jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
as demonstrated by the frequent data center outages, it's extremely difficult to have 100% uptime, unless you have a crack team of sys admin and operators who are better than Google or Amazon engineers in server management and data center management. Investing in hardware means investing precious time, engineering talent in issues you can invest otherwise in sales, marketing, product design or any critical aspect of your business.

Of course, if you find that hosting takes a large % of your costs, and if you are sure you can do it yourself with less costs , then it's time to have your own hardware.
works for chrome, IE9 but not for Firefox 4.0
It's definitely coming, but as a small startup we've just had to focus our efforts up to this point. I use Android as my daily phone so I'm keen to have it available also.
> Share your screen and watch Netflix, Twitch and any other experience you can think of ...

Should I expect problems if I share my Netflix movie or Sky Sports soccer match with invited guests who don't have their own subscription? I mean, it's fine to invite friends round for the game or a film etc (I think - except for the current pandemic), but is there a limit to numbers?
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That's not at all what happened to the steel industry. 50% of all US steel production capacity has been built in the past 30 years and steel production has seen continuous and massive improvements in productivity. In 1920 it took 3 man-hours of labor to produce 1 ton of steel in the US, now 1 man-hour produces 300 tons. The contraction in steel employment during the 70s coincided with a recession and the development of the electric arc furnace. From 1974 to 1999, global steel industry employment fell by 1.5 Million people with large decreases both in developed countries and developing countries like Brazil and South Africa as employment per ton of production fell everywhere. The actions of one union in one country had nothing to do with it.
Yes, it does. But if I'm just going to spin up a Linux VM on Azure to host my node.js app, there's not much reason to use Azure over other cheaper options. So that's what I'm doing.
With an aluminum rather than magnesium or other body, how bad do you anticipate the flex will be?
My experience is that not only did they start out as incompetent, they actively downplayed early security issues and outright lied about certain aspects of their products.

I found major, glaring security/architecture issues with their main product early on, and was told by DO staff to go full-disclosure because it was working as designed. When I did so, DO lied about the impact on their blog.

Those lies are still up:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/transparency-regarding-dat...

> At no time was customer data "leaked" between accounts.

(I have screenshots of other DO customers' data.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097

Even their outage blog post from a few months ago is now deleted.

My experience is that DO is a shady company, and I'll not do any serious/critical business with them or ever use them to store secret information.

As for the lying, I'd personally never do business with any of the early DO management/founders.

There's no amount of money that can be used to buy a reputation for integrity.
I had a banking problem a few years ago and stumbled across a Twitter account of a "super rep" for the (major) bank. I tweeted him, he tweeted back in 60 seconds with his email. I emailed him right away and we had quick-fire chat over email and he said "let me fix your problem and I'll email you when it's fixed". About 3 minutes later, he emailed me back. The quickness of it all, plus the short-style emails going back-and-forth, reminded me of SMS and it was wonderful. In fact, I've never had better, nor quicker customer service. If it matters, I'm 33.
The one time I worked in a union shop, I was told that I didn't have to join, but I did have to pay dues. If I chose to join, there were certain benefits provided by the union to members (optical coverage IIRC).
So not for us "poors" making less than that. They really hate retail investors

insert angry punk sentiment here
By the time the volatility is gone so is the opportunity. Bitcoin would need to expand its userbase massively to be stable. Stability can't happen unless the price goes up massively.
Yeah, this is an excellent idea. The trouble with Netlify is that the moment you outgrow their walled garden you're destined to complect your architecture with other cloud services anyway. Might as well start off with a rich ecosystem like AWS to avoid this issue.
Haha :) But then you have to stop and listen... and write it down somewhere :) ASYNC FTW.
>>surely MA doesn't say someone owes MA income tax because they could theoretically come 2 hours to an office there.

The you'd be surprised what certain states would say, do, and compose in their legal briefs to justify extracting as much money as possible.

Also IANAL, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

Presumably, there could be some kind of test. If someone lives in NH but is 100% WFH, he may be subject to MA income tax under the following standard:

1) If the company is headquartered or incorporated in MA

2) If the work done is provided (a) to directly benefit operations of aforementioned company that are affiliated with a location in MA or (b) to be sold/provided to third party legal person(s) for which business operations /purchasing/selling would be done in MA. (i.e a business/service nexus)
Not really sure 65 = L7. Probably something closer to 66/67 is a better match for Amazon L7/PE. Apples to oranges comparison of compensation.

