skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't need to work everywhere for it to be useful. You can always fail fast, literally. The data is available for wide swathes of Europe, for example. Last time I checked it was very accurate even for temporary construction sites.

Variable speed roads, either make the limit the highest speed that's in the range, or come up with a way to communicate the current limit. Most new cars are always connected, anyways. And again, you can fail fast, at least initially. As with all driving aids, the person in the driver's seat bears the ultimate responsibility.
They can freeze the account but I own the domain so I can point it anywhere I want and I have copies locally via imap.

At this point the only reason I use it is because I grandfathered in on an old plan it's still free, if that changes I'll go elsewhere.
My original comment was too mean spirited, even for this alt account. I think what I meant to say is, Austen Allred does a good job of talking his book on Twitter. He also seems like a great Dad and partner.
I mean....Republicans have spent 40 years breaking government so they can prove themselves correct.
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> why I've decided to go into aerospace and take my shot at becoming an astronaut

Never appealed to me - being an astronaut sounds like being a guinea pig.

Happy with my commercial pilot licence and study of aerodynamics.
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JUnit and Mockito/PowerMock shouldn't have to exist, at all. The language should be feature-complete enough to provide built-in unit testing with mocking of everything under the sun (including static methods etc) - if you can provide APIs to operate on XML and obscure X.509 formats, you damn well can provide APIs and syntactic support to make modern unit testing possible and well-supported.

As it stands, the necessity to relax members to `public` all over the place drives a giant bulldozer through any remaining delusions that Java is a language where actual OOP can be achieved.
In this example: you get free days. Which depending on your business might be worthless if you have suffered more monetary loss due to the downtime than the free days are worth.
Realistically about an hour a day of truly productive work.

The rest is eaten up with unproductive zoom meetings (I'm on one now as I post this), dealing with development tooling falling over and waiting for things.

Terrible efficiency.
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In this case the money seems to come from e.g. the danish government VC fund Vækstfonden.

There was a very similar play in Sweden that went bankrupt last year after consuming a lot of tax money:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantagon
The problem here is that you're outright dismissing the entire Socialist movement and the very prominent scientists (e.g Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein) within its history as quacks. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever and require more evidence than just "This is the current system, hence it's proven". The current "science" of economics are gobsmacked by every other crash that regularly comes around.
What if you forget to call “defer”? Then your code is incorrect. That’s kludgy in comparison to RAII where it’s impossible to forget to call a destructor.
Doesn't AWS (and every big cloud/enterprise) follow best-practices for production operation like FIT-ACER? https://pythian.com/uncategorized/fit-acer-dba-checklist/

That's even more surprising to me.
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True actual coding? 2-3 hours on average, and usually at night when all others are offline (8pm-1am window). All the other BS like emailing, meetings, assisting with manual testing, responding to support related Slacks, fire fighting, setting up DB queries or visualizations, checking a result of some scheduled job (these last two being business asks / annoyances and don't happen daily but you get it), etc, results in 5-8 hours BS, 2-3 hours code.

Hobby projects I can work on for 10-12 hours straight and still feel like I could go longer, but after a three day sprint of this, I have to take at least a day off to regroup my thoughts and make sure I'm not too far away from the original intention / goal, or over-engineering.
The comparison to airlines is really insightful.

I wonder if we could have a comparable article written in the 1960s wondering what the next revolution in transportation technology would be. Trains, cars, planes, next is hover cars? Space craft? With this example we have the benefit of hindsight and understand there isn't a new "automobile" right over the horizon.
> But one thing I noticed and liked is how dull the novels are. Not much happens.

Oh but it does. It just happens in the tilt of a person's head.

I once travelled in South America for 6 months with only TTSS for company. Never got sick of re-reading it.
No. I think you have got it right.
The answer to 'Windows or macOS' is, of course, 'neither.'

Linux offers all the power — and more — of macOS's Unix core (plus system utilities which have been updated this decade), and runs on the same commodity PCs on which Windows runs. It offers more and better developer tools than anywhere else. It enables one to craft a computing environment perfectly suited to one's needs and wishes.

And, y'know, it is free, as in freedom.
In case you're not aware, there's also a recent mini series adaptation of "The Little Drummer Girl" starring Florence Pugh, it's worth the time imo.
Don't be ridiculous they'll at least change the driver names, totally worth $60.
I guess once you detect a launch you start tracking systems and making guesses, if you see it heading towards a particular direction, alert anyone in that direction. Once you get a decent trajectory, alert more specifically.
Everything to me at this point is metered in the LucasFilm purchase price of 4 billion. This past year has just proven companies can just chuck ridiculous amounts of money at anything as though it's not a big deal.
The best way to think about defer is that all the deferred statements are put in a goto label at the end of the block. When you break/return/whatever, it just jumps to that label first. This just makes slightly more convenient what the standard approach to error handling in C systems programming already is.

