skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is pretty cool.

I used a similar scheme (two computers, one with HID control over the other, and a webcam to observe) as a way to hide a simple aimbot as a proof-of-concept for getting around on-computer anti-cheats that would search through memory on popular FPSs. This was years ago on games with weak anti-cheats, anyway.

It worked OKish. It had to rely on computer vision to do the aiming, so it was significantly slower than examples that would rely on memory pointers or straight pixel recognition from the screen itself -- but the point was proven, the computer that was cheating looked fine as far as memory was concerned.

modern anti-cheats that look at things like pointer movement and player randomness would definitely flag it now-a-days, but I had fun.

The hardest problems were room lighting, which at the time the cheapy webcams had terrible issues with anyway, FPS, and resolution.

Major shortcuts had to be taken back then due to the resolution and fps mismatches between the input and output, shortcuts by which reduced the bot performance significantly, but I bet that'd be a lot easier to deal with today.

Now, my point : I know that a majority of the memory structs are available, documented, and deconstructed for GTA V, having written cheats for the game in the past. Maybe you can exploit that to emulate some of the functions of an IMU?

Lots of vehicle physics variables are fairly easily exposed. "GTA V Memory Structs" google search will get you started on that road, should you care to.

Neat project. Good luck.
In what way would a native app be better suited for catching errors?
It's a cogent network issue...
Yes, almost always corporate carbs, which I like to call carbage.
Reminds me of the the Mario Kart version someone made 3 years ago: https://github.com/kevinhughes27/TensorKart
irc :)
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> AKA toss a few pods of WD's/etc in there even if they are slightly more expensive/whatever.

If you see "low numbers" of one particular drive model in the stats, that is usually us trying out that drive model because at some point in the future the price might drop making it worth purchasing it in bulk worth it, or the price is ALREADY worth it but we're being careful in the rollout to make sure that drive model performs in our particular application - nobody else's application, just for us.

> make an effort to go beyond just reporting their experiences

We are VERY careful to report what we are seeing in our datacenter for our particular application, and no more. This isn't a scientific study, we aren't Consumer Reports, we're just publishing data we would collect whether or not we released it. We have a core business we super happy focusing on, somebody else is WELCOME to sell drive testing and drive predictions and we won't compete with them or get in their way. Heck, we would totally subscribe to that service!
Oh, c'mon, that's a bit of a stretch.

I was around in 2014, when angular 1 was starting to be a big thing.

If you look at reactjs on google trends, react gets its first bump in 2014-15, and then another one around 2017.

VueJs gets a huge jump in 2016-2017.

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Java has been around for decades, has had much fewer changes, and is entrenched in a lot of code. In comparison, react has gone through some big changes in a very short amount of time, and most people use it to build SPAs that aren't usually mission critical.
It is manually updated, by humans. Humans have high latency. It is not "agile" or "modern" or "hip" to have automated status testing/reporting. A human had to go and change that status page.
Not exempt, but more tolerant. A lot of datacenters could run much hotter if not for people that have to service them.
Yeah, MS's <3 for Linux started with their patent racket aimed at Red Hat and Suse. Let's also not forget their bankrolling of SCO's anti-Linux lawsuits in the 00s. "So sharing, so caring".
Could the desktop Slack app have a better failure state? Sure.

But if you look at their native iOS app it doesn't have a failure state _at all_. It sometimes shows that it's loading and sometimes doesn't. Never once though does it say there has been a problem.

The problem is bad software in general, not a specific technology.
The latest Xamarin is no longer mobile-only for Windows and might potentially fit the bill here.
I'm surprised to see so few (zero?) comments specifically about the content of the update. This is an _amazing_ release from a user's perspective.

I'm a Logic user who creates modern sample-based music at a pretty rapid clip. The Quick Sampler here is pretty much perfect and it's what anyone would expect in 2020 – a tremendous replacement for EXS24.

This was a long time coming and (IMO) makes Logic almost a no-brainer for a lot of people who make music.
Ideally no. But a lot of them are also flat beds and cattle cars that’ll let air through them when totally empty.

I’m assuming that wind is taken in as a factor when deciding what stock to send where though.
Maybe the status only changes when they've had 5 consecutive failures, and the probe only runs once a minute?
There was another commenter talking about playing GTA and following traffic laws. It's getting kind of worrisome in here.
Auckland, NZ. Plenty of good (and cheap btw) Korean food here. Just not fried chicken. Or Vietnamese.
Hm, I don’t see anything on https://ecogent.cogentco.com/network-status
The downside is Karabiner Elements requires installing a kext, and macOS Catalina periodically shows warnings saying the kext is a legacy extension.
Part of what's useful about science is that when you study obvious things, sometimes you get a counterintuitive result. This time it confirmed the obvious, but that's not always true.
Theyre just drawing the DOM that I see in a browser. Instead of gracefully failing, the entire UI just fell apart in one swoop.
Value of education in a professional context comes from such things. Many professional groups such as lawyers , accountants, actuaries etc have entry systems which are not directly linked to the education itself ( BAR membership and degree in law etc).

