skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great use of one's location data.

I've personally found Google's location history to be a net positive for me.
From places I've been whose precise addresses I can't remember (e.g. distant family events), to tracking hospital, doctor visits.

I've even used it as a proxy for timesheets when I used to work from an office on weeks where I wouldn't have recorded my activities well (like which client I visited, how long I took lunch, etc).
I don't find it a big deal. Smart people will evaluate the offering for themselves and not make a decision based on a 1 line comment on Hacker News.

Plus, I doubt they would spend their lives building the project and not recommend it.
Bitcoin came out of a multiple decade long process where all the moving parts were already invented.

The only genius of Satoshi was to combine all these parts.

See also Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree. By Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559
I like the essence of Quantum Strangeness here:

"To be more precise, what we shall show is that the particles’ response∗ to a
certain type of experiment is not determined by the entire previous history of
that part of the universe accessible to them."

John Conway, Simon Kochen: Free Will Theorem
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604079
I guess most of my apps have persistent data.
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The stack we use is primarily Java and TypeScript.

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Zeilinger got the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2010, which is often considered the second most prestigious award after the Nobel prize.
Hm, I actually liked eclipse, once I got a bit used to it. At least for a Java project. Mixed feelings about stability sometimes. Mixed feelings about intelliJ's bloat as well.
Damn you Bobby Tables!!! (fist hanging in the air)
Storytime!

Years ago I boarded an almost empty plane from my country to a country where I had just started to live. The crew let a printed list of the passengers on one of the seats, I took the list and stored it somewhere. Flash forward few years later: I had met a lot of people in that country, inclusive from my own country. And one day, I rediscovered that boarding list I had totally forgotten about, just to find out that I had ended up knowing one of the persons on it.
Given that many Rust's security guarantees can't hold in the kernel, what is its advantage over Ada, Nim or Zig?
Did they remove reader mode from the latest Firefox Mobile on Android?
I leave the feature on and I'm not a Google employee or ignorant of the fact Google tracks my location data. I find value in having the data myself and don't care that Google also has it. I also just asked my girlfriend if she has disabled it and she hasn't. She isn't a Google employee and is aware it is being recorded. So there are 2 more people. Is it possible you are in fact in the minority in disabling it?
[seL4][1] is a formally verified microKernel which is used by billions of smartphones as part of their baseband OS. The part which is completely separate from Android or iOS.
[1]:http://sel4.systems/
I was getting philosophical the other day for the opposite reason, looking at all the things that went slightly different than they would have been expected to go, or that I had previously wished had not gone "wrong," but if they had happened the "right" way, we never would have met.

I don't think Google's spying can help me identify those, but in the end I'm grateful for the winding path that led here, even if I didn't love it along the way!
> Nominally, downvotes aren't for disagreeing, they're for posts that don't add to the discussion.

On HN one should downvote for disagreeing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
> Wow all the bash hate. It takes practice and repetition like with most programming languages.

Except I have no issues with other programming languages. Bash is really different. I only tolerate it because it comes pre-installed on just about every system.
>
I do have a small gripe with the above comment, in that Bell's theorem only rules out local hidden variables. Some take the view that Bohmian mechanics is an formulation of quantum theory which employs hidden variables, just explicitly non-local ones.

Superdeterminism also allows local hidden variable theory without violating Bell's theorem:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

A 2013 interview with the Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft on this topic:

> https://spookyactionbook.com/2013/10/07/does-some-deeper-lev...

A paper by Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer:

Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer; Rethinking Superdeterminism

> https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00139...

In 2016, 't Hooft published a textbook on some specific points of superdeterminism:

Gerard 't Hooft; The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-41285-6
My son in law was visiting the other week and asked me about my tech job. I told him that it is like taking a calculus exam everyday of the week, where I am not exactly sure what the course material is that day, or that it is a chapter I have not seen yet.
You get 100%, as far as I know. He may have a ton of downvotes from comments that net out some of that karma
We moved from Heroku to GCP after approximately two years of using Heroku. (This was three years ago so some information may have changed)

The move worked out incredibly smoothly and has saved us money and allowed us to "modernise" our infrastructure to take advantage of some of the newer trends in Infrastructure and Security.

To address your direct questions:

1. Not very long. We were running a NodeJS app with a web layer and several background workers. We were able to get this running on a Google Compute Engine VM in about 1 day using Packer. The whole migration process took about two weeks start to finish.

