skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got rid of all of those except Gmail (need it for work, school, etc) and WhatsApp (only use for one group chat) and it is very freeing. I realized social media (Instagram especially) breeds unhappiness with your life, while all of the models and "influencers" on it don't live realistic lives. In fact I've experienced first had that their posts are often doctored or don't acctually portray the situation accurately.
It's not a tech company. It's a contractor body shop, like Accenture.

Sogeti merged very soon after it was formed. It's never really been known as its own company.
If only Shopify was some sort of publicly traded company that publicly reported these numbers. If only...
I mean, maybe this is obvious, but whenever you visit a site that derives revenue from ads with an adblocker installed, you generate no money for that site, and thus X doesn't get supported, where X might be journalism, services, or in this case planting trees.
This is like saying that Apple can't collect 30% if you make your app in React Native rather than a purely native iOS app. It doesn't matter what technology you use, they're going to get 30% because they control the store.
QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones
Noticed the outrage when I opened twitter when waiting for a long (10 min) process to run. What am I supposed to do? Socialize with coworkers?
But Apple software is proprietary, not friendly to open soure developers and you never know what that software is doing. Maybe they are streaming your data directly to "cloud" operated by NSA. Or iPhone doesn't upload anything to cloud?
Read up on BGP hijacking. The internet really is super vulnerable.
The original iPhone didn't even have an app store...
2.9% is the rate for their $30 a month plan, their $300 plan is 2.4% which leaves you within 1% from most of the cheapest payment processors while getting a ton more 'value' IMO.
Woo startups.
I think that the industry needs to move from infrastructure phase, to developer traction phase, to user traction phase. Not in discrete steps but in general.

By the 2017 "crypto mania" the infrastructure was barely there. Imagine that even a single app/smart-contract on Ethereum could not scale beyond 500K users without choking the entire network. Cryptokitties comes to mind.

Just building infrastructure is not a magic solution. You need to iterate over developer tools, give developers the right tools, have educational resources, raise awareness around why decentralized apps are important etc. That's generally the developer traction phase where I believe Blockstack is now (we've had 170 independent apps/startups built on top -- most in the last 6 months).

With an active community of developers organically building decentralized apps and playing around with tools, you can see a lot of experiments but can still end up with a graveyard of apps that no one uses. That's the user traction phase which I do not think we're in yet for Web 3 / decentralized apps. I remain confident that as the UX of these apps gets better and as security/privacy becomes more and more imp, we'll start seeing "killer apps". Some of these will be "crypto native" meaning they are not just "decentralized X" but they'll have some crypto native functionality that was simply not possible in web 2.0 and the traditional client/server model.
Reddit goes down constantly though, not a great benchmark.
Someone from "youknowwho" administration had made a deployment it appears
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses:

1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability.

2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where there are just too many pieces required to make it work (until some change the infrastructure solves that). We had such a point when dialup was no longer enough, and we solved that with fiber. Now we have a chokepoint somewhere else in the system, and it will require a different infrastructure change

3) Russia or China or Iran or somebody is f*(#ing with us, to see what they are able to break if they needed to, if they need to apply leverage to, for example, get sanctions lifted

4) Just a series of unconnected errors at big companies

5) Other possibilities?
Pyret is an even more acceptable Python: https://www.pyret.org/
So the little blue bird of hate has finally crashed and burned. I'm okay with that.
As far as Amazon’s DC metro area location I don’t see why amazon wouldn’t have considered locating in the DC or MD parts of the region if the incentives and pitch were right. Making the three jurisdictions bid against each other seems like a reasonable strategy even if there was a secret plan to end up somewhere in the region in the end.
We already implemented that last year. That's called the GDPR.

Regulators are not quick, give them a year or two to deliver the fines.
And the “final” destination is what gets verified? Is there a visualization of this model?
I hope Jack went rogue and nuked it after his most recent hot yoga vision.

That's the kind of shakeup we need in this world.
NASA Map of 4k Exoplanets
I've had a number of friends from India tell me that the British colonization left them some valuable heritage, such as some on the institutions. Maybe it's not quite the same as Nazi occupation.
It's C so it's harder to tell than other languages, since it doesn't have separate namespaces for everything. You can just write a bunch of functions and global variables in separate files and then act like they're all in the same file, and there's really no difference.
Personally I would like to work on it, though I know that I am missing some requisite skills.
His words say just that indeed, but I doubt he realizes it.

