skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto. Moved to rclone after having a bunch of random small issues with Duplicity that on their own weren't major but made me lose faith in something that's going to be largely operating unsupervised except for a monthly check-in.
everything else getting cheaper is part of _why_ houses are getting more expensive. The savings get poured in to outbidding each other.
What's the alternative, really?

Essentially letting billions of $ of infrastructure go to complete waste?

That said, I agree with you. Then again the host city always pulls the shit end of the stick when organizing such an event.
What's the point of a fire suppression system that destroys what it should protect?
Ach, great to see FreeBSD once again on the list.
Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)
Yeah, I think going out to find yourself or being transformed is mostly a fools errand.

I also don't regret my travels but didn't find any of that.
Thanks for answering! I hope to find that niche (that's outside tech) one day too!
To me it seems like it's directly comparable and the efficiency demonstrated here seems truly abysmal.
Was the building made from stacked shipping containers? Containers are such a budget-friendly and trendy structural building block these days. They even click with the software engineers - "Hey, it's like Docker".

Containers would seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to dissipating, rather than containing, heat. I hope improved thermal management and fire suppression designs can be implemented.
The Debugging Book: Tools and Techniques for Automated Software Debugging
Japan to stage Tokyo Olympics without overseas fans
It seems your setup follows the three rules back-ups with at least two in different physical location. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data...
I have a vast and ever growing number of ideas.

So many, mostly probably bad ideas.
> I've never get beyond this superficial in hearing people's travel stories online and IRL.

I think most people aren't very articulate, they cant express their experiences well. Or maybe don't self reflect well. But anything you experience will leave an effect on you.

Food, locations and just getting dropped into to situations you wouldn't normally be in are the biggest things about traveling. There's a lot of little things that can leave an impact. Some things are just seeing how similar people around the world really are too. I've discovered a lot of new food and learned about food from traveling. A cookbook, youtube and imported ingredients aren't quite the same.(I saw in your other post your a chinese immigrant, do you think I could claim to know about chinese food without visting and eating in china?) I took one off cooking classes in kyoto, bali and morroco and learned a lot about the culture and what i learned left a lasting effect on me. I found I really like indonesian food, mie goreng is a regular weeknight dinner for me now.

There is a lot to write i think what I gained from travel,probabaly to much for a forum post. One other thing i want to mention is seeing nature is impactful. Going to the carribean and seeing dead coral reefs really drives home the damage humans are doing to this planet. You probably won't see that in your suburb, or realize it in a city.
Storage for an home's worth of possessions doesn't cost that much less than rent on an apartment.
Be careful working remotely in asia if you need to work on US time. I spent two months as a zombie in Tokyo only wandering around by myself at night because of that which was fun but not as glamorous as it seems.
Nobody would think that though, a GM would be able to tell how bad you are lying.
> Async isn't really the problem - the same issue pops up with error handling, with resource management

There are ways to handle that, though. It's called algebraic effects and they are nicely implemented in Unison language[1] (although there they're called abilities[2]). It's very interesting language; I recommend reading [3] for good overview.

[1] https://www.unisonweb.org/

[2] https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/abilities

[3] https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/
New space race riot? I'm in
Sounds to me like it's short-hand for "Bay Area"
The key differentiator of OVH is the very compact datacenters they achieve thanks to water cooling. Some OVH exec were touting about that in a recent podcast.

Interestingly in this case, having a very compact data center was probably an aggravating factor. This shows how complex these technical choices are, you have to think of operating savings, with a trade off on the gravity of black swan events...
I wouldn’t put too much stock into it. Facebook does so much stuff, everyone uses it for different reasons. Like me, I use it for the marketplace nowadays, and for events. Some people like groups, some like meme pages
According to the official status page, the whole datacenter is still green http://status.ovh.com/vms/index_sbg2.html
C++20 coroutines are not async in the standard. They are just coroutines. Actually they have no implementation. The user has to write classes to implement the promise type and the awaitable type. You could just as easily write a coroutine library wrapping epoll as you could io_uring. The only thing it does behind your back (other than compile to stackless coroutines) is allocate memory, which also goes for a lot of other things.
I cannot answer this question, as I moved abroad for work and my education. However, I do travel a whole lot more, especially during the pandemic with everything being remote.

Most importantly, you only live once: Travel while you still have your health! Travel becomes a lot harder with health problems.

Anyways, if you are an American, you may want to try Croatia, which offers a digital nomad visa for all remote workers worldwide. Croatia allows third country nationals (non-EU/EEA/Swiss citizens) in extremely easily. In fact, if you stay in Croatia for 14 days (with or without the digital nomad visa) you can travel throughout the EU, as long as you follow the pandemic rules. It is a "loophole" for Americans who want to get into the European Union for travel, as Croatia is part of the EU (but not a part of the Schengen zone, so they are allowed to make their own rules for entry a lot easier and without controversy within the EU), but not part of the Schengen zone ("Freedom of Movement zone").

