skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps an "outage" label causes the incident to trigger a more widely attended post-mortem meeting and so they are careful not to over-use it.
Isn't this consistent with Flutter's approach in general, though? On iOS, Android, etc., it uses its own widget toolkit and does its own rendering, it's not a wrapper over the native toolkits and renderers.
> I assure you that Apple has several Tim Cook quality employees earning orders of magnitude less.

Sure, but do you know exactly who they are? Or are we going to take a multibillion dollar bet on someone who's only probably as good as Tim Cook?
I have a silly fictional notion that California's way forward will at some time require being annexed by Oregon so that they can wipe away oodles of historical legislative choices in one swoop. Followed quickly by a "civil war" in which "South Oregon" secedes.
I like Telegram as an app and service but have reasonable doubt of how it’s gonna be sustainable. WhatsApp had 400m MAU and $1m monthly cost in 2013 before acquisition, Telegram reached same MAU recently and avg cost is 4x or more. Founder had about $300m when forced to exit VK. If my math is right, he can’t really keep running this all free much longer.
We have a free market. Anyone can build a video platform. PayPal existed before Stripe.
The primary value of a status page is SLA compliance and the financial implications of uptime. Near real time external alerting/reporting is probably not critical value prop for monitoring systems to sell, a 2 minute faster external notification is probably not going to make a new sale.

Also the lag and human intervention is by design as there will be a lot of false positives as some error rates in these systems are expected, a very small percent of API calls will result in errors always like unhealthy instances etc. Unless the issue is substantially large it not in user(alert fatigue) or the business interest to declare it down.
It is not the role of government to encourage working from home. It is also not the role of government to wipe your butt or provide you with toilet paper.

What are these individuals who are 'traditionally left out' exactly? You mean people with idiot parents or no parents?

We can easily fix that, but that'd involve oops, actually facing reality and wanting to solve problems instead of engaging in cries for re-distribution of resources someone else has created.
Most native apps I've downloaded are well into tens or hundreds megabytes. I just tried a few big popular sites with caching off and none of them downloaded more than a couple megabytes of javascript. I'm really skeptical of the popular wisdom around here that web dev is doing something especially egregious when it comes to build sizes or dependencies.
> Apple could buy all DAW companies (Steinberg, Ableton, etc) for peanuts and destroy music production on Windows if they wanted.

That constitutes monopoly and anti-competitive business practices.
Zoom happy hour in 20 minutes. Bring your own beer is a given.
If you’re working enough extra hours to overcome commute and prep time, you’re doing it wrong. :D Step away when shift over.
You're a contractor if you work on contract. Just as you're a consultant if you consult.

(I'm most comfortable with "developer" because that corresponds most closely to what what I do feels like. I don't spend so much of my time actually programming, but very little in software is engineering-like)
Retirement savings seem pretty complicated in the States (Roth IRA, 401k etc)
Freenode is up. FYI.
How to Discover a Value Innovation “Blue Ocean” Idea
How exactly does it help to pass communications through a person (the manager) that, for the most part, does not understand the technical details of which they are speaking? We literally pay for slack for communication. No one needs an arbitrary human to act as a gatekeeping communication conduit.
It's the same as infrastructure and server side.. from my corner I see a limited horizon over which little exists and only a few things over there might use Windows. Think of any industry: the first for whatever reason that came to mind was architecture. Lots of firms on ArchiCAD and that'll never change, there's no reason to. The value is not the tool or the platform underlying it, or anything else an Engineer(tm) will understand, the value is all in the buildings costing 1000x more than the 'tiny windows utility' that just happens to contribute to the result, kinda like QuickBooks or calc.exe.

It's a bunch of actual people designing buildings that cost so much more than a Windows license doing Real Things that have some lingua franca interface that has no reason to go Linux and probably never will, because in that business they're too busy with actual priorities to ever even discuss how the status quo could change. There are 10,000 industries like this, and probably 10,000 people to each of those who simply don't care, because to them the computer is and will remain only a tool. That's the world of Windows we can't see.
Hi everyone,
This is a weekend project for a simple problem I've faced. May be it's over-engineering but I want to hear your thoughts.
Thanks in advance.
I wonder if Apple discontinued aperture because the number of potential users is so high? Everyone who buys an iPhone is a photographer, and their consumer solution for them is the photos app. They want to dumb everything down and make it more streamlined, so all your photos just sync via the photos app to icloud and there’s no work involved like cataloging or organizing. You can make all your basic exposure and color edits right in the camera or photos app.

Positioning aperture alongside final cut and logic, as the power tool for cool creative professionals, would confuse that because of how big photography is for the iPhone.

