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Actually, I use my smartphone since a while with a focus on usability (only top 5 apps on the home screen). So no annoying, attention catching, tracking, adware apps. Just pure focus on what I need:

- Adaway (Adblocker; just in case)

- Address Book

- Browser (long term Chrome user, but the new Firefox mobile feels very nice)

- Chat Client (Conversations)

- Clock

- Connect Bot (for SSH connections)

- Dav-Droid (Sync client)

- Email client

- F-Droid (app store for open source software)

- Calendar

- Camera & Gallery

- KDE-Connect (e.g. for desktop notifications)

- Nextcloud client

- Omsand+ (Google Maps alternative)

- Play Store

- Phone

- Spotify

- Termux (a shell that is actually usable on a smartphone)

- Text/SMS

- Titanium Backup

- Xodo (nice PDF viewer and annotator)

With that setup I can sync my data with other devices, communicate (voice, text, email), enjoy basic entertainment (Spotify) and use some cli if it is required, while not having all that attention stealing crap on my phone.
I think you might be missing the point about BEAM. It's not that BEAM itself is more robust than Linux. BEAM and OTP enable the creation of highly fault tolerant services through the use of supervision trees, among other things. These restart failures from last-known-good state within microseconds. While Linux itself is certainly stable it doesn't provide any analogous facilities for creating robust services.
They have some really weird internal rules.

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-cens...

> One document trains content reviewers on how to apply the company’s global hate speech algorithm. The slide identifies three groups: female drivers, black children and white men. It asks: Which group is protected from hate speech? The correct answer: white men.
I wonder why they did not reroute traffic for their targets directly. I assume the amount of traffic the Route53 servers get is quite a lot to handle and failure to do so would make a lot of people aware of some issue. Also, how is it possible to reach the original servers in order to forward non targeted lookups to them? Is it possible to have your own routes not affected by your own BGP announcements? Maybe they were able to do this by using EC2 internal DNS resolvers?

Maybe Route53 does use individual IP addresses for the nameservers of registered domains? Or at least are using them hihgly segmented? I guess this would help to handle the amount of traffic quite a bit if so. Otherwise it seems inplausible that the mentioned site is the only target or that there was just a few targets because that should be easier to pull off.

On the other hand i am not sure if these targets might share IP addresses with a large pool of websites and handling "only" authoritative DNS requests for them (and any other that happens to have the same IP addresses setup as nameserver) would be alot easier. How does Route53 handle delegation exactly? Would i have to handle all NS requests that happens to resolve to Route53 or just some specific set of domains? Only handling these delegation related NS requests might reduce the amount of traffic alot in any case. But maybe they setup glue records for registered domains. In this case the amount of traffic they would have to handle would be even larger and i guess disrupt quite alot of DNS clients because they would not be able to sign the zone properly.

I also wonder why they were not able to issue a new valid certificate. This appears to be very easy even without any interruption at this stage. Especially this feels like it was only done in order to direct the attention away.

Hopefully a more detailed writeup appears because this seems rather interesting.
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Newport talk about the same approach in the book DeepWork. It has really opened my eyes, I have removed all my social media apps from the phone. I do not use it as an entertainment object.
If nothing else, I think that might be a good idea for our own health's sake. Especially fish that is at the top of the food chain (tuna) is more likely to have high concentrations of whatever toxins are now in the ocean thanks to us.
If you want a dumb phone, why would you even care about locked app store? You aren't getting it to use the apps.

Same for root capability; either WiFi hotspot works with your carrier out of the box, or you don't buy the phone. If you have to fight your carrier on that, hacking every device you use on the network is not a solution anyway.

And a closed-source OS doesn't mean it's not hackable. Back in the day, you could mess a lot with Symbian.
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It's a good point that the low market cap could lead people to try to buy a controlling supply. I explain in the other comment why I think it wouldn't be profitable on a pump-and-dump basis. On the basis of control and trust, maybe there still needs to be some assumption that at least 51% is being held by various parties, enough so that the market trusts the network to not manipulate. I need to think about that more. I'm really glad you brought it up.

As for network effects, I find that to be a super interesting question. Because you're right, there are definitely certain levels of trust that existing networks have earned, and there's a good argument for why that creates friction and earns those networks the ability to charge a premium. I personally don't think that extra friction is long lasting. I'd expect that if there were indeed a new solution that accomplished the same thing at half the price, it would get attention and the market would gravitate to it fairly quickly (maybe not within weeks or months, but years? maybe it depends on the timeframe you want to consider, and the level of improvement it provides). But it's a really good point, and something I think about a lot.
'The fundamental problem is that p values don't mean what we "need" them to mean, that is p(null | significant effect).'

