skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a clear timeline shown at the end

Yes, i saw and it did not clarify my question to which you are responding which is obvious because...

> all ill effects of the bug were addressed and service was fully restored.

...this is not true. The timeline says a customer problem was submitted the next day, and additional action was required to ensure the "service was fully restored"
You can bet on volatility with etfs like VIXY. Now that the dynamics of the economy have changed an anti fundamentals trade might be ok.
This is counter to my experience, I've worked with multiple small teams (6 people at most), that all have datastore integrations, and CI/CD pipelines generally make them faster.

> those sort of complex deploys block other people's work

I think this is the root cause of your concerns, the database migrations seem to always be backwards incompatible and therefore deployments and migrations need to be synced, blocking other changes.

Typically CI/CD pipelines are never blocked.

Making sure the database migration / code change is backwards compatible is minimally more tedious (i.e. multiple incremental changes across multiple days), but overall speeds up development.
Isn't anyone who opposes secret surveillance with minimal oversight "helping themselves"?
I think the ideas being worthless meme is an over-correction of the person that thinks the idea is all of the value and wants to hire an engineer to 'just do the implementation' for little reward.

Ideas have value, and someone who can unite people with a clear vision can do incredible things but the implementation is a big part of the actual difficulty and usually you have to update the idea as you learn more from the implementation.

In general I suspect the implementation is usually harder than coming up with the idea in most cases and fewer people can do it. (Exceptions might be things like General Relativity and initial Bitcoin paper).

Still, obvious value in trying to come up with things from first principles.
I wonder how you'd solve the visas in a situation like this. It seems to me the only way to found a company in the US is either via a O1 visum, a greencard, or a citizenship, all of which are rather hard to obtain, harder than the alternatives where you join an existing company. There is no big tech with on-campus immigration offices sponsoring you.
An idea is worth about 10% .... execution 50% .... the remaining is timing / marketing / luck.
They don't ban all political content, or all expressions of sexuality or romance, they do for a very specific subset of issues which just so happen to be discriminatory. Like I said elsewhere in the thread: Jews are controversial, a ban on Jews on a social media platform wouldn't be remotely justifiable in any circumstance.
"malware blockers"

Many ads are not computer viruses, but almost all of them are malicious.
Well the company she works for doesn't start with an A. But what is the A I'm missing? Oh, Apple. Nope, not Apple.
The Science of Older and Wiser (2014)
That's the blue checkmark
> Seems like a better argument for not using FaaS after reading it all.

To me the main beneficiaries of all FaaS offerings are actually the service providers themselves, as they can make better use of their existing capacity and at the same time charge a hefty premium for the service. I'm yet to see a single convincing usage of AWS Lambdas that makes economical and technical sense.
Yeah, the load times without uMatrix and uBlock Origin are abysmal for A LOT of sites.
Are you saying that pretty much Nixon should have been okay to have his intelligence organs spy on his opponents?

The fact that some intelligence apparatuses were spying on congress people[1] is something that should not have happened; it did but there have been no repercussions for that. How did Brennan get away with that?

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief...
> "We do not see evidence as yet that the virus is spreading freely in communities," the WHO director-general said.

No longer true: CDC Confirms Possible Instance of Community Spread of COVID-19 in U.S.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0226-Covid-19-sprea...
I fundamentally disagree. Without an idea you have nothing. 100% of human accomplishment is achieved by ideas.

For the record: I argue that ideas are not worthless without execution. Ideas themselves have value. It's just not worthless.
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The USA is a free county. Party membership is not required to run for office.
Human drug it’s just a drug. Only if it’s not ‘human’ you have to specify.
I would add that the hard parts of working with Kubernetes is setting up ingress controllers and persistent volumes, but that's precisely the type of problems that any Kubernetes service provider takes care for you.
The germ theory of disease is just a theory, while butts-in-seats management is a fact.
WOW!

What a brilliant idea! So obvious now, the teletext data must have been embedded into the tv picture thus captured by VHS recording.

This got me very excited, I'd love to rebuild the old Ceefax 101 pages.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/28/santa-clara-county-an...

Second community acquired infection and it's in the heart of the valley.
If you enjoyed this, Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom is a good book on the similar topic from few decades back. Spiced with a healthy bunch of politics, entrepreneurship and action.
> most "side projects" these days are open-sourced by default

what???
> Make sure the link starts with 'https://www.who.int'

This should include a trailing slash, otherwise something like 'https://www.who.int.example.com' qualifies as “starts with 'https://www.who.int '”.

