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You may want to change your attitude toward work. There's a reason it's called "work" and not playtime. There's a reason they pay you to do it.

I like to think about the guy stuck in a shit town, working in a coal mine. Maybe they all drink themselves to oblivion and I'm delusional, but I envision at least some of them this way: Guy goes down there and busts his ass all day in the dark, getting dirty as fuck, probably doing long term damage to his lungs and such. But it's his job and at the end of the day he goes home to his wife, kids, and dog, and realizes that work is just something he has to do to support the parts of his life he cares about.

>> Does anyone have a suggestion for what I can/should do to improve my circumstances?

Yeah, quit acting like an entitled little child. Be grateful that you have a job that often requires more education than you have. Stop thinking you can just monetize some personal interests and retire. Life requires effort, give it some. Once you get over that hump you may be able to consider which alternative you're willing to put actual effort toward.
Looks quite sleek. Nice job!

Although I wouldn't move away from org-mode, I can easily see it using 2 years ago, when I thought markdown was great.
One reason might be to validate that the card works at all.

Another might be to bypass anti-fraud provisions of the issuer. (It seems plausible that someone trying to buy a laptop at a random retailer away from home might be less likely to trigger a fraud alert if they had a same city, same timeframe hotel reservation on the card.)
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Wait, you can use JMAP with Fastmail currently?
Would love to hear some inside baseball on Project Debater, or even the planning of the event itself. It's been a while since one of these Big Blue demos panned out once removed from the venue, so I think they'd do well to be as transparent as possible about technology, API-accessible demos, etc.
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> Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own,

That's an opinion many people hold. I personally however find the shoe-horning of "function fits form" that "native" UI on desktop forces to suck big time. Microsoft Office 365 which is a very well designed desktop app for instance is very non-native in behaviour with its ribbons, intelligent context options surfacing etc. I find that Electron apps in general tend to be much more "form fits function" and easier to use.
The photographer didn't expect to benefit from the work of the band. He didn't expect to benefit from his own work of taking the picture, editing it and uploading it. He expected other people not to profit from his work, and when they tried to all he demanded was they donate to charity. At no point did he try and profiteer from this.

The fact is that subjects of pictures don't really have the right to refuse to be photographed in public, they only have the right to prevent their image to be used commercially- which is categorically no what this guy was doing.
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>Personally, I find the idea that the photographer has more right to a photo than the subject ethically repugnant.

Disclaimer: I am american so this is all based on my (extreme layman) understanding of the law and copyright.

The system is pretty simple, if you are in a public place you can be photographed. Just like anyone can look at you, someone can take a photo. Their camera, their knowledge of how to take the photo, their correctly producing the photo and circulating it, via whatever methods they have developed over years of producing content (eg instagram, personal website, art shows, magazines, whatever). Why should you own the rights? You are certainly welcome to take photos of yourself and you of course own all the rights.
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Actually left due to anti-engineering culture (no tech leaders), succumbed to the distortions of Conway's law due to imbalance between professional services and core/platform.

That said, the nature of the lack of leadership was around the MBA mindset that data science is the be-all end-all of AI, which IME is so far from the truth.

There needs to be many layers/spirals of naive methods (i.e. straight ahead engineering) as a vanguard on the front lines with the DS/NNs/NLP bringing up the flanks for aspects of the domains that become more well understood over time.

So yeah, tail wagging the dog, cart before horse etc. If you just barrel ahead with a monolithic NN pretending that all classes are created equal (structureless blob), which is what our DS PhDs were doing, it will quickly ossify. In our case it was intent prediction so we got to pretty high accuracy, but the labels were indicating many different categories that actually had relations in nature that could not be expressed. Ironically it took some regular engineers to research HMC (hierarchical multi-label classification) and ensembles and implement a new model training framework to support them. Not sure what they teach in school but it doesn't seem to be very practical.

EDIT: now working on messaging (SMS/MMS/RCS/ABC) with a focus on dialog management and logical rules with layering-in of progressively less naive stats methods strategically rather than blindly. It helps to have an existing revenue stream that can be leveraged to create even more value with AI features rather than the backwards hail Mary of not iterating from a foothold of existing traction.
Some teams/communities are doing it the right way round ;p but feels like the exception.
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Also like their QA team is slacking, if they have one.
Most venues (and almost certainly all large ones/festivals) have waivers explaining that you're in a space where photography/videography is taking place and that by being present you are essentially signing a release. That would apply to the talent too.
interesting about writing, could you please mention some of the tech sites that pay money for content?
Would you prefer the Singaporean norm (clearly posted prices) to the Canadian/European one (free at the point of use)?
Ask HN: What is a secure way to allow 2FA resets?
I have 2FA on one of my web apps. Most users are using Google Authenticator which uses TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password). On first login, we show them a QR code. We instruct them to save a copy of this QR code in the event they get a new phone or want to install a new 2FA app. However, I am running into a situation where users are not doing this. I can easily enough reset their account to show a QR code again on next login, but my question is: What is the safest way to "authenticate" them for a reset? I could do things like send a reset email to the email associated with the account, but I am just wondering what others are doing for situations like this. I want to make sure I am doing it as securely as possible.

