skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you lose your remote gig and have a mortgage, you could be in trouble. You can plan around this though.

I'm 34, with a wife and two kids. I'm at the stage of life where I feel like I've had enough of killing myself trying get a bigger paycheck and am focusing on reducing expenses and building long-term that doesn't require me to work every day.

While I certainly don't plan on doing it, my expenses are such now that I could keep all the bills paid working at McDonald's. I wouldn't be able to buy toys, stay on track for retirement, or maintain our overall lifestyle but it's a huge weight off my shoulders to know that I'm not dependent on maintaining a six-figure job to be able to keep the roof over my family's head.

> Remote work is harder than most think, you'll need to overhaul your habits / work environment

Agreed, 100%. This is still an evolving process for me. I have a great home office that's very nice. I started off working from there every day, but I've found that I was becoming increasingly easily distracted by family, "homeowner stuff", the fact that my gaming PC was sitting right there, etc. My solution to that is to physically get up and go somewhere else whenever I go more than fifteen minutes or so without being productive.

Since this spring, I spend the majority of my days in a hammock. This is an older pic from before I moved, but it's still representative of my mornings: https://imgur.com/9Pi8xaY

When I get too hot or distracted, I go to a diner. When I've been there too long or am distracted, I go somewhere else - a park, the town square, under a bridge, on the ridge above a business, to the library... you get the idea. I just move, reset, and start the process over.
Same experience in Oakland. It has never been easier to find Japanese whiskey. In fact all kinds of spirits have been having a renaissance around here; you can get anything from anywhere including many local spirits. That’s on top of the craft beer tidal wave.
What I meant is, even if democracy isn't perfect (see the Brexit case), a form of democracy maybe a better system in some situation than the dictatorship of one person.
Often, if confronted by captcha/reCaptcha, I will simply bounce. I'm tired of the degrading experience of being used -- for no compensation -- as a human robot to train Google's image recog. algorithms.

Even worse is when it gets used by a site that /already knows I'm a human/ -- because I've had to jump through KYC hoops or for similar reasons. It's reached the point where such abuse of my time by a site is strong cause for moving to a competitor (and there's /always/ a competitor!)

"As a Web Developer" please, PLEASE reconsider using Google's Invasion of Humanity Device.
Reminds me of the Wine doc called Red Obsession.
Author here. I like the Mongo query interface so I originally wrote some of the conversion code for my API framework called expressa. Then I created this project largely to see if it were possible. I'm not really sure how this will be useful. Migrating data should be relatively easy with Mongo's db.copyDatabase() since it thinks it's just copying from one Mongo to another.
This is just a bad idea. Better idea: unless you are rewriting your entire schema from scratch, you should be able to use database views, database triggers, extra/duplicated columns and tables as you make schema swaps.

Even with tools like Liquibase, the more functionality you put in the database (views, stored procedures, triggers, etc.) the harder it is to do deployments and rollbacks and keep the code and the database functionality in sync.
TLDR: It takes a really long time to make Whiskey. It recently became more popular and production is taking a long time to ramp up to meet the demand.

This results in price increases that reflect the increase in scarcity more than an increase in quality.

Followers of Rick and Morty and the McDonald's sauce debacle will be familiar with the concept.
I'm not a developer but I do work (mostly) remotely. That is, technically I'm in an office but most of the people I work with regularly are scattered around the country so it's not worth my time to go in very often.

I don't really depend on neighbors or other social circles to discuss technology. Indeed, it's about the last thing I want to gab about if I'm on a weekend hiking trip.

Fortunately, my job requires me to attend, speak at, etc. a lot of events which offers plenty of opportunity to interact with peers. For me, I'd probably start to feel out of touch if I didn't get out of the house in this way.
A $70 bottle of single malt is good for 4-6 serious drinking sessions (so: several weeks, especially if you're not just drinking single malt; my daily drink is VOB bourbon), and those sessions are approximately as enjoyable as a really good restaurant meal.

A big part is finding and trying cool stuff, but I'd guess every ~3rd bottle I buy is GlenDronach, so a big part of it is also just loving a couple things. Like: if I buy a dry-aged prime ribeye, it's expensive, but I'm not looking for something "new" (that would be worrisome) so much as something enjoyable and a bit scarce.

