skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing the code yourself is always going to give you the most flexibility. This comes at the cost of complexity and domain expertise.

If you wanted to run something like this on a schedule, monitor execution results step by step, ensure your credentials are stored securely, etc, the barrier to entry to building this in terms of time and expertise suddenly jumps significantly, as well as the services / infrastructure required. We provide all of this out of the box with Paragon.

However, if you have all the domain expertise of the variety of languages, services, etc and prefer to spend the time writing the code yourself and managing the infra, that's okay. If you prefer to code, no code's just not for you and it doesn't have to be ^__^
Right but it's also astonishing that was allowed before. If it's not needed for work why would it be installed? Why would any non-work software be allowed on corp laptops?
Sigh ... I hope this style of commentary comes to a swift end on the internet (and especially places like HN). Making a list of observations and declaring a pattern is not how objectivity works. Your list conveniently ignores the massive increase in housing, education, and healthcare costs alongside a declining average income (inflation-rated).

I also notice your time scales jump back 50+ years to the 1960s ... But, do all of your same observations hold up within the last 30 years? Some, maybe. How about 20? Much fewer. How about 10 years? Almost none.

Funny, that must be why attempting to make objective arguments with anecdotes does not actually qualify as "objective". Huh, imagine that.
Eh. Depends on how much control the company has over devices being used for work. I have a number of different computers--including a company-issued laptop that I use as a Linux system. But I mostly use a personal MacBook for both personal and work use. I travel a lot (normally) and really wouldn't want to have to travel with a laptop that was strictly for work use.
Wow, I had no idea the terms on these partnerships. Amex spending $4B on Delta miles in 2019 seems crazy. I wonder what sort of discount Amex (and other CC's) get on those miles vs retail buyers.

Also, they report total marketing spend of $2.9B in 2019 - seems like they could still be sitting on quite a few unused miles.
"Unfortunately, propaganda (from both sides) has made it synonymous with full blown authoritative Soviet unions style regimens"

Please shock me with even 1/one example of any Communist regime which isn't / wasn't "full blown authoritative Soviet unions style".
> Corporate devices should be for work.

Many (most?) companies are perfectly fine with you using your corporate machine for typical home-life stuff and side projects as well.

Reduces waste of having to buy two devices.

Seems nothing wrong with it to me?
It had been invite-only for most of its life and only opened to the general public for something like a month or less before its shutdown. It would have been dumb for Google to shut it down on "lack of usage" if their own artificial barriers were the reason for such.

Lack of usage is getting a lot of blame in these threads, but let's not forget it was most likely a Google+ related strategic decision. Wave was built with an XMPP-like or email-like federation model in mind and was shutdown in basically the exact same cohort with XMPP-based Google Talk and RSS-based Google Reader. Google was strategically no longer interested in standards-based (or standards-aspiring perhaps in the case of Wave) social networks.
Yes. Google still allow that. The ban is on the app/installer.
So, young people have way less antibodies. Lots of stats also show people aged 0-19 have barely any test-confirmed infetions compared to older populations. I also read that for the first 7 days, the virus mostly stays in your throat with mild symptoms and only after that it goes to the lungs causing major issues.

Could it be that young people with strong immune systems easily fight the virus away within the first week?
This already exists:

Site:
https://thousandetherhomepage.com/

HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393446

Not sure if that also,supported re-trading/coloring of the pixel. That could be a nice touch or very against the idea of the others which meant to be "forever". Not needing a special browser is nice.

I might miss it but it seems this page assigns me a single pixel, or one pixel at a time where I can control x,y? The power of the others lies in being able to buy multiple pixels in a controlled fashion and having an easy way to add your logo (jpeg/png/...).
My understanding is that 'generally' for a lot of things Google lets teams decide what tools best fit their needs.
This has been my blocker to using Signal or Telegram also.
The creators of Signal surely believe that 'promoting the more widespread use of Signal itself' benefits their users. They're not for-profit company that exists for some other purpose.
I knew I would get downvoted. But folks seriously don’t remember the pain before Zoom. And the current pain anytime we have to use a GoToMeeting, Google Meet, Webex or other tool that barely functions.

Human interaction that actually works right now is so important. And I simply have a hard time trusting another product to actually do the call reliably
Thanks, edited our post to clarify why we're charging $30/mo - we do plan to offer a free version or trial in the future.

I think that most other "low-code" players are focused on RPA (helping ops automate internal business processes) whereas we're focused on helping product & engineering build integrations between their product and other services.
SARS-COV-2 is made of a single long RNA segment.

The flu has eight segments. With that you get a substantially higher rate of recombination.
I mean, 230 doesn't entitle them to immunity to subpeonas for records about which IP address made a comment, and internet providers routinely translate those to real identities in response to valid legal requests.

