skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cloud doesn't go down- regions and services inside that region go down.

A region (or AZ for Amazon) is no more or less reliable then your run of the mill DC
> It is definitely possible to get a tech job at a large company where work-life balance is taken seriously.

For a few, not for the majority.
The power comes from the threat of quitting en masse, not from actually quitting.
Could you expand on some of the things youtube has done that you believe might be the result of external political pressure?
Rust has inheritance and polymorphism.
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Get married and have kids. They'll fill up all of your free time and then some.
Agreed. Going into a fit every 3-6 months doesn't do anything if quitting isn't on the table.

This storyline is just hilarious to me now.
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Alternatively, Github became successful thanks to the git's feature set.
Join a choir. Go dance tango or folk dance. Become a radio amateur. Take a walk in nature during the weekend. Take up a hobby that doesn't involve computers (that much).

Or have children.
Ask HN: Anyone else writes down rules/principles they follow?
For the past year I have been writing down a set of rules I try to follow in life. The goal is that by writing it down, it helps me refine what my values are. Unlike principles however they can be quite specific as they relate to how I approach writing code, learning and life in large.

The rules: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules

Just curious if anyone else keeps a list like this, I'd love to draw inspiration from.
I've massively struggled to find these events to go to.
Shit, I remember most of the "bad stuff" in Debt predating capitalism by somewhere between centuries and millennia. Seems like a weird way to write it if its Secret Purpose was to be a long-winded hit piece on capitalism.
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I'm not sure what you're referring to in reference to "drop this claim completely".

FCC is actively pursuing removal of Huawei and ZTE equipment under a threat to national security.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/fcc-rules-huawei-zte/
I was referring to the whole range. Skills are much easier to teach than personality improvements, but it's still very resource intensive to train some one with very few skills. Often times we make a conscience decision to hire a junior engineer but expect negative productivity for 3 - 6 months and then very little productivity for the first year or so.

For personality traits if someone is setting off red flags that they would cause a lot of conflict and issues it's an easy pass. It's extremely difficult and unreliable to attempt to coach someone into changing their personality. It's also just really emotionally draining for the person that has to do the work.

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As the war on drugs has also demonstrated, there is only but so much behavior-shaping you can achieve with people via the law.

If a law is consistently and chronicallhy broken (and especially if the harm for breaking said law is minimal), at some point one must ask if the law is too incompatible with human behavior to justify enforcement or existence.

I don't think anyone "soft on illegal immigration" is against legal immigration. But they may very well be against the laws as they currently stand, because the laws are demonstrably shaped by racist intent; the national quota system used to decide people per year from each country where very much structured out of fear of a "browning" of America.
Oct 14: "TikTok has moved into Facebook’s backyard and is starting to poach its employees"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/tiktok-has-mountain-view-off...
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Sit in silence. I guess it's kinda meditation, but I just like to sit in silence. Sometimes its 5 minutes, sometimes it's 2 hours. I always feel happier and more relaxed afterwards. My guess is what's happening behind the scenes is that my brainis processing all the input it's been receiving over the day. Just sit on the floor in a room with not much going on. Temperature should be comfortable. Just do literally nothing.
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Darcs has the problem of exponential merges[0], where certain merges that would have a lot of conflicts takes an exponential amount of time (based on number of conflicts), which in practice can render certain patchsets unmergable.

The authors of Pijul[1] found a solution for the exponential merge problem, and from what I've heard there have been discussions that darcs might in the future switch to Pijul's algorithm.

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Joi Scientific technology NB Power poured millions into doesn't work
Not the parent, but here's my thoughts:

The size and quantity of companies working on things related to a project determines whether a strong copyleft license or a permissive license makes the project more successful

Say you want to make a business around a FOSS project. Which license should you choose for that project?

If your business starts gaining traction, people may realize it's a good business opportunity, and create companies that compete against you.

I'll simplify to two licenses, GPL and MIT. Then there's two options, based on which one you chose originally:

1) If you chose the GPL, then you can be sure that no competitor will get to use your code without allowing you to use theirs too. You can think of this as protection, ensuring no other company can make a product that's better than yours without starting from scratch. Because everyone is forced to publish their changes, your product will get better the more competition you have. However, your competitors will always be just a little behind you because you can't legally deny them access to the code.

2) OTOH if you chose MIT, a competitor can just take your project, make a proprietary improved version of it and drive you out of the market. The upside is if you get to be big enough, you can do exactly that to _your_ competitors.

