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I have no personal experience on the Amazon retail side, but have you noticed you never here about this poor customer support from AWS or for that matter Azure?

As far as even how Amazon treats third party sellers, I’m not saying it’s an excuse, but the seller isn’t the ultimate customer - the buyer is. Amazon is very focused on good customer service for the buyer.

Google’s customer support is horrible.
China’s largest rocket takes flight with its next-generation spacecraft
Show HN: HTTP Blog Server – 100 Lines of C in a Closet
Pop OS is the most UI/UX coherent linux based operating system i've ever used, and it's really not bad, although not as shiny as macOS

https://pop.system76.com/
For example, some profilers that count the number of times something is run will update a counter without any synchronisation. This risks lost updates, but since you really just need to know if the counter is very low or very high a few lost updates here or there don't really matter.

But I think from some accepted definitions (such as Padua et al) a data race specifically is a bug, so this data interleaving if we're happy with it isn't a data race because it isn't a bug.
Great project! There is also alternative site that I used before - https://webhook.site/
"paid hourly average $30/hr"

I wouldn't make a direct comparison of that with other jobs. There are many work hours they aren't paid for, or are paid at a lower rate.

Oversimplified, but they are paid nothing or almost nothing for waiting around for late flights, security, etc. Full pay for "block hours" where the plane has pushed back, less for pre/post flight work. And lower seniority f/a folks can have a harder time getting hours at all, and they are well below average pay. Seniority is everything.

It's not a bad job considering the fairly low qualifications, but it's not really $30/hour. New flight attendants generally end the year around $20k gross. And that's at the majors.
The USB thingy already exists, I actually own one for macros with dumb keyboards. Its a very small USB-device with a USB port where you can attach standard USB keyboards. It runs QMK and essentially acts as a proxy, allowing you to program macros and what-not directly in QMK. A neat, little gadget.

See https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0

Edit: Correction: It actually runs TMK, but I flashed QMK on it.
If you have to travel for business, the business should be paying for it, not taxpayers.
Some swedes (myself being one of them) speaks a dialect where the gramatical genus is (partially) retained. Clocks, for example, are still female.
Why are the stories overwhelmingly about GCP even though it has much less marketshare than AWS/Azure?
1. Find pens and paper.
2. Find a quiet place.
3. Find a book with lots and lots of exercises suitable for your level. 1/3 easy ones, 1/3 medium ones and 1/3 hard ones could be a good mix. The more motivated you are, the more harder ones you want.
4. Solve exercises.
5. Repeat step 4 forever. Also don't bring any electronic devices with you because they are distracting. If you don't, you'll be much more efficient. And 3-4 hours/day is more than enough to learn whatever you want if you study efficiently.
As someone who works with PHP reasonably often, I'd say you have a very limited view of what PHP is actually used for in 2020, if you think 3 hosted blog services will replace it.
I am not offering to do this for you, but I have absolutely wondered MANY times over the years if this -- coaching highly technical people on writing better -- was a business model.
Is that also possible when using --nginx? Or only in "vanilla" mode?
Should we make all roads toll roads as well? Or how about society works together to support basic infrastructure like roads and air routes.
Oh how I hated the fact that php.ini could change so much of the PHP behaviour... can't say I miss those days.

Also, I don't know about now because I left this ecosystem long ago, but it was very common for apps to bundle their own custom installer scripts (access a webpage, fill a form and so on). Certainly useful for the users but it was never standard and required a lot of work for the developers (and came with their own requirements and bugs).

But I like some of the recent additions to the language. At least the PHP Team keeps up with the competition.
Chances are Nintendo licensed these designs from a third party and isn’t in a position to give them away.
Looks like they use that as a data source, https://www.treetalk.co.uk/about amongst others.
Any advantages over http://requestbin.net/ ?
... you do know that you can send a response to the client, close the connection and do something else before the process "finishes" right?
Besides what pjmlp said. I was thinking of Plan 9, VMS, NT (the kernel, which takes a lot if ideas from VMS), L4.

Of course, out of these, NT did succeed wildly as well did L4 (e.g. iOS secure enclave).