2. Our team is relatively experienced and had experience with all three major platforms and Kubernetes (although we chose not to use Kube in this case). We are definitely a team of developers, not sysadmins though. This means we had to learn some new things particularly about tuning NodeJS apps on raw linux.

3. I don't think we learnt too much (other than the undocumented rough edges of both platforms) but it was definitely worth it for financial and quality reasons.

4. It's a relatively hard metric to calculate when the company is growing user base and features quickly - but I would estimate it at around 50%.

5. 1 app with around 5000 requests per second. NodeJS / Typescript / Rust

6. If you have only ever used Heroku I think it would be worth getting comfortable with Containers (Docker basically) and making your app run in a container. From there you have tools like Railway (https://railway.app) or Cloud66 (https://www.cloud66.com) that can do most of the rest for you.
Wrong? There isn’t a right or wrong about this.

It is often the job of vulnerability assessment team to get down to the root of the misbehaving components, WASM or not.
As I understand it, Bell showed that, if quantum mechanics is correct, then any deterministic hidden variable theory would either have to be non-local or non-causal.

Aspect et al demonstrated experimentally that quantum mechanics is correct in the Bell sense.
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Chrome has done an IE 5 move, hence the slowdown.
Thank you for answering! Deja dup it's just a GUI over duplicity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicity_(software)). It allows me to have encryption, differential backups and restoring files in a granular way (even from Gnome context menu) with no effort. Very pleasant experience similar to Time machine in MacOS. Anyways, I'll definitely give it a go to ZFS.
Guitarists can usually tell when one of their strings is slightly out of tune and can often tell when all their strings are out of tune yet in tune relatively to each other. Successful guitarists will have a guitar tech off-stage; swapping guitars isn't just for tonal purposes, it's to quickly swap out a slightly out of tune guitar for one that has just been tuned. But it seems unlikely that without perfect pitch that we can trust a non-musicians' assessment that a musician played a song perfectly faithful to the original. Even assuming that this occurred, this is not exactly all that unlikely nor that it rarely occurs, but, instead, it is academic for the experienced performer and trained musician. And for every hour of performance there are many hours of rehersal. The very best performances are built from muscle-memory which will obfuscate how much raw talent there actually is.
I've had #93A1A1 on for so long I forget it isn't the official color...

I really wish that link would show the tally for each color
> Am I missing something?

No, but you're not the OP above my comment, so my question still stands.

> (eg use the Sydney AWS region, put Cloudflare in front of it and then watch your traffic to/from Sydney take a round trip via the US or Singapore)

I don't understand? I don't have this issue (I'm in Brisbane; I use ap-southeast-2)

> [c] this does nothing for non-static assets

Non-static assets are going to be very tiny in most cases, and the problem then becomes about volume. If you've got volume and your business model doesn't suck, then you can afford the rate (my understanding is AWS' network egress charges are gross compared to other vendors.)
>> "the only way to enforce artificial scarcity is through laws / legal systems and DRM", which is clearly false

Without laws or DRM, there is no digital scarcity.

The article itself states: "Digital goods aren’t naturally scarce. The marginal cost to replicate them is practically zero, as anyone who ever copy-and-pasted something can attest to. For this reason, digital scarcity used to be an oxymoron. If something is digital, it is just information, and information can be easily copied."

Bitcoin is neither legally mandated nor is it a universally enforceable DRM scheme unless you choose to use it as one.
It only has value if you value it. If I do not use Bitcoin because I think it is bad for the environment and bad for society, it does not impose any artificial restrictions on me.

Is Bitcoin then a form of self-imposed DRM? Perhaps.
People don’t just google every word they think of. They google what they want to know more about. Is it so unlikely that more people want to know about a clothing brand than a vegetable?
They did say the only times it needs physically checked up on is when the tripod gets knocked over. Maybe they need to use name-brand gaffa tape instead of deliberalely-not-that-sticky blue masking tape.
That is insanely cool! I just requested my spotify data and really curious to see the results.
For my next project (pun intended) I will use vercel to host and grab a postgre instance somewhere (maybe heroku or elsewhere) for the storage
Ask HN: How did you find a mentor?
Mindset by Carol Dweck (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset)

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca...)
https://archive.ph/XEOLN
When I re-read your commit with clear mind, your advicesa are valuable. I am sorry for my previous comment taking it personally.
They can throw the show cause notice, and get a default in 1 month if nobody responds.
A cursory search of AliExpress found these potentially interesting candidates:

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003164049579.html, https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004107179526.html (POE)

https://aliexpress.com/item/32964061367.html (wall wart style)

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003765804094.html (looks like a power bank with always-on output like the article is describing)

https://aliexpress.com/item/4001204992959.html (BYO 18650s and enclosure)

https://aliexpress.com/item/32421259702.html (looks interesting but sadly "dead", was cached in google search results from however long ago)
The thing is, the glue on masking tape becomes impossible to remove if it gets damp, at all, which is why it's dangerous leaving stuff masked up overnight.
Any social gathering is a place where you can meet your significant others, university is not the exclusive place for that.

