skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given how much of EU innovation is bogged down by regulatory capture, I am extremely skeptical of this (note, I know EU/UK are separated, but nevertheless, lobbying is lobbying, universally)

That‘s probably how the concept of „legitimate interest“ made its way into the GDPR law, make it practically worthless, with the single upside of making people more aware of cross-site tracking.

Another example of half-assed EU law: EU data roaming. Given that EU is all about the free mobility of people, the data roaming „fair use policy“ makes no sense. If we‘re pretending to be in a single market, why don‘t we have a single market for telecommunication services? I can order stuff from amazon.fr and have it delivered, yet I can‘t have a mobile phone contract from say... a Spanish company.
SBG is a small part of their operations. I doubt it will have a lasting issue on their image
I agree with your points, just want to add: The best way to connect with the culture and people is to get a local job, or studying at a local university or at least taking courses.

EDIT:

Basically become an immigrant, even if it's only for a couple of months. Ideally don't plan your return, make your journeys open ended!
> Traveling made me regret circumventing the language requirement in college so much.

I can feel this. I did the opposite. Instead of circumventing the requirement, I studied 5 different languages, and then continued 2 on to relative proficiency.

This has been, in my opinion, of tremendous benefit in living on and traveling to multiple continents.

I had an advisor whom I admired who was competent in some 12 or more languages. I was so jealous. I guess I probably still am.
In math and computer science, unbounded doesn't mean infinite. Unbounded simply means that there is no a-priori fixed limitation to the amount of space and time that a valid, non-diverging program could take. Unbounded space and time is (as the article correctly points out) a hard requirement for a computational model to be Turing-complete, in the sense that there exist computable functions that take arbitrarily high time and space to be computed; (see the time- and space-hierarchy theorems for details) any computational model with a space or time limitation would therefore be unable to compute such functions making it, by definition, not Turing-complete.

For this reason, ordinary Turing-complete programming languages allow (at least in principle, i.e. assuming infinite RAM) valid, provably terminating programs with arbitrarily high, unbounded complexity, unlike other formalisms such as regular expressions, which do not allow the same level of generality.
I feel personally attacked. But I didn't downvote you because you're not wrong.
How do you see that?
Union based orgs typically went under because competitor labor was offshored or just cheaper (e.g. new airlines hiring pilots for $16k/year).

When you're competing with a Mexican, a Bangladeshi or a slave in Thailand all working for a pittance it doesn't necessarily matter how hard you work. Unemployment or poverty wages are your two choices.

Police unions and prison worker unions are more effective because they tend to aid rather than threaten capital. Teachers unions by contrast are not, which is why most governors declare outright war on them.
>If people are available for mentoring please let me know. I would be really grateful to learn from you guys.

I work on listenbrainz.org [0] by the MetaBrainz Foundation [1]. We use Python, React, Spark and a bunch of other stuff. I'm happy to help you get started with one of MetaBrainz's projects if you want. My email is in my profile.

[0]: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server

[1]: https://metabrainz.org
> was (and still am) interested in hiring people who would challenge manager, TL, ... and speak up if they think something is not right.

Sounds like mssundaram is just the person you need to hire then.
I take pictures (but relatively few - maybe a couple times in a week-long trip) just to look at them in the future - they're great for bringing out memories of a certain place, situation in life etc.
Hi HN, author here.

I built a tool to create smallish business apps/reports/dashboards in javascript.

The tool is based on the Observable notebooks runtime (www.observablehq.com), meaning it's a live JS programming environment.

The main difference between this and Observable are:

- I organize cells on a 2D grid, with multiple tabs - much like a spreadsheet that business people are more familiar with.

- This tool runs as an electron app, so you can access local files and make non-CORS http calls, which is the biggest pain in the butt when working with Observable.

- This tool ultimately is meant to be "batteries-included", meaning that I hope to provide more complex charts/pivot tables and all sorts of widgets to make business people's lives easier.

This is a very early version (they told me to launch early), so it's still very very crude, however I already use it myself for a variety of tasks.

Any comment / suggestion / money? / job? welcome.

Also info@jigdev.com
We have several bare-metal servers on GRA/Gravelines & RBX/Roubaix, 3 weeks ago we had a 3h downtime on RBX because they were replacing power cords without previous notification.
Maybe they were aware this could happen, and were in the process to fix it
I can't reduce JVM memory usage below 100MB. It simply is impossible. Meanwhile with rust I can easily write 20 times more memory efficient applications.
...which has now become an actual cloud.
This is not even remotely "first world problem". This is a problem that deals with democracy, anti authoritarian and such.

