skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in a similar kind of role recently, in a large public retail company.

The only advice I'd give would be to lean hard on finding, maturing, and then advertising end-user champions.

Cross-department / -traditional boundary products are frustratingly difficult to push top-down, as the leader of the space that "owns" the product (i.e. IT) doesn't directly see the value, because they're not the end user (business).

What mostly work for me was being as loud as possible with open-attendence educational events, continually taking meetings from interested areas, and then mentoring developing teams.

The goal is to help them create a killer product using your product, such that (highly-placed leader on their side) talks to (your leader) in glowing terms about your product. And that usually happens because your product helped them get a win that moved an important metric to them.

Hint: Ask them about things they've always wanted to do, but couldn't because it was technically impractical. There's probably at least one diamond in there that would be "easy" with your product.

Hint2: Think more broadly about the kind of thing you're trying to do, and get your team in that area. I've worked under CFOs as often as I've worked under CTOs, because "saving money" is near and dear to the former.

(Adapt as necessary to how French government works. Good luck!)
> Are they not being treated as a commodity to suit a need in that moment?

Kant calls this: using people as a means to an end.
That's great!

Is the driver also performant?
> "It's not posted on SHD as the issue has impacted our ability to post there."

At the risk of stating the obvious...why host your status page of a service on something that depends on that service?!
The ugly part of this is that it hampers legitimate uses of MAC addresses. People discover news devices in their network via MAC addresses and if a device constantly changes it, then it might be blocked because it is unknown.
It's pretty verbose, but it is useful in the sense that you have type-safety between character groups and the control characters. It's neat that it only allows you to create valid Regexes (I hope it does). At least you have static safety that your parenthesis for capture group are properly closed.

This advantage is not explained. Not being able to construct invalid regular expressions is a good static safety guarantee that you don't get when you embed DSLs as strings.

Edit: This is the same reason why we would prefer jOOQ to embedded String-SQL, if speed/dependencies are of no concern. You're not allowed to construct invalid SQL as the java-type-system gives you these guarantees when using an embedded DSL instead of a String-DSL. This is very powerful, but of course only works if the type system of the host language is powerful enough.
Why is criticizing on a random forum "holding them accountable". Its pretty simple to hold them accountable, ask your service rep for refund based on contract SLA. Anything else is just soapbox grandstanding for the purpose of internet karma points
friends don’t let friends use us-east-1.
We do know, though. Or at least we know what he claimed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suddenly-says-i...
No, you are not. These "verbal" expressions are nothing more than a builder for actual expression. So you can't actually use it without understanding regular expressions.
So this just happened to a friend of mine who used managed.com, which was down for a week last week because of a ransomware attack. Didn't really get mentioned here, but that was a lot of websites.

Instead of stressing about getting his sites back up, he was stressing that he'd never get any of his data or code back and that he couldn't contact his 100,000s of users because he didn't even have a recent backup of the database with all of the emails.

Even his DNS settings went down as those sort of sites push you to making them the nameservers.

I ended up telling him about wayback machine just so he could get a homepage set up.

He'd relied on their claims that they managed his backups for him, but when they went down, it took down his ability to even access the backups, and they wouldn't do anything, I assume in case those backups were infected too.

So in fact if you're blindly relying on an external provider, it's even more risky than hosting yourself. At least the stuff you self host you are almost pushed to back up to something like S3, and both won't go down.
Apple tried selling Xserves for years.
I'd say the bigger issue are the different regex implementations. If you use Java, Javascript and grep you already have to know the peculiarities of each implementation...
Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance
> As I recall, the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden and disavow Al Qaeda, which is why they were invaded.

My recollection was that the Taliban asked for evidence of Osama Bin Laden's involvement in the September 11th attacks. The US didn't provide it and subsequently invaded.
500MJ is enough energy to flash-boil 200Kg of water, so that might work. Would be a sizeable steam explosion, as the 330 or so cubic meters of instantaneously created steam tries to go somewhere, and an interesting pressure wave in the water tank.
Healthy and Fitness App
My #1 priority for WebRTC is, someone needs to build some APIs.

We should be able to bring whatever client we want. That each of these different solutions is totalizing, that everyone has to use the same site, the same client, to talk together, is most unfortunate.

With better protocols, I could use a client that works for me, you could use a client that works for you. As the stack expands this gets problematic- white boards, messaging, document editing- these are additional concerns, & are good to have, part of the package, but I'd like to see video chat made interoperable as a starting place.
K so they avoided that problem, but something similar has obviously gone wrong again, considering that Kinesis had been partially or fully down for almost an hour before the status page got their first update.

