skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, your company isn't special. Look at it from an engineering perspective. The law, by which I mean all laws that you operate under—local, regional, state-level, federal, international alike—is really not much more than a specification that you have to adhere to. More active markets and more rules and laws you're bound to just means a more complex set of specifications. Just like in the software world, we need a process, an implementation to adhere to that specification in order to do business by it. And at the end of the day, if two different implementations are compliant to the same specifications, the complexity of moving from one to another is always going to be minimal. One particular caveat is even similar to software engineering: if you're doing special, non-standard stuff outside of the spec, you should probably not be doing that at all.

This is a fun analogy, but in the world of enterprise-level business, the business often is software. Entire businesses today are ran by software, and that software is written according to the same set of specifications: the law. The small particulars that don't have to do with law or common business practices are pretty much reducible to implementation details.

SAP is one such very comprehensive implementation, that is very possibly the only software suite that has a nearly full coverage of the entire "spec" for business purposes. If you can't translate your business operations to SAP, beg your pardon for my abrasiveness but you're doing things wrong.
Video of Ballmer right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdZHR75iCM
The Office or Forensic Files and I'm out.
Self-hosted Wallabag instance is great. I collect article there first, sync them to pocket as a backup. (Wallabag RSS->IFTTT->Pocket)

https://wallabag.org/en
Elon Musk and the Cult of the Celebrity Savior
If you've tried Pocket why do you think it's horrible?
"You see the deceptive practices applied especially in clothing where items are marketed at inflated prices and then suddenly dropped 50% or more for a 'sale'."

I've tried to explain this multiple times to my mom, but she just doesn't get it.

She keeps telling me that I shouldn't shop online but rather buy in local stores because they have these "great sales."
>Twitch is a step in the other direction, where if you faithfully consume content from any Twitch channel, you have to sit down and watch for hours every night when the streamer is online. Who does that? I imagine it's mostly students and single young professionals.

Streaming is great "background noise" for when you're bored and sitting around the house. It fills the same niche that I think sports does for sports people. It's live entertainment with no fixed outcome.
The Netherlands too.
India also.
Yes and no. The thing is, the majority of the viewers usually doesn't write to the streamer. They simply watch the stream, nothing more. So having five real viewers but no one is writing anything (or answering) is definitely possible. Still, interacting with viewers is where it gets interesting and it is live-streaming after all, so that's actually the point (otherwise you could just create a video and upload it somewhere).
Europe too. Has a pink unicorn image.

EDIT: It's back up less than a minute after I posted this
Yeah, it says the page is taking too long to load
You could have a third bot that posts a comment in the thread each time You could have a second bot that posts a comment in the thread each time with something like: "See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure." Lots of karma to be had there as well.

Lots of karma to be had there as well.
I've been working in this field a bit, not the big two SAP/Oracle but a smaller ERP(PAAS/SAAS) player. Our solutions manage a few steel plants in Slovenia.

The way I see it is that it's tough, solutions are rarely chosen based on technical merits. It's a mix of "nobody gets fired for choosing SAP/Oracle", decisionmaker's ignorance, having someone who will be there to point the finger at in 5 years and... politics.

The bigger the company, the harder it gets to find anyone who would know or care what the hell is going on in the company and what their needs are. The few cases where you can win over SAP/Oracle is when a company is cornered because they have either failed to implement one of the big player's solution or they are out of money so they have to "compromise". IMHO having to "compromise" has turned out very well for some. The level of customization that we did would be very hard or impossible to achieve with SAP/Oracle.
I don’t think it’s unpopular. That’s part of the reason why people like me support things like UBI. I mean, let’s be real here. I’m a mid-40s, above-average-IQ nerd millionaire, but if I graduated college today, I’m pretty certain that I wouldn’t make it as well economically. And, I’m really certain that if I was born less-lucky in mental capacities (or other factors) I’d be pretty screwed, no matter how hard I worked.
Given how frequently those status pages are total bullshit, I'd rather put my faith in you fine community members to do it manually!
"SAP is the best thing that ever happened to computer people. It appeals
to businesses that are too stupid to understand and model their own
processes but too rich to simply continue relying on secretaries and
file cabinets."
-- Philip Greenspun:
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/future
I'm in the same boat. I'm not rich enough to afford a Tesla so I'm hoping the Leaf or similar hit the 20k - 30k mark when I'm ready to buy. I have a 4km (!) commute so range is not an issue. What will be an issue is fitting my house with a charging station.
I can relate to this, two weeks ago I started streaming from my Xbox and I've been enjoying 1-2 viewers at the time, sometimes 4 when I post the link to Facebook. To me 1-2 viewers is a lot, of course I play a game no one is playing: Battlefield Hardline.