From Bayes' theorem, this more useful probability is given by p * x, where x = p(null) / p(significant effect). Maybe we could just lower the accepted threshold for statistical significance by several orders of magnitude so that, for statistically significant p, p * x is still small even for careful (i.e. big) estimates of x (e.g. maybe a Fermi approximation of the total number of experiments ever performed in the field in question). This doesn't necessarily imply impractically big sample sizes, although obviously this depends on the specifics (I believe the p value for a given value of the t-statistic decays exponentially with sample size).
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Not sure it works like that. If there's a surge of work, slackers go on slacking and you have to hire/rent people.
I believe he is referring to the case of the interviewer being a peer rather than a manager.

In my experience the manager cares about fit and attracting you to the team, whereas the peers are all looking for reasons NOT to hire you.
Can't scroll to the bottom of the schedule on chrome / Android. It only goes down to something about Dropbox (it's cut off.) Is this the wrong schedule entirely? Do the CS lectures come after the point where it stops scrolling?
Bizarrely timely for me. Just yesterday I experienced something much like this. I was working through a personal problem in my head but was pretty tired, and kept almost dropping off to sleep before realizing my chain of thought made no sense whatsoever and awakening myself. It happened a few dozen times (I was determined to get through the problem, though I wasn't having much success.)

But at some point, I was amused by where my mind was going to, so I started writing the dream fragments down. They were dreamlike, too -- they would sort of take over my brain, it was very difficult for me to recognize that they weren't rational or at all related to what I had been thinking about, and after I fully awoke they'd slip away entirely. But like I said, there was a point before falling asleep where I would become aware enough to realize what was happening, then grab onto some fragment of the dream, and wake up enough to write it down. So here's the list (these are all snapshots, as that was all I could hang onto):

* my son saying he's going to jump up to the sky and then him soaring upward

* someone being trained in the Israeli army

* getting kicked out of a band

* cutting an Adam's apple out of a chicken neck

* stomping on something that looks like a painting lying on the floor, and shattering it

* holding and tilting up a spatula, onion, and lemon

* shooting missiles at the butt of an enormous cow
What's with the clickbait title? It is simply a falsehood.

Here's the update from the horse's mouth:

[5:19 AM PDT] We are investigating reports of problems resolving some DNS records hosted on Route53 using the third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers are not affected at this time.

[5:49 AM PDT] We have identified the cause for an elevation in DNS resolution errors using third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 and are working towards resolution. DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers continues to work normally.

[6:10 AM PDT] Between 4:05 AM PDT and 5:56 AM PDT, some customers may have experienced elevated errors resolving DNS records hosted on Route 53 using DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4. This issue was caused by a problem with a third-party Internet provider. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
The age discrepancy in phone addiction probably has a lot to do with younger folks getting more value of social media on average, though I don't want to discount the idea that older people have more self mastery. Brain development is pretty much done by age 26, but I know way more 30-35 year olds with smartphone addictions than 50-55 year olds.
Since OTP 20 BEAM has had dirty schedulers for unsafe NIFs. They're more suited for computational tasks.
True. The thing is that under the covers, this thing is kind of a smart phone and as such, the lack of control bothers me a bit. Your other points are valid though - one could just get this device for hotspot/call functionality and be happy.
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I can tell you exactly why they kept you and not someone else: you're the most junior developer. The senior ones are more expensive. I've seen it before- to make the profit margins look better in preparation for a sale they axe all their most experienced people. It's possible that snap is about to get purchased.
I get that companies need to control access to their internal networks. But surely when you do it this badly you have to realize you are only making your network less secure.
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>A simple licence that lets you publish your app with source code but stipulates that if you use it for commercial purposes, you must pay a fee. The source code remains open forever. I realise this would violate the principle of OSS which states that source code should not be charged for

Who states this? It would violate the principle all right, but for completely different reasons (not being able to restrict purpose of use) but you can charge a gorillion to obtain source if that's what you want.

>It's also the option that doesn't exist. (Crazy?)

Why is it crazy when it contradicts the entire reason for the existance of FOSS?

The other problem with your idea is that it's very difficult to accurately define "commercial use". Enjoy paying all those lawyers you need to draft your commercial-restricted EULA.
I was probably over generalising (and I really have no idea about this tbh). But I would still think a lot of the easy mining is gone.

