skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As my startup [1] is in the domain of CI/CD, I've been doing a bunch of customer development interviews to better understand how teams deliver software. I was also surprised how few teams use full Continuous Delivery, even at cutting edge tech companies. It is indeed often used by small teams, even within large companies, where they deliver internal backend services.

The most common seems to be auto-deployed to staging or a dev environment, with some sort of daily or weekly process for promoting to production. One company built a Slack-based approval process using +1 or -1 reactions, and another has a zoom meeting where every author has to attend and is walked through a checklist before the release is approved.

My team also had a manual approval step to production, which theoretically meant the dev would check logs, dashboards, and alerts before approving, but in practice both with us and teams I talked to, that is followed about 50%-80% of the time.

What we built into our product, Sleuth [1], is a way to automatically promote staging releases when the staging release was determined to be healthy and soaked for a minimum amount of time. This allows the 80% case to simply flow through to prod without developer babysitting, whereas we can easily interrupt the process with a -1 reaction in Slack if it needs more manual testing. I think this is the ideal - the common case is the code flows but you still have an easy way to interrupt the process when the change needs it.

[1] https://sleuth.io
Just the other day a user in my problem validation platform posted 'Make entry level webcam better'[1], the main gripe being 10 year old Logitech C270 still being sold at a higher price while improvements in smartphone cameras are being made every 6 months.

Posts like these seems to confirm that there's a real need gap for a good quality webcam. Any of you working on solving this? or have ideas?

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/185-make-entry-level-webcam-bet... (Disclaimer: It's a problem validation platform I created).
Proof of Reserves and Why It Matters
"[As it is,] exchanges can easily continue to operate for years with whatever level of reserves they like. Nothing prevents exchange owners from spending cryptocurrency stored by users, or failing to disclose if reserves are breached. Third party audits are riddled with holes like:

How can they know the client list they're given is legitimate and fully inclusive?

How can you know the funds weren't borrowed for the audit purposes?

How old is the report? How can you trust the auditor?

On top of that - most exchange platforms still don't even bother to audit. Despite the warnings about storing funds on exchanges, people still do. And remember that many affected users weren't storing funds on Quadriga - they simply got stuck with no way to withdraw."
A curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire
Much thicker laptops have equally bad camera.
> The reality is, ElasticSearch with all of it's capabilities would not exist if the company would not exist

Would the company and product be as popular as it is today if it was licensed this way from the beginning?

I see this as a type of bait-and-switch. I invest in this open source technology, and then after I invest money into the service, they change what is being sold.
Oh wow! That is great news! Great job, will dig out my leap motion once I get back and try it out!
Yeah, will NVidia's acquisition result in a real push to RISC-V?
I recently set out to try a simpler window manager and custom desktop on Linux. This led me to discover Fluxbox. The sheer variety of themes for that WM is unfathomable. Enough to suit anyone for a lifetime.

The go-to source for Fluxbox themes: https://tenr.de/styles/ (currently down, hopefully not permanently)

Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20201019233308/https://tenr.de/st...

Nothing has this same variety today. I hate how serious computing has become.
> I'd be fine charging at home, it is cheaper.

Good for you, but not really relevant to the discussion of what to do for people that can't really charge at home now.
Marketing can make the world a better place
A tree is actually a very poor method of carbon capture. It's not durable and doesn't last ages. It can catch fire. And it takes decades. If you're gonna do organic methods then blue-green algae is way better. But I think the idea here is to come up with a technology that's even better than that.
Hmmh, I couldn't care less about webcams. I'm not that pretty and not all that eager to share the interior of my dwelling. I do however care about sound quality. With my accent and mumbling I need all the help I can get. Others reported that the camera in their phone beats most webcams, but what about the microphone(-array)? The sound quality of phablets hasn't quite won me over. Is there anything better available, short of equipment for professional musicians?
> If massive amounts of people move to electric vehicles gas prices will fall. This will make combustion vehicles more attractive.

If gas prices fall any lower due to demand, then production capacity will probably disappear permanently, leading to shortages and a huge, long-term rise in price. Oil pumps aren't like taps that can be shut off and powered back on demand. They basically need to be operated continuously because restarting them is pretty expensive. And storing excess oil is also pretty expensive.

We also have to consider that low gas prices are due to volume. Refinement is still costly, and if the volume of gas falls by a large amount, that refinement costs gets distributed among the remaining volume. Refinement capacity is even more expensive to bring back online than pumps.