Edit: also come to think of it, aperture was almost exclusively a tool for managing your photos shot on a dslr. Apple just wants everything to be “shot on iPhone” now so you shouldn’t need that type of legacy workflow.
Which Congresspeople have stood up in support of repealing the PATRIOT Act? It's been 2 decades years; time to sunset it.
My experience with low-barrier-to-entry fields like writing is, to make it to the top (which is what you want to do), you almost certainly have to do better, and have more specialized knowledge than, common-sense truisms like: work hard, be a good explainer, that sort of thing.

That's all low-barrier-to-entry knowledge. I'm not going to get much traction on Google with a tutorial like, "hello world" in Python. You have to improve on this low-value stuff to climb the ranks - which is what a book like this can offer.

I would respectfully say the advice you're offering here is a little too unfocused and low-yield, in the age of SEO.

Example: I'm a busy guy. I've written tutorials before, and it's pretty dispiriting to spend, say, 6+ hours writing something substantial (a realistic outlay for an article), only to see it wither away at the bottom of the Google rankings.

Similar example: build a no-name e-commerce store, watch it do nothing except cost you money.

So, you start to search for experts who know what they're doing - say, for e-commerce, SEO. They're not scam artists: they encourage you to write real, valuable content, and the good ones produce that themselves.

But they also say, you have to be more strategic than just like, low prices, placed next to paint-by-numbers articles. You have to search out keywords or areas that haven't been filled yet, and filled those.

And they often know counterintuitive things, that come from hard-won experience.

Example: for e-commerce, they say, you actually shouldn't just throw something up on the blog every week (a reasonable interpretation of the 'write often' advice). Instead, research a good area, then write a high-quality article, that you really invest in, over the course of several weeks. One such article can be worth 100+ low-quality articles which are basically just 'putting this up there to meet my quota for the week'. Internet traffic isn't linear - so it pays to have a strategy that acknowledges this, and builds off it.

That's one reason why I'm thinking of buying this book, since I think the non-obvious stuff is worth more than people commonly assume.
It's only worthless if you don't practice. There are tons of programming jobs out there but don't expect to get hired if you can't do the simplest algorithms. Many people who earn CS bachelors in India have barely even touched computers. There were some in my Masters courses who were hopelessly lost. Then there are some who are topcoders and into competitve programming, practice and experience are what really matter.
Most people mistakenly think Monty chooses randomly. He doesn't.
Looks like it's back up, at least partially. They're making progress...

It's crazy how easy it is to depend on Slack. Email collaboration feels downright archaic. What a great product!
Fair point. But sometimes the pretending part fades away when I get to the "flow". When that happens, I usually forget OBS was even running way after the task was done. If it were Twitch stream, I imagine somebody from the chat window would remind me to put my d* away
It seems weird to expect someone with no programming training (an IT guy) to either build or sign off on something they have no understanding of. In large/high stakes settings, being risk averse and knowing the limits of your understanding are very good traits.

Imho, this IT guy did his job, more or less. What was the testing plan for this AHK script? What edge cases were considered? Unit tests, integ tests.... was there a preprod environment for it? A trial run? Can you safely roll back if / when bad data shows up? What's the retry strategy for network or up/downstream fault tolerance? Is there alarm or monitor coverage for bad scenarios?

I'm not saying a bunch of people typing are error prone, if that's your take on my post. I just think that there's a VERY different set of risks (and therefore mitigations) between a distributed manual process and a large scale automated one.

The IT guy might have on some level recognized this and judged the possible loss to be way more than the "guaranteed loss" of the not-broken current process.

If I were an IT guy with low level skills, I'd be proud of myself for making that hard call.
You might also enjoy YKK (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou)[0][1], particularly the manga version, which was my introduction to the genre of slice-of-life years before the Aria seasons (which are absolutely lovely and with a great OST indeed)

Also a great guitar cover of Aria's "Rainbow"[2], most satisfying guitar tab I've had the chance to learn too.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/YokohamaKaidash...

[1] http://www.mangareader.net/yokohama-kaidashi-kikou

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hZ8uMRmRI0
Teams (or) airsend? :)
Yes, gotcha now.

Data shows that most of the virus propagation happens inside and that, health wise, all that stay at home eating and watching TV will definitely have a cost on health, both body and mental, and still, a lot of people want the lockdown to continue.

Another of those instances where I don't understand my contemporaries I guess...
Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps
Not often. I’m Pacific and work for a company in the Eastern timezone. At 2pm I can no longer get answers until the next day.
From what I have seen on https://downdetector.com today, I suspect this will prove to at least partly be on the AWS end.
That’s fair! One other option is to do both: use Capacitor and embed it inside native navigation controls (i.e. a native shell), then use Ionic React for screens, etc.

