skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language we use at work (Delphi) changed its string type from ANSI to Unicode, and it took us less than a day to fix our ~500kloc code base, which does a _lot_ of string manipulations all over.

This was due to the hard work the people behind Delphi had put down to make the transition as smooth as possible.
> So women have a much harder time breaking into and progressing in the tech community, either systemically or even more explicitly through direct discrimination or abuse. WomenMake provides a valuable place for women to help each other through these issues that are specific to them, support each other in general and try to improve this imbalance. Men do not face these issues (although of course race, ethnicity etc are also issues, so many men face discrimination, but not because they are men, for other reasons).

At my previous company, women & URM applicants for tech roles were permitted two attempts to pass phone interviews while men were only allowed one. Men were only extended offers when teams needed a role to be filled, whereas women who passed the onsite are given offers regardless and new roles were created for them as necessary. Recruiters were also assigned specific percentage targets for recruiting women candidates (As of 2019 this target was 33%, when using the same criteria the industry average is 20%) and received larger recruitment bonuses for recruiting candidates of those demographics. We also had a set number of slots in our recruiting headcount reserved for women & URM hires. And we're not the only companies doing things like this. Intel tied bonuses to reaching diversity quotas [1], and Microsoft has also adopted the practice of discriminatory hiring incentives [2].

These blanket statements that men do not face discrimination when some of the largest tech companies have explicitly discriminatory polices targeting men is not indicative of an informed perspective.

1. https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2019/03/tie-bonu...

2. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508013/microsoft-pro-di...
Yeah, they did a good job covering the social issue around it; as most people do most of what we do sometimes; and the key word is always 'sometimes,' ADHD is a daily occurrence of high tide and low tide marks for attention and active effort; some days are easier than others but that isn't always setting the bar very high.

Like for me, depending on where I'm at in existence from day to day my therapist has said the 'H' portion of ADHD is minor for me, other times it's been a major contributor to issues; but I have to have a level of introspection to even catch when certain parts of my diagnosis are sitting at high tide or low tide...

Sometimes I can remember every detail of every interaction and task for weeks at a time, nearing eidedic memory; but most days I'll misplace a knife I was just using for butter.. and yesterday I forgot all the time I spent doing chores because I essentially was on auto-pilot, my wife thanked me, I said "for what?" high tide and low tide...

I'll hyperfocus on creating a task-list for a project I'm super excited about, and __usually__ forget the Trello board exists or misplace the papers or let the notes go through the wash or... high tide and low tide...

Some days I'll be able to fall asleep as soon as I lay down. Most days though I can't get my brain to shut up, taking notes to free up the brain space makes more room for something else to jump in, meditation/breathing exercises are momentary fixes that don't last long enough to allow sleep to come, a glass of water or bathroom break turns into an hour on reddit, etc and then suddenly it's 5am... high tide and low tide...
"WUHAN VIRUS / U.S. calls for Taiwan's inclusion in WHO amid epidemic threat" https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202001230004

Unnamed "senior American State Department official" appears in this CNA article, up to the reader to decided how to treat that (US ROC PRC relations are complicated) but the member of the French lower house of parliament on the committee for French/Taiwanese relations stands-by his statement: https://twitter.com/ebothorel/status/1220336327780110336
We have one of those fridges. We do not use tap water to feed it so the filter doesn't really filter anything. And yet, after 6 months of use the fridge starts blinking a red LED that the filter needs replacing.

We changed the filter once because we thought the filter might be defective... never again.
GE fridges also refuse to work unless the orange juice you put in it is GE Orange Juice (TM)
I fear there exists a class of product that seems like a great idea, but can only survive in a "big" acquisition, and that getting acquired is a poison-pill. Mint may be one of those. We have a regional clone of Mint called 22Seven that was acquired by Old Mutual (a big insurance company), which means I'm not going near them with my banking data.
Refactoring an App for K8S
General advice for mariedm - be prepared to ban quite a lot of accounts at their first offense, think about IP bans, email verification, banning proxies, etc.

If some of the various online communities of, um, hard to pick a term here that someone won't take offense to, but you probably know what sort of communities I'm talking about - if they take an interest in your site, you'll need heavy defense, and quick reactions, to avoid major disruption. Maybe all comments from newer accounts should go through moderation before being posted? Or have that as a switch that can be turned on when the attacks happen?

Good luck.
Can you explain how? That's why I asked the question. From my limited knowledge they both seem to be end-to-end encrypted chat.
To play the devils advocate here (and to be frank, i think people should be able to use compatible products), it's possible the manufacture is concerned that products they didn't make could cause an issue. I.e. filter is too restrictive and burns out the pump. Then the fridge comes in for warranty repair and there's no way of proving what caused the issue. From the perspective of the manufacture, i kind of get it, but i still think there has to be a better middle-ground than it stops providing a service.
Autosave only working when saving to your local OneDrive folder is infuriating.

