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Doesn't the US have any quarantine requirements on imported products? I could find requirements for live animals, but for other goods? The EU [1], like Australia [2] has quarantine requirements on certain imported goods, including plants.

How well the ones in EU are enforced I don't know. For sure they are not well enforced for individuals arriving to airports - you can just walk straight in with your suitecases. Compared to Australia, which I understand has very strict controls also for individuals arriving.

[1]https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/plant_health_biosecurity/non...
[2]https://www.business.gov.au/products-and-services/importing-...
Also the default state for most people for any given change is ignorance / no reason to change. Thus the default "no".

At a non coding job in the past, I've had to explain the same change to five different people or teams in dramatically different ways to get a job done sometimes. If you saw me talk to these different groups you might not know I was even talking about the same thing each time....but I was.
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But, the government ends up with more money. In theory charities fill in gaps that the public does not want to spend government money supporting. So, why spend public money supporting people giving to charity?

It’s not like Tax breaks create new money they just redistribute resources.
Start learning about the following topics: public speaking, leadership, health/fitness, sex/relationships, personal finance, investing, business/entrepreneurship, marketing, and copy writing.

Where to live, what apartment to live in, where to work, who to become involved with, what bed to get, etc.

Nootropics. Cognition enhancement. A multivitamin + D & K + chelated/TRAACS magnesium supplement. Meditation and/or brainwave entrainment audio. Stress management. Ensure quality sleep.

Nootropics that increase verbal fluidity tend to be great in corporate environment, especially as it becomes clearer what leads to a promotion/raise.

Being promoted every other year (0 = entry, 2 = mid-level, 4 = senior, 6 = staff, etc) is conservative/typical/traditional. Fast risers get promoted every year. Move around, especially if your job isn't great or well-paying, to maintain a pace.

Though an engineer, still network. Weak ties are better than deep friendships when networking. Approach all as though they are friends. No need to let someone draining waste your time. Cast a wide net, but choose wisely.

Don't let them work you to the bone. Startups fail 98% of the time (78% if BS exits are included) and corporations typically don't care about you.

Your employer owns everything you develop on company time or using company equipment.

Understand the business, users, and political landscape at your company. Avoid getting involved in politics and gossiping. Commit to maintaining ethics and professionalism, then set everything up such that it doesn't sabotage you.

People tend to be selfish, two-faced, and unconcerned about you. Smile and be happy while remembering they'll likely stab you in the back with little hesitation.

There's being irreplaceable and there's them knowing/thinking you're irreplaceable. Only the latter matters.

Many years ago, it was estimated that 4% of executives/CEOs were psychopaths (versus 1% of the general population). A study released in 2016 now puts the estimate at 21%.

Read, read, read, read...

Avoid stagnating and blindly following whatever's said. Things change and the world has little problem leaving you behind. Staying fresh/competitive can be difficult, especially as many companies heavy-handedly try to push you into the trap.

Take-home salary: 20% to savings (max out 401k even if just up to company match), 30% max to rent, and 50% toward expenses.

house_price <= 3 * yearly_salary. 20% down payment. mortgage <= 2.4 * yearly_salary.

Car: down payment >= 20% of car's value, finance period = 4 years, principal + interest + insurance + license + registration + gas + maintenance = 10% of one's gross monthly income. Buying without taking a loan is even better.

Ageism. Software Engineers have an expiration date. If not in management or a founder/consultant by mid 30s, things can easily get difficult.
As someone renovating a 100+ year old townhouse with plaster and some newer drywall, this is sometimes true. Some of the plaster and lath (mostly ceilings) have cracks and it's a pain in the ass to fix when it's up on the ceiling.

But the main walls are freaking solid. Most of the walls and ceilings I'm needing to repair or replace are old drywall that was either not the proper type or just hasn't held up to wear and tear (and the neglect of the previous owner) over the previous 15+ years.

On the plus side, the drywall that needs to be repaired or replaced is easy enough for me to DIY but some of the really bad plaster/lath stuff is going to require a messy and laborious removal process.

Still, I love the rooms with plaster walls in good shape. Great sound insulation and looks awesome. It's a shame I can't afford to have more of the bad stuff replaced with new plaster.
I don't use an MDM server/service specifically, but I use a profile (built and installed via Apple Configurator 2 over USB) to install certificates+keys for S/MIME.