Some improve in the architecture, some in user land, some in both :).
Heck, you could probably fill all the major cities in the US just with marketing people.
Declarative Data Visualization
Where did this clickbait headline come from? The actual headline is:

"FAS Places Prof. Nowak On Leave After Report Finds Epstein Used His Program to Rehabilitate Image"

FAS = Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, essentially the undergraduate and graduate teaching institution part of Harvard, excluding the professional schools like Law, Divinity, and Dentistry.
Maybe not! However, our poster upthread said that he guessed flight attendants were already at minimum wage it would need to take literally half their time before we're even to the $15/hr level that was pitched as a "living wage" in New York City, their hub city with the most expensive cost of living. (Other AA hubs: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, LA, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Washington, DC/Arlington. Some of these are cheaper than others.)
Essential Software for Working from Home [YouTube]
Don’t forget prompt-toolkit. Notably it is a dependency of the truly excellent IPython shell.
Who do you think is filling the hundreds of economy seats on flights between regular cities? It isn't holiday makers, and it isn't executives. It's normal people like you and me trying to get around for work.
Islam and the Secular State – Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
> as you age and your responsibility grows your options shrink

This is common but not a universal experience. I do have much more responsibility now, but also a lot more options; unlike in our youth, we have no unsecured debt, don't live paycheck to paycheck, and have savings, which gives me the ability to plan ahead.
This is exactly how the "Happy Eyeballs" algorithm in RFC 8305 works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Now Easily Make a Face Mask Where There Is No Needle Work Stitchery Required
Several legacy Mario titles are expected to be released this year on Nintendo Switch's online subscription service. (Galaxy, Sunshine, Mario 64 is the rumor. The NES and SNES titles are already available and this stuff is driving monthly subscription fees)
Eliminate Spring Hibernate N+1 Queries
I don't mind at all! Although I hate the question, because it's not a particularly actionable answer for most.

I started writing out the whole story, but in a nutshell: my formal background is a dual EE/CompSci bachelors, followed by an Masters in CompSci that focused on distributed systems. When I was a kid, I learned to program very young: Basic around 8, C in DOS around 11, C on Linux around 13. I fiddled with electronics some, but didn't really get it. I took the EE part of my schooling specifically because I wanted to learn more about how computers worked "under the hood" so to speak.

From there, I ran a web consultancy for a while, and ended up with a client that had a more math-heavy project. And then another client showed up with a project where a microcontroller made sense, and then another... My business partner was moving across the country, and I was enjoying what I was working on quite a bit more than I was in the web/mobile space, so we decided to part ways. I still do the occasional web/mobile project, but they're generally hardware-related (e.g. the Bluetooth connectivity portion of an IoT-type system). Over the years I've accumulated probably $15-20k worth of equipment and software license, and the customers keep showing up!
Let's say you have query that returns a bunch of rows from a sharded database by asking every shard and naively combining their responses by simply forwarding all rows as soon as you receive them.

That's a data race, the result will vary between executions because the row order will be different depending on how fast the various servers respond, but acknowledging that the order is not-well defined or guaranteed makes this data race accomodatable and even useful, since that gives a performance benefit compared to any solution that needs to ensure a specific order of these rows.
New Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is coming in 2020 according to Jason Dill
Oh man, Factor 5 is infamous for doing wild things on consoles.

A little bit about their custom N64 GPU microcode is discussed here: https://thesolidstategamer.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/playstat... Edit: Developer interview here https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/02/27/journey-to-the-cente... and much more in-depth technical examination here https://olivieryuyu.blogspot.com/2020/01/introduction-factor...

Factor 5 did so many wild things to the GameCube, they have their own tag on excellent Dolphin blog: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/tags/Factor5/
Because Juul gets teens addicted to nicotine, and this outweights the public health benefits or providing an alternative to cigarettes for adult cigarette addicts.
good to hear that. have an upvote :)
This is technically correct but dishonest. These numbers are true only for American Airlines.

Every time you step on to an "American" plane that is "operated by xyz", you are not flying American Airlines. You are flying an American Eagle branded subcarrier like Republic or SkyWest. These subcarriers fly a very large percentage of "American" flights.

The pay and benefits at the subcarriers are dismal.
Many People We’d Have to Send to Proxima Centauri to Make Sure Someone Arrives
I think that's what Adobe will do yeah in, say 4-5 years from now.

Already, they're actively pushing customers to their Cloud solution which is a big step away from a self-hosted environment.
I don’t get the reasoning for proceeding with a deployment of something that seemingly nobody else is doing? I thought we love boring tech?
Oooh this is great news, I can finally quit updating Caddy by hand!
Intel Preparing Platform Monitoring Technology – Hardware Telemetry
The Pokemon source code link is still up, but the "mgnet.xyz" link that presumably contains the N64 source no longer works :(

I'm a huge N64 enthusiast and wanted to see the Verilog source.
I'd definitely encourage you to look into Phoenix.

For many things, Rails might still be the better option. The ecosystem is larger, for one, and it's perhaps a bit easier to 'grok' because it's OO. And I suppose an argument could be made that if you need help, it's easier to find Rails developers or resources (although Phoenix does suprisingly well in the latter category).