Looking at the article, this specific implementation doesn’t quite go all the way, requiring a special guard {} block instead of working anywhere. A better implementation, working in any context, would be easy but has to be baked into the compiler.

Edit: just saw the proposal for inclusion into the C standard. It is unfortunate that they are considering 1) requiring a guard block and 2) deferring clean up to the end of the function instead of end of the scope. #1 is needless syntax and #2 would make the feature useless within loops by causing explosions and contractions in memory usage.
I'd say, accounting for all of the wasted time, and weekend hours, it's probably at least 50/week. Maybe 60. (Dev work at a startup - I am an early employee with a lot of equity.)
What is more insidious is that by itself some small portions of information are not private. But collectively they are.

Some portions of information seem innocent too like 'how much is in your account' could mean the difference between if someone tries to target me or not. Say I owe 500 bucks and have 10 in the bank and they may not bother. But say something like I have no debt and have a million in the bank and suddenly I am a very attractive target. That is for both 'good' and 'bad' actors.

Something as simple as giving your email to someone can tie you into yet another ad network. Which has already profiled you.

What is the worst of it is, I really do not care if you had the information. I do care if you use my information to mess up my life or harass me endlessly. So my default position is 'sorry I am not telling you that'.
This was a pretty good troll - well played sir ;)
Please please please under no circumstances attend Lambda, everything the poster says is true. Two weeks before the end of CS for me they initiated a pass/fail for a test that we were never taught anything about and then mandated that you repeat the entire CS curriculum if you weren’t able to pass it. They said that it didn’t matter that I passed all of my sprints and scored 100% on the unit assessment, that I needed to repeat a class (along with 3/4 of my cohort) just to pass this test. They never owned up to the fact that they didn’t teach the material on the test, as was evident by the fact that they removed ALL GitHub projects in CS and replaced them with Codesignal challenges. I messaged “Student Success” for weeks and was ignored and when they did deign to respond to me it was a generic canned response that addressed none of my issues save “Deal with it”. I took to speaking about the problems in the open channels and I was removed from Slack and forcefully “withdrawn” from Lambda. It is utter chaos there.
Isn’t Keeping the correct speed a good fit for an autopilot? Plus I would imagine there would be less turbulences and surprises at this altitude.
The higher gear ratios allow lower fuel consumption, less vibration, lower cabin noise, and plenty of reserve power for overtaking or towing.
seriosuly? You're arguing that what they did was OK because it was a little above minimum rather than going after the stuff that will help people in the US? They bought 300 million doses of a vaccine that is more relivant to the developing world.....
Transport of perishables costs way more than growing them in the first place; so doing it locally is cheaper, less polluting and much fresher. Saying you could do it remotely is about as convincing as making ice in your house as opposed to shipping it from a cold winter halfway around the world.
That doesn't sound unusual.

Back in my coding days, I could get into the zone for 4-5 hour chunks of time, but only if uninterrupted, which was rare. I'd say a typical day had 2x 2.5-3 hour blocks of productive coding, the rest of the 8-10 hour work day was meetings/conversations/etc plus an hour or two of not-work (internet, walking outside, etc).

This varied quite a bit over time, based on team and project. Greenfield projects, usually done in a group with lots of peer-programming and fast iteration were quite different than solo maintenance of legacy codebases.
Especially this time that almost all of us are working and staying at home. So, parents, which is a great news, spending more time with their kids than they used to, and this matters because parent-child interactions are important for childhood development.
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But still better than nothing. And for some (most?) people/businesses, probably worth more than any resulting monetary loss
Unlikely, given the insane growth of Bitcoin. If you invested a million dollars equally across a thousand schemes ($1000 each), with one of those being Bitcoin at $1, and then everything but Bitcoin failed, you'd be up almost 19 million dollars.

Same principle as a lot of VC, if you invest in fifty failed startups and one Facebook, you win.
Have you ever considered a different provider than Amazon? Many are significantly cheaper.

https://alternativeto.net/software/amazon-web-services-lambd...
I don't think defer is really "available", but it can be implemented as a macro and the use of some non-standard extensions.
Wow, it's faster in firefox than it used to be in chrome... while in chrome it's almost isntanteneous
It’s even more explicit to just call your cleanup routines manually, so by that logic “defer” is inferior to existing methods of handling cleanup in C
There have been tests to accelerate the breakup or melting of icebergs with bombs, and it has been found to be ineffective and expensive even for much smaller icebergs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=iipIsItPracticalToDestroyI...
You are assuming that a minute of disruption can not cause more than a minute's loss of productivity. I don't think that assumption is justified.

