skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vagrant is quite extensible; you can plug in KVM via QEMU and Libvirt as a VM "provider", and use Ansible to provision the guest out of the box.

vagrant-libvirt (3rd party): https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt

ansible provisioning (built in): https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible.html

This isn't to say these will make the guest filesystem more performant than NFS; you'll probably hit the same bottlenecks with mounting host filesystems into the guest. The solution many users arrived at with Vagrant is to use a user-space synchronization program like Unison that watches for filesystem events (eg, inotify) on both the guest and the host. This is its own can of worms: O(size of files monitored) resource use on both hosts, file ignore lists, async races, etc. There's even a Unison plugin for vagrant, but I found it quite finicky and thus unsuitable for large-scale deployment

unison: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

unison-vagrant2: https://github.com/dcosson/vagrant-unison2

At Airbnb, we eventually wrote our own wrapper around Unison to make it easier to use, and saw 90x better perf for filesystem-heavy loads like Webpack once we switched off of NFS in our local VMs.
Likewise, I find any and all laws criminalizing common scams to be gross and onerous. I would rather live in a free society, where I'm sure everyone would educate themselves and never fall for these scams, and if they did fall for one, then clearly the scam was good for them and they got something they wanted in exchange. Who are we to try to prevent that?
I was personally hoping for "Sir Hat", with a Shovel Knight-style mascot.
Sex segregation in prisons is based on maintaining discipline, resting (like many other instances of sex segregation) on the unstated (and always known false) assumption that everyone is heterosexual.

It isn't based on eugenics, which is why conjugal visits are a thing.
Err, we do have payday lending regulations. The new ones would basically destroy the industry. It would remove the vast majority of lenders of last resort. It wasn't just capping fees. It was 'making sure the lender could pay'

Let's see, who else does that... banks.

How? a credit score. Which has nothing to do with being able to pay truly pay long term or be sustainable. Some poor people have good credit. Some rich people have bad. It's... messy.

But please don't let the details of what you support actually alter what you support in name.

BTW, if the rules were only targeting continuation fees (i.e. multiple debit restriction part), I'd 100% support them. Remember, your talking to someone who has been there, done that.

I'm not against all legislation. I'm against privileged people sitting on a high horse, looking down on 'the commoners' and telling them what they need.

I personally would not have qualified under the new regulations when I took the loans.

I feel like I'm talking to someone who has good health wanting to ban sneezing instead of helping the sick. And you are talking to someone who has been sick.
This brings up an interesting ethical question. Let's say for every entrepreneur who stays afloat because of a payday loan, there are two people who don't manage money well and the payday loan sends them spiraling into debt. Do you prevent all three from taking the payday loan option because it has negative consequences for two of them? What if the ratio of people that benefit from payday loans is more like one in ten? One in a hundred? I don't feel justified in legally preventing the entrepreneur from taking an action that helps them just because two or nine or ninety-nine people have the same freedom and make a bad decision. (That doesn't mean I blanket oppose all regulation however.)
It became available to the public in late 2006. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/welcome-to-facebook-...
This is exactly what I was referring to by "elitism". If people were better off to not have the loans, why would they ever use them? You think you know better than these people, but you are not in their situation.

Perhaps instead of restricting options, you should offer free poverty counseling or something. Expand people's options, don't restrict them.
But I’m a software engineer so I can solve ANYTHING! /s

Seriously though, I wonder how they seriously imagine streaming money would work. The largest payment processors in the world and all the banks still use IBM mainframes that are the fastest transaction processors in the world. Shared ledgers threaten to consume all of the world’s energy while providing worse performance. I suppose continuously streaming money would consume massive amounts of bandwidth in addition?
Yes, I’m assuming poor people aren’t irrational. Silly me.
Wow almost all positive comments. Impressive
Ironically I'm rolling out a new documentation initiative at my workplace this friday after about a year of work.

I'm using mediawiki with quite a few extentions to meet our needs.

I designed the structure around use cases since the documentation is for me and my coworkers to make us more effective. I'm also making it clear that if they have any issues or frustrations to contact me and I'll try to fix them quickly. I.e. lower the bar as much as possible to get people to use it.

As a general rule if someone is asked a question (internally) more then twice it should be documented to help save them time.

For our structure we use a heavily formatted main page with the 1st half focused on handeling emergancies, req/report forms, and general quick links. The 2nd half categorises all pages into 3 functional groupings. Guides to handle step by step process pages, notebooks for longer explanations for training etc, and referance for lists/tables of data.

These are then further divided into department focused groups.