Important to keep in mind that it's not "alcohol", it's whiskey. It would be weird to spend this kind of effort on vodka or even gin.
> Kinesis is SQLStream underneath

That's the first I've heard of this. Any citations you can provide to substantiate this claim?

My understanding is that SQLStream is an event streaming processor, which would make it a potential Kafka consumer, not a basis for a durable message queue.
Yeah, that sounds fine to me.

This would be a reasonable objection if plastic straws were going to drastically change our impact on the environment. If we were a near zero-emission, zero-waste society, and plastic straws were the last thing holding us back from sustainability on a thousand-millions of years time frame, then maybe we should force the issue.

But until then, making life harder for disabled people in order to make a tiny dent at the edges of the pollution our society creates is not worth it.
With so much overlap in the functionality and use cases of Kafka and Kinesis, it's not clear why they increase their surface area by using both.

Is Kinesis' write latency better than it was? IIRC it wrote to 3 data centers synchronously, which led to some pretty bad performance. This was almost 2 years ago though.
1. Battle Royale (the Japanese film) is released in 2000.

2. DayZ kicks off the survival genre in ~2012.

3. A slew of DayZ mods happen. A dev on one mod, playerunknown, creates a Battle Royale inspired mod for DayZ in 2013.

4. In 2016 PU is hired as a consultant for the DayZ knockoff H1Z1 to make a Battle Royale mode.

5. PU is hired by Bluehole to make PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a Battle Royale game. Bluehole uses the Unreal 4 engine from Epic games.

6. PUBG is a hit in early 2017.

7. Epic games sees PUBG's success with their engine so they create a mod of their Unreal 4 building game "Fornite" that implements Battle Royale. It's released for free.

8. It's free, cartoony, and performs better than PUBG; this attracts the young youtube/twitch/etc crowd. Viral success happens.
They rebranded to Airbnb some time ago, just saying.
It does... You have 14 days to leave a public response to any review on your profile.
I've used the GH API extensively, and this is a common misconception. The default (no scope) allows you to access public repository info (source: https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/unders...).

This GH app, for instance, received similar feedback and its author removed the offending scopes without losing functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11261953
I understand exactly what you mean, and I used to have the same negative attitude towards "change detectors", but I have actually changed my mind about them and come to appreciate their value.

I suspect the root cause of your headache with them is that you hate to see tests break when you change your code, probably because you view fixing the test as costly and a distraction.

But I've come to see breaking "change detectors" as a source of comfort, sort of confirming what I expect my change to do.

What you need to get there is to make test "fixing" more agile and less costly. I do understand that in a large shared codebase, that is easier said than done, but on smaller projects that's easier to do.
It sounds like our lifestyles have a good deal of overlap. Interested in collaborating? I don't have the passion to make a series like this myself, but I could put together a few blog posts and contribute.
Except that the GPU they've got in their should have a retail price of $200-300. So there's a $400 markup for a PSU and usb hub.
Thanks, is there a strawman proposal out there for fixing this, or is it something for the distant future?
Grass just doesn't grow as well in East Asia as it does in much of Europe and North America. Something about the climate or soil type, I'm not sure. If you want pretty grass in Japan, you have to keep people off it. I suggest looking up at the beautiful trees instead.
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Of course. Personally it's the first time I've heard they're using that kind of language. I'm wondering if this is even legal in Europe.
It’s coming soon for iOS and web, too.
Yes, I used to visit often, but it has sadly degraded into a site for link promotion :(
*Surface Hub.

The Surface Pro is the tablet (and Surface Book is the laptop and Surface Laptop is the other laptop but it runs Windows S which is like Chrome OS but for Windows, and none of these should be confused with the original Surface touch table from Microsoft Research nor the Surface Studio.)

And yes, the Surface Hub is pretty good. I use it daily. It reduces the 5-10 minutes of wasted time getting Skype to work at the start of each meeting to ~1 minute. My only qualm is the sign in experience isn't as smooth as it should be, but that's the norm at Microsoft it seems.
I was amazed when I flew into Phoenix at night that so much of the desert was completely undeveloped. Like at night once you get outside the city it's just absolute blackness. It was so dark I thought we were over a lake or something.
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I've used VRBO and HomeAway before Airbnb existed, and I always had excellent experiences.