And the fact remains that currently an outage of AWS's own infrastructure is impacting AWS's ability to status updates on its own status dashboard. It's just seems so... amateurish.
meaning "42" is the answer to "what is the question"?

curious to hear what would be the answer to "42?"
The problem is that the economies of scale are invested in and enjoyed by the biggest players first, so by the time they can be enjoyed by the smaller farms the markets have already adjusted to make it a necessity just to stay above water.
I believe that public service should be limited to 12 years. All public service. All of it, combined, and ever. Want to be a police office, and a senator, and president? You can, but all of those have to be limited to 12 (not necessarily consecutive) years.

An influx of new people will do the following:

- Reduce graft and nepotism and corruption as a whole.

- Constantly bring fresh eyes to old processes.

- Increase and improve knowledge sharing.

- Provide people with a safety net while bringing them working skills that can be applied outside of government.

- Give more people a chance to understand how and why the government works. It will make them more sympathetic for others when dealing with bureaucracy of government and make them feel like they are a stakeholder in the process.

The concept of professional politicians is a new one. It is a sign that we have all given up on our ability to understand and participate in the democratic process. We should all be engaged and feel like we can be part of the process, at any level in the process.
Status pages, like SLAs, are sales tool - not engineering tools. At best, they are there to help decision makers go through their checklist. At worse, they exist to deceive.
I'm genuinely curious, is there any organization that actually uses this or would? Not experimentally, but as a rational cost/benefit choice?

I wholeheartedly applaud their motivation in building this... but these are mission-critical tools for businesses and organizations. And this product is competing with Google, Microsoft, Zoom, etc. who have literally thousands of developers working on these things.

And it's not like Google/Microsoft charge exorbitant amounts for their products, and they even have free tiers for things like education, nonprofits, and consumer use.

So I love the hacker spirit in this... but at the same time feel like I have to realistically question what it's leading to?
So we’ve got a vast and beautiful ecosystem that grew up in the cracks of our planned garden.

Let’s scrap all that and build another planned garden.
"I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency..."[0] discussed here [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/apgwoz/status/1292519906433306625?s=20

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103746
Developer certificates are enough to figure out you're opening, say Tor, or Telegram.

See this thread for people discussing this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25095438

When they implement a toggle for switching this off, along with data encryption, then this particular concern becomes a non-issue.
A penny stock worth $20K dollars. Right.
> Admittedly, I'm kind of cheating by using Linux instead of Windows/Mac.

I don’t think that is cheating. I was primarily thinking of my own work development environment in macOS but comparing that to Linux is perfectly valid. Again though, I didn’t mean to say, “I bet you can’t name a single program that doesn’t use the Internet!” I just meant to point out that programs using the Internet are probably a fairly considerable majority for most regular users.

I use KeepassXC on macOS and it definitely does check for updates. Does it not do that on Linux?
I've never had a non-eInk Kindle, so maybe it is different for them, but I've had eInk Kindles both with and without ads. My first was without ads. Since you can add the "without ads" option to a "with ads" Kindle later by paying the difference, I bought my second with ads to see how bad it was.

Here are the only differences I've noticed:

• With ads, the sleep screen displays some artwork from a book Amazon is selling [1] and some text suggesting you come to the store and buy books,

• The home screen has an ad at the bottom.

Since when I'm not using the Kindle the sleep screen is hidden behind the cover, and when I am using it I'm somewhere other than the home screen 99.9% of the time, I never saw any reason to add the "without ads" option, and when it was time to replace that Kindle I again went with ads.

I suspect that the vast majority of people that buy the "no ads" option up front do so because when they see "with ads" they are envisioning a web-like experience where the ads are all over the place and intrusive and animated and distracting.

[1] Usually a romance novel for me, even though I've never bought any romance novels from Amazon, nor anything even remotely like a romance novel. In fact, I don't think any book I've bought from them even had any romantic relations between any of its characters.
Filesystem and Database are not cutting the problem space right
I feel the same way.

To be clear: I understand why subscriptions work well for developers. As a consumer, I'm finding I have an enormous amount of subscriptions and it becomes harder and harder to justify an additional $1/month, $5/month, etc. for an app.

Maybe that means I'll be more selective in what I buy, which doesn't hurt. But it does lead to a "well that's a bummer" when I find a cool app I'd be willing to pay an up-front fee for, but realize it's subscription.

Right now I'm using Obsidian, which has been awesome, but it doesn't have a native UI feel to me.
Bitbucket Experiencing Failures
This is Marketing, Traction, Monetising Innovation, check this small but great post out too: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/selling-before-you-build-f...
Sorry for the double-reply, but I realize I didn't address the meat of your comment.

> When people hold a self-perception of what they do that is wildly at odds with what you think they do, it's often because folks who actively believe they are doing bad for the world are often so bitter that nobody wants to be around them.

