skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would not surprise me if only 10% of the population cared.

But 10% is quite a large number for any event, and sure to bring in quite a bit of profit. Name me a concert that 10% of the population claims to wish to attend?

The majority indeed does not care, but a sufficiently high number does that it is profitable.
In my case:

* All my services are dockerized and have gitlab pipelines to deploy on a kubernetes cluster (RKE/K3s/baremetal-k8s)

* git repo's containing the build scripts/pipelines are replicated on my gitlab instance and multiple work computers (laptop & desktop)

* Data and databases are regularly dumped and stored in S3 and my home server

* Most of the infrastructure setup (AWS/DO/Azure, installing kubernetes) is in Terraform git repositories. And a bit of Ansible for some older projects.

Because of the above, if anything happens all I need to restore a service is a fresh blank VM/dedicated machine or a cloud account with a hosted Kubernetes offering. From there it's just configuring terraform/ansible variables with the new hosts and executing the scripts.
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https://archive.is/LOHVS

http://web.archive.org/web/20210310100021/http://status.ovh....
10+ hours cache on a status page doesn't look like real-time monitoring to me.

I think this is probably linked to a manual reporting system and they got bigger fish to fry at the moment than updating this status page.
It was probably Word back then. Nowadays I skip the recruiter and use word of mouth. Even more malleable but somehow far more effective and truthful!
Conversely to the US they've had pretty strict quarantine rules and since January completely blocked all immigration. However some have said their domestic travel campaign may have been worse for the virus than a few legal immigrants who had to quarantine and be tested before and after landing.
That's a dishonest statement and misrepresents the actual support.

The "junctions" are unusable as "windows symlinks".

For one, you can't create any as a normal non-admin user without specific authorization by default.
It's immoral for Alice to sell cigarettes to a minor, and it is also immoral for Reynolds to do so, so the analogy doesn't work.

Since, uh, nobody has an issue with regular stock holders selling their shares to other stock holders.

If Bob is not 'sophisticated' enough to be allowed to buy shares of Hertz regardless of who is selling them, then sure, prevent him from buying. Delist the stock. Require you to be an accredited investor to buy shares of a company undergoing bankruptcy. These are all reasonable solutions to the problem. Stopping Hertz from selling shares... Is not. Because if Bob is an informed/sophisticated/accredited investor, then Hertz selling him shares isn't actually defrauding him.
The review was against google policy (conflict of interests) and google provided ways to remove it were not handled by google at all. So this was not the case of taking off a legit review.
it could also alias sudo to some other command
RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
I once coded for a recruitment agency and they get paid a recruitment fee equal to a 1 month salary of their recruit.
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Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO
I've seen companies create fake technobabble documentation, so that they can ask "what do you know about FnordFubblers?". If they get an answer then they know the person is just googling the question.
Outside? I got mobbed an entire year while doing tech support for a what-used-to-be poster child of successful tech.

Manager would randomly chronometer the time it took me to answer tickets and warned me I spent too much time thinking before typing responses... (turned out the rest of the team was just smarter and pretended to work hard: hitting backspace as often as they typed other random words... oh but the display of “intensity” and “customer delight” was glowing hot.)
"Have the lawyer point out exactly which point of their own TCs they are breaking"

But my business never had anything to do with Google, so I never signed any T&Cs

At this point TCs of megacorps are basically creating a parallel legal system
To solve this problem we would need to first understand the human mind, how it stores data, how it does computation, and how it interacts with names. So we would need the same set of information that we would need for creating AGI. A solution is probably only a couple of months/decades away.
Sales closing app generates $26K in first 4 hours of crowdfunding
S100 bought a lot of memories of byte. It was the one used by Jerry in his chaos manor and I loved to have one at that time. Off topic I guess hence I submit another just in case others know more this use at that time than this kid then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409803
I visited Japan a few months before the pandemic hit and it is really sad thinking back now. There was a real effort from the airport in Tokyo to as far away as Osaka and Kyoto accommodating for foreign languages and really showing off Japanese culture. At the time it felt like I was being practised on - so sad to see all that effort go to waste.
Going bankrupt is a plan. However, it is a somewhat more involved one than it sounds, at first. That's why there should be a corporate lawyer advising on stuff like company structure, liabilities, continuance of pension plans, ordering and reasons for layoffs, etc.
https://downdetector.fr/
I don't think "the world accepts it", but they are resigned to the fact that the moneyed interests powering these events are unstoppable. Which may or may not be true. Some of the opposition is even tactically waiting for the best time to make a stand - which might well be when the country is most exposed. See for example how the Yemeni Houti rebels tried to hit a Formula E event in Saudi Arabia with missiles.