As every HN reader knowns, there is no good technical reason for this. It's anti-competitive bullshit, pure and simple.
Obsolescence as a service.
If you have time, just enter much more slowly. Let your feet get cold then move up to your knees after the feet aren't so cold. Then nuts, then belly, then nips, then shoulders.

The real hurdle is when the water is high enough that my hands are in the water too. The whole time I'm slowly splashing and rubbing water over my body to prepare for submersion. I can tell which areas are still dry and upon their first exposure to water its slightly uncomfortable but well worth it. I get my hair wet with my hands as well.

Finally I get up to my neck and after awhile I feel like I'm in a nice cool pool. I don't wear a wetsuit.
I believe that's called empathy. Otherwise known as "walking a mile in someone else's shoes" and considered a healthy practice in society that might have prevent such systemic problems from developing in the first place.
They absolutely conflict - emotions are the driver of most human decisions and rationalization happens later. You can think of it from Neuroscience lens - The Neo Context part of the Brain fires later and takes longer to engage and is less powerful when compared to the Reptilian Brain. This was also explained in Daniel Kahneman work (System 1 vs System 2) Therefore, the key is to manage emotions as the article points out.
> From the perspective of decision making, what matters is the difference in expected value of different decisions that I make now, from T=0, not some time in the past that I can't affect.

That still depends on the type of decision and context.

If you are talking about "should I play video game or should I study" that is a type of decision where valuing individual effort is absolutely beneficial.

If you are talking about making a decision based on evaluating other people/companies based on their life outcomes, then awareness of the role of luck is absolutely beneficial. You need to look beyond the results and also evaluate the decision making and luck that went into obtaining those results.

It's not an either or sort of thing. When we over-estimate the role of decision making in producing outcomes, we end up with a worse model of the world that will lead to worse decision making.
I feel like they aren't even trying with the categorization.

Every payday, I get an email notification from Mint asking if I recently made a large purchase, in the amount of my paycheck.

Why even bother having a transaction categorization system, if it can't tell the difference between a deposit and a withdrawal?
No, this wasn't placed. Fast Company was already working on the article and just reached out to our CEO for comment.
I've trained a Transformer encoder-decoder model (this was slightly before GPT2 came out) to generate HN comments from titles. There is a demo running at https://hncynic.leod.org
You know, if the only thing you can say is to label the other side "fascist", you might be part of the problem...
So then why would they want the military to use it for internal discussion? If the govt is aware of a hole, then other nations might be aware of the same or a different issue.
John Deere is the company you have in mind.
Difficulty regulating emotions is a component of ADHD.

ADHD is a shortcoming of executive function, which manages near-term memory and keeps people "on task".

"I'm going to endure this unpleasantness for a better future" is a goal that requires executive function to hang on to – you have to continue grasping it with the part of your subconscious that ADHD undermines.

So you end up prone to a brand of nearsighted emotional hedonism because it's difficult to keep track of the "why"s that motivate long term management of emotions. It's basically time blindness.

In other words, keeping your cool, keeping your word, and keeping your car keys are all "keep doing X", and ADHD will kneecap all of those in equal measure.

A second component – and this is just anecdotal – is that ADHD makes the emotional component of procrastination worse. You drop tasks more often, and if you've got any self awareness at all, you'll notice that. Of course you feel a little bad about it. Now noticing dropped tasks makes you feel a bit worse. But your ADHD means dropping more threads, so you feel more badly more often. The pit of emotional misregulation surrounding procrastination gets steeper, faster, for someone with ADHD, because there's a compounding fit where you're twice as likely to take blows to your productivity, and half as able to recover.
> There are clearly some things that are economically viable as a criminal enterprise, but I don't think tracking people for ad targeting purposes is one of those things.

True, most illicit ads tend to be non-targeted. But some criminals do things like blackmail, fraud, espionage, etc. using tracking data.

> Moving to a different jurisdiction is impossible as your customers (the advertisers) and the sites/apps where ads are placed would still be breaking the law.

That all depends on the specific business model, business partners, and their presence. Regardless, what I describe is not conjecture, many companies are shuffling around data to avoid GDPR rather than comply.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/facebook-...

A different company without a physical presence or business partner in the jurisdiction in question, might have little to no incentive to follow the law.