Most most introverted people tend to do though (myself included), is attending less social events as they become older. But you can still force yourself out there and meet people based on your hobbies.

And who knows, maybe you meet your significant other at one of those events for your favorite hobby?
We used to have a program `xcoffee`. You ran it and it displayed the latest image in a window.
If you watch Get Back, it is kind of freakish how fluid Paul and John are. Telepathic communication, writing songs constantly for a decade.
> Text is great, and in parallel with UML's demise, the industry got amazing at succinct technical writing: the README.md in a github repo. But sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words and I still miss it.

I think the decline in UML started with the decline of Waterfall as more teams adopted Agile. To state it more generally, more teams adopted ways of working that had shorter feedback cycles (relative to Waterfall) and unfortunately UML diagrams get in the way of that since they are not testable or easily made into prototypes [1] that can be shown to the customer for quick feedback.

1: That didn't stop people from trying. Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems readily comes to mind https://sparxsystems.com/
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Our goal is to create our own internal low-code tools to enable us to deliver more products, faster. We've decided to add Kotlin to our stack for server-side development. Experienced Java developers who want to get into Kotlin are also welcome to apply. As much as I enjoy Ruby on Rails (and it's definitely helped us succeed), refactoring is becoming more painful the larger our code base becomes (using Sorbet helps, but can only take us so far). We intend to use Kotlin for the new products we're launching as well as to rewrite selected components of our existing system where it makes sense. I haven't coded in a statically typed language in years, but I've been writing Kotlin lately, and it feels surprisingly productive.

We are not taking a framework-heavy approach, so we are using Ktor along with appropriate libraries. We use PostgreSQL as our DB server. On the front-end, we mainly render plain HTML, but use Vue.js on the pages that need more interactivity - this role is more focused on the back-end, but front-end skills are welcome too. As you can see from our no-nonsense stack, we prefer to keep things simple with robust, proven technologies, so we can focus on solving client issues.

Our development team was already mostly remote pre-pandemic. We have a very supportive culture, and are continuously putting a lot of thought into ensuring remote work is happy work.

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This seems to be a shadowban by possibly overzealous/incompetent ISPs.

I am in India and able to access and download VLC through my ISP from the official videolan website.

It is very likely the case would get thrown out as the party to which the notice is served (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) might just submit an affidavit / explanation to the court that no ban has been issued. That would leave videolan with the option of pursuing the ISPs and then it becomes murky. They should probably also add the ISPs (at least the big ones) that are blocking the website as additional defendants so they can issue sworn affidavits on whether there is a shadowban in place.

I absolutely don't get why videolan needs to be blocked. I hope they get the blockage lifted.
My car should easily last 200K - 250K miles. At least data shows that my model should easily hit those numbers.

My yearly maintenance is 250-325USD per year. Occasionally you need to replace the brake pads. And a few other things come up sure. But over 10 years I’m only looking at 5KUSD unless something horrible goes wrong. And I could probably get it cheaper. At my level of fuel consumption I’m looking at another 4K over 10 years.

I can’t find an up to date quote, but in Australia, the Tesla 3 years service plan for a rear wheel drive Model 3 was 1.75 times the cost compared to the standard service for my car in 2018.

Non Tesla EVs do better. And some are half the price or less than what I pay for annual servicing. But I still have to cough up 3-4 times more money 2nd hand. So potentially a 2nd hand EV based on current prices will start to be cheaper in 8ish years. Not including the loan I’d have to take out to pay for the thing.
Can anyone say why DB disk space is so expensive compared to just a volume? Tempted to just roll my own with these prices.
The three of them did. (I was unaware about that prize until now - or maybe I had forgotten.)
It's good to remember we're one bad magnetic storm away from all of our jobs being gone.
> the real problem: bad gatekeeping. People getting into science, not for the search for truth, but in search of respectability, green card, money, or whatever else.

