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One of the major issues for manufacturing in India is the availability of reliable electricity.

I've heard this a number of times over the last decade or so, and wonder what is it that prevents factories from running their own generators/power stations. Is fuel availability also a problem? Is is not economically feasible? There are plenty of factories in the world that have backup power sources. What's happening in India that makes this not common?
API node service for decentralized oracles :)
if getting shaken down is part of the risk of flying through israel then it’s a public good to let others to know. this reflexive defensive crap is par for the course i suppose.
Hi Joshua, thx for the tweet (that whiteness is a nightmare :-0, lol). Never encountered it when testing Chrome, but def a problem.

I can tell you were on the New Zealand page.

Do you mind if I ask... Was it on desktop or tablet? What OS are you using? And what version of Chrome? This will help me troubleshoot accordingly.

Love the other suggestions. Adding to the roadmap. (Note: I had thought about adding key language phrases but many languages have multiple ways to say Hello, Thank You, etc. But I may use the power of crowd-sourcing for that. Stay tuned!
The same thing that prevents you from getting feedback of your interview from a company. The slightest misinterpretation can have legal ramifications and invite lawsuits.
Cut the mold off, it wont kill you, its completely safe to do so with hard cheeses.
Explain that, please. Because I'm with OP. For most people, a job is something you do because you don't want to starve. Please explain your statement, because I think you have it backwards.
Yes. Why not? Add more busses and trams. Sunset houses have garages, many driveways, much of which is stuffed with junk and undriven cars. Perhaps they are supersaturated with cars?

The "no cars in the city" philosophy is not one without challenges or setbacks - getting rid of parking in sunset would suck, but it would motivate the creation of more and better public transit, which is a better solution than cars by nearly all marks.
> Writing memory-safe C is clearly possible - many other enviroments are written in C

Show me one major piece of C software that does not have frequent memory-safety bugs and I might believe that.
Software Development projects fail
What was your experiment?
And that is why some cases go to court. That is what a lawyer told me while writing our own internal e-signature tool then asked for a few things to help provide evidence for those cases.
>We're still in Iraq and Afghanistan to some extent all these years later

Only because the US isn't willing to use Mongol tactics to win. US could end it tomorrow if we said we'd nuke any village found to be working with the Taliban or use our numerous chemical and biological weapons to wipe out the native population

Believing in basic human rights is why the US is still in the middle east
that's true, yet cheese is still in the top 5 on the chart and still produces much higher emissions than plant based alternatives.
> ultra cheap dedicated server at 5€/m
Dedicated? How? Where?
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"The phones being expensive is what makes them appealing"

Well yes, they're a status symbol, no need for the arm chair.

People may rationalise how it does y better than the competition, but there very few people where the better y is worth the extra $xx.

I'm reminded of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

Edit:
I'll admit its hard to tease out utility differences here. This isn't a rolex situation where the cheaper alternative is 'better'. Although I could cite the gold iPhones as purer examples.

The fact remains, a mid range android phone gets you 95% of what you want a smartphone to have. The iphone proposition is nice to have, not need to have.
Fun story. I worked at a "trendy" SV startup. I was hired in a wave of employees around the start of the year. I took no PTO. Around the end of the year they announce they are moving to an unlimited PTO plan. No one got paid for unused PTO that year.
Even before Oracle, Sun had licensed it as CDDL. So Oracle itself may not be able to answer that question anymore.
I have a simple SaaS product that plans emergency shifts for dentists (evenings and weekends). The value is in 1) fair planning, 2) a single source of truth on who is on call, and 3) reminders. It makes $300 a month with minimal cost and almost no time spent. Since it is B2B I only have to send invoices once a year.

Anecdata of course, but it has been like this (and profitable) for the last 7 years. At least proofs it is not impossible (I also never really invested lots of time in it to get to this state)

I think i can bring it to 30k a year with sufficient effort, but then again, my salary is higher than that so it doesn’t make enough sense to switch my time to do so. (The growth problem of course is sales, not tech)
For me there is a related issue that is just as problematic or worse. There are certain things that are critical of the US government that are simply not allowed to be spoken in most US centric places. The public effectively censors itself. I could mention some specific things but that would trigger it and then no one would see my comment.
In general you can get away with mentioning things from the distant past but nothing particularly heinous or recent. I think that this is because people want to believe that their side has a moral high ground.
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> when I think about what my next career move should be, none of the opportunities around me excite me.