In the end, even if companies are breaking the law, or even if they are fined, your data won't be protected unless they actually change their behavior as a result. Calculated non-compliance is a commonplace strategy for corporate legal compliance.
winner-mode was new to me. Thanks! The most annoying thing about Emacs for me is random windows popping up; I'm a "separate frames" person (the OS window manager does fine for me, I don't need much help from Emacs), and anything that streamlines windows is great.
Part of that may have been the times. That project started construction back in 2011 which means it was in planning for a while before that. The cloud vs on-premises debate was at a different state back then iirc.

Also it's for NSA's questionably legal spying on US citizens vs the more standard legality of DoD's work.
I had a fairly large config and kept running into problems with speed. I gave up late last year and tried doom and haven't looked back. Very fast compared to what I had hobbled together.
That's what my girlfriend and I have done for the last seven years. You have to agree on what's a "joint" expense, but provided you work that out, it's a very simple way of handling shared finances.
This is the end result of post-modern, late stage capitalism. It will get a whole lot worse before it gets better. What we're seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://external-preview.redd.it/qRggs-k588dZAM2uBK3FH4xOih9...
A resounding YES! But Org-Mode and TRAMP are so well written about that although I have "special" setup for these in my config I felt I could not do more justice than other expert write-ups. Maybe, I should add them in a separate entry.
DARPA literally invented the Internet for this kind of use case and now they can't even write their own secure messaging app?
Businesses use that principal when buying equipment, then use it to build stuff that violates it.
Mortals. LOL!
That technique leaves quite a lot of evidence around.

Not only do you need every voter you buy the vote from to never speak up about it, but you also need to somehow hide all the mailing of absentee ballots, hide where you mail them back from, and your money needs to be clean and untraceable to yourself. AND all of that needs to happen right around election time.

But hacking an electronic machine can be done by a few people making changes to a warehouse of voting machines by impersonating a janitor 2 years before the election. And that's not hypothetical, 100% of voting machines that have been in the hands of hackers have been exploited to change votes. I myself used to sneak into the room where they kept the voting machines in my high school when I was younger.

"online" voting is even easier to hack. You could attack the users by buying a botnet and have it submit or change the votes on the client machines before they cast them, you could attack the servers via things like evil maid attacks on the server hardware, "normal" exploits on their software to gain access to the systems, even just paying the sysadmin that maintains it a few hundred million dollars to look the other way for a few days.
This is an excellent book. Also consider Behavioral Activation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_activation), which is a somewhat competing theory that essentially says that doing is what really matters and that what you're thinking is much less important.

Just getting yourself to do things might be the key. Easier said than done, of course, and it's almost just a restatement of the procrastination problem.
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> Which seems reasonable to me?

It doesn't seem reasonable to me at all, honestly. What sort of damage could a water filter do that would cost them so much?

This looks purely like a move to take their customers for all they're worth.
Risk Compensation has its worst effects when the prior risk itself is concealed by the technology. IIRC anti-lock braking doesn't drive up accident rates for those who grew up with it (all cars they drive have ABS, that's just how cars work as far as they're concerned) but it did for those for whom it just made loss of control mysteriously vanish in their new car. They would think "I guess I'm just good at driving" and engage in behaviour which the car was now compensating for with ABS, not realising that this mean they were outside the safe performance envelope.

AEB deliberately is a scary experience to prevent this mistake. If your car's AEB triggers you'll be suddenly and violently brought to a complete halt in order that the feeling is "Oh shit, I fucked up, is everybody OK?" not "Wow I'm a great driver".

With a beacon the experience is likewise not great. It's not "Activate beacon, rescuers magically teleport in and save the day". There's zero real feedback, so most people will be worried that it hasn't been effective, nobody is coming. After an hour, or two, or more, rescuers may show up looking for you. That's a long time to be lost or injured in the middle of nowhere.
$35 a month these days on AWS
Without therapy and proven to work: contact with nature, physical exercise. Both can be combined ;)
In my experience, the double standard usually goes the other way.

Many of the liberal arts electives I could choose from (as a physics major) were foundational requirements in that major. For example, in a literature class I took, the instructor was surprised many of us had not also taken Literary Criticism 101.

On the other hand, an English major friend of mine was able to take a physics course nicknamed "Physics for Poets", where rounding g to 10m/s/s was acceptable.
"Love the fact that it is a paid app, so my data will not be monetized as a revenue model."

They say no ads. They don't say they won't sell your data.
I think there's an important distinction between hyperactive thought and hyperactive outward activity. Most people associate ADHD with the latter when it's really more about the former, as this essay describes well.
I think "more is less" is more accurate. These days, my list of antifeatures is more of a consideration than desired features when shopping for an appliance.