Edit: strangely, if I try to edit my comment above to remove the space between .int and ', HN serves me a 502 Bad Gateway.
If you think my comment implies that drunk people should be banned from public transit, you are very wrong. My comment is about an ideal world where everyone has virtues, not about regulation in an imperfect world.
What is the copyright situation with these tapes? I get the value of archiving and preserving digitally but if I'd invested time and money creating a vhs catalog of titles I'd be unhappy to see them suddenly all over youtube (assuming they had some appeal of course) with no ability to profit from them.
Please, before making your criticisms, understand the purpose of what was written.

The official documentation itself addresses this.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tool...
Jeff Bezos on the California Gold Rush and the Golden Age of Appliances (2003)
Oh I didn't know that. I thought anyone could modify the standard library. Do you mean syscall?
Thank you for the very detailed response. I'll take a look at that video. Does it cover what a key is?
Rust still doesn't get this right. If I'm calling an NFS library, say, on Windows I need to use UNIX paths. Rust needs WindowsString and UnixString on every platform, with OsString as a synonym for whichever is most useful locally.
What would be the criteria for a "real person" checkmark then? There's still no universal, government-provided API that would allow you to check whether an ID is real, so bad actors can just cheat the system by providing fake IDs. And even if the ID problem is somehow solved, it wouldn't prevent bad actors from just paying people to create accounts under their own IDs and post their propaganda.

The current blue checkmark is being sought after because of its exclusivity, if this disappears then the attention-seekers will cling onto something different to make themselves look special and supposedly better than you.

Also, the reason the current checkmark is both exclusive and yet this fake politician was able to get one is because Twitter wants to maintain good relationships with powerful and/or popular people, and the exclusive checkmark is kind of a welcome gift. Removing the exclusivity would totally nullify its utility as a gift, which is why they keep the whole verification system in place despite being completely broken (as this incident proves yet again) and spew some BS about working on improving it just to buy themselves time.
Replicating Networks Pre-Roll Animations with WebGL Fragment Shaders
Basically these kinds of bills push 9 out of 10 people into bankruptcy.

So part of the reason you're paying $3000 for a test that actually costs $300 is because you're paying for 9 other people who couldn't pay.
Can you expand on the Erlang history? Really interesting.
> Foodservice, janitors, and security, OTOH...

All completely unnecessary jobs when no one is in the office.
It seems like children are 10 times less likely to get it, though that's very rubbery numbers (based on children being 2% of cases in China despite being about 20% of the population, not that I really trust the numbers are accurate). A 0.1% chance of death (or even 0.01%) is still concerning.
For some reason I had never seen this talk until recently, but it's one of the best business/technology presentations I've ever seen, filled with fascinating and insightful points about history, with lots of great details.
It's not even a lot of overhead though. They just make a feature branch, have that PR'd back into the master on github. That's it. Like 3 mins of work every medium feature.
I have a silent low-power ex-thin-client box sitting in my living room that is used to perform batch jobs. It's been running for about 2.5 years, cost about $26 to buy the hardware second hand, and maybe costs around $20 / yr in electricity. Internet is $0 as I'd pay for that anyway and it doesn't need much bandwidth. It executes about 85,000 batch jobs every fortnight, so call that about 5.5 million jobs total. So that's about 72k jobs to the dollar. Handwaving 1 request as being comparable work to 1 batch job, the lambda setup described here is doing about 117k requests to the dollar. I'm massively over-spending!

The box is currently using about 10% cpu (postgres processes) and has 2 gb of memory available. I guess I over-provisioned and should go looking for some customers to onboard onto my "cloud" to get better utilisation and help amortise my operating costs.
> tell me I had to use one of their preferred online delivery services to place a delivery order.

Yes, there are quite a few restaurants in my area that do this as well. I make sure to tell them that means that I'm going to order from some other restaurant that actually offers real delivery.
I don't argue that ideas are the hardest part or that ideas are harder than implementation.

I just reject that ideas are worthless. I share all my ideas online because I think they have value. I want people to steal them because I want the outcome of the idea: I want the idea's implementation to exist in the world for me to use. Some credit would be nice too of course.
No. I took only a few courses on probability and mathematical stats. The books are A First Course in Probability and some some textbook on Mathematical Stats. The courses were probably not advanced enough, as I found them reasonably straightforward. I struggled a bit on what exactly is a random variable, but once that was internalized, everything else followed. I heard that advanced courses like random processes were really hard, but I'm not at that level.
Someone who gets impersonated.
FYI on the extremely high prices: while the prices from online resellers are dramatically higher than before all this, they're still probably affordable for most people on this forum, in the range of $5-$20 per disposable N95 mask. (CDC says you can reuse disposables)
Does Outline work for you?

https://outline.com/GdjnzR
It’s not overreacting to prepare for coronavirus. Here’s how
Yes, and OpenSSH just added FIDO/U2F support!

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.2

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenSSH-...
> Java programmers will be checking for null until the last line of Java is written.

