skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a funny anecdote and a good step, but you guys still have a long way to go in regards to outage alerting at SendGrid.

I was annoyed when after a several hour long outage SendGrid still had not updated their status page to reflect an issue.

But I was even more annoyed when 5+ hours into the outage, a different support person told me they aren't aware of any outage because their status page does not reflect one.

If I sound bitter it's because I am, I was the on call person who got woken up in the wee hours of the morning to deal with this. I'm referring to the outage you guys had in December if you're wondering.
I am impressed by this 15 year old.
The way it should be, only one of those is a news site and it's not the one with the word news in its name.
Both sides? Would you mind naming the two sides for us?
Personally I like the weather of the pacific northwest, but many people from California will tell you it rains too much.

Seattle is also as expensive as New York and the Bay Area.
Funny thing is, some countries require documents to be signed on paper and then scanned. E.g. Japan.
Hey, I'm one of the founders — thanks for submitting this!

Happy to answer any questions :)
Ok, let's see McConnell's history.
That’s a massive claim to say RN doesn’t feel native without alot of extra work? Please elaborate because it feels pretty native out of the box using the standard components.

It’s nothing like ionic. When is the last time you used RN? RN apps are hard to tell from native.
haha thanks, glad you like it!
I’m curious how they wouldn’t just start small shop programming companies. 4 years should teach you how to make apps, or make web sites, or automate some arbitrage situation, or tons of other things that I can do on my own with programming skills.
This lecture at Stanford is a great breakdown of the philosophical understanding of what consciousness is and how that relates to artificial intelligence: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/artificial-intelli...
That's absurd; if you're shipping a native app you can compile native code.
ember-concurrency is probably at the top of the list for things I miss most when writing javascript outside of ember.
> or is concealing their fees allowing them to extract significantly more value than they would otherwise be able to in an honest marketplace

Which of these services is extracting value right now? Even Grubhub I believe is now running at a loss or close to it.

What's missing in this is that you know how much those businesses are charging, but you don't know how much it costs for those businesses to provide their service.
Just out of curiosity, what was the purported outcome/why wasn't it worth it?
Maybe? I don't know enough about it to say. I was just trying to clarify what a "killer app" was by using an example.
Instagram adds new anti-bullying features, including tag controls, comment
What I've noticed Slack doing is that a couple weeks after an "Incident", it's completely gone from the history when you go back and look at past incidents on that day. Keep an eye on it.
Good find; this is much more informative. Clearly not accidental. Though still definitely an error; product council would have told them to knock it off, and it's unclear whether it was maliciousness or ignorance that nobody brought them in for consult.
Tesla autopilot is a joke compared to what Waymo intends to do. For Tesla, autopilot is just an add-on, a cherry on the cake that is a good-looking, hi-tech electric car. For Waymo, full self driving has been the one and only focus. On the surface, one is tempted to compare the two, but from an investment standpoint, I would not compare them directly. Tesla competes with car companies. Waymo competes with driverless car tech companies. Tesla also has some driverless car tech, but I would not invest in Tesla for that. Waymo is still likely the leader in driverless car tech, and that is a winner-takes-all market.
The logic appears to be simple: consciousness is mysterious, but so is quantum world, therefore they must intersect somehow.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky

Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari

Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian is better, stylistically, but changed me less as a person)

The Alchemist and The Fifth Mountain, by Paulo Coelho

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
262144 bytes; 262144 / 1024 = 256 kibibytes

262144 bytes; 262144 / 1000 ≈ 262 kilobytes
Underscoring the maxim in production environments: Configuration Is Code.
I forget who said it - and it's probably somewhere tucked in these comments, but paraphrasing...

If one were to simulate every drop of rain, gust of wind, and tidal current of a hurricane, to ultimate perfection, would you say the processor is wet?
Out of curiosity, are they supporting you financially in any way for that?
I don't think I'm trying to justify any San Francisco salaries, lol. The point I'm trying to make is that a single person can only have so much organizational knowledge overhead. Facilitating communication between the right people without spamming the wrong people is tough.

The github corporate move from a flat structure to a hierarchical is probably a good case study to read if you're interested: https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/800
Just to be clear for a general reader. These are quasiparticles. They are effective mathematical descriptions of certain effects in the real world, but the physical particles responsible for the effects are fermions and bosons, not anyons.
Many restaurants are still "profitable" because the restaurateurs use the business as a tax shelter. For sure, this isn't the only type of small business that does so, but based on my observations, it's far more rampant in the food service industry than elsewhere.
Is there some reason you can't (or don't want to) call them?
Where I work, IT in general has little say about what tool I use on my PC. They do periodic scans to check that I don't have any known unsafe tools, or tools that are known not to be OK without a formal license. But otherwise, as long as I'm not violating a license and not circumventing my virus scanner, I can use whatever tool I want.