Thanks!
Did you get something with very low input lag? I have an LG 55UK6400PLF and the lag makes it unusable for a desktop.
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I personally attempt to rotate what I do and am always trying to optimize (it keeps me interested). An example: when I was 14 - 18 I worked in a medical billing office scanning old documents (and new documents as they came in).

There were 3 of us working 15 - 20 hours a week. Most boring job imaginable (I'd do it Saturday and Sunday, 10 hours each). I found I could listen to audio books so I smashed through several hundred over the years of doing this (as well as the Teaching Company and other lectures).

I also started to look for ways to improve the process. I spent a little time exploring databases and OCR over my mandatory unpaid lunch and breaks. Eventually, I realized I could rather eaisly automatically change filenames, add to an SQL database, add a few tags, etc.

I then could setup a scanning job, which used to require manual data entry after each page, to then do one massive scanning job and only edit a few "failures" after the fact. This let me scanning 10x over the other two employees.

It looked good for me, so I got moved into network admin (more fun), which further kept my attention.

My point, it's up to you to find the motivation. But if you're curious and interested in self improvement, money, moving up the company ladder, etc. Then you can find the motivation to push yourself to at least try to change your situation. I did it via audio books and experimenting on breaks, what you do is unique to you.
When you remove the middlemen, what will you replace them with?
Reminds me of the Deep Hot Biosphere theory by the brilliant and controversial Thomas Gold. Posited as early as 1992 this theory states that microbial life is very prevalent at great depth and that it may be responsible for the production of hydrocarbons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold
reflect that on how that is a privelge for a lucky few. practice feeling grateful about it.

or go on a party binge so your job becomes harder to do, more challenging due to tiredness.
Isn't that more or less the argument against Net Neutrality? Why must the pipes carry all content without favor, but content aggregators are free to discriminate against viewpoints?
Another valuable resource touching on the same topic: https://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com/ The overarching theme is getting the most out of the medium and avoiding blandness and boring results.
I know that most of us don't want to read someone's thesis because typically a thesis is boring, but I want to strongly encourage you to read Joe Armstrong's thesis, about the origins of Erlang. I did not plan to read it, I just glanced at it, and I got pulled in, and I ended up reading the whole thing because it was so interesting:

Making reliable distributed system in the presence of software errors

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

If the subject of "resiliency with queues" is interesting to you, then what Joe Armstrong wrote will definitely be interesting to you.
Second this. There is nothing more professional than asking earnestly about changes, especially in more senior roles. If you still see a role for yourself in the company, create a sketch of the new situation and bring it to the table. If not, prepare for yourself what time you need to transition and offer them that as a way out. If they are hesitant to bring the changes to your table, help them with your openness to the situation. If you have to leave, leave with the best possible memory.
Which, for those who don't know, inherited it down the chain from raw teletype machine baudot code (eg: see the videos by CuriousMarc on restoring early TTYs) - so it's 'technically correct'.

Back then the machine could either feed a line OR return the carriage to the start. Not both!
Do you get enough sleep? I know sleep makes a world of difference to me when it comes to working on less than exciting things.
Pepper and Carrot is created by David Revoy. He works pretty much exclusively with free and open source. He has done a number of projects with Blender as well. He's quite the exceptional artist, and his videos are lovely.
Stop coding at work for non work and start coding at work for work.

Why not write something useful to help your daily work?

I can't imagine a project where i would not love to have enough time to actually cleanup/fix/extend/create x for our project we are working on.
I get what he's saying. If you feel at one with what is going on around you, it isn't boring.
But he can't be taking pictures at a concert of people and bands without their consent and then try selling these pictures to brands for commercial use.
No, that's parallelism, because the cores are running in parallel.

The software is written using concurrency techniques such as threads, that work on both multicore machines and machines with a single core.
While it might feel good to admonish people and tell them that they have to get tough and suck it up and pull themselves by their bootstraps, it typically does not do anything to help them; particularly if they are taking the initiative to ask for help in the first place.

OP more likely than not realizes that they are in a situation of privilege compared to someone working in the mines to sustain their family; if they are posting here, then clearly that insight alone has not sufficed to help them deal with what they are feeling.