The twitch channel for Battlefield Hardline has 3 streamers tops on weekends and I happen to be one of them. I bet I'd be getting zero viewers if I was playing Fortnite.
I needed to look up TOML syntax, but the documentation is all on Github.

Oof.
Could we at least see some of the main requirements of this system, so we know what we are talking about?
How to Build a Realtime Auction System with React
We do a pretty deep dive on every report in the moderating process. Someone with malicious intent could get one report past us. Getting multiple reports past us would be do-able but harder. Getting them actioned by public health would be close to impossible. Rolling reports off after 30 days hopefully de-motivates trolls, if their hard work is gone so fast.
I'm guessing they probably migrating their infra to Azure and that isn't going well :D
> The cost of fixing a discovered bug seems to grow exponentially with the amount of code in which the bug may appear.

I don't think this is true.
Fixing a bug is comprised of four parts.
1. Understanding and reproducing the bug.

2. Finding the code responsible for the bug.

3. Coming up with code that fixes the bug.

4. Verifying that your fixing code does not introduce any new bugs.

#2 is the only one that could even theoretically be exponential. The only bugs I've found where I've spent days on 2, were hard to reproduce, intermittent, race condition bugs, which units tests aren't very good at finding anyway.
No it isn’t.

Also, PPP is a dumb metric, many things in China beyond services and food are much more expensive than they are in the USA.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527447
Know what's really funny? Iodine kills HeLa cells, but according to this paper that's a problem:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135

Iodine has been claimed to induce apoptosis in a number of cancer types while remaining harmless to normal cells.
Pedantic correction (for NHI): See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure except those that you host yourself :)
> The most negative ones are shown below.

The message that is the third most negative by this metric is the following:

> Looks like a cool project, but I can't scroll very far down the site before my browser crashes. I've reproduced this several times, here's the terminal output if it helps: $ conkeror https://alpha.trycarbide.com ...... JavaScript strict warning: https://alpha.trycarbide.com/, line 603: SyntaxError: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)? fault....

That is clearly a false positive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/fashion/The-Growing-Three...
It was momentarily back up for me. The new message says "We are investigating reports of service unavailability." hence the title change.
>The $35k base model made at scale later this year will be profitable."

We've been hearing about it forever. Let's see it. It's always "coming".

>"Musk is a fraudster/bullshit artist" wave that's hit HN and most online forums recently"

Give me a break. You're "wave" is my, finally, balance. Tesla, or more specifically Musk, has got far more postive press than they deserve. I never see any Nissan, Porsche, Audi, or rarely, GM articles on this site. Meanwhile, every time the Tesla blog/Electrek make a post, it's upvoted here.
I'm talking about personal conversations, including conversations abroad.

You're displaying a patronizing attitude. Values differ between countries, not everyone who disagrees with your fundamental priorities of what constitutes good governance is somehow too afraid to speak the truth.
Aaaaaand it's back.
Edit: sort of.
Heh, I loved the answer when I read about it a while back:

https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-company-that-tears-cars...

In short, get a bunch of experts together and review each part, then add up the result.
> Your modus operandus means you cannot share your e-mail address

Of course I can. I don't know what you're getting at.

> Using a password manager

Doesn't solve the spam problem (which is what we're discussing here and the focus of my comment), and introduces its own problems.
Maybe MS is adding AAAA records ;)

HN needs to add those too. It's embarrassing.
It would be really easy actually. I just checked, and they add the CSS classes `major`, and `minor` to their updates when there are issues, so it would be easy to find with beautiful soup on like a cron job or something.
It's not. I honestly can't even imagine where the author would get this idea.

If anything, having fewer/no children is a mark of status, both globally (higher income countries tend to have lower birth rates) and in the US (vaguely implies both parents are working and have access to contraceptives, etc).

