skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The period between late 2011 and 2014 was the driest in California history since record-keeping began"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California
Did the Mck guys handle any of the implementation? Because that sounds like the client took potentially valid recommendations and half-assed the implementation. Plus if the name ends with g, well, morale was already kinda low from what I heard from ex employees.
This is absolutely right on the money for autodidacts.

What surprises me is there are people who succeed at learning language in the classroom that work entirely opposite to this.
My insurer sent me letters about something like that. I assumed it was of no value, just something they do to look like they care. Kind of like the card they sent for discounts on non-prescription "health related" pharmacy products. Like the homepathic cold remedies.

I also assumed that they weren't deciding who could receive the services, just who would get the letters.

...and I also assumed they didn't have my race recorded anywhere now that I think of it.
Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself. That could be an interesting philosophical position to take, but I don’t think it contributes much to the discussion in this case. Perhaps I’m discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity.
> All of G's employees should move to an open office plan with non dedicated seats.

I've heard about this being discussed at one other large org. It sounds very concerning to me, is there any proven benefit to having non-dedicated seats?
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Agree but many of the issues at the top of the food chain are like solving Family Dysfunction. Dad is the problem. Dad doesn't listen to anyone. Dad pays the bills.
I think there is actually a guaranteed synthetic-geometry technique, where the main idea is to compare areas of regions. See e.g. http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/cientificos/Publicacoes/apresent... and http://argo.matf.bg.ac.rs/publications/2011/area.pdf. I vaguely remember hearing many years ago that the Chinese IMO team had been trained in applying something like this method, but I've no idea whether it was true then or whether anything like it is true now.
That confused me too. Internet Archive has earliest at 10/17/2019[1] and the page contains a link[2] to the Sudo team security alert on 10/14/2019.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191017233613/https://resources...
[2] https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html
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It's simple enough to explain in a page of pseudocode

More like a paragraph... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Wel...

Personally, I like LZ more than LZW because it doesn't have to slowly "build up" the dictionary in the same way as LZW nor need bit-I/O (because you can have an 8, 16, or 32-bit "indicator", followed by that many literal or length/distance pairs) and thus makes for an even simpler (and faster) algorithm. The only downside is that it's more asymmetric, in that compression is usually far slower than decompression (which can be faster than memcpy() - see http://www.oldskool.org/pc/lz4_8088 ) because the former has to do a lot of searching while the latter is mainly copying memory.
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Not only that, you can access onion sites using an ordinary browser via sites like tor2web. Using the Tor browser doesn't expose you to anything you otherwise weren't, it just makes you more anonymous.
I was only familiar with Keepass. What are the differences between all the different products? KeypassXC, KeepassX and Keepass?
My last house was a 1400sqft cape. Removal of 2 layers of shingles, building a cricket next to the chimney, new lead flashing around the chimney was $7k. I got quote from multiple contractors for roughly the same price. It really depends on the amount of roof.
Please don't take this as defending Mckinsey, but I think there was a good chance this is a decision that G wanted to take, and they just used Mckinsey as a blame sink.
I wonder if Adobe executives are aware of what kind of image their company has.

How long before Adobe reaches the Oracle stage of dickhead'ness where phasing out all their products can be found in large companies (non-public) strategy plans.
See, what it reminds me of is Knuth's bounty for errors.
Blackmailing a hitman might not be the best idea.
I can't really care less about those people. Most people I'm talking about are people who're contacting me because I already provided them quite a bit of free service via my free software.

So if someone can't be bothered to check so that I'm not wasting time responding to their trash folder, that's a good filter in the first place.

Anyway, better thing might be responding by adding a (F)AQ item publicly, and just sending a link.
I think the various builders and tools out there actually made the market bigger.
* Building various themes and designs and plugins for various platforms like Shopify and Squarespace and others are a major business, and can provide recurring revenue for an initial investment for a developer
* Those builders, no matter how sophisticated, require custom development to reach their potential. The opportunities for consulting are immense.
* A custom platform is and will always be superior than a mass produced one. There is always a market for custom work, and today more companies understand how this might benefit them.
Similar story. McKinsey was brought in to a company I was working with. Their purpose was to improve management efficiency and morale, which were both quite poor because the CEO had no actual industry experience and had brought his friends on as senior executives, who similarly had no idea what they were doing. McKinsey interviewed everyone for three months, literally reading questions from a playbook, had their junior staff write up some recommendations, and then promptly disappeared while effecting zero actual change. The company went bankrupt shortly thereafter.