You are also eligible for Croatian national health insurance, which Croatian/EU/EEA/Swiss citizens are likewise eligible for, if you get the Digital Nomad Visa, which is quite a good deal. Croatia costs about the same as the US, worst case scenario, if not less--which is usually the case. The people are extremely friendly and accommodating, too.

Here is some info on the Croatian Digital Nomad Visa: https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/digital-nomads-in-cr...

This is the website to consult for getting administrative stuff done in Croatia: http://expatincroatia.com/
A mate of mine's consulting company offers a 10% discount on any work if the client buys them a plant, any plant, for the office. Apparently they've only had two clients take them up on the offer.
Uhm... At least 32% of those living there would probably beg to differ.[1] (Or 55%, if you look at the actual partition plan.[2])

In any case most of the rest of the region was carved up by the occupying European powers in much the same way, including the creation of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...
I think "come up with an idea" is a wrong way to approach this. How many ideas did you test? I suggest to treat this as "fishing". People don't get "wonderful business ideas", people get some ideas and test them. Because how good an idea is depends on many factors and it can be hard for anyone to judge.

So I am pretty sure you are able to come up with ideas. Perhaps you just see them as "bad" and don't even try to test them. I would suggest you to find the most promising idea and think how you could test whether this is a problem other's might have. As you noticed, I used "problem" here, because ultimately you want to solve a problem.

If you struggle with finding problems, try noticing your own inconveniences. Imagine that you have magic abilities to fix everything, what would you change in your own life?
Why does anyone read Yelp reviews? They're gamed, and also used to extort businesses. Why does anyone read Glassdoor reviews? They're completely gamed by the employers[0], and the company itself recently pivoted into brand management - which translates into fake reviews being their core product now. Why does anyone read Amazon/eBay reviews? They're gamed too! Why does anyone read reviews on random small e-commerce sites? Those often aren't even reviews, they just look like them!

It's because most people don't pay attention and didn't figure out yet that on-line reviews in general are worthless, thoroughly gamed bullshit. Those who did figure it out - they don't stop using Yelp/Glassdoor/Amazon/eBay/Google Maps anyway, because those services still offer enough value to customers compensate for broken reviews.

So if regular users will be there either way, and manipulating reviews - or allowing them to be easily manipulated - increases retention of paying customers (businesses), which way the incentives blow?

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789865
I don't really get what's so special about this. But I am always surprised by how extremely scalable Redis is, scaling the stateless chat servers is trivial, scaling state is hard.
How does it compare to solar satellites with microwave beaming of power. Beaming to Earth surface is problematic but on Moon there's no atmosphere in the way.

Or even hefty batteries made from local metals (there should be plenty of metal meteorites lying around so smelting not required).
Are we talking about the same example?

struct Database {
data: Vec<i32>
}
impl Database {
fn store(&mut self, data: i32) {
self.data.push(data);
}
}

fn main() {
let mut db = Database { data: vec![] };
do_work_and_then(|meaning_of_life| {
println!("oh man, I found it: {}", meaning_of_life);
db.store(meaning_of_life);
});
// I'd read from `db` here if I really were making a web server.
// But that's beside the point, so I'm not going to.
// (also `db` would have to be wrapped in an `Arc<Mutex<T>>`)
thread::sleep_ms(2000);
}

No threads are spawned.
Same problem. A good login mechanism needs to rely on a "previously agreed upon" mechanism to perform the login and not break because an SMS or email is delayed.
A password works this way. TOTP/HOTP 2FA also works this way.
this was hilarious! if you're like me and don't know pokemon that well (only the most famous ones), this is pretty tough.
They said they had money for PR but probably not infinite amounts to take on Google at court.
I have never had this problem either being hired by external recruiters or working for places that utilized them. I know that the recruiter is a recruiter, and don’t expect them to be an engineer.

I have never been hired by a recruiter, they were just the first step. A company that requires engineers to filter applicants on the first pass probably isn’t very fun.
I would have immediately sorted your posting into a bin with "doesn't know enough about the tech they are hiring for". I saw many resumes at the time that had impossible requirements like that. Unlike you were say James Gosling. And I know you weren't hiring him with a post like this.
Anecdotal but whatever: We worked with a software developer for some Magento stuff. Bought a plugin from him, support was awful, waited several weeks for a reply on our tickets, didn't respond to mails at all.

So I wrote a 1 star Google review, stating, very politely, that the service was not what we expected, that our problems were not fixed, our mails not responded to etc. and that someone might think about this before doing business with him.