Not necessarily. Adding nullability types to Java is a smaller undertaking than adding generics was.
I suspect the differences in our experiences are more regional. I imagine that Germany, having 15x the population and significantly more capital than Finland, would have a much more vibrant tech scene. Being closer to other EU countries probably helps a lot too.

The demand for developers is fierce here, for sure, so it is very much a seller's market. But like I said, medium-large companies are siphoning off all the fresh blood (and no, you don't need a degree, but being a student in a relevant discipline makes all the difference!).

Small companies with productive experts don't want to waste time & money on training juniors and taking chances with them. The rest of the small companies are pretty much on shoestring budget (most of them serving local niches in our small market, or playing startup with government funds which are comparable to unemployment benefits, barely enough to cover rent and food) and a bad hire could genuinely topple many of them.

Sure, that does leave a handful of small companies that will take chances out of desperation, but I think they're a dying breed -- think the kind of shops that maintain some legacy doodles written in php and visual basic. Their services are slowly getting subsumed by the larger companies.

The meme on local boards is that yeah, there's a huge demand for seniors with 5+ years of experience, at junior salaries. :-)

I'm pretty much seeing the same thing in my network; plenty of people are working at small-medium companies that could use more bodies, but at the same time everyone's saying they wouldn't hire juniors (sometimes phrased as "we would hire juniors with relevant experience"). Similar story at my (very small) company..
Scuolo di Michaelangelo "god, this Carrera marble is so hard to work in why can't we just pour concrete into rubber moulds like the garden gnome factory next door"

Michelangelo "fine, I thought you wanted to learn how to sculpt perfect buttocks but whatever"

Jeff Koons "that garden gnome idea, how about now I know how to carve Carrera marble I make one in marble"

Scuolo ..."Jeff.. we hate you"

The GO authors are gifted. They make tools gifted people understand. If you aren't gifted, they are difficult tools to use.

(I'm not gifted btw)
I don't muck about with having to use tabs or maybe keycodes to change the current view(s) of a terminal/xterm.

I simply open sufficient xterms on one or more virtual desktops to cover all of my needs.

Ferinstance: I can have the warnings and errors of the last compile displaying in one xterm, I can be editing the relevant xxx.c source file in a second xterm, the associated yyy.h header file being edited in a third xterm, and the man page for a library function showing in yet another fourth xterm.

All of them immediately visible, and all of them interactive.

Unix as IDE 'just works' for me.
Thanks, this was helpful.
I really don’t understand this. All my current browsers don’t need more features. They didnt 5 years ago either.
because everyone is still searching for news related to "coronavirus", and also "coronavirus" is easier to say/remember than "covid-19"?
What 'YC' is wasn't explained by the end of the first two paragraphs so I stopped reading.
I'm saying homeless people can die on the street in fairly short time frames and being concerned that such circumstances are a genuine threat to survival isn't just someone being completely histrionic or deluded.
The second part of this story is that he said he was inspired by the Little Prince. Specifically, the low gravity Wells, making it possible to jump from planet to planet ..
Taxes that price externalities back in should ONLY be used to offset those externalities. Most of the time however politicians use the externality as an argument to pass the tax but plan to us the money for their own pet issues.
At that point, the only thing to do is set up 20 playing cards and offer them a prize of $100 for every $10 they wager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting ?
Do you even code, bro?

Even if you do (and it doesn't look like you do from your submissions), that fact is that if nobody tries to steal your idea, it's probably not a very good one.
I don't think I've ever heard people say that ideas are entirely worthless. Good ideas have enormous potential value.

The argument is that, in general, unlocking this potential requires great execution. You can't (in general) make a good idea successful without it. You can, on the other hand, take bad or boring or tired ideas and make them successful with great execution.

So, great execution (in general) matters more than great ideas.
I think you make some assumptions that are context-specific.

The decision to always be backwards compatible is just that, a decision. It comes with some really nice benefits around CI/CD, but also adds overhead for certain kinds of development, especially if data models are evolving rapidly. I've been in situations where we made the explicit decision not be backwards compatible due to business context that prioritized these evolutions.

Likewise, deploying to production continuously is not always an option. I've been in situations where customer relationships (contractual or otherwise) require that changes not be made continuously. Accidental outages or regressions are simply not an acceptable risk in some business contexts.
Link to the post referred to in case anyone else is curious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376793
This could do with a 2010 label.

Back in the day, Orwell was a free Miranda clone. So I used that.
His paper "Time without end : Physics and biology in an open universe" is worth a read:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/ay1/RevModPhys.51.447.pdf
I don't understand why downvotes on this site are so partisan. The above statement is objectively correct: since inauguration, the Trump administration has "signaled support" (the standard of evidence in the linked article) for: gun control legislation, marijuana legalization, infrastructure stimulus, "insurance for everybody" (yes, really), judiciary term limits, and the list goes on.

