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Old tech companies had heavy machinery and workers were relatively easy to train and replace. The high-tech companies are nothing without their workers. I think in the future the high tech employees unions will be able to steer a larger share of profits towards themselves.
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Seems silly to worry about quarterly stats several hours into an outage. The most obvious explanation is quarterly stats aren't generated in real-time -- which isn't "shady" to me.
Witnessed this when Google went down in December. Seems like a thundering herd problem with tech folk flocking to HN for updates/discussion/gloating
Probably just some technicality to try and escape litigation wrt SLAs for their bit corporate contracts.
Other than the status page, I can't get anything displayed on the screen.
Hopefully they have a backup system for internal comms
I doubt the rotation speed is 1/s, that would imply pi*220m/s at the tips or 2488 km/hour! Based on animations, it looks more like 1 rotation per 20 or 30 seconds. 20-30kWh seems very reasonable for a house's consumption.
Over years of being a CEO of social media agency I have heard about a lot of such situations. Also we were helping small businesses that was harmed by Facebook actions. Sometimes it was possible to fix it, sometimes not.

In this particular case I strongly believe the platform developed was competing with Facebook and it may be the cause Facebook shut it down.

It is my personal opinion however and may be not true.

But all of my experience and knowledge tells me so.

There might be that public pressure will force Facebook to reenable the business and I hope it will happen.

However there are a lot of businesses that was shut down and died because there they wasn't able to put a pressure on Facebook.

It is the main reason why Facebook in particular should be prevented from making more harm, and we should all do everything what is possible to not be dependant on 3rd party companies.
Oh trust me, it gets much much worse after unionization, since businesses have little ability to let go of unproductive workers.
Not a bad theory.

I used to work for a place that had a FY that ended in summer. We had a lot less problems with stuff being shoveled out the door at Thanksgiving and Christmas because nobody was trying to finish their year-end performance goals over the Holidays.

I think what I'm implying is that management creates this issue, but we are complicit.
I'm not aware of a high-quality source discussing this. I'd be interested in seeing one. Off the top of my head:

* In many languages, monomorphization is impractical. Eg, in C it requires macros or external code generators. Java and Go don't even have macros. So it's rarely done. Instead, stuff uses type erasure, dynamic dispatch, more heap allocations, and tables like the ones described in that dave.cheney.net link. Maybe some JITs or even some ahead-of-time compilers do monomorphization internally in some cases, but I'm speculating rather than speaking from knowledge.

* In C++ and Rust, monomorphization is easy. You don't have to do it, but it's easy, so many people do. The containers in the standard library are monomorphized. This code can perform very well in any particular case, but in aggregate it's large enough that I have doubts about whether it's always worth it for the whole program.
Web advertising will always be an enigma to me. I would assume that the kind of person who clicks internet ads is not an average person so it must be difficult to create a good ad.
https://cabal.chat/ is a good program. It does not support all of slack's features, but is truly peer-to-peer so there's no central points of failure or servers that can go down. (Well, I suppose if they released a buggy version of the software and you updated, that's a central source, but that's true of most software.)
ML is pretty shitty at causal inference
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My understanding is that the primary bottleneck is clotting factor, which is still harvested naturally from horseshoe crabs. So it's a balancing act between maximizing yield while not collapsing the population.

There's an artificial version, but it was only recently approved by the FDA, so there's not significant industrial capacity.
https://status.slack.com/

Every service is marked as "Outage" as of now (also when I wrote the comment).
>All of that capital was produced by labor

Not all capital is the result of labor. Economists put around a third of modern capital to be the result of labor, around a third from leveraging capital, and around a third created by technology.

Labor, investment, and technology all drive new capital creation.
Struggling for me as well.. reddit is as well. But I'm finding other sites are just fine.
Which is great to detect common issues across many companies. For example, clicking on the cards shows that many of them are related to "network connection".
> without unions.

Conveniently omitting the 20k strong walkout. That's organizing.

