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Conway's Laws isn't a law, it's just an interesting thought experiment. Organization and architecture bidirectionally effect each other, but not directly, and not completely. I hate how current discourse invokes these different "Laws" as if they are physical properties of the universe. I've worked at places with a strong, hierarchical organization that created a wonderful set of "micro" services, and I've worked at places with a chaotic environment that developed monoliths.

There are shitty hierarchies and shitty flat organizations, just like there are shitty monoliths and shitty microservices.

Sorry if you actually agree with this more nuanced view, it's just that I've seen Conway's "Law" invoked more than once in this discussion and it drives me bonkers. I get the same way when someone ("Medium Developers" I call them, more than green but less than seasoned who swallow everything the read on Medium as gospel and run around quoting it zealously) quoted liskov substitution principle at me as if it was one of Newton's Laws.
Tell me about it. Oracle wants a pound of flesh for a few licenses, and Windows, VMware, and others can be onerous (though I'll concede Windows is getting better)
> I probably just lost 99% of you

Yeah, moving from Google over to Apple is just cheating. It's better for privacy, but I'd rather thinker with my system to remove the spyware than remove the spyware and largely give up the ability to easily tinker with my system.
That makes sense since we all have exactly 12 friends, that's the official friend cap for the year 2020.
I think a common mistake many developers, or any early writer in other disciplines, make is not reflecting on this as you are. Knowing and accepting this as a personal weakness puts you ahead of your peers who may have a similar weakness.
French Covid-19 infections were not caused by patients from China or Italy [pdf]
>We can beef up social security, unemployment benefits, or direct payments

If you give people money for not working, who are going to work then ? Money will become meaningless if you can't use to buy stuff.
Yeah I completely disagree with this sentiment that debt = bad. You should use debt where it acts as an investment (in the true sense of the word investment, rather than speculation). If you need to take on debt to buy that car that saves you an hour walk to work every day then that is good debt. Is it a good idea to use debt to purchase a house? If we believe in free markets then ownership should have roughly the same cost as renting. But ownership allows you to have more certainty that you won't get evicted x years down the line and that may be a worthy thing to invest in.
Exactly. Propaganda and misdirection has been a constant for a few thousand years.

The harder lesson is learning to catch yourself and see past it before getting manipulated.

The hardest lesson is not knee jerking and giving those who want to control you the tools to limit everyone's speech to just approved material. (China, Iran, Vietnam, North Korea, these ring a bell? VERY slippery slope.)
Microservice implies systems that are decoupled for deployment purposes. For example, Microservice A could restart to a new version while Microservice B keeps running. This is a more complicated interaction contract than services where their deployment is coordinated in concert.
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Sorry, I don't see the one letter change that fixes the message. What did you intend to say?
There is nothing as boring as a child, have you ever tried to engage one in conversation?
It’s even greater than the 40-50% off his 5mil number if using dx links.

Dx list with 100 PiB is 2 million. Add in discounts and you’re at much less than 1 mil total
There is no point since iCloud runs on Google Cloud infrastructure.
As Uber will happily insist to you, "drivers aren't employees of Uber".
My last client had their main nationwide server, that their company depended upon, in a stuffy closet under a fire sprinkler. No it never went off, but dang.

Anyway folks in Enterprise can forget, any organization under a certain size doesn't have any special consideration for their computer systems. They just grew from some PC on a desk to whatever server/router/firewall situation they are in now.
So I have no idea what the poster means by 'without any useless packages' but I can talk a little to why packaging i3 is good.

Firstly, I like i3. Of all the tiling Window managers I've tried it seems to be the best mix of minimal, easy to understand, easy to configure and brings all the benefits of tiling WMs in terms of workflow and aesthetics.

What i3 doesn't do out of the box is look very good or have many common tweaks and quality of life improvements. This is something where the i3 community spin of Manjaro [0] shines because it bakes all of this in and gives you a gorgeous, modern-looking WM as default.

Regolith [1] was the first attempt I saw at providing this out of the box, but I'd definitely be interested in ways and means of containerising configs and i3 setups so that they are more easily accessible and can be tried out more easily.

[0] https://manjaro.org/download/#i3 (Direct link is broken. Click 'Editions -> Community -> I3')

[1] https://regolith-linux.org/
I'm not saying this excuses amazon, but reviewmeta.com helps a lot to extract truth from reviews.
I'm not sure if that applies here, but Discord switched a portion of their backend from Go to Rust because of some performance issues.

