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Being in port and being stuck aboard, particularly after a long series of passages, particularly when you expected to be home by now, particularly when you’ve nothing to do, is a very challenging set of circumstances.

I know (also, sadly, knew) several mariners who had a very bad time last year. One didn’t make it ashore, after eight months at anchor - eternally cheery pinoy engineer decided he had had enough and opened up the nitrogen tanks.

Another friend, in the cruise industry, fared better, but not much - she had overwintered in Antarctica several times previously, and said that spending six months being able to see the lights of port but being unable to go anywhere was infinitely harder. She’s been invited back to work, but isn’t sure she can bring herself to set foot on a ship again.
I think all of your criticisms of the movie were aimed at the book too. The movie followed the book pretty closely except for the mecha-suits.
One thing about mind controlling parasites that's bugging me is that we only ever hear about the extreme cases when it's very visible because the host does something counter intuitive from an evolutionary point of view. But statistically there must be many more cases where the effect of the mind control is just partial, not evolutionary suicide or even beneficial.

How spread is this phenomenon really? How many generations does it take for a parasite to evolve into such spectacular effect, where are the non spectacular mind controlling parasites and how are they influencing their host?
Edit: I did this calculation for the Dropbox migration out of S3 in this blog post: http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-o...

Short answer: The cost of just the hard drives to replace an $89MM S3 storage bill was about $45 million dollars. That's not including bandwidth, racks, datacenter space, administration etc etc.
Have you heard of... patents? Why is an idea written on paper so valuable? Why can't people just use it (or, as it often happens, independently rediscover it) and just cite the patent if recognition is required?

As for scientific research, most of the software behind scientific paper is basically closed source. Which is another reason why there's a whole reproducibility problem with science papers: it's quite possible many papers are just bad interpretation of data due to bad software.

Also note how much software / research / data is proprietary. How can one quote that?

I wouldn't mind using only BSD in the future if I get to read the Apple iOS source code on GitHub.
The solution is a competent dev or two updating it to HIG standards, running some usability tests, copying the best in class design, etc. Telemetry is secondary at best, not necessary.
Haha what a colossal fuck up from the HR or whatever clown. Imagine losing a top engineer over a bureaucratic error.

Well, a win for Figma at least.
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Applying statistics to individuals is not automatically bad. You may be interested if "your group" has inflated risks for certain cancers, for example.
Que? They were obviously fine with open-sourcing, just not under BSD license.
> I don't think the author's argument is that comedies can't be made

They literally say "Borat could not be made today". Trying to justify that in a footnote has the same energy as advertising "Our product cures cancer*" and then having "*no it doesn't" on the back of the box. It's just an egregiously false statement.

Maybe that wasn't their argument - they do emphasise the importance of being an established director, and that's a fair thing to assess. But when someone finds themselves having to add a footnote saying "When I said this couldn't be made today, I was ignoring that it was", that should probably be a hint that the argument actually being presented is pretty poor.
Audacity is not a website or online service. It's a completely offline audio editing program that has worked fine without telemetry for over twenty years. My kids were using it just fine, and now they're suddenly not allowed to and the only difference is the telemetry.
One thing about mind controlling parasites that's bugging me is that we only ever hear about the extreme cases when it's very visible because the host does something counter intuitive from an evolutionary point of view. But statistically there must be many more cases where the effect of the mind control is just partial, not evolutionary suicide or even beneficial.

How spread is this phenomenon really? How many generations does it take for a parasite to evolve into such spectacular effect? Where are the non spectacular mind controlling parasites and how are they influencing their host?
`curl -s "https://termbin.com/0nlm" | base64 --decode | file -`

I guessed but how could I have identified the string as a base64 hash?
It’s audio editing software. Kids should be allowed to use audio editing software freely. If the law requires no-one collect data on kids, stop collecting data from kids rather than tell kids they can’t use the software. That way, adults and kids have the ability to use the software.

Leaving the data collection on all the time, makes data-collection part of the terms of use of the software. Which makes data-collection part of the business model. Which makes the software spyware. It is always watching you.

If I followed you around all day, you’d label me a stalker, If I didn’t approach you, didn’t proactively threaten you, didn’t tell anyone else what I knew about you, you could still legally bring sone level of force against me. How is constant telemetry any different?
Yap. Some of them are mirrors uploaded by unknown/non-official uploaders.