You can see that when you are a small company the benefits of GPL outweigh the cons, but for big ones it's more convenient to use MIT or other permissive licenses. In fact, I think the answer to your question "why is the use of GNU GPL licenses declining?" is because tech companies tend to be bigger than before.

Now say you want to make a business around some already existing software. And say there's two alternative versions of that software, one under the GPL and one under the MIT license (for example, Linux and BSD). Which one should base your business on? And contribute to? Well, it's the same logic as before.
Google and apple already have it. Just take it over.
Changes can be made through the Airbnb website. But, apparently that's not required.

FWIW, the only contact I've ever had from hosts outside the system is emails (which I believe were actually relayed from Airbnb, not sure) and actual in-person contact upon arrival (75% of the time, the host has met me for check-in to hand-off keys, answer questions, and show me any oddities in the home).
In the domain you are used to, which isn't the only technical domain in existence.
In my experience, getting to use NuGet instead of NPM is reason enough to stay on .NET for anything.
Vic headed up the Google+ effort, killed Reader, and probably isn't the best example of Google leadership to quote.
YT has been known to remove selfrepair videos or demonization of said videos.
Totally agree with this point, so much that I did a presentation on "Git Data Structure Design" two months ago for Papers We Love San Diego that hammers it home over the course of 50 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHSZz_Mx-Uo

To become a Git power user, it is far more beneficial to learn its underlying content-addressable-store data structure rather than explore the bazillion options in its command line interface. It is surprisingly easy to create a repository manually and then to start adding "blob" files to the store!
Meditation is very fulfilling. Insight timer has a bunch of free meditations. If you don’t have a partner that’s certainly worth finding. Eating healthy plants and hiking in the woods/park are great for you and feel good. Any of your buddies from work like meditating, eating together, talking, playing card games, stuff like that? Businesses can be fun to start for the right person, especially around open source or other things that help people. Hope that helps friend, best wishes.
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To keep with the 'tube' analogy, a CPAP machine creates a positive air pressure in the airway, which in practice pushes the tube's inner walls outwardly and prevents a collapse or narrowing of the tube.
I wonder if things would be different if that house was a historic landmark, or government property.
"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures." This quote is from Alan Perlis' Epigrams on Programming (1982).
A common antipattern here in HN comments is someone using an analogy (which is almost always bad), and then the responses devolving into arguing over how the analogy isn't correct.

I honestly think a "no analogies" rule for commenting would do more to facilitate good discussion than the existing "no jokes" rule. Analogies are almost never useful. Even the ancient Greeks realized this.
I was let go from my first dev job (fresh out of college no less) and the couple of months following were actually some of the happiest days of my life. Despite being unemployed, I got my mojo back, taught myself a bunch of new shit unrelated to programming, and tried a lot of new things I wouldn't otherwise have tried. Oftentimes I wonder how I could have been so happy given the circumstances, but it finally dawned on me: getting let go obliterated any conscious or subconscious burnout I had been suffering. I felt like a person again.
To be fair to Fitbit, they left the Pebble servers up for something like an extra year at the request of Rebble's developers, who said they needed more time.

They also recently helped get the Pebble app back in the iOS App Store after it was delisted a few months ago for some reason. That was pretty critical given the nature of iOS.

Pebble was reportedly more or less about to run out of cash on their own, so against that alternative I'd say Fitbit has been decently helpful.
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Yeah, this has nothing to do with scrum/agile. The number of points needs to be decided by the team of developers that's going to pick up those stories. There's to minimum number of tickets or points, you pick up what you can, and the number of points you average over a couple of sprints, helps to estimate how much time future work will take.

It seems a lot of companies are cargo-culting scrum.
I had to google for what "^H" meant.

Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html
I completely agree that if you do not feel comfortable with the work you are doing, then you should stop. If you feel comfortable with it because you've compartmentalized, then I imagine you would not stop. And, unfortunately, there's often some reason to compartmentalize some situations: because your competitor will just as soon take the business.

It certainly would have been better if we could have gotten US policy on Nazi Germany to change much earlier than it did. It would have solved the coordination problem--for US companies, anyway. This would have required direct political action.

> Harry Truman, was quoted in the pages of New York Times in June 1941 as saying, “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible …”
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My cousin is the one with the real trove of notes. Let me get her your email address.
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20 days minimum by law in Italy (plus sick leave when needed), in practice though it's more like 28 days for most jobs. Excluding weekends and national holidays of course.
As I've gotten older I've realized this.