The nice part is I can use the same profile on a Mac too.
> Those policies were met by snarky critiques from a slew of traders and bloggers who remarked that ‘you can’t fix a debt crisis with more debt’ and that ‘you can’t print your way to prosperity.’

I thought it was well accepted that austerity measures in a depression are a really horrible idea. Greece may be the most recent example. Is that not the case?
Elon didn’t start Tesla and I’m not really sure if he’s really a founder. I believe there was some legal issues regarding founders vs the series A “co-founders”.
Ask HN: Who here works in the IoT space and what are you doing?
I'm an FE dev at a start-up called Airfi Networks and we provide telecom services to companies which manufacture smart devices. I was wondering what other cool things people are working on in the IoT space?
For a great book on how these 'charities' are corrupting American politics, and the specific tax loophole that enables them; check out the book 'Dark Money' by Jane Meyer

Reforming this law would cause outrage among the non-profit and charity sector, because it would instantly dry up alot of US philanthropy. It still seems like a necessary reform however.
Im pretty sure the book wasn't directed at low/no skill workers. It is directed at professionals that work in these retarded environments. And no, there's no such thing not having a choice for a professional. I've gone from one profession to a combination of low wage part time jobs to a 2nd profession and there is ALWAYS a choice for people. Only time there isn't a choice is when you aren't willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work.
To an extent Mozilla has that now on mobile with Firefox vs Firefox Focus.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/mobile/
It's not a matter of speed, it's a matter of preventing the app from losing state, background tasks, timers, notifications etc. whenever you do something as normal as take a call and browse the web before trying to go back to the app at hand. If it can't handle config changes it will crash a lot, sometimes even when not fully backgrounded.

That being said there are plenty of apps (video players for instance) that disable config changes on rotate as to more quickly switch between orientations. They still need to handle config changes properly for times like when the app is put into the background, and sometime later restored in a different orientation.
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Logstash e2e testing
We Test in Production, You Should Too
Rating people is how facebook started. Soon pets will have their own social network.

Would like to point out a couple of things related to the app page:

1. Don't use stock photos. It really ruins presentation.
2. The screenshots you show don't entice me to even download the app, because they are all the same and don't show much of the functionality.
3. Remove the notification bar from your screenshots.
Right, you can't stop them from pulling something like that, but you do have recourse through the Norwegian courts (whom are likely to look down on that much more so than any Chinese court!), and when Opera Limited's revenue is predominantly through it's Opera Software AS subsidiary, a large GDPR fine in Norway would be a big deal to the company.
Agreed. Losing that and coverflow leaves iTunes with just the annoyances.

MusicBee on Windows works better than most everything else, and keeps the three column view as one of the many options. Haven't found anything I can live with on the Mac yet.

Never saw the point in Finder windows though, preferring the default, or two linked folders in one OS window like DirectoryOpus (Amiga and eventually Windows) and most ftp clients used to do it. That's better when needing source/dest, or diffing two folders etc.
I agree with you. Bare metal to me always implies, well, actual physical servers made out of metal :) A better title might have been "Kubernetes Without a Cloud" or "Kubernetes on-premise". Since what the author is trying to recreate is all the ancillary services that are there for the taking when you run in a cloud provider. Load balancing, storage, cert management, firewall rules, all fronted by easy to consume API's. Which are the actual hard part of setting up a functional k8s cluster.
I believe if you gave people the resources and support to fix it, it could happen - however then the counter-weight of people hoarding their money would be felt; it could only take a single seriously bad actor with extra funds to squash serious efforts.
Don't ask a colleague every time you don't know how to do something. Investigate, learn how to debug. Building intuition is what's going to take you to the next level. Also, try to not get stuck with same tools for too long.
I don't think 5% is a safe level. There are many charities that intend to operate in perpetuity, and this practice would eliminate this possibility.
He wasn't able to successfully pull this stunt ever again. It actually completely changed our work dynamic and almost completely eliminated job stress. It was also the catalyst to deciding that I wanted to move on and I gave a 4 month notice shortly thereafter. Ultimate jerk move, he actually hid a bonus check intended for me in his desk for weeks because he didn't realize I was being so nice with the amount of notice. He thought he could prevent me from getting it entirely. That did not go over well with the president of the company.
I think it’s more that people say they are much busier than they really are because it makes them seem important
> when you wake it from sleep, it shows you

wow, a lucky person, Ubuntu on my Desktop never wakes up :)

// p.s.: still better than macOS/Windows for development, I just don't turn it off, that's all
I have never had to do this nor seen anything like this behavior in my 6 years of work in the industry. This sounds incredibly in bad faith, and I would probably take it as a signal to go job search for a better work environment if I witnessed this in my day to day.
I keep hearing this, but I'm constantly disappointed by the results I get on DDG. Eg, The first page of DDG shows (old) forum posts while Google shows a couple project sites on GitHub and some relevant stack overflow answers.