After my recent bad experience with Airbnb and reading this story, I'm going to give them another look.
I have a co-worker who is Chinese. He has his own set of stainless steel chopsticks. Could we not apply a similar logic to straws, i.e. buy and bring your own?

The straws they sell at head shops are a bit too short IMHO.

Designer straws, the official fad of 2019.
I really enjoy Nikka Coffey Grain. Distinctive flavor, and not especially expensive. As it should be -- Japanese whiskey was appealing because it was reasonably high quality, and cheap. There were lots of places in Japan where you could get a glass of Yamazaki for under $10, before all of the insanity. Oh well.

"One reason why whiskey enthusiasts hate this "best whiskey in the world" nonsense is that it instantly turns brands into collector items, which get hoarded for trade and resale value instead of consumed by people who actually like whiskey."

Yep. And it's not just whiskey. The attention of the internet is a good way to ruin just about anything. One day, you're enjoying your modestly good local diner, and the next there are Yelp elite waiting around the block for the same food.

(One could argue that the entire city of San Francisco is in the middle of the same phenomenon, but I digress.)
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I bought a bottle because I was curious after finding out how limited the supply is. I definitely prefer American ryes/bourbons like Bulleit or Woodford. It reminds me of Scotch, which I sometimes try to like but it never happens. Scotch is pretty awful to me.
So if straw bans are not about saving the environment, what are they really about?

Perhaps they reflect the relative power of the class that eats in restaurants that serve drinks in regular glasses vs those that gets their drinks in paper mugs with a straw?
Maybe there's an industry trade group that does marketing?
Maybe a typo for RISC-V? Still doesn't make a lot of sense though...
I assume you're talking about the general case rather than AirBnB specifically?

Tell people why they're being banned. There is no excuse not to.

I can imagine a B2C freemium product with a high rate of abuse where the non-paying users aren't given the appeal option. But if somebody is paying you, you should have a human driven appeals process.

There are certainly cases where customers aren't worth the support cost. Many years ago a SaaS I worked for cut out its entry level subscription because those customers represented most of the support load while also being a minority of the revenue.

If you are a monopoly or oligopoly... it might be worth considering what happened to the taxi industry when Uber came to the scene (even before UberX). Years of underwhelming service and zero product development translates to zero customer loyalty. Choice will arrive sooner or later.
It did not even start :/
Is this OSS?

> As part of our engineering process at Fauna, we have built a comprehensive suite of unit and property-based tests and as well as a sophisticated distributed testing framework that is capable of checking the behavior of FaunaDB in the presence of a wide combination of fault injections and operational changes, similar to Netflix’s Chaos Monkey.

What did you write your property testing framework in?
Because zoning is not national (thankfully!) in the United States, you should be able to do a lot at the local level.

I don't think you'll have to raise a lot of money to do this. Typically you really only need to have the desire to do it. Hardest part is probably convincing people to vote for you.
You are the first person I've ever heard complain about not being able to upgrade the wifi in their laptop.
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I've seen "mindfulness meditation" getting mentioned, and suggested, a couple of times on HN. I guess it's something I really should get around taking a look at.

Probably also a way more healthy and sustainable solution than trying to medicate the issue away.
Progressives believe that their ideas are universal and must be forced on everyone. They even believe that history itself is an inevitable march towards their ideals being realized. They happily destroy the lives of those who disagree with them (because "they deserved it" right?). That is supremacy. There is no way to sugarcoat it.
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Because when the fox has been in the henhouse this long, it’s a fox house, not a henhouse.
Or, it's neither of those things. Scott Adams is just being contrarian, as per usual.
Or HN could gain the ability to pin a mod note at the top of the comments.

"We changed the title from Aliens Ate Your Code to Problems with Managing Remote Contract Programmers."
It probably costs significantly more.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/...
Strange, I just came back from a trip to Japan and didn't really notice this. In fact I was surprised at how packed the parks were with families in tents on the grass. Maybe it is just Tokyo, since I didn't visit any parks there besides Ueno.
Low price.

Price can't be cheap, because "cheap" already means "available at low price".
The whole no-reasons-or-explanation thing particularly looks really bad, as we are free to speculate the worst possible petty reasons for lifetime bans. I can’t imagine the logic behind that - is it some kind of legal liability issue? Really sours me on the brand.
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It would not be trivial because npm/yarn don't just read package.json but also modify it. See numerous GitHub issues in either repo about supporting comments inside package.json.