Consider an exactly one minute outage that affects multiple things I use for work.

First, I may not immediately recognize that the outage is actually with some single service provider. If several things are out I'm probably going to suspect it is something on my end, or maybe with my ISP. I might spend several minutes thoroughly checking that possibility out, before noticing that whatever it was seems to have been resolved.

Second, even if I immediately recognize it for what it is and immediately notice when it ends it might take me several minutes to get back to where I was. Not everything is designed to automatically and transparently recover from disruptions, and so I might have had things in progress when the outage stuck that will need manual cleanup and restarting.
I work two to three days a week. I'm currently working a physically demanding, manual labor job. I prefer this to an office job. This keeps my brainpower available to focus on my own curious pursuits in my free time (which is 4 to 5 days a week). I invest most of my income, and keep some on my bank to pay bills.

My previous jobs have thought me two things

- I dislike 40hr work weeks

- I dislike sitting in an office, under fluorescent light, being surrounded by poeople. No offense to anyone who can do it (I envy you).
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When I was a teenager I was in the Air Training Corps, and I was lucky enough to be selected for a "camp" at RAF Akrotiri.

Several U2 spyplanes are stationed there (along with the Red Arrows during off-season), and we were treated to watching them come and go to operations presumably in the middle-east. Watching them land was incredible as they appear to move incredibly slowly and touch down very gently. They're also amongst the noisiest aircraft I've ever been around.

One of the commanding officers organised a camp photo infront of one of the U2s - we were shuttled outside a hangar with this enormous plane behind us. We were told we were strictly not allowed on the other side of the aircraft that they had "sanitised" for us as not to reveal any state secrets, somehow.

I still have that photo, it's a great one, but it's also technically OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and we're not allowed to show it to anyone. Our "official" camp photo was infront of the Red Arrows, which would have been cool enough - but our secret photo was cooler.
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Calculating cost of downtime ==>

World economic output is - $150mn/minute

Current world population is 7.8bn.

Google has 4.8bn users. That's approx 61% of the population.

Let's assume about 50% of the users were impacted = 2.4bn (which is 30% of the population).

So, the loss could have been about $50mn/minute.

This is without taking SLA into consideration. There will be losses incurred on that too, wouldn't it?
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>Or you know... free the things you need to free and move on with your life

And leave memory leaks, buffer overflows, and bugs in the process, and we've done for the past 40+ years...
Thanks gus_mass!!

That’s very kind of you. I did indeed delete the post after I saw it got flagged because I was scared it would cause my profile to get deleted or something like that.

I now gave it a 2nd try, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417505

If it also gets flagged, I’ll send a message to the mod hn@ycombinator.com.

SUPER THX for the two patio11 links. I added them to my reading list!

Cheers,
- Alex :)
It's getting convoluted now that cloud providers seem to realize there's demand for this

https://aws.amazon.com/hybrid
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-arc
https://cloud.google.com/anthos

Full disclosure: I work for Azure. Don't work on Arc tho. Don't have experience being a customer for these products
Yes, whenever you see someone wax nostalgic for some golden era in the past when everything was better you can be absolutely certain that this was a period when the group they most strongly identify with was in power and able to exert undue influence over everyone else.

Why were they able to have those debates and then go have a beer? I am guessing it was because the stakes were low or abstract and did not have a direct impact on their life (like when you are the mid-20s upper middle-class white male that the OP clearly was during this golden age...) or because they could afford to simply ignore the other side after the debate because there was no risk to their personal position of privilege. What annoys this person is not the conflict, but the possibility that they might face consequences -- consequences are something for 'the other' to deal with and certainly not something that they should ever need to consider.
That only makes sense if you don't know anything about who is most at risk.
One more point the article makes that's missing from your list: It uses less space.

We currently use enormous amounts of land on agriculture. It would be fantastic if we could give all that land back to nature.
> The theory that free markets are highly effective isn't based on a belief in magic.

Well, yes, that capitalism will cause a production craze is even written in the Communist Manifesto. What "effective" means in practice however is another thing - there's nothing effective about planned obsolescence, great for the current measurement of economic growth though.

> The theory is logically sound in the same way the theory of evolution is.

Please refer to a single established scientist that agrees with that cocksure statement.

