skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But how do you manage deployments of new versions without downtime?

I don't try to have 100% uptime. For most projects I will usually have a few seconds to a minute of downtime when deploying (as long as it takes the docker container to start). When I try to minimize the downtime below that, I spin up a second container in parallel, change the HAProxy address to that and reload HAProxy, which gives zero-downtime (with small caveats).

For most scenarios (including business) I've found that to be a reasonable approach. Most businesses can live with that kind of downtime, and trying to achieve less downtime becomes unproportionally more expensive.
For likely the same reason a cleaning service doesn't offer to show the customer what chemical mixture to use to clean an especially grimy tub or oven. The customer is paying for the convenience, not a tutorial, and the cleaners aren't in the "teach a man/woman to fish" business.
White male landowners don't fall for political ads? It's weird how many political ads talk about farming when that group is immune to them!
Doesn't Fastmail still have their data centers in US? (that'd mean NSA could get the data, as Fastmail doesn't support PGP).

Related: https://www.privacytools.io/#email
I see this recommendation quite often and wonder if you get in trouble sooner or later, at least if you want to travel to the US. I would think the purpose of a passport is a single identification with a track record. Everything else is cheating. Not?
These dual standards for censorship annoy me.

Google on Venezuelan censoring: bad, fight it

Google on Chinese censoring: complicit, support it
Why don't you use your own email with iCloud account? Using your own email address to login into Gmail or iCloud will let you dump these services easier if you decide to.
From the article above.

"That morning, Ford would begin paying his employees $5.00 a day, over twice the average wage for automakers in 1914.
In addition, he was reducing the work day from 9 hours to 8 hours, a significant drop from the 60-hour work week that was the standard in American manufacturing."

For reference $5/day in 1914 is ~$15.62 an hour in 2018 dollars. The similarities likely end there. Unlike Ford, Amazon's hike is not twice the average wage of a fulfillment center employee. A manager at an employment agency recently told me that you can't hire someone for less than $15 an hour to work in a fulfillment center in Reno, NV. Reno is a major fulfillment/shipping hub in the US.

This post should have been titled "Amazon raises pay to keep up with market rates just like every other company".
I miss the Archive button in Workmail. Besides that it looks good!
Could you please stop talking bad about Google? It’s against the site guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: What do you use MS Excel for?
I've heard that Excel is really powerful. Do you guys have any stories about that?
Whether it's personal or for business what do you use it for?
That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely.

Yahoo gets their search results from bing, so that's the same thing. So this supports my claim.
Sort of. But considering that they are diverting a ton of tax revenue into charities, and the fact hat being a large donor to various charities and endowments can create large status and influence gains, especially for their legacy heirs, I think it's completely fair to ask whether this is truly charity or rich people setting themselves, their families, and their pet causes to be better off in the future instead of paying their fair share of taxes that could be used in a more direct way for the betterment of all in society (I know that's a contentious statement given our current government/politics, but we shouldn't write policy to allow diverting taxes for personal gain just because the government can be corrupt/inefficient)
This is a line of thinking that's all too often forgotten.

As you point out, it's very possible to raise taxes/eliminate a loophole on a bad policy without giving more money to the government overall.

Sure, the rich give more to charities, but they also pay the most taxes. The net change of parent's proposal would probably be smaller than most people expect for the average charitable person.
The formatter for the modern web
See my reply to NeedMoreTea.
Yea this is what I did. Little by little. If you make a plan, and are dilligent you’ll be totally off @gmail.com in under a year. Make sure you switch to an email address on a domain you control, not @some_other_cloud_service.com that you’ll want to switch off of later.
Unfortunately one woman was awarded. Seems that feminist pressure is infecting this as well.
I also was confused about the title - expected to see an article about spinning up a cluster in Packet.net
So is Wikipedia's definition "Telemarketing is defined as contacting, qualifying, and canvassing prospective customers using telecommunications devices such as telephone, fax, and internet" wrong? Or is it just misleadingly general?
Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails
I think you're experiencing the Slashdot effect.
Cultivate another passion of you. Software development is just a job and should remain so.
Have you ever actually worked in the enterprise?
because you have just bought yourself a private park at a heavy discount because it is for "charity". Yet it is for your own exclusive use.
You are not on Fox news, mate.
If you have your own domain and don't send more than 10 emails (and a limit of 1GB) a day you can get Migadu, and I think it's $5 for upto 200 or something emails a day out (and practically everything is unlimited).

