skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in Czech Republic, this is mandated by - you have to take your PTO in the calendar year it was awarded to you (20 days are mandated by law, by in practice companies give 25 to stay competitive) & your employer has to let you take it (not necessarily when you want, but it has to be in the calendar year).

If the PTO is not taken, the company can be fined by the state, so this is taken rather seriously.
I've bumped into two organizations which use Confluence for developer reference rather than Github's own repo-based wikis. Why??? In one case a manager even made us move an extensive github wiki to Confluence. After that, developers stopped using the reference and that had an impact on code quality. WTF.

There are already some good general purpose wiki providers out there, too!
How does being classical help with automation? I'm more familiar with ACL2, which seems to gain a lot more on the automation front from being first-order than from anything else (though it has sort of a weird take on the excluded middle).
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lower the taxes for primary residence only, then
I wonder what proportion of stock market growth is completely absent of any human decision making, e.g. automatic 401k contributions to index plans
Someone mentioned Cloudflare as a possible acquirer which makes a lot more sense than one of the big providers. Though I wouldn't be too surprised to see Google pick them up either.
What support does anyone need to use Confluence? How many people _use_ that support?
Tech products, culture designed for mass deception:Ex-Google ethicist testifies
Making Amazon's Snowball a first class object storage server
Every open source project has a warranty disclaimer. It really doesn't tell you anything about how serious the project is.
There should be a "then take over maintenance" option. A good maintainer also steps back and hands over the project. That is less troublesome for the community I think this is a good practice.

But ignoring good practice: a unpaid maintainer owns nothing to anyone.
> he didn't have to do any of that

Of course he didn't, in the legal sense of the term. And then people didn't have to stop criticizing him, in the legal sense of the term.

And obviously for the ethical / moral point of view, people have vastly different opinions, otherwise there would not be this debate.
A picture language equivalent can be found here:
https://git.elephly.net/gitweb.cgi?p=software/guile-picture-...
I don't quite understand the economics of referral programs. I'm dealing with levels of customer support to get signed up for a $120/paying signup referral program (cash not credits).

I don't understand

a) How does this possibly make them money?

b) If they want signups that much, why is the flow for joining the referral program so buggy?

(It's Mailgun, btw)
In my experience licensed products with paid support packages aren't any more secure, they just let you pass the buck when things go wrong.
It was an oblique reference to the trials for travesties and torture. Calling offering and promoting store brands monopolistic abuse for instance.

Not an implication that the trials are illegitimate or anything like that.
I have a lot of content on DO, and a few hundred referrals but most are pending, devs aren't even spending enough to trigger a payout.
I use a few plugins to make web development a better experience. Nothing particularly exceptional. Syntax highlighting, nerdtree, ctr-p, linter, prettier, bracket highlighter, etc.
One additional challenge that will need to be addressed in Japan is unreported overtime (サービス残業). Often my friends, upon preparing for a day off, will work about 8 hours of overtime beforehand and not report it on the time and attendance systems at their companies. From my understanding, unreported overtime is not always reflected in most statistics; even when self reporting I bet many people forget all the unreported overtime they do. Another example is rounding down: work 2.5 hours of overtime but only report 2.

I’m not sure what the solution is, but one idea is to lock out work laptops after a time limit, or at least record overtime when a work laptop is being used.

Until we can begin to accurately track and measure the unreported overtime, we won’t be able to improve it.

Finally, I think working in multicultural teams helps. When you see your peers have diverse beliefs and actions about work and life, you may be more willing to take more time off, and more accurately report the overtime you do take.
Build MongoDB-Like Document Store Using InterPlanetary Linked Data(IPLD) 5 Mins
Check out their official channels. Anything on reddit is going to be toxic unless it is highly curated by the subreddit mods. That's just the reality of reddit.
Privacy

Judging by what people are posting on IG, FB, and what I hear they are posting on SNAP, I have come to the conclusion that Privacy is a niche product.
Thanks, Karen Morenz, for providing a unified, panoramic view of the ways that the standard academic career progression short-changes many female scientists, even if each step along the way seems to make sense.

It's worth taking a look at three other professions with long, high-intensity pathways from apprentice to master --all of which have been wrestling with the same challenges. They are management consulting, law and medicine. I've written about them elsewhere.

In medicine, there's been a surge of female participation (and leadership) in specialties such as dermatology, psychiatry and radiology, where it's relatively easier to rearrange hours and training regimens to be family compatible. There's been less progress in surgery, where hellish hours are considered part of the journey.

In law, some firms have been experimenting with a blurring of the boundaries between associate and partner, so that there's a middle level at which women can enter into motherhood without tanking their career chances. (In the traditional model, close to 40% of entry-level associates are female, but few of them stick around to make partner.)