Tl;dr IMHO do a bottom up design based on use cases like emergancies, quick lookup, normal day to day tasks, edge cases, etc.
"clj has different (quite clear) goals than Lein or Boot and both doesn't do things they do (like builds) and does things they do not (like git deps)."

I think the build tool is the part of the tool chain where you most want a single project to rally behind. You want everyone building artifacts and expressing dependencies the same way.

Unless they all work the same at that level?
51 here. To be completely honest, I personally haven't (yet) really felt any effects of ageism when it comes to work. Both in the past two years as a contractor, and before that as a perm, I have had more job opportunities than I could handle.
Can't wait until someone creates healthy, long shelf life food that is cheap, and tastes OK. Would be a game changer.
Minimalism is a modern UI trend :)
The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo Da Vinci's Genome (2016)
Land means 'land use rights', not the actual soil. Rights are provided by other people. The community agrees that they won't squat on the owner's plot of land. The community is not paid for providing these rights nowadays though. You could expect an uprising of unhappy people soon.
Very interesting. What I'm curious about is how this language is compiled, the implication seems to be that it gets translated to C/C++ which seems to overlap a lot with what we are doing with Nim :)
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What in my statement implies Google directly pays VAT taxes. I make it amply clear that "discounting government's VAT income from Google's operations", i.e. owing to the actual operations that result in transactions with Google, under EU law, subject to EU VAT, regardless of who pays it!

On (ii), ANY and all costs incurred in operating a company, including paying VAT, can be deducted from revenues while calculating profit. That in NO WAY takes away from the actual VAT being paid to the government!!! HOW exactly does that "generally net to zero."? It certainly reduces profits, but unlike other "costs" that reduce profit calculation, VAT cannot be viewed as tax avoidance, if anything, the resultant profits post VAT are still subject to corp income tax, constituting double taxation. No CPA will advise a company to pay more VAT as a tax avoidance strategy, so I'm still trying to understand why booking VAT payments under "costs" net to 0, and for whom?

The entire premise of VAT is to guarantee a certain income for the government, as a % on EVERY transaction that happens in the economy. Hence, the mere existence and operations of Google in the EU resulting in transactions, is a source of VAT income for the government. Google can always move ALL incorporation out of the EU, and buyers can make "American" transactions to an American company that completely circumvent EU VAT. By choosing to have an EU entity subject to EU VAT, Google is contributing to EU coffers.

Unless there is an agenda to malign Google, ignoring government income from Google's operations seem convenient, and click-bait-ey.
As the owner of e.ht, welcome to the world of obscure short TLD’s!
Instagram's lack of a re-post feature is specifically because their platform was meant for original works, not memes or reposts.

It's dismaying that they aren't standing behind that.
That page has no citation for the 34% figure.
You quit tipping, but you haven't stopped using the service?
In other news, 100% of lottery taxes go to the school system. Strange that we don't see the same outrage for the same shady tricks practiced elsewhere.
I think the Norwegian farmer is depending on the Chinese to buy their Salmon fish. If the Chinese just stopped importing Salmon from Norway, a lot of people's livelihood is at stake.
But doing so will only force them into worse options for the time being. By restricting those options, you aren't magically progressing society into higher standards of living. If you want better options, create them. Then you won't need to forcefully restrict other options, people will voluntarily switch over.
That doesn’t mean there’s no room for improving the industry. If I recall, Colorado recently (within 5-10 years) reformed payday lending towards something a little more lendee friendly. This lead to consolidation in the industry, but not a lack of credit. That suggests that while the market may be efficient, it will still substantively exist with a little push.

As I recall, the changes were to repayment terms, requiring repayment over months instead of immediately, along with other changes.
i stopped using Instacart too for this same reason. i might start to use them again if they refunded all customers all of their tips and paid all of the shoppers a significant extra bonus, as a good faith measure. otherwise, there are better ways to get a few groceries...
You are literally touting the war on drugs as an example of what to do with payday lending.

OMG. Ok. Personally I'm happy my payday lender wouldn't murder me like a drug dealer would. But.. I guess that's preferable? I'm at such a loss.

BTW, Don Vitto says thank you from the deepest part of his heart.
In the US tipping is standard, not for over-the-top service.

In general, higher pay for better quality goods and services is part of a negotiated sticker price. Tipping is the anamoly here. In the DoorDash context, if the user were given the option to tip after delivery, they’d most likely just forget about the app once they got their food and never tip. So there’d be little incentive for the drivers to work hard for a good tip.
A significant chunk of the cost of modular building is in transportation

It's a chicken and egg problem. If the market were bigger, there would be more factories, with one locally sited.

there's only just so much you can do for the overall cost when most of it is in materials anyway

A big part of the cost is labor. Economies of scale can fix this by making labor far more efficient and replacing part of it with factory automation, but the market has to be big enough to keep many local factories busy for that to work.