The worst thing, imho, is that Qatar is not even remotely the worst actor in the region. A World Cup in Saudi Arabia might well be inevitable over the next 20 years, and that will be even worse.
What if it was a 200% premium?
Enterprise-level projects often have only light protection against wrongful hosting account termination, reasoning that spending a lot of money and having an account manager keeps them safe from clumsy automated systems.

So they might have their primary and replica databases at different DCs from the same hosting provider, and only their nightly backup to a different provider. Four copies to four different providers is a step above three copies with two providers!

A large enterprise would probably be using a filesystem with periodic snapshots, or streaming their redo log to a backup, to protect against a fat-fingered DBA deleting the wrong thing. Of course, filesystem snapshots provide no protection against loss of DC or wrongful hosting account termination, so you might not count them as true backup copies.
I cannot imagine Barcelona needing something to put it on a map. Am not spanish
From the outside (and from a position lacking all inside knowledge) it looks highly interconnected and very well ventilated. I'm not sure where you'd put a inert gas supression system or beefy firewalls to slow the fire progress.
I have read a very interesting theory in that it is about how Japanese is spoken.

There is an interesting trick that is often taught to students of Japanese to faithfully reproduce the sounds in the language: that is to cover one's teeth with one's lips while speaking as much as possible, as most of the characteristic sounds of Japanese are caused by this.

This greatly reduces the amount of air that escapes as one speaks Japanese.
Thank you for your honest and personal answers! As an Asian guy living in America and reading between the lines re: your xp dating and how different cultures treat you, I can relate to a lot what you're saying.

>It helps me really resonate with the concept of going where you are treated the best, and building a life where that is possible.

Maybe it's me becoming institutionalized and just used to this by now in America lol; but I have a different perspective on this, oppression is universal (Puritans, Germans, Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews in 1700-1800's) and creativity is driven by constraints (blues/jazz was born on plantations, Cosa Nostras arose out of Italian Americans being shut of WASP society, the humor/hutzpah in spite of overt and covert anti-semitism is seen in Mel Brooks movies).
Memorising openings is also good for avoiding well known traps like the fried liver, fishing pole or Eric Rosen's favourite the Stafford gambit. Most strong players have a variety of book openings memorised.
Not in my experience. Worked at some small shops that were lightyears ahead in terms of policy, procedures and attitude compared to places I've worked with 50k+ employees globally.
That might be good in the long run; bitcoin's notoriously flawed when it comes to privacy, speed, power use etc. But maintains top position because it were forst; were USG to crush it, a more modern, privacy-centered currency like monero could take center stage.
Recruiters routinely & legitimately edit CVs to remove your identifying information when they send your profile over to clients to prevent them from bypassing the recruiter.

PDFs are pretty trivial to edit anyway.
Here is a painting of the view from the "Isteiner Klotz" in southwestern Germany prior to the "Rheinbegradigung":

https://www.gkgbs.ch/obsolet/schulleben/oekowoche/1998-2003/...

Here is a picture of the (approximately) same view today (well, 20 years ago), you can use the church for orientation. The Rhine is at the far right corner. The village once had a small fishing harbor.

https://www.gkgbs.ch/obsolet/schulleben/oekowoche/1998-2003/...

> which is totally insane from the perspective of the available technology at the time.

What they did was pretty clever: they didn't dig an entire new river bed (that would've been impossible), but only some small, narrow shortcut "pilot beds", protected by a dam. You can see such a shortcut here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/K%...

After the shortcut was finished, they opened up the dam. The Rhine then slowly dug a new bed itself.
Is it really that incredible? Look at how Kotlin implemented coroutines. The language support is tiny - nearly everything is implemented in libraries that you can compete with. In particular the language rejected the async/await model: you still mark functions as async (suspend) but there's no language level equivalent of await. Just lots of library level APIs to compare coroutines in different ways. It's really nice.
Power prices stay high as the impact of Brexit continues to be felt
Which outages list? Sounds interesting.
I'm interested in your thoughts on the performance impact of double spend prevention. What algorithms have you looked at, working on this project?
> The simplest strategy is to just never invalidate. Some data doesn't go bad. The contents of CSV upload #42345 won't change. Neither will the HTML conversion of some markdown-formatted product data.