Work would come to a crawl if IT had to validate every single tool used in our company. The notion that this is within IT's scope is flawed. It's the equivalent of asking a government agency to vet every single product that is produced by any company for consumer safety in the whole of the United States, and then rejecting most of them because of the lack of resources to thoroughly vet them.
As someone who tries to find good sources news, I loathe Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. I find NPR, Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Intercept and various independent localized publications (e.g. LA Times, Voice of San Diego) much better.

Some of those are left leaning (esp. The Intercept), but NPR is somewhat center right so I think it is a fair balance.

The problem with mass media organizations, particularly those that are geared toward television, is that they prioritize entertainment over actual investigative journalism. In doing so they become nearly useless, often offering only a knee jerk response to a carefully curated subset of current events. They do not offer any unique or engaging perspective on the issues they cover, and they fail to report on important details and stories.
I still don't think it's about forcing anything. I think a lot of companies will start to give the option to have employees come in 1 or 2 days a week, but there is no need to force that. Tons of people will take advantage of it for the reduction in commute alone, and thus the company will still need considerably less real estate.
> Uber has been staunchly pro-consumer.

They don’t let you use their app without adding a credit card, even if you have more than sufficient credit with Uber to pay for a ride.
I want

* A way to order and pay online WITH A TRUSTED PAYMENT PROCESSOR.

* A way to track the order from the time it's submitted to acknowledged to en route to delivery.

* A way to get a partial or whole refund if the order is incomplete or incorrect WITHOUT A PROMISE THAT I'LL GET SOME FREE THING ON THE NEXT ORDER.

* A website that's functional with pricing equal to what would be charged with an in-person order.

It seems to me that 99.9% of restaurants are incapable of setting this up and would rather make it someone else's problem and pass the added costs off to customers. Which is fine by me. I have no gripes about Uber or it's culture or it's 30% cut.

Just note that while restaurants can pass off ancillary costs to customers, we can make a statement by passing those costs off to Uber by not using the service OR to their "employees" by zero tipping. I have no qualms about either.
No, he explicitly states that women roughly have same average iq as men and are equally competent and capable to do engineering work.

OTOH personality traits aren’t distributed equally between men and women. Personality traits don’t impact your ability to do engineering work, but they influence What type of workplace culture / communication protocols in which you can thrive. Damore advocated for making engineering cultures more accommodating to people who have personality traits resembling the distribution that women exhibit.
The problem with sea foam is that it's mostly air, so you sink in it. If they were experienced surfers in storm conditions, they were almost certainly on shortboards or mini-guns, which barely float them to begin with, by design. They would have leashes holding the board to their ankle, so they would have their flotation device but if the combination of board and body don't float, the leash won't help.

I suspect some light seafoam got sucked under denser foam by currents and then, as it upwelled, basically opened a hole under them. I can't say I've experienced anything at the scale that would drown 5 men, but falling into upwelling foam is definitely a thing.
You can't just dump money into citizens' pockets with no expectation of return. Giving an engine gas doesn't make the engine more efficient at using the gas

Maybe the point isn't to generate a financial return or increase the efficiency of the "engine." Maybe the point is simply to prevent hypothetical deaths resulting from "economic devastation." Maybe the car engine just needs enough gas to make it to the next gas station, not extensive re-engineering.
Is this for catalina only? The irony is that most musicians are held back from Catalina and even older OS X because compatibility issues. E.g. no 32bit apps in Catalina kills a lot of VST and VSTi that many of us need. So No Catalina, No Logic Pro X.
Why former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky is Using PCs from the 1980s
So they were running a survey gauging whether it's possible to pay people less to work from home, but do we know the result of that survey? Maybe they find out that they cannot hire the same talent for less money in Indiana.
For L1 there's no issue.
It think it's more helpful when exposing their fraudulent offers. An easy example was loyalty cards that had one purpose but were sold on the lie of big savings. A common trick was to inflate the "regular" price above what was common, offer a card-only "discount," and show the "savings" that came with it. It sounds like they're hooking you up until you go to... any... of the other large competitors seeing similar prices. Even worse, one in my area started adding "You could've saved X dollars" on their fake sales at the bottom of the receipt.

It's stuff like that which might justify rules for transparent pricing. Then, consumers can just avoid companies playing a lot of games with them. Or choose or be stuck with them due to other reasons. This is just one tool in the toolbox.
the plan9 port API is based on sockets, yes - because plan9port is a port of plan9 runtime to other OSes.

However, BSD Sockets are bad API, and can be argued to be one of the reasons, if not major reason, behind many issues in IP-based networks, including slow IPv6 rollout.