This is why management consulting has such a bad reputation in the tech community. On the other hand, McKinsey does do a pretty decent job of research and case studies since they’re able to work with so many prominent companies.
You encourage her to be arrogant?

Arrogant is not a positive quality. Maybe you are looking for a different word?

Definition of arrogant
1: exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner
2: showing an offensive attitude of superiority
This is a good primer:

https://blog.conan.io/2019/09/02/Deterministic-builds-with-C...
I am not saying it's impossible. I'm doing that with hundreds of systems covering 5000+ developers/clients.

Fact is, it's a nightmware to handle. It just takes one client who can't or won't upgrade and it's blocked forever.
Keepass uses .NET, so is dependant on the mono framework etc on non-Windows.

KeepassX is no longer maintained.

KeepassXC is maintained and more featured, it's also not dependant on .NET.
True, but it's driven the method for output for a long time. If sh/bash exposed functions for objective output I'm sure a lot more utilities commonly in use would output in a similar methodology.
Keypass is written in C#, so requires a .NET runtime.

KeypassX is a rewrite in C++, using QT. KeypassXC is a fork of KeypassX, as KeypassX was felt to be unmaintained.
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Ah, yes, those peaceful and innocent indigenous people that didn’t kill each other, didn’t perform human sacrifices, didn’t commit infanticide, etc, until that Raging White Devil floated over in his boats and brought evil to the Garden of Eden.
It's just a HTML export, nothing particularly special.
Yep I have no issue with patents but in certain cases even 10 years is to much. Software industry can move fast at times.
Does Web Archive screenshoot all the webpages out-there every day?
If there is few days gap between each site screenshoot it might be the answer
Depending on your system, the properties of the app may have the version, without even opening the browser. I.e. ‘Get info’ in OSX, ‘Properties’ in Windows. Dunno about Linux, but in that case people are likely to use package managers instead anyway.
Wanted to share my first experience with the ops.city site. This is unsolicited, but I do hope it helps your team succeed:

I opened the 'Why' tab and found blurbs I wanted to see more about. For example, security through smaller code+attack surface sounds interesting, 'no ops' (didn't grok the bullets here, but I was interested to know more), and higher performance are all interesting

The bullets were interesting enough for me to want more, so I opened the video.

Unfortunately, the video was really vanilla and didn't expand on these concepts at all. It shows how easy ops.city is, but gives me nothing more on why it is better than ten other technologies that have similar 'easy intro' videos.

What I was hoping for was a 5-10 minute video focused on benefits of your approach vs alternatives. For example, some talk or demo on improved performance, data on how much code/attack surface is reduced, comments on OS/kernel memory footprint (this is a problem for us - clients like using 500MB "tiny" VMs on public clouds that hang running cadvisor), etc.

I could leave your site to answer these questions on my own. I did this and found some promising looking links over on the nanovm website. But that is an awkward experience - leaving your site to try and understand your offering.

Perhaps I'm not your target audience. For context, I do a minor amount of devops as part of delivering initial R&D products to multiple clients. We are not ops experts, but we try to deliver future proof work, which involves us staying apprised of new approaches and making them available to clients when they are a fit.
The proven benefit is cost reduction. You can reduce total desks and therefore office space required by estimating how many people are actually in the office on average and then having that many desks + communal working spaces and conference rooms. When I’ve seen the calculations done it’s normally at least a 10% desk count reduction.
It's funny the sample outputs sound like laundry machines. Have you tried other portions of the input space so far?
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Interspersing aspersions against those who have different priorities is rarely a good way to “discuss the merits” of the topic at hand.

“Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?”

“completely beyond reason”

I don’t care a great deal about the topic, but it offends me when people with a passion for technical materials are disparaged for their interest.
Was it a Mir store? Or is it People’s Publication office/bookstore? The book store/publishing house run by ICP? They are still around. They used to stock Progress Publication books too - USSR’s literary cousin of Mir (they’ve stopped stocking Mir now). I am not from Delhi but whenever I’d visit I’d go there to check out some translations, especially Hindi translations of Russian works. I still go - I was introduced to Russian literature in Hindi and I still crave for that. I bought Cossacks’s Hindi translation few months back.

PS. I bought my first IE Irodov in Delhi though. Sunday market.
Does this one have auto-saving of the key store after adding an entry?