I predict gasoline production will death-spiral at some point. Gas stations will be culled as prices spike and volumes drop. I would expect this to happen in a relatively short timespan, over maybe 1-2 years for the bulk of it, then a long tail of persistent decline.
Yep I had those listed, but ran into some performance issues. Will get that worked out (you guessed the right path, btw ;)

If you want, you can join the MailChimp so that I can let you know when that page is back up: https://iconduck.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=66c12f50e51...
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I firmly believe that video conferencing is essentially a dead end. It is uncanny and unpleasant. Having experienced some of the early VR social experiences, I think that is the way forward. We will need to fully embody the other person and project them in a 3D AR or VR space with positional audio. I think in many ways we are incredibly close to this goal and should be seeing the first products hit the market within the decade.
I’m not a fan of invoking Godwin’s law, I only mentioned the nazis because the commenter I responded to make the allusion.

And you’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to presume anyone’s intentions.
Twitter Bluesky Is a Business Strategy
Twitter has released a doc (part of their Bluesky project), analyzing the current state of the Fediverse, and claims to be creating new plans to disrupt it. Let's not let them do that.

Twitter made the Fediverse really gain huge popularity recently after the mass exodus from the BigTech Platforms, and now Twitter has the audacity to pretend to want to help the Fediverse. No thanks. Does anyone even believe them? We shouldn't.

Most people already equate the Fediverse with "ActivityPub" and Twitter wants us to think the jury is still out. Don't let them fool you.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/twitter-bluesky-report...

https://t.co/U5DczWX1qb
I accepted that reason for them, but as I don’t benefit directly from switching to etcd, I’d rather know about what started the conversation than how it was concluded.
Pizzas are measured by their diameter (in the US).
Why would a news paper in the us be classified as a newspaper in au?
The A in AGPL stands for Affero, which was a company that produced a version of the GPL (with FSF permission) -- that was AGPLv1, written by a commercial company in 2002 to fix the loophole in the GPL.
I have used jumpcloud for device and password management. It supports Linux, Windows and MacOS. Among the different Linux distros, I have primarily used for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 but it seems to support CentOS, RHEL, Mint and more [1]

[1] https://support.jumpcloud.com/support/s/article/jumpcloud-ag...
I have a github repo to collect plugins that makes Pidgin a bit more up to date on all levels. Pull requests welcome:

https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins
They can also round them up and let them live lavishly.

There still are walls, limits, secrets of course.

Just saying there are any number of ways to advance and they are all available to a sovereign willing to get after advancement. Size matters too. China has size enough for these things to be true.
Any Digsby fans here? It was my favorite IM aggregator back in the day. You could also plug in twitter and facebook feeds to it so there was no need to login to twitter or facebook separately!
It sounds like "marg" in Farsi is a linguistic swiss army knife like "fuck" is in English.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25658778
This line cracked me up -

Not sure I expect much more out of somebody that codes for AOL software.
Thanks! The search is powered by Typesense (https://typesense.org), but there's a good chance I'm not running the queries properly. Will look into that, and hope to add instant search soon.
Are you saying that if Google doesn't have News (like in Spain), that people will just stop reading the news at all? If so, news obviously is t very important, since there are many ways to find news, including searching for "news site" on Google!
Yeah, let's bomb yet another counter into middle ages/s
Are you sure it's not fixed? https://reviews.llvm.org/D11495 was fixed on 29/7/2015.
I bought a HDMI->USB video capture card, and tried to use it with my DSLR camera. It works fine in Teams, but not in Zoom. And that's because Teams selects a reasonable capture resolution that matches the 16:9 aspect ratio image produced by my camera's HDMI output at 1080p. Zoom selects the lowest possible resolution, which is 640x480, which makes me look squished. There is no setting in the Zoom interface that lets me change this.
More reading on this for Postgres: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...
How to Save Hundreds of Hours on Lambda Debugging?
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I don't understand the "free rider" problem.

I pay my ISP for bandwidth. WHAT I choose to download with that bandwidth has no impact on their bottom line, unless they were counting on me not actually using it.

Websites and web apps pay for bandwidth. Anyone who has paid an AWS bill knows there's nothing free about it.

The only group of companies that are guaranteed to make money in any internet venture are the ISPs. The rest of us are gambling, hoping that our investments will be worth it. On top of that, we're all competing with a global market, whiles ISPs tend to only compete with a handful of local providers at a time, allowing them a lot more control over prices.

Meanwhile, they're selling pick axes in a gold rush and crying victim?

Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
You assumed pretty much everyone used a desktop specific chat app that is 20 years old?
> While this wouldn't prevent a company from using your project...

...it would deter them, which is what your original question was asking. Preventing and deterring are two completely different things.
You don't know you have a CVE until you have a CVE, it's not hard to find any given story of bugs being found a decade later with high vulnerability scores. https://securityboulevard.com/2020/07/microsoft-patches-17-y...
I thought Stallman created GPL so software can be "free as in speech". It's another dimensional of ideology, and respectably so. It, however, has nothing do with whether it is moral for AWS to host an Apache-licensed open-source package.
Yes, Litestream uses LZ4 compression. I originally used gzip but the compression speed was pretty slow. B-tree pages tend compress well because they tend to be 50-75% full because they need space to insert new records and because pages split when they get full.

