skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just lobby the government to put call centers in "essential services". In my state they are open even with a partial lockdown.
I get as angry with recruiters as everyone else, but then I remember then time where I worked for a company that shared a floor of a serviced office building with a recruitment company. They were brutal in their treatment of staff - they were too cheap to get rooms for staff appraisals so they would do them in the coffee area we shared with them so we could hear how they were treated by their management - seeing people (men and women) in tears was pretty much a daily event.
Easy to see now that a lightly constructed five story cube might not be a fully fire proof.
This is a pretty good explanation for why most EU initiatives can't work. It's because they have to make everyone happy, which is an unattainable goal.
It looks like speculation
I didn't want to quit my job entirely, I just wanted to reduce it to part-time and spend the rest of the time writing my book [1]. My plan was to start with a transatlantic cruise from Colombia to Portugal in spring 2020 and then do some digital nomading in southern Spain and Portugal.

The cruise got cancelled and I spent 3/4 of the year stuck at home. I only managed to "escape" to Serbia in summer when the country opened its borders without requiring PCR test.

This year I was waiting to see where I could go. Some balkan countries like Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania opened their borders, again without requiring the PCR test. I went and spent three weeks in Montenegro as pure vacation and after that moved to Albania where I am now. The situation in Montenegro got worse and the country has many restrictions in place now, while Albania remains open, including restaurants.

I am Czech and the situation in the Czech Republic is bad. The restrictions in place prevent anyone from having a normal life...

Now I only work on the book, nomading in Albania. Here in Durrës the life is not only normal, but fairly cheap and with amazing sea food. I pay 90 EUR/week for an apartment and go to have sea food lunch every day for like 5-8 EUR.

[1]: https://efficientdeveloper.com
I saved and invested 80-90% of my after tax income (as a pharmacist) for eight years. I planned to just backpack for the rest of my life from age 32 onwards.

After the fifth night of European hostel living and walking around during the day, I was bored. Meeting new people was fun for a bit but after a while it felt the same. A month later I was complaining to my friend that I was bored out of my mind and she got me a job at her hospital. I started working again a few months after that.

Three months into working I wanted to quit again. But I didn't want a repeat of history, so I decided I was going to settle down in Cluj-Napoca Romania, a city I passed through before. Cost of living, safety, English speaking, friendliness of locals, political stability all were considered. Now I've been living here for over a year and living with a girl I met on day three of arriving. We're both learning web dev together.

Many days I still feel meh, but I can't expect life to be endless excitement. Definitely meaningful and emotionally more stable to be in a long term relationship, though.
That’s because it’s a single organisation. Just because it is made up of tens of thousands of individuals doesn’t stop it being a single entity.

You (and all other humans) are made up of thousands of bacteria and other specialised cells, but we don’t treat you as plural, although you are also a single entity consisting of tens of thousands of components.
So how is it safe with people if there is no oxygen left to breathe?
Reminds me of my first trip to a datacenter, where the guy who accompanied us said: "In the event of a fire this room is filled with nitrogen in 20 seconds. But don't worry: nitrogen is not toxic!"
Well, I was a little worried :)
> The customer scans the code, sees the amount to be debited, and presses OK. The amount then moves from one phone to another without the need for WiFi or another wireless network

How does the business verify a transaction was successful? It seems like information only flows one way.
> China is much more resource rich and less population dense.

China is by far denser as a big chunk of its territory are deserts, and unlivable mountains. In fact, the plain, and grand valleys have higher population density than Bangladesh.

India on other hand only have Thar, and Western Ghats which are both more crowded than my hometown.
The publicity damage alone will be on par with (if not bigger) their replacement costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rebrand.

The timing is so bad that it becomes almost suspicious. When is the best time to sabotage your competitor? When they are the most visible.
Honestly, first thing that popped in my my was Doner kebab so this comment was actually informative. And it’s atlasobscura so it might well have been...
holy shit my 3$ VPS!!

nvm not this dc!
Ha, so true. Man, there were a few months back then when I was being phoned about 5 times a day with job offers. None of them were even vaguely related to the skillset I had (doing a bit of ropy HTML) but I could have tripled my salary without even breaking a sweat. I worked for Waterstone's Online at the time, glad I stayed put, we had fun.

Cold Fusion though - I loved that. It was my first scripting language (apart from a brief foray into Perl), and it seemed like magic.
That seems, uh, problematic.
Ha! Well best of luck to them!
Fantastic. I bought a boat, and have been sailing the east coast of oz. Wanted to sail the Med and Atlantic, but need to wait until oz opens up.
>"but linus said..."

