skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency.

So I believe what’s happening here is that they took the total population coverage of any water district that ever had at least two reports of a water quality or monitoring violation in the last decade.

I think ”potentially” is the key word here which makes this claim particularly washy. Are they looking at violations which actually resulted in measurably unsafe water, which were likely to cause or result in unsafe water, or merely violations which could possibly resulted in unsafe water, or perhaps monitoring lapses which would have failed to detect potentially unsafe water, but without any evidence that water was actually ever unsafe?

It’s a newsroom investigative report, not a scientific study. Take this with a huge grain of salt.
Confidence and vulnerability aren't opposites. The confidence that comes from going through vulnerability and coming out stronger is worth more than the facade style of confidence, which covers unprocessed weakness.
It described some signal processing/filtering science I've never heard of before :-)

I've always wished HN had tags...
Globalization as it is now is purely a race to the bottom in terms of ecological damage and mistreatment, so balancing the wages out is a real problem.

There are models where you could still have uplift without those issues but they are not what we are doing.
Hold on. You say not true but then you say he did dip his fingers in an unpredictable way.... Of course perhaps you meant he didn't dip his fingers into everything at the same time... Well of course he didnt... he did dip his fingers into random things and eventually over time it led to him basically touching almost every aspect of the company.
Peloton has almost a billion a year in revenue, and rising fast. I don't have a dog in this fight, but I don't see that a valuation of 8 billion is obviously wrong.
Exactly this. OP doesn't seem to get it. It takes a long time and "launching" is never certain. Thank you sir.
I don't want to go around picking on specific comments or arguments, but I still wanted to address what reads like a lot of insecurity and scar tissue, here...

- It's better to understand people than to not understand them. Averages and stereotypes are not a great way to understand individual people.

- If you want to understand why a person did or thinks something, a good place to start is with a generous assumption that you might have done or thought the same if you had the same experiences. Reflect on what sort of experiences might fulfill this statement.

- Assume completely understanding an intelligence is impossible. If you haven't before, pay close attention to your internal narrative(s) until you catch yourself telling yourself a story about why you did or said or thought something. This is you, reflecting on what sorts of experiences led you to do or think something. This is evidence that we don't understand our own intelligence.

- Don't be surprised if you find you are less generous when reflecting on what experiences lead you to do something than you are to others. You have, after all, been trying to understand why you do what you do your entire life. Look for opportunities to show yourself (and, more importantly, your internal narratives) that you care. This may feel stupid. Reflect on what experiences might lead you to think it is stupid to show yourself that you care.

- If you are more generous with yourself, you aren't giving the rest of us enough credit. We all contain multitudes.
I've never heard of any company switching languages because they were having trouble hiring.
Which montage do you use and for how long?
Space shuttles are related to Roman chariots
first world, second world and third world are cold war terms denoting aligned to the western nations, aligned to the soviet union, or basically unaligned.

you want "developed" and "developing."
No. You didn't get that right at all. You asked why people are defending him and I gave you an explanation. The comparison I made with the african kid was specifically made to clue you in on it but it seems it went over your head.
I guess it's a balance. Sometimes, you need to face what you're feeling. Other times, you need to avoid getting caught up in it and just press forward. I suppose it might also depend on the character of the feeling. Some feelings seem more honest and connected to something bigger. Other feelings can just torment a person and are like energy traps e.g. feelings of jealousy about not going to an elite college (I've struggled with this a lot. And, as the years go by, I realize more and more that I don't want to waste my time with it). I guess it's up to every person to figure out which is which in their own mind.
1. The link you provided suggests that some bottled water comes from Municipal sources, ie. it is tap water. This would logically imply that the standards for bottled water are <= the standards for tap water, at least in those locations.

2. The original article you are commenting on suggests that bottled water contains more microplastics than tap water.
It depends heavily on your area and the current economy.

For example, almost nobody was hiring for software in my area during the Great Recession and I was laid off from the job I did have. Ended up having to relocate so I didn't starve.

Nowadays there's plenty of people hiring but companies around here tend to underpay.
Joel Spolsky had written few years ago about why companies do this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
I’ve never had a problem bringing a shoulder bag or small backpack into a store. I’ll infrequently ride a bicycle to Target, Home Depot, Walmart, a gas station or the local grocery store and put everything in my bag after I check out.