I still can't fully switch from GMail, but I've prepared myself so I have to since I'm gonna pay.
That's a little unfair. The article shows options to run on "real" bare-metal hardware, but the same tools will work on cloud instances as well.
After watching how Google engineers interact with engineers from other companies, this checks out. It's very easy to believe that everyone there is irritated by the mediocrity of the world outside of Google when they have to interact with it.
This seems to be fake news from Uber to cover their bad practices.
I could and thought about that. If Apple focuses less on privacy on the future, I could go the fastmail route. Apple, if I recall correctly, does let you change your icloud ID, thus moving away shouldn't be hard.

For now, I'd rather have most services with one provider I trust as that really is convenient for me. That was Google before (mistakenly?), but no longer.
Unless you already have a kick ass social life (hanging out with your mates in a bar or at a soccer/football match doesn't count): learn Argentine/Rioplatense Tango.
It's the hardest couple dance and best suited for engineers -- for many reasons.
If ballet is the assembly language of dances, tango is C. ;) AMA. :]

TLDR; I would give an eye or a hand if someone had given me this advice when I was 20.
> You're reading way too much into a domain-specific term. "Training" is just when you have a regimented exercise schedule and routine to improve your body.

On the same lines, one can rationalize the empty words such as "synergy" that corporate marketers use routinely that are taken apart brutally routinely.
Thanks for this reccomendation! I just checked out the repo and this looks really interesting, I'll have to try it out.
My kid is 2 years old and knows the names of like 40 different dinosaurs. Does that mean he's a precocious paleontological genius? If I tell him he's a dinosaur genius and enroll him in paleontology training classes and encourage him to spend every waking hour learning more about dinosaurs to the exclusion of everything else, he surely would be, no?
In modern "cloud" terminology bare metal means "no virtualisation" AFAIK.
Yes you're right. That app is just dns over HTTPS for older Android phones. With all its caveats.
It's not subjective to the IRS, but it's subjective to the common person.

For one example, what's a "charitable donation" to a mega church to one person is a scam to let Joel Osteen live like a king without paying taxes to another.
> taxpayers are subsidizing tax breaks for the rich

I commented about this elsewhere in the thread. This is a ridiculous point of view because there is no net tax break for the individual.

If instead of donating $1M in stock, they sold the stock and kept the money, they would have more money than if they donated the stock and claimed the deduction. They get to deduct the $1M, but they don't get to keep it as well.

> Which means although taxpayers subsidized the $1M donation

This is true, but seems like a net benefit. They get to give a gift of $1M that only costs them $600k. But that's still $600k that they could have kept and spent on gilded washing machines and penguin-egg omelets (I'm assuming that this is what the rich spend their money on). Instead, that money, plus a "matching" donation from the government of $400k, goes to a charity that can't really directly benefit the donor.
It's a bit weird to say it's not hard at all after describing a multi-year effort.
Yes also true. Some project actually have very bad source code, but in general it's often better than expected!
Not a single comment. Wondering why, this is SUPER interesting.
Coinbase's huge valuation could have been even larger, but Bitcoin prices fell
I wonder if, conversely, this could lead to the development of better "bots" where you'd be unable to tell the difference. The motive is certainly there now.
Do we actually think that money will be better managed by a government?

One charity I consistently give to is Fisher House. They're directly related to the US government -- they provide houses for military families whose loved ones are in a military or VA hospital. I like the cause, but one reason I give to them over others is because they're incredibly efficient[1]. If the charitable deduction went away, would they raise as much money? Would the government have to step in and do it, and is there any prayer they'd do so as efficiently as Fisher House?

Either way, Fisher House is a great charity, check it out.

[1] - https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...
you’re arguing from imagination
> The UN disagrees.

The UN is a political animal controlled by political interests.

Common sense can be used here. Gaza shares more border with Egypt than with Israel.
Very cool, thanks a lot I'll be definitely using your guide.
back in the 1980's when I first got into programming I wrote a 3D flight simulator in Forth ... terrific language ... loved teaching myself how to construct multi-dimensional data structures when the language itself only offered 1D arrays ... back pre-internet folks had to roll up their sleeves and write the plumbing level logic themselves unlike today with endless libraries at hand
Cool project! Love IPFS usage :)
Whether Tesla itself is the future or not, I don't know. I doubt Musk really wanted to be in the business of building cars. I think he did it to change the way everyone else builds cars. Not by decree of some minor increment in emissions standards, but by showing that an electric car would be cheaper, cleaner, faster, and sexier. He did it at a time when Prius was the laughing stock of the evening news, with stories of Prius tipping, and jokes about its drivers. Does Kia really have a higher safety rating than Tesla?

I agree with other comments that things like his fight with the diver was unhelpful. I don't know what was really behind the threat to take things private. Hopefully he learned something and will focus again on what he does best.