> believing in conspiracy theories about a capitalist oligarchy coopting the Economics field

There is nothing conspiratorial to question the theories of the current hegemony who have a vested interests to uphold it. The upper classes have come up with theories throughout history to justify their privileges that have no basis in social justice.
See https://www.helium.com/ for an effort focused on iot and device companies rather than home internet.
I guess the ring displayed in the movie Zardoz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4EESnKyRIY
12 years of logging data and the answer is give or take what you said. Every hour past 7pm is exponentially worse productivity wise (aka 7 to 8 vs 9 to 10 vs 12 to 1 is night and day). There’s also a catch up factor above which subsequent periods are impaired.

Basically if @20/30 hours per week it’s 70% ish productive at 60+ it’s max 50% which tells you a ton about the marginal productivity of those incremental hours.

There’s also time of week variation, time of day variation, the aforementioned burnout recovery spillover occasionally and a bit of sequencing at play.
I'm pretty sure that's a toy or costume helmet. Calling it a "firefighter's helmet" is hilariously, intentionally deceptive.
People who saw The Professional might get the wrong idea here. He raised his voice for a moment, he didn't really shout. :)
Yeah, that's it. "Once you begin making at least $50,000 a year, you will owe Lambda 17% of your monthly income until you reach the cap or the terms of your ISA expire."

So if you go from $49,999 to $50,000 you now owe them $50,000 * 0.17, or $8,500.

"Now wait just a minute, FemmeAndroid. If you're just getting a raise at your current job, that won't be covered unless you're a web dev."

Now I don't know about you, but I like doing good work, and I'm a developer at heart, even if I don't have a fancy CS degree or even a Bootcamp diploma. But every desk job I've had has ended up involving development, since I can usually help automate parts of my job. It's worked out well for me, and I'd imagine anyone who comes out of a bootcamp like this without a new job will at least try and leverage their coding experience to improve their current job, get a raise, or get a promotion. Your job might not be 'web developer' but your job will start to involve the skills you learned at Lambda school.

'You will owe payments toward your ISA if your job requires skills you learned at Lambda School, even if your title isn't "Web Developer" or "Data Scientist."'

Heck, even if you start a business, and grow it from the ground up, as soon as you make $50,000 a year, you immediately drop back down $8,500. (They explicitly call out 'Self-employed' as an eligible job on the page linked.) Even if you just get a second job that reasonably only makes a bit of money, you fall into this trap. (They explicitly call out 'Second Job' on the page linked.)

You will be stuck in this catch-22 of not having an incentive to make over $50,000 unless you can make the jump to a little over $60,000 or so for 60 months. That's point 3 on the linked website. "[You are bound by the terms of the ISA until you pay 17% for 24 months, you pay out $30k, or...] You did not make over $4,167/month or did not have a qualifying job, and therefore "deferred" your monthly payments for a total of 60 months."

All the above quotes come from your linked page. I was just simplifying the facts of that very page into a fairly big problem with how it's structured.

Heck, you can even see what I'm talking about by using their own calculator. Go to https://lambdaschool.com/isa-calculator and jump between making $49,500 and $50,000 a year, and you'll see you go from owing nothing to owing nothing a month to $715 a month while only making $4,208. That's a huge leap.
The facilitation the gp was referring to was what would be done with the vulnerability after it was publicly released.
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sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. The mapping of what? I'm talking about using an elasticsearch database as a primary database for greenfield projects.
I love both. I really do.
> I loved the Dirt series, I think I might have to go buy a recent version.

Do note that Dirt Rally isn't really related to the rest of the Dirt series. The former is a pretty decent simulation of rally driving, while most of the Dirt series are "car games" with a physics model that's not intended to be realistic but fun to play on a gamepad.
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This is why I hate logging time spent on individual tasks.

"Oh, so you only had 2 hours of productive time last Monday - what did you do wrong?"
Not OP, but how do you measure them? Let's say, for example, you can send and receive email, but attaching files does not work. Is the service up or down?

What if the majority of your users can access the service, but one of your BGP peers is not routing properly and some of your users are unable to access?
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A lot but it varies a lot day to day. Some days only a few productive hours, others 12+. I have the privilege of being the founder, though, which means I mostly work on what I want to, which is a totally different ball game to being issued work by a boss or whatever. Counter to many, my most productive coding occurs on the longer days as I can keep the entire task 'loaded' into my head and that's a big timesink.
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Once a vaccine has proved successful and enough people are vaccinated, the pandemic may well be in the rearview mirror. In the meantime, the creators of public health messaging should stop favoring the cute, warm and dull. And — at least sometimes — scare you.
Is it comparable to a Ponzi scheme? It doesn't seem like Bitcoin relies on a constant influx of cash, simply the belief that any given holder desiring to exchange for USD will get x amount for it.