At stores with self checkouts, I don’t really see the difference because they’re already placing trust in you anyways.
Segment has done an awesome job of building a great product but it is impossible to be provably secure and private given that they host all the data. Rudder can avoid situations such as the Segment Security incident that happened recently. https://segment.com/security/bulletins/incident090519/

Very excited about this project!
> rents in Nairobi, an African tech hub, aren't that much cheaper than, say, Cleveland

That's an easily falsifiable assertion.

Here's an apartment in Nairobi that's $62.50 USD per month.

https://www.buyrentkenya.com/listings/1-bed-flat-apartment-f...

Cheapest apartments in Cleveland, OH meanwhile found here are $400 per month and there are 4 of them.

https://www.apartments.com/cleveland-oh/400-to-400/

So there's a ~6:1 difference in rental price between the two, on the low end as listed online. Presumably there are even cheaper deals to be had which are not listed online. Food, labor, transportation and other expenses in Kenya are going to be similarly less expensive, perhaps by even greater multiples.

So no...outsourcing is definitely cheaper in the short run, and for simpler tasks.

I'm not going to tell you how to outsource or not outsource, and when it is and is not appropriate but labor can definitely be had for much cheaper than in the US. The US is now the richest country in the world per capita, more so than Luxembourg and the other traditionally richer countries because the USD is so strong.

Of course this will fluctuate over time, but that's the present status as we have this discussion.

"Yeah but outsourcing is dumb and people don't know how to code."

It's dumb? They don't know how to code? Could it be that some people don't know how to manage projects remotely and across cultures? Could it be that some projects can be outsourced while others can't?
Even if you translate the common phrase "don't patronize me", it still uses "patrocinar" which is the wrong sense of the word as typically used.
> As the customer in such a circumstance are you within your rights to refuse any such diagnosis tests when you reasonably believe they are unnecessary?

Of course. You're within your rights to refuse any medical test or procedure whatsoever, including one that would save you from imminent death, unless you're first declared mentally incompetent, which is not a quick or simple process.

But most people will trust the doctor when he says "we need this test to treat you effectively." He's the expert, and I don't want to bet my health on the possibility that he might be scamming me.
If you're going to draw the line that way, then I'm more on what you call the 'man' side in not liking to talk about problems/feelings much. But if that leads you (speaking generally—I don't mean you personally) to deny your pain and avoid your demons, then you are doomed to repeat the same painful loop forever, and ultimately to inflict your unprocessed pain on those closest to you. That's a situation that calls for eliminating unnecessary information and taking action if ever there was one. What's needed are ways of taking that action, i.e. processing things, i.e. facing-healing-overcoming rather than denying, which actually work.
Mysterious oil spill contaminates beaches across swathe of Brazilian coast
My dealer isn't just any old schmuck off the street. He moves pounds weekly and always top quality. Fat moist sticky buds in Hermes jars. He weighs it out right in front of me. My other guy is difficult, amazing selection but I have to go through someone as that guy is super secretive.

Both are West Indian and weed is almost a religion to some of those guys. So they don't mess around with quality. They been smoking longer than I have. Full trust. You just have to know the right people to get solid connects.
You're correct but I was talking about language selection in the context of web development. There are, of course, specific domains that have language requirements.
> Managers in no way control what the team is working on or deadlines for that work. They behave more like career coaches and therapists. They DO ultimately have control over your career,

I work in a place like this. It's a horrible idea. It's politics 100% of the time for managers, because there's no other way to climb for them. Welcome to half-brained initiatives and goalpost technologies being championed rather than ROI exploration and derivation, because the managers that do get stuck on projects that cost money don't want to talk about that.
Maybe it is using the same effect as “Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall”

https://hbr.org/2012/03/hard-to-read-fonts-promote-better-re...
Weird. I worked with a guy once whose parents believed colloidal silver would cure him of his ADD. Instead he turned blue.
Such TED-talk bullshit. There were multiple railway gauges. https://www.american-rails.com/civil.html
Not using a PHP framework for PHP does not imply that it must be all spaghetti. There are programmers who can write clear, structured, maintainable code in straight PHP.
Fascinating. This is propaganda war at a micro scale.
You're too kind
It would be silly to draw global conclusions based on one “test” that was setup for maximum effect on television.

I’ve lived in places with tap water that is definitely noticeable vs filtered/treated water. San Jose water for example is extremely hard and I suspect few people would mistake it for bottled.
If you want to actually look up your local results from the source of that article,

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
This reads like one of those ai generated stories...
We have tried to use both Google and Bing translate APIs to do real-time translation of tech support requests. An unacceptably large amount of time, naively using those services leads to hilarious results.