Sometimes, established industry needs someone from outside to threaten do do something even if it isn't the most profitable thing to do. I remember when iphones were charging for ringtones and wallpaper. Google's decision to make an open source OS, and threat to build a phone for it if no one else would, changed the whole game.

I'd rather invest time or money in Musk, despite the risk, just because he built the car, landed the rocket, and I want him to be able to do it again. I can respect an investor who just wants a safe return, but they should invest elsewhere and good riddance. He doesn't need that kind of investor always threatening to pull their money if he doesn't play it safer. Maybe instead of going public, he should start the world's largest Kickstarter.
A Goblin World That Points Toward Hidden Planet Nine in the Solar System
not sure where my mind got confused between three and p5. Probably because the book is Shiffman's.

Thanks for the correction :)
Honestly, and this is for me personally not my overall worldview, if I'm ever doing anything the NSA would be interested in knowing about it wouldn't be discussed via email

I do understand your concern but I've always treated emails as I would postcards
I went to a top competitive field (at the time) in a top university in my country. A place where every student was the best in his former school. Resuming: a competitive field in a competitive school. You can imagine the rest, I feel even embarassed to tell extra details.

I have to admit, high competion feels good at times and is addictive but in the end it was just an illusion: the field lost importance (Architecture) and people slowly
- nobody wanted to be the first to abandon ship and assume a defeat - acknowledged how patetic was to compete 24/7 for nothing. Nowadays I can see how toxic that environment were.
Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 2
Do it! I use the latency/bandwidth thing as an intellectual model for all sorts of surprising situations. It's deeply embedded in my frame of reference for looking at the world, especially for doing any sort of work.

In a way, it turns all sorts of things into simple algebra - ax + b. So time = scope / bandwidth + latency. If latency dominates, it takes longer. If bandwidth dominates, goes faster.
In Canada political campaigns will rent from allied political parties in the US their robocall army to escape domestic laws. A favorite trick now is to relentlessly phone at annoying hours and impersonate the rival "Stay on the line for an important message from (insert rival politician)" in hopes they anger you enough to not vote for said rival.
Hardly. DuckDuckGo claims not to share my information or searches with Microsoft. I trust DuckDuckGo (not Microsoft) to keep their word.

The fact that DDG sources information about the internet from Microsoft is unimportant. I'm concerned about my personal information, not large scale manipulation of search results.
That guy's contention is written directly above a Website with a copyright dated 2017 and they personally admitted they couldn't remember how to deploy their own site. Was it possible they couldn't do it because it was too complex? My contention is the answer to that question is yes.
Because you're going to use what these companies produce, since their products dominate the market. E.g. your smartphone is going to be either Android or iOS, no matter how I abstractly would like Sailfish / Jolla to succeed.

That is, these are not woes of globalization, but woes of monopolization of a market, partly due to the natural "winner takes all" dynamics of said market.

BTW both EC and USA have the same sort of problem with a lot of things manufactured now in China, with domestic know-how lost.
Read the error messages. Reread them. Extract every piece of information from them. Never close an error popup without having read and understood what it means. Always read stack traces when you're blessed enough to have them.

100% of the juniors (and an awful lot of seniors) I've ever trained simply ignore those and then come ask for help debugging.

99% of the time, the explanation for their problem is literally the first line of the stack trace/error message/whatever is red on their screen.

If you successfully adopt the mindset of "whatever the computer is telling is true from the computer point of view, so I'd better make sure I've read it" instead of "Anyway, I'll try something else and run again", you'll debug 10 times faster. And since debugging is a good part of the job, you'll be a lot more productive.
Why should robots have any rights at all?
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That's rather part of the point. Many of the countries that offer a second passport believe in freer travel than some destination countries might.
After the Kinect came out it took the robotics world by storm as a cheap effective 3D sensor. Later they started making a dedicated version for robots. Then Apple bought the company for the technology that would later turn into being able to unlock your phone with your face. But at the same time they cut off all production of the robotics sensors because it wasn't part of their mission. Thankfully for robotics research you can, if you know where to look, still find these sensors being manufactured in China.
Identifying the problem is only half the battle, though. The end goal would be to go through and fix each record. Surely that's easier done in a database tool than on the command line.

Additionally, these data presumably live in a database at the museums they're from. They put them on the web as CSV (or similar) so that the public can see them, but the museum IT guy would end up making the eventual changes in their tracking system anyway.
I love these. I've always thought a textual filter at the top of each column would solve the scrolling issue.
That's what I'm considering now, but I'm concerned that I'll forget to update my credit card information or make some other minor mistake with the registrar and lose my domain.
This is not true for assets that change in value and illiquid/non-marketable assets.

Example:

Rich person buys asset for $10m. 3 years later gets it appraised for $75m, knowing full well that no one would actually buy it for that.

