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Why would it increase the motor size significantly? Even low voltage electric motors have insane torque compared to fossil fuel engines.
Meta - can we not post outages to HN?

I understand that post mortem's are interesting learning lessons, but if you're curious whether S3 or whatever is down or not right at this moment, then use the subsequent status pages of those services.
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Everybody knows that Jack Dorsey is a cool hipster, he has a lush beard. But does he shave his cock as cool hipsters do?
Not too shabby.

- Performance is great. I'm already using it pretty much everywhere.

- Ad blocking is about to become Firefox's killer app, and it was a major PR mistake to release a preview without enough extension support for ad blockers to work. They should have delayed the release, if necessary.

- I wish the QR code reader had been released as a separate app (and on iOS too), but I'm actually quite glad to see Mozilla doing one. I look at my app store for QR code readers, and I'm confronted with a sea of questionable permissions, ads, obvious fake reviews, and tainted makers. I welcome a free QR code reader from a source I know and trust, but you can't build something like that into a browser without either bloating the browser or limiting the reader. It should be spun off into its own app, then allowed to grow.
Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa
Masters of Doom is going to be made as a TV series
I try them out in stores pretty regularly. The macbook is still way ahead.
The advantage is mostly when it's

String s = doSomethingOpaque();
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Same here. I'm on support duty and have my own outage to attend to, and that's really really hard when you cannot communicate with your experts.
More dependant.
> I wonder what happens when you use 2 excerpts from different major copyright holders…

That is a technique that's been used in the past, though I'm not sure if it's still effective. As far as I know, it was popularized by Jim Sterling who named it the "copyright deadlock"[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_copyright_issues#2015%...
That story is depressing. Not the story itself, just how privileged the West is that not being able repair an iPad is poverty.
We should go and force them to reduce it /s
you seem to believe that markets are efficient. breaking news: they arent. Between companies - there is some sort of efficiency. Inside companies all such efficiency bets are off. If i walked upto your board and asked for half your CEO's comp to ensure that the same milestones are hit the next quarter, guess what they would say. Similarly at a ballpark estimate, im twice as efficient as some of my colleagues, i doubt im getting paid twice as much. Go figure...
Why would he do something when he can be morally smug at the “man” on the internet?
I was thinking "single point of focus."
"If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal."

Hmm. Not quite as attention grabbing as the headline. There couldn't be an ulterior motive for this article now could there..?
I’ve hosted multiple IRC servers over the years and can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup.
Having a single communication medium is a SPOF no matter what name it has
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The thing I take away from these discussions is that the military is covering for a greater failing of our own civilian governments which constantly refuse to do their job in terms of diplomacy. Instead, we just build bigger sticks in place of more cleverly employed carrots as it were. If we were rational actors we'd employ economic measures which would be many times more effective than an atomic bomb. But as I said, that's assuming we were rational actors.
The same thing happens at technical jobs, too.

In the programming world, how many people are convinced that white-collar desk labor is qualitatively different from assembly line work, such that unions apply to factories but would never apply to a bunch of coders in an office building?

I grew up hearing that programmers are professionals and individuals and we can all negotiate for maximal pay, and of course that's poppycock. The vast, vast majority of programmers would be well-served with a guild or union at their workplace, because most are simple laborers trading their time for dollars; exactly the same boat as people building cars or wiring buildings.

Everyone cites the rock star making bank -- you are probably not it, and even if you're on the upper tier, a union could get you a larger slice of that company pie, and could get you more of a say in how the workplace is run (no more crunch time? more schedule flexibility? more time off? more opportunities for mentoring or being mentored? pick how you want your workplace improved...).

The thing is, technical workers were headed down the path of considering themselves labor until IBM brought in union-busters that crafted this propaganda of "the nature of the work means we're more like engineers or doctors or lawyers and THEY'RE not unionized" (ignoring that they're all members of professional guilds).

So, thank IBM that we're only now, decades later, starting to see labor organizing in tech fields, and here, only in the most abusive of fields (video game development); thank IBM and our desire to see ourselves as somehow above the guys who built the buildings we're in.
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But it says slack right on the box
> I'm also confused why it's even a problem if China has top class fabs.

Some people don't like the idea of a totalitarian state being a world power with top-notch technology.
Some reasons I like it:

1. It's fast as hell. I've tried all the OS X Desktop clients and they're all slower than they should be. Email is a task - only a masochist would spend more time doing email than necessary. This focus on speed means the interface is super snappy. Keyboard shortcuts are nice, but the real win is the Slack-style CMD-K menu that lets me change contexts quickly. I don't know why every app doesn't have this.