I hadn't heard that it was for all cases, kudos to Google. But of course that is just one example among many.
I have always had this fantasy thinking of what happens when outages of one of these major service never come back online i.e. in this outage Slack loses info of all the accounts, users, messages etc.

How would people react? What would engineers do to recover? I always found that idea fascinating.

Imagine Google saying tomorrow that they lost all the accounts and emails. What kind of impact the world will have?
I never knew this, but I think it makes sense. Is there any documentation that explains why this is the case? I suspect it is to distribute bias to the first option, but I'd love to read about it.

[edit] Nevermind, I just needed the right combination of terms to find it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...
It seems more like the majority of borosilicate vials are produced outside of China. It doesn't even look like China has any significant domestic production capacity for the type of high quality chemically inert glass needed for vaccine vials, that's why the tubes for production are mostly imported.

Main producers of vials seem to be SCHOTT, Stevanato Group, Gerresheimer, Corning, and DWK Life Sciences, from Germany, Italy and the US.

SCHOTT alone is looking to increase production until the end of 2021 by about seven billion vials [1], which would be 3.5 times more in additional production output than the complete annual production capacity of Zhengchuan Pharmaceutical, which according to the article is one of China's largest producers.

[1] https://www.pharmtech.com/view/readying-glass-vials-for-vacc...
Large functional codebases have their degree of organization too, be it modules, namespaces or something similar.
Honestly, I don't know. I think I read it somewhere, as explanation for why python is so slow. It made sense to me, that it must be language features. I hope there's someone on HN who can explain it.
The Great Barrington Declaration:

https://gbdeclaration.org/

Signed by literally thousands of experts, doctors and virologists.
Slightly more entertaining:

http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint

This is an IOCCC entry for the world's smallest quine, sizing up at 0 bytes of C. Some C compilers will compile an empty source file into a program which does nothing when executed, i.e. ouputs zero bytes, i.e. is a quine.
Well, sure. Nothing says trustworthy like a brand new anonymous user saying "trust me".
My feeling is some common infrastructure is failing or flailing, like some part of AWS, or some backbone provider. Too many flaky things going on at the same time to be independent failures.
Agreeing how to do 1:1 voice and video is very much part of Matrix's spec: it's right here: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.1#module-voi...

For multiway calls, we currently embed Jitsi as a Widget - but widgets themselves are also (almost) part of the spec - they're MSC1236 (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1236).

Element may be the only client that implements widgets so far, but we expect that to change once MSC1236 finally gets merged into the spec. Meanwhile, "ability to iframe random content into a chatroom" is a pretty useful thing, and solves the whole video conferencing thing fairly nicely.

Finally, in the longer term, we still plan to implement native voice/video conferencing in Matrix as per https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc235... - but for now we'd rather focus on polishing the messaging bits of Matrix.
This isn't your mom's educational labor market. The stats are there to support most assertions in the above reply. They're just inconveniently scattered across the states and not all electronically accessible. I wonder whose interests that serves? When I taught in inner city Paterson back in the mid-90s most teachers worked at least two jobs but still spent many extra hours a week outside normal school time on phone conferences with parents, curriculum development and grading tests/papers, because they all had a full load of classes with 35+ students each. Things weren't much easier down here in NC two decades later where my own kids were in school (our district has a year-round calendar -- so no summers off for teachers). The master's requirement exists in NY, but practically discouraged in other places because school districts didn't want to pay the differential. Sure, none of this approaches the often 24x7x365 experience of many sysadmins and devs (my own tech experience for over 20 years), but it's also far from the bankers' hours myth that's been pushed since at least the 80s.
jgurewitz's post is probably closer to the expectation. $330k/month is a nice chunk of change, but that's their primary revenue that's expected to mostly go to support the rest of their business operations. They're obviously not going to spend all of it on employees to manage that specific account.
Having been in this situation before, with a totally-down-and-not-coming-back-up outage of a payments system, I really feel for their incident response team.