I've lost a lot from KeepPassX by being spoiled by other auto-saving managers over the majority of this century.
Right now the best doc about the CLI would be the manpage I think https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/develop/sha...
When I was going through school, we spent a bunch of time specifically on communicating with the press and the public. I was always taught to be very careful about what you put into a press release as it's expected the press will take everything you say will be taken and used out of context. When you give an interview or are using a method of communication that could become public you stick to the facts on the press release or whatever official speaking points you have and leave it at that because the press will take everything you say and spin it out of context. This was in relation to disclosing data and information to the public about scientific findings but the premise is the same for other public communication.
Swinger?
> Clarified the amount of locales we support. It's 32

Wait a minute, does TB use a 5-bit number to enumerate the locales? You'd think that nowadays they would opt for something larger.
That would make for a nice article methinks.
In other words, this function should be deterministic?

(crime, mitigating_aggravating_factors) => punishment

I too would like to believe that's true, though I doubt it is.
I'd be willing to donate 50mL of Hibiki 17 for science...
> "According to legend, upon hearing of Colt's entrance into the lever-action rifle market, Winchester began to develop a prototype revolver to compete with Colt's market. A "gentleman's agreement" then followed between Colt and Winchester, with Colt agreeing to drop production of the Burgess and Winchester abandoning its plans to develop a revolver. The truth of this story has never been fully verified, and as such, the reason for the Burgess rifle's short production history is unknown.[1][4][5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt-Burgess_rifle
Jevons Paradox:

In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
With a 5,400 rpm, just the slow rotation can introduce a wait time of 11 ms. Seek time from moving the arm can incur up to 20 ms (although some of that might overlap with the rotation time). And if it's a ten year old HDD, there might be a re-read necessary.

Even if the average read time would be just 20ms per file, cutting out ten of these reads saves 0.2 seconds, which is already noticeable to humans. And that's under the unrealistic assumption that Firefox is the only program trying to read from that poor slow HDD.

On a sidenote, laptops with 5,400 RPM drives are still sold.
I think the trouble lies in the quantity of aged
whisky Japan is exporting. They did not have a lot of whisky production 25+ years and so it is simply not possible for them to be bottling this much whisky from 25 year old Japanese casks.

I hate to link to Bloomberg but this article is pretty good:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/that-expe...
I acknowledge that. But, as a 50+ year old, I used to have a paper newspaper subscription. I don't now. Some trends do pan out.
Totally. As Mourou puts it in the talk, "we are boiling the vacuum!" Going of the figures in the talk, it looks like he would be counting on ultrashort pulses that are well into the realm of relativistic optics, and possibly approaching the QCD regime.
No it hasn’t. The shell isn’t involved at all in program output. When a program writes to stdout it’s talking directly to the kernel, and the shell is suspended and not running.
> Which is an argument that lacks intellectual cohesiveness when you are simultaneously supporting the legal structure that removed such a situation from the average investor.

Not exactly. The courts are there to enforce the contracts, and protect against fraud. They are not there to protect people from making ignorant decisions and failing to do things like read the contracts they sign. They are not there to remove risk.

Some people say that free markets don't work unless there is perfect information on both sides. This is incorrect. Imperfect information is called risk and is always priced in. The overhang in stocks comes about because investing in the company is perceived as extremely risky.
Well, it would have been a huge waste to build houses to that standard here because they all would have had lead paint! Nobody knew that then, but still. I recently considered buying an old house and ended up with a post-1978 one so I don't have to worry about that.

Also, people mention again and again that people replace houses in Japan even more, and yet it doesn't seem to get the jingoistic juices flowing like criticizing the US.
The funniest related instance I've encountered was:

> at work with a 20 year old intern in the stock room

> clock on the wall above the door

> intern asks "Hey, do you know what time it is?"

> I look at the clock and say, "5:30pm"

> intern says "Thanks, my phone was dead"

I was in shock for the rest of the day a person less than a decade younger than me doesn't know how to read an analog clock.
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yea theres an option to save after every change
I'm toying with couple of ides:

- niche, saas, privacy first search engine (for developers, lawyers, any profession)

- paid search engine for quality websites only, such as hobby, personal blogs and non for profit in general, also company blogs can match that criteria, i.e. exclude websites with ads (like reddit), popups (medium, quora) and so on

- I feel like we have a place for one more "not evil" git hosting tool without telemetry :)

- email maid easy like all in one written from scratch on high level language like python, ruby, etc.

Maybe I'll do them all when I can sustain myself enough to work fulltime on side projects. Search engines are quite capital intensive though.

Also as many wrote here, you don't have to wait for one year, just start today with general planing, work on the business model, talk with customers, talk couple of agreements in advance to reach later when you'll have a product and so on.
> KeypassX was felt to be unmaintained

KeypassX was abandoned 3 years ago
That’s not what I said. Take down this fake article.
It's a reference to https://xkcd.com/149/ right?
AFAIK, that feature has been available for some time (I've been using it, and can confirm that it works flawlessly). You can find it under Tools -> Settings -> General -> File Management -> Automatically save after every change.
Xc does have that feature. Definitely a good thing
Telegram is barely e2e.
It sounds solvable in polynomial time. In all seriousness, cool idea!
Google clearly marks ads as ads. I believe the criticism was that search engines of the past would allow paid results to appear organic.