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
As a C++ developer who occasionally helps a friend hack on a Rust hobby project, I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop on Rust.

Not necessarily because I have many complaints about it, but because I consider it in essence very similar to C++17, with (not-too-)different syntax and a few different but important design decisions in the core language and standard library. Seeing it sold as a radical paradigm shift from C++ has always left me feeling that some people are in for disappointment down the line.
I still use it. Partly it's habitual since "GChat" was a big reason I got my first Gmail account many years ago. At the time, most IM platforms required you to install a separate application, but since it ran in the browser, I could keep a Gmail tab open at work or at on university PCs and keep in touch with Gmail contacts (as well as AIM contacts which was still a decent number of people back then).

I still use it because it's available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux as well as both Android and iOS devices. My friends and family are on a variety of platforms but we can all use Hangouts. I still dislike some of the changes they've made as it moved from the old Google Talk to Hangouts but being able to follow conversations on mobile and in my browser is great.

I have a few friends who use iPhones and occasionally complain because they want to use iMessage, but a good 30-40% of us can't run it since we don't own iPhones or Apple computers.
Or a new form of telemetry, where they want to collect life signs of people, who need to redownload or post a comment in the issue.
Ah, cool - thanks for the reference!

I found one talk from 15 years ago where he goes into detail about it, for anyone who's interested - http://behdad.org/download/Presentations/bidi-layouts/
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I don’t know. I’m a tinkerer but if we think about phone ecosystem, then I just want my phone to work and not spy on me. I’ll tinker with my other devices, but after bricking one phone, I won’t do it again.
Care to support that comment please? Mind you, talking about cloud platforms here not parent companies.

Not a salespitch, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is built with pretty serious enterprise-grade security in mind. Couple of resources:

[1] https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/oracle-cloud-infrastructu...
[2] https://www.oracle.com/assets/oracle-inf-cloud-security-wp-3...
[3] https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Security/Co...
[4] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/the-four-pilla...
[5] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/core-to-edge-s...
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Linux Torvalds, the real Steve Job(s).
If the lawsuit was so obviously invalid (despite the first summary judgement being successfully appealed), what's your theory on why YouTube settled and agreed to spend money building Content-ID?
I think it is pretty smart idea. Facebook has recently bought a 10% stake in India's large Telco , JIO. Speaking of risk, Jio is very (horribly) efficient in invading cutomer's privacy as they are datamining literally everything and also oushing in-your-face-advertizing-inserts. Facebook is also equally (horribly) efficient in data mining. So using this data from millions of consumers, they could lower the risk of default. The current default rate for microfinance in India is 2.9%. ( https://www.equifax.co.in/about-equifax/press-releases/-/blo... ) . They could easily reduce this rate using this data. So yeah -- tihs will be really profitable.
The difference between a simulacrum of a dog and a dog is important only in the context of what you trying to get out of a relationship with a dog. Similarly the difference between a virtual and real teacher. Since I am trying to get different things out of each the analogy is useless. That is what I was trying to communicate.
Schrödinger's editor: it is there and it isn't.
> You and your family should jump to the front line and help build this immunity. I’ll protect my 2 year-old and pregnant wife in our home.

This is exactly how the pandemic should have been handled. Personal risk should have been allowed to be determined by the individual, not the state, at the expense of personal rights.
What are "useless packages" and why were they made?
I consider it a win when my IDE only deletes itself and doesn’t format my hard drive in the process.
you don't think no people will die by not be able to afford basic necessities due to not working ?
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Its SEO abuse to use their domain?
There is a problem safety. I work for John deere. We have some products that are not being developed because if they were some remote hacker could open the vavles on the anmoina tanks as the farmer is driving by a school and kill all 60 children out at recess. There are real dangers here, and things are going to get more locked down in the protocol over time to ensure that those scenarios don't happen.

The above is not about third parties. If we conclude we can trust you we will even give you a key to our cryptography. However trust will not be easy to establish.
I used to work for a credit bureau, and a lender once asked us to build an application that could pull credit files based on SSN only. (Pulling a credit file normally requires multiple identifiers.) Fortunately, someone foresaw the very problem that you mentioned, and we declined to build it.
Not to mention that there are vast quantities of Windows-only, often custom, business software that keeps the world running. The only way Microsoft is losing the desktop is if they throw it away, which to be fair does appear to be what they're doing.
Please, let's bring back sharewares instead of this mess. Unplausible, I guess. Impossible, I'll hear. Whatever.
The main reason 2.4GHz band is unlicensed (anyone can broadcast on it without e.g. a ham license) is because it's garbage. Baby monitors and microwave ovens are two of the most common offenders for dumping large amounts of noise into that band. If you can move the printer to a 5GHz band, that could help a lot.