Yes i still don't understand him, a he calls himself a "filesystem guy". Also i don't understand that no one ever mentions NILFS2.
A relative has a business publishing information about high school athletics. They created a fictitious school and used it to prove a company had infringed their copyright.
I’d like a tool that automatically suggests which indexes to add/remove, including use of different types of indexes and partial indexes, based on the queries being performed. Even better if it can automatically test the results of that on a production workload.

Or suggest schema changes that would improve normalization or performance.
Absolutely. Plus, and organisation can do dumb things because a single wrong person in the hierarchy of such a system can make a bad decision that takes hundreds of man years to undo.

The reason small startups can innovate faster than large enterprises is that they can’t afford to make stupid mistakes. There’s no such evolutionary pressure on enterprises, unless it until the scale of the stupid mistake becomes life threatening for the company.
Yeah, that was always my understanding. GP saying "the gas is designed to be used in rooms with people, so that [it] can be triggered any time" made me second-guess that though.

Maybe there is a concentration of oxygen that is high enough for humans to survive, yet too low to sustain combustion?
Great stuff!

We moved to microservices, despite my love for a monolith with libraries:
- to enable different teams to deploy their smaller microservice more easily (without QA, database migrations etc affecting the whole app);
- to solve the human temptation of crossing abstraction boundaries.

Not black and white, and both approaches can solve these problems. Open to any feedback!
From your cited Reason article:

> During a follow-up period beginning seven days after the second dose, vaccinated subjects were 92 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus, 94 percent less likely to develop COVID-19 symptoms, and 92 percent less likely to suffer serious disease. In other words, the risk of infection at this stage was much smaller than it was in the unvaccinated group. Although that risk was not completely eliminated, the CDC notes that "preliminary data from Israel suggest that persons vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine who develop COVID-19 have a four-fold lower viral load than unvaccinated persons," which implies that they are less likely to transmit the virus even when they are infected.

This seems consistent with what I wrote earlier.

Further, from the NPR article:

> Vaccinated people can also visit, unmasked, with people from another household who are not yet vaccinated, as long as those people are at low risk of serious illness from the virus. However, the agency said, vaccinated people should continue to wear masks when they're in public, avoid crowds and take other precautions when gathering with unvaccinated people who are at high risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
As long as Blender is in GSOC I remain happy...not that they need the help anymore.
but fortunately also within arm's reach
Which is understandable, as Halon based fire suppression systems have been illegal for quite some time :/
I spent 9 months in the Balkans region in my early 20s and later in life I had 5 years of work travel which took me all over the world. Both are some of the best times on my life, and two very different experiences. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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I am Ukrainian and I can confirm, we do not exist.
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To my experience, backups in companies are barely done.

Companies want quick money, they push people to skip important IT operations, like disaster recovery plans.

And backups are the least monitored systems.
Trustchain is a ledger which is consensus-free. Forget anything you know about chains and ledgers.

By using legally valid digital signatures it is possible to sign agreements which are irrefutable. If you have two parties which sign a contract, it become legally enforceable. Trustchain requires that any block is signed by multiple parties and thus become legally enforceable. Every transaction forms its own "micro-block". Mono-signature transactions are strictly not allowed (e.g. Bitcoin,Ethereum approach). Once signatures are added to a block its valid: instant finality. Weird...

Yes, it's a strange approach, even older then Bitcoin :-) Perhaps its useful.
See "bandwidth-as-a-currency" news item in BBC News, 1 Sep 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6971904.stm

Edit: no native token or money creation. Its just fabric for recording transaction micro-blocks. Non-profit. So nothing like Bitcoin at all. So works very well with dApps, Distributed Apps, no smart contracts needed. Scientific publication about Euros, DAO, dApps, passport-grade identity deployment: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3428662.3429744
Upgrade your jail cell for a price (2017)
> As far as I understand the situation, the completion-based API simply was not on the table 3 years ago

Completion APIs were always considered. They are just significantly harder for Rust to support.
Yes LVM, sorry
You are largely right. Western ideas of tourism feed off this idea "I'm a traveller, everyone else is a tourist sheep." Asian tourists generally don't seem to have the same pretensions and are happy getting coached around.

Walking around busy temples and stuff can be pretty hard because people don't want anyone else in their photo. It has to look like they just chanced upon this ancient temple in the jungle, rather than getting a minibus there with 20 other people.

Sometimes the more savvy local tour companies cotton on to this and market to "travellers", but I liked it when locals just called us all "tourists" because that's really what we are. Yes, it's another form of consumerism.

I spent a year backpacking and it was mostly seeing cool places. I don't think it really changed me, but then I have worked and studied abroad before (there I go, pointing out how I'm not like the others!!). Considering those experiences too, I think there are two main things you're missing:

1) People who genuinely find hostel slogans like "live at the edge of your existence" deeply inspirational are probably late teens/early 20s and so for them it's all wrapped up in being independent, moving out of their childhood home, experimenting etc. Possibly the first time they've been out of their home culture and so even standard, Western backpacker hostels is a big jump.