I'm sure some is personalization, but I've also compared results in incognito and Google is still better. I really want to like it, but I'm not going to sabotage my ability to efficiently find things.
Because generally local initiatives driven by people are better executed or better managed than government projects. Even if the government wanted to redistribute the same money to charities, there is a significant overhead cost of people that need to be employed to sift through viable projects.

I live in Belgium, where the system is a bit different (you get a 45% tax deduction on money donated if a charity has an accreditation) and the tax deduction is a significant part of why I give to charity.

If there would be no deduction, I would still give, but a lot less.
Related - hang in there (sometimes).

When things get their craziest, when entire teams are getting fired, that's sometimes when career opportunities open up and massive advancement can happen.
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This is largely a linguistic quirk whose validity isn't a very interesting debate topic. Language does strange things sometimes.
Indeed, I just discovered that. My bad.
Please don't get me wrong, I've been in programming for more than 13 yrs, started with C++ and moved to Java later in my career and that Haskell code is of top notch quality, it does what it was written for very well and if I remember correctly, it never caused any prod incidents, its just that the devs didn't stick around, one of them went to Uni and others to greener pastures and we found it hard to extend/enhance with new functionalities that business was asking for.
The title here says the bill is about telemarketing, but the bill is pretty short and I didn't see anything about telemarketing. This is just about limiting bots on "any Internet Web site, Web application, or digital application"
https://www.tagspaces.org/
To bounce off of this point - be sure to figure out the right time to ask questions. I'm currently a junior programmer and I've been struggling with this myself. Obviously, you shouldn't ask a coworker a question the moment you don't know how to do something, but you also shouldn't be stuck on something for a week without asking for help. It's all about balance.
"Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet"

It sounds like you got up in arms because you thought that chrome now auto-syncs when you sign in to gmail, and wrote the blog post draft. Then you learned that this isn't the case but you kept your arms up anyway, added that unsubstantiated "- yet" and hit "publish" anyway, despite nothing really having changed.

(Disclaimer 1: I used to work for google, so I'm likely biased to give them more benefit of doubt.
Disclaimer 2: This is a shared HN account (the password isn't exactly hard to guess), so not all of its comments or posts are written by me.)
I feel this advice would be better if it was more-focused. Trash fiction isn't what the OP probably had in mind.
Firefox doesn't highlight find-in-page search results on the scroll bar. Chrome does.

Am I the only person who relies on that feature daily for their work?
Bare metal is a valid title for this article because his instructions wouldn't change if it actually was bare metal.
Show HN: Industrial Engineering Principles Applied to Life
While you're at it, ban Spam endorsed by the federal government (USPS)... junk mailers even get rebates to fill up your mailbox.
I can't upvote this enough. Burnout is real and it is horrible to experience, and could possibly derail your career for years. I was fortunate when I experienced burnout in my mid 20's that it didn't derail my career trajectory, but I have seen cases where it has.

This is definitely the #1 thing to focus on as a junior dev. Start to understand your limits. Listen to your body, become conscientious of your emotional state. One of the best junior developers I had the opportunity to mentor was a 35-40 hour per week developer who consistently day in and day out delivered code. He was dependably consistent and eagerly took advice without ego.
Do property taxes, sales taxes, and all the other taxes cause people to give less too?

The point is that a society needs funds to function, and in a democracy, society gets together and decides what to do with their pooled resources. We vote on what we want to prioritize, such as military, research, education, infrastructure, spying on its own citizens, etc. Everyone contributes to these causes via taxes, except if you set up your own little organization and call it a "charity". Then you can opt out society's liabilities and fund your own little pet causes, regardless of whether or not they are actually beneficial to everyone. And you can increase opacity since you're not subject to open records (like the government should be ideally), and in general, add a layer of bureaucracy for no reason.

