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> This doesn't really make sense to me.

It doesn't make sense to me either.

> Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can't work from home?

"Only" implies you think 30% is too low? You think more Americans can work without home internet?

I'm surprised it's as high as 30%. I think a lot more Americans can't work without home internet.

> Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America? I dont buy that.

I'm not familiar with truck drivers. But I can easily see that they would need the internet to simply receive a phone call to alert them that a route has been contracted by their contracting company. Or to engage in a route marketplace. That's going to necessitate not only "home" internet, but probably also mobile internet too.

I'm not familiar with factory workers. But I hear they're overworked. And if they don't have home internet that often means they also don't have a way to get in contact with their bosses outside of the factory.

Cashiers need the internet because their employer's scheduling system is available on the internet. Not only that, but their schedules are often produced last-minute. Are you saying that a cashier must go to the retail premise and risk getting infected just to check to see whether they're scheduled for the day?

Taxi drivers... absolutely need the internet to work. Can you imagine being in a taxi today without having the ability to pay via your credit card? That's absurd.

What about emergency services like fire fighters, EMS, doctors ... are you saying that they don't need home internet?

I'm saying you're wrong. The modern world has moved into a place where we're hyper connected. Everyone's employers communicate on the internet. Lack of home internet hinders everyone's ability to work.
This is really neat. Found it to be pretty intuitive, and selecting multiple nodes is super useful. I noticed the arrow links on the top of the node open on the same window, which I would have expected to open on a blank window so that I don't lose the current view.
The Essence of Complex Analysis
From the outside this sounds like rationalisation.
Is any of that system open source? It would be interesting to see the difference between that and storybook.
Sadly it looks like Mozilla does not intend to continue the Servo project.

Graydon Hoare wrote on Twitter today: "I don't know how I feel about Rust's longest-running justification for its existence being wound down (at least by moz -- I hope Servo & team finds a new home).

Good that it doesn't need it anymore? Worried that maybe it still does? Wistful for missed chances? Nostalgic? Angry?"

Also Manish wrote: "As far as I understand it, @ServoDev is no longer being funded by Mozilla."
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Sorry for the ambiguity -- but no, I mean getting historical cost data retroactive to the resource creation would be great, but I can understand why that's not possible. What I'm saying is that Cost Allocation Tags specifically won't return any cost data for resources that are older than that CAT's activation date. So not only do I not get past costs but I don't get anything going forward. I went on a tagging spree a while back and then spent a bunch of time later down the road trying to figure out why it was getting info for some things and not others.
Google to Microsoft: Nice Windows 10 patch – but it's incomplete
"good old friend" and he is basically profiting of your work for doing nothing? I'm not sure what other qualities he offers in the relationship with you, but leeching isn't something friends do. Don't get sentimental just because you guys know each other for a long time. If the roles were reversed, would he accept the same conditions? I don't want to sound harsh, but when money is involved you should maximize negotiations for your own gain because you should assume everyone else is doing the same. Your friend maximized his and he didn't care about the relationship with you, just about his own gain.
Interesting, has there been any reviews for this yet? All the screenshots look like it's just two phones next to each other instead of one UI that takes advantage of its unique form factor. I'm also surprised they don't use bing as the default search engine in their screenshots, is that a aosp requirement? Finally, this makes me want to dust off my nintendo ds.
Thanks! We don't have it right now but the customer database is something we wanna work on very soon. There are still a bunch of features we wanna work on for chat and we're trying to work out the balance between making the chat great and working on other features like email messaging and better customer database
Go hang out in the SaaS Growth Hacks group on Facebook and let people know you have a free / open source Intercom alternative. Every week people in that group are asking for cheaper alternatives, and usually they just care about the live chat portion of the product.

I feel like one of the biggest pain points of Intercom is their pricing, and you should ride that wave as much as possible (in addition to "companies that are security and privacy conscientious").
I think you're in the wrong thread
Microsoft August 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 120 vulnerabilities, two zero-days
It’s only a right if it applies to everyone. Also, there should be certain classes of things that one can’t erase that way. Should a convicted pedophile have the right to scrub the internet of references to their crime? What about a murderer? The idea is a lot easier to swallow if it’s only related to things the person said.
Seeking counseling on HN is definitely a recurring trend here, one I've been guilty of too at times, so you may be onto something here!
It is not like the competitors is going to have a good time dealing with this any easier.

And they have even lesser cash to burn.

The delivery price is already a significant chunk of the order, and if the price goes up significantly, I guess the option for people is to stop ordering food and cook at home.