I'm wondering if either of those models is transferable to STEM academia. Are there particular sub-disciplines where professional success and sane hours might be more compatible? Similarly, are there tenure-track or quasi-tenure track job titles that split the difference in tolerable ways?

I haven't researched these well enough to have clear answers. But it's worth discussing.
Great! I have a number of friends I still talk with once in a blue moon at FAANG, though socially rather than about work. I'll start talking to them to see what direction they see their companies/divisions moving and what skills they could use.

And completely agreed about so many reasons to be laid off. My wife was forced out of a position at a very successful company not because of experience but because one single SVP was threatened by her. So many colleages were stunned to hear she left, but she ended up somewhere much more appreciative of her skills and experience.
I don't know, but I ran my own numbers for my car and ended up with $0.25/mile. I counted:

- insurance cost of second car (liability only)
- depreciation
- gas
- maintenance and estimated repairs

This was for my car, which was ~5 years old when I got it and is very fuel efficient. I found that depreciation makes up more than half of the total cost, so a newer car would likely have more depreciation than an older car. I got mine for $10k, and in 5 years, it's worth $5k. I think that's pretty common, regardless of the age of the car, so a ~$20k car would depreciate to ~$10k in 5 years. Also, newer cars are more expensive to insure, and taking a car to a shop is more expensive than doing it yourself.

So $0.50 sounds reasonable for the average, relatively new car that is taken to the shop for maintenance and repairs.
> then that language would be even more dominant and performant today

I think you should watch the first 20 minutes of this talk:
https://youtu.be/Dq2WQuWVrgQ

Java's early designers realised (or believed) that the features with most bang-for-the buck weren't linguistic, but were: GC, dynamic linking, and performance with observability. Linguistic features, overall, were a detractor from those, because people were hesitant to use them, and so they missed out on the big benefits. Java decided to provide these most important features wrapped in a language that was non-threatening at the time; James Gosling called it "a wolf in sheep's clothing." In other words, a familiar language was a very central part of the strategy. You say you believe it would have worked with a non-familiar one, well, we can never know, but if it hadn't, then much none of the other, more important features would have mattered.

> But the fact that Java and essentially all other successful languages have gradually been adapting essentially all of ML (sans modules), is evidence

As I said in another comment, it's not that all successful languages are adopting ML's features but some, and those ones do it because they influence one another and they knowingly borrow from ML because they like it. In other words, the designers of some influential languages like ML. Is it a coincidence? I don't know, but I'm hesitant to say that it's evidence that ML was "right." I, too, personally like ML, but I wouldn't claim its design leads to better outcomes than others. Some successful language clearly do not adopt ML's features -- e.g. all the untyped ones and Go.

BTW, Java's objects are a different take on modules. If you've seen 1ML, that's almost an OO language.
Boeing addresses new 737MAX software issue that could keep plane grounded longer
you, personally, may be a high margin customer, but some,
and perhaps a lot, of the $5/no customers are potential liabilities due to not patching software or libraries or choosing terrible passwords for their services, databases, etc.

one decent incident can cost a multiple of a year's revenue for the account.
that definitely seems the case to me

the other thing is, in the us, people say “left” a lot which they really mean is “liberal” (which itself is a very blunt word to be sure)

if put in that context, then saying the media is slanted liberal (market oriented, individualistic, capitalist etc) is probably true (at least from a layman’s eyes)

when reframed in that way, there are very few “left” media in the us; it’s either conservative (socially, right-wing) and liberal corporate media
Maybe I am a bit weird but the first thing I do with my hello world search results is open the page source. I was surprised by the amount of wasted new lines, it is more empty space than content. More surprisingly I found quite a few lines containing nothing more than spaces. There were quite a few instances of nbsp being repeated. This is one place where seeing a lot of tabbed in spaces is clean but also quite wasteful.

There are 9694 spaces in the page, 15464 new lines and ~272 non breaking spaces on a file that is only 178037 bytes. Just under 15% of the file probably doesn't need to be there. It hopefully is a fairly easy win to remove a lot of the wasted bytes in the file.
This is kinda neat. However, I found the time zone suggestions nearly useless past the initial one. I live in Chicago, and that was a suggestion initially, so great.

...But then all of the suggestions for cities to add were "close" timezones. I naturally can quickly infer when California or New York time is, so once I've selected that I'm in Chicago, a pile of suggestions for n-2 and n+2 cities isn't all that helpful.