Look for problems to solve; problems are Goldmines.

On this subject, Peter Diamandis is brilliant > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
> The same is true in java if you use instanceof.

Java isn't a particularly pure example of OOP: it has `if`/`for`/`while`/etc. from structured programming, non-OO "primitive types", non-polymorphic `+`/`-`/`*`/etc. and so on. `instanceof` is another example of a non-OOP feature (the OOP approach would be an `isFoo` method, where each class can decide what to return).

> inductive data type definitions are not supposed to be extended by any module other than the one declaring them, and adding more should be considered an API change.

Exactly. Yet in OOP, anyone can add new subclasses whenever they like, without ever telling the original author, and instances of those subclasses can co-exist alongside any other subclasses and will (in theory) work fine with all the existing code written for the superclasses.

What if I altered your sentence to say the following:

"Functions acting on a datatype are not supposed to be extended by any module other than the one declaring that type, and adding more should be considered an API change."

This would seem crazy if we applied it to an FP language; yet that's exactly the case in OOP, where a fixed set of methods are implemented inside each class.
Fill a niche that is difficult to solve for, but easy to scale once you do. Fix a problem that you've had.

In the end, there are a lot of opportunities for SaaS, imho the DBaaS are the main reason to consider a cloud provider. Getting setup, failover, backups, hot recovery etc are middling to difficult even with dedicated resources, but tend to have solutions that scale well once you do.

Not suggesting that as something to do, the bigger cloud providers are likely to edge you out eventually.

It could be as simple as a better whois lookup service that is fast and deployed to multiple regions on the major cloud services. Whois in particular is difficult because the resolvers for some of the less big TLDs aren't as responsive, there's inconsistencies in standards and normalization takes work.

Again, it's a matter of figuring out a niche and filling it.
Chinese programmers using ASCII and English names for things would also be of great help to all other East Asian programmers that aren't Chinese.

Also what about the fact that while Mandarin is the largest language/dialect it's far from the only one in China? Using English/ASCII means all the programmers in China can understand each others code...
Wow they asked you to login? I have the Apple watch feature for auto-login, but took my watch off as soon as they grabbed my laptop.

Yes I went through several tiers of security as well, each with different organizations it seemed (airport, private, gov't).
I've been wanting to go on a cruise lately. They look so fun.

It seems like there's about 2,000 people or more on a ship. They are entire floating cities with their own water treatment, jail(the brig), a morgue, own newspaper/letter, in-house tv station - I was looking at technical jobs on cruise ships one day and seen that one has like their own little morning show, etc.

However I doubt a small town with 2,000 people would equal 2 million cars worth...

I know I seen a few years ago one cruise line was playing with hydrogen fuel cells. https://youtu.be/oI9OmoMwz5s

Cruise ships kinda remind me of future ideas like arcologies or Skyscraper Movie (2018).

Seems neat everything is within walking distance and self sufficient in the middle of the ocean. Well they still need fuel and food supplies when they dock and prepare for the next ship... but imagine if they could build farms on sea too...

Seems like the ocean with the right power solution would be virtually unlimitless water and electric.
That accountability doesn't work for everybody, of course.

I learned in school that gyms sell more memberships than their facilities have space to support. People think that by buying a membership, they're locking themselves into going and working out because they're paying for it.

Sometimes, however, people conflate paying for the gym membership as actually going to the gym, and then don't go at all.

But yes, as you said: it boils down to accountability.
All closed-source networking equipment is a national threat. Public infrastructure should use public, freely auditable technology.

I know that technically telecom networks are privately owned, but they've become a vital utility to the public at this point, and should be treated as such imo.
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Sounds like something Getty actually would have said.
I am consistently told that unions used to be a good thing, but are completely unnecessary, now that they have fought for, and won all the important employee rights.

And now I read that in 45 US states, companies don't have to pay what they owe you in vacation time, when you get laid off.
My understanding is that nuclear maritime power would be widely used were it not for the public perception of nuclear power as an unstable and dangerous source of power.

Consider the fact, though, that the US Navy is the largest user of nuclear power if measured by number of units, and has operated these units without significant incident for over half a century.
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95% of what I do on my laptop (other than random web surfing) is hobby stuff that can go to Github.

That 5% (taxes, paperless office) happens on my MacBook.