Thats a dangerous assumption to make and while simple at the cache's end might need complicated logic at the frontend. There will always be that use case of a customer that needs the file changed or removed. So instead of invalidating you now need a system to manage references to versioned cached objects.
Do you mind expanding how ADHD clashes with scrum?
I think it could probably mean "Happy to help" if said in response to a thanks of some sort. Saying it before someone has said thanks is a bit presumptuous. :-)
To this day that disaster continues to cause trouble for the local fishing industry:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1325/

I suspect the mental health of the local fishermen was well an truly tested and will continue to be tested by that disaster.
French hospitals and Spanish employment service are being hit with ransomware
The world could easily pressure Qatar into abolishing this, but it does not do so.

We're speaking of countries that were willing to wage costly wars on flimsy evidence of w.m.d.'s, that are now not willing to pressure a nation over real evidence of slavery.
If someone bothers to help you though
How Can a Long-Term Influencer Collaboration Help Your Brand?
For a long time, building meaningful relationships has been a big part of growing a successful business. Relationship management has had a big step in the right direction since the time before technology was around and many have written about why relationships are essential for a successful business. So, why would it be any different when it comes to influencer marketing? let’s take a look at the importance of a trusted long-term influencer collaboration for your next marketing campaign.
Tbh I'm not 100% sure, but I think a bit of both. Given that for quite some time it was his primary means of communication with some of his friends, it felt unnecessarily restrictive not to let him join in fully with what they were up to.

Obviously any major expense was out of the question and he knows that, but seeing as they "run around" their Roblox worlds just like they might run around a playground or wood, it felt a fair compromise. And he learns about having to work for a reward in the process.

ed: I should say I believe there are public groups on Roblox that you have to pay Robux to join. He's not allowed that.
We've all seen those job posts asking for five years experience in technology X which was only released three years ago.
> Bankruptcy when dealt with correctly is a process not an end.

Yes, that's why "Go bankrupt" is not a plan which was the entire point of my reply. That's like saying that your disaster recovery plan is "solve the disaster".
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I didn't mean GSOC are trivial. Apologies if I came across like that. My understanding is things approachable by students would be slightly easier compared to things approachable by someone working in the industry. Maybe my understanding is wrong.
Cool - a chance to vent. Well, here's my helpful suggestion: maybe they should get the people who position the log out buttons for some websites to place the exit buttons on zoom or refresh buttons for forms - log outs are generally in the last place on a menu that is hidden off screen. Sometimes you have to right click somewhere for the option to appear. Or even Google 'how do I log out of XYZ?' to work out how to log out. For these sites, the pre-launch user group testing probably has a threshold of 60 seconds for new users to work out how to leave & if the bulk of test subjects manage to do it in under that time, it's back to the drawing board.
Greenpeace isn't exactly a trustworthy entity on this topic. Their anti-nuclear position is, first and foremost, ideological (as is with the entirety of the green movement).

Does not mean that they are wrong. I also don't see them purposefully modifying information aka. lying. But the probability of their biases getting in the way of objective reporting is non-trivial.
What? Any radio-isotopes that made into the ocean would be spread so thin that eating banana is gonna give you more radiation than you get in San Diego. Even the radiation levels in the surrounding areas of the reactors was quite low. Almost all the radiation stayed on the reactor site.
Could you point out where the article claims that? It's padded extensively with selective and often irrelevant factoids and speculation about ADHD diagnosis, recreational drug use, etc.
Everything bad is because of [buzzword that represents everything bad about the current social order].

Do lefties have a "not real capitalism" meme like the "not real communism" meme for righties?
Yes I need to work on that PR, haven't been getting a lot of free time these days. It adds OCR support using EasyOCR, which I found on HN some time ago!
Glengarry Glensales, basically...
Not really, the insurance won't make things right in an instant. They will usually compensate you financially, but often only after painstaking evaluation of all circumstances, weighing their chances in court to get out of paying you and maybe a lengthy court battle and a race against your bankruptcy.

So yes, getting insurance can be a good idea to offset some losses you may have, as long as they are somewhat limited compared to your companies overall assets and income. But as soon as the insurance payout matches a significant part of your net worth, the insurance might not save you.
I can’t help but think this is to do with genetics and mutations.

I’m in a country where cases are now exploding because of the Brit mutation. And the whole Italy situation last year was a mutation I believe.

I can’t help but think Europe is completely fucked with this virus. Our genetics don’t seem well adapted to the virus, and now we have super infectious strains.

Meanwhile everyone is getting vaccinated, so by the time the mutations would get out of Europe they’ll be ok. (Brazil and SA being the exception).