Of course nothing is impossible, but I think that the ship has sailed. I was just dreaming of what could have been :-) Subtle details in NPM's behavior would've probably been designed differently if it was necessary to make updates to the package file without destroying layout and context.
> the CIA has shot down democratic regimes to enforce small-government-free-market policy in developing countries when these policies are rejected in polls

I haven't read the book but from another perspective it sounds like the CIA shot down democratic regimes in developing countries to enforce policies favorable towards U.S.-based internationally big, militarily market-intervening government that were rejected in the local polls. I wouldn't be surprised if there were extra-governmental industrial interests that benefited as well.
Isn't Github's algorithm itself based on user votes (stars)?
That other party is called Tiny Mind. Somewhat apropos I guess?
Isn't it more like "Love what you do" instead of "Do what you love" ? No matter how bad a job is, it is up to you to a certain extent as to what you make of it.
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Kinesis Analytics uses Kinesis Streams as a data source. They are not the same service.
Why not just sell a reusable that is the same size and put a sticker on it for writing?
It would have been nice if the GPU and active cooling were an upgradable module even if proprietary. There's a $400+ markup for what's effectively a USB hub and PSU.
so you have a distributed system that is handling eventual consistency at the app layer and it was a minor nuisance :)?
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Yeah that might be the reason I have never seen this. But whatever works for oneself is fine and worth to share.

There are quite nice deck ideas:

+ Facts about friends
+ Standard Library of your programming language
(https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3937203746)
+ Bird Voices
(https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2088996377)

More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/5ka1ny/what_have_you_...
Very nice!

I didn't see it on the image, but maybe it got cropped out. Did you give credit to the original author for the code/idea?
I wouldn't say it's obligatory, especially since the poster already was aware of not assuming gender by using "he/she" (though I know some people identify as neither of those). I do prefer singular they; it's very natural and yes, it's been around in English for a long time.
To paraphrase Lucy Kellaway, it's very silly to apply a term which until very recently has been used to describe deepest intimacy and suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross, to describe something most of us wouldn't do unless we were paid for it.
I didn't need a BBC article to tell me that coffee reduces mortality -- the odds of coworkers dying drops significantly after one has their first (or third) cup ;-)
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HP laptops are a huge exception to this rule. We commonly upgrade RAM and drives on our laptops.

One of the elitebooks I saw recently doesn't even need a screwdriver to open the laptop.
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It's surprisingly easy to add it as an optional drop-in, ex: https://github.com/EamonnMR/OpenLockstep/blob/master/data.py...
Thanks, I just read in his blog the post "beware the man of one study". Discussing if rising minimum wage hurts the economy give rise to 270 comments. I agree with the conclusion: Even if someone give you overwhelming evidence in favor of a certain point of view just wait and see if the opposite side has equally overwhelming evidence. My example: This coin came 7000 times heads so almost always gives head. Just wait and count how many times it came tails.
> The option is to buy it fully specced. A new 6-core i9 with 32 gigs of DDR4 amd 4TB of flash storage will probably keep you happy for the next 5 years. That means your budget is slightly above US$ 1200/year of happy computing with a Mac.

The problem is that not everyone has the budget to buy a fully-speced machine at the time of initial purchase. Also, many laptop vendors charge a significant premium to buy such configurations.

Apple partly solves this by simply not even selling the low-speced "base model" that other vendors would advertise. But still, buying low/mid-range now and upgrading later can be significantly more tolerable on the wallet than going-for-broke every major upgrade cycle.
> Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life

corollary that should be equally well-known: "because nobody is hiring in that field"
Maybe some residents benefit from gentrification, but it seems that gentrification actually speeds up housing prices.

Sources: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/real-estat...
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I’m at the point where I still greatly prefer MacOS, but Windows hardware.

Unless things have changed dramatically, my 2017 MBP will be my last when it’s time for a replacement. Hundreds of dollars in add-ons to make it functional and a terrible keyboard are too much to live with.
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4 -> local hackerspace (but like 1 whether or not city has this depends on your location)
5. You could buy a condo and then be responsible for repairs if you so wished (though this adds another point, sometimes you'll have to deal with e.g. upstairs neighbors toilet leaking)
6. Of course one of the biggest appeals of urban living for many would be not having to own a car