> The reason why this product doesn't existing on the market is because because NOBODY (except the odd 4000 people on HN) wants this product. Most people don't even use a VPN or know what TOR is.

The general public wants it and even uses at times of mass protests and government censorship. They don't know the technical details but they do use it all over the world, albeit infrequently.
I learned that quickly, so when I go into an interview I'm always honest and take a couple of extra CVs just in case the recruiter has changed something.

At one interview they told me they thought I would be a good fit, but couldn't hire me at my requested salary.

I hadn't put down a requested salary, the recruiter had put down an unreasonably high salary and almost cost me the job
Self-hosted Kuberenetes and a FreeNAS storage system at home, and a couple of VMs in the cloud. I've got a mixed strategy, but it covers everything to remote locations.

I use S3 API compatible object storage platforms for remote backup. E.g. BackBlaze B2. I wrote about my backup scripts for FreeNAS (jail that runs s3cmd to copy files to B2) here: https://www.shogan.co.uk/cloud-2/cheap-s3-cloud-backup-with-...

For Kuberenetes I use velero which can be configured with an S3 storage backend target: https://www.shogan.co.uk/kubernetes/kubernetes-backup-on-ras...
There needs to be a clause that makes the software and other designs specifications openly available (or for some small fee, not exceeding a reasonable percentage of the product's retail price), once the product is no longer supported by the manufacturer.

I.e. the manufacturer has produced a newer - presumably better - device that non-technical users will want to buy, and the old devices can be handed down to more technical and tinkerer types to play around with and improve upon.
Facebook innovation smh
The evacuation probably lead to more deaths than radiation. Almost all the radiation stayed at the reactor site. That which did leave was pretty low level to begin with.
It should be better now:
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/apple-m1/

But there is no autoupdate
Why even bother with a fake language when so often the industry has devolved into some sick level of honest negligence?

For example: rarely do candidates need to know JavaScript anymore or even some unnecessary framework. Now people trade in experience of some tool that says nothing of anything: React Flux Capacitor (or some other bullshit like they want to go back in time to make lots of money without any real skills).

Now if you ask these candidates some junior developer question outside of React Flux Capacitor bullshit they are not only hopelessly lost, but expect to be treated as a senior principal.
Mythical Beings
That's because this sort of legislation (in the UK and in the EU) is driven by superficial thinking and politics, not data-driven analysis and pragmatic considerations.

People go "why don't they just make things simpler to repair?" like it was an obvious solution to problems (real or perceived) whereas the reality is obviously much more complex.

Appliances are already quite durable and repairable. Making things 'more repairable' can increase cost and resources needed. Cost of labour and parts can quickly render repairs uneconomical even if they would be perfectly doable. Some devices are so integrated (e.g. TVs these days) that the very concept of 'repair' is almost meaningless. People do not necessarily want to repair a broken old device because there are better new ones available.

These are all competing considerations and the issue is therefore complex.

I would rather they focus on ease of recycling. The EU legislation has some measures on recycling but gets too much diverted by this "right to repair", IMHO.
protip: If the travel nurse during a pandemic from Philadelphia really thinks the riskiest thing she’s done is downloading Hinge, you can do it too.
Shrinkage is.. "an allowance made for reduction in the earnings of a business due to wastage or theft."
My sister worked at a recruitment company for a while and basically described the same. They set targets for everyone that were basically not achievable ever, and managers were expected to basically personally berate you for not meeting them and place you on warning to get you to work harder and more hours.

She wasn't in a position to lose a job at the time, and felt she had no other choice but to begin lying about numbers to meet the targets (obviously wrong.) She is very much NOT the type of person to do something unethical like that and felt extremely bad about it, apologized and got fired.

Recruitment companies will literally push their employees to and over the edge. You either live to work for them or they break you and fire you.

Outside of tech, mental abuse in jobs is shockingly common and frequent.
The study you linked shows that obesity is linked with more severe outcomes, not higher infection rates.

I know at least one study that shows infection rates did not change with co-morbidities, see Fig 6b in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19509-y

However I would not be surprised to see slightly higher infection rates mediated by healthier immune systems in healthier folks.
> Maybe it's just me; but the idea of going from one place to another for 2 weeks, to take pictures and get led around by locals tourist industry is the very definition of Western Consumerism.

If you're travelling like this, you're doing it wrong. Stay much longer, not with foreigners, learn the language, get a basic job. Live like an immigrant, not a tourist, and definitely not like an American tourist.
White collar jobs are not paid well in the EU. If a saleswoman from a nearby shop has the same salary, why should I care about the quality of my work at all? The entire data center burned down? Fine! There are a lot of other places with the same tiny salary.