But that might work. Maybe they don't keep records. How do you sue defamatory information scrawled on a bathroom wall? Sometimes we don't have records for things. That's life.
Yeah, it's working, sometimes for most of the participants. Than turns your computer into a toaster before it clogs it completely.
Anyone remember Google Allo? I think it had video? If they made it a discord kind of thing it might have worked but instead they chose to compete with their own products.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned how complicated it is to add authentication to Jitsi meet. I ended up following a guide I found on their website it wasn't trivial.
Pipdeptree is another useful tool in this vein except cli driven on display. Poetry as a package manager also has some ice built is via their show sub command.

https://github.com/naiquevin/pipdeptree
I have an older account, and agree with the parent. Shareholder lawsuits against companies simply transfer money from the company to the lawyers, and to shareholders who sold their stock between discovering the fraud and disclosing it. Shareholder lawsuits against executives would be a better way of policing fraud, but they are uncommon, likely because they are not as lucrative for lawyers.
My favorite book on this topic is the DevOps Handbook. The author lays out a very clear and easy to follow path that gives you the same result: secure and reliable systems.
> They almost never had to, so that's a pretty lousy bar to use.

If you limit your perspective to the last ~120 years, you are correct. I did not.
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TIL about the WTFPL license ;)
http://www.wtfpl.net/about/
There's a great 99PI episode about something like this: Fordlandia (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/)
> They could use a telephone.

Well that's example of what I suggested they'd have to do - use someone else's service.
> "Fat fingering" a command could have disastrous consequences; in most cases on VMS, the command interpreter will raise a syntax error. OpenVMS also has file versioning built into the file system

For all this talk of fat fingering, you failed to mention that a simple purge is all it takes for all that file versioning to disappear...and you don't even have to type out the whole 5 letters. Besides, file versioning != revision control, and there are modern interoperability nuisances with it too.

Perhaps the most annoying thing with VMS is it'll allow you to set default (equivalent to cd for those unfamiliar with VMS CLI) to a directory that doesn't exist without even a courtesy warning. It was so batshit annoying that I wrote my own implementation of cd in DCL to ensure that never happened, along with updating command prompt to reflect current directory (just like Windows cmd) and certain bashisms like ~ for home directory, etc.

> Oh, and OpenVMS doesn't crash. Like, ever.

Yeah, sure...not really.
There is a gym chain in the Chicago named Eco Gym[0] that uses solar and human power to power their gyms.

[0] https://www.ecogymworldwide.com/
The US does not start wars to distract from problems at home. That’s conspiracy horse manure. Whether you want to believe it or not, every president that has ever started a conflict or US involvement in an existing conflict has felt the action justified on foreign policy reasons.

Those reasons might be something you object with, or even downright stupid in hindsight. But only in Hollywood is it ever a smoke screen for domestic issues.
hangouts isn't bad at all. Dumb product decision to only be able to see 4 people at once tho. Probably biggest reason people are on Zoom and not hangouts right now
This is correct.When all this Corona thing started,we put the entire office on remote. Before we did it,we had to assess who's got what at home. In my department it was about 20% without a laptop/pc. In others was similar.We simply gave company's PC to take home and called it a day. It's a small company, so obviously things are simpler here.
Because sometimes there are contractors, or consultants, or vendors, or partners you work with that for one reason or another can't use internal options.
Sure it mostly works. But when your livelihood depends on online videoconferencing the last 10% of reliability that Zoom provides is extremely important
A friend of mine is an EDM producer who has charted multiple times on beatport over the past decade, and I think that has netted him maybe $1000 total. He makes hundreds of times more money from dj gigs. He's on beatport to get exposure. In fact, a lot of times he doesn't even put his music on beatport and just gives it to other djs to play in exchange for getting unreleased tracks from them.

It's extremely difficult to make money selling music.
They are banned at my work. We are told to wear trousers.
It depends what you define as primitive. I've had plenty of compositions of existing primitives for which the auto-derived backprop was orders of magnitude slower than a hand written one. I didn't need to write my own backprop, but I benefited tremendously from it. I don't think my experience is particularly rare.
What if I want to protect myself and my facemask from large droplets. I also want to protect myself from accidentally touching my face. Is a face shield okay then?

And if so, why not drop $300 million to get one for everyone in the US? They're cheap, wash easily, and that's less than 0.02% of the last stimulus.
Use Jitsi
They've probably run in to a similar issue to Apple whereby they've found their consumer-grade "phone auntie susan once a week" offerings don't stand up to the needs of everyone working remotely needing screen sharing, hot seating in and out all day long chats.

