skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say at least people feel free to take time off for mental health reasons. I worked in the US, and I think people don’t think of stress and mental health as legitimate reasons to miss work. They still take time off for those reasons, but much later when they start to manifest themselves in more physical ways.
From the parts I can see in Knative-land, it's being given a lot of thought. My view is that the biggest improvement to be made is in smarter handling of raw bits. Kubernetes doesn't quite understand disk locality yet and most docker images are less-than-ideally constructed in any case.
In WatermelonDB's case, I bet most people will run it using React Native (ie mobile apps for iOS and Android), so that wouldn't really be an issue.

On the other hand, sql.js (https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/) packs to about 2,6MB (see http://kripken.github.io/sql.js/js/worker.sql.js). I don't know about performance under heavy use of that. I don't know what SQLite backend WatermelonDB uses from ReactJS either.
I hate to say it but you're exhibiting bias in your post. How much time did you actually spend looking? What search terms did you use? While I'll agree that md looks easy at first, troff isn't much more difficult if you put the time into it (humans are lazy, I get it). Here's one I found in under a minute by searching for 'how to write linux man page using troff':

https://liw.fi/manpages/

and of course the official manual which has a nice command table in the beginning:

https://www.troff.org/54.pdf

Also of note: troff supports macros so the man page formatting won't be found in the troff manual because they are part of the man macro package.
> ghost people

Classics. https://www.quora.com/How-exactly-does-the-scam-in-Nikolai-G...
There's a professor in there too who verified it. Putting the patch out is going to see reporters being jailed and the story being buried. Especially when with the patch we will see 4chan like flaming and the database being filled up with bogus entries from all around the world.
This is an argument for buildpacks, isn't it?

Disclosure: I am currently working on buildpacks again.
I need you to show your work on that one, guy.
That problem has already been solved.

My C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, .NET code doesn't care which OS it runs on, and the parts that do are very small modules.
Volvo is rolling out a service where you can get stuff delivered into the trunk of your car.
The Corbett-Fizsimmons Fight
I fail to see how that is any different from minified JS.
You are arguing with yourself and haven't looked into how Troy's API service works. Worth reading: https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
So tue, the last mile really sucks with a lot of carriers. Here in Germany DHL used to be the Gold Standard for some time. But with ever increasing volumes it also became a pain, at least for Amazon deliveries. For others they are now offering things like selecting preferred delivery Dates while the package is still in transit.

Lockers are a great solution, the only thing better is having an employer that allows private packages to be shipped there.

I'm still not convinced that the Amazon logistics solution, leaving parcels at the door step of customers regardless, is such a good idea so.
I'm not sure what other commenters are talking about, but the vast majority of open source is developed by programmers in isolation and the only collaborative tools used are some kind of VCS like git and some kind of "forge" like GitHub.
complete absence of criminal responsibility that's inexcusable

This is what gets me- and they were even given relative anonymity in the press so they could duck some social repercussions of their horrid behavior. I want Brad Pitt to carve a dollar sign on their foreheads.

tithing part of our work to reimburse their losses

I'm stealing this.
My anecdotal experience having applied for a mortgage during these crazy times (pre-2007) was that I could have put any lie on my application about my income and it would have been approved. While I took out what I thought was a "reasonable" mortgage, I could have gotten one 2x bigger without much trouble.

So, I agree with your point, not everyone was "doing the right thing".
I really dislike websites that prevent the use of password managers by disabling the ability to paste. Recently[0], I discovered that you can stop websites from doing this in Firefox by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false. This has already improved my quality of life slightly.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769
A couple (bad) examples I can think of:

* you leave the password in the clipboard, and another website copies it (used to be a thing, I think it's patched now)

* same case, but now a coworker comes to your unattended PC and retrieves the password by pasting it somewhere

* allowing pasting would undermine the idea that you should never write your password down, and lead to a proliferation of files called "passwords.txt" on everybody's desktops

None of this arguments is really good, but I can believe that they would be the result of a world without widespread password managers (also known as "the 90s") and tradition.
> he’s begun to create a road map for other families facing rare diseases — as much as 10 percent of the population, or 30 million Americans.

10% of our families are effected by "rare" diseases.

September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month: 100% of Pediatric Cancer is classified as "rare." It is used to give so little in research and most money is used to help the families financially. 4% of the US Cancer Grant is allocated to Pediatric Cancer research.

Lost a sister at 15 to brain cancer and a son at 12 to bone cancer. The worst thing to do is to call it rare. How many thousands didn't start school this year? How many thousands of families have lost
> so they (C macros) are pointless except for a few trivial things

Oh, believe me, they are NOT.
That sounds like spaghetti to me. And I also understand the total run time of each function call to be limited, typically. So that means no long overnight jobs, which is a big cron/Jenkins use case.
Yeah, saying Amazon does not have a .se (or .pt in my case) website is disingenuous. I can buy stuff from amazon.es easily, and have free shipping on orders over €20. It will automatically apply the Portuguese VAT as well, so I usually pay a bit more for stuff sold by Amazon than the initially marked price obv.
> you can't deep throat a shotgun because you have a kid to support?