If a house cost $50k and I could swap it out every 10 years for a newer model on the same property, that might be worth it. Sadly, that is not and will likely not ever be the case.

Houses are designed to last only 20 years in Japan.
In many states, including the one where Instacart started, the minimum wages for tipped and untipped employees are the same. You can't pay someone less than $12/hr and hope that tips make up the difference, even if the the employer is willing to make up any shortcoming.
I think tipping someone who delivers food to you is one of the only areas where tipping makes sense.
> Spanx took off when Oprah Winfrey chose it as one of her favorite things of the year — but not because she was stalked by the company’s founder, Sara Blakely. For two and a half years, Ms. Blakely sold fax machines by day so that she could build her prototype of footless pantyhose by night. She sent one from the first batch to Ms. Winfrey.

So the take-home message is don't network, just physically spam celebrities with your product. Got it.
I did community/support for an app that had a few thousand paid monthly subscribers.

I made it well know that I would give anyone who asked whatever they wanted for any reason. Just tell me what went wrong, I'll give you your money back and then I'll fix it.

People really seemed to love it. Sure there were the cheats who just wanted something for nothing. But the people who had legitimate gripes ended up being our biggest fans/champions on forums and Facebook groups.

Was definitely worth it.
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> It's not fine to act like no luxury good has ever been bought on food stamps, and every recipient is a meticulous steward of taxpayer's largesse, ceaselessly working toward the day when they don't need public assistance.

Can you please point out where anyone has ever legitimately argued that?

I think we're all aware social programs are abused. I also think we're better off with them, even being abused, than without.

Much, I would note, like so many in the broader discussion are arguing regarding these lenders...
How is it good service? Does the driver have any control over the traffic?
Isn't the big difference that all your clients have to be on the same physical hardware as your server?
42 year old manager, with most of my team 50+, being its a specialty embedded environment full of dinosaurs.

You better be technically very good. And not have too shitty of an attitude. Because you probably make a lot more than the youngsters.
What are these rational regulations? Does the ban on buying cold beer from a gas station in Indiana have a strong backing showing that the cold beer barrier is reducing alcoholism? I’ll save to some time, there is no link. It’s protectionist crap hidden behind the guise of moralizing.

States have wildly different liquor laws they all claim are “rational”, which may be true but they certainly aren’t rational to protect people. They are just designed to exploit moralizers to protect (liquor stores, grocery stores, bars, legal firms, etc).

These laws are so stupid that there are only a few cities in the entire United States where you can consume a beer in public despite there being separate laws banning public intoxication! WTF!?

People are far from “rational” when getting on the moralizing icky feelings bandwagon.
Don’t go down this road of destructive cynicism.

This issue is a good example: not “all politicians” are selling out citizen for company profit. There is one party that restricted predatory practices in lending, and the other party is now rolling this back.

I know there is plenty of criticism for every party, in every country, ever. You will never find a politician you completely agree with unless you run for office yourself.

But this specific example shows there are, indeed, two vastly different options available in US politics.
"I learned Clojure on my own time in college, and it took some time for me to understand how to deal with things like immutability, laziness, and pure functions."

I suspect much of that time was spent "unlearning" habits from procedural languages.

I know Carnegie Mellon now teaches functional programming as the introductory course, and only introduces advanced topics like "mutability" later. I think that sequence makes it easier for beginners to reason about what their program is going to do and experience less frustration.
Does anyone really want to receive tiny dick pics?
That exists. Oats!
> And if you couldn’t then lending the money would put you in a worse position than immediate unemployment

I’m glad some upper middle class attorney or policy wonk at CFPB gets to make the decision that it’s better for me to lose my job than to deal with debt I can’t repay!
i dont get it...what is the hidden connection exactly?
Do you really think that there wasn't someone a century ago that made the same point ? It took a while, but here's the answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study

I'll let you find the outcome. It's not going to be what you want to hear: different races are different. In just about anything. That's exactly what nature is trying to achieve by having races, and therefore shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Yes, but some developers only think in terms of maximizing their earning potential in the short term.
Why don't other countries have problems with payday lending?

My guesses:
- People aren't as desperate
- Lending can only happen though banks
- Loans can't be given to you can't prove reasonable chance of repayment
- You can't garnish people paycheck below a certain amount, so payday lender would never get any money.