In less than five minutes the developer replied to two tickets, wrote me a mail and threatened me to remove the rating from Google, otherwise he would take legal action.

I added to the review that after posting the review I received a reply in 5 minutes and was threatened by the developer.

Still stands today. And it's not the only 1 star rating for that business with a case like that.

So... Not sure about Google ratings after all...
Something is perplexing about the request. Most of us have far more ideas than we can execute on. Basically though, if you're at a company in a particular market, identify the pain points that potential customers in that market have, then figure out how to fix them.
Users' choice goes only so far. We need to have a compatible privacy-oriented browser with governance that puts quality and transparency first.
Thanks for your critique! Your "over-optimization" comment (vs. presumably being more spontaneous and improvising as your travel or just in everyday life) is very valid. I will say that my original feeling is not even "squeezing the most out of the paste-tube" or "maximizing profits" of some objective - it's more about commitment, whether be a subject or to people. Travel to me is like watching TED talks of experienced professors or artists in their field - it makes me feel very smart for 15 minutes listening; but in no way skilled nor committed as a practitioner of that field who dedicate time to their craft everyday over years.
My girlfriend and I took a 9 months sabbatical back in 2019 so we didn't quit our jobs, but hopefully you'll find this useful anyway.

I bought an used RV and did some modifications ourselves to be truly independent (more water storage, 500w of solar panels, ...) As we didn't want to be constrained to campsites.

It was a glorious experience. Very tempted to do it again to be honest. We traveled in Italy and Spain for 5 months during the cold periods and in summer we roamed through Scandinavia.

Generally speaking, we spent 2 weeks in each spot, but in few 1 or 2 months (San Vito lo Capo in Sicily comes to mind). We both climb and generally speaking are outdoor persons so we opted to stay away from big cities and choose to park in remote areas in the countryside. This let us get to know the local lifestyle and made friends along the way in A way that is impossible in cities (we both speak Italian, Spanish and English). Going to the only bar/restaurant in these towns every day made our faces familiar to the locals and we got invited over for dinner several times (in italy and spain, that didn't happen in Scandinavia at all).

I highly recommend traveling this way. It's fun, economic and if you are with a good partner an endless pool of amazing memories. Also, this made me rearrange my life priorities. Before I had career on top of my list, now, instead, I just want to be relaxed. I don't want a job that keeps me worried after work hours and I want to spend more time with my family!

Happy to answer all your questions!
It would be neat to use a sort of reverse-holomorpic encryption, where the client could send the server a computation to perform on some data the client had access to then return the results, but the server cannot see exactly what the computation is, stepwise, so at to protect the client's internal business logic.
> I believe that the only reason Uber, Waymo, and friends have gotten away with "it's the drivers job"

Waymo doesn't do L2 or L3, only L4 autonomy. In the case where the AV is at fault for an accident, it would be due to the system as there is no human driver in the vehicle.
It's also suspected the Saudi gov / monarch used Pegasus to hack Jeff Bezos phone and steal his and his mistresses nudes [0] in response to Washington Post's coverage of the Khashoggi murder.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-phone-hacked-saud....
Good points, but when it comes to space launch and space technology, Russia still has a lot to offer.
I'd love to have gone that immersion experience of learning Spanish; and use that language skill to practice and go full circle to be an ESOL teacher (was an ESOL volunteer teacher too)!
> what happens if your primary gets pwned and the access is used to encrypt or delete the backup?

Append-only permissions. We do this in S3 for that specific reason. S3 lifecycle rules take care of pruning old backups.

You can also build a pull-based system where auth resides on the backup system, not the production system.
It’s something I always wanted to do. Prior to leaving I spent a few years learning it and sailing SF bay.

Having said that’s it’s not required, plenty of people learn as they go though crossing an ocean isn’t advised as a jumping off point
Wow these are great. You should definitely continue and do a bandcamp or something
It's true: most companies do not have a disaster recovery plan, and many of them confuse a breach protocol with a disaster recovery plan ('we have backups').

Fires in DCs aren't rare at all, I know of at least three, one of those in a building where I had servers. This one seems to be worse than the other two. Datacenters tend to concentrate a lot of flammable stuff, throws a ton of current through them and does so 24x7. The risk of a fire is definitely not imaginary, which is why most DCs have fire suppression mechanisms. Whether those work as advertised depends on the nature of the fire. An exploding on prem transformer took out a good chunk of EV1's datacenter in the early 2000's, and it wasn't so much the fire that caused problems for their customers, but the fact that someone got injured (or even died, I don't recall exactly), and before the investigation was completed and the DC released to the owners again took a long time.