As you can see below, a developer expert is only making 24K-63K Euro per year at OVH (in US dollar it's almost the same amount):

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/OVHcloud-France-Salaries-EI...

after paying taxes you will only get a half of that amount.
That's a remarkably disingenuous reading of the OP's post.

No, they are saying 1) it makes sense that the police would stop arresting people if they know they'll just be released, 2) it makes sense the cops wouldn't try and cover for the DA when he will use them as a scapegoat later.
Just want to say thank you for this exhaustive list! I really appreciate it! There's many items I can say I appreciate… but I'll pick the one I enjoyed the most:

>After a while the stresses of travelling become fairly routine and you have a lot of time to relax on journeys and think about what you want to do with your life. That really shaped how I've lived since. Just sitting in a bus on a long road in a very different country you can watch how people live and it gets you thinking. How close are their families? Do I want to live like that? How do informal networks replace more structured western timetables etc.

(In contrast to how everyday we just go through life pre-programmed on a commute or an errand out in public, lost in some tape loop of rumination and internal anxieties… or doom-scrolling on our phones… completely filtering out the environment, our fellow human beings around us, and ourselves really; to take time to just think, even just notice your surrounding, acknowledge other people and be grateful… that is already a richer life!)

It's great that you've made friends and stayed in touch after the trip and became life-long friends - it's a testament to you and your friend… I wish I could've the same experience, it's easy to party but very hard to make a friend, I'm very jealous!
Definitely I should have rented a place with internet after a while of looking for what place feels right and stayed for some months. At least to me being “on the road” and working was really tough. But maybe if you just go to Hanoi for 6 months or something it might be interesting. I also wasn’t on a great contract and was kind of a noob myself so the work wasn’t that fun.
coroutines themselves have nothing todo with async/await.
Do you think civil engineers and surgeons behave like this?

Comport yourself like a professional.
Maybe quite handy for water cooling?
It's still a lot of money even if it won't bankrupt the business.
I don't think that's the kind of thing we can have a direct study of. Nobody is going to send children out into the streets to see how they fare and we don't have numbers of how often kids run into the street because nobody is there recording that.

Wikipedia[1] shows deaths per 100k vehicles per year. It puts the US at 14 compared to China's 104. A slightly better statistic would be deaths per billion kilometers traveled but that's not reported for China.

If I had to bet, I'd bet that there is marginal benefit from having lots of experience with children running out in front of you. Maybe there's a slightly higher chance per incident of child-street-running resulting in death in the US, but I don't think there's any evidence for that opinion.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR.

I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys...

The Korean companies (Daewoo mainly I think) building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventually when the section completed they would just open the road as a public highway. This really helped Libya build up reach and infrastructure. The truck lines were endless... We are talking km long here...

Eventually when the water reached the coast, I remember I was in Benghazi then. It was good and drinkable from the spring ( this is usually not possible since the water is still salty from the sea) after about a week the sweet water stopped because they started mixing it with the old supply to conserve the desert supplies, the water amount in the desert was over estimated...

All in all Libya was a great country. My family moved to Europe and I remember how much miss information there was about Libya. Then 2012 happened...

Ama about the GMMR. I ll try to answer as best as I can and remember.
I hope you don't mind me adding a concrete example because some people don't process this fully

I have a friend who is a Westerner with a Japanese family, 2 young kids, has been there decades... she couldn't risk leaving the country to visit her own parents in an emergency because she would be prohibited from reentering Japan and seeing her husband and young children again for an undefined period of time. Ultimately that period ended up being something like 6~8 months before they finally changed the freaking law. The policy was unprecedented and illogical, I don't think any other extreme covid prevention countries went that far. Slightly mistiming a trip pre-covid and she would have been kept from her children for that many months, completely crazy
I big red background when you are connected to production. I know it's bad practice, but don't pretend it doesn't happen.
RavenDB (1) got you covered but it's a document database. It automatically creates indexes and has a lot of built-in features to improve operability.

1 - https://ravendb.net/features#indexes
When it destroys one room but prevents fire spreading to whole building.
The paper in question can be found with Sci-Hub. Amusingly enough, it contains the following:

> Three formulas have been developed by Alder (3), Vecchio et al. (4), and Wolever et al. (5) to calculate the total area under a curve

[3] Alder I: A New Look at Geometry. New York, The John Day Company, 1966.

This book is in turn available in archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-934/page/n269/mode/2up

So basically the author in question didn't even bother to read the relevant part of the book she referenced, and also misunderstood the explanation of the Area and Integral chapter as something that Irving Alder developed.