To be clear, I don't think that there's much of a status signal either way.
A budget? Singularity was basically born of not-invented-here syndrome in the neuroscience community and doesn't have nearly the amount of resources that Facebook is able to devote to this problem. If that were to change (i.e., Greg Kurtzer gets millions of dollars in VC or NIH funding out of nowhere) and Singularity weren't a lone developer project it might be worth considering as a viable alternative to XARs.
There are multiple product lines. Those people who need extreme lightness should not choose the Macbook Pro line then, which should remain focused on functionality first.
How data breaches could become be a thing of the past
Do you mind going into more detail about how Markipler marketed his youtube channel, besides publicity stunts, bots and click bait titles?
People make mind numbing digressions all the time.

In fact, it’s a way of life on HN.
What I don’t get about articles like this is how they just go on and on about how bad of an idea UBI is but don’t propose any kind of a solution.

It’s not like UBI was created just to have fun, there are legitimate problems facing our society and our current trajectory is that the problems are getting worse.

Maybe I am just missing some part of the article but what’s the point of saying something is bad without even talk about ways it could be implemented better or alternatives.
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I agree that what I've done is nothing revolutionary, but the vast majority of websites out there don't have these sort of thing.
That's one of the reasons why the average page weight continues to grow every year [0].

Moreover, this solution is good enough for people with small blogs just like mine. Anyone who needs something more involved can use your service or other alternatives.

As for responsive images, I implemented that on my site too although I didn't mention it in the article. I plan to write a follow up article on that topic soon.

On a side note, you might want to bump up the font size of the navigation links on your site. They're too faint.

[0]: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
We have worked with startups out of the country before, if the logistics are compatible and if the startups are interested in the US market.
not rare
OP here - I maintain https://pullreminders.com, so I realized GitHub was down when I started getting alerts about 500s from the GitHub API.
Sure, and that could be the next step. Unfortunately building reactors is a decade long process. This can be where gas turbines, which can be built far faster, could be a bridge.
The US is not the biggest polluter according to those ranks in fact. You're claiming that despite your own setup proving that isn't the case.

China is the biggest output source of CO2 on earth and their output is rising aggressively and is likely set to continue doing so as their people see their standard of living climb. The overwhelmingly majority of their energy comes from coal, and they have no intention to put an end to that. That means China is going to keep right on widening the gap on their CO2 output lead.

The US is not the leader on CO2 emissions per capita. Saudi Arabia and Australia as both higher. And at the rate Canada is going, it's either already higher or is going to be soon.

The cumulative data isn't a valid excuse. Any nation that had the largest economy from 1890 to 1990 would have been the leader by default on cumulative emissions. There were no good renewable alternative approaches, and until the 1960s nuclear power wasn't practical at all. Besides, at the rate China is polluting, it's going to rapidly overtake the US on every cumulative point: its economy is radically bigger than the US economy was both 50 and 100 years ago and is putting out radically more CO2 (in every respect).

Every year of CO2 output by China is equal to 20+ years of US CO2 output prior to WW2. For one example, just look at the size of the US steel industry in 1930 vs China's today. It won't take China more than another few years at their current rate of CO2 output, to perpetually own the cumulative figures across the board. China's economy is already twice the size in real terms of the US economy in 1965, when the US owned 1/2 of all global manufacturing; in just one decade, China will be 4x the size of the US economy in 1965.
> You should read the Wall Street Journal.

Sometimes I do if I see an interesting article there.

> People know me by name.

I don't :-)

> Sometimes I forget that trying to have a meaningful conversation can be perceived as being against something.

Context is everything. With Tesla having so much money betting against it, and this fact being a recent newsworthy event, along with accusations of various actors manipulating public opinion to influence markets to favour the short-sellers, I just found it amusing that in a positive article about Tesla here was a post sowing doubt about their production process.

What you mentioned is surely an interesting and meaningful conversation to have, but context is important.
We also have the problem that people are forced to evaluate what activities would be productive for them in terms of the money paid to them, but it's debatable whether the aggregated signals of demand in a given economy truly reflect what people would believe are "important" or "needed" or "valuable" activities (using scare quotes specifically because obviously the whole debate revolves around how to determine the meaning of these types of terms).

My mom is an example. She works a highly menial and thankless job at a rural county courthouse in the Midwest, where she is paid an extremely small salary, given very few benefits, very little vacation time, and has no prospect for retirement, regular raises, career growth, etc. The courthouse could operate with probably 25% of the current staff, but they keep headcount artificially high because state funding and other programs depend on how many employees they have.