That last part really got to me. What country are you in? USA?

Regardless of whether or not you have a child to support your situation is serious and you should contact a mental healthcare professional, these sort of things do not typically go away because of pressure of having children to support, they get worse because of them.

I would caution against going with any HN advice over and beyond: find a professional.

Best of luck.
I'm diagnosed BP2 (kind of BP-NOS really but that's what it sas on my chart) and have been taking medication for... I think it's 12 years now.

Meds take time to work. Weeks to even make you feel different, months to stabilize, years to "fix" you.

I have something of a cyclic regularity to my episodes (although what I have hasn't been clear cut episodes for a few years now) and I can see it getting better year after year.

So if you're not in a consistent regime of daily medications right now, you need to find one. The way out is through.

(Finally: maybe you can get disability welfsre where you live.)
This is what happens when you try to negotiate with these left-wing facists. When you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. The whole "I'm offended" culture is causing this and will never stop until they reach their dream Orwellian society where everything is forbidden, everything is offensive and nothing is ok anymore.

Enjoy!
The First Notebook Wars
Throwing the bad guys in jail would have spurred even more confidence in the market. The same guys are still in charge.
Is D2 so different as to be considered a separate language? (I haven't really followed it for years now.)
Improving Point-Lookup Using Data Block Hash Index
The whole point of the system is to give a single confirmed Identity for citizens of India.

at this point the purpose of the exercise has been voided.

Saying that "the data has not been compromised" is a red herring, thats the case for when our biomterics are lost and our privacy breached which is a whole different issue with this database, one among many of its other problems.

At this point if the data is crud, whats the point of using this system?
Yes - they had some issues delivering packages on time before, then they were basically flooded by a tidal wave of cheap direct import trinkets from China. China somehow has free postage to the rest of the world and eventually people caught on.
> This is entirely fine..

... until it doesn't. Any update on did this HIBP 'feature' made it into Firefox?
A no-bailout crash would have hurt the 99% even more.

We all can kumbayaa about how the Fed enriched the asset holders, and how unfair that is, but they did what they were able to, while Congress did nothing. (The Obama stimulus was too small, and no reform followed, the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was a mere correction of something that should have been there all along.)

The mountain of debt imploded in 2008, and since then financial regulation is very much systemic stress test based. The next crisis will be at least different. Bankers can just sit back, relax, and watch as the world burns around them.
Just revisited this. There should be topics and time.

How that time gets used is really driven by students. They get there, or they do not.

And, doing all this is expensive human time. They really want, need and should get there.

One thing I get to do, as my role is rarely formal education, is prepare 200 percent topic agendas. Prep as if I have Feynmans in the room. Look out! Here they come. :D

(And I am always hoping, because when that happens I myself am definitely going to learn something. Often pain in the ass learning, but it keeps my blood pumping, leaving nothing but getting after my own understanding.)

Then, assign priorities.

Basics get done no matter what. I do not want fails. Just quietly drop extras.

From there, I am highly likely to be golden. Usually, someone asks something new. Good. I got the prep done solid, so I research that one, add to the library of stuff I have ready.

Then, I coach them, they tackle stuff, wash, rinse repeat. I will, depending on material, also show a solution or few, again depending. Discuss, on to the next.

Over time, I get super good at whatever it is, and students can generally max out, getting all they can.

When I can, I set a chunk of the time aside as open time. People can fill a gap with that. Or explore, seek. Whatever. I am there to assist and challenge as they need.

This is a challenging way to do the work, but it works well. Often, I am doing this for people who just took jobs, or who have some requirement. Fails are painful. That is why I do it this way.

Just some context for my comments above.

There is a bonus. Once I have prepped and delivered a few times, I can often do the course by rote. My own mastery ends up solid, and I've got a ton of context, accumulated one student at a time, to work from when identifying where people new to me are, and what they are likely to need. Those go into the chalk talk, which almost always has custom bits tuned for the group at hand.

And that is tools, not solutions. They do that, picking up the reference material, exercizes, and the bits from the coaching talk.

Competency tends to come reasonably quickly. Then we do fun stuff, entertain any seeking, special needs, wants as time allows.
The only thing there that sounds like a misconfiguration is whatever is dropping ICMP frag needed messages, and that is a misconfiguration no matter what.

My point is that no matter what MSS you send, that's never what's at fault for PMTU problems, that's not what MSS is for nor could it possibly do the job in all cases, whereas correct delivery and processing of frag needed/packet too big will always work.
Especially having to go around "curing" scrofula by the laying on of hands [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_touch
There is no security benefit to forbidding pasting. https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

Why do people do it? The same reason people believe /dev/random provides security benefits.