2) A lot of people really find scary and challenging things you might be more comfortable with. Lots of people live within a few miles of where they grew up. If they go abroad, it's a package holiday on a resort full of people from their home country. Maybe a city break to be adventurous. Even though backpacking in SE Asia etc is heavily commodified, it's still a pretty small fraction of people who would even consider it.
You're running into the distinction between natural rights and legal rights. You possess certain rights because you are a human being. One of those is the right to life. You could be in a place with no recognized law, but you can be damn sure that murder would still be punished.
Is it the "without having to worry about infrastructure and scaling" that you disagree?

I don't personally find the two statements at odds. If you have 250k connections 24/24 7/7 for a whole month, that should mean your business is generating more than enough money to cover the cost.

Or, at the very least, that the losses by not being able to scale are higher than the cost of the infrastructure.

If this is false and you'll be bankrupt by those 250k connections, you should obviously not let your instances to scale that much.
You hopefully paid to attract loads of event tourists, who bring money to the local economy
When everything is a commodity it's hard to see how this will be useful.

When an appliance (fridge, cooker, washing machine) breaks, it's cheaper to replace. I cannot see how repairing a TV will ever be cheaper than just replacing it since they are so cheap brand new.

This also applies to smartphones, none of the popular models have replaceable batteries so in the trash they go and they become worthless, even if the hardware could keep up for 10 years often the software is outdated, inseceure and not worth using.

I'll be hard pressed to believe this will result in anything tangible. The real test is if they can convince Apple to make Louis' job easier, wouldn't that be nice.
Is that why most serious tech people I've seen list their PGP key on their site?
This sounds like general problem of enterprise security. There are no consequences.

I can entirely get why a company would outsource IP cameras to a third party cloud, even with storing data on-site. Business runs on contracts. It's entirely normal to contract out everything except your core competencies, if it's cheaper this way. It's how you turn CAPEX, complex OPEX and high risk into simple OPEX and low risk. A contract is in big part a risk shifting tool. This works well in practice... outside IT.

The problem is, with IT and data, there's a mismatch between expectations and reality. An enterprise should feel safe buying their video surveillance from Verkada, because between the contract and the legal framework, Verkada should be bankrupt now, and their management possibly facing jail time. That's the part where contracts work as Cover-Your-Ass tool: if you shift risk and liability to outside party, the liability is not on you.

However, this only works as long as the other party actually internalizes the risk and liability. Since there are no consequences for mishandling data, operating IT services you're not structurally competent to operate, and eventually having your crown jewels stolen - the contractor doesn't really internalize risk, has no incentive to mitigate it.

All this to say: Verkada should go down after this, and their customers should be named and shamed widely - the latter is so that future customers of IT services put more care into vetting companies they contract IT out to. You shouldn't get to CYA with a contract where assumptions around contracting are broken.
That is some serious ellipse ! Made my morning. Care to tell us more ?
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The currently existing 486+ SBCs all list for approximately 200 GBP on eBay, unless you are lucky enough to grab one that's under valued (which I did a while back!).

The downside of these, are that they are designed to be used inside industrial equipment, typically have an ISA edge connecter, and are missing all the ribbon cables to connect them the peripherals (and power cables). So they become a DIY project, which is fun for some people, but not good for those who don't like building hardware. Additionally almost all industrial SBCs have no sound hardware on board (fixable by using an ISA backplane and another card, or via a PC/104 adapter).

The alternative is the old VIA Eden mini-ITX boards (mentioned elsewhere in this thread), if you get the right one, they are faster than a 486 but not TOO fast, AND come with SoundBlaster/Ad-Lib emulation on-board. I've got one as tiny DOS gaming PC and it works VERY well.
It's been an issue for quite a while, but it's becoming unbearable since they started really clamping down on 'extremism' (left and right) around November. Unfortunately, there's no tool quite like it online for getting access to such a wide swath of firsthand knowledge, opinon and experiences.
It demonstrates that the client actually read the contract.
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Yes, the cities are denser, however not having people living in large chunks of land mean that the land is easier to exploit for natural resources.
What about the material they're manufactured from?
To that point, though, property crime and auto theft of SF appears to be lower in 2020 compared to previous years as well. But I did not look into it too deeply.

https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...
But you don’t know what you want to do, until you experience it. And you experience so many new activities when travelling. Like food. There is so much good in different countries that you will not get at a dozen restaurants of the same country.