Largely, my mom is paid money to endure slight sexual harassment from small town attorneys and judges, and to do a tiny workload of clerical work. And the amount of money is barely enough for basic living in her area, even after accounting for the lower cost of living there.

It seems bang obvious that her employment is inefficient. The same exact thing happens for thousands of people in her area, whether in government, school jobs, private companies. There's just a ton of excessively meaningless work that companies or employers have ulterior reasons to sponsor with a paycheck even fully knowing that the labor itself is not productive or necessary at all.

I think if my mom knew she had a reasonable guaranteed basic income, she would volunteer her time at the local hospital, deliver meals to sick people, do more productive labor around her own home or through child care provided to my siblings and their children, perhaps create craft works to sell online, etc.

The net result could easily be that her overall labor productivity in the big picture sense would go way, way up after she is free to quit the essentially pure loss menial job and focus on things where she knows she can add actual, obvious value for people.

Unfortunately, I think most developed nations suffer this problem. Lots of jobs exist because of weird misaligned incentives on the part of the employer, who could truly not care less about the actual labor productivity of a bunch of employees and has them on the payroll for totally separate reasons.
We at Sale Stock (fashion e-commerce in Indonesia) built an in-house system similar to this but more automatic and works with CockroachDB. Not open source yet, but might be interesting to you guys: https://speakerdeck.com/salestock/laskar-high-velocity-graph... (skip to around mid-way, first half is intro to GraphQL)
I know you are trolling, but there you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

http://www.opengroup.org/standards/unix
Also very few goverment agencies release complaint data, and for those few that do, it is not done in a timely actionable accessible way.
Thanks Microsoft! :P
There's Only One Blockbuster Left in America
Yes.[1] Source made available in 2007. Source closed without warning after the Blackberry acquisition in 2010.

QNX is doing well in automotive.[2] QNX is the part of Blackberry that's making money.

[1] http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_2471_1.html
[2] http://canada.autonews.com/article/20180622/CANADA/180629921...
I just store all of my shell command-lines in a big file, including the date and current working directory. That way, I can always grep and see what I did. For stuff that doesn't happen on the commandline, I just type "echo" followed by a description of what I did, and it ends up in the history file just the same.
>uncomfortably large part of the population just really doesn't have anything economically worthwhile to offer in the modern context?

Someone still has to do the jobs. The sanitation workers, the McDonalds employees, the truck drivers, the waiters, the cooks -- they all have a role in society and are economically worthwhile -- it's just that nobody has had a raise since the 90's and income inequality is the highest it has ever been in history while the cost of essential needs for humans continues to rise. When's the last time you've seen rents go down?

In my opinion, UBI is a band aid on the problem of late capitalism. Simply guaranteeing health insurance, implementing full employment, would raise the country economically (but not for the poor shareholders!) enormously but our current corrupt system of crony deregulating late capitalism won't allow this at the expense of the middle & lower classes. I keep saying this here: workers really need to see the surplus value they create instead of just their wages; the surplus value goes into the pocket of the shareholder and benefits absolutely nobody.
Wonder if `GitHub` is getting `DDOS`ed by somebody because of acquisition by MS.

Seems like the last 2 weeks have been pretty bad for github: https://status.github.com/messages
Don’t Bag Your Leaves: Analysis of Nutrient Loss and Soil Depletion
I can't tell, but I think that's actually shittier than just trying to shut down his extension.
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China’s official GINI coefficient doesn’t include grey income (e.g. that official making 10k RMB/month yet driving a black Audi A9). Well, they stopped reporting it in the early part of this decade when it started getting really bad.
People who write bad code also write bad tests. People who write good code write good tests, but you can argue that their code quality would be more or less the same without the tests.

A far better use of time is to write better code and spend time improving the actual code along with human readable documentation about what said code is doing. I've removed and reduced 1000's of lines of code and their accompanying technical debt (tests) to reduce the system down into a manageable and fully readable system that is far superior to the old system with the exhaustive test suite and spent the rest of the time writing documentation on how the code works.
Maybe also something about how git is decentralized already and we are all silly for making it central again? Also seems to be one of the regular first 10 comments on a Github downtime...