementation. This will legitimize and validate the data collection and nothing else will change. Will there be even less incentive for companies to secure the data they're collecting because we'd already have been paid for it? What should be targeted is how this data is: collected, secured, and used. Throwing a few dollars our way each year solves nothing.
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According to this report [1], they published the source code and provided a video recording of installing the software (sounds like a joke):

> Despite positive gestures towards transparency — such as releasing portions of the software as open source and posting many hours of videos documenting the configuration and tabulation steps — Estonia’s system fails to provide compelling proof that election outcomes are correct. Critical steps occur off camera, and potentially vulnerable portions of the software are not available for public inspection.

[1] https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/summary/
As always, the right answer is somewhere in the middle
I realized quickly in undergrad I could not program. This prompted the change to psych and eventually a MS in Counseling Psych. Today I am licensed with a small practice and work full-time in public education.

Even though I have so much more to learn, moving towards a humanistic approach has had such a positive impact with clients and myself. Being able to sit back and be with a feeling, no matter how uncomfortable, challenges me to think about what is really the problem. This is beneficial in schools because it is the same way with students and faculty because the surface emotion is only an indicator something is wrong.

I think my curiosity to understand the human condition is what led me to study and practice. At the same time, involving tech into my practice is necessary to help indicate progress for clients in addition to how it can replace me when out of session.
If that's the case, how can anybody recall 1000 digits of pi or whatever insane number they're up to these days? People don't recall it based on their feelings. It's memory storage. How it's done is still being worked out.
There's a perception among management that they need to remain competitive. The IT service truly isn't a oligopoly like telcos are. My company hasn't increased rates in over 4 years out of fear that we would lose business even though we have more business than we have the resources to handle.
No offense, but the perception of the US outside of the "diversity bastions" like SF, NYC, LA, etc. has jumped the shark. People now assume that racism and hatred is rampant outside these areas, and it isn't remotely the case. Its actually quite sad and offensive (to say nothing of ironic) that such a large swath of people are at this point all but presumed to be racist until proven otherwise.

To be fair to you, the perception seems to be widespread among residents of the aforementioned mega-cities, as well as non-Americans, and is fueled by the popular media. But I would encourage you to view the idea that these parts of America are backwards and largely bigoted with the same amount of skepticism you would to anyone making sweeping claims about the supposed deficiencies of a group of "others".
I would argue that only applies to a minority of people. The majority keeps believing despite facts
Not all of math is done in commutative rings.
Part of it is when adults get worried about the lack of sleep, and they get stressed out, which keeps them awake. Cortisol is really good at it.
so glad to see this come into existence. being able to type and direct the cursor from the same region is long overdue
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Very nice. I would love some kind of plugin for Rstudio that let you "play" through an arbitrary ggplot like this to help understand how charts are built.
What would the refill package look like?
I'm not a supporter of i-voting, but it is true that most of the "concerns" given are pure FUD/bullshit. Studies that consider guest WiFi password being vital information, studies that collate e-voting and i-voting and a lot of other shit I can't recall at the moment.

But the very basic problems are not talked about, namely:
* Votes should be counted by independent parties while preserving anonymity
* Certificate issuance should be actually monitored by CT logs, every vote that is not in a CT log is dismissed and logged
* Voting code should be actually readable and audited (only opsec has been audited so far)

There are a few other problems but I've forgotten them for the time being. These are the problems we should be talking about, not some bogus like, "Omg how can ten grannies vote quickly online".
Just curious, what are you working on now?

I actually went to school for history, but I'm self-taught in tech. Thankfully, I never had to work at any dishonest or unethical companies (I stayed out of the startup world), but it still feels like most of the Bay Area companies are not really improving society much, and only a very small section of the population benefits, and they benefit heavily.
> “California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data,” Newsom said from the State Capitol in Sacramento.

This is such an odd sentence to read, post-GDPR, because it sounds as if consumers have no idea what their data is being used for, and/or have no control over how it's processed, and just have to subject themselves to it.

The GDPR literally starts off by recognizing personal data and the protection thereof as a fundamental right, and regulates how others must subject themselves in order to process it.
Your comment should have been the article.

But regarding:

> The remedy according to some sources is to avoid imagining success or even the end state of your project.

Is it really the remedy? I agree the problem you state is real, but how does this, or all other possible ways to keep your eyes on the prize, the “remedy”?

Growing up I was on a competitive swim team, and one of the exercises we did before meets was imagining the whole race, imagining how we would execute our performance from start to finish. You would imagine the start, how you feel fresh and easy, and then the middle, as you begin to feel yourself tire, and then the end, when you’re exhausted but then the reward of finishing. It’s about the whole race, I think, and day dreaming about the end doesn’t have to be so bad.
This response runs much to close to my position number one for me to have any more interest in continuing. This line of discussion. I'll just leave you again with one question

> If there is a representation- where is it?

Where is your understanding of language?
I am an Israeli citizens and worked under an Arabic speaking supervisor as a programmer, didn't have any problems with that. Not sure if these numbers are correct - polls can be manipulated in many subtle ways, polls in Israel have a bad track records in terms of accuracy.
I guess. But after reinstalling with LUKS, the box is pretty thoroughly wiped.
I was actually looking for something similar to this recently. Very first thing you need to do is fix your title and description tags for SEO. Second, contact some sites where this product might be useful for their users.
With nVidia's poor kernel record, I hope this does not adversely affect switchdev [1]. Hopefully one day we can run the same OS on servers and switches

[1] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=262...
Second. This site will be a welcome addition to my morning read, but that rather unique font is taxing to my eyes.
I'd go on one. The odds are still safer than driving a car. The worst that can happen is death, which is inevitable anyway.
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The 737 uses an air bleed system instead of a modern electric system.
Which country has a parallel public/private healthcare system?

Most countries with public healthcare have a private supplement that build on top of what the national system already provides: in home care, private hospital rooms, dental and vision, and concierge service. I've yet to see a private system attempt to replace a functional public system.
Yes, of course, there are lots of tech businesses that I would find myself content working for.
I just don't really have the luxury of choice atm: started later in life, no solid CS background, immigrant, no real talent (to be honest) etc.

I'm sure it'll work out when I gain more experience. :)

I was a child psychologist (specializing in development and planned to go deeper into social work) and it was/is the biggest passion of my life, so switching to tech feels weird to put it mildly.

IT is fantastic, don't get me wrong, I would not go back.
Indeed. I recently learned of his work on HN, and have been carrying his Magic Ink paper around for 2 weeks, nibbling on it bit by bit. This was written in 2006! I see implementations of the ideas expressed everywhere - for example Netflix's "Recommended" list. Although, a nit. I once bought a bunch of fairy tale books on Amazon. For months after that I was recommended nothing but more fairy tales. It's not counter-intuitive to think that if I bought 10 things of the same kind, I may not want to buy any more of that thing for a while. I think the paper called this last-value predictor, and clearly for a subset of decisions, this predictor is maladaptive.