We're using MS Teams and it seems to be pretty great for us (team of about 15), we use Skype to contact the remaining 20ish more junior staff who don't need Teams licenses just to be able to keep in touch with their work and keep the face to face communication going.
O'Reilly provides their editorial capabilities. Google provides content. Neither Google, nor O'Reilly benefits from the book directly. Marketing. Future gains for both.
You mean Baidu’s.
I made an edit to the original post to clarify the reasoning around our pricing. I think that many people want a fully hosted solution so they don't have to manage their own servers, performance, etc. and we can take care of all of that for you.
Is there any technical merit to this ban? Why would forcing use of web version mitigate any concerns? (The concerns I have heard are lack of proper end-to-end encryption, servers in China and the possibility to join chatrooms by guessing a name (zoom-bombing)).
Thank you! It IS an amazing project being worked on by incredible human beings. Kai (the committer I interviewed for this article) is also teaching an Apache Kylin tutorial tomorrow morning - this will be a great introduction to Kylin for anyone interested in learning more: https://bit.ly/ApacheKylin101
I see... that it actually less productive than before. Workers are furloughed 1/6 of time instead of 1/7.
> Their reasoning is along the lines of

Now I'm sure that many feel like that, but I don't think it's the majority, but I also don't know.

Here are some more arguments against types (don't necessarily agree with all of them myself, but for reference in the future when you want to write from the perspective of someone who feels more productive without types):

- There are other, more flexible ways to solve the same problems you solve with typing, the clojure.spec way is one of them

- You lose flexibility when suddenly everything is locked to each other by name. Even if Account and Person both has a first and last name fields, you can't use both of them if the function is expecting a Account and only use the first and last name. Then you need to add an interface, name it something, then make Account and Person be based on that. Now the function is locked to the interface, and so on

- Type checking is a very basic form of testing that doesn't solve the most common, annoying and hard-to-track down bugs, logic bugs.

- Metaprogramming becomes harder. Not impossible, just harder.

- Types (at least in TypeScript and other languages I've been using in the past) disappear in runtime, so you can't really use them. It's just a tool for you to tell the compiler what something is so it can say "no, you did wrong here"

Now I'm neither a type lover nor hater. I just want to use the right solution for the right problem, sometimes, that's making a program that will take longer time to write but specification is set in stone and requirements won't change, so types will help you a lot. Other times, it's in a very dynamic and experimental environment where you have to be able to apply changes as quickly as possible and minor errors don't matter as much, as long as you can move forward fast and test theories. Then you can go back and refactor things.
Wow porting the entire backend in two weeks is impressive. I guess he knew the domain well and both languages well but I'm impressed.
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Same in my org. Employees cannot setup Zoom meetings but can join meetings set by others from outside the org but only via browser. Zoom apps are banned and all installed apps in managed devices will be removed by IT.
Obsess over your competitors, not your customers!(?)
Well with an exponential curve, even if the amount of the initial dose changes 10 fold, from 20,000 to 200,000 virons you will get to hundreds of millions in pretty much the same time. I believe adaptive immunity takes about a week or two to kick in, and in that time the virus is going to keep multiplying like crazy, regardless of the dose.

Also, suppose you were living with a partner and both of you got infected. Both of you will continually shed and "re-infect" the other, so would we expect that the infection will necessarily be severe?
Yes, its omission from the article seemed like an important oversight to me.
From a usability perspective, it worked decently for me for about a week, then stopped working (dying upon opening) for about a week. Now it seems to work again. This is on the Linux (X11) client.
Echelon was only finally and definitively unmasked with the publication of the European Parliament report in 2001. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP/... (Prior to that, the general public would certainly consider you a nutjob for discussing it.)

The EU's historians have recently (2014) published an historical perspective on the writing and impact of that report, which is worth a read: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/EPRS_STUDY_538877_Affair...

This is effectively real world history, not the crap you garner from mass media or would-have-you-believe books. Another great classic: the conspicuously missing history of SWIFT, with its own EU parliament discussions.

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Agreed. This is my biggest complaint with it, the functionality is amazing but if you're on any sort of laptop the poor thing will melt halfway through a meeting.
I'd second that. It's the first tool I've used that felt like more than just a resolution upgrade from what we had back in like 2002(!).
>This means in restaurants and stuff where you pay after you're served they must accept cash, but when you pay first they don't have to (unless there are other state laws that require it).