Generally I'm fine with 1-2 beers, but 3-4+ and I always wake up at ~5am with a foggy head. And usually an ache in my arms.
A half dozen jumps in a day is pretty long day of skydiving although you can certainly do more if you're committed. (and helps if you have someone else packing your chute)

Anecdotally I've met old timers with over 10k total jumps.

Edit with some more info: Most common plane we jumped (in CO) was a DHC-6 Twin Otter that seated about 25. That thing was turning non stop every day. Biggest plane I've ever jumped was a DC-3/C-47 in AZ that seated somewhere around 50 and took two passes over the DZ to get everyone out.
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> Instead of going on merits, everyone just followed Linus.

You don't think creating Linux and git are "merits"? Most people I know that adopted git had no clue who Linus was, or that he was even involved in git.
As I suggested at the end, you could still employ OCR and have a barcode checksum. The checksum would ensure a misread of the human readable text would fail. As long as the checksum was not error-correcting (so could not be engineered to augment a correct OCR read), it doesn't matter that it is incomprehensible to humans, because the OCR is authoritative.

You could also implement the checksum as OCR-able text, although it wouldn't be as dense, and probably wouldn't help human readability.

I think ultimately it should not be trusted that a machine will read what a code appears to be. That should be enforced on the device: "Are you sure you want to visit malware.site?". It's also easy to manipulate computer vision; you can engineer patterns which will read as one thing to humans, but another to machines. In some ways it's better for these codes to not be human readable, such that trust is not misplaced, and the machine is used as the best source of truth.
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yeah but only they can write the law and nominate judges to enforce it.

IMO getting rid of the tax subsidy for employer sponsored insurance, enforcing anti-trust law on health providers (insurance, hospitals, etc.) by forcing them to disclose prices and getting rid of onerous licensing regulations will achieve the intended decoupling between health insurance and employment.

However, you need to pass laws for all that.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for Kira Systems, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up.

I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
There's not much data in there and it's probably not worth even worth importing given that Fitbit data is 1000x larger at least.
How does the overbooking occur? Are you using multiple services and then managing across services manually?
Is there some alternative firmware for fitbit devices that makes them log into a self-hosted service?
I’m not suggesting every gun owning American goes out looking for people to kill. All I’m saying is guns were designed to kill. You agree with this yourself since you raised the point about hunting.

I mean when was the last time you killed a deer with a skirt?

Honestly, I get you love your guns, but at least be rational about the arguments you’re making. A gun and a skirt are not in any way even remotely equatable yet gun owners frequently make dumbass comments like that rather than just saying “yeah, I know they’re dangerous weapons designed to kill but I try and exercise some common sense and I enjoy firing them”. At least that would be an honest opinion.
Wait, they have daily cleaning fees?
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I think part of the confusion stems from the word “computer” itself. Ted Nelson makes the point that the word is an accident of history, arising because main funding came from large military computation projects.

But computers don’t “compute”, they don’t do math. Computers are simplifying, integrating machines that manipulate symbols.

Data (and its relationships) is the essential concept in the term “symbolic manipulator”.

Code (ie a function) is the essential concept in the term “compute”.
Just this happened in the Clojure community when Raynes (Anthony Grimes) died. He made a lot of utils and projects for the community available open source and since his passing in 2016, community forks have been available in other organizations or willing users who fork and continue maintenance.

See for example https://github.com/Raynes/tentacles which now "moved" to clj-commons https://github.com/clj-commons/tentacles

Edit: just learned after looking up more about it that Raynes also seems to have been behind the creation of Elixir's Mix toolkit (Mix is Bundler, RubyGems, and Rake combined) so he touched on a lot of peoples life outside of Clojure as well.
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I'm under the impression that health data is not uploaded to iCloud or backed up by iCloud backup. What makes you think otherwise?
> "It's almost winter in US. Pardon me, but taking a walk in the dark, alone, with your camera doesn't really sound as a good advice."

Pardon me, but the US is an absolutely giant place - in Texas this is the time of year where I can go out in the evening and not be miserable. Also some of the best photo's I've ever taken where in Telluride in the middle of February right after sunset.
Rust has trait inheritance, but not object inheritance. Servo uses code generation and macros to get around this. (I’m literally writing an operating system in Rust, I know what I’m talking about.)
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