Value of education itself cannot be only quantified by the its value in a job, even a poor education is better than none. Lack of employability should not be a reason for not learning.
> Can anyone explain why does Waymo need to raise any money? Doesn't Alphabet have practically infinite pockets? If they are confident of Waymo, why would they want to share the profits with anyone else ever?

It's not just about getting money, it's also about getting money from the right people. Investors with the pull/clout/insight/etc they need. Investors who know people or who know people who know people. Perhaps people who have political connections or regulatory access. People with insight in the automotive industry. People with ties to media for favorable coverage. It's about getting money from people in position to help them. It's like a movie production that bring in producers who has connections to local governments that can expedite the process of shutting down a bridge or highway to film on for a day.

Alphabet has "limitless" amount of money but there is also a "limitless" amount of money outside of alphabet wanting to buy into waymo. So for waymo, it's really not about getting money but getting the right type of investors. It's a two way street. Investors want to buy into waymo and waymo wants to buy into investors.
If you hire in the Americas, you keep the same time zone. There's a whole world of English speaking programmers, core contributors to node, to ruby, ML engineers, data engineers south of the border. All the same time zone.
I've been an native application developer for 10 years, but there is absolutely nothing about the issue you mentioned that can't be solved by just slightly better error handling and a nice error message.

It's pretty straight forward to build that into an Electron app.

There are things that native apps can do better, but this example isn't one of them.
>ETFs not getting too dislocated from NAV is an important part of that because otherwise they become a useless hedging instrument.

Sure, but that's only if we consider NAV to be "true" worth. To your point with the lack of liquidity in the underlying wouldn't logic dictate that the underlying needs to "catch up" so to speak?
The word inequality is an oxymoron. If you were to wave a magic wand and redistribute wealth you would by definition make inequality because you would transfer wealth from those who create more value to those who don’t. Your end result would be “inequality”.
What libraries are you using for reading all these formats?
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As an OS engineer, I hate them. They cause problems and inefficiencies behind the scene that are pretty significant. I can see how you wouldn't say so from another position, it's a bit like propelling a passenger aircraft with controlled nuclear explosions: "It flies so effortlessly!"
It’s literally linked to from that page, just not ready for release: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos
When you're a public company the risk of your automated system saying something that invokes more fear than is necessary gets a lot higher.
Didn't recessions in the US, 100 years ago, used to be huge and always have V-shaped recoveries?
Since no one can connect there are no messages to deliver and therefor no message errors therefor everything but connections is up and working. /s (The Slack Status Page)
> This is a weak rant

I challenge you to do the following:

- Define what your assessment of the article as a "weak rant" means in objective terms.

- Pick a random sample of op-eds from major news outlets and measure them using your chosen metric

I claim no reasonable definition of weakness/rantiness will disqualify the OP while allowing more than 20% of opinion pieces. But maybe you can prove me wrong.
I actually was thinking further on this. WSL is not a Linux kernel. In WSL1, it's a syscall translation layer. In WSL2, it's a highly integrated virtualization environment.

You do have to install a Linux distro. So the kernel's not shipping, just an environment in which a kernel can be installed.
Sure my comment was also partially a critique of a major outage showing up in their UI as a "9 out 10 things are green"
Even with connection strengths I still don't think we would really have the full connectome. Such a model would completely miss many of the phenomena related to chemical synapses, which involve signal transduction pathways, which are _astoundingly_ complex. Those complexities are part of the algorithm being run though!

(Of course we might still learn useful things from such a model, I just want to be clear that it wouldn't in any sense be a complete one.)
I don't exactly understand how US court could forbid Telegram anything. Yeah-yeah, there is an "explanation", but I have hard time buying into it. USA can have far more power than it should, but by no means it's all-powerful, there is a ton of shit in the world that USA may not like, but it exists anyway and even manages to have USA-based customers through some shady as fuck, absolutely nonsensical, but still somehow legal schemes.

So I'm reading this as "our plan has failed for whatever reason, so now we are getting rid of it, while pretending that it is a very hard decision for us and somebody else entirely is to blame".
I think there are enough decently-sized metropolitan areas that we'd be distributed well enough.

> National cohesion is worth something

There's been this bizarre fairytale of the noble yeoman running through American history, as if that were the true national identity. It's never been less true than today. I think a healthy unemployment benefit and permissive neighborhood zoning policies are sufficient to help them transition. If they're not willing to change, maybe their children will be.
Hence heh.