I don't agree with this, at least as applied to my comment. There's a wide, wide gulf of reasonableness between "what I do is unhelpfuly and unworthy" and "everyone in my industry is an omnibenevolent, maximally-selfless angel". I'm quite proud of the work I do without thinking this, and as I mentioned in my previous comment, if my sister had a possibly-irrational but not totally-unreasonable greater pride in her work, I wouldn't blame her at all. But doctors who consider themselves a separate moral species from human beings aren't just egomaniacs, they're _dangerous_ (as I said, my sister luckily grew out of this a little bit).
There's also the understanding that working with someone doesn't mean taking an inappropriate interest in their gender identity, their romantic interests, their health, how they vote, and so on.
Much more then thousands, WAY more.

Somebody else in this thread says:

> there are 608 million farms in the world
More and more very highly esteemed journalists, not pundits, are starting to voice their concerns about this more and more publicly. At the same rate they are being censored. I wouldn't be surprised if Snowden gets a pardon before inauguration. Imagine that. How the tables turn.
I omitted specific examples as it's just really tricky to make them general. It really depends on the environment, intended audience (kernel programmers are not Rails programmers), and most of all: what you're doing.

For example, sometimes a single function with 5 parameters would be bad UX, whereas in other cases it might be a good option, if all 5 really are mandatory for example, or if you use Python and have named parameters. In other cases, it makes more sense to have 5 functions which accepts a single parameter (no one likes "foo(true, true, false, true, false)").

Not all GUIs are the same either; specialist tools can get away with certain "difficult" UI conventions, since people will be trained for those tools, whereas GUIs can't. A lot of design choices are trade-offs without a single objectively "best" solution.

I actually trimmed down the article quite a lot from the original draft I wrote over a year ago, since I didn't want to get bogged down in "details" about these kind of things, as I could think of a whole bunch of exceptions for every general piece of advice. So instead I opted to try and get the bigger point across that an API (any API) is something humans need to interact with, and is a "user interface".

As for documentation: yeah, I agree. I actually like writing documentation and I'm often dismayed by the poor quality documentation out there, even from people or organisations I know can do better.
the question is, what the executives get paid, and what the traders get paid, in comparison to what the engineers get paid, and then also in what conditions you need to work as an engineer.
It simulates many subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top?t=all
There is a direct intellectual line of descent from classical liberals to 1960s liberals to the woke vocal elitists dominating tech culture, academia, and corporate media today. But liberal is no longer a good noun to represent them.
Firefighters get something in return for being firefighters. Otherwise, it is slavery, and it is indeed feasible to argue against any slavery. The animals in the farm get nothing in return, don't have a choice. It is hard to argue their life is better than no life at all.

No matter how philosophical you get, it is possible to be vegan, you only have to sacrifice some pleasure. If you value your pleasure over the miserable life of the animal, that certainly is something one can criticise without being inconsistent because "humans also need to work to buy food".

If you actually want to argue for better workers' rights and redistribution from the rich to the poor, to end the missery of the working man: I think that is a good point :)
Very interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
Vote is tomorrow at 3PM in the Bundestag.
This is a gross over-simplification of an incredibly complex problem. For those interested in an analysis that goes beyond 140-character insights, please read A Small Farm Future by Chris Smaje. And for those uninterested, be cautious of these "common sense" hot takes.
OAuth device authorization grant in bash
I’ve found that it’s not easy to lose weight and maintain it by cutting calories. It requires serious and disciplined changes in the total portions of food (which is one factor) over a lifetime. Even with discipline, I lost a few but gained almost all of it back with just a few days of slippage. That was disappointing.

Working out to compensate for a piece of cake or some other food is a total non-starter. You calculate and compare the calories (between food and exercise) and realize that intake control is the only place you can (as an average person) work on for decent results. This is all the more so if your genetic or bodily makeup is such that it’s easier to gain weight than lose it.
This has been the state of IPFS for years now. The protocol and client haven't been developed to where they can work reliably in a real P2P scenario. IPFS only appears to work because most requests go strait to one of the big gateways which already has the content cached.

Development of IPFS slowed to a crawl when most of Protocol Labs switched to working on Filecoin. It remains to be seen if either Filecoin or IPFS will ever be viable for their intended purpose.
Simpsons is on Fox isn't it. It all makes sense now.
> The difference is that the Romans had no way of telling if their theory was right, it was based on guesses.

That's true, but it doesn't stop people from doing things that are "correct" based on the theory.

> But the Greeks had no way of detecting atoms.

There's an experiment in which you pour oil over water with a movable constraint on one side. As you enlarge the area available to the oil, it will eventually become unable to cover the water, suggesting that it is not infinitely divisible. This is well within the means of the Ancient Greeks.