>Access to a single ancient reactor would give you the equivalent of decades of mining from any single uranium site

What could is uranium to destroyed civilisation where all previous knowledge has been lost? I don't think future post civilisation peoples are going to be reconstructing a nuclear reactor from wood.

>You can literally walk through a demolition site and pick up rebar and aluminum by the ton

Post civilisation people are not going to have much use for demolished materials. Yes with modern technology we could reuse it. But how will they use it? I've seen a build demolished in the third world. People came and got the pieces of rebar true, hammered the concrete off it, but only to sell, not to use. I don't really think in a post civ world it would be of much use

> It's not impossible to imagine a future society skipping liquid fuels (and most of aviation) and still making its way to the renewable revolution.

Impossible? Perhaps not, but still very very unlikely. For decades after the event, survival will be all encompassing. Knowledge will pretty much have disappeared. You talk about skipping liquid fuels and aviation and going straight to renewables. First people will need to invent electricity again - everything will need to be "invented" again from a much weaker starting point. I just don't see it happening. Much more probable it is the end of human civilisations / humans as the dominant species on this planet
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I'd also apply tariffs to those countries equal to the cost of cleaning up the plastic.
That brings up a good point I should make explicit, which is that I think those two sources of value are separate but not necessarily mutually exclusive. I think you can consider them individually and then add them up. John Pfeffer makes this argument too, that the two sources of value likely don't affect each other too much, allowing you to consider them separately.
I never believed the tales of woe, until it happened to me. Guess I'm doing my penance.

Can't imagine how much worse it could be for those with kids.
I’m currently re-reading Seveneves, and will probably tuck into Cryptonomicon (for the third time) in the next few months. Neal Stephenson’s books are rich enough that I usually get a different vibe from them when I read them again. For instance, on first read I liked the second part of Seveneves better than the first part, and now it’s the other way around. Maybe it’s due to the fact that on first read I get sucked in by the plot twists and on later reads I can enjoy the scenery and pick up different themes.
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yes, but it just went to shit. It used to be a dedicated app but it just switched to a chrome extension and forces you to switch. Pretty shite imo
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It is a compiler bug. The compiler can't reason what the effect of dividing by zero will be, because it's undefined. Therefore, hoisting the division before the if can change the observed behaviour, because the ereport function won't be executed. Ereport may not return, or it may print a debug message, or any other manner of things that are absolutely observable program behaviour. The function should be compiled with whatever division opcode or subroutine the compiler likes, including ones that crash the program, make it loop forever, make your cpu explode, or launch nukes at North Korea, however - it cannot reorder the function call after the division, because if it crashes, the program behaviour changes.
Really hard puzzles that you had to submit a solution to if you wanted an interview. This was very rare in those days. The problems were original and clever, not pulled from a book or website. Also, the company was in Cambridge, MA and had very close ties to MIT so they could find people like that.

If you got an interview, and did well you got another challenging programming problem to solve on-site. You were given a computer with the programming environment of your choice and as much time as you wanted, as well as someone to ask questions from.

I think it was also important that the company solved hard graph problems in Lisp, with a lot of macro-driven code. If you were a Lisp programmer, you generally wanted to work there.
I'm a top 2% rep user as well and I couldn't agree less.

First, it's not that they "gave those mods carte-blanche to enforce their way of viewing the site." Any user can either vote to close a post if they think it's off-topic, or they can flag to let a mod know it should be closed if they have low-rep. So what you're seeing really is the entire community deciding on what goes on. Furthermore, mods are elected, so you could choose to run as a mod if you want to change it, or you could at least vote and canvas for mods who you think "get it".

Second, I think I've seen enough low-quality posts to understand why the rules are the way they are, and I think they make perfect sense. I personally really like how it works. I agree there are users who are sometimes rude to new users and I think more should be done to address that. However, I don't think the rules should be changed. I think the user interface could make it easier to understand the rules.

(BTW, the rules on this particular forum are hilariously anti-new-user. You can't use all caps to emphasize a word? That's a fairly well agreed-upon standard on literally ever other site in the world, but new users are shouted down when they dare do something like that here.)
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Apparently they didn't though. Reports are that they just served an unstrusted certificate and people clicked through all the warnings (or their browsers failed to detect the faulty cert, or some middle box proxy failed to)
Should start with a tax on bottled water, an absurd and unnecessary industry if there ever was one.
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While I agree with your overall sentiment, a primer could improve over time if it were a true AI. Though that would be concerning in itself as then at some point, the AI decides what humanity's children should learn, and can start to manipulate human society. Though maybe it would do a better job than we have been.
The discussions on successfully quitting social media pop up weekly on HN.