Source: Done both AWS L8 and MSFT Partner roles. Have hired and led teams with Principal+ in both places.
I write extensively on this topic (http://blog.fairsoftware.net) and I thought this article was pretty good. Of course, the formula provided can't be taken too literally, but it helps.

I have a slightly more radical point of view regarding the CEO and control issue. It's approximated by Joel and others when they discuss full-time vs part-time, but those are only proxies for what is really going on among founders. In my experience (meeting with more than 200 startup founders pre-incorporation), there is ONE person carrying the entire project on their shoulder, and one or more co-founders who are happy to follow. Rarely, I see two equally driven founders. So my litmus test is: "if one of you were to drop out, would the startup die?"
Not sure why TechCrunch's post has that title. Actually it read s "Startups.com Now Offers Daily Deals For Online Business Owners".
Yes, there is good reason. The haters bring 1000 normal people that you can sell your product to.
And you'd be losing some very good customers if you removed the free app.

He's presented empirical evidence that he's not losing any, the exact opposite happens, he gains customers by not having a free app.

You've presented your gut feeling.

There might be something behind the 'critical mass' argument that some are saying, but that's impossible to test. Yours seems very wooly though.
I'd love to see github integration (like the existing "donate") edit: looks like they removed the donate feature.
I travel between three offices every day on foot / bike. I tried the 13" MBP on my back for a while, but in the end it caused more pain than it was worth. I can only imagine the 17" being far worse.

For now I use a Lenovo x200, but it's about the same as the MBA 13". So while sure I could "lug" the 17" around, I'd much rather loose some screen space and save my back. But I will say, I am quite jealous when traveling of the screen space the 17" provides.
> "More importantly, they identify promising authors and mentor them into authors worth reading."

I disagree somewhat. What publishers actually do, is: identify economically promising authors and mentor them into writers of books they can sell.

Sometimes this aligns with good writers and good writing. Sometimes it does not.
In many areas this is illegal, and the courts have held up the law saying that there is no such thing as a consumer right to buy raw milk.
I have had no issues with InstaFetch and it serves the purpose pretty well.
The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/cjcliffe/NoComply

I didn't make it, I just think it's awesome :)
My point is that you don't need to scale production of ventilators beyond the capacity of the medical system of deploying them.
I am willing to bet more than 50% of people have not enough saving for a crisis long 8-12 months
Hopefully everyone will keep in mind that bailouts should go to the citizenry at large to resurrect demand, not to large multinationals which need to pay off debt they should have never incurred in the first place (and which was spent on high-risk growth projects or shareholder buybacks).

"Take Boeing. The aerospace giant of course wants a $60 billion bailout. Financial problems for this corporation predated the crisis, with the mismanagement that led to the 737 Max as well as defense and space products that don't work (I noted last July a bailout was coming). The corporation paid out $65 billion in stock buybacks and dividends over the last ten years, and it was drawing down credit lines before this crisis hit. It is highly politically connected; the board of the corporation includes Caroline Kennedy, Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, three Fortune 100 CEOs, a former US Trade Representative, and two Admirals, one of whom is the board’s only engineer. Using the excuse of the coronavirus, Boeing is trying to get the taxpayer to foot the bill for its errors, so it can go back to making more of them."

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-coronavirus-corp...
I'm not sure about that. Most people on planes use it for streaming media, and the current solutions are good enough for that. Also, it would take them many years to win that business and get certified.
What I really like about GTAV is, that it respected the time of the player. It does not force you to replay the WHOLE mission when you missed the goal (because of a car accident) but has nice checkpoints. Also it doesn't force you to play horrible missions like the toy helicopter bomb mission from Vice City. With that, it's the first GTA I can actually play and enjoy and I'm sure it will be the first one I finish - except from China Town Wars on the DS, this GTA was great as well :)
Same here.

I thought I was alone.
So it makes sense to have these systems sunset in a year.
Or maybe it was Canada, I can't say for sure. I just wouldn't call that a screw up, but deliberate risk taking by managers ignoring experts.

Tell us, what was the doctor reply? That your dad was lucky?

But luck favors the prepared mind - or something like that.
Thanks, I appreciate your efforts. I'll take a look at gigworks ;).

Stay safe.
Recently I had to google how to do something with ffmpeg. It was SEO hell. I didn't even realize that this many shitty video converter apps existed. And with Google not particularly interested in honoring double quotes or the plus sign, it's only getting worse.
"Americans" didn't invent that idea.

The Hebrews did -- a long, long, long time ago.

Sunday is the first day of the week in almost all of the Americas, Japan, South Korea, and China.

Monday is the first day in Europe and some (relatively) recent European colonies (e.g., India).