Propaganda works. Even the relatively intelligent are highly susceptible to it, as can be seen every single day on HN. And this particular propaganda is sowing the seeds for conflict not just between countries, but also within countries.

With effort, discipline, and cooperation, I strongly believe something could be done about it. Certain people happen to be in unique positions to facilitate the start of this change, which could in turn alter the course of the humanity. But how one gets them to realize this is something I don't know how to do.
_Nobody_ should use Upwork. You won't get paid what you're worth, and it's the worst of both worlds when you compare it with normal freelancing or working in a regular job.
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter

is a pretty good resource too
I found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform.

[0] - https://gab.ai
Write a script to fire random events and you will notice they sometimes cluster in ways that look like a pattern.
It's also not titled "One weird trick about email"
"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?"

Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie?

I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. But what?
plug pulled by "youknowwho"'s team
That’s hilarious. Reminds me of a clip from the show Silicon Valley.
Having a closed ecosystem has costs too, though, especially in terms of user freedom and choice.
I just hope the UI is not designed like that which caused the missile alert in Hawaii some time back...
One of those cells gets punctured and i assure you that there will be fire.
A corp will raise prices to whatever level the market will bear. Why shouldn't a society do the same with taxes?

A corp exists in a competitive market and can rarely raise prices to "whatever level the market will bear". If I don't like their prices, I use their competitor.

What competitor does my mandatory government and it's confiscatory tax agency have? What alternative do I have but to hand over half my work to them to be frittered away on foreign wars and grants for indolence and incompetence?
Sadly, for most people Twitter is mainstream media.
I mean on Hacker News, not Twitter.
That’ll be fine, a post mortem will show that ops weren’t the cause and their comp package will help them get over this little package of stress
Shopify is only $30/month for its basic plan. I can't imagine a situation where somebody with a successful online store would be sweating that $10. I also can't imagine a store that would be successful at $20/mo on WooCommerce, but not at $30/mo on Shopify. I say this as somebody with several past and current Shopify stores.
That says they assumed a Germany with no air supremacy yet.
Heh, just last week there was a running joke on Twitter about how Facebook and Whatsapp users were busy scrambling to learn how to use Twitter due to the CDN outage over there.
I do find it a bit ironic (and a little comforting) that a company that makes Surveillance software can still be tricked by a journalist posing as a potential customer
Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's going on. A small reminder of what the world used to be like haha.
If conspiracy theorists looked at facts, they wouldn't be conspiracy theorists. The common denominator of people who claim that these devices are always sending voice data, is that they have zero interest in learning how they actually work, the information is widely and easily available.
>They gave the carriers a big middle finger when it comes to the usual bullshit of bloatware, sticking their logos on things or getting in the middle of updates

Except, of course, the bloatware of their own making.

Here's a novel idea: you, yourself can give the middle finger to the carriers and buy an unlocked phone from a provider that delivers timely updates to Android...just like Apple.

>For this reason Apple will have my eternal gratitude

I'll take freedom of choice, thanks.
Python runs on iOS, Racket does not. The need for a JIT to make Racket performant also makes it unlikely that it ever will.
Ask HN: Have you ever been called slow? How did you react?
I've started in a company ~5 months ago and I'm sensing a growing impatience from our manager and team/tech leads.

The company adopts an agile methodology (on paper) and seems to expect things will just magically become faster. There are adhoc requests all the time and no filtering.

I'm a new hire trying to master the software stack (a lot of pieces are new to me even with 10+ years in the industry).

This combined with my usual desire to understand what I'm doing, seems to give an impression that I'm slow. In reality, I think my team members have only a shallow understanding of what they do, can't plan long term and, not of their fault, are used to a follow-the-tutorial-and-get-it-done approach. I can't really fault them but this has created a lot of technical debt (which makes my job even harder).

Any tips? I'd like to stay longer and make a lasting impact here but, of course, I could just quit... that wouldn't be ideal.
I don't want a cookie; I want more $24/bottle Belgian beer.
Google's Another Attempt with Social
Oh, sure. But Apple, Google, Cloudflare, Stripe, Slack, Microsoft, we're getting to more than five even...
One day one of these services will go down and they won't be able to bring it back up.
Morality is subjective and open to interpretation. Sometimes consumers should pay higher prices to avoid unwanted externalities.
Good. Let's hope it stays down and the world will be a better place.
those leftist cucks probably pay their server fees by whoring out their wives.
What are the most viewed questions on Quora?
I'm not sure what ram speed has to do at all with extrication. The biggest problem area I see with the model 3 is the fact that a large portion of the high voltage carriers are centerline on the vehicle. In our department using the center post for dash lift/roll allows us to work both front seats without obstructing patient egress via the side/door. In the Model 3 you don't have the option to roll from the center.
It's a new toilet on a complex machine that can't just dump stuff out in the open ocean all the time.