It's important to ignore the correct things. (But it's often hard to figure out what to ignore.)
>22 year old children

Big parts of the tech industry has an ugly ageism problem, as you have witnessed first-hand. So why do you help perpetuate it?
The Swedish Bank ID also disallows copy/paste of passwords. When I contacted the company that builds the solution I got more or less the same response, "it is safer for normal users" which I didn't really understand. Highly annoying.
Everybody gets their propaganda from different places but I'm pretty sure the European political upheaval was caused by the Syrian refugee crisis not the welfare system.
Different goals.

Chapel is a strongly typed language designed from the ground up to replace C++ and Fortran for HPC programming in cluster environments, while removing the typical unsafe features from C and C++.

Initially designed by Cray, Intel has also given an helping hand.

My experience is only from language geek point of view, reading the papers.

Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop 2018 papers

https://chapel-lang.org/CHIUW2018.html
Show HN: Tigon – a parser tool
I completely agree with you, I just didn't want to trigger any socialists into a flamewar.
“cannot talk to GitHub” – Issue #63 – niemeyer/gopkg
I love the clojure community efforts, but clojure.spec is so confusing and bloat-y to me. :(
It reminds me of Frama-C and specification of C programs, which isn't exactly what I would want to do all the time to have some safety guarantees on my program. I feel that a strong type system would provide way more benefits.
Sounds like your problem is not the older gentleman with bad knees, its actually your company is more interested in skiing, zip lining, and drinking than it is in getting work done.

Work is for work, right?

If you create a "work culture" that defacto excludes protected class(es) (intentionally or not) without a legitimate business justification, you're breaking the law in the US. Sounds like this is what is happening, in this case the protected classes are age > 40 and disability status. You should take a break from the "canyoneering" and work on compliance.

It's also just bad business to limit yourself to hiring such a small subset of the population - people who are young, single, and bored enough to spend all their free time doing company activities.
This was interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_...
The alt-right are ficking Nazis. Say it with me: Nazis are bad.

Sorry if that hurts their feelings.
Tesco offers similar service - shop online, drive up to the mall, get groceries deposited directly to your car's trunk. Haven't tried it yet.
but wood burns so much more dirtier than coal, and leaves much more uncombusted remains that then have to clean.

The problem is energy (or lack thereof) - and so why not solve it directly by adding ever larger sources of renewables, which eventually will becomes enough that there's no need to burn any fossil fuels!
We can bury it until it becomes oil again.
For comparison. A ton of CO2 is roughly the equivalent of a London-NYC roundtrip in the economy class.
https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=3
Doesn’t a forest tie up the carbon in live trees? A mature forest will be more or less carbon neural but a certain amount of carbon won’t be available to the atmosphere.
How does WatermelonDB compare to Realm?
and wood doesn't make for a building material that can go higher than a few stories.
I did a basic test Rust program: load to strings certain files in a zip file. The first file in the archive happened to be UTF-16 instead of UFT-8 so a vanilla read_to_string for the file in the archive did not do the trick. I googled a bit and it seemed that, in order to be efficient, had to be done with unsafe code. Maybe I was very unlucky, but I was surprised that 5 minutes after trying rust for the very first time I had to use unsafe code.
Meanwhile, in Italy...

https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-poste-italiane-amazon/...
There's got to be something that grows faster, and is easier to sequestrate, than trees. Bamboo, maybe? Seaweed? Algae? Dry it off in salt pans and dump it in the deep, cold ocean?

That's just dumping more carbon into one of our natural sinks, I think, rather than trying to create a new artificial sink. Even just using it as fertilizer has got to be an improvement over using inorganic fertilizers.
>Corporate will not configure anything unless it costs them millions.

Of course they will if it has a purpose. Not everything is driven by money as you suggest. Besides: corporates have internal resolvers anyway.

>Same for Mobile (which breaks frequently but thank you very much)

No. If it does, complain to your ISP. There is no reason why an outgoing port should be blocked.

>and same for wireless networks.

They will update too.

>Nobody will update their machines that haven't been updated since the 90s because your protocol needs a new port to be freely accessible. Nobody will thusly adopt it and in turns nobody will update their machines.

Dangerous assumption. Opening a port does not need an update. It's TCP, the same protocol as http on port 80 or 443.

This is a minority problem. Networks do work.
For your own sake, follow a diet of attention-seeking material, such as hacker News, Reddit, Facebook, email, video games. Delete all apps on your phone.
With the time saved, exercise. Running is a good option. Or if you can't , go on a walk in a quiet forest/park.