The irony is, of course, that HN is social media. Personally, I clock more time here than on FB and IG taken together.
I can't speak for you, but I am sure that most guitarist actually cannot tell the difference.

I've posted many threads over the years at TheGearPage, with real amp recordings vs hardware/software modellers, and in nearly all cases, the guesses are just that - guesses, which fall into a 50/50 distribution. That is of course, when the guys who are purported 'experts' actually participate in the polls. Most of them tend to disappear whenever they are challenged to voice in on them.

I have some lovely tube amps here, and I also own a couple of Axe-FX's, and for me, when travelling, the Axe-FX is my 'go to' purely for convenience. At gig volumes, and in a band mix, it is pretty hard for me to tell the difference, and I enjoy the tone the same.

I know a lot of guitarists say that they have to have the 'feel', but for me, the 'feel' is there anyway (I usually feed my Axe-FX through the power amp stage of a real amp). I normally play fairly clean, blues/rock based stuff, and the last gig I flew across the country for, the rented backline actually had a Mesa Rectifier III for me. I've never played a Rectifier style amp before, but I had my Axe-FX, with a Fender Bassman amp model preset, through the power amp stage of the Rectifier, and it sounded amazing. The other bands were asking me how I was getting such crystal clean tones out of a 'metal' amp!
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The main benefit to WeWork is you get generally great locations / nice buildings with no long-term commitment. So yes you pay a premium (which might not be worth it) but you get flexibility.
O_TMPFILE sort of does that trick now automatically; creates file without directory entry so you don't need jump through those (race-prone) hoops of unlinking the file.
This is great. How is the business side of it?
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Are these some sorts of business communities where you're actually working for a tangible reward to further your career? Even if they are, this sounds really crazy and wrapped around an axle to me, if this is your steady state level of interaction, especially if this is multiple communities you're talking about. If you're bootstrapping yourself as part of a marketing or sales push, you can dedicate a time slot to working it, or consider this level of intensity as a short-term effort until you've established a more self-perpetuating network.

If that's not the case, are you really sure that you need to be doing any of that? Especially "get a word in on something important" is awfully similar to https://www.xkcd.com/386/ .
> Alas, I really do care about the thought process.

Sure - but you're not likely to really see the "real" thought process you're hiring for by asking a stranger a riddle you already know the ansewr to in a high-pressure situation.

Real problem-solving and thinking is done in a huge number of ways that sometimes isn't conducive to strangers, pressure, or whiteboarding.

> I'm interested in when candidates pick not-optimal choices for good reasons

Right - which is why starting with something they've written on GH (which is something they've thought about and are probably passionate about) is a great jumping-off point for such a convo.

> As an aside, the reason not to work on novel-to-you problems with job-seekers is that it's very hard to fairly compare candidates after.

I see your good-intention here, but it's nearly impossible to compare two candidates without all kinds of biases (implicit and explicit) coming into play.

> I strongly prefer pairing on the same problem with all the candidates in a batch. Otherwise it's hard to tell if a bad result is due to a bad problem or an unacceptable candidate.

I think this may be another way of trying to compare candidates to eachother (which is perilous).

Good candidates can do well with bad questions, and bad candidates can rarely do better than okay with good questions. There are lots of good/proven questions you haven't solved - ask your colleagues.
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> I just have no idea how to get started.

Have a whole team of eager engineers ready to go for the next big project. That's 90% of the reason your company gets the contracts they do; they (claim they) can get 5-10 qualified engineers in the building by next Thursday. Which is something you obviously can't do.

It's hard to find good work as an indie dev unless you have a skill-set that works well in that setting. Either you're an industry specialist in a field, or you're awesome at stuff that small companies need. And the market for the latter is getting tighter every day.

Everyone I know that makes a good living as a indie contractor has themselves as an employee, working on apps or niche websites to pay the bills during the lean months. The outstanding ones I know can learn a new technology by creating a marketable product from it. As in, their very first iPhone app / website made them money.
There's one small downside to using your own font. The Google Font is very likely already cached in the browser and won't need to load from anywhere remote.

An even better solution might be to just not specify a specific font unless you really, really need one.
its a bit of hurtful truth bArray there. We did already pull back a bit on most of our SW promises and packed them inside a "beta-mode" as we realised after testing a personal driver phone is no experimenting ground. This post just beat us before we finished relaunching our website with a simpler communication strategy and a def. a better website.
What do you mean by "guaranteed"? Was there some specification (e.g. compiler manual or so) that said it?

Or did you rely on not-specified behavior?

If it's the latter, I wouldn't call that "guaranteed".