2. The interface is super clean and minimal. It displays only what's necessary on screen.

3. They've paved many of the key workflows that I care about:

- I type a date and they pop up my Calendar in the sidebar (but ONLY if I type a date).

- Undo send is critical to any email client I use and they have it. But I can also "accelerate" a send to skip the ability to undo it. Useful if I'm e.g. trying to get an email with some key info to discuss with a client that I'm on the phone with right that moment instead of waiting 10-20 seconds for the Undo Send window to close.

- Archiving an email displays the next email (granted so does Gmail) but the point is to process the inbox as quickly as possible.

- Copying an email from the list view and pasting it opens up the exact same email (recipients, subject, and body) - this is super useful when I'm sending a variation of the same email to people.

- Split Inboxes are great for filtering emails into a "Sub Inbox" for processing in a way that I don't process my main inbox. When I archive emails from there they disappear (unlike labeled emails which are labeled forever). An example is emails from Freelance gigs lists. I want to keep them out of my main inbox and scan them e.g. weekly, then have them go away forever.

- The "Escape" key is a back button. It keeps history so you can get back to the inbox very quickly by hitting Esc a few times.
People have written about this at length many times, but I'll rehash some of the arguments.

Node is missing very basic features, leading to a million tiny modules like leftpad. That's annoying by itself because there's overhead in finding the best package for everything.

The other consequences of that issue are much worse. You have lots of easy opportunities for misleadingly-named packages with malware in them. Package hijacking is easier to miss. Security updates, if packages even get them, have to be applied seemingly every hour.

It's just a major problem to have a simple project with 500 dependencies.

And that doesn't even get me started on issues with the mess that module importing was/is.
And you can’t think of what would happen if we just let things happen out there?

Yes we’re made monumental mistakes like Arab spring and gulf war II. But those would pale compared to what would happen if we just let things go. All those repressed military desires by dictators everywhere suddenly given a green light.
For me it's the constant construction around here. Workers seem to start at dawn. Some days it will be a jackhammer, on more benevolent days you only hear general noise and the reverse beeps from some massive construction vehicle.
That's just familiarity. You could get used to digital books if you had to.
I think you are living inside a big bubble. When was the last time China showed military aggresion outside its borders, especialy on the other side of the world? US doing the “checking” around the world left countless people dead for nothing, and a lot of countries ruined. Not to mention trillions od dollars spent on financing that. US complain about Russia meddling with US elections (through 150k worth of Facebook ads lol) but then proceeds to overturn number of democratically elected governments around the world. Hipocracry much?
And the US seems to really envy them, getting off to a slow start with just a few measly Mexican kids in their camps.
> The fact that these design decisions have been integral to making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world probably indicates they were good design decisions.

I think this may have been true at some point, but not anymore. I know so many people that are blinded by brand loyalty to Apple that they'll buy basically any product they put out. They wouldn't consider an Android device because it doesn't portray the same "status". The same is true with the MacBook Pro. I used to be a happy MacBook Pro user, but when it was time to upgrade and I saw the current lineup there was no way I could consider buying one. I've never been the type to just buy Apple for the sake of buying Apple. Many people go ahead and buy a $2000 device that they only use to browse social media solely because Apple made it.
So much this!!!!
Every time I open a browser I think the same thing.
Even tech articles were way higher quality back then.
https://www.flipcode.com/archives/ for example.
"- community of unrealistic, brainwashed, tribalist fans who lack perspective and criticism"

Why do you feel the urge to insult those that do not see the world like you do?

You call them "unrealistic", so it makes you fell realistic.
"brainwashed" so it makes you feel clear minded.
"tribalist" so it makes you feel individually intelligent.
"lack perspective", so you believe you have perspective.

The fact is that some of these people are really smarter than you are and happier and more fulfilled than you are. And have way more money than you have. Some of them will be stupid, but not all like you believe.

These people have real reasons to choose an Apple product and they are as valid as your reasons.

While everything you say is true, the fact is that these people give them a different value that you do. I have a friend that has a company and earns 2000 dollars everyday, does he cares about an overprice laptop? Not really, he cares about time, and interruptions(he had a Windows laptop that used to interrupt him for hours at the worst possible time), he cares about weight, and malware installed by default that you could not uninstall.

Right now I am criticizing your attitude. How do you respond to it is a way to measure your level of "handling criticism ability" that you implicitly presume of.