And in the near future, wifi 6E will add a ton of spectrum, allowing devices to just avoid noisy channels. But to use that you'll have to upgrade the printer or add a wifi 6E bridge.
My understanding was CPF was the overarching program, Medisave was the HSA, and CPF MS was the IRA. Medisave is part of the overall CPF program.

What part of energy ownership don't you disagree with? I still wasn't advocating against private industry doing the extraction or creation. Just that if you pull something from underground, it gets taxed and benefits everybody, not just the person who bought it from the person who stole it 175 years ago.
I spent a couple of years running an extremely minimal arch I3 install. It was fantastic doing things within my normal workflow, but when you have to introduce new tools, new network requirements, etc. it takes a fairly significant amount of effort. For instance- connecting to my university's wifi took hours and required hacking up a python script that wasn't compatible with my system.

I think a lot of the fight against 'bloat' is largely ideological and not really rooted in practicality, but it definitely makes for a good learning experience
That's a good thing. C's syntax is fine; C's guarantees and semantics is the problem. Here we have a similar syntax, but infinitely better guarantees and well-defined sematics.
How are they not allowed to behave differently in these times? At least in my district there is a huge variance in how the teachers are handling it so it seems they have a fair bit of latitute.
Maybe we switch from GDP to GNH?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
They do have lineage OS now. Not that buggy. Have been using it in my Samsung S5 for a while now.
>You and your family should jump to the front line and help build this immunity

Yes by allowing people to go outside, work and do their normal activity. It builds their and other people immune system. Prolong lockdown will cause immune system to go down.
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They do not lose money with every ride, at least according to their most recent investor presentation [1]. Their rides segment is already profitable - albeit on an EBITDA basis, but with decent and growing margins.

[1] https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/sr... (slide 15)
They're seeing student and parent engagement fall off a cliff, and can't do much about it. They had nearly zero time to prep for this and the schools are all quite worried (not unreasonably) about being sued over equal-access laws so are ambivalent about introducing "new" material anyway, so much of the instruction's kinda worthless unless the teachers are ignoring their districts' directions. Meanwhile lots of the teachers are at home with... their own kids, who are trying to do remote learning, and they're trying to keep their kids' engagement from dropping off, while also teaching a rapidly-dwindling set of students almost none of whom are still trying or even "showing up", at this point.

So mostly, shame is absent and their self-respect is fine, thanks.
It's a two-way street. By not actively mentioning a salary on a job advert, they can invite potential applicants to pitch themselves at a level they'd be willing to do the work (the low end) all the way to what they'd like to get in an ideal world (the high end).

Any efficiency gains from salary disclosure would be minor compared to the "inefficiency" of the hiring process in totality.
Sensational title that doesn't really match the "meat" of the article.

The article is mostly about changing behavior patterns in developing areas. Stop these impoverished areas from hunting local wildlife to fill the nutritional gaps in their diet (with an assumption that some sustainability framework can be put in place that moves excess resources from one area to the developing areas so they don't have to hunt local game).
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Could you provide sources for these three points?
Yes. They are monitoring it and reacting appropriately. If it doesn’t work they will pull back and try again.

But their actions are not being dictated by the situation in Italy or France. Likewise, Montana should not take action based on what is going on in New York.
I didn't say force, if you don't want to work then don't work.
A sublinear function seems like the way to model it, but even log(x) will eventually reach a very high value. Even if I could live forever, I'd never reach von Neumann's intelligence.

Better to use a function that tends toward an asymptote, such as 1 - 1/(x+1)
Twitter can be a good place sometimes

/r/webdev, /r/javascript and /r/reactjs too
Read fiction.
Anki isnt that bad!
I mean you are right of course, but at the same time I can't knock the superficial idea of having one codebase for one domain-specific application. Applications / codebases like that are usually not the problem; it's integrating them into the larger whole where things start getting fucky.
This article makes the strange claim that because bushmeat hunting on one island was driven by economic growth, the latter is incompatible with biodiversity conservation. As if economic growth wasn't possible in other ways!

It makes no attempt to tell us why biodiversity in its present form is valuable, when species have gone naturally extinct for billions of years. I could do without bats as breeding colonies for dangerous virus strains, for example.
And yet there are people out there who will still try and argue that Signs is not a brilliant film
Please don't repost the same content day after day
> They need to implement aggressive detection, reporting and banning mechanisms for those who spread even a single misinformation/fake news.