I guest next step github would require cell phone to sign up to make sure who you are and get the rights to profit.
Bunch of gullible whackjobs playing with pseudoscientific gobbledegook. Happy not to be a US taxpayer XD
Could you be more specific about both things that may be true?
> The full story is complex but effectively a bureaucratic mistake led to my position falling into question, despite plenty of support for keeping me around from my immediate management chain.

So Google fails again at have an actual thinking person do some thinking. Sounds like their customer support. sigh

And the end paragraph is on point.
While your theory is quite possible, it is worth noting
(just to make sure that the premise of GPL is well-defended) that it is also possible his partners were more concerned about "freedom": that their new engine should benefit the commons rather than getting co-opted by people who don't care about end users, and that they would have preferred that their groundbreaking technology encourage more open source games.
Well I agree in that regard, but I think in the ideal world everything would just be open, and you would want to incentivise openness so it ends up as the natural state. In a sense by decoupling these issues. Eg Microsoft Windows OS could just be open source. There is some value to having windows itself, but the more valuable thing is the horde of programmers, and all the other resources behind it.
21 Jump Street, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Game Night, This Is the End are big mainstream comedies that pop up in my mind. If you go a bit broader, What We Do in the Shadows and The Death of Stalin [mockumentary] and The Nice Guys [buddy cop comedy].
> over a bureaucratic error

Doesn't sound like an error to me.

Getting rid of "legacy employees" is always a huge pain in the ass, sounds like his management found a solution. (Even though, frankly, a cowardly one.)
> I very much despise the trend to write sharepoint or wiki/Confluence pages as a means for software documentation. I want my documentation to reside next to my source code, not at some obscure corporate URL

There'd a middle-ish ground we're going with at work - you have the documentation alongside the code in git, and your CI/CD also uploads it to Confluence/whatever for less technical folks/searchability/etc.

( Tools used are Gitlab CI, mark and Confluence, but they don't really matter, the workflow does).
Yes, to ride a motorbike from Germany to Central Asia. At some point during the trip, the website I run became profitable enough to live from, so I'm extending that break until it's no longer possible.

I've won the lottery. There's no other way to describe it. Every day is Saturday. I wake up on most days deciding what I want to do. It rekindled my passion for programming. I travelled more, went on more bicycle rides, cooked more, and spent more time messing in the garage. I always have time for friends too.

The downside is constantly feeling that I am squandering that time, that I'm not adding enough bullet points to my life resume to justify my lifestyle. It's trivially easy to do things "next Saturday" when I have 7 times more of them, but I end up feeling like I should still use every single one of them.

Digital detox is extra important. I keep an eye on time spent on the computer. It's too easy to browse mindlessly for hours, instead of doing something rewarding and meaningful. The Internet is the biggest threat to my goals, and I try to keep it tamed.

Another problems is that my friends are still at work. They're busy, then tired. They're also not super interested to hear about my weekday adventures, obviously. It's a little lonely in that sense.

Career-wise, I am still writing code (an average of two commits a day), but not in a team context. My skills are still fresh. I'm still running a website too. I often get job opportunities through contacts, so I don't think I would struggle to find work.
Nobody knew back in the day that this strange idea called "open source licensed software" would become a big deal. And when it did become a big deal, there still wasn't enough practical examples to inform us which license to choose. At the time, corporations were not "taking advantage" of open source licenses, and we had no idea they would later on. So corporations weren't really a factor for us. It was more about source code freedom / user freedom.
One of my favourite SI units that is used in climate science is the Sverdrup, often used to describe oceanic or river flows, which is a million cubic metres per second, or one cubic hectometer per second. (1)

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup
google became such a numb bureaucratic monolith, its really sad, thinking my adventure with internet started around the time Altavista stopped being a think (now mostly using Duck).