One of the big ones was that Outlook would often get translated into something equivalent to "worldview." When something like a quarter to one third of all requests are to reset an Outlook password, this makes the translation look really bad.

Another common mistranslation was "remote desktop" or "Can I remote into your machine?" The most common translations usually came out to the effect of "Can I use your TV remote?

It's certainly possible to train custom models on a corpus, and use them instead, but that requires quite a lot of effort and people that know the languages in question to verify.
The US isn't a 3rd world country.

Lebanon's biggest natural resource in a parched middle east is massive underground aquifers with some of the purest water around.

I can't speak to quality of the bottling process though.
My landlord used to accept paper checks only.

They he set up some form of electronic payment that took something like 1.5% of the amount paid; it seemed to be largely ignored because paying extra $20-30 feels like more expense than spend time to write and mail the check.

By now the landlord set up another electronic payment system that takes a fixed $2.99 fee for the transaction. I've never written him a paper check since then.

So, if you want to not walk to the bank with a wad of checks, find a payment provider with a right price.
He has never been a professor. And its certainly news for me that it is prohibited for males of highly regarded position to ask out females (which aren't dependent on them in professional or any other capacity and he's not doing it in a workplace or in other inappropriate environment).

> yes, those that are shouldn't be in that position of power and/or acclaim.

Why not? What's bad in asking a female student out? Is it some sort of crime for males to date females? Is it something only low-level males not occupying any positions allowed to do? It is bad if someone tries to use their power to coerce a female to a date, but if he just asks, and the female is not dependent on him in any way and is free to refuse if she doesn't find him attractive - what exactly is the problem here?
> we are seeing insurance carriers refuse to negotiate or offer rates greater than 125% of Medicare... fundamentally is acting as a wage-cap.

Sounds good to me.

Sorry I feel your pain but medical costs are out of control and you’re part of the problem.

Consult with your friends in the industry and figure out how to make billing reasonable and fair or it’s going to be imposed on you.
It likely already goes into a very low power state.
I'll throw my anecdotal experience in life thus far in the ring. I turned 30 this year and I haven't really ever experienced anything more than mild stress, and even that is fairly infrequent (once or twice a year at most, and always because there is something that a reasonable person would say is worth stressing over).

I have been this way my entire life and as far as I'm aware it didn't come about from some life experience, I think I was just born like this. My mother used to laugh that everything was "like water off a duck's back" to me.

All throughout school and University I never once was stressed about any piece of assessment or any exams. There were a few I was woefully unprepared for and knew I would likely fail, but it never really bothered me. It wasn't that I didn't care, I just never saw the point in worrying as worrying is never going to change anything.

My wife is the opposite. She stresses about everything, many things that are completely out of her control. I have learnt a lot about how to support someone in that frame of mind, even when I don't understand why they are stressed.

This does have downsides. Many people, especially in professional contexts, mistake my stress free and easygoing nature as laziness. I also have relatively low empathy, though I'm not sure if that's a side effect, cause, or completely unrelated.
Since you have chosen the SSPL in order to stop companies free riding off your work, you may want to also look at https://licensezero.com as another license option for this or other work you release.

“Open source” software and “free” software as concepts have become entangled to an unhealthy level. Burnout and software project sustainability issues are important to be aware of and manage if we want to have successful long term open source projects that aren’t just sponsored by large companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and so on.

So I’m glad you thought ahead and chose the SSPL, good luck and don’t let the haters get to you, at the end of the day it is “open source” and you’ll still be able to feed yourself!
Which we know for a fact it was, seeing as the data didn't happen and RMS is still alive.
I think the stoic/mystery "distant" persona works at first but if you want to foster and deeper connection between someone as an equal than you have to open up
It's been that way for many years so, no, the admins won't fix it. Try a HN app or custom CSS.
There has been disappointingly little success from all of Google X's many investment dollars. I think with the hundreds of managers, institutional knowledge and helpful infrastructure comes a bureaucracy that kills a lot of what it creates.
They aren't the only force in lawmaking.
> Considering that they, like you, think they're right, you can at least grant other human beings the same dignity you wish to receive.

I find it ironic to see this kind of shit peddled on Hacker News, containing the hive mind that will eat up anyone who disagrees on certain topics (such as anti-vax).
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spin it occasionally
>> Obviously this example doesn't really apply to the first part of your comment about "Grief economy", just the 2nd part about coupons + pricing.

> makes the whole system seem much more sensible

But doesn't it apply there too? Price discrimination has many forms, but a less pretty way of describing that one is the retailer creates non-monetary external costs and mixes them into offers, to discourage customers from simply switching to offers where less money changes hands.

