skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed! If your priorities are e.g. high reliability, it is a good idea to vet any potential software that you are planning to use, and maybe it will have to be written from scratch if existing solutions are found to be outside of the expected specs.
But even with such a product, you will have other pieces and parts: think about collecting metrics, marketing tools maybe, obscure internal admin UIs...selecting software for that probably does not need to be evaluated under the same extreme scrutiny as the "critical control software".
Some Arm processors that you can buy today also support dual-core lock step in hardware, such as the Jetson AGX Xavier from Nvidia. (however, not enabled by default for perf reasons, because you halve your cores by design in that mode)

It's there for safety reasons for automotive. (see https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/20/xavier-achieves-ind... )
I've been hiring dev ops engineers lately, and the consensus seems to be in the candidates I've talked to that all of the cloud providers are somewhat painful to work with.

I've worked the most with AWS so I'll use it as an example, but it seems like they sell on "new services", so they are incentivized to release quickly, which leads to services with a lot of holes and poor documentation, making it almost essential to get paid support to work around these issues.

It makes me wonder what it would look like to build a minimal cloud product which focused on a few core services with an emphasis on reliability, performance and developer ergonomics.
Open in OpenVM has the same background as OpenSTEP, or OpenGroup, meaning open standards, not free beer.
Chromium still depends on Google for certain features. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#feature-overvi...
> . The difference is I believe the company you pay is just whoever owns the local infrastructure, and they take care of buying / supplying on the wholesale market.

But in that case there is no competition. They buy on the wholesale market, but since they have a monopoly there is no incentive for them to lower the prices they charge to the customer. Here there is aggressive competition on price.
I really enjoyed the section about working with the search engine and how we typically use search. Naturally, when we come across a problem we search to find solutions. When your problems are generic, it's easy to find an article that gives you an exact answer, but the deeper problems that you work on or the more specific they are, the less likely you'll find an article you can follow to fit your needs. That's where it's important to form models and sharpen tools for inference. It's more likely that you'll have to read a handful of articles and take segments from each article to formulate an answer.
I'm not seeing the problem with the legacy network, but there is a potential security issue with needing DSA and 3DES for SSH - However others below have mentioned it's probably not practical to implement attacks against those on this device due to throughput limitations.

... in which case maybe it's all good?
The actual answer is that it’s unique staff users who log in per month, not unique number of logins that exist.

You can create an account for everyone you occasionally work with, so long as you only log in with two of those accounts in any given month.
You could see it in the history of countries that went through a socialist phase (such as Russia): it works, until it doesn't.

As soon as there is no personal incentive (or real ability) to improve things, the tech sector starts to stagnate and fall behind the rest of the world.
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Just because it's hard doesn't make it optional. If you operate at the scale of Instagram, yes, it becomes very hard, but the companies typically have both the revenues and expert staffing to do it.

And if they don't, they're mismanaged and need to allocate more resources to it, because it's illegal not to, for good reason.
Only for the most trivial bugs, though (as non-dependent type systems can't express anything but trivial properties). Still, it's better than nothing.
I think that is what is being said. Effexor is not addictive in the ‘traditional’ sense addictive drugs are, but you’re brain and body become dependent on them in ways you don’t realize until you’re trying to come off of them. And because it is a process to find the right medication, you don’t want to be starting and stopping those kinds of medications over and over. A stimulant may be seen as more addictive (due to the potential for abuse / dopamine release), but starting Ritalin then switching to adderall, then say vyvanse, is a less invasive process than starting Effexor then coming off and switching to Wellbutrin etc
Isn't Wikipedia just that?
I'm not a "startup" guy. I've worked at many places and I've helped a lot of SMB's turn around their company with only a decently designed website and some better customer service.

One thing I have always said is that you can have a million good reviews. But it will be only one that will be the downfall of your company.

This reminds me of that. This was an opportunity to fix what the user was complaining about. Instead the CEO's behavior clearly shows what kind of support to expect when you're unhappy with the service. I've complained publicly about gmail before, never would I think I would have my account removed and data deleted by the CEO. "LIKE US OR I WILL BAN YOU!"
I believe you are confusing software engineering with programming
Yes. I remember when I first tried Chrome. It launched within 10 seconds while Firefox 3? 4?, my default browser back then, took almost half a minute to launch. It was fast.
Step 1 is to stop emigrating from India to the US the moment you get a chance. I'm guilty of it as are many of my friends but it doesn't help develop a country when their brightest minds don't have enough faith to stay.
CaseCrawler Adds Robotic Legs So Your Phone Can Charge Itself
Here's a non-paywalled article: https://ladailypost.com/lanl-simulating-quantum-time-travel-...