Which is good and probably saving me a lot of money anyway once I get used to it, but I don't think drivers will be the only one that are unhappy with this.
wondering does the same law applicable to Instacart, Postmates etc..?
They have tried, but the aforementioned political party blocked such efforts at the state level in the past, and currently federal law (again, due to that same political party) requires the state to get permission from the federal government to implement a single-payer healthcare system.

However, as currently envisioned, the single-payer system would not charge employers; it would be part of the taxes levied on all taxpayers (including employers), which would spread out the costs more.
In case someone actually wants to read Atlas Shrugged, I did actually read it. It's a fictional world where the strawmen business people are happen to always be good and moral, and are oppressed by the strawman government people who are bad and greedy. Also the author occasionally has her characters go on multi-page speeches, for instance about how we ought to be using gold for currency.

In case it's not clear, Atlas Shrugged is a piece of fiction and using it to draw parallels to reality is like saying "I recommend watching Disney's The Lion King. Zoos keep hogs apart from lions because they think they can't get along".

As a sidenote to balance my scathing review, I rather liked one of her earlier novels, Fountainhead. If you want to read an Ayn Rand novel I'd go for that one, as it's more about a type of "rugged individualism" than an economic system. It directly grapples at the question of the nature of invention/innovation: whether as a product of individual genius or standing on the shoulder of giants. Obviously the novel has an answer but it's not exactly a solved question in real life, and at least some of Ellsworth Toohey's quotes aren't half bad.
Well, it looks a little chunky to go in my pants pocket, so maybe they're figuring it'll be carried in a purse?

The hardware looks nice but I'm rather let down to see it's just running Android.
It'd be nice to have it in a more "finished product" format.

Another thing I'd love to see (I know, open source, I should do it myself or pay someone to do it) some odder machines, such as Tektronix terminals, Xerox Mesa-based machines, LMI/Symbolics Lisp Machines... I get it. I should do it.
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That’s not cynical, that sounds wholesome. That’s exactly how democracy should work. I expect you are one of those urbanites because you haven’t mentioned the drivers being the loudest voice for changing this judgement. They are the ones suffering from this faux-compassion via authoritarian judges who think marketplaces aren’t legitimate businesses (someone tell NASDAQ, the App Store and play store, Steam, malls, etc.)
Thanks, I really appreciate that! Good to know people are getting something out of this.
Doesn’t it seem a little late for them to be renewing a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars?

At minimum, I think it spells trouble. Would love to be wrong.

Edit: Since anything can happen, I personally wouldn’t have written the sentence with as much certainty as the GP, but I don’t think they were far off.
It's not a bad law - if Uber can't operate in compliance with it, it has a bad business model.
Good luck arguing your opinion though - go watch a few videos of "sovereign citizens" trying to argue they don't need a driver's license to "travel" when pulled over driving.
I can't really understand why Genius cares. If Google didn't scrape from them they could scrape from one of dozens of other lyrics sites with pretty much the same results.

The value add of Genius is not the lyrics anyway. I never go to Genius to just look up lyrics because the site is fairly heavy. I use another site that is lighter and has a nicer lyrics format.

The only reason I go to Genius is for the real value add - the song annotations; and these are added by volunteers.

I rarely use the Google version of the lyrics either to be honest.
The best I can come up with is the stereotype that women are better at multitasking? Something sexist like that probably wouldn't work out well for Microsoft so I doubt there's much behind it.

I'm not sure though, the commercial is a sort of story about a group of women planning to go on a trip. That's entirely reasonable, I don't see what gender has to do with the product. It's not like they sell a pink and a blue one for girls and boys or anything.
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They bought the land at a heavy discount, continued to stretch their proposal far beyond the scope of the original RFP, demanded further city investment into transit/land development in order to facilitate their idea, and proposed low-income housing that was frankly a crap deal. In the end Google would've been reaping all the profits of the development deal while the city pays to clean up the mess.

It basically boiled down to somewhere between a mediocre and a pretty bad deal for the local economy, instead of letting a local developer do their thing. I wouldn't have been surprised if it ended up costing (especially if you add in the land discount and subsidies) taxpayers well over a billion dollars. The whole thing reeked of a PR stunt for the Gov working with Big Tech, but I don't know of a single citizen who thought it was a good idea.

Next time, follow a fair RFP process. I'd rather have Amazon try and develop the waterfront.
I don't know what you are on about - I didn't mention Oracle, and would never compare TimescaleDB to a product that wants to bankrupt you and own your soul.

Using the price calculator linked in the article, on Azure the cheapest "Dev" tier (which I obviously wouldn't expect to have HA based on the name "Dev" alone) is $160/m - that's a lot for 1 vCPU and 4GB RAM. I want to give TimescaleDB money, but I just can't justify that.