They also were a rushed port/rewrite of existing TCP/IP code done essentially by grad students on a grant from DoD because vendor (DEC) told DoD that they are not getting any new models of the computer they used primarily for TPC/IP.

Part of the requirements was that the resulting code is shared so that vendors could quickly provide support for TCP/IP in various products.
Also Harpjs can serve/process markdown:

http://harpjs.com/docs/development/markdown
No, you're right. Many people on HN would scoff at UberEats taking a 30% cut or whatever from orders, but how much would it cost for every mom and pop to try and implement something like that themselves? And have someone to maintain it? Whatever people want to say about it, these are orders (or at least a signficant number of them) that the restaurants would've never received, if not for the app existing. 70% is better than 0%.

And that 30% isn't in stone. Last place I worked at, they were able to negotiate for 15% because of how desperate Uber was.
Huge set of search engines and databases – updated for 2020
No, Hoover’s austerity policies are viewed as having elongated the GD. Without the ND the Hoover dam wouldn’t exist. LV, NV wouldn’t exist - pretty sure the US would be much less developed all around and thus poorer. I’d posit the US losing WWII without the ND.
Whole Foods Secretly Upgrades Tech to Target and Squash Unionizing Efforts
>A website that's functional with pricing equal to what would be charged with an in-person order.

Why expect delivery to cost the same as inperson?
Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
It's absolutely huge in Austin. There is a very high correlation between distance from downtown and housing prices because our traffic is so abysmal and our public transportation is a joke. Price for "equivalent" houses 5 mins from downtown vs. 35 mins from downtown is 2x minimum.
I thought AutoHotKey was for automatically assigning simple actions to keys. I was so wrong.

I started playing Path of Exile a while ago and soon found PoE Trade Macro (https://github.com/PoE-TradeMacro/POE-TradeMacro) which allows you to mouse over items, hit a hotkey to send a web API request to a trade site, pops up an overlay with a pricing summary, lets you adjust certain parameters and search again, and so much more. All allowed by the game in case you're wondering, they encourage it.

There's a YT video in the link above showing just some of the features. And I'm pretty sure newer overlays are even more impressive (I haven't checked them out). AHK is far more developed and complex than I gave it credit for.
It keeps the cost down. A lot of end users care more about cost than literally anything else.
that's really interesting
VScode looks and feels native and not memory intensive
Because businesses have gravity and naturally condense into gravity wells. Why is the oil industry (executive and R&D) so heavily centered in Houston, or finance so heavily centered in New York? Why don't some of those giant banks move their headquarters to (fill in your struggling town) where they need the jobs?

The reason is that businesses aren't charities. The people who work in the industry benefit enormously from proximity to a bunch of other people in their industry.

I grew up in the midwest, but I moved (with my family) to the Bay Area a couple years ago, and it's been like rocket fuel to my career and income. It's hard to even describe how advantageous it is when your social network naturally includes so many people in your industry - when your neighbor works at Google, and the other parents at your preschool work Stripe and Apple, and when your friends from the gym work at Github... etc. It's just nuts.

Most people, once they've lived some place a little while and established a network, don't really want to leave. So then when they start their business they launch it with a few friends who are all here and either worked with them at their last business or are part of that extended social network, and of course they all live in the Bay Area already so they just stay because why move?

I understand the frustration of geographic inequality of jobs, but honestly the hot startups are not who you should target if you want to inject some vitality into a struggling city. By far the better way forward is to combine a mix of training/education, public investment, and attracting some mid-size business to help seed the local market. As one example, this is roughly what they did in Chattanooga, TN, and have turned it into a small but nice little tech outpost.
But junk software is still junk and not worth the trouble.
Conscious thought isn’t a byproduct of intelligence. It is the very essence of intelligence. If you disagree, I’d only ask you to formulate your rebuttal without the use of conscious thought. And in a clean way, you now have my counter-rebuttal.
> As an end user why do I care about "openness"? If I pay a premium for my platform, why would I want second rate cross platform software?

Falsehoods HNers believe about how people buy/use software. Didn't stop Slack/Discord from become ubiquitous.

"But native tho" just becomes a circlejerk. Talking about what users care about, most people don't know what native means nor if a given app is it. They don't know if Zoom is using more memory or CPU than it "should".
> the DOM is just fundamentally unsuited for app UI rendering...

Consider the following:

Native UI: is a tree of widgets. Each widget has sematic properties / attributes. Each widget may have style properties (colors ,fonts, etc.). Each widget has exactly on parent and may have multiple children. There is an API for all of these.

HTML/DOM UI: Same as above, just replace "widget" by "element".