Here is the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07267

They are using the linearity to say that the effect is not magnified as it would be classically, but it is in the context of repairing damage done by a measurement.
That have to do what upper management does or get fired.
It's not just copper vs fiber though: by the time of reunification West Germany was already mostly done with the transition from cheap overhead wiring to the luxury of invisible (and storm-proof) underground cables. A return to putting up poles would have felt like the cliche of a failing businessman telling his trophy wife that they can't afford the country club membership anymore. Its much harder to give up an expensive habit than to never start.

I'm sure that there are "underground wiring" countries with widespread fiber deployment and that Germany is doing worse than those, but comparisons to places where overhead is still accepted are skewed.
Oh jees, is that what's happening? If they're only building for telemetry data, theyre screwed. Gonna end up with a browser for people who think the internet is a series of tubes.
The Ghost CEO did precisely the wrong thing.

But anyone who has had to support thousands of customers can spot this customer as toxic.

The irony here is that the toxic customer gave the CEO the solution: restrict functionality so users don’t get surprised.
> At which point was the customer rude here?

The customer was a little aggressive in their opening email when they described Ghost's business practices as shady, but I'd still consider it in-bounds for a professional email.

Then, before Ghost's support had a chance to engage with this customer, the customer publicly tweeted about the problem in a way that implied that Ghost was intentionally ripping off customers.

I would encourage anyone reading this to stop for a moment and think back to the projects they've worked on, either for an employer or as a side project. How many of those projects explicitly aimed to defraud paying customers? Even a single one?

Now, how many of those projects had to deal with customers that rudely complained about something that ended up being a misunderstanding on their part, or were simply abusing the support staff as a way of getting a refund or some other type of free service? Practically everyone who has ever had to deal with any type of customer support has encountered that behavior -- "Karen" caught on as a widely-understood stereotype for a reason.

Ghost's CEO likely reacted the way he did because he has enough experience to quickly categorize customers who reach out for support, and concluded (probably correctly) that this customer would continue to be unreasonable, would end up being a net drain on both revenue and team morale, and that refunding the customer and banning their account would be the quickest and least distracting way forward.

I can't fault Ghost here. Dealing with people that immediately drag your name through the mud for every perceived slight is exhausting, and for a low-fee service like Ghost, can very quickly erase whatever margin they may be making. And frankly, as someone that's tired of the increasingly polarized and hateful discourse on social media these days, it's refreshing to see a business that's willing to clamp down on incivility, even if it means lost revenue.
Given enough time (heat death of the universe) the macro word certainly doesn't have the butterfly effect. It's generally used in reference to shorter time scales.
bro if you had a permit, handgun, and a Jewish lawyer you could have blown that hobos brains out and had a story to tell when you returned to mother russia.
Special?

I think what makes them interesting is that now I have a lot of choice in which classes to take... maybe someone will set up a "Rotten Tomatoes" site to rate online classes.

I don't want to take every single NLP class, but if I take one here, and don't quite get it, perhaps the Google (or Stanford, or whoever) course will make it click for me, or offer some alternative insight or useful method.

So I'm glad they're putting them up. Thanks Amazon!
If they offered certs they could (perhaps) allow the holders to skip one stage of interviews

For all that is holy I hope not - speaking as a consultant who works at AWS. I held a number of AWS certifications before being hired. I used them mostly as a guided learning path to help me know what I didn’t know. I also had “enough” real world experience as both a developer and working with AWS’s fiddly bits to be useful relatively quickly when I started working here.

I saw far too many “paper tigers” when I was in the real world who have all of the certifications you could imagine but couldn’t pass my relatively simple tech screen when I was hiring operations people to take some of the load off of me so I could concentrate on some development projects.

Certifications in no way prove competency.
Yes! Ever since I read that I’ve caught myself thinking of cosmic radiation as ‘the pain of space’.
A spectrum can have sharp peaks.
Hasn’t the quantum project been successful? It seemed like project accomplished to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164058

It’s not like they binned servo and decided not to use it improve ff. It did improve ff.