Rich person then donates the '$75m' asset to charity. Rich person made more money via charity rather than trying to sell the asset for $75m.

This is a very common strategy.
I recently attended a non-masons meeting that was hosted at a turn of the century Masonic Temple. The building itself was incredible, if not just a bit spooky. There were photos of members from the early 1900s to present day, but it was very apparent that the average age of the men in the photos has continually increased over time. In other words it looks like today only much older men continue their involvement and new member recruitment likewise skews 55+. My guess is their membership has dwindled significantly in the last 30+ years, at least in the US.
A basic mail service is about IMAP (and P0P3), rather than webmail with full-text search. Searching through your mail is performed on your own computer using Thunderbird or another mail client. If your mail provider scans your email for targetting, you should switch to a paid provider where you are the customer, rather than the product.
New wave of QNAP malware, company has no solution for infected units
this topic is full of people arguing from fetid imagination. the silliest factor is the implication that the money imagined to be deployed to horrible purposes would somehow be put to better use if it were turned over to the government that would essentially have even odds of using it to prosecute war.
Proposal: Bake cancellation into Go 2 and Context should go away
This.

In my first two roles I found that more senior level developers gravitated towards mentoring me anyway. I didn't really even have to seek it out, usually just getting in the door and humbly admitting to yourself that you don't know as much as you thought you did is enough for people to want to share their knowledge with you.

Don't be afraid to ask questions in the workplace when you're new, that's the only cardinal mistake you can make, the mentorship will come automatically.
No, it doesn't. That's absurd, Waymo admits it.
I believe that pointing to a location and saying “look at what policies X and Y have done, let us adjust our messaging and policies in accordance with this new information” is perfectly fair. Characterizing the locals in those environs as inferior or fundamentally incorrect is morally wrong.

So in this regard, desparaging california’s policies is completely fair. So would bashing on say, Kansas. But calling California the home of “libtards” or calling Kansas full of rednecks would not be fair.
I've been freelancing for a few years as a DevOps Engineer. I've gotten very lucky because I've landed gigs that let me become virtually in expert in a few different technologies, while making the most money I've ever made, all with no on-call at all (traditionally the bane of my existence) and with very friendly people and clients. However, I'm nervous now as my gig runs out for at least two reasons.

First, I'm self-employed in name only. While managers view me as a very senior resource that is essentially a team lead due to experience and charisma, I still feel like I have no more control than an employee. In other words, I feel like an employee. Which is not how I suspect many of you feel.

Second, finding a new gigs is going through recruiters (here in NYC) and interviews are --again-- exactly like, if even worse than, employee interviews. In other words, not only am I expected to spend hours going through round after round of interviews, but I'm expected to already know all the technology they need, and moreover I'm competing with A) full time employees since many roles will take FTE or contractors; B) other contractors with lower rates.

I live in NYC and would pay someone for advice on the second part above.

We need some sort of not-for-profit place to meet and congregate online as freelancers.
Finder is just awful. Macs are only good for their screens and the cli.
Google on Google censorship: ship it!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/2...
You see, Venezuelans dont have enough money for Google to extract.
I've got an old iPhone 5 burner I use for international travel. It's a slight hassle but I'd rather that than someone going through all my texts, emails and pics etc.
Ctrl F: "google" -> 0 results
Finding a shower no, but depending on how long he's been an alcoholic getting sober could be a different story, and alcohol withdrawal is one of the few withdrawals that can be fatal and frequently requires medical supervision
I work in Finance/Investment Industry and was "let go" from one of the companies I worked at because I automated a large portion of my job (among other things). I even wrote an instruction manual for the entire process (not knowing that I could/would be let go). They ended up replacing me with a guy who didn't know how to program, but had 20 years of experience. Live and learn.
Even a car constantly accelerating for a long time was still at t0.
The making everyone else come in is the worst.

A senior to me dev started working nights. I didn't even know he was doing it but I got in trouble for not being there when he was working. Because I "wasn't available when he needed me".
Wait... how?
Yes, if you're targeted by nation state it's a bigger problem but I still don't like the passive collection of all my data.
My favorite - I had a routine-but-niche lab test done at a doctor I'd never been to before. They wanted a credit card "on file" in case insurance didn't pay.

They had a paper form for my name, address, SSN, credit card number, and even the CVV2 code off the card. I left the SSN and credit card info all blank, handed them the form and the card and told them I wasn't comfortable writing it all down (at least if there was a breach, it's not in my handwriting, right?). Which then got put in a pile on her desk until god knows when.

Insurance paid for the test ... at their negotiated rate of under $3. For that, I would have just paid cash and saved having personal information left laying around.
CEO who sold phones with “totally unbreakable encryption” takes plea deal