I'll take this moment to remind everyone of their human tendency to read meaning into random events. There's no evidence to suggest New Year traffic has caused this, and outages like this can happen in spite of professional and competent preparation.

Hugops for their team, I hope they get it back soon.
> There’s 1.3 billion Chinese. Their government is capable of being infinitely more organized and long thinking than just about all the others.

Those are the people that inhabit the territory. Don't attribute them all to a single party and to the same set of moral values that the party proclaims. One day it can turn out that their government is a joke, as it had happened before with USSR.
This reads like an outcry from a wolf in sheep's clothing.

I see this as a good sign. I haven't used Facebook in over 6 years and don't intend to. Everything Facebook is piholed on my network. But I'm glad they're starting to kick out trash content producers.

And yeah, like others have said, if you spend ~$60M on Facebook ads (among others), I don't think you can call yourself a small business. This is like those 6 year old companies that still consider themselves startups.

If you make enough revenue from content farms to spend that much on ads AND getting kicked off of Facebook jeopardizes your "business" that much, I'm gonna assume you engage in some dark patterns to collect/sell data of your visitors, or to place ads in shady ways, or some form of SEO pollution. At the very least, you run native ads disguised as content. I wouldn't want to have any business with you either.
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Do you have any evidence that suggests Pfizer is pretending that it's business as usual or is doing anything short of producing and distributing vaccine as fast as they possibly can?
Lever has been down for about the same amount of time as well (job recruiting platform).
Right, and forcing balanced outcomes when there's very unbalanced inputs is not justice in the eyes of many people. Consider the fact that Asian students in the US spend on average 110 minutes a day studying as compared to Whites' ~55 and Black student's ~35 [1]. Forcing a balanced outcome with disparate inputs is not what many consider just behavior. I have not only witnessed, but carried out, similar policy in tech. E.g. companies setting diversity targets that are substantially higher (often over 2x higher) than the said groups' representation in the field. I have also worked at companies that let women and URM candidates take two attempts at passing the pre-onsite technical phone interview while white and Asian men get one chance.

Maybe this isn't the kind of "social justice" Google union activists are arriving for. But if that's the case the union activists should lay out specific goals, like establishing name-blind resume reviews, eliminating gender and racial quotas, or something else. Otherwise, my instinct is to lump their views into the same trend as the social justice activists I have encountered during my time working in tech which tends to be hostile to meritocracy and desires picking outcomes a priori.

To be clear, it's fine to be in favor of affirmation action as an individual and I often support it myself, but I definitely wouldn't want a union enforcing it and I could see why many people would be alienated by a union movement espousing it.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
Many, if not most, state level public health authorities have been chronically underfunded. States are facing massive budget shortfalls. Congress has given states and cities approximately 0 relief.

State and local governments are struggling right now. "Supposed to be able to handle" and "actually able to handle" are two different things.
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Why not? It could be updated second by second automatically if they wanted to.

Probably not a priority though.
I think that it could be considered a small business, but on the upper side probably. Their ads are the supplies they use to make their product. It works out to 4 million a year, although I doubt they were spending anywhere near that much starting off (which is why I think they could be past the point of the public's perception of a small business).

It would be like looking at how much a small business fabricator spent on metal and other supplies. That number is going to be larger than what they actually bring in as profit. If ads aren't your supplies then it would absolutely be an indication of being a large business if you spent $57 million on marketing.
I just hope slack itself has a backup chat tool for incidents like this.
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It's only scarce when it isn't very useful and the market has little real adoption, as now, where the only real reason 99% of people have it is speculation.

If we actually needed a lot of cross border transfers, you can print an infinite amount of different coins/systems to duplicate that function (this is ignoring BTC actually has more money printing via Tether than any other "currency"). This isn't even including just having new systems for moving electronic US dollars around in Apple wallets etc, and cashing into local currency as needed through other services.