But it does feels different, doen't it? Criticize others is so easy.
Not true. The Trump administration has increased the military budget. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/10/pentagon-eyes-windfall-... No one is asking "you" to be world police. Just paying "your" UN membership fees would be plenty.
That was probably the easiest part of their escapade, sadly — spoofing a WiFi access point with a fake portal comes to mind. Or posing as IT and mass-emailing the university directory (which are rather easy to scrape at most universities), keyloggers on lab computers, etc. Always possible that it could have been as simple as just asking!

Out of ~20,000 students and ~10,000 staff, they only needed to get lucky once, unfortunately.
No, this is major and should be on top of HN IMO.
There are still a few questionable non democratic countries out there that may make it worth keeping a military so as to keep them in check. Russia, China, Iran and the like.
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Forgive me, but just to clarify... There is no “fallback” communication channel for your team to use?
This is part of the problem - we all need to ask too many questions. We should be working on pre-defined tasks most of the time, where it doesn't matter if it's waterfall pre-defined or scrum time allocated.
Given advertising and PR, do consumers actually make free choices?

Do consumers have the costs of their choices spelled out clearly, or are they hidden and deferred as externalities under the false pretence that neither customers nor anyone they know will ever have to worry about them?

How accurately do market costs include physical, ecological, environmental, and political/social costs?

Is a system that cannot accurately present costs to consumers without interpreting them through its own value system actually credible and trustworthy?
depends, what do healed burnout patient think ? can they sense things coming earlier ? attuned from experience ?
This is interesting.

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/114150
HN is a more reliable status page than most status pages.
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US Military is a bigger insert topic here than as many as insert large number here countries. Whether that topic is economics, or employees, or technology, or any other metric you want to analyze...the US military is large.

Edit: It would be more interesting to compare pollution from the military vs other countries or other militaries as a function of their size. Similar problems often arise when comparing states - it's unsurprising when California is the largest and Wyoming is the smallest; please normalize your data! For example, the US military budget of ~$650B is comparable to the GDP of Switzerland or Saudi Arabia, or alternatively comparable to the GDP of the ~80 smallest countries. That 80 country GDP vs 140 country pollution difference is already more illuminating to me...
What makes you think he aced it? Reading through, he muddled through it -- couldn't say much specific, messed up some Galois theory, failed to define H^1 (Hardy space) correctly and instead confusing it with L^1. Nothing catastrophic, but not great at all.
I'm guessing the dev quickly noticed the lack of connectivity and may have tried some obvious things to change his autoreply message, but those things didn't work and he & his company deemed it not worth it to try further.
I worked for about 4 hours this week. Last week it was closer to zero. I get 100% of my work done; there's just not a lot to do. I suspect my job position was created just to use up a budget.

When there's no workload, impostor syndrome begins to creep in.

It's very boring and I'm actively looking for a job that will keep me busy and engaged.
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If it's any consolation, their status board has actually been reporting errors (hi cloudflare)
Personally, I enjoy the speculation and discussion during an outage like this. Also, occasionally someone from the mentioned company pops up in these threads
I have a Pixel 2 XL, and I like its width, but its length is totally pointless. I don't get why they don't make phones with less enongated aspect ratio. 9:16 is ought to be enough for everyone, why would anyone want a vertical screen that is taller than that.
This seems rather useful. Depending on the weight I might actually get this. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't even realize it was down until I saw the post here. Just thought Slack was a little quite on a Friday morning.
Another possibility: Apple can’t pay him a big salary without a huge IRS tax.

With a sole company, he’ll be able to invest his earnings into the company as well as deduct several of the expenses. Significantly reducing his tax rate.
The website is down? 06/28/2019 21:00 CST
You're implying we don't update the status board when there are errors?
Implying James O'Keefe isn't even more irrelevant.
There are reasons why email is async and supposed to be decentralized, with priority based fallback options. (The priority in mx records). Most email servers try to deliver to fallbacks, and even if that fails, will try to deliver for _days_.

For all people who think slack can replace email, think about these safeguards.
If we could trust status pages, sure. But I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to use a service, failed, the status page says "all OK!" but Twitter and HN are full of outage reports.

Besides, the discussion here is useful. Someone has already pointed out that some messages are getting through despite returning 500s, so integrations are spamming duplicate messages everywhere. That's useful to me if I'm running an integration.

(besides x2, it's one thread with a very self explanatory title. Maybe just don't read it?)
Bags of money? You need to bring the whole bank. Their state of the art machines sell for $125,000,000. Each.

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1257963#
Well it can be called an issue. I wouldn't call it a problem though.

What we are trying to solve is: We need more than just screen on the front of the phone, how do we solve this?
This is big news, no?
Multithreaded (or Multiprocess) can be done safely.