Oil molecules are gargantuan monstrosities, not atoms, but I think it's similar enough to count.
If you are looking for pretty websites you misunderstand what is going on.

People who want to create actual value for other people, don't spend time endlessly polishing look and feel of their landing page.

The content of this is informational value and networking for people, not polished graphics.

Companies can throw money in design because they get revenue from it. Individual open source contributors who are not paid for their effort don't get revenue from the design but rather reward from the actual value they provide to other people.
A couple years ago I did multiple days fast for about a year then I did a 15 days fast.

My stomach wasn't hungry but my brain wanted to eat. This experience burned my motivation to basically starve myself and now I can't even do a one day fast, the mood isn't just there.

> keeping distracted

This is probably the key. I was bored to death and was watching YT cooking videos.
Not sure why this is being downvoted so much. We all know it.

"Bury head into sand" comes to mind.
> When all the errors go in one direction, it "smells a lot like smoke", as you put it.

This is true, and it's why I have consistently characterized the Russiagate investigation as overwrought with regard to direct election interference.

But you're the one making unequivocal claims about the NYT publishing misinformation. At this point, it's clear that you're not interested in trying to defend the lie and would rather argue in circles about exactly how trustworthy the newspaper is.

All you have to do is link to a single NYT piece on the investigation which contains clear misinformation. (That would still leave your comments on intent and propaganda unsubstantiated, but we would be much closer than we were five comments ago.)
I had disconnected my router, so I don't think Google was going to pick up the connection again.

At the very least, there's no sense in which the page loading (or map route finding, etc) was farther along at t=2 than it was at t=1 when the connection was removed, so for Google to be telling me it's making progress in that situation is a transparent lie.

Unless the information they're trying to convey with the progress bar is simply that "time is passing", which I'm well aware of.
R/CoinBase – What is happening to coinbase?
I am also having problems personally with blocked cryptocurrency and inability to sell despite being a verified account, getting "User is unable to sell" error.

Do any of you have the same problems too?
Marcus Aurelius wrote about "disturbed air" around 160 AD, about the Antonine Plague that killed a significant portion of military and civilians.

> For corruption of understanding is much more a plague than such a distemper and change of this environing atmosphere; for this is a plague to animals, as animate beings, that is a plague to men, as human beings.
HTMX is awesome, by the way. Thank you for making it!

I use it in combination with Python dominate and tailwind.css to write UI components that I can just plug together in a dataflow model at the back-end, and so far it's working amazingly well ... it's well on it's way to becoming a no-code application and UI framework..
> given that distributing copyrighted materials violates the IPFS Code of Conduct

Everyone has wishes, but wishes aren’t enforceable. It’s the equivalent of “Stop! Or I’ll say stop again!”
Exactly. Not even 2008, maybe dotcom era.
Once you start thinking about it, it's mind boggling that we have thousands of languages and yet most of them don't have built-in facilities to construct and parse grammars (at least context-free ones). Every single designer seems to think that their language is finally good enough and will not be used as a starting point for another one.
>AI researchers are staking major claim on all these amazing things GPT-3 can and will do.

I don't think they are, at all. Certainly outside of OpenAI there is a huge amount of skepticism...
They do exactly that already.

https://aws.amazon.com/legal/service-level-agreements/
Figma is able to import and export svg files pretty well (for my purposes) - I wonder if that's sufficient for a good number of workflows/projects?

I doubt the click-through presentation stuff can be exported in any way, but basic design work could be persisted and collaborated on by multiple people with different tools if that approach was used.
It's unfortunate that this is necessary, but it seems that some are taking the above a bit too seriously (I had thought I offered sufficient signals that this was firmly tongue-in-cheek). So, for the record, I am thoroughly in the target market for this sort of thing, and even I enjoy a little frisson of delight at imagining unpacking this monstrosity in a student lab or at a client site. That said, I do also believe that it has little productive purpose---it is difficult to imagine a technical use case that couldn't be better and more easily served by carrying a largish spare monitor (perhaps in a blatantly ruggedized case replete with DefCon stickers to maintain the tone.)

However, I do not believe it is completely useless. I just think that the uses are primarily in the categories I propose above: conspicuous consumption, in-group signalling, or pure nihilism. And which of us has never made an extravagant purchase in support of those? Certainly not I.
Someone attacked our company – Fathom Analytics
Russ Roberts brings a conservative perspective to his interview program EconTalk. (Russ describes himself as a 'classical liberal' rather than as a Conservative.) Though originally primarily focused on economics, the show's topics have become increasingly diverse in recent years. Russ' conversations with people he disagrees with are his best in my opinion and are always respectful and edifying.