Two issues with this:

1. This is simply not a realistic standard in India, a nation which lacks the basic level of education of many Western nations. While this is true of a few people in most nations, and while many citizens can't be bothered to check, it helps if some at least have the background knowledge to do their own fact-checking rather than just taking the word of one person over another.

2. The "who decides" problem, best illustrated by yesterday's removal of the medical opinion of two front-line doctors from you tube because it "contradicted WHO recommendations". One man's "fake news" is another man's "front-line reporting".
For some hotels business is business. So they put the morals aside and turn a blind eye. Other higher end hotels simply prefer to do their own due diligence since reputation matters in the business. So they may address the issues but outside of any public eye.
I think it's quite possible that your view of 'average' is skewed. Again, you can teach (600+30+4)(100+20+7) but they're not going to understand why it works. They're just going to memorize the steps because that's what someone showed them. That's why common core is a failure. It's a more complex series of steps to arrive at the same result.
I agree with much of this article, but I think a larger point is that we need to rethink what economic growth means. The current measure of GDP has become a cudgel to promote destructive behavior. What's the point of GDP anymore beyond measuring economic growth and contraction? It doesn't say anything about sustainability of the growth. Nor whether or not citizens are well taken care of.

A new measure that could replace GDP needs to do a better job of measuring environmental as well as human benefit. Imagine if instead of measuring how the economy grows in pure dollar amounts of economic output we also measure restoration of ecosystems and happiness, health of citizens and communities.
Humans have a happiness set point that they return to no matter the situation. So measuring happiness measures basically nothing.
Not everything has its own screen. The isobus standard has allowed one screen for years. It is easier to create your own screen than to use it. Also there is a lot to watch and so you sometimes want your own screen anyway just to ensure the important stuff is always in eyesight.
Hey, Kamal from DigitalOcean here. I'm sorry that happened to you! You're right, managed Redis Databases do not support backups[0] currently. I found the page on the website that says they do and let the team know. They will correct it asap.

[0]: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/redis/#redis-lim...
> "!ig" for 100% of the image "!i" searches

I replaced 90% of my images searches with Bing Images. I like the UI better and the results are almost as good. Since I use DDG for ~80% of regular searches and Google for the remainder, not giving one party all information seems like it should somewhat level the playing field.

Also, I was going to type that a small percentage of my image searches still go to Google for their license selection feature, but I figured I should double check, and whaddayaknow? Bing can do license filtering too. Not sure how good it'll be, but I'll definitely be trying this.

Note that instead of typing !something (which I find quite annoying), you can just bind your browser to a keyword. I type "bi test" in my address bar for Bing Images "test" search, instead of having to type a bang and some by-ddg-defined shortcut and giving DDG the data (not that I distrust them, but need-to-know...). Wiki searching is also super convenient like this: wi for wikipedia, dwi for deutsch wikipedia, owi for openstreetmap wiki, etc. Right click in the search field and choose 'Add keyword for this search' usually does the trick.
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I came to say this and you beat me to it. I haven't felt bored for a year now since mine arrived.

I keep wondering how many of the psychological problems arise from people having children much much later in their lives than used to be normal.
At least 20% of my grief while using Windows stems from not being able to remove or replace open files.
You might be specifically talking about Wayland here then, but with X on the other hand, it's not difficult for example [0]

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/170596/is-it-po...
Hey HN, we've been chatting to a lot of techies and we've found that although most of them think Postgres is the best (operational) database, they still choose other databases like Firebase. This is overwhelmingly because "the other one was quicker/easier". Our goal is to make it fast and simple to get started with Postgres.

This is still a long way from the usability of something like Firebase, but we are starting small. We are posting this now to field any community requests before we push them onto AWS/DO marketplace (and the docker image should be out by this week).
We're not in one of the harder-hit states but I have some insight into schools here and admin-tier folks are already phrasing it as "if we are back in the fall". They seem to be planning for the possibility of having to start the year with remote learning, or for a second shut-down if there's a rebound of the virus in the Fall or Winter after things open back up.
Google Plus Meet? Huh. Did somebody tell Raed667 our plan? We are supposed to be a secret until we kill the normal Google Meet and release our superior chat product Google Plus Meet.
Is there any link where I can find more about the tax system he invented?
They are aligned by system instead of by feature set. Anyone running a lower level system was disconnected from anything customer facing.