Professionally. Review your CV. Starting several businesses and selling them is amazing. That's unique experience you can sell on the market. For example, you could work for a tech/business incubator as one of the managers.
No bankrupt in 2034, just unable to meet 100% of current obligations: https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-funded-until-2034-and-a...
Would it be possible to hack together a usable manual tagging system via the API? I don't mean the automatic face tagging, or built-in tagging functionality (I assume Google Photos doesn't have it). I mean would it be possible to use the API to insert keywords into the description fields and reliably search the description fields
> After the crisis, the government starts selling their shares, getting at least part of the money back.

Wasn't TARP repaid?
Wood used in construction seems to degrade very slowly. I've lived in houses whose the floor alone was a couple hundred years old.
And you can add it to soil where it works wonderfully at increasing biomass, reducing water runoff and increasing the number and variety of microorganisms in the soil, sequestering more carbon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
Right. Important distinction.
I think all these comments about wood eventually releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere are missing the point. We don't need to capture it forever, we just need to get the ratio between carbon output and input under control in the next couple of decades. That should give us enough time to come up with longer term and sustainable ways of our planet... until we encounter the next problem, and so on.

"Solutions" don't have to be perfect forever. They just need to work long enough till better solutions are discovered.
WASM has (will have) exactly the same capabilities as JS (including asm.js that already has DOM access) has.
Definitely not a time-saving measure. The time limiting factor is the actual getting-on-the-plane-and-putting-your-carryon-away-and-getting-out-of-the-aisle part. Often I get my boarding pass scanned and go stand in line on the gangway.

In fact a mathematical algorithm was developed for loading faster[1] but I'm not sure anybody tried that yet.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2008-02-board-plane.html
"When you owe the bank $100, they own you. When you owe the bank $100M, you own them."
someone tell Apple

I have to do a tedious manual export and upload to get photos from Apple Photos desktop app to Google Photos cloud

(and I don't want a sync app that uploads everything)
The IP blacklisting section seems fragile to me. What about IPv6 or multiple A records?

I would rather let the OS connect the way it prefers and once it is connected, check that the remote is a legit IP address before sending anything.
Great idea. One thing that I have noticed, demo does not work. Take a look :)
I have heard the argument that regular users often believe that copying and pasting passwords makes them immune to keylogging, so allowing that will cause some of them to keep a copy of their password on a plaintext file on their desktop where otherwise they would just type from memory.

Not sure if that's what banks are thinking about.
While true, it’s a bit of a blunt force solution as it prevents all clipboard events (e.g. no ‘click here to copy’ anymore).

That may be a reasonable compromise for some, but I’ve seen some weird broken behaviour as a result of people using this FF toggle.
Well, according to Energy and Civilization forest stores an average of 1 watt per square meter in burnable wood. Wood burning is pretty carbon intensive as energy goes so I imagine that each square meter of forest, if the fallen trees are buried deep underground, could offset several watts of internal combustion engine use.
Point is, I trust Firefox, and it may lose my trust when it makes third-party API calls involving my passwords by default.

Should I read how Troy's API service works? No.
Congrats to your successful exists.

Your story sounds rough though - applying to 500 positions and only getting 5 responses - sorry to hear. With your track record you should have gotten more responses. Maybe it's worth getting your resume reviewed or google yourself and see what comes up and 'clean up' if anything comes up that you think is not a true representation of yourself.

And you're only 40 - that's not old!

EDIT: removed suggestion to talk to physician about certain medication for improving focus and concentration...
Ask HN: Helping a fellow entrepreneur out
Hi everyone!
I value a lot the community here at HN. It feels to me that great minds are hanging there, and being able to read the post you share brings a lot to me, every day.

Today, I’m hoping to rely on you. I’ve been working on PDFShift.io (An API to convert any HTML documents to PDF with a single POST request) for the past few months, validated it to the market and starting to grow it. I’m at 230$ MRR right now and hoping to increase it.

I would love to have less than a minute of your time helping me.

Today, PDFShift is on ProductHunt at https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pdfshift (I’ll repost that link in the first comment). I would love if you could help me spread the word out, and eventually upvote it if you like it of course.

I’ll be happy to return the favor when you’ll need it of course, just reach out it when you’ll need it.
Thank you so much for your help, it will make a ton of difference to me.
You could also just bury it. That’s effectively putting coal back into the ground.
Part of turning a plain old good idea into a consulting phenomenon? See: agile, scrum.
Absolutely true. I have property about 30 miles north of WB and Frontier told me they can't get a technician out to replace my service until January.

It would be faster for me to crawl on the ground to the nearest PoP and plugin to a GPON port then it would be for me to wait for them.
Adding Lifetime Checking to Chapel [pdf]
Fighting Impostor Syndome and Limitations
You should look up where most of our medical teaching skeletons come from.
Notice the submitted article doesn't talk about "mental illness" but about "poor mental health".

I can have poor physical health without having a specific disease. I can have poor mental health without having a specific mental illness.