The cheapest in the Basic tier on Azure is $715/m - yes, you can bet I expect HA at that price for 4 vCPUs and 16GB RAM.

I'm a big fan of TimescaleDB, but if they are competing with cloud provider's own managed solutions (which, AFAIK, all come with HA and PITR), it needs to ship with similar guarantees, and/or the pricing needs to be revised.
I think there's a huge, growing need for this and your sdk/api's seem very well-thought!

As for the design of your site, it definitely leaves me assuming it's just an auth service. I'd focus more on showing psuedo example interfaces / flows that your service powers. For instance, show an example client app on the left, your sdk drops in, on the right your integrations UX showing all the apps you can now integrate with.

I'm reminded of the copy & explanatory / storytelling on this site: https://www.freshpaint.io/

Instead of "Codelessly connect your site to your stack" they could've said "Enterprise-grade analytics with less configuration." But they went with a phrase that does more to highlight how their offering is new and brings a new form of value.

Maybe a/b test your one-liner? Some ideas:

"Add 25+ SaaS integrations to your app. We take care of the authentication."

"The first low-code, secure way to add SaaS integrations FAST."

"A new, low-code way to add 25+ SaaS integrations to your app."

"Less time re-implementing auth, more time building features."

"A faster, more secure approach to integrations."

Good luck!
Hey, someone from the Storybook team here. We'd love to get actionable feedback about Storybook for documentation. Why is it so much worse that what you're used to? Can you be specific?
Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous
It suggests two things at the same time - that a re-write would be great - "If people want to convert QEMU to Rust that would be great" - and that the author has other thoughts too.
Not unless the law is broken.
> Their target market should be "people who want a first class internet experience, but dont have the time or understanding to research the litany of tools they would need to employ to get it.

Why wouldn't these people just use google? If privacy and/or "freedom" aren't part of your requirements, you'd be crazy to choose FF/Moz over google. What am I missing?
We have a similar system for electrical distribution; per area a single organisation has sole responsibility for the physical infrastructure and they bill your energy company of choice. That means that on your invoice you have a fixed amount of infrastructure cost as a component, and your service/usage fee from the energy company. Same for gas.

This is probably common (or at least more common than internet-infra-as-a-utility), but the concept of doing the same for data would benefit a lot of people. We had that for POTS/PSTN and Coaxical data (CATV/cable/whateveryoucallit) as well, which was privatised and now opened up again so you get your infrastructure component as a national fixed fee and you simply pay your provider of choice for the actual service.
I was at 2 successful companies that went against the normal VC path.

Vitria was able to move the VC % lower because they were already profitable and demonstrated potential before approaching the VCs. They were only using the VCs for their contacts and not for cash.

VMware never got VC funding. I am not sure why - but they tried. They finally sold themselves to EMC and were later spun out.
i was unaware of these changes, its interesting to see the changes that were made. it will be interesting to see how they effect riders/drivers over time. thank you for the post.
Ahahaha,

https://mobile.twitter.com/nathanwpyle/status/11240510240907...
NASA’s Tess Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Completes Its Primary Mission
I looked through github and see you have coded examples, can you also include the visual output so I can get a sense of what it'll achieve without having to set it up to see?
I have yet to hear a single reasonable, moral argument for anyone having a higher authority over what happens to your kidneys than you yourself.
In a state that is already pissed off at Uber no less. Any uber-like operation is gonna get squashed by the .gov before it can get off the ground.
They’re protesting. Shocker. Not surprising, given their business model is built on taking advantage of their drivers working themselves and their vehicles into the bone. They did not design their company to equitably distribute the share of profit and productivity gains, they are an extractive company.
one very useful tool for tagging and tag governance, is https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian you can setup policies to auto tag things with creators, and enforce tag policies, enforce valid vocabularies, and work through remediation and notification workflows. There's even a standalone tool to do retro-active tagging on resource creators via cloud trail querying (c7n_trailcreator).

disclaimer: maintainer on cloud custodian
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front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129977
Over $300 and no Ctrl key.
> national healthcare

Let me anecdotally tell you that a large healthcare program has not been good in my experience. Single Payer maybe good though so long as there is choice and competition.

Another consideration is that the US has been setup to allow a sort of localism where states can design their own solutions. It might be best for each system to be setup as a state level item.
Shoot me an email for more details on the SOC2 (trey@).