All we know from OP is 3 paragraphs of text they wrote, asking for help; telling them to stop “acting like an entitled little child” is downright rude and not what HN is about.
I am not a photography lawyer but... a model release would certainly be expected in a situation where a photographer hires a model for a specific shoot whose shots would be used commercially. In situations where the shoot is for a third party (e.g. a clothing company that hires a model and a photographer to create catalogue pictures) the model release might be held by the party.

However, if a photographer creates pictures of an artist in a concert-style venue, I imagine the artist (or their management) might expect the Terms and Conditions of the venue to override any arrangement that an 'unauthorised' photographer tried to create.
Disappointing. We share one planet. Nations need to be held accountable by each other for the amount of resources they consume and how they do so. And in this case whales are not even within Japanese territory...
“The far left dominates universities, newsrooms, and tech companies” meant that these three categories of organizations are more likely to push a far left agenda. It doesn’t mean the organizations themselves are completely or even majority far-left. It also doesn’t mean every organization in the category behaves this way. It only means the power balance leans far left.

As for why “far left” and not “moderate left”—because moderate leftists don’t have the authoritarian bent that we see from these organizations. They don’t seek to suppress moderate voices.

I don’t know much about Sargon, but nothing on his wiki page seems to suggest he is far right, and I never claimed Milo was a moderate anything. You keep throwing out these straw men as though you’re desperate to have a very particular argument when it seems like you and I likely agree on quite a lot...

RE Fox vs CNN, I don’t follow your point. They’re both patently moderate organizations; seems like you’re conflating partisanship with extremism and your sense of partisanship is based on two data points. In any case, I’m not interested in splitting hairs between Fox and CNN so long as we can agree that neither is extreme-anything (and if we can’t then you’re too far off the reservation to have a productive conversation with).
>(cue the people who will say an update ate their homework...)

Microsoft literally pulled a patch in October because it was deleting files:

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-explains-why-windows...
This is a classic statistics/machine learning exercise. It is also the topic of my favorite scientific paper of all time:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1499

> A Ballistic Monte Carlo Approximation of π

>>We compute a Monte Carlo approximation of π using importance sampling with shots coming out of a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun as the proposal distribution.
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Huh, I lived in both as well (in the city itself, not the burbs, in both cases), and had a very different reaction. I haven't felt "unsafe" in either city, but Chicago feels so much nicer and cleaner in comparison. In SF, however, the trashiness you mention is very much right there, front and center. And I haven't seen people be harassed in CHI like I've seen in SF - there's no equivalent of mid-market, with its luxury condos getting built right next to the TL.
This was really interesting and insightful thanks!
> Everybody is a photographer today

Same as everybody is a programmer - I mean, everyone has a machine capable of it, right?
1. Collectd and Graphite serve this well or can be modified

2. Nine of these commercial services gives you per second granularity that I have seen
So it was the end of a long road for you. Microsoft not caring about Windows will mean Apple bumping the prices and dropping the quality of their laptops even further. There is an obvious demand in the market for HQ laptops, but no player powerful enough to meet that demand.
Still filtering in, there's lots of live reports being made on DownDetector - lots of full internet outages with the occasional tv/internet.

https://downdetector.com/status/centurylink
I just implemented an IMAP parser/server in Go. I found myself thinking (wishing) a lot for HTTP, JSON, stateless connections, etc. I'm happy to see someone has taken the lead in improving such an entrenched technology.
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One interesting fact to note is that there is a link between the cosine rule and probability- here’s an explanation:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/17/covariance-and-law...
PNG is lossless, so the quality will be better.
What helped me is to focus on the end user. Those are the people that you are working for!

Once I realised that I quit my job and started working for a company with real end users...
correct me if i am wrong, but if your backend and front-end run on different ports and you are developing locally using chrome, you have to use CORS to make any non GET requests
It should show him that the world is alright and he should focus on developing his sense of attention, not changing the activity (which is just temporary "workaround").
The U. S. is the last place drug companies can get away with it, is what the agenda is. Americans are suckers for a good capitalist argument. “U. S. customers pay more because they have to subsidize those filthy socialists.” Imma gonna have to call bullshit. You’re telling me you sell to NZ at a loss because...New Zealand tanks will roll up to your doorstep if you don’t? Does New Zealand even own a tank? No, you sell to NZ because you somehow figured out how to profit from doing so.

But as we see above, plenty are willing to carry the water of the poor, downtrodden drug companies.
so is GIF.
It's absolutely ridiculous to worry about the security difference between 9.966 bits of entropy vs. 9.964 bits of entropy.