I didn't bother looking up the other two references to help preserve my sanity.
Free Lecture Series on Rendering / Ray Tracing from TU Vienna
Another version, about distributed systems:

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:

2. Exactly-once delivery

1. Guaranteed order of messages

2. Exactly-once delivery
I think a technocratic single-party system (however terrible for liberty) would have never worked in India. The wounds of a colonial past followed by region-specific societal differences would be just to vast to overcome with an "enlightened" bureaucracy trying to force homogeneity down people's throats.

I suspect China had similar problems but the cultural revolution appears to have largely effaced the echoes of the past through horrible means.

India can still learn a lot from Chinese-style governance - it seems effective at dealing with local issues efficiently, especially in urban areas. India's urban regions suffer are chronically starved of funds and infrastructure because of lack of executive powers for local representatives.
I guess we're about to find out (or, rather, they are).
Then you exclude other forms that might exist (or might have existed) elsewhere
> both unattractive and picky

I know this is HN, but I do have to say: good luck! :-D
I also have/had mild social anxiety. When things open up go stay for a couple days in a hostel somewhere (use hostelworld), make sure to find one with a reasonably large common room and be in it, read a book or do some work. It will probably be therapeutic. Not much is forced and socialness tends to just happen. If someone sits near you or says hi ask "Where are you from? How long are you here? What have you done here?" and roll with it. If you do some research on whats in the area or cool food you want to try, you have an immediate opportunity to invite someone to do an activity. It will feel like sitting on an airplane with the door open to go sky diving to you, exhilirating if you manage to make yourself do it.
Yep, for my first programming job out of college a recruiter arranged an onsite interview for a Java role, when I was under every impression it was for Ruby/Rails. I don't know Java.

The first interviewer laughed and walked out. I explained things to the recruiter, he cursed, said he would "visit the Ruby team upstairs". He actually managed to setup an impromptu on-site interview with the Ruby team on that same day. I got the job.
> That‘s probably how the concept of „legitimate interest“ made its way into the GDPR law, make it practically worthless

Does it though? Is there case law supporting this?

From what I can see the big problem with the GDPR is a near-total failure to actually enforce it, so such questions barely even matter.
IME candidates are spooked way more by leetcode than homebrewed tests that mimic the job they do every day.

I'd estimate (from browsing graduate boards) it's probably among the top 5 most hated aspects of the industry. #1 for many - because it's so anxiety inducing.
I'm intrigued. In the fable the game is a clever test of knightsmanship. What makes you wary of this sort of situation?
2036 Tokyo sympathy bid.
Wherever you go, there you are.

At first I just found that line funny, but the more I've traveled, the truer I've found it to be. A change in scenery can be immensely helpful in many ways, but you'll still relate to the world in fundamentally the same way once you're somewhere else.
Things would be a lot clearer if positivity rate was the reportable number, not absolute number of positive tests. This would also encourage countries to test more rather than less.
>They'll stop doing that if most code is GPLv3

No, they'll just find a MIT/BSD or probably proprietary alternative.
If a service uses SPID, you need SPID. The SPID login screen doesn’t offer “National ID card” as an option.

Some services may offer alternative logins, but my guess is that they’ll be phased out like INPS is phasing out PIN-based logins.
Making it easier to print conference badges I think (probably drastically oversimplified).
NFT for physical objects is the new hotness. That way they can just demonstrate ownership of the plant instead of having to move it around.
I understand this and that's the point I'm trying to make here. The statement is just deflecting and downplaying the issue. What exactly does 'officially closed' mean? The office wasn't 'officially closed', it was unoccupied because of COVID. It was still paid for by Cloudflare and on it's network. The statement is purposefully misleading.
Its exploration and finding things you didn't expect that leave an impression on you. The common story is because it happened to people not looking for it.

If you go looking for things to leave an impression on you, it probably wont happen.

You’re in the company of people that comfortably go to Croatia Yacht Week, Ibiza opening parties, Cannes Film Festival etc. Not just wage workers taking an aimless break to say they travelled, or college students on their gap year.
But probably their work email when doing things on company time?
Exactly. Plus there will likely be (small) additional benefits from reduced transmission for other diseases that are spread through respiratory droplets and aerosols.
Neat. Perhaps should take already infected people into account, this is a significant %. Also you could let the 70% be a slider, so people can play with their own herd immunity.
A deep dive into the world of healthcare technology
It may be a good working definition, but it doesn’t capture the intention of the concept, it lacks external validity so to speak.