If I pick a US-based initial timezone, offer me London, Tokyo, etc. Like, suggest timezones that I probably can't easily calculate from memory, and am likely to be interested in based on popularity in international business.
I wonder how much cost saving they are finding in using like a standard, mass produced common laptop battery vs a larger or custom battery.
More ad competition doesn't mean lower ad fees, since the success of another search platform would depend more on the number of users, not the price of the ad. Suggesting lower ad fees somehow benefits users is a huge stretch.

The success of the other Google offerings is due more to the benefits of network effects, you'd need more than a decrease in Google ad subsidies to be competitive.
> That $5/mo has to cover the hardware costs: you're buying expensive physical servers to put the VPSes on, and lots of SSDs too. SSDs have a limited lifetime measured in writes, and some of your customers will leave broken programs running that chew through this precious resource for no reason. If you throttle them, they'll complain.

This makes it sound like you could get a big win in the VPS-provider space by drawing an ROI line at ~$20, and making all instances below that size diskless, with their rootfs being either a tmpfs overlay of a shared SAN-mount of a base image (like a LiveCD environment), or a tmpfs into which was dumped a PXE initramfs image (as e.g. CoreOS does in its idiomatic deploy style.)

I feel like many customer use-cases would still be satisfied by such instances (especially if you also offer local object-storage for the diskless instances to interact with.) It'd sort of be a hybrid position between ephemeral PaaS containers, and actual persistent VMs.

Anyone know of a provider that provides low-cost long-running diskless VPSes like this?
If I build something in real life, like a playground, and ask people to come use it, but then through my own negligence it falls apart and becomes a hazard, it is my fault for having created this situation in the first place.

Idk why this keeps getting tied back to paid/unpaid. I can think of many a situation where someone gets paid, and also doesn't care at all to help.
For employees nobody cares. For contractors it matters a lot, and some consulting companies have to maintain a certain level of certified employees to maintain status with their overlord/partner. (ie Microsoft, AWS, etc)
Sounds like a generic usb gpio and a couple lines of bash, maybe a cron job. Nothing.

Maybe a few more lines of bash to do some sort of dynamic activity monitoring, to detect a "coding" usage pattern vs a "checking email, browsing web" usage pattern and adjust the availability automatically.

Still almost nothing.
While I'm pretty frugal myself I do splurge on cars; currently own the Model 3. The reason being is that safety technology is always improving. So driving an '00 Civic with 220k will save you some cheddar it may cost you a severe injury or worse.
I forgot DigitalOcean was one of the players when all this shit went down:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-new-era-of-corporate-...
There is a Code of Conduct. Question: is there a Code of Maintainership.

A document describing the principles the maintainer tries to uphold?
Apple and amazon and facebook are all vulnerable. I'm not sure about microsoft, they are working harder to be independent. Apple controls the installation of apps on their platform, you can't easily go around it. They arbitrarily prevent competition as in browsers. Many many companies get no benefit from being in the app store and don't want to pay apple 30% of their revenues (think disney, amazon, netflix). Apple doesn't have a way to unlock their phones and go around these limitations. If they did then you could argue they aren't blocking competition. Apple (and all these companies) all do some things I see as positives too.
You can submit patches upstream all day long, but you can't browbeat the maintainer into applying them if they don't really care about it. It's their project at the end of the day.

Likewise, it's just as annoying when you submit a PR on some random thing because you see a legitimate bug or unhandled case and the maintainer starts demanding you do more free work for them to do 100% they way they would have done it. Just say "thank you", accept it, and make those superficial edits.

The price point here is free. This is essentially a gift economy. Just because some random strangers on the internet have an interest in the same few bits of code, doesn't mean there is an obligation to do free work or twist someone's arm.
No Code is the Duke Nukem Forever of software development.
Unfortunately, the national power provider has a monopoly on energy, and is a political mine field. So independent power producers are ready to integrate massive solar and wind power capabilities, but due to politics they keep delaying the negotiations and contracts. Many private businesses are trying to produce their own power through solar and alike, but its expensive as that technology needs to be important and the rand is one of the most undervalued currencies.
> I'm rooting for them as one of the best potential guardians against the cloud provider market becoming even more of an oligopoly.

So much this
Yes. I would expect there to be vulns and inconsistent patching for all OSS that I depend on and where I don't have a professional contract with its maintainers.
The PVS-Studio team couldn't get past the C++ source code of the VVVVVVV game
> Some floss developers choose to work for free. That’s fine or even admirable.

Uh, yes. I agree.

> If a dev isn’t being paid then they should have the absolute right to refuse all maintenance or even just destroy the project.

Where in my post did I say they cannot quit?

> I’d keep my code closed source if there was a risk that it would start getting used and suddenly I’ve got an extra job for zero pay.

I'm with you.