Page asserted an 'incident' only, not an outage, but for all intents and purposes a failure of the 'messaging' component for a messaging tool is effectively a full, major, total outage as far as your users are concerned.
How long ago was this? Been doing RN since .58 and not had any issues like this unless you pay zero attention and use random dead packages a lot.
To quote/paraphrase Leonard susskind: people have a habit of philosophizing rather than sciencifizing when it comes to consciousness. It's scientific question - or at least it is at the moment. Some people want to enshrine human intelligence (i.e. free will and quantum mechanics), which I think is naive without some kind of guiding principle (Fermi's "for a successful theory you need either a strong physical idea or a rigorous mathematical basis; you have neither" to a young Dyson)

I remember being taught about this in a philosophy class, but I really can't help but not care - if it is technically possible I guess there will be a debate surrounding machine consciousness similar to transgender politics today (Uncomfortable to some but fine to - including me for the record - others).
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Yup, that is also why the status page now says things are "9/10 up" and for the first 20 minutes said "something is maybe slightly kinda wrong" nad not "outage". As if pretending nothing is wrong will make things right again.
Nope actually - I just fully misread his comment and thought he was saying that Americans don't think America is racist.

Sorry about that!
Adding to my previous comment.

The Netflix business model hacks were:

1) First class mail (cheaper than media mail packages for bare DVDs) with likely letter-carrier presorting, volume and whatever other postal discounts (hence hiring former Postmaster Generals) were available, plus an agreement with the Post Ofice to manually sort DVDs to avoid machine damage using their light-weight mailer:

"Bulk Discounts. First-Class Mail commercial pricing is available for presorted letters, flats, and packages with a minimum quantity of 500 mailpieces. Automation discounts may also apply."

https://www.usps.com/ship/first-class-mail.htm

See the 2000/2001 mailers for the prepaid first-class stamp:

http://blog.dvd.netflix.com/new-dvd-releases/the-evolution-o...

Also, if you get a tour of a main post office or sorting facility, you will see bins labelled "Netflix", so DVDs get special handling and slightly faster return delivery.

2) Because Netflix was the first adopter of #1 for DVD's, they won a ruling that they could continue to use First Class pricing. (The Post Office tried to move them to media mail which allows better packaging (at much higher cost) for automated handling, but that was viewed as anti-competitive by the court.)

https://www.courthousenews.com/post-office-cant-raise-rates-...

(I used to be an expert in postal bulk rates around that time.)

3) First-sale doctrine allowing multiple rentals of the same DVD without further payments to the studios. (Streaming requires payment per stream.)

https://freakonomics.com/2013/03/22/a-brave-new-world-for-co...

For HN readers, I believe this is the first detailed analysis of both their postage pricing strategy and first-sale doctrine in one article, likely because few people know about both bulk mail and IP.
Our cogent support rep said there's an outage.

"We are currently experiencing an outage on our network. We are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Please check http://status.cogentco.com for updates on this event."
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Do you have experience with online reputation repair services?
I can't login on one computer. The computer that's already logged in, I've bounced the app a few times, and it seems to be unable to load content from most channels, messages I've sent aren't showing up, etc.
Yep. I would be surprised to learn of non-infrastructure companies that wired their public outage notice directly to automated monitors with no human confirmation.
My problem with those two is the damn C++ API. I’ve used both in the past, but I’ve moved on from C++ for desktop applications to greener pastures but these toolkits’ APIs are a pita to use via ffi.
The parent referenced a time period. They did not base a legal theory on a work of fiction.
Five surfers drown in the Netherlands, getting into 'avalanche-like' sea foam
I can see this easily. Unemployment is insurance—it’s not designed for more than a small number of people actually using it at once. Once that money is gone, and the federal unemployment backup fund is gone, and the food bank has to turn people away, a good number of them will steal in order to eat.
The top decile and bottom already are below that ratio. ~90k gets you to the top 10%. 10k puts you at the bottom 10% (not a full time worker). The problem is really the wealth of the top 10%.

See the top households:

Net Worth of the 10%, 1%, and .1% Households
Percentile Threshold 10% 2% 1% 0.10%
Net Worth $1,182,390.36 $5,816,220.17 $10,374,030.10 $43,090,281.00

The top 1% owns 35% of the wealth in this country. the next 9% own 40%. The bottom 50% own 1.67% of the wealth. That's the problem. Most people are paycheck to paycheck with little opportunity for wealth creation / stability. Most of this is inherited wealth; the wealthy today, across not just the US, but the globe, are largely descended from the wealthy of many generations past. There's a great study on the gravity of wealth from the UK:

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/10/30/whats-in-a-name-wealth-and-s...
Are you the head that pops up on your website?
Using ; as a hyper key blew my mind, like the article recently about how a certain developer calls all of his scripts ',something' so if he want to run a cli command of his, pressing comma then tab will show only his scripts, so ',py(tab)' won't have 15 pythons in it.
Sounds like you’re vitamin D deficient. After a good workout, your immune system should be getting stronger, not weaker.