People actually treat you differently if your travelling in their country. They are a lot nicer to you, and want to show you around, and include the unique parts of their culture.
Nice, i've used Engauge Digitizer in the past

http://markummitchell.github.io/engauge-digitizer/
What happens if you drop the task between 1 and 2? Does dropping block until the cancellation of both tasks is complete?
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> When an appliance (fridge, cooker, washing machine) breaks, it's cheaper to replace.

Depends how much you paid for it, where you live, what it means to procure one, etc.

Also, cost might not be the only factor for you. Ethic, preferences, attachment or logistic can kick in.
Exactly, uBlock Origin it doesn't just block on domain. It can also remove certain CSS items. Even nag screens about cookies and adblockers :)
"During the second Libyan civil war, lasting from 2014 to 2020, the water infrastructure suffered neglect and occasional breakdowns. As of July 2019, 101 of 479 wells on the western pipeline system had been dismantled"

It is not all gone and still somewhat working, but how long?
In 2010, a Tsinghua University study estimated that China had 180,000 protests per year. However, virtually all of these were small, local issues (insufficient compensation for land expropriation etc) and they did not meaningfully threaten the hegemony of the CCP.
+1 for Restic

It's brilliant, works like a charm on freebsd windows and a rpi with linux since over 2 years.
Agreed; I don't like to jump in to be playing devil's advocate, but I usually don't pay much attention to things that don't pose much of a risk to me, while I'm driving.

The only reason I would think about paying attention to the bear is because I sometimes am aware of the risks from other's carelessness: "what if one of the ropes holding it snaps, and it tumbles onto my lane?"

But, in this case, if it's only people that are new to an autonomous system (like, new owners, or rental car users), then I can imagine that there may be some learning curve involved that distracts you from being really focused on the driving task, because you're learning to use your 'tool'.
I've been waiting for an async Oracle ADO.NET driver for over 8 years now.
Just to be clear here: you’re saying that it’s OK for the police to not arrest criminals or prevent crime, which is their only job, because they dislike the DA.

Are you also saying that it’s OK for political opponents of the DA to then use bad outcomes caused by the police, purposefully not doing their jobs in order to sabotage the DA, as a reason to recall the DA?

If the police really are standing aside and allowing people to be victimized, and threatening to do it until they get what they want, that sounds a lot like a hostage situation to me, and I don’t think there’s any way to justify that.
> My personal preference would be to prevent 3rd party companies like google from publishing reviews if the business owner doesn't want them.

I like the fact that there's a third party controlling reviews, not the company itself. We all know how legit those Testimonials on websites are...
I agree that it can have a bad effect, fake reviews are bad, but better than only fake reviews hosted by the company they're about.
Unfortunately it often takes quite a bit of experience in a skill to truly assess your own skill level. Many programming courses teach just the basics of coding in a language, without making it clear that it's not really enough to professionally start working on production code. It also requires more knowledge of a language, to work with other people's code than your own - and there really isn't enough recognition of that fact (at least in people I've come across)
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There are three kinds of programmers:

1) Those who number lists starting at 1.
1) Those who number lists starting at 0.
2.5) Stan Kelly-Bootle, who proposed a compromise.
I'm surprised to see how close the DCs are to the river.
Fortunately it's in the high part of the river, less prone to overflow.
I'd file an application just for that. And yes, (s)he would run circles around me.

A Strategy that would backfire quickly.
I've repaired all my appliances myself over the last 20+ years, to say it's cheaper to replace is just plain false, even today. Most faults are easy fixes like sensors or motors and even the higher end PCB replacements work out cheaper.

However! if you are not inclined to fix yourself then the costs to have someone else fix your appliances may not work out as cost effective.
That doesn't make sense: if you root out resume liars, then you are left with zero (0) resumes.
The author specifically compares Sichuan (GDP per capita $6000, poor for China) and Kerala (GDP per capita $3000, well-off for India), and notes that the difference in development/infrastructure is far greater than the economic disparity.
Why would anyone ever send their unencrypted cctv footage to a 3rd party?
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftravaux.... there's quite a few of these

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=47840 earliest one that I found was back in December
Personally, do you not save important information from Slack somewhere in order to return to it after some time? Especially when you cannot find this already in the Slack space itself, if, for example, messages have already been lost in the free version, or just one topic was discussed in different channels and you need to put it all together?
Have you considered writing an ansible playbook to set all that up? You could even have it pull down the backup and do a full restore for you...
It's just CPC can shove them under the carpet exceptionally well.

I myself saw quite an intense action in the very centre of Guangzhou, and by tomorrow the only trace of it was some muddy cellphone video on a Chinese emigre website.
I don't disagree with most of what you say, but it's worth noting that Bhutan exports electricity to India, not the other way around.