Has Google started doing this and I’m unaware?
> if English didn't have any imperative form, and instead everything were a request

INTERCAL statements all start with a "statement identifier"; in INTERCAL-72, this can be DO, PLEASE, or PLEASE DO, all of which mean the same to the program, but using one of these too heavily causes the program to be rejected
I haven’t made a single ad hominem here. The opinions I expressed were directed exclusively at the topic being discussed.
> The shell isn’t in charge of what data commands print out.

It could be if it captured stdout of processes it launches.

Of course, the program would have to output a structured format that the shell recognized to provide the shell the option to do what is described upthread, so legacy programs wouldn't fit in well with it unless the shell was programmed with how to extract structured data from their unstructured output.
Except news isn't religion. The fake news sources will have you believe that their lies are of equal stature as others' facts.

If you're talking about a central authority choosing what information people get to see, wouldn't that make Facebook and their algorithm the Church in this situation?
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Nice try with the witches/contemporary leftist pet causes switcharoo. The fallacy is strong with this one.
Which only moves the question back a step. Why, exactly, make reserved words, comments, tag attributes, etc., explicitly less readable than the rest of the painfully wispy text?

I find this font terrible on a readability basis to start with. The italics just double down on the hatred of eyes. I get a designer wanting to imitate a lot of currently popular san serif fonts (though not why they would make the font so skinny and less readable than those fonts), but coding fonts are meant to be comfortable and readable, not pretty.
Jokes on them, they already released my account details once
Sorry, that was a horrible typo for "Schwinger limit" that is now fixed. An explanation can be found at [1].

The limit comes from the following process: Thanks to quantum mechanics there is an uncertainty principle between position and momentum. Less known it the uncertainty between time and energy. (If you have studied classical mechanic you will recognize that the variable pairs are the same that you know from Noethers theorem [3].)This implies that nature can (and will) violate conservation of energy by an amount deltaE for a time deltat up to hbar/deltaE. One such process is the creation of a electron-positron pair out of vacuum. That violates energy conservation by about 1 MeV and you have to return the (virtual) particles within hbar/1MeV or approximately 6e-22 seconds. If however the electric field is sufficiently large that the particles get accelerated to an energy of 1 MeV within that time they get to stay. An electric field that can do that has a field strength of 1.3e18 V/m.

At that intensity the laser light does not simply propagate through vaccuum as predicted by Maxwells equations, but is producing a pair plasma and gets damped. The process is fairly well described by QED. We are currently trying to get laser up to that intensity and to make accurate measurements of this QED effect as it does not only work for electron-positron pairs, but arbitrary particle-antiparticle pairs. Experimental deviations from the QED predictions would therefore imply the existence of additional light particles (and antiparticle) that we have not found through other methods.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
I like what Schumer is trying to accomplish, but I don't think his plan will be necessary, at least for maybe a decade. Schumer is assuming that Americans are not going to want on their own to switch to EV's, and so they need financial incentives.

However, from all I read starting in another two or three years there is going to be an explosion of demand by consumers to buy EV's. This will be for a number of reasons, including governmental regulations, improving EV's, many more manufacturers selling many more different models, expanding charging networks, and perhaps most important, EV's will start to have sticker-price parity with ICE autos.

Demand will grow much faster than supply. One reason for this is that demand for li-ion batteries for electricity storage will be growing rapidly at the same time. As a consequence demand is going to outstrip supply for many years. It won't catch up until 2030 or later, and only then will it make sense to subsidize car swaps.
Well, putting in place authentication can indeed be difficult, but making the ELK nodes only accessible by a limited set of IPs (preferably private ones) instead of being directly public facing should reasonably be expected.
They're claiming that their tools allow you see the 'blackhat' links and disown them, and if you do that then there's no effect, so in the end (as long as you're putting in that work) the negative SEO campaign would be worthless.

I have no strong opinion whether that claim is true or not in practice, but that's what's being implied.
As Safaris usage is very low: likely not an issue.
Random interesting (to me) tangent - couldn't you find a recursive function that, at its limit, was a sine? Could any function be generated this way? And throw some variant of Kolmogorov complexity metric on this class of function-generating fractals and this becomes a neat mathematical area.
It is a path, but not the only path, or even the optimal one.