So I’ve start to do the same thing: MacBook for US travel, $40 laptop for international travel.

Works great.
Oh yeah, I recommended these in the past and just mentioned them again in another comment on this thread :)

4GB is enough for most Pi projects, and <$20 premium is worth never needing to worry about SD reliability to me. My understanding is they use multi-level cells, which are far less expensive than true industrial grade single level cells, but they only write a single value to each cell, increasing the reliability significantly.
Those profiles would quickly become so broad as to be useless. Context in the moment is the most important thing, which is why even Google shows ads targeted to your actual search query.

Cookies are also not an identity and refreshed very often. Their main use is to cap ad frequency and track conversions over the short-term (hours to days).

Google and Facebook do not provide any personal identifiers. That would be a massive breach of their core 1st party dataset. What little data they did provide is now gone with GDPR.
I can agree with most of your comment, but India has changed (may not be true in all regions). It’s changing every day, there are some parts drafted as Industrial Zones with reduced/subsidized resources like land, electricity, tax incentives and water supply just for this. One such place I can think of is Sri City [0] close to Chennai. I am not sure about the current situation, but it is a good place if you are thinking about manufacturing or assembling electronics. This doesn’t mean India is going to challenge, but the conditions are much different.
[0]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sricity
I suppose it depends on the storage. The first full-scale CSP in the US is Crescent Dunes in Nevada, but it cost $975 million and has a rated capacity of only 175 MW. At this point, I wonder if it would make more sense to just use PV with molten salt as storage heated with resistive heating.
Country ones are owned by the country - TLD's are a bit more unclear.
So maybe take an extra 4 weeks off :)
Wow, that is the most often made generic comment.

Are there other languages _like Rust_? Have you heard of large, production code bases maintained at large successful companies that are written in Rust?
Thank you. It was an unfortunate learning lesson. Even if I do get my laptop back it won't be usable -- I have to assume they've gone through it and tampered somehow.
For me, the main benefit of coworking has been the community. It's been great to chat with someone else who needs a break or to go get lunch/coffee with people. The second big benefit is that I am more productive than when at home (too many things I can use to procrastinate).

Really, the only drawback is that I don't have a dedicated space because all the offices are full right now. I thrive in noisy environments and many of the drawbacks (visual barriers, wantrepreneurs, slow internet) for others don't apply in my case.

Also, I helped open this space (the only one in a city of ~100,000) and have been involved in the community from the beginning.

EDIT: I've worked in a few coworking spaces around the US and these pros/cons still generally apply for me.
This is not true. The most advanced 5nm wafer process is at Taiwan Semi.
And it does have saturated fats and cholesterol more than you'd like.
Ha - I like how you call it a "descent." A healthy techno-skepticism.
Luckless.
I avoid Javascript for all of my casual web browsing and I'm submitting this comment with w3m. So, sure, go ahead and require javascript. I won't read your site, but you probably weren't going to make any money from me anyway. I only use javascript for applications-over-the-web, like banking and company calendars. Requiring javascript is a sign you probably don't have interesting reading material anyway, so you're doing me a favor by chasing me off.
I don't care for unlimited PTO. Here's why:

When I accrue time off, you as the employer and I as the employee have a written contract on what that time is for, when it can be used, and why it can be used. It places parameters on my time, yes, but it also is an actual agreement between the two of us, in objective terms.

Whereas unlimited PTO sounds nice, it also opens up more problems between myself and workplace 'culture'. It's so subjective and down to personal opinion as to whether or not I'm abusing the system.

It just tastes bad. I've worked in both environments, and I much rather prefer the structured environment. There seems to be far less drama and nonsense related to taking time off.
I think improving on the syncing-workflow and enhancing it to offer more then just syncing would be something useful. Something like automated actions, or filters.

I store sourcecode in my dropbox, and I really would prefer a way to not sync certain junk-files from compiling-process. Or let it automatically commit to a git-repo if there are changes in certain folders. Something like IFTTT for files seems a sane solution that dropbox seem to miss for a long time now.
Promotional piece dressed-up as news, was my thought.
Can't vs won't. He's making a choice, which is probably the wiser decision, but by saying "can't" he's offloading the responsibility of the choice.
https://www.kimsufi.com/
Industrial grade AMLC, for example from this reseller and brand, haven't let me down yet. Other HN users have a similar experience. The downside is the price. Delivery was one day from Springfield to The Netherlands but had to pay duties. Which is like a total opposite of China: bad quality, cheap, slow delivery, but no duties
> I assume they're very comfortable with Turkish Airlines at this point.