It's not "just a toilet" anymore than a sub should work like a video game.
It tracks where the plane is, not where the fuel is burned. A few metres of difference, significant for border enforcement.
I think they are past that stage! If a 28 billion company gets to say that I am not going to feel bad about my site going down.
Mujhay bhee Pakistani logon sey mil kar achaa lagta haay

(That's Urdu in case anyone is wondering.)

Appreciate your support! Crypto is generally a wild west and we're trying to help mature this industry.
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Finally we get the long awaited sequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

One flew over the dubcanada's head.
I'm actually not sure how much talent Facebook could pick up locally by just opening the floodgates, which is what I believe you're advocating? I'm a former Facebook intern and Google employee, and don't plan on returning to either company even if it were the income-maximizing move for me (luckily, it isn't). Anecdotally, I've met many other local engineers who feel the same way.
Time to make HN the go-to downtime tracker. Did anyone measure HN's uptime over the past years?
yea as an ops engineer that's probably the worst violation of trust i've ever heard of.
This idea is related to "rainbow parentheses" (e.g. for Lisp): different levels of parens just get arbitrary different colors. But matching parens are the same color, just like two occurrences of %ecx in the same line are the same.
I think OP is saying the rewards were confiscated so the team wouldn't begin breaking things on purpose to get a reward when they fixed it.
Operational consistency creates a hidden single point of failure.

If everybody is doing the same things and setting things up the same way to ensure reliability then any failures or short comings in that system are shared by all.
Same. This is so much better.

The number of times I redo the same thing in a repl or with weird scripts saved in /tmp or ~/ is kind of nuts....but generalizing them into something like this takes tons of work. Kudos!
Wait what did I miss something? lol
Right now, probably working at twitter
I apologize for not being more clear as I agree with you completely: I cannot tell and neither can I tell about this French tax.
Hero? You’re a villain who steps on teammates. The worst part is you thought it’d be okay to share that and think we’d be on your side. Have you no shame?
Brains are excellent pattern matchers.

Brains also suck at statistics.
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reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.
What is your complaint? The text seems to expand to fill the browser window. So you set your browser to a comfortable size and then that website is a comfortable size "for free". That, to me, seems like a good thing.
I agree that if everyone vetted as extensively as you did, UpWork experiences would be more successful. But people don't, and it's unreasonable to assume the same vetting processes for 10 hours of work vs 10+ year careers (FT hires). The platform should be vetting both sides, and they don't really.

I would say the same about eBay. Would you rather bet on eBay or Amazon today?

> given their size, I trust them over some smaller operation

Fair enough, but "trust the biggest fish" is a dangerous assumption.

> P.S.: I read the OP’s naive writeup. He didn’t follow the platform rules and was surprised that it went against him. Shocking. $400 is a lesson to do more research next time.
Maybe the platform rules suck?

Any self-respecting professional would think the random screenshots thing is creepy. If talent is vetted and to be trusted, the screenshots/camera thing should be unnecessary.
> ...quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised thanks to Mastodon.

Gab isn't what everyone makes it out to be, they were told to build their own alternative and built it. It's even better that it's using Mastodon's stack to build their own decentralised social network.

Gab, Mastodon and others like it are future of social networks. Centralisation is evil.
Anyone using upwork knows you need to have the software running when you have an hourly contract. Fix contracts are different and upworks judgements can be awful but for hourly as long as you have the software running you will be paid.

Data scientist doesn't read agreement.
> As an aside the Ancient Greeks had a type of wine cooler that worked on evaporative cooling using an exterior porous pot and an internal glazed pot, with wet sand placed in the gap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator

Still in use today, especially in the "developing world" - usually as a means to keep certain medicines and drugs cooled that would go bad without it.
Environmental degradation is the story of death by a thousand cuts.
The GPL doesn't hold a gun to ones head forcing one to use software licensed under it.

If you don't want the person you are distributing the software to be able to make modifications and adapt it just don't use GPL licensed software.

How difficult can this be?

As to the ethical dimension, I am sure you are as impressed by the ethics of John Deere as much as their customers are.
> Also Google and Amazon are a large American companies that mostly try to do the right thing in terms of user privacy.