One other aspect is that Ionic React uses react-dom so it will be a pretty normal react dev experience compared to RN which isn’t 1-1 (CSS being an example).
Yeah thank you -- I have a squirrel box fan pulling 1800 CFM out of the room, but this is a legit risk for sure
Basically invented Proof of Work (see Bitcoin):

Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor. Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail. In Proceedings of Crypto,
1992. Also available as http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il:81/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/
ncstrl.weizmann_il/CS95-20.
Seriously, I just realized how much it's apart of my workflow as an engineer with the different integrations we've setup.
I'm in the same boat. I worked on a pet project while reading the book (still at it). Make some progress, read about how unit tests are done, add some unit tests, learn how modules work, refactor some code into a module.. Inbetween I google some things that I need but haven't mentioned in the book yet but that I need at that moment (e.g. cow strings used in a crate). Works for me!
The problem here is that there is no agreed upon definition of consciousness that is mathematical/scientific. Whereas Turing gave us a definition of computation that we can all agree upon, there isn't one for consciousness.

"The theory fundamentally says that any physical system that has causal power onto itself is conscious. What do I mean by causal power? The firing of neurons in the brain that causes other neurons to fire a bit later is one example, but you can also think of a network of transistors on a computer chip: its momentary state is influenced by its immediate past state and it will, in turn, influence its future state"

So a line of falling dominos is conscious? What about billiard balls or marbles? A fibonacci numbers conscious?

Also, how does this definition align with the definition of consciousness in neuroscience, psychology, biology, etc?

It's good that people are working on "consciousness" from a variety of fields, but wish we had an actual definition of consciousness so that we would know what we are searching for. Maybe we'll have to discover it first to define it.
That argument resonates with me.

I work in the biotech industry and you see lots of people who move from the FDA to companies and back.

But if you're a company trying to get a drug approved, who else are you going to hire? Same with the FDA. If they're trying to regulate manufacturers, hiring someone from a manufacturer is an ideal way to get that talent.

I'd be satisfied with some strict rules around lobbying and gov't influence. But banning people from moving around? That seems excessive and likely detrimental.
In the beginning, I find it is best to avoid the escape hatches that lead to the runtime errors I assume you're talking about (i.e., `unwraps` and such). Eventually you'll learn when it's appropriate to use them.

https://github.com/mre/idiomatic-rust
https://speakerdeck.com/mre/idiomatic-rust-writing-concise-a... < fun basic idiom examples (don't necessarily take the use of the failure crate as idiomatic, but the rest of the methodology seems to be)
The exams and credentials part is certainly murky. One could argue we make it worse in tech. Among the certifications I hold is at least one with "certified engineer" in the title (RHCE), but that's hardly only ambiguous one, with "engineer" showing up in all sorts of vendor and third-party certs and "architect" and "auditor" also finding their way into many others.

Are those phrases misleading? I don't know. I certainly feel like I worked pretty hard to earn and maintain the certifications I hold, but I can't compare the rigour and level of effort to licensure, because that's not required of me for what I do.

I also know that there are quite a few "certifications" out there that aren't rigorous at all, that are basically multiple-choice exams you can cram for without actually learning anything. I've never bothered going after a CompTIA certification for that reason.

It's a tough problem. On one hand, I despise artificial barriers to entry on principle. On the other hand, being able to understand and trust a person's base level of understanding and competence does have value.
Thanks for sharing the dotfiles!

I use combination of BTT, Karabiner Elements, yabai and skhd to do remappings but this comment has intrigued me to give hammerspoon a shot!
You should try matrix, on riot.im
I've won 100% of the time by switching and then not switching doors, surely that can't be right?
Detroit-style deep dish is the best style of pizza, and nothing else is in the same league.
Import.io
I think she asked us to call her by her first name at the beginning of the semester and it stuck (but I can't remember and I might be being rude). Honestly I'm as surprised as you are - mulling it over I'm sure I called her Prof. Dwork when talking to her, since that's how I addressed most professors I didn't well personally.
How much of the problem is too much supply, and how much of the problem is poor quality of the supply?
Yes, exactly; 262144 bytes is 256 kilobytes.
Key Points:

* Tesla is suing Alameda County in federal court

* Tesla is following California state guidelines, Alameda County is attempting to impose more strict guidelines

* Tesla’s playbook to address COVID concerns are public on their website

* Workers who choose to remain at home will not be penalized
I appreciated the honesty. Instead of looking at an infinite spinner, or a tiny toast error message, or whatever cute thing a designer might come up with... Plenty of "nice" error handling muddles whether or not the issue is my network or theirs. But I clicked my slack tab in Firefox it was nothing but a big ugly 503 page. No need to guess about what's wrong.
What do they do in their CS curriculum if they're not actually programming?
Re (a) the comparison doesn't hold much weight because despite their close geography and culture, there are major differences between Norway and Sweden. The most significant is that the elder care homes in Sweden are much higher density than in Norway. A huge portion of the reported deaths are from elder care facilities in most countries. No citation -- my knowledge comes from a study I worked on 7 years back. Anyone interested can easily verify on their own.