I used to have gSuite account until I tried to cancel it. There was simply no way! Someone would ask bunch of verification questions via ticket, got them all answered including CNAME domain verification and 2 weeks of silence when I would email them again, a new person would take over the ticket and the whole process of providing the same answers (sometimes previous CS person didn't even wiped out my answers when he hit "reply to") over and over again. I gave up after 2 months and started with chargeback disputes. Since its a corporate account there is too many things attached to my cards so I won't be canceling it. But sure as hell every months for 11 months now, I get charged $6, call my bank and week later got it back through a chargeback dispute. I figured by now its cost them close to $300. And nothing. Just this morning I called my card and sure as every month I disputed the transaction again, explaining that the customer support is non existent. Of course they can bleed billions and I'm not even statistical noise, but goes to show that even the most sophisticated company on the face of Earth can be screwing up pretty easily.
If you are studying criminality and using conviction record data, I think it's fair to say that the biased introduced by biased policing, biased laws, etc. is a form of "garbage-ness" in the data, in that it might not reflect the reality that you were trying to model.
I have both a centralized Confluence instance and the documentation in GitHub. A GitHub action converts the markdown to Confluence to stay in sync. It's very handy, because developers like to document in markdown on GitHub, but business people tend to favor Confluence. One additional feature you get from this is the search over all repos, which doesn't work without additional tooling in GitHub.
Guess that all depends on your view of legacy employees who took a company to where it is today
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Really nice to hear from somebody who stuck with a company for the long haul. I'm trying to do the same thing, and in my agency I've gotten about half as far as you with interesting and challenging projects while maintaining a unique personal life. All the best at Figma and I hope that if you enjoy it enough to stick around you get another great 17 year run :)
> But I'd say that choosing GPL means it's more important to you that your code "is not exploited by corporations" than that it can be used for good by people with commercial interests.

I'd say that for a lot of people using the GPL that is exactly correct, but they distinguish between the people using the code and the commercial interest that they work for much more than your wording suggests. That good person will eventually move on, potentially leaving just the commercial interest.

Of course there are more extreme views (that good people and commercial interests do not mix) so it isn't that simple for all.

And there is the obvious twist of the point that by avoiding the use code covered by GPL, someone is tacitly stating that the potential for commercial exploitation is an option that they (directly or via following their employers' wishes) expressly want to keep available.

This is why some projects dual license, but that can have its own problems for projects with many maintainers or forks - sharing back becomes a relicensing issue of it's own (it is less of an issue for a protect maintained by small team, or a team of one).
I've been trying to spread the use of megametre as a common distance unit. I think it's very appropriate to talk about distances between large cities.
A country or company can give you nice things personally, and be a good force in the world overall, while still crushing people between the gears of its massive impersonal bureaucracy when they hit an edge case.
This is not entirely true. Additionally Apple proxies traffic to GCP but key management still resides on user devices.
GPL protects the right to see the source of a binary distributed to you, so, in some cases, it enables reading of the code.
Don't simply parrot the same line. I used to believe that, until I recently checked the project out again -- they seem to have come a long way. It's pretty impressive.
I agree scientific papers should be open source. It is not acceptable there is a proliferation of bad practice. That seems a different issue however.
Honestly, didn’t really consider this, but based on what I know, Google isn’t one to stop people from resting and vesting so it’s a bit strange to interpret this as an attempt from them to offload someone.

They don’t usually care. I know a couple of people who do very little every day.
So he changed langes without checking for traffic, crashed, the child didn't wear a seat belt and died, and now they're suing.
> Mindlessly asking for a source on every claim or observation is one of the silliest and most annoying things people on HN tend to do. It’s an original observation, not some shit I regurgitated from a book. You’d swear 90% of the people here thought you weren’t allowed to have a thought unless you published it in an academic journal

As you might have noticed from the rest of my answer, i disagree with your observation, hence the question about sources or any extra information to help me understand how you got there.

So, some of the original and most popular welfare states - Imperial Germany, post-wars UK disagree with your observation.
It's not, because it was a constitutional monarchy with elections and everything.
I took around 6 months off and travelled for a while.

The travelling was great. I was out of the country for about 3 months and visited friends for the other 3. I filled my calendar during this and was constantly moving. I was in the best shape of my life by the end of it.

When I was done travelling, I came back and lived out of Airbnbs in the Bay Area until I found a job. This was really expensive, and gave me urgency in the job hunt. I was able to fully dedicate myself to job hunting, and interviewed at a lot of companies. This let me price my labor well and negotiate effectively as a result. No companies had a concern with the time off.

The income bump from the aggressive job hunting meant the 8 months didn't hurt me financially at all. This let me have an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life without much downside.
There are emergent relationships from a system that is indeed chaotic, but ultimately this is all subject to entropy. Everything is converging towards maximum diffusion.
Terabyte might be the largest unit people can relate to at a personal level.
This is actually a worse take than "Yet you participate in society! Curious!"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
I honestly don't understand what "bureaucratic error" means in this context. Does it imply office politics?