My TV has a terrible display but doesn't know how to connect to the internet, for example.
MIRVs had been around since the 1960s, and were probably a response to the first gen ABM systems, which were to light off a giant nuke in the path of incoming missiles. I think SDI really did freak out the Soviets; the Russians are still mad every time we field a new kind of ABM, and have been developing numerous obvious countermeasures to them, like "use something that isn't a standard ballistic missile." It's all so tiresome. Everyone should stop.

Of course SDI looked plausible like you said, and ultimately did materialize various ABM systems. This stuff is just insane gorp. Dr Pais has a history of this sort of thing; a quick look at his patent trail on google scholar nets nonsense like "laser augmented jet engines"[1] which are obvious nonsense.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7080504B2/en
Coke is such a wildly wasteful company. So now not only are they introducing RFID plastic waste but also additional paper cups people are going to buy.

Another example of their ridiculous wastefulness is integrating OLEDs into the wrappers of their plastic bottles to market Star Wars: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/06/star-wars-coca-cola-oled...
Don't just look at the Stranger. They are fully capable of making some bad, bad recommendations, often for very petty reasons.
A simple Processing based projection mapping VJ software
Thanks, I hadn't seen that latter comment until you posted the link. That was very helpful.

I can't tell if your question to me was rhetorical, but I'll try to answer it just in case you're interested. (Apologies that it's long-winded, I couldn't find a way to make it brief.)

The comment you linked to includes this: "Would you rather hang out in a community where everyone fundamentally understands the challenges you face daily, or one where you have to explain the basic premise of your daily challenges when you initiate a conversation about them? (Or rather, would you prefer to hang out in both, or just the latter, since it's not really an either/or.)"

I understand the appeal of working in a team where, on an interpersonal level, I can easily and naturally relate to every one of my teammates. And it sounds like that's the vibe you're going for, IIUC.

When I'm leading a team in the tech industry, part of my job is to remove obstacles to the team's happiness and productivity. The kind of homogeneity mentioned above would undoubtedly prevent some of the problems that can arise in a diverse team. But my job is to make find ways to make a heterogeneous team happy and productive; turning it into a homogenous team (e.g. all members being the same sex) isn't an option that I have (or want).

So I'm hoping to understand, in as much detail as you're interested in sharing, what the factors are that make you more comfortable doing maker work with women than with men. Because perhaps that knowledge would help me create a better work environment for everyone on my teams.
The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter
Those who grow in strength are able to do so by receiving the support of others. It's a causal relationship.

The myth is that we arrive at strength through overcoming the need for support, having grown our metaphorical muscles through force of will. Many have it as a goal, in fact. They think that the measure of strength is the ability to function without external help of some kind and to indulge in the fantasy that it is their unique individual application of their mindset that is the source of that strength.

This illusion is actually quite easy to penetrate by looking at our biology. Our body grows and heals to the degree it perceives it has external support. There's a built-in biological feedback system that requires these external inputs for our bodies to function to the peak of our abilities. At it most extreme it can be seen in babies. If they are deprived of touch and attention, their brain development stunts, they don't grow as healthy. It has a lasting effect through life. People think that reliance only is required at these more vulnerable phases of life, but not, say, as we become adults. But that's a fairy tale, our physiology continues to respond positively to cues of support, growing in strength when in receipt of support through all stages of life, On the other hand it declines in the face of lack of support. The effects are large and predictable, we are social creatures and our physiology is setup that way, we don't have a choice over it. The concept of self-reliance tries to tell a story that defies and in a sense denigrates our basic nature.

Rather than questing for self-reliance to indulge in the fantasy of independence, it is far more empowering, to me at least, to live in the knowledge that as individuals we have the ability to make others stronger.
If your fridge were really smart it would infer both your household’s disposable income and technical acumen based on its location and overheard conversations then tailor prices, failures, and replacement policies accordingly.
You really need an /s on this one
Late merges are optimal, and the fact that so many people disagree with this practice (or take it as a personal affront) is one of several gross failures of US driver education programs.

However, yes, complicated roundabouts that require perfect knowledge of what lane you need in order to take an exit you can't see in advance do suck. If you find yourself installing a roundabout with more than one lane, you probably should be installing a traffic light instead.
I'm super interested in this solution, can you expand a bit on your motivations and help me better understand the problem?

I see a lot of times, people export to Excel to do their own analysis. I think there is something about doing it "my way" that helps me connect with the data, whether it's budgeting or (my current project) fantasy sports.

Specifically, what value do you get from exporting and creating your own graphs? How much time do you spend / how frustrating is it to have to export and build the graphs?
It's hard to compare Tokyo to other places -- it's a global mega city that is only comparable to a handfull of other global cities like LA, London, HK, or Moscow.