I'm seeing files shrink down to 14% of their size (1.7MB WAL compressed to 264KB). However, your exact compression will vary depending on your data.
Facebook spent more on lobbying than any other Big Tech company in 2020
Well, yes. "Both are pretty sweet!"
I re-read that piece just a week ago. It's magnificent and now even more true than eight years ago.

Spoke to friend this week, she told me she doesn't have a computer. That's increasingly common. People get by with their phones.
People disagree. They want entertaining news for free.
Did you...read my comment?
The 2 motor Model 3 just about keeps up with a 500 HP Corvette in 50-70 times:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a23685454/2018-tesla-mo...

https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/corvette

Smaller displacement ICE don't keep up. The Corvette has a dual clutch automatic, so no torque converter.
Adium is a frontend on libpurple. The frontend can be sort of happily dead if the backend - and it's plugins - are updated.
We use XMPP in our workplace. We used to use Pidgin years ago but at the time it didn't support all the protocol extensions that we needed. Now we use Gajim on the desktops and Conversations on android.
I remember playing Balance of Power long after it had become abandonware, with binaries downloaded from Home of the Underdogs.

Chris Crawford wrote a book on it, published by Microsoft Press!

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2724511M/Balance_of_power
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Ironically, Google seems to feel scraper sites that aren't Google are bad. For instance, https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

Google has regularly defended deranking or banning competitors for allegedly scraping content without providing value as well.
> So if WhatsApp published the client code it would be at least as secure as Telegram, maybe better because it has E2E encryption enabled by default?

Whatsapp backups to Google Drive and iCloud. Telegram backs to their servers. More private since less parties involved.

I can't control my contact's backup settings on Whatsapp. On telegram, I can start a 'secret chat' and make sure it never leaves that device.
The 2021 Rav4 prime also looks really. It has an estimated 40+ mile EV range. That should take care of most of your daily trips. But at 50k Toyota has a lot of competition with EVs and other hybrids.
I understand your frustration, I want to mention that I for example have been on the receiving end of a ton of downvotes and the occasional warning from the site moderator here.

From my perspective the issue in this thread isn’t your content, it is your wording. This site tries to optimize for thoughtful discussion. One non-obvious aspect of this is that even well intentioned points that have a good moral stance can do much harm to discussions if the wording gets other people worked up.

I actually agree with you that Alexander’s joke was a bit over the line.

The thing is, people have trouble hearing you on this if phrasing or choice of words sets them off.

I think, if you truly believe passionately in your point, it is ethical to attempt to review your choice of words and figure out how to turn the dial towards persuasive and away from incendiary.
Typically, you can’t go beyond 30 pages of google search results, even when it says there are 100,000,000 results.

Don’t believe me? Try it. Pick any keyword to search on google, and try going to page 35.

Why? My guesses:

1. Most users have in most cases don’t need to turn to page 2 or beyond.

2. Fight content scraping.

3. Force google employees to always improve search result rankings, so users don’t need to turn to page two.
...in mice ©
In real life, an interviewer was talking to Werner Heisenberg. They were getting to the end of the interview, but before they wrapped up, the interviewer asked, "So, tell me Mr Heisenberg... What do you think of the jokes?"
Werner Heisenberg sat forward with a twinkle in his eye and said, "What jokes?"
What about the precursor to Google talk? You know, chat integrated into Gmail before it was branded Google Talk.

I thought it was Google Chat.
Setting up Matrix Synapse on a delegated subdomain
Get it on iPhone, and people will use it. Yeah, yeah, license and all that are mere excuses, and it doesn't alter the fact :-/
Bit tangential but I’ve been wondering how street parking thing works, because in my country you can’t register a car without a “declaration of storage space” form and storage address in it has to be a non-bogus private property no more than 2km(1.2mi) away from your home address.

To me it’s a no-brainer to have such a regulation, but how do other people/cities/country cope without it? You apply for parking permission for “1234 Hacker Rd. space 3A” or do you just find an open spot and consider it yours, like you do for a chair in a cafe?
I suppose the other makers in VAG will follow since it's cars on the same platforms of many other cars like the VW Passat.
Is there E2EE support for Matrix?

Edit: Nope. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/18
>As a result I looked into building a CI/CD pipeline for the first time and practically every article I came across talking about “CI/CD” really just talked about CI.

You don't mention what technology you are using, but maybe you didn't find the correct resources?

https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/yaml-examples/examples/#deplo...

F.D. I work for Codefresh
Did you ever develop a crush on someone who had a big positive impact in your life? Sometimes it can be difficult to tell if those feelings are about the person or what they did for you.