Re (b) No citation is needed. I answered this elsewhere, that depriving a human of their liberties, putting people under house arrest, is in itself a harm. Forcing your neighbour to stay in a box is an assault, and to commit that violence against another person requires the highest level of justification. As for the physical health and other measurable harms, those will be recognized over time. I'm quite sure that "deaths of despair" issue will eventually be covered in mainstream programming, if not already.

Lastly, the "rational" mind (which I never claimed to be) has to acknowledge the response of humans to fear-inducing stimulus, and other mechanisms that lead to Stockholm Syndrome type behaviours. By enforcing this "prayer" to the NHS, the state has induced the public to see their captor as their liberator. It is totally perverse, but is the air we breathe these days.

Thank you for the thoughtful response!
Losing those serendipitous meetings is frequently mentioned by people bullish about working from home as one of the things they find difficult.

There are downsides to working from home, it's silly to dismiss them as mindlessness from the other camp.
If it’s a Cogent issue those services might be up, but merely unreachable.
Why does it have to be sad? To me it is good news! Especially if it is open source. The more software we can write that isn’t specific to a platform the more free and useful software can become. It wrestles back control from google, apple, microsoft et. al and makes their closed platforms less relevant.
Rust Traits: Iterator
Probably not going to look for one, sorry. You may prefix "From what I can see" wherever necessary should you wish to soften the claims.
Nearly equivalent to what? It can do everything that the GUI can, if that's what you mean. Some things are obviously going to be less convenient, but that's just the nature of CLI.

And what third party tools does that involve?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. It was not intended to be as sarcastic as it read.

I don’t really think of HN as an anti-capitalist echo chamber, especially given it’s venture capitalist origins.
It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
> The fact that the Amazon executives are extraordinarily well paid seems to contradict that claim.

Tell you what: you go and do a better job than Amazon of growing a large scale business year after year by paying executives less and maybe then your opinion will be worth something.
Solo Founder meetup notes 2020/5/12
I think its a SMB thing. Basically windows owns organizations with less than 10-30 people. And there are a _LOT_ of those, and they do a _LOT_ of custom development for their little specialization. Its the excel sheets that grow into full blown applications, or the vm.net one off utilities someone hacked together that grow into the backbone of a thriving small business. Even the generic catagory SMBs (dentists, car repair, etc) end up mostly being windows shops because the owner gets quickbooks or whatever and runs the whole thing from a windows pc in the office.
Is it not already happening with our “Reopening the Economy” triumphalism after demonstrating ourselves to be a failed state by most measures? Healthcare workers dying for lack of basic equipment, in the richest country in the world, while our leaders project supreme control of the situation across the airwaves.

The Pandemic Never Happened.
This is something I've debated for quite sometime prior to the pandemic.

Why do janitors, and wait staff get paid so little? Two of the most important jobs in the world are to clean things and feed people.

I guess anyone can clean a toilet or cook a burger, but to what level?

What about teaching?

Our world is definitely out of balance. I don't know to what degree, or as to why.
In normal functioning markets, maybe? When stuff like the events of the past few months happen, markets just stop trading altogether. If there's thin trading in an already illiquid market, there's no mechanism that forces things to reprice. What you see as NAV did not reflect executable levels. That's why you saw bond ETFs trading at such a discount because those were the only things people were able to sell. In a lot of cases most people decided they'd rather short 25mm of an ETF at -x% discount and have it retrace to NAV par than sell 10mm bonds down -1.5x% and then the next 15mm at an even steeper discount. Crude example, not how bonds are quoted, and you probably would have to sell those bonds in way more trades than that but hope it serves as an example.
I agree, I don't think it's malicious and Slack did the right thing here.

My comment was more of a dig at Github specifically. Recently things haven't been working for me (from my perspective an outage) and when you go to their status page it just says "Degraded performance". When your performance has degraded to the point of failure it's time to acknowledge that is in fact an outage...
Ask HN: How do I find meaning?
The previous version of Skype was based on an older, internal-only fork of RN for Windows.
Everyone can set their threshold for when they noticed React at whatever point they choose. Regardless of when any particular individual noticed React, it has undeniably been a big deal for years and can be reasonably expected to remain relevant for years to come. The assertion that "omg front end changes so much how can I know if React will matter in six months" is simply nonsense.
This is utter nonsense. Just because American national debt is held by American citizens and corporations doesn't mean its not real or that it could just be canceled out on paper and it wouldn't matter. Those debts are projected future incomes for those other people\companies and if they magically disappear some parties would end up very badly screwed.

This narrative, while often repeated, is nonsense.
Seriously, how stupid it is that this can be actually useful.