Any other explanations?
Same thing could be said about people wanting to make a living as a professional doctor. It’s a pretty dumb quote.
Just how likely is this to happen though, it would have to be the only light source and be flickering with exactly the same frequency as the machinery is traveling at (which i assume for most devices varies a lot).

Not saying it can't happen but it does seem stupidly hard to achieve.
Interesting example: there's currently a major squabble in the British gambling industry over the use of drones to provide low-latency streams of horse racing. Off-track betting is legal here, as is in-play betting - you can place a bet right until the winning horse crosses the line.

The latency for a typical satellite broadcast is about 10 seconds, so several gambling syndicates operate their own drones to provide a private low-latency stream, thereby gaining a huge advantage on in-play betting. The drones are being flown legally in uncontrolled airspace, so there racetracks are at a loss as to how to respond.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jan/16/talking-h...

https://www.racingpost.com/news/open-skies-authority-says-no...
So, any suggestion for a COBOL book ? jk

what would you consider a solid, time-proof set of fundamentals ?
It happens a lot in the TECH and IT field in Australia

They seem to not want to hire any qualifed male over 35 years old

Yet they expect and demand a 18-21 year old with 10-15 years of experience

Its been the case for the last 20+ years

Its one of the reasons so many Western Males in Australia are leading Computers and IT and looking :-

* Trades

* Courier Driving

* Truck Driving

* Wharehouse

* Retail

often in these 5 sectors you can get the same or MORE per hour in AUSTRALIA for less tasks, less stress, less responsibility

IT wages in Australia is a fucking joke , considering the amount of stuff we go thou
I often tell people (particularly younger ones, college age-ish) that one of the best ways to stand out among their peers is to learn how to dress. You don't have to wear a three piece suit, but wear clothes that are clean, fit your body (and body type), and look nice. This applies regardless of company dress code. If it's jeans, then wear nice jeans that aren't wrinkly or full of holes. Pair it with a nice shirt and shoes, and you'll look better than 90% of the people around you. If your job calls for something dressier, buy the best quality stuff you can afford (it will last longer), and get it tailored so that it fits you.

This seems like a minor thing, but assuming you're not incompetent, someone who knows how to dress themselves will be perceived better by those whose opinions matter.

The key is to match the general attire of the people around you, but do it a bit nicer. If everyone is wearing shorts and jeans, don't wear a suit to work.

Edit: This advice isn't limited to young people, there are plenty of older people that need to learn how to dress themselves. As a general rule, though, the younger generation dresses a lot more casually than I did at their age, and many don't seem to have been taught when an occasion calls for dressing a little nicer.
I'm relatively young, but it baffles me that there's age discrimination is an issue. Do companies think I won't like working with someone who's significantly older than me? What's the issue?

This is a bit of rhetorical question--I get that there are stereotypes and companies want to build young, hip teams, but personally I find it short-sighted and naive. I'd rather be on a diverse team, age included. If I go for an interview and see that everyone is a white male in the late twenties/early thirties, I'm going to be pretty disappointed no matter how many hipster toys they've got in the lobby. It's a sign that corporate politics and HR are going to be problematic.
Seems to be otherwise - https://meta.sr.ht is now branded as "sourcehut". I'm guessing sourcehut.org is a marketing page while sr.ht continues to be the service domain.
yes, the lag is annoying both ways - from radio to streaming app where 30 seconds are repeated - or vice versa, where you have a 30 second gap.

but nba game streams seem to be about 15 seconds behind, which is the perfect amount of time to be able to see replays by just looking down at my ipad (that's streaming the same game as the tv). =)
I'm proud to see an organization I'm active in, the Rensselaer Center for Open Source, on this list! Just last week a representative from the OSI came to my university (RPI) to talk about what it means to be OSI affiliate members.
If it is so awful, why do so many people use it? Most critics don't understand the depressing reality that payday lenders are often better than the alternative.

I would also point out that the companies vary in profitability, and they're not particularly good businesses. Default rates are so high that the lenders often generate returns on equity below many regular banks, or just on par.
Isn't this what trademarks are for? If they want to enforce what the meaning of a term is in a a given domain they could come up with a new term and trademark it.
This is all excellent advice. My own experience backs all of this up.
> The only issue I've had with older folks is that they often say 'not my job'.

Which, from my experience, is not a bad thing. It's often a sign of someone who recognizes that meeting everyones else's expectations at the cost of their job expectations is short sighted and the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

And rarely does anyone have enough time to even meet their personal job expectations.

There are those whom are just lazy and only want to contribute the least amount possible, but I think you'll find that's not limited to older folks.