Surely even Google won't let a top engineer leave due to purely administrative issues.
I put it in the spam folder and my email provider blocks it. Why should I waste my time confirming to the spammer that he's got a real address?
At this scale i think nobody cares, and eventually google will continue existing without them.
iCloud is a tool that lets my parents just that. This means I don't have to do it for them and no one has to worry about losing years of photographs due to a device failure.

edit: I guess my point is that different people have different computer skills and I think it's great that the tools now exist so people on the lower end of that spectrum can sort this out themselves without having to ask for help.
At the time I left, out of ~150k employees, only ~300 had worked there longer than me.

Because of the TypeScript work I was also one of ~30 "global approvers", with the access to to approve code changes to any project at the company.

Oof. Google will regret this snafu.

I hope he's happy at his new job.
Which is very useful feature for me, the author of GPL'ed code.
I thought it was pretty well known that nothing stored on iCloud is encrypted.

It’s encrypted on your iPhone, but once it leaves your iPhone it becomes unencrypted once stored in iCloud.

This is also why they can comply with law enforcement requests.

Now, someone may argue that “only Apple can unlock it” if indeed there is any protection at all.

https://fortune.com/2020/01/21/apple-icloud-encryption-law-e...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Alas, no support[1] for include.

[1]: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1095
mental gymnastics pro-gun people go through....
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You can have these checks run before CI.
Ask HN: Mid-Career Boreout, family, et al.
Throwaway for all the obvious reasons.

I'm in my late 30's/early 40's. I'm bored out. I feel like I've done the rise and fall in tech. I've startupped, I've run (and sold, low 6 figs) my own company. I've helped others get started. I've mentored, I've been mentored. Honestly.. I've had a career.

In an attempt to get back into caring - I've taken a lower on the totem (senior foo) job. The reality is that.. I'm bored out. The problems needing solving seem repetitive, take their time, and just aren't interesting. In fact, in 2021 we seem to be in the exact same area place as we were in 2001, just with different technologies - but the same problems.

How do others deal with this? At this point I'm basically just trying to get the mental space in to deal with getting to retirement. I can hopefully retire with my full quality of life within 3-8 years... but how do you get there without frankly going nuts. What can I do to improve my working situation?

Please, before people suggest therapy, religion, mindfulness, health, yoga, family connections, friends, charity, etc.. I have all that. I'm thankful (nay grateful) for everything we have. I'm just...done, and I don't know how to function anymore.

Help wanted - even if it's just to hear from others with the same thoughts. Thank you so much for reading, and considering.
Peter's comment comes off as satire to me. A joke about how absurd it would be for google to store 8 exabytes of data for decades because it might one day be useful.
It means really fast docker push, VM uploads, backups, etc.

It also means I can keep a ubuntu mirror, private docker repo, possibly IPFS node in the future, backup server, all at home.

I also never have to worry about my work/uploads saturating connection and interfering with wife/kids connections.

Growing up with 20KB/s I'd take the fastest connection I can, if I could update to 10Gb/s and more I would :)
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In that case you’re very free to not use such a GPL library.
I think it works best when people use it like a slide deck--the kind you create and then "send" to someone, as opposed to the kind that is used as a visual aid for a talk or lecture--and carefully organize their tweets so that they have one semi-isolatable (but hopefully rather complete) thought/insight per message. I agree that John Carmack, as evidenced by these tweets, does not seem to know (or care about) how to do that :(... but I've totally seen people do it well; and then, as a "blogging platform", it has the superpower of letting people branch graphs out of your deck, highlighting and commenting on slides while still retaining their context as part of a global discussion.
Is the chances of mercury hit by an asteroid is higher than that of Earth ? It seems so, as it is close to sun.
> google became such a numb bureaucratic monolith, its really sad

It's the same with all those other FAANG companies. Working for them must be very close to being a public servant.
> So he changed langes without checking for traffic

The article says no such thing.

You could just as easily interpret the events as: "He put on his turn signal, which Autopilot ignored."

A human driver should have been driving defensively and realized they needed to give the person space.

A human driver usually would have hit the brake as soon as they saw a turn signal.
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Telemetry for Audacity is bad because it precludes children from using the software without any real reason.
This is true but it still does not validate the OP comparison between buildings and software. Software faces a much much more difficult task.
Ah yes it was LGPL2 indeed.
Apple finally realized they weren’t very good at hosting stuff. They never were.

Plus, it’s a no brainer leveraging Google and AWS. Their global footprint and expertise alone is worth it. Also, $300 million a year is a drop in the bucket to Apple’s bottom line. They probably make that alone from the millions of adapters they sell each year.
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