Statements come out of this white house that have absolutely no grounding in political reality, and positions change as soon as his support base in congress gets the president on the phone.

The phrasing may be glib, but the point is real: no one trust this white house. Not democrats, not republicans. Statements of support mean absolutely nothing, and I'm willing to be very large sums that McConnell will simply kill this silently. Paul will just stop talking about it, and we'll all forget.
> meaning if you want to destroy the VM's after 5 days, then you only pay for 5 days

At least with Linode, you pay per hour. I haven't had a need for it, but I imagine some do appreciate being able to rent a super-powerful server for a few hours/minutes at affordable prices. They have different types of servers, too, depending on what you need.

https://www.linode.com/pricing/
Tesla's Solar Panels Turning Saltwater into Drinking Water for 35,000 Kenyans
Internal errors are bugs or other conditions that the application is not expected to handle (other than, say, restart the thread a-la Erlang). Input validation is not an internal error. IllegalArgumentException is meant to represent bugs, and so an internal error, and so it is unchecked. It does not represent input validation errors.
Good question. At least on the surface it seems only fair that at some point, after the archivist has performed a reasonably thorough search for copyright maintenance, the burden of justification then switches over to the (latest?) copyright claimant. "Yes, we have the internet now. Yes, if you intend to enforce your copyright, your claim should be searchable via the internet. Either way you may still have to reach out and publish notice of your claim." That kind of thing.

Kind of like Gutenberg.org texts, with their disclaimer that "we checked and couldn't find any renewal of copyright," or whatever it says nowadays...
Java handles files and their permissions much better than this. It takes Path objects instead of strings, offers generic setReadable, setWriteable, etc methods and exposes finer grained apis to set posix specific bit and windows attributes.
Warrants are required for FISA activities, and the surveillance is limited to non-citizens.
A platform can have biases. In fact experience shows that it must have biases in order to retain ordinary users (cf. 8chan).
Did you read the article you're responding to? It's historical data, which is as literal money in the bank as you can get. What's the point of saying "oh sure, but this is skewed by Amazon/Microsoft TC, base salaries are actually much lower" in this context?
It's really tough - we had to get professional advice.

YC connected us with an immigration attorney the moment we got accepted and he helped greatly to make sure we approached this in the right way. It would have been a maze to do this without him. It's still not easy and it's a lot of extra stress.

Certain countries like the UK have ESTAs for up to 90 days, but the program is 3 months + then you generally will want to be here to raise afterwards, so you should get some advice on how to do this specific to your home country.

Even the VISAs are painful - for example, an O1 (even if you do manage to get it) means IIRC your spouse can't work even if you can.
On the other hand, Japan said they found a clear case of reinfection:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

You can debate whether or not it's really a reinfection or not, but no one is going to really know for sure until quite some time and further studies can be done.

So for now, I wouldn't count on immunity after catching the disease.
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Autonomous vehicles will change cities
Why?

I'd figure they would get exposed more quickly, but the outcome would be, on average, the same as anyone else. Perhaps the stress of working during a health crisis exacerbates the disease, or perhaps they have a more active immune system from constant exposure to new pathogens?
My company, frame.ai, uses a lightweight version of this pattern and have gotten a lot of value!

One of our products helps teams ensure response times on shared Slack channels. On some teams, the duty schedule of who should respond in these channels evolves in complicated ways - for example, complex business hours and holidays, account managers with backup reps, and so on.

Rather than attempt a one size fits all interface, we expose configuration via an Airtable base that we prepare. Airtable makes it much more convenient to enforce structure and give a nice interface to the configuration - plus an API. Highly recommended.

We have been pretty surprised at the variety of processes folks have implemented there, and it's easy for our support team to help them. Airtable did a write-up about the pattern here: https://blog.airtable.com/api-content-series-frameai-convers...

Excited to see the OP, which takes the concept much farther!
Given the incubation time, the virus has been spreading in the community for at least 1-2 weeks. Not a US citizen and don’t really understand how things work there, but you’d think it’s time for a response at scale to have any chance of containment. From a distance, it seems politics is interfering with this.
I've had bad experiences trying to share ideas with people online.
There's nothing wrong with being the idea person - we call them clients...
Case of Coronavirus of Unknown Origin Confirmed in Santa Clara County
After reading this story: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-mom-broke-into-prison-wa... , one should also be wary of people claiming to be from the local health authorities.

Imagine that, people in hazmat suits barge in, claim someone called them from your office building, they're there to secure the building, etc, etc...
> the surveillance is limited to non-citizens

How many times have we heard that one before?
The water slows down the evaporation letting it linger long enough to be useful (at least that's what I think I read). Either way, 70% is gentler on skin. 90%+ is great for cleaning oily stains and whatnot.