But if you're thinking of building projects that involve real-time functionality, whether just websockets-style stuff (Phoenix Channels), or full-on apps (Phoenix LiveView), I'd say the stuff that Phoenix offer are worth the downsides of a smaller, younger, functional-programming ecosystem.

Also it never hurts to learn something different :).
Emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2
What's also cool is we have two posts about this and both are trending!
Probably nothing. Transaction costs (including risk) swamp the value of a $1 online service. Among the risks is the low probability of a viable business of $1 transactions. Unsustainable business models make services unreliable in the long term.

To put it another way, you're competing with Dollar Tree's one dollar duct tape, tortillas, and spatulas.
I'd be disappointed if it was Southwest, I always have a great experience with them. Wouldn't surprise me if they went with a budget airline and used the extra capacity that people don't fill with overpriced baggage to ship Prime products. It sounds like a nightmare to coordinate but I'm sure they could do it.
Ok, that is good to know. However from my mere-user perspective it does not look so good. With Hanami 1.3 release it was announced that Hanami 1.x line won't get anything past bugfixes and security fixes, so it basically won't be developed. Instead, the work shifts to Hanami 2.0, which will include considerable number of completely breaking changes (such as different signature of actions call method). This goes on for almost 2 years now, with no clear timeline for 2.0 release. Is there a point in starting new project in Hanami 1.3 and having to completely rewrite it when 2.0 comes out? Probably not. Does it make sense to used very early-stage 2.0? Definitely not. So yeah, from my perspective the project is now in a problematic state.
So: "I noticed that your email had a slightly sarcastic ring to it, I feel a bit unhappy about this, I want communications with external contacts to remain professional, can you review tone and content for anyone outside of our company"
It is quite busy up there. In some way you would expect there are regular collisions of satellites, but I don’t remember I have ever heard of any.
If you want to work at companies like Facebook, Slack, Etsy, etc. then yeah it's fine. If you want to work for podunk company with devs that derive happiness from the language their codebase is written in rather than business success then yeah, go ahead and skip it.
> I think the left libertarians and the socialist anarchists could actually be allies if they could get past all their language differences and knee jerk reactions.

Could you give an example of what you mean by this?
I've been programming in PHP since 2007 and I absolutely love it. I've long ignored the hate for it here. I worked hard and followed best practices to get good at PHP.

In 2015, I started writing "projectionist" software in PHP to completely automate my home theatre.

I was a projectionist at three different theatres for about half a decade. I spoke with old-timers to really get it right and have been tweaking this script regularly ever since.

I've got a Netflix-style website for my movie collection. I can watch a feature either in my browser or choose to play it in the cinema. I can even schedule a feature for 7:00pm and it will wake-up 30 minutes before with music and nice lighting, assemble all the dancing hot dog ads and trailers, play it, turn the lights on for the credits, and shut itself down 30 minutes after.

The little ODROID running the whole theatre opens a chat room connection over XMPP with my servers so it can respond to controls in the app, whether I'm adjusting lighting or sound levels, putting it in Desktop mode, or manually controlling the curtain and projector.

I just ignore the PHP hate because I find it extremely powerful- it can do everything I could ever need. I also always want to keep an open mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc8K6lg7Ag8
Did not sound like that to me at all honestly.
Your comment indicates just how successful Juul's marketing has been. You didn't know that Altria Group, Inc. owns a large stake of Juul.
Yes. Silicon Graphics was heavily involved in the hardware design of the N64. Even if Nintendo wanted to allow everything in the leaks to be public, they don't have the rights to.
You can learn to hate anything by force feeding yourself too much of it too fast.
A developer can use the leak as a reference without being the one responsible for the leak. It sounds like it would be hugely beneficial.
How do you generate that unique endpoint? Do you have some worker that generates https config? Whats your magic ?
I really rail against people who think 'This.' is a sentence, let alone a useful contribution.

It's especially galling when the topic is 'Put your question / point in the first sentence / paragraph' and someone's first word, sentence, and paragraph is simply 'This.'
IANAL, but I believe in US case law, source code has been ruled to be free speech. Even if the tool itself is implicated in being used for piracy in some way, the code for it should still have strong First Amendment protections. I guess we’ll all find out.
Slightly off-topic, but a genuine question: who is flying these days?

I read last week that 120,000 people a day are flying out of U.S. airports. I found that number surprisingly high.

The only people I could think of who need to fly at this time are couriers transporting organs for transplant.

Who else is flying?
I see it as the emergence of post modernism in popular culture. People don't feel comfortable claiming knowledge of some 'truth' - relativism is too ingrained. You could say it derives from kindness and a desire not to impose nor offend; or (if you're Pascal Bruckner etc) an underconfidence in ourselves, our enlightenment.

Obviously, I'm extrapolating like crazy. But start to notice the 'my truth' qualifications - everyone does it now.