They seem to have decided that’s done and finished now. And there’s no longer any need to work on it - whether that’s a wise move or not is obviously up for debate.
Is this free? I would expect a release blog post to contain more basic details and fewer internal marketing links.
Isn't the question: 'do you want to enable some form of autoscaling?' the only one necessary here? How many other questions need to be asked? Sure - you can ask more if they select yes but otherwise that's the end of it, no?
It gives maintainers legal protections and prospective users some idea/promises of the project governance. In the past, it gave you infrastructure too, but that is not so relevant anymore.
Xi’s New Economy
The only option I can see as an alternative "minimal" cloud is one that runs Kubernetes on one of the "mid-tier" hosting platforms.

DigitalOcean, Linode, heck even OVH now have K8s offerings with ready-to-go (and free) control node/panel instances.

Of course K8s isn't shallow but at least when you master their way of doing things you're free to go and do whatever you want.

It's cheaper too.
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Mozilla is doomed when it's held to such an impossible standard (such as being "spyzilla" for supporting TLS PKI).

All this poo-pooing on Mozilla doing anything less than paranoid-extreme makes people leave for other browsers, which aren't any better, and often are way worse for privacy.
By the way, where is the evidence for your claims that a small change in performance equals large market share?
Unfortunately I understand that Azure is not exactly what one would call "mature software". I have a colleague who's been using it for a few months, and he complains about it constantly. He's had to submit a couple of pull requests for somewhat silly issues like string escaping not working properly.
Yeah but I think that diffuses everywhere after it happens, the humidity thing is a more localized effect.
Another source of outrage on Twitter is the snark.

There's one statistician on Twitter that I check periodically. They often post links to interesting papers. Unfortunately they often post snarky remarks as well. Recently they called Nate Silver naive in a fairly condescendingly way. There was no explanation about why the Nate Silver tweet they were responding to was naive, just an assertion and condescension. The level of casual disrespect among Twitter users is awful.

https://twitter.com/cubic_logic/status/1293916568615673858
London is not the U.K.
Not that I could ever endorse such behaviour but have you tried calling on Alexandra, patron saint of the paywalled scientist?
The fact that most people are there mostly for the money (which I'm pretty sure is the case) actually works in their favor if they wanted to prioritize maintenance more. Currently people don't do it because they're not rewarded for it, not because they don't care. It's actually far easier to steer people towards certain behaviors if you have lots of money and all you need to do is give more or fewer RSUs or bonus $$s.
hehe, I'm pretty sure that's way longer than the non-stanby time of this blackberry.
What the article describes is a simple consequence of the Curry-Howard equivalence, that function types correspond to logical implication, and constructors are just a special case of function types.
Not kind of a dick move. It was a dick move. Having said that, the CEO did even worse.
It is not about "cannot be done". Most high-level languages are Turing complete, hence every program in one can be written as some program in another.

The real clincher is expressiveness: shorter code is better, modular code is better, and languages which avoid unnecessary repetitiveness of boiler plate code is better. Different languages provide advantages along one or more of these parameters.
They just meant in terms of "x language is typically used for tasks y, z".

Of course you can do most all things in most all languages, but often times you can infer CRUD/web dev from PHP, for example, and would be far less likely to come across a PHP game developer.
Interestingly enough this resilience of fungus, and even mold [0], to radiation has been a bit of a problem on the ISS [1].

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190627121252.h...

[1] https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/2019/11/01/mold-space-nas...
There is map in Python, but nowhere near as nice as in JavaScript IMO.
That sounds like DigitalOcean’s approach.
the main thing here though is the older things you’re moving away from in those cases are still around. AWS didn’t remove classic load balancers and force you onto application load balancers.
It's not like more fiber will change Germany's sucsess in building software companies. I'm sure the issue is much more complex than that.
Please use the original headline of the article. Add own commentary in a comment after submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The managers at Google who authorized the huge as budgets clearly thought the ads did matter.
Make sure it's still signed by Facebook. Whatever good that will do for your privacy. Next question.
>Why do you want people to donate?

Because the hospital is located in a country that was already in crisis and has now sustained damage. This makes it even harder to do their primary work of helping people not die. A donation would help fund the hospital and enable it to continue its work to serve the health of the community.
>There aren't very many benchmarks available on both Android and ARM Linux, but I did try running Speedometer 2.0 across a few devices for comparison ... The Galaxy S20 scored a 37.7, the Stylo 5 received a 7.02, and the PinePhone earned a 5.09.

Hmmm... that might be slightly more useful information, if you told us whether high or low scores were better.
Haha, yes that was the first thing that popped into my head too.