Oh absolutely. That also means they are very good at identifying who does and who does not "fit" the standard profile of a regular flyer for that specific flight. OP tripped something.
Probably from Kimsufi (OVH)
https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml
PDO doesn't claim "this is better", just "this is made in a consistent fashion from consistent ingredients and will have a consistent taste".

Wisconsin can most certainly get a protected origin mark, if they like.

It's like McDonalds vs. a diner. You know exactly what you get when you got to a McDonalds; it will be essentially identical all over the country. Going to a diner may be amazing, or it may be shit.
Throwaway of an ex search engineer here. This can’t work because how would google reliably only give you your information without a login account? They are only useful enough in aggregate to google so they can’t know it is only you with 100% certainty until you log in. AFAICT anyone telling you anything else is probably nonsense fearmongering, or maybe doesn’t understand how sophisticated attackers of google are and hasn’t thought through what happens when you have a logged out way of spoofing someone’s internet behavior to get their whole data.

This is effectively a) putting everyone’s approximate search histories on the internet, or b) outlawing google search’s buisiness model.

The consequences of trying option a and failing even once are so great, I argue if that’s your goal you should ban logged out personalization before anyone deludes themselves into thinking they can do it without leaking everyone’s info publically. I also think that’s going to harm consumers more than it actually helps them but I am obviously biased as an ex google search engineer.
It's called nepotism and designed exits for investors with public funds.
I'm a lurker, not a poster for the most part. And as you can see from our blog, we don't write that often. We don't really do content marketing. Any revenue we make as a result of this post certainly won't cover the time I've spent writing it. Hiri is a bit specialist.

Would be happy to tag the posts - think it's pretty clear this is a company blog though. Your point is well taken/made all the same.
You pretty much have to have a POSIX compatibility layer just to support stuff without resorting to VMs.

That said, there is a lot of room to innovate in OS/userspace boundaries that don't rely on POSIX APIs--see epoll/kqueue/iocp for one place where this innovation already occurred. I'd love to see better alternatives to POSIX signals, for example. So an OS that treats POSIX as a mere compatibility layer and not the primary driver of its design could be welcome.
I always thought that a lot of those "Fred just purchased T-Shirt X" pop-ups when you are on a site are all fake data anyway.
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Was CFC the propellant, or part of what you inhaled? I find it hard to believe that inhaling CFC could be good for you.
> I agree that the condition is real, but at some point we all have to take responsibility and control of our own careers.

Impostor Syndrome is, or has, become like Asperger's, where every dev thinks they have it. It's a "humblebrag". I honestly tell people I mentor, be confident, but humble. You have this job because you're qualified (or you made yourself qualified), so have confidence in your skills - sit up right, answer questions, take ownership. But also be humble. Don't be afraid to say I don't know, admit you don't know everything about developing.

It's OK To say "I don't know, but I'm doing my best, and if I did, I could answer you."
Oh.. okay, you are right... but I'm pretty sure you could create a class with all static members before that designation.
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I wonder how companies that are located in states where employers are forced to payout unused days at the end of the year, deal with the idea of "unlimited"? How can they payout that out, but legally they are suppose to?
I mostly feel like it (unlimited vacation) is a way for companies to save money.
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Well US is no longer a superpower hegemony, and violence is still decreasing, so I wouldn't say it's a cause and effect thing.
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Jason and I are happy to answer any questions people have about this document: why we included the terms we did, how to think about using, etc.
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Startups love unlimited PTO exactly because of this - unused PTO is not a liability in the event of acquisition or employee termination.
Even over that sort of timeline, I don't trust my colon enough to try and tackle that.
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Severance is intended to offset unemployment costs. Companies don't want to pay increased unemployment insurance premiums due to layoffs, so they give employees some token amount of cash that should cover them for just long enough to find another position.
>It helps that my supervisors are pretty cool about it.

This is why I prefer actual accrued PTO policies. I should not even have to consider whether or not my supervisor cares that I take a day off. It should just be agreed upon that I am able to take x time under x circumstances on day 1 of my employment. Worrying whether or not my supervisor is cool with is just tastes too much like relying on the largess of some benevolent overlord.
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