IANAL but I'm not sure how big a factor this is. There's a lot of mythology around the "legal tender for all debts" language but I'm not sure how much of it has a real legal (or practical) basis. In the real world, if you eat your meal at a credit card only place and you then tell them you don't have a card, I imagine they'll find a way to take your money--not because of some arcane legal reason but because cash is better than nothing.
It didn't even seem like (b) failed so much as Google decided to leave the (a) game entirely because standards-based or standards-proposing social networks were out and the Google+ proprietary walled garden was in.
Spotify is not negotiable tbh.
I don't know. I've never seen the feature in other products.
I was on an 8 person hangouts video call this past weekend on my phone and by the end I could've cooked an egg on top of it.
Do you use your work machine for side projects? If so who owns the IP?
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I think you mean Catalina?
How can you call yourself a programmer if you need a type system babysitting you?

EDIT: my apologies to anyone who did not realize this was satirical
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-v...

Since finding this I find hangouts meet much more tolerable!
It was 1940, before the war. I mean, your citation.

There is no "prison sentence for being 20 minutes late" in the decree.

Google translated version of the decree:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3...
Am I the only one squeamish about sharing anything with the History Channel logo on it?

There'd be a thousand "It was probably ancient aliens that made the Soviets do it, eh?"-jokes as a response if I shared the link.
I mean, Citibank gives 2% cashback. People who choose miles or other rewards are doing so intentionally, because they think they'll benefit more. Nobody's forcing them to choose a miles reward card. They know the risk they're taking. Cashback is the norm.

(Also, a lot of places let you exchange miles for things like Amazon gift cards as well, practically as good as cash, though the "exchange rate" is often closer to a 1% reward in the end.)
That's the first time I heard that any language that doesn't have types, is slower than a program with types. I'm unsure if that actually makes sense.

You mean slower as in performance? I'm having a hard time understanding how types == performance, so you have to mean something else.

I guess assembly would be the language you would use if you really need to squeeze out the maximum amount of performance of a single CPU, and as far as I know, it does not have types.

Also languages built on top of LLVM could get by with trading compile times for run time performance. Maybe you meant compiling gets slower without types?
Variolation is a good idea with or without attenuated virus. That just improves on it.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-co...

I'd like to sign up for it either way, assuming medical supervision.
I agree with your point, and I suspect that part of this comes from the Signal android app, which can be used as a replacement for all messaging (including SMS). Like Apple's Messages, it automatically upgrades from SMS to Signal when the recipient supports receiving messages on that platform.
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There is a Chrome plugin to solve this problem - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-v...
https://metaset.io is a macOS app to quickly visualize CSV, Postgres, or SQLite data with charts.
I interviewed at Google a while back for an SRE position working with the Hangouts team. My first interview was in another office and the audio in Hangouts session would not start. We ending up having to move on to the next interview. I'm not surprised even Google employees don't use it.
https://bigbluebutton.org/

is free software, has breakout rooms, collaborative drawing on slides, synchronized playing of youtube and a few other features.

Works quite well in my experience.
This is a lot worse than a job asking for overtime. I say 'asking' because you can leave that job. If the soviet state demanded it; it's not optional, there is no leaving, there are no other jobs.

I actually think the American corporate system is the best of both worlds; you have central control and authority of a corporation which makes it efficient but if that central authority is poor the corporation dies so they're incentivized/evolved to be competent. And you as a worker can leave that corporation anytime you want, so as long as workers are scarce they're strongly incentivized to be good to you. Not a perfect system, but pretty good compared to any alternatives I've seen (e.g. soviet-style top down government control with violence as the enforcement mechanism).
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But is autodiff combined with a blackbox jit a real solution? The jit either works for your new model or it does not. If it does not, you can do pretty much nothing about it, other than ping jax authors or get your own hands dirty with jax internal code. Why is noone working on a usable low-level framework, where I can implement QRNN or more complicated stuff without relying on a black-box jit? Jax could have chosen to be this, but instead is a fancy solution to a non-problem.
Jitsi is the worst in my experience, particularly with many people (ie more than two or three).
You actually see that in healthcare. Many doctors go work for clinic X on mondays and tuesdays, and hospital Y on weds/thursday and they are different companies. Or have a 4x10 hour schedule instead of 5x8.

I think it works with healthcare because it's very shift work friendly. Each customer is a discrete appointment and independent and thus more flexible.
No human review system can scale to automated reporting; the number of attackers you have is not bounded by your legitimate user base.

The system you describe would basically mean every online service that allows human interaction would always run under risk of any trolls being able to permanently take them down by abusing content moderation requests.
It increases the effective time large droplets need to spend in the air to get to me, and decreases the airflow around me. It's about the same reason plexiglass screens help, and keeping a 6-foot distance helps.

Plus, it stops me from touching my face.

No, it doesn't stop everything, but it's a buck.
Unisys ClearPath MCP or Green Hills INTEGRITY OS, for example.
With Telegram at least, you do not have to share your contacts with the app. You can build up a Telegram-specific list of contacts based on who you message on the platform.