I have the feeling, you are replying to a different post or didn't read mine fully.
It can close doors on certain life events. Buying a house, being financially stable enough to have kids, living without the burden of a massive debt. I think I'm not against degrees overall, but it's almost predatory these days. I remember my high school counselor filling my head with these ideas of becoming an MD and how much money I could make. Don't recall ever asking if I liked that sort of stuff. I dropped out early and went into IT and have been pretty successful. There are folks where a degree is really just a debt and they'd be better off learning a trade.
Accessibility is not an entitlement, it's a right.
Oh, and apparently there is something vaguely along these lines already:

https://github.com/rust-secure-code/safety-dance/
Let's not conflate 4 years of undergrad with a crash course in leadership. Id take someone in the military for 4 years over most college grads with a useless major any day of the week. For one, the degree and failure to apply it shows me that make bad decision or can't execute a plan. The military person shows me they are a leader, can make tough decisions, and are able to keep going when thing get tough.
What do you mean by external forces? These are all interactions between human beings. We behave that we do in large part based on our interactions with others. Would you say that it is "external forces" that cause us two to communicate in English?

What is the alternative position you're suggesting?
Software certification matters in certain industries.

In automotive and airspace, you will find that being certified opens a bunch of doors for you.

From a company's perspective, these certification don't PROVE that you know what you are doing, but at least they prove that you aren't completely in the dark with regards to all the annoying processes that exist in the industry (stuff like MISRA-C, Automotive SPICE and so on). Or at the very least, you aren't lying when you say that you've TOTALLY heard of them, honest (un-shockingly, people lie on their resumes, even about things that can be easily checked).

This might not get you hired, but it will make them consider you.
It's your axiom because others don't believe it being on github or free immunizes the maintainer from criticism. Licenses and GitHub ToS have no authority over who may or may not be criticized. You reason that it's not eligible for criticism because you hold the axiom that it is unreasonable to criticize open source projects. The "gift horse" phrase doesn't apply to situations where the "gift" is a liability; i.e., something that could leave you worse off than before--the Trojans would have done well to look their gift horse in the mouth, for example.
> It seems like a pipe dream. It's built on some innate belief that someone can create tools that work for every kind of business possible, which is crazy.

It doesn't need to work for all every kind of business.

Often it starts with an excel sheet. Which works for surprisingly long, but eventually problems with concurrent data entry, or more logic / validation etc. really make that untenable.

But, going from a highly customized excel sheet to an in-house developed custom application is a huge leap; only when you start to replace it do you realize just how many Excel features you were actually using.

When you start writing a custom application, you need to take of authentication, permissions, audit logging, search functionality and so. Maybe your web framework helps you with some of them, but never all of them, and the missing concerns are a huge pain to get right.

I really want something, either a framework or a highly extensible application, to let me actually focus on the business logic. And at the same time, still let me deploy on premise, let me have a functioning CI/CD pipeline and keep my code in git.

For a complex project, it will be a programmer writing the code, not a business analyst. But they should focus 90% on intrinsic complexity, not on accidental complexity. We're not there yet, so we need something better.
I really enjoy this article, because as simple as the point is, there's something a bit novel taking what we've discovered in Machine Learning and applying it to general life outlook strategies. I've often had this intuition about the best strategy through life is having a dynamic shifting goal/feedback horizon between 'long shots' and 'short-term heads-down' life focus, but the article far better articulates the form of this strategy.
> there are NO educational and professional qualifications, scientific grounds or any legal regulations required to write these books

If some activity is not legally regulated it still doesn‘t mean that uneducated person doing it should be tolerated as he presents himself as an expert.

The media which didn’t check these facts are also to be blamed and shamed.
See also all the various "cloud security assessment" certificates for organizations.

They require you to burn a ton of money drafting policies, writing TPS reports, and generally just pushing pencils. Ostensively to improve the security of your SaaS, but really mostly to work as a barrier to entry.

The cost of a full-time compliance officer is minuscule for well-funded startups, but a massive challenge for a bootstrapped business of two people in a garage. Hence well-funded startups do their best to encourage regulation that asks for as many certifications, trials and tribulations as possible.
When have the Democrats been anti-big business? Genuinely curious, was the last time Microsoft in the 90s? They've been pretty closely aligned with corporate America as far back as I can remember.
US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness
> If you can pass them, that's great but does it prove you can work and handle complex business problems, probably not.

No, but neither does anything else. We (as a civilization) have settled on using tests as an objective proxy to measure knowledge. Although I generally agree that software certifications don’t mean much, saying that they’re useless because they’re tests dismisses almost all forms of education. Lawyers have a bar exam that, if passed, tells you a lot about that person’s knowledge of the law. Just because current software certification exams are relatively easy to pass and don’t tell you much about a candidate, that doesn’t mean that a decent test couldn’t be put together.