Google has an atrocious record when it comes to user privacy. They're the people who put a hidden microphone in Nest thermostats for instance.
> It took a while to return, so he used the time to explain how, in an ordinary setup ...

This one was visible from such a great distance, it's a wonder neither of you spotted it as it happened! I love your post — reminds me of BOFH :)
Well commerce isn't so unrestricted for one which gives tangible reach. They can easily forbid financial transactions and freeze accounts to tax delinquents.
>Why should your carrier have any say so in updating your operating system?

You made that choice when you decided you wanted a carrier subsidized phone.
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing. I used to work at companies like this, except they weren't worth billions of dollars.
This gets pretty rowdy:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter
Impressive; it's been quite a while since a comment made me roll my eyes so hard I got a headache.
It's a joke. Laugh, it's funny.
I think this is also called semantic coloring. Visual Studio Code has it on the roadmap to try this year: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap#editor
I have a close friend that works at Forge Global if you'd like me to get you in contact
...have you no sense of humour?
It makes me wonder if a powerful malicious agent can devise a complex operation (planting people in several key places) and wipe out most of the databases of one these places. It would be interesting to see what would it happen if suddenly all of twitter of facebook is deleted , puff!, gone in a second.
I've been suspecting 3) for a few months now, and I'm quite curious how our government would handle it if it _were_ the case. Only a few of these outages have had plausible post-mortems ever made public.
My job was to make growth graphs for investor slide decks, so by definition I had no shame.
You know, it would be cool if you found stats on the downtime metrics of these various high-profile recent outages, and calculated the odds of having such a cluster. Statistics is hard, though, and avoiding a "Texas Bulls-eye" would be hard.
This is the best thing of 2019.
so like all software has reached peak complexity this month?
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Ask HN: High cost to exercise startup options – what happens if they go to zero?
I received an offer for a senior role at a US startup. A key part of the compensation is a very large stock option package.

The problem is that exercising all these options will cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That seems like a big, scary gamble. Effectively, I'll be investing six figures in a pre-IPO startup. I am not the type of wealthy individual who can afford to make this sort of investment. The road to liquidity is long and treacherous. What if all these shares, which I bought for a substantial chunk of my net worth, go to zero in the long period of uncertainty between exercise and liquidity?

Are startups aware they are putting potential employees in this dilemma? Are there any protections available to me as an individual who is not wealthy, would not normally take risk with such a large amount, and is just trying to get fair compensation for their work to offset the cash or highly liquid RSUs that more mature companies offer?
Agreed! Every selfish prick should take whatever they want even if it’s not theirs.
Well it was just under 50% (what was it 47%-48%) of all the votes cast. The point I was trying to convey. Is that a very large amount of people (by your numbers 80-100 million people) that you don't respect the outcome of a legitimate democratic process.

It is fine to say "I wish the outcome was different", but trying to undermine it is something else entirely. That sort of thing isn't forgotten about.
Exactly. A company with only 1 person has to spend a large share of its time-resources just complying with taxes and regulations. The more people in the company, the lower the proportion of those time-resources are needed. With a large company, it's easy to employ someone (or a team even) to do that work full-time, but for a tiny company it's impossible; they wouldn't get any actual work done to keep the company running. This would have the effect of killing small business, which would provide a huge inertia advantage to large businesses (which started small, when they didn't have so many regulations).
Imagine if first responders had to watch a 20 minute video for each of the several hundred models of cars that are on the roads. Doesn't seem like a scalable approach.
I did notice something strange a few days ago. If you ran a search on Twitter, and scrolled down, it would mysteriously stop showing tweets past a certain time (July 1st, in my case). I wasn't sure if this was an internal change, or a bug of some sort. Maybe this is unrelated to the outage but strange coincidence.
Yep, the filing is already public and available through the SEC Edgar website. See also https://stackstoken.com/circular

Our hope is that the work we've done (and the $1.8M legal and accounting fees that we've paid!) helps other projects as well. That would take some sting out of the legal/accounting costs of doing this :-)
To be fair, many (most?) mainstream journalists are extremely active on Twitter.
Not clear what version of JS spec it supports.

And what are these "optimizations for running React Native on Android". Just reducing startup/boot time or what?
Please take a moment to reboot your sarcasm detector and unplug from the internet for a minute. Maybe go outside, go for a nice walk, have a glass of water, pet a dog?