So I feel like us here in Europe are proper fucked compared to the rest of the world.
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yes, even on larger agencies, you can find shitty recruiters that think their work is to move meat around.

once a recruiter made me run trough 5 interviews. I had a full time job at a time, with a decent pay, and explicitly stated my requested salary upfront. after the whole charade, which burned a significant amount of my vacation days since I was working at another city at the moment, they just came out and said the budget for the position was less than the asking price, but feel convinced it would have been a great opportunity for me.

goddamn scum.

oh, and the "opportunity" went into bankruptcy forced liquidation two years later.
Well, IBAN is just universal account number. The actual transfer systems are more complex and differ heavily between EU countries.

You have SWIFT, which is general correspondence-based system for international transfers, of which SEPA is essentially a special agreement on how certain setup of SWIFT transfers are to be handled (essentially if you select certain transfer parameters you fall under agreement rules, otherwise not).

Intra-country transfer systems have more variability, unfortunately I can only speak about how UK and Poland did it, with UK having a very legacy numbering scheme where you only touch IBAN when you do international transfers (at least when I dealt with it last time in 2014), whereas in Poland all banking uses IBAN accounts (minus PL prefix) because that's what national interbank clearing system uses - and by extension paying for things by bank transfer are the norm, with widespread usage of the large "address space" of IBAN to create individual accounts even per contract (for example, if you take a loan, or pay for some service, you will usually pay to a bank account made just for that contract).

Ultimately, the difference is that there's effectively no extra cost for handling bank transfers in Poland, the clearing happens fast enough (usually max 1 business day, there are multiple clearing batches per day and it essentially depends on whether your transfer enters the system before the last batch of the day is calculated - with UK, I encountered multi-day wait times). Since there are no cheques, you essentially have three options - cash, bank transfers, and cards - and accepting bank transfers is the simplest approach outside of "cash direct in hand". An ecosystem of utilities to make it even simpler had grown out of making common simple & fast way of doing electronic transfers.
When my father learned typesetting it was absolutely frowned upon to do this. Surely one finds low quality type setting at every point in time.

But that still doesn't invalidate the fact that it is a sign of poor quality.

The offensive naming is a historical thing. I wouldn't call them that today, but can accept the fact that in times not so long gone by this was quite normal. It is like slave/master in IT terms. A historical technical term that should be replaced nowadays.
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2021/03/10/the-your-pap...

The "your papers please" argument. It's true. If you live in a world where you are compelled to present an identity for any financial transaction, then there is no need for bitcoin, to prevent double spending.
To the folks downvoting: Please explain why you think the questions are not appropriate for this discussion.
I have chess on my CV even though I stopped seriously playing at 15 and ~1700 OTB ELO - not to showcase my competitiveness but to add some flavour/personality to what is otherwise a very dry career oriented document and maybe get an anecdote in that I can use to break the ice or relate to somebody.
There aren't really any obvious reasons why the 'U.S. empire' would want to fake this one. It's not like they really want to get into a war with the country that makes most of their stuff.
I'm seeing quite a lot of repeated sentiment throughout the comments that Halon is illegal and is no longer used.

Is the situation "Halon is legal in Australia" or "Halon isn't actually illegal per se if you don't use a lot of it"?
I will check that out, thank you. I should read more Borges. His ability to write very short pieces of text that are interesting and thought-provoking is unmatched.
It is so. Emacs contains the full Emacs manual, non-fragmented, compact and complete, including the full Org mode manual, non-fragmented. It is self-documenting program. Users can learn what is built-in feature and what exists before starting to use extensions.

If you try to do too much at once, of course, you are prone to give up as you started on a too high gradient.
My wife (girlfriend at the time) and I quit our jobs and spent 19 months travelling around Africa.

Upon our return we both "levelled-up" when we found new jobs.

For me, so much so that I was hired into a position I probably wasn't ready for.

I think the fact we'd had to face so much adversity in Africa, with no way to quit or give up - we were faced with situations which were literally figure out a solution or die - meant that we both developed incredible problem solving skills which our interviewers really valued.

We'd also been faced with an incredible number of corrupt police and border officials who were all trying to extract their pound of flesh. We developed really thick skins and were eventually quite adept at negotiating through the situation with our skins and wallets intact - again, very valuable skills in the workplace.

So the net effect was we had some incredible experiences, saw things we will likely never see again, and after all was said and done, came back into higher grade / better paying jobs than we would have if we'd stayed put!

To cap it all off, it just so happened that a large chunk of our trip coincided with the global financial crisis - so while friends of ours were getting laid off back home, we rolled on in our truck oblivious to the drama back home!

I did a small reddit write up on our trip here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/53eqlt/i_quit_my_job_...
Yes, interests is for chit-chat. If the interviewer assumes special qualities based on the interests of the interviewee, it is on the interviewer.