We're unlikely to support private cloud in the near term.
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Satellite internet options would seem to be the most effective solution long term...short term though? I have no idea.
I think it's more like "gig workers" were created to try to do an end run around hard won protection for workers.
The idea that someone driving (or waiting for pickups) 40+ hours a week is somehow different is different than somehow different than someone (e.g.) doing tech support for 40+ hours a week is absurd.
Sync with PC requires Windows. Smh.
No he's not. This is no different than someone working the morning shift at McDonald's and working the evening shift at Burger King. It should work exactly the same as that.
Really, is there no such thing as over-regulation, in your mind? No red tape too sticky? No hoop too high to jump through?
This is an overly broad statement. Everywhere I've worked where I'm expected to be reachable by phone offered a stipend to pay for the service. And all of them were respectful of my personal time.

An abusive employer is going to make unreasonable demands of you, regardless of whether you use your personal phone for work.
which meds are you taking?
I know you know this, but just to clarify for other people, "Every Rust compiler is a cross compiler" is only true for pure Rust code. You'll still need a C cross-compiler toolchain to link your final binary, and any Rust libraries that are bindings to external libraries and expect those libraries' C headers / link objects to be pre-installed [1] will need said external libraries' C headers / link objects to be available for the target architecture.

So the availability of a C cross-compiler toolchain can affect your ability to compile Rust code for foreign architectures. As a concrete example, at $dayjob we need to compile our code for CentOS 7 armv7 and aarch64, but CentOS 7 does not have a usable cross-compiler toolchain in its repos [2], so we have to run the build process in a centos7 arm container running under qemu.

[1]: Eg openssl-sys is bindings to openssl and expects you to have installed the equivalent of your distro's openssl-devel package. In cross-compilation scenarios, this means installing the openssl-devel package for the foreign arch. For debian you'd do something like `dpkg --add-architecture armhf; apt install libssl-dev:armhf`

[2]: What it has is only for cross-compiling the kernel, so there's no cross glibc available to link the final binary to.
Put up or shut up fool. Anyone can write a blog asking for a rewrite. Until you start taking real actions, you can't be taken seriously by the people who actually matter to these projects.
Apple, Google using slave and child labor?
>>We asked 950 currently employed Americans..
and the title goes "70% of Americans Say"

Isn't the sample size miniscule to make such a big statement?
I think the logic works in exactly the same way as with roads, power, sewer, water, etc., Just because the mode of access is intangible does not depreciate the importance of the resource.

Do you feel there is justification for our roadways being classified as a public utility? How does that logic work?

I feel the analogy of calling the internet an "information superhighway" is extremely apt here.
Pascal had a single defacto implementation (UCSD Pascal at first, Borland later) for each of the platforms so that wasn't really much of an issue. Ada is a standardized language.

And C and C++ (especially C++) were not standardized for a long time and even after they were, most programs relied a lot on compiler-specific behavior.

Pascal does have sum types (called variant records) and AFAIK had those since the beginning. Not sure about how exactly Ada does its memory management, but AFAIK it isn't a free-for-all like in C or C++, most dynamic objects are stored in containers which handle memory and any custom memory management must be done in explicitly designated ways (which it doesn't sound very different than Rust's unsafe code).

So while Rust does add some stuff, i do not think that they are that much of an improvement over other existing languages (remember that many thought C was a step backwards compared to what other languages provided even at the time). Rust may add a lot compared to C, but very little when compared to other languages.

Also note that i brought up Pascal and Ada as examples here, but those aren't the only alternatives to C and C++ that existed, just a couple that came to my mind. Of course there have been other languages.
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AWS adds 252.0.0.0/10, formerly “Reserved for Future Use” in RFC 3330
Have unicorns created an implicit threat of gambler's ruin with Uber taking the role of the house in this instance?

Let's call it "startup's ruin".
> Is it worth the effort to write a "X should switch to Rust" post that ends with "but I personally don't have the appetite to do it"?

Could it be that he agrees in principle that Rust is the way to go but for some reasons (time, interest, etc) he does not want to do it.
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Both of those things are open source, incidentally :)

Yeah, it's tough to get the combo of all of those things, for other reasons too. I would probably want to first reach for VS: Code, which uses ripgrep for search. But that's a "important component written in Rust", rather than a whole-Rust project. There's tons of tools like ripgrep, which is the most well-known, but it's hard to say how popular they are. And there are things like 1password, which do run on people's machines, but aren't open source.

I actually have recently seen a bug report that implies something really, really huge in this space, but I don't want to jinx it, so I'm not gonna link just yet. We'll see :)
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A PhD wouldn't be granted for reformulating quantum mechanics?

Keep in mind, the Schrödinger equation was published less than 20 years prior to Feynman's PhD.