You are also assuming the attacker is optimal. If the attacker has a bias that will reliably exist, and you counter-bias your generator, you can get better than 999/1000 odds against the average attacker.
It is usual practice to pass on payment details to a hotel rather than the booking agent charging the cards themselves. This can be compatible with PCI-DSS when details are tokenised and stored with a third party.
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This will start making screenshots uploaded to their service lossy, with compression, which is unfortunate.
Among other optimizations and advancements, Halide provides compiler support for advanced latency-hiding scheduling/optimizations beyond the capabilities of generic compilers, which essentially enables you to generate highly-parallel optimized CPU/GPU compute kernels to make memory accesses free.
digitalocean.com, and other nich tech websites. it usually helps to have a couple example essays/posts before asking to be paid for content.
If you say so. My statement could be amended to include "and people even batshit crazier than the alt-right."
This is not accounting for reconnect scenarios. With sessionId, if the user loses the connection and reconnects, there will need to be another DB lookup to verify that the sessionId is valid. This is not the case with JWT. The validity of the JWT can be checked without any DB lookups.

Also, this is a security consideration because a malicious user could intentionally send fake sessionIds to make us DoS our database. With JWT, verification of the signature only uses CPU on the workers which are easier to scale.
Yes, these political descriptors have different meanings in the US compared to Europe.
Why don't I just keep my data in a database then?
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Ask HN: What is your favorite open-source job scheduler
Too many business scripts rely on cron(8) to run.
Classic cron cannot handle task duration, fail (only with email), same-task piling, linting, ...

So what is your favorite open-source, easy to bundle/deploy job scheduler, that is easy to use, has logging capacity, config file linting, and can handle common use-cases : kill if longer than, limit resources, prevent launching when previous one is nor finished, ...
Do you have tips for text manipulation? Whenever I make dumb memes it's a pain to move around text on GIMP.
https://maruos.com/ but only works with some Nexus Phones so far.
10 Years ago when i needed a machine for anything, i had to create a ticket, wait a week or so to get what? One machine.

Than i got told, that they have to control it, otherwise backup and restore is not supported and on the other hand, they were only able to install stuff like svn by spending virtual 3 project days! 3! I never asked what it would cost to install some etherpad.

Two years ago in a startup, i logged into aws, clicked around for an hour and had 2 isolated networks, 4 instances, a load balancer, dns server, snapshot and backup configured. A few mouseclicks later i could have had an autoscaler as well.

Ops / own Hardware is a means to an end.
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By either offering that distro pre-installed with customizations or using generic, well supported hardware.
Is that even (legally) possible as long as Canada and Japan are part of WTO?
He asked a question, I gave my best answer. Whether it will work for him or anybody is not in my control. If you have any specific questions - ask.
Tiny bits of software.
Oops. The dithering is what makes the gif’s look off, unless the original color is carefully chosen.

PNG’s do alpha better at least.
To me, this moment is one of the failure points in the incident and is entirely the captain’s fault.

Captain: What the hell are you doing?

Benin: We've lost control of the plane!

Robert: We've totally lost control of the plane. We don't understand at all... We've tried everything

Now, instead of a team working jointly on a problem, we have two juniors feeling that they have to justify and defend themselves to their captain. It’s a really poor psychological position to be in with a time-critical problem to be solved.

It’s a human response, obviously, but I’m betting it’s the opposite of what his training would have recommended.

IMO, in that moment, the Captain either needed to get his crew problem-solving, or take control himself. unfortunately he did neither.
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Canada is not part of the IWC, we left in 1982. The aboriginal communities in our northern territories regularly hunt whales in small numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_whaling
I really don't get how the WHO gets to keep those lists without a severe backslash to their image. Since positive proof that something does not cause cancer is nearly impossible, both state basically that "a lot of people think those could cause cancer, none got to see any, be wary".

But walking outside in a sunny day is in a completely different category. Your comparison at the end is severely unbalanced, the Sun alone overwhelms everything else on both sides by a huge margin.
People often defend these kind of acts with the rationale that it is a culture heritage. If so, shouldn't they be sailing the ocean with traditional wooden sailboats and relying only on wind and currents to take them where they should go?
I have a few photographer friends and this is my understanding of US, at least New York, law as well.

It has to do with the dreaded "reasonable expectation of privacy". Walking to the local corner store, you have no sane belief you wouldn't be photographed.

The part I think is a little silly is the paparazzi with telephoto lenses shooting into the window of a hotel from a quarter mile away. Technically, it's a public space because the window was open. Doesn't matter it's the 37th floor and the photographer is several blocks away; since anyone looking into the window could see what the photographer took, it's fair game.