The numbering of the days of the week is purely arbitrary. It makes no sense to claim that a particular ordering is "wrong".

If one goes by the sheer number of people who use a particular numbering, Americas + China comfortably exceeds Europe + recent European colonies.
The vaccine rollout is such a mess in the US. This is one of those times where a federal controlled distribution or at least a state level distribution makes sense. People rushing around between different providers or having to use third party websites, like this one, in order to compare providers, like they are trying to get a PS5, is hugely inefficient and chaotic.
Also, remember that if a new electric car is capable of performing a commute just barely within its range, it won't be in 5-10 years once the battery is sufficiently worn down, so you can forget about buying used.

Oh, and once it's cold out, you might find out that you now no longer have the range to make it to where you need to go on a single charge. Maybe the car tells you in advance, or it doesn't and it runs out of juice, which a simple jerry-can isn't going to solve for obvious reasons.

Electric cars are inferior to gasoline-powered ones in the long term due to their very nature as a consumable product and require more expensive maintenance to continue being useful than a gasoline car will over its useful lifetime. That is, if the car company even bothers to make replacement batteries, since the battery is the bulk of the cost of the car in the first place.
Isn't that what SFU was?
I tapped out after I realized that I was having an argument with someone that was probably no older than 15/16. When you do that you quickly ask yourself WTF am I doing here?
Thank you!

OK. I was thinking to assemble a "Press F5 to debug" solution to speed up my learning process. I'm used to command line tools and hacking stuff together too, so I should be fine if that is the current state of the art for debugging (but it would be difficult to convince my coworkers in the future). I wonder if a combination of Eclipse for Rust and OpenOCD plugin is doable. Or perhaps cortex-debug[1] for VS:Code. I have some research to do, to explore the different solutions.

And I'm stuck on Windows too, since many of the tools I use require Windows.

Thanks again.

[1]: https://github.com/marus/cortex-debug
I looked at using this setup once - but the whole setup looked really precarious.

Using U2F in the browser, you just buy the cheapest yubikey, plug it in and it works - any OS is fine.

But to do the same with SSH you've got to buy a particular yubikey, install five different bits of software, adjust a bunch of config files, restart services, adjust your agent autostart files, upload your 'subkeys' (whatever those are)... and that's just to support one OS.

It just seemed like the kind of second-class-citizen setup that barely anyone else is using or testing against, so it'd be constantly breaking down.
I have not looked into it, but isn't there some way to "backup" a Yubikey ?

There is probably a difference between company usage and personal usage. In a company setting i would expect to have backup yubikeys, but for a personal setup a recovery situation would involve getting your keys "out of it" until a replacement arrives.
> But enterprises don't need delegated CA=TRUE certificates to accomplish this. They can just roll their own self-signed root CA=TRUE certificate and built it into their machines. There is no reason a CA should need to put the entire Internet at risk solely for the convenience of a single company's IT operations.

Doing it this way, however, means that they don't need to worry about pushing their self-signed certificate out to all their machines, right?

That could be done easily with group policies on Windows machines which would take care of, at least, Internet Explorer. I haven't used a Windows machine in a long time, though, so I'll ask: do the other major browsers use the built-in certificate store? If not, they'd still have to address the problem of getting their self-signed certificate "trusted" by Firefox and Chrome, for example.
No. Creating the customer will charge the card $0.00 or $1.00 (depends on country/bank) and immediately refund the charge to verify the card itself, the CVC, the address, etc. In most cases, this tiny charge won't be noticed because of the refund.
I share your frustration, but a general purpose css framework can't really avoid using this approach to support layout. What possible alternative semantic classes could they use that would provide the level of flexibility they're catering for?
sounds useful
I'm on a late-2013 rMBP running Yosemite. The page looks nice and animates smoothly in both Chrome and Safari. There may be some deeper problem on your system.
How can they possibly defend not removing CNNIC from the roots after this? SSL is broken and nobody is lifting a finger :(
While I was able to follow the Aaronson article with no particular trouble, I can't seem to grok this. I'd be very grateful to anyone who could give a slightly lower level explanation.
Slightly off-topic, but the title of this blog (column?) is amazingly clever:

"All the Code That's Fit to printf()"
Well, the guard knows Y, and the enemy knows Y... but the guard's authentication procedure involves taking an X (not Y) supplied by the friendly spy, executing the calculation, and asserting the result is equal to Y. Since the enemy does not know X, and X cannot be trivially derived from Y (one-way function), the scheme is secure.
sorry for the aside... can you explain how having terms of service requires a corporate structure?
I kind of look at it differently. I don't feel the need to own a ton of stuff(even though myself and my fiance recently bought a small home) my main monetary goal is to eventually have enough money so that I never have to worry about having money :)

Sounds kind of weird, but I don't spend my money on much stuff, but I like to travel once or twice a year and eat out with my fiance a couple of times a month. However much money it is that I can pay for my current place to live and do those things and never have to worry about it, then thats the right amount of money.
In this situation the guard only knows the answer (or x value) once the spy gives it to him or her.
A chaining method can be used to reduce the frequency of the guard having to go back for a new password. Let F be the one-way function.