Bitcoins "real" value is a storage of value, which is currently based on speculation desires of holders, which in theory could hold forever (or at least longer than you can remain solvent as a short or long enough for you to 10x or 100x so who cares) but could also disappear forever and not be missed once gone.

The only moat is belief, which really who knows if that is sticky or not. There is no tangible functional moat.
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Is being an anti-vaxxer political?

The parallel I was drawing was that anti-vaxxers don't understand vaccines and have gotten it into their heads that they are bad. The same is true of a lot of the arguments that bitcoin maximalists make, about inflation, about the central bank, about fiscal and monetary policy, about how their magic beans can save the Venezuelans.
> Comparing Germany to USA is pointless, very different government, history, culture, business climate, etc.

What nonsense. Comparing two countries is not the same as equating them. Of course we can compare and contrast the two, taking into account the differences. To suggest we cannot compare two different things is to deny a crucial tool of abstract, critical thinking.
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What an overwrought headline, the employee in question has already been fired.
When application engineers say stuff like this, they're also implying that there's a giant infra/ops team who will be wiling and able to do all the work for them. Nobody actually wants to be responsible for this stuff.
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> My comment seems to have spawned replies to unrelated subjects

You have exactly four replies and all but one of them answers your question directly, politely and respectfully.
And so why would tech workers, who presently are generally in the upper decile of compensation, want to join an organization that may seek to diminish income disparity?

Seems like a leopards ate my face moment.
It could just be an effect of people switching to "alternatives" from slack, effectively DDOSing those services. Notion just went down as well
You don't connect (necessarily) the REPL to production. The code can be stateful code if you're not careless. Just like you oughtn't log into the production database server and write/update/delete data entries directly.

This is about the development phase more than the production phase. Do something like this (directly in the REPL or in a buffer as mikelevin has described doing elsewhere):

(defparamater *db* (connect-to-test-db))
(query-db *db* (make-query some-query-description))
;; see that it pulls out the desired record
(let ((record (query-db *db* (make-query sqd)))
(update-record record)
(write-to-db *db* record)) ;; update the entry
;; rerun the query above to see that things changed as expected
;; rewrite that let as a defun:
(defun make-update-to-some-record (sqd db)
(let ((record ...))
...))
;; test that it works
(make-update-to-some-record sqd *db*)
;; see that it does in fact do the same as the let above.
;; move that to a permanent source file, and build it
;; into the system.
;; move tests into test file.
;; repeat with next feature/task

The functions run in the REPL are stateful, but we aren't careless about what they're touching.

NB: You can connect to production environments. You can even connect to live, production lisp images. This could be useful for: profiling real-world activity, debugging real-world problems, applying hot-fixes. But especially that last one should be done carefully, and ought to have been validated using a test environment first.
Maybe another internet routing issue, where a bunch of traffic is going through some guys router in Albania. Or even someone is actively interfering with a root server.
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I'm fairly certain that dry heaves are not a COVID-19 symptom, at least.
it's not based on only that. Slack costs a lot of money and moving off of it is something that has continually come up over the last year or two. We even had a Rocketchat server up and running for awhile.
It doesn't have to be newborns who replace the dead from the vaccination pool - it can be children outside of the age range growing into the vaccination range.
Even then it is actually only a driver or firmware limitation most of the time.

My old laptop has Ricoh SDHC card reader. Windows can't read 64GB SD cards (properly formatted with exFAT according to the standard) on it because it's using the proprietary Ricoh driver.

On Linux it works just fine because it's using the generic SD card reader driver which supports SDXC.
"The company said that it had taken the decision due to the UK government telling overseas firms that they must apply and collect British taxes when selling to customers here, with the point at which VAT is collected, for example, moved from the point of importation to the point of sale."

It would be difficult for London policy makers to come up with trade rules that are as damaging and onerous as the ones from Brussels. But I have every confidence that they are up to the task.
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Yeah, I think it's this rather than load. Slack should be able to handle load fine (probably), but since this is the first weekday post-holidays I imagine some deployment broke something.
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