Could you explain then why one of these is "fundamentally unsuited" and other is a perfect match?
I first launched this site in 2001, and I've just (mostly) completed a major update of the main page, i.e. general-purpose information resources. If you find it useful it may justify a tiny portion of the insane amount of time it took to do :-)
Dude in SF is more likely to bump into other dudes in SF and talk about system design, math or AI or competition or best practices or stacks.

Dude in Indiana doesn't have that opportunity. You'd say but Internet, but things like motivation, inspiration, innovation comes from a certain external factors (which we still haven't figured out).

That's why even with massive internet penetration, it's the tech hubs that keep pumping winners and hits
I hope I can find a good explanation for why Saudi Arabia was involved in 9/11 while the US went ahead and attacked Iraq. Wasn't Iran blamed initially? Recall: Iran Iraq War Bumper Sticker. This looks like a major cover-up and both Republican and Democrat leaders are involved.
Try a browser extension like "Bypass Paywalls" on Firefox and Chrome.

Link: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
Serve Markdown with Harp
If we are trying to be charitable in our interpretations of someone's argument, I think they were suggesting that each item ordered would have the same price and that the order total minus delivery cost would have the same price, not that the total for the entire order with the delivery-specific costs and delivery service would be the same as the in-store pickup.
What is the issue with Firefox's WebRTC support, apart from matching the standard and not the early non-standard thing that Chrome shipped and is now trying to unship?
The machine learning Example you've been looking for
> The developers spent $405 million, according to Judge Castel, to develop the new open-source blockchain

O.o
Logic has been an amazing and deep app for decades, but it's been lagging in recent years with regard to hardcore electronic music production and live performance. This is the update that turns that all around. Live Loops alone would comprise a solid upgrade, and that's just one of the many new marquee features. It's also bananas that existing Logic users can get everything new for freeeeeeee!

Sure, this whole release is small potatoes in the larger world of Apple, but for a long-time Logic user like me, today's Christmas. :)
I'd be really interested in how they plan to implement this. I'd certainly hope it would be more sophisticated than a linear adjustment of salary based on differences in the cost of living.

I live and work out of St. Louis at the moment, and I've spent a bit of time evaluating FAANG salaries in relation to the cost of living in their relevant areas. While in most cases it seemed I could maybe get 1.5x to 2x my St. Louis salary, I was looking at around a 5x increase in housing costs alone. It never made any sort of financial sense to make the move (as much as I would've liked to).

Of course the most sensible approach would be to offer just above market rate in whatever the local market is. That can be awfully hard to determine though. It's much more a function of local supply and demand than anything that correlates to cost of living.
Are we to presume you think that using native SDKs saves your junk software from being junk? I'm not sure how else to interpret your comment in this thread.
Vid related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Seu8feqxR0
> do you currently see pay adjustments based on housing costs

Yes, it's commonly referred to as "cost of living adjustment."

The rational basis is that the employer sees strategic value in having a physical presence in a given locale, and are willing to pay a premium to have employees actually located there.

Note that I've been working remotely full-time for years, and never plan to go back. I am, however, under no illusions that my salary is a permanent thing.
> to prevent economic devastation

> Just needs enough gas for the next station

You don't prevent economic devastation by feeding a broken system all the resources, you prevent it by fixing the broken system.

Edit: here's an example. I joined new work and their documentation was a complete mess. I could have saved time immediately and stuck to their busted structure, just shoving documents wherever similar documents existed, but instead I overhauled the entire structure and content, saving everyone time in the long run.

Guess which option works better.
I did various forms of tech support for 20+ years before deciding I wanted to move on.

It isn't for everyone for sure. Being tied to a desk and a phone can be hard...and if you are at the lower end of the spectrum you're going to get worse customers generally.

Also many support orgs have poor management and are seen / treated as inconvenient cost centers....

It is possible the job actually sucks.

For me I worked the issue and let the chips fall where they may.

If I was called away because of some silly issue and something else wasn't going to get fixed...so be it, that's just the way we were staffed. I didn't take sides or take it personally.

I worked hard and took pride in my work but didn't sweat it if the system was insane. I did advocate for improvements but didn't hold my breath.
Considering that conventional currencies represent real goods, what thing of value is represented by these crypto currencies.
In the US, for-profit education (Univ. of Phoenix-type) is equally bad. I think there is a report by former Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) from circa 2011 on this. [1]

But almost no US educational institute is for-profit, many run on endowments. The teaching faculty often have PhDs. The faculty in CSE even in teaching colleges have had post graduate education, often involving research.

The teaching staff in Indian for-profit colleges are essentially the stragglers among the UGs from similar for-profit colleges. Poor pay with a shoestring staff willing to work for that pay is part of the business model.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/30/harkin-releas...