What possible gate could keep out people who get into science for the wrong reasons? As long as there are people willing to pay off a scientist, there will always be scientists willing to pocket the money in exchange for lies. As long as scientists are well respected, people who want to be respected will give consideration to becoming a scientist.

All we can can do is open the gates and doors, keep an eye on everyone who comes in, and kick out the ones who cause problems. In fact, it's better not to be aggressive about gatekeeping when it comes to science because otherwise you risk kicking out someone who could have discovered something important. Transparency and verification make for good science anyway so it's not as if anyone would be saving money on 'cameras and motion detectors' by locking the gates and doors and only letting their friends in.

Accountability is the key here and the lack of it is not just limited to scientists. Not long ago in the US a doctor who believes that tumors and cysts are caused by the sperm of demons found her way into international headlines. She is also on record saying that medications contain the DNA of aliens. She still got to keep her medical license and she has a medical practice. There is almost no accountability at all.
Tried railway (unstable), boyab (unable to setup) and settled with fly.io (easy to setup, stable).

all free tiers, even with a free custom domain.
This 1,000,000x
Google Fuschia is a microkernel OS according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)

https://cs.opensource.google/fuchsia
Render. As easy as Heroku and migration was easy due to github based deployment. Cost should be same as using $7 instances in both. 3 tiny apps with 10K hits/day. All using Node.
My first name contains an accented e, and what the computer will spit out is a crapshoot: é, e, Ã©, &eacute; or just a plain blank square. It makes me want to buy an internationalised domain name out of spite.
In fact, they can do a lot more since they have data on more than two people.
They probably also got scared that he would die before he could ever get it. Same as with Penrose two years ago, if Zeilinger had gone without a Nobel, that would almost be a disgrace for the price.
> Judicial system here is slow, but it at least still works...

Defaults in India are very fast.
When I was 16 I was wondering whether too many things interested me at once. I was really into music, playing music, mixing/producing music, photography (both analog and digital), graphic design, web development and web design, drawing, writing, product design, electronics, film, skateboarding, snowboarding, programming and 3d modelling, contemporary art, philosophy and media science.

Naturally my feeling was that this is way to much for one individual to be good at and I felt I had to pic one.

Nearly two decades later I still haven't picked one and I am excellent in a few of these at the same time. I managed to create a freelance job in film post production and web stuff that paid well and covered many of those fields, with many of the intersection being fruitful.

When I was doing the sound editing for movies with directors, I could use my own experience as a director, as a DOP and as a student of film science to talk about certain aesthetical decisions with them, all while being the guy who knows how a preamp is structured on a circuit level. People booked me precisely because I know how to technically make it work and have the artistic experience both in picture and sound.

Then during corona it shifted more towards backend programming, electronics and media tech. But having a pool of abilities is not a bad thing.

If you are the type that can make it work of course. I have always been faster than average at learning and understanding new things. The most important thing is that the things you do go into, are things you like doing. And it is totally okay to split your money earning from that.

I know guys who lead a perfectly happy life by working in social care and make art and music in their spare time. There is a few happy ones that made their passion their profession and are happy with it, there is a lot of people who have no discernable interest at all, besides going on vacation or partying. There is people who always worked in tech only to realize they like working with people more or the other way around.

Find out who you are, what you are good at. Ask friends and family what they honestly think you are good at and figure out if there is a gap between how you see yourself and how others perceive you.
> Thanks to Google’s location history quietly ticking away collecting GPS data in the background

Thanks but no thanks
>what did I really gain?
This is what I was trying to say: gain being the good effects dream vacation had on your mental health. Cost, of course is time, but you'd pay that anyways.
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
This may sound really shallow to people who haven't worked in Japanese society, but Japan really doesn't handle surprises well. Look at the slow responses to "unexpected" natural disasters. On the other hand, you tell them exactly when, where, and how an attack will be made, and they will be better prepared for it than anybody else could be.
What UML (class diagrams) never really got, is that in order to be simpler, you generally have to leave out details. But that means you cannot generate code from a class diagram unless it basically is the code.

Why on earth should I use class diagrams to generate scaffolding? What's the benefit?

No, I think the only sane use of UML is the other way around: Describe existing code in a human-friendly manner.
The deception of “buying” digital movies
You could check out this life purpose course. Although not free, the price was reasonable and worth it for me. https://www.actualized.org/life-purpose-course