I remember thinkig how ridiculous (but entertaining) an idea that was, like many of his very unusual thoughts. Maybe not so crazy after all!
I deal with our company's 500k+ customers - this tweet would have been a 5 minute email and maybe a slightly short term discount to resolve, perhaps a quick 'mea culpa, we weren't clear; how could we have made part of the TOS more visible for you?' and follow up with a request for input on which situations the customer feels shouldn't be subject to the fee increase (e.g., a temporary viral article as they mentioned)

The article author's complaint barely registers for me as this is something I handle daily; I cannot even imagine the scale you're judging on if this is a toxic customer for you.
As long as wealth means influence, people being rich is inherently anti-democratic.
Show HN: Merge iTunes and Music App Tracks
Do you mean something like this?

https://www.classcentral.com/collection/top-free-online-cour...

It already contains some really interesting ones that I wouldn't have found out otherwise.
I think the latency will go up after launch. They don't have much of the complexity in the system they'll soon need.
https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Assistance

Wow, that's quite dystopian indeed.
FYI, this article is 5 years old.
One of the reasons Linus cites for disliking C++ is he dislikes C++ programmers. He considers the average C++ programer to be of much lower quality than the average C programmer. And I don't really doubt him.

I think the same can be said for FP vs. OOP. People really into FP have passed through a filter. If you take a very mediocre OOP programer and track them over the next 5 years, they are unlikely to get into FP. But if you take a very bright, motivated, curious OOP programmer who likes to test limits and explore, they are a prime candidate for maybe drifting into FP. So I think it's obvious the caliber of FP programmers is higher on average than C++ or Java programmers.

As you say, though, it's possible to write bad code in any language using any programming paradigm. Not just possible, it's trivial! So I don't think FP magically solves all your problems. I think FP has some great properties and does 100% avoid some specific pitfalls that plague OOP, but it's not magic.

Great FP programmers can write amazing programs, but great OO programmers can as well. Just like you can write great (or horrible) literature in English, French, German, or Chinese.
30% is like paying govt taxes... with which govts builds roads, infrastructure, what not. None of the app stores (including many of the alt app stores) needs that much.

>Apple protects its users better than the other major players.

If "other major players" are the baseline, then nothing is going to improve. They all stink.

For example, think why apple made it super easy to approve auto renewing payments but made it so hard to unsubscribe (which is hidden deep in settings).. if that's not dark UX then I don't know what is? Lots of scammy apps make use of this. Do they get removed from the app store inspite of all their negative reviews and customer complaints? mostly not.. best case, takes months..
Not only that I had to go and update some zombie app I've left running on App Engine that I haven't touched in years because I got some email saying "we have changed something, and your app is running Python blah blah and that runtime will blah blah soon. Please log into the Cloud Console..."

I guess you can't just set it and forget it on Google Cloud either even though everything was legit fine at time of deployment; I mean come on, it's a simple Python Rest API, what you want me to do 7 years later? xD
You may be right, I can only give my point of view.

Also, even if I am right, real-world competence may involve more bluffing, less high quality knowledge of algorithms, than I would like.
The solution to this is more qualitative performance evaluations. People are really good at gaming quantitative systems, so once it becomes a rule that more releases == more promotions, people will prioritize that over actual value creation. Same for if maintenance work becomes the metric.

You need the people evaluating performance to really understand the work, and make informed, discretionary decisions about who to promote to maximize real value creation.
Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?
I sometimes interviewed for US companies that stated they will hire an accepted candidate as a remote contractor first, then get the H1B visa process started and relocate within 6 to 24 months.

Is this legal?

If so, why don’t more US companies do this? I’ve heard that companies with about 20 to 40 employees do this [1].

Edit: this blew up, which is really cool! I want to note that it might be wise to view the replies in this thread as inspiration for your own research and not as legal advice.

[1] The hiring managers told me themselves. And Basecamp even states it publicly on their latest job ad.

P.S. If you're in the US/EU/World education space, checkout my profile :)
As pointed out in many places, the launch costs are still being paid for by their lack of funding from other commercial launches. The bulk of the cost is not in launches; it's running an ISP and equipment.
https://archive.vn/ebToZ
A rushed H1N1 vaccine caused narcolepsy, for example. If there was no risk of long-term side effects, why would anyone conduct trials to exclude them?
that's interesting, but I'm not sure it goes as an explanation of "bombing hard".
Protesting at Portland and Seattle . . .
It wouldn't be the first time Germany got shafted by a politician from Austria ;)
Maybe we are moving backwards through time and that’s why we can only see clearly into the past. As GP comment hinted at, it’s a matter of cultural perspective.
> deserted island with no government, you still have the right to free speech without anyone giving it to you

"Rights" do not really make sense if you're the only human around.