Being paranoid and having off-site backups is what allowed us to be back online before the fire was out. If not for that I don't know if our company would have survived.
It does do another thing: it gives you access to a better deal, generally speaking. But I'm also considering biting that bullet.
Tracker Control on Android allows changing DNS servers, but you could also use 1.1.1.1 from Cloudflare, Mozilla VPN and others.
Bayard Rustin (who was pro-Israel btw) would like a word
Het opbreken van functionaliteit Hoe breek je software op in componenten?
Thanks, I have a better picture of how things click now.
Did not quit my job, but instead went full remote in 2018 (age 55 at the time).

Still doing it, but the pandemic forced me to stay in one country for just about a year now.

In that year I put down roots, got long term visas and maybe will spend another few years there while we see how things shape out this and next year.

But ya, 2-3 months minimum in a place is what you need, with just a small backpack.

Make local friends.

Don't hang around or go out with other tourists or expats. This is the kiss of death.

Make it a rule to eat only the food of the city or the country that you find yourself in.

Learn a few words of the language "hello", "thank you", "bathroom", "stop", etc.

Don't think people are less than you. They're not. They want the same things as you.

As an introvert, being forced to make friends with people who speak another language and look the opposite of me (black guy in Asia), was exactly the ticket.

Well recommended to do it.

The main thing I would say - is have a mission when you travel. Seeing the sights and drinking the bars and mingling with other tourists and shtupping the local girls is fun, but not a mission.

You will get bored after some time of doing that.

Have some particular work or meaning to each day to keep you grounded, and you can do the moving around for a super-long time.

You will find that you'll set some schedules for work, play and discoveries - regardless of where you are.

Just don't quit your job. Instead go remote (even if you have savings). Ok?
The GM would easily figure out at what chess level he is though. No one expecting him to beat the GM of course.
The final layer is call the insurance company.
My most-used MacOS shortcuts for navigation:

Terminal -> Finder:

open .

Finder -> Terminal:

I made a Bash function:

function cdf {
DIR=$(osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to POSIX path of (insertion location as alias)')
cd "$DIR"
}
Twitch, 9gag and Reddit are most definitely a bubble. I mean, there are even the jokes in the various subreddits about how they'd never get someone with that belief system here, or on 9gag about how there aren't actually any women.

I'm in my 30s and for me the biggest grounding point for what is and isn't my bubble has come from online dating. Let me just say, being into Star Trek, owning a 3D printer and knowing your way around even the basics of a shell terminal are all, even individually, something only a small fraction of the population would identify with. These are pretty independent things, however, inside of these there is quite a large overlap. Hence, it's a subculture and the modern world which lets us choose our human interactions based on our interests automatically turns that into a bubble.

I believe a similar thing happens to those who descend into the redpill movement, or join the military, or get involved in Twitter activism, or do mountaineering, or base jumping, or Instagram fitness, or eat at a different restaurant every night, or so many other things. Everybody thinks their own worldview represents a much larger population cross section than it actually does. And everyone can find someone with a more extreme perspective, making them feel moderate in their position.
Denmark mistrusts people who've been consultants applying for full time employment, in my experience

That is because of Janteloven
There isn't a company you can call up because projects of this magnitude aren't quoted over the phone to internet forums users.
50 GWh is stored in ~30,000 barrels of synthetic fuel. GWh is an incomplete way to specify storage, there are different technologies for the different ways storage may be needed, depending on what resources are on the grid: short term to handle the peaks of everyone microwaving their breakfast and coffee at 7am or long term storage to handle a once every few decades event like a Texas snow storm.

No one is presently making these because the policy of the grid was developed around power plants that dig stuff out of the ground and burn it - the markets are based on bidding with the assumption every power plant will have a marginal cost of generation relative to the cost of its fuel. This policy doesn't reflect the nature of renewables which besides their capital cost have very low to 0 marginal cost of production. This has disrupted the energy markets in many ways and policy is still being developed to incentivize storage capacity.
I had some success last year integrating tesseract OCR and OpenCV with Tabula (compiled to javascript). The purpose was to build a Google Docs pdf table import addon without requiring a backend. Happy to get in touch to figure out how I could contribute the work back to Tabula (if that makes sense).

Here is a gif of table detection for a scanned PDF doc (the first run is slower as it requires fetching the opencv is bundle): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OobUBBtnydg/X6Vn_Ls3juI/A...

Here's a demo of the addon running outside of Google Docs: https://pdftableutil.possiblenull.com/app/
There are plenty of cases where a human preventable accident held the manufacturer of some object to be financially liable, this is how self driving will end.

A cute upper middle class child doing something innocent will get killed by a car being operated mostly correctly with a driver who could have prevented the accident if they were more alert to the controls.
How to build a taxi app in 2021
I can see them all just fine.

Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Felicis Ventures, Meritech Capital, and Next27 are the lead investors.
elliot..is it you?