I take 5k a day or so, Trader Joe’s has for $5.
If this were true, remote positions would pay just as well as the highest paid places in the US, but they generally don’t, because they don’t have to.

It’s only difficult to hire developers anywhere because you don’t want to pay what it would cost to get a yes.
Something I don't see mentioned in this thread is that Autohotkey is more than just hotkeys. It can also create basic GUIs using native Windows widgets, and is probably the fastest way of producing a GUI on windows (the resulting script can be bundled into an .exe file)
The same way we’ve funded endless wars for 20 years?
How do you build backlinks when doing reputation management?: SEO
Ah the ol' "It's Electron's fault because Javascript"

Add it to the HackerNews bingo card
Yes, it's considered a want because you want to live in SF while working somewhere far. What is stopping you from finding a job in SF or moving down?
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Ideally your DR and emergency response systems should be not hosted on your infra and have circular dependencies . i.e.Amazon should not be hosting status page assets on S3 as they were.

At the very least they should be hosted isolated of your production service components at all layers, so both don't go down at the same time.

For slack my guess is their internal slack is not hosted on slack prod and hopefully also does not share components below L4 as well ( DNS, IP , domain, routing etc )
I hope your right. Lots of people waking up to the lies we’ve been told
The market can stay irrational longer than you can hold OTM Uber puts.
Quite.

Perhaps I should have been less subtle than opening with a 'Heh', and made it clear the claim that only the messaging & connection parts were failing was tongue-in-cheek.

This page's title is "Slack is down" but Slack's status page at the time was modestly conceding that "Something's not quite right".
Disagree. You will spread out the communication and cause problems. People will use their preferred client instead of the one that everybody should be using as the primary. You also have to manage accounts and permissions for both. Unless you like people sending information around to their personal accounts, which I'm sure a lot of places do.

E-Mail is good enough to let people know that something like Slack is down. It's close enough to real-time to be used as a backup for something like this, and everybody already has an e-mail address.

My company already has Slack, HipChat and Teams, and it's a communications nightmare. People are constantly confused and asking for which chat client one manager uses, while others don't know where to go for the support channels.

Maybe this sounds like old-school IT, but the new-school "set everything up ad-hoc using your personal shit" just sets you up for disaster down the road.
You’re throwing disconnected buzzwords around.

The brain is too hot to rely on large-scale quantum entanglement. Any quantum effects that are relevant to the functioning of the brain are likely to be very small-scale and have some boring, easily-simulated effect like making ion pumps more efficient.
Ah, the good ol' Monty Hall problem...this problem (and .999...=1) have caused a ton of arguments between me and my not-quite-as-mathematical friends.

I guess the fact that it's statically better to switch is definitely a tough pill to swallow.
Literally downvoted for explaining the filth that a contact tracer is
I lol'd. Thank you for sharing.
Downvoted for the truth? What is this Reddit? Go look at all of IHME’s predictions and the actual numbers. Way off.
For a really stupid example, part of my job involves originating truck shipments. One carrier we use has a website that prevents pasting on their web form to generate a bill of lading. Because forcing me to type in an address is much less likely to cause errors than pasting in whatever address I had copied.

Funnily enough (in a sad way), 40% of the JS load on that page appears to be anti-pasting logic & supporting libraries. It appears to be developed in-house, since the scripts aren't obfuscated and a quick search of duckduckgo didn't match any open-source libraries that I could find. If they weren't reliably the cheapest carrier with the fewest issues I would raise a stink, but it's not worth it. That, and I just bypassed this 'feature' with a very similar AHK script, and their website has a very nice UI besides that issue.
This. slack is a significant CPU / power drain. Just watch `top -u` on macOS.
> Right, good point there. People without kids definitely have way more time and energy to devote to work than those with.

Definitely? I have no kids and live with and fully support my father who had a brain tumor the size of a walnut in his head a couple years ago. Just because someone doesn't have kids doesn't mean they don't have responsibilities (goodness so many negatives in one sentence!).
and they are using slack to communicate... so deadlock...
Today I installed an Electron-based terminal emulator and started seriously questioning my life choices.
hangouts/teams (if you already use gsuite/0365 ). More important problem is our own devops relies heavily on slack based monitoring and chat ops, all integrations don't port without work and never designed for DR