Just my perspective hehe
The whole reason emulators are legal and ROMs aren't is because emulators are original work not owned by the console developer.

Except that people need ROMs to test emulators with.

Just like the old saying that it's impossible to actually start "from scratch", at some point everything is a derivative work of everything else; it just has to be far enough away to not attract legal attention.
How does this jive with Google, for instance, using Bluetooth scanning (enabled by default) for high location accuracy? This has been enabled for years and most people are simply aware of it being enabled (outside of HN).

Google has effectively been using Bluetooth scanning and contact tracing (of sorts) as part of their location tracking feature... Now they're turning around and saying they won't track location from Bluetooth scanning? Seems like a BS PR move.
Late reply, but TIL and thanks.

All this time I thought everyone was going on about interprocess communication improvements :)
But that would go against how things are supposed to work according to the Bible: would God really be playing a big trick, aiming to deceive? A philosophically motivated abstract godlike being might be expected do that, but the Bible is a lot more specific than that about what God's like...
Copyright is simply a question of source. Unlike patents, it’s very possible for two independent people to come up with the exact same sentence and those people to independently own copyrights to the exact same words. Proving independent creation may be difficult, but it’s still possible.

Similarly, proving where something comes from can be difficult, but let’s not pretend people are independently coming up with 100’s of bit hashes.

PS: As to ownership, both the creator of a derivative work and the creator of the original source have specific rights which in theory expire at different times. Fair use exceptions can also supersede those rights.
That was the point of the parent poster. It's better to create a limp competitor from within than leave an empty vacuum for an outsider.
The US as a whole has a lower cost of living. If you're near any real population center that's just not the case. Twice minimum wage goes pretty far in rural Kentucky, but that ain't gettin you much in Nashville, and gets you fuck-all around DC.

The COL is higher in Canada, but at least they have healthcare and worker protections. I'd rather be a Starbucks barista or Amazon warehouse worker in the CAN than anywhere in the US.
Yeah updating books on Amazon is a painful process; I wish they made it way easier, but their model is very much tied to the traditional publishing model.
In other words, for Rust you'll need unsafe to exploit race conditions for performance optimisations.
These bailouts need to be punitive to investors or behavior doesn’t change. We need these bailouts to keep people employed and to maintain the infrastructure/service, but if you take a government bailout, it should be automatic chapter 11, automatic equity wipeout, and government $’s should look like DIP financing...or something like that... watch balance sheets become more conservative in industries that need a bailout every ten years
Making such big difference between government and (big) companies seems naive. One should never trust neither government nor companies. They are not that different, both are power structures with vastly more power and different concerns and priorities than an individual.

There are many parallels between them. Companies run on economic power, government run on political (and also economic and hard) power. Companies are kept at bay by market forces, government by democratic process. Both of them may work or fail (monopolies in market, different kinds of identity politics in democratic process). Both companies and government can do extraordinary good (when incentives are well aligned and leaders are competent) and extraordinary bad (when either is not true). Both can empower petty tyrants inside their hierarchies. The reasonable way is to keep both dependent on each other and to limit each to their own domain.
Yes! Tolls are making traffic in a lot of European cities a lot more manageable, and vastly improving air quality. Correctly pricing automobile travel is the only way we can offboard our cities from the insane externalities of single-occupant vehicles (not just air pollution, but all that valuable urban real estate wasted on parking spots and roads [0]).

[0] In normal times, 80% of commuters get to Manhattan via transit. ~1,500 rail passengers enter Manhattan’s central business district every six seconds between 8–9AM.

Trying to cram all those Manhattan-bound train riders into cars (or AVs) would be impossible. You’d need 324,000 more vehicles to accommodate them, and 100 new bridges or tunnels. [1]

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2009/08/10/what-if-everyone-drov...
What is the problem with making all roads toll roads? If anything, the unseen costs of driving due to lack of tolls causes significant issues such as traffic, road wear and tear (resulting in pollution), and mid allocation of the public’s resources into infrastructure for private vehicles rather than public transportation.

Government is already reading license plates, might as well attach it to a billing system and charge people accordingly. Want to travel during high demand hours? Pay more. Watch businesses and people adjust their habits automatically to better use the shared resource.

And if the concern is that poorer people get shafted, then give them a certain amount of cash or credits for road usage.
Thanks! webhook.site also looks great, I love their inclusion of an email address... I might take some inspiration from them in my next iteration ;)
Well, I refuse to use Javascript because I hate it, and it's ecosystem, and I've managed to do just fine job-wise. I think not doing JS is still an option.
Be wary of doing this if you ever intend to contribute to projects related to Nintendo and the N64. Viewing this material will make you radioactive to projects that care about legal risk.