You give the spy a value x0. Then you compute x1=F(x0), x2=F(x1), ..., x_n = F(x_{n-1}). The guard is given x_n.

When the guard challenges the spy, the guard gives the spy x_n, the spy iterates F starting on x0 until he finds x_{n-1}, and gives that to the guard, who checks it.

The guard then replaces x_n with x_{n-1} and uses that for the next challenge, and so on. This allows for n border crossings before the spy and guard need to come to headquarters for new numbers.

Each spy can either have his own x_0, in which case the guard has to have an x_n for each spy, or you can have all the spies share the same x_0, or you can do something in between such as having the less important spies share a value and have your most important spies have their own values.
I'm finishing Halting State right now. It's basically written for this community. A real fun read.
The gap between off and on-license prices (i.e. supermarket versus bar) will differ depending on country as well. As anecdata, I found that in the UK, buying beer from a supermarket tended to be more expensive than my home country of New Zealand, but buying beer in a pub was usually cheaper. I guess in New Zealand we charge a much higher alcohol tax to on-licenses rather than off-licenses.
Doesn't surprise me at all. It's an O(n^2) algorithm (strlen called in a loop) in a part of the code where N is likely much smaller in the test environment (in-app purchases).

Overwatch is another an incredibly popular game with obvious bugs (the matchmaking time) front and center. And gamers are quick to excuse it as some sort of incredibly sophisticated matchmaking - just like the gamers mentioned in OP.

It's easy to to say it's something about gamers / gaming / fandom - but I have a locked down laptop issued by my bigcorp which is unbelievably slow. I'd bet a dollar there's a bug in the enterprise management software that spins the CPU. A lot of software just sucks and people use it anyway.
Of course it's short term thinking, the spike in demand is short term. If it's raining out, people will want umbrellas. That doesn't mean that you should invest your life savings and 10 years into building an umbrella factory because it's rainy for two days in a row. Consistent demand spikes result in supply increases over the long run, but bumps in the road like this just don't.
similar objection from Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1366120488972427264
Be careful with this. You're playing with fire.
I work at the courts and manage our ECF system. Our government was very quick to respond, but not sure it matters considering Russians were in the system for 8 months. On top of that, several vendors were exploited VMware and Microsoft. I’ve fought for the federal government to create instead of buy. I continue to fail. It’s becoming increasing obvious the United States needs a privacy branch for data breaches and also for a whole bunch of engineers building out the next generation of apps for a better/smarter government. This is my life’s work, and I will keep trying.
Isn't it LitElement reinvented?
Also recommend the book Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams (same author as the guardian article).

It's more geared towards the Average Joe and coping with daily stress. One line that stuck with me is: "your mind has a mind of its own", as he tries to emphasise that your thoughts are just that - mere thougths, and not reality. With practice, one can learn how to distinguish between thoughts and reality and become more grounded in life.
Not to rain on anyone's parade BUT what about the battery life ?
Wasn't the algorithm wrapped up in a software patent until about 10/15 years ago? I'm sure I looked into using this when I was in the games industry but couldn't due to the patent.
>That's deceptive since much of UK's emissions was export to china via manufacturing.

Total UK emissions including imported emissions have been falling since 2007.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoracco...
What do you think of as risk factor in terms of inequality? I read the table more in terms that monetary help for the poor would be the most important, since most of The educationally important qualities seem to be non-cognitive, based on this study.

If you meant the higher chance of mental illness correlating with IQ genes, than I think mental illness treatment as whole should substantially change to make it more socially acceptable, and help paying for it for those who need it.
Here is the authors book page: https://www.networkatlas.eu/
That's Tkinter? I didn't even realise it. It looks perfectly ... normal.
They have a different approach. There are some details under "Same but different" part of comparison to React.
https://muut.com/riotjs/compare.html
Here you go:

https://github.com/muut/riotjs

It's on the download page. Admittedly not very visible.
Amazing post! Thank you very much. Would love to be able to read this on kindle - you should make an epub! haha
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926644