I write a lot of stuff in Rust these days, where (unless you use unsafe) it doesn't even let you do anything that would break under multi-threading, even if you don't use it.

As a result, it was incredibly easy to write a light-weight crawler that delivery results into a main worker queue and the data is processed by <cpu_cores> threads. The crawler largely uses async for IO advantages but the worker threads rely heavily on data crunching where your throughput is limited by CPU not by IO and async suffers a bit.

And since crawler and worker are on the same process, the latency between a page being grabbed and starting to be processed is incredibly low, any kind of networking would likely cut throughput by a factor of 10 or more. Not even mentioning having to serialize the data instead of relying on references to get read-only copies and only making minimal copies on the stack.
And destroying the whole planet with pollution of the most expensive army in the world is going to help this how?
Agreed. It's fascinating to see speculation and it's almost a game when the real reason is found - we see who got it right!

It's also important - many here use Slack, and an outage may be confusing - most of us don't immediately look at status pages, so we have somewhere to go and discuss the happening.
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> Sony headphones

Why would headphones have a USB port? BT headphones that need it for charging?
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... and besides, it's pretty much 100% prosperous white men who do it, so it's not really a crime but a benefit to society.
And the right way to out pressure on China would be to get a bunch of countries to update WTO and GATT to include these kinds of services. Instead Trump went it alone after alienating everyone else. How is that supposed to work?
> Or do you mean perceiving in a more general sense

Yes. I'm using it to mean evaluation as the fundamental causal process. I don't believe consciousness is orthogonal to the universe, ergo it must emerge from the processes within it. Sorry, the term perception is a bit loaded in this regard. But here's the thing: I also don't want to exempt a complex emergent arrangement of functions from evaluating its neighbours. Which is to say, I don't want to be excluded from looking at things.

> Do you really think removing the last entity perceiving the universe would fundamentally change what is going on

It's a good question. To me this scenario only occurs when nothing exists.

> the universe in its entirety must be a static object

Do you mean the conclusion that the universe is a rigid block of spacetime? I used to accept that as an undergrad, eventually rejecting it for the most common reason of all: the denial of free will, justifying this to myself on the grounds it conflicts with the halting problem. Unfortunately the problem then arises, "what fucking axioms do you believe then?". Here's the thing I like: if the universe is functional, then its laws may evolve as it evaluates, including the laws by which it evaluates. That provides an irreversible causal arrow, which is incompatible with a block universe.

Not actually sure I could glean that from this article though.

In the Greg Egan edition of this theory, the speed of light then emerges as a property of evaluative propagation through a functional universe, and new forms of consciousness are encountered living within the Lisp machine of the cosmos.
The commenter above said they had to "solve live production problems", how exactly would "pre-defined tasks" help them?
Anyone with even the slightest maritime background will immediately know the earth is round -- you can't see all the way across the atlantic (though this could be written off as being due to fog, etc), and more importantly, ships in the distance sink into the horizon until they are no longer visible.
If it wasn't intended to be a communication platform, then what was it intended to be?
Are there more of fewer involvements we’re in?

Increasing budget can mean active wars or it can mean preparation (modernizing).

The UN is a political org, it doesn’t achieve much. It makes a whole bunch of corrupt officials rich.
This is part of the Princeton notes on the general exams, just an effort by grad students to support each other by sharing knowledge. It's not just helpful for them -- when I did my exams, I looked up every question they posed in algebraic geometry & my minor topic area and used it as a question bank, despite not going to Princeton :)

https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/
You are oversimplifying. There is a valuable trade off between text on one end and abstract symbols on the other. Icons are in the middle.

On the text end of the spectrum you have high clarity, but it takes longer time to take in and find the one you are looking for. These are good if you rarely interact with the them and it's in situations that aren't urgent and you can't or don't have to train for.

Abstract symbols on the other hand are fastest to identify but require you to be trained. This makes sense for power users out urgent situations that are worth preparing for.

Icons are the middle ground. You can identify them faster than a walk of text and you might be able to guess pretty well what they mean on first encounter.

Using icons on a car this makes sense. You might have to do a little bit of trial and error the first time around, but will be much faster on future usage. This is a worthwhile trade off for a car, since you want the driver to quickly find the right control and then look at the road again. It works especially well given that the vast majority of icons are common between different cars.

I think it's even a better trade off for traffic signs, since drivers get trained anyway. All but new drivers will quickly start relying on the shape of the text on the sign, rather than read all the text on every speed limit sign. If you do need to read it, the amount of text is not practical.
Unless Hacker News is down, in which case you need to give up and go outside.