If you don’t know the person all that well, it’s plain to see.
Thank you for linking this. I couldn't remember the link but was talking to my partner about this recently now that we're almost a year into distance learning with our son. She remarked how quickly he's picking up on using the computer. (He's using her old Macbook Air.)

I remarked that UI/UX is so simple nowadays that kids aren't gonna have the wherewithal to do their own troubleshooting for bigger issues and how irreparable a lot of devices are now the insides of computers are gonna be completely foreign to them.

Gonna bookmark this now.
I remember when they shut down TOC. I think that was close to the time it was renamed gaim to pidgin. My whole college career surrounded aol away messages.
One time I put an away message of “Dave Matthew’s coming to play at our school. Click here for tickets” and directed them to goatse. Yeah I was super cool.
Wouldn't HMAC-SHA3-256 be a better choice than just SHA3-256?
Yes, it is. You're looking for this: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp

It has limitations, especially on media.
+ for a guide for Windows
I would absolutely love to work _for_ my country as it were. And you're right the salary packages aren't great.

There are arguments as to this kind of thinking "You should be thankful you are working for your country" etc... And I understand this.

Or there might even be greater treasures within that are not counted in a financial sense. I'm sure this might also be true. If a low salary is a way of ensuring that only 'true' patriots will join, then I guess that's just the mechanism.

I just don't want to be exploited.
The software in windows is terrible for logitech. On mac there are third party software that lets you adjust literally everything. And doing so I can make the C920 look just as good as my iPhone especially in good lightning.
Oh dear god.

I suppose it can be counter-intuitive, but people really need to learn about timer precision... and, more importantly, statistics (basics, at least!).

I absolutely hate the 'combinatorics' part of statistics, but distributions, etc. seemed pretty learnable to me... but then I like continuous math, so...
Robin Hanson had a 2013 blog post titled "Hail Scott Siskind" - the surname was redacted from both the post title and the URL slug sometime between 8 Jan [1] and 24 June 2020 [2] (Slate Star Codex was deleted on 22 June 2020 [3]).

So if a patient had googled "Scott Siskind" before the NYTimes contacted him, they may well have found the post linking the name to the blog.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.over...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701000000*/https://www.over...

[3]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
Yea, I can’t stand this mentality. Like, dude, step back and look at the big picture once in a while!

I was in a similar situation as the GP. I was hired to work on a software that technology-wise we’d all agree was ethically neutral. But if you looked at who all our customers were, and what they used it for, I’d guarantee many HN posters would have ethical concerns. I ended up quitting for a number of reasons, but the ethics of who our customer base was ranked pretty high in that decision.
I think you're missing the efficiency aspect. Gasoline carries a much larger amount of energy so having a far more energy efficient, say in my example 26mpg going to 130+mpg saves a lot in energy cost as well.

We do not ride for free. We pay an extra ~$100 a year (formula based on cost of car. I think it should be based on the weight of the vehicle personally. My Model 3 SR+ doesn't weigh any more than a regular gasoline car) for registration here in California which covers the road maintenance so no need to worry there.
The continuous delivery book is the "bible" in this area

https://martinfowler.com/books/continuousDelivery.html
Overview of the decentralized social ecosystem (Twitter Bluesky)
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I think discord/slack/teams seem to have shaken up the IM market recently.
> Why not just point out its problem and let the users decide?

Is that not what the comment was saying?
I mean on a serious note, yes I personally think it's possible to do. But heavy charging cables have enough copper you're basically leaving a few dollars for every person with a pair of bolt cutters and a shopping cart. Not to mention vandalism or ICEing due to someone wanting to protest electric cars. I'm not saying it's impossible; just you need to design in making them robust and vandalism, theft and denial-of-service resistant.

On a more humorous note my first mental image had a cyberpunk vibe: someone walking around the city with an unregulated nuke generator (stolen recycled waste or maybe a stolen weapon) selling electricity by the watt from a repurposed hot dog cart. Or maybe WattWallahs if it turns into a semi informal business.

I believe EVs will come into their own as battery technology improves to the point that charging is no longer a multi hour affair. Whether that's the Bill Gates battery, super capacitors, hot swap battery clubs or some combination thereof remains to be seen.
> one set of DMA operations can program and trigger another channel.

I once worked around a very unfortunate hardware shortcoming in a DMA engine by doing exactly this. Each channel supported a list of descriptors, so I used the last descriptor to actually perform DMA operations on the configuration registers of the other channel.

The possibilities are endless with this kinda stuff
I understood what you were saying. I was just trying to explain why some people would take offense to it. If you started with "if you intend for others to access your server" then I cant imagine any reasonable person would have had a problem with it, and there is no sense worrying about unreasonable people.
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A large tech business pursuing their own ends and protecting their interests?! Imagine that
Not with https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp
It connects to whatsapp web, that would be banning people based on their browser.
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