Imagine instead of a "spend time clipping coupons rather than reading with your kids" proof-of-work, the retailer creates an offer which requires someone to degrade themselves, to crawl on the floor and beg, to obtain a low price. This happily permits the retailer to extend affordable service to the desperate, without more profitable customers thinking it worth switching offers! So... yay?

Issues include at least some created work functions not having inherent societal value (coupon clipping is perhaps more like bitcoin factorization than like ai-training captchas). And that created costs, and simply the customer categorization they are but one way to obtain, can have negative impacts on lives and society.

It seems economics conversations are often more explicit about value creation and flow, but less transparent about the creation of "negative value", where it ends up, and its effects. There's more involved with an avocado coupon than merely a pair of price discriminated avocado sales.
> To see the problem, let me use your exact words, but simply change the issue to one you presumably disagree with:

Wow, when you change a sentence from something that is happening to something that isn't happening, the meaning changes! What an amazing rhetorical device that is.
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21071051
Thanks for the reference and for your words of encouragement. Will check out licensezero and DM you if we have any questions.
My theory is that a lot of people read Zero to One, decided that spending more money than anyone else to build a monopoly is the best strategy (even if you work in an area with low barriers to energy), managed to find a VC fund with the same attitude (Softbank), and are now finding out that no amount of money helps you if you're selling dollar bills for $.50 over a series of years.
Honestly hunting for the URL is half the fun
Thanks for the example -- because this is exactly why I am glad we had systemd!

I do remember using the gentoo's rc system, and writing the script very much like you wrote here, and it always "kinda works". Specifically, how is "$initscript check" will work? I have seen three approaches:

- Sometimes, "check" searches for the process with the given name. That can fail if you are on multi-user system, and a user runs a server on non-standard port.

- Sometimes, "check" checks for .pid file, and that process with given pid exists. This can fail if you have high process churn, and your PID got reused.

- Sometimes, "check" does completely strange things. Like check that PID file exists, but not the contents -- so it would work fine if you use start/stop commands, but will not notice if the server crashes.

So yes, you can do it in shell, and it will work.. most of the time. And hey, you can always fix it -- the first time you discover that your server did not restart, you'd edit the script and add port checking... and then upgrade it to better kill runaway processes.. you can keep going and going.

In the end, I think it all brings you back to old pets vs cattle debate. If your server is manually provisioned, each process is carefully tuned, then shell scripts are for you.

If you just want to say "install something_d" and have things work, across thousands of systems, at the expense of uglier config and non-optimal file layout -- then more advanced inits are way better.
On the other hand, I sort of worry about anonymously crowd-sourcing reputation like this. Putting aside the notion of sex workers for a minute, suppose you ran a site where people could report bad drivers by their license plate numbers. (I believe such sites exist.) If someone doesn't like you, they go on and file fake reports about you, and now you can't get a delivery job (etc). There have already been issues with more public entities on sites like Yelp which have caused people to lose their entire livelihood, and now you want to bring that sort of thing to individuals?
As a group men are our own worse enemy. We aren't fearful of or controlled by women. It is other men that choose to align themselves closer to women's beliefs at the active detriment of healthy male attitudes and behaviours that force other men to fall in line.

Men aren't obligated or motivated to open up men only social groups until other men start to take issue with them (and usually for their own self interest).
>He did say that he thinks the idea that bottled water is a human right is “extreme”, and that he doesn’t believe it should be.

No, he is not saying bottled water. He is saying water plain and simple. Any water.

"That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution."

So, for him, having access to water (any water) is not a human right. If some people can not afford to pay for it, that's their problem, or the government's to find an alternative ("and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water").

And to respond to him: Yes, Human Right to water is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_right_to_water_and_sanit...
That’s definitely one advantage they have in the market, but it’s also related to your sales strategy. You’re looking for companies that have both the need for large-scale streaming customer and analytics data routing and transformation, no existing investment in Segment, and the ability to manage the on-prem IT and development load. While you can probably go after smaller and more agile fish with, e.g., recipes for common needs, this reads a lot like big enterprise transformation sales and support, so you might want to look at connecting with established players who are already selling in those markets — consulting orgs, analytic tools vendors, or software companies selling things like API-first e-comm, where you’re upending legacy stacks.
Back in the day, I used to play a MMO called Faldon, which was developed mostly by one developer. I'm still astonished by such projects being done by one person, since game development requires so many skills; MMOs takes this to the next level.
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