I don't see a compelling argument that all the added overhead of lawyers and accountants and inspectors who then need go around checking every stupid charity offset whatever benefit the charity provides. Instead we should be focusing our efforts on making government transparent, reducing waste, and pursuing efforts to benefit all in society.
The secondary processor exception exists for legitimate reasons. If you have some machine with 100% open source boot firmware, Coreboot, etc., that's still worth certifying even if some Ethernet chip turns out to have firmware inside it.

What Purism is doing is moving memory init code away from the CPU on which it would normally and most naturally execute (in terms of engineering design decisions) for the express purpose of moving something they can't actually open out of the scope of RYF. And are then brazenly admitting how they are gaming this in the above blogpost.

Most people would expect "open source firmware" to mean "open source memory initialisation", because we understand that's something the firmware does. Moving this onto a secondary CPU is literally no better than proprietary firmware. It can't be audited, and if it's able to initialise the memory controller, it can be expected to have full access to the system. They're practically carving out an Intel ME-like boot processor here, with much of the same disadvantages and concerns.
You should then follow him on textual media as well. Sure, on Instagram it's mainly nice pictures of houses and cars, but I don't see the 'chip on his shoulder'. Au contraire, he remains honest and realistic about his decisions, his achievements and the (monetary) rewards as a result of those. Some because of luck, some because of common wisdom (often against the grain), some because of just being smart. It's a refreshing view.

So, please read some material from him on Medium. Don't judge a person on just an Instagram profile...
In terms of browsers that would be someone who only go on HN, reddit, facebook, gmail and linkedin. In other words HRFGL.
What are the best ways, if any, to test for the convergence (or pseudo-convergence) of the Markov chain to the equilibrium distribution?
>It still seems like a necessary reform however...

Why? (Serious question. As a matter of full disclosure, I've read 'Dark Money'. To my mind, DAF's don't seem any more evil than any of the other much larger pools of concentrated wealth out there. eg-corporate lobbying money. In fact, the rules seem to make DAF's a good deal less evil.)
Could anyone explain this a little for me, please?

Does this mean you save 93% of your income and only use 7%?

From the website, there is a graph that shows how many years you supposedly have to save for retirement but it does not take into account the actual amount you make.

As a "junior" dev, if you save 97% of X peanuts you still have peanuts.
That's correct, thanks!
> This isn’t new.

Well, something here is new since the sum total of DAF contributions tripled in 6 years. Are you referring to charities in general, or DAFs specifically? This article is less about charities as a whole and more about a specific style of donation where the funds accrue interest and are locked up and not usable by the charity until later.
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How are we able to have discussions on this article when it links me to a page that says: "503 Service Unavailable":

>The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

I mean it's just text right? How hard can that be to serve in high volume? Oh did they get politically DDoS'ed?
I don’t know your area of expertise (or familiarity) but TensorFlow is extremely present in both academic and industrial computer vision communities. I don’t have data to support my claim, but, from my experience, TensorFlow is likely the most popular framework. Hell, I’d bet Caffe (1) is still more popular than PyTorch (but I’d expect that to change)!
Agreed, I've set up about 6 different clusters using kubespray and never had any issues. Kubeadm is nice for dev clusters but there are still a bunch of hoops you have to jump through to set up an HA cluster using kubeadm.
Just follow him on Medium or Twitter. There are hardly cars, houses or office furniture there :-)
Also the Bitcoin script language (as limited as it is)
Ok, but let's not discount the work ad-hominem. Are the fields subject to problems of behavior inconsistent with principles the fields typically consider important?

If one important principle is fairness between groups of people, then substitution of one group for another in matters of treatment shouldn't alter the results without consideration. If you wouldn't treat group A this way, then it would be inconsistent to accept treating group B the same way without discussing why. And that discussion should be held to some rigor. Without it, we're just talking about group A "vs" group B, instead of principles of how all groups should be treated.

Yes, clearly grievances of each group are worth study and analysis. But it deters from the significance of their results if they accept the creation of isomorphic grievances.

[spoken, rather obviously, as a computer scientist peering into this field of study from the outside]
"What do you think Linda?"

Reminds me of the scene from Fahrenheit 451.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVhqtj83U8
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