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Have you tried the Teams tab in Microsoft Teams[1]? It features a concept similar to the proposed Content View (the ability to start a new thread and allowing users to reply within that thread, grouping contexts and preventing collisions). Unfortunately, IME, people tend to neglect/not notice this and will instead create a new thread just for their reply.

Creating an affordance to help users decide which type of message they want to send is key to increasing adoption here.

[1]: Screenshot here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
> Lower the cost of reinforced concrete.

Is this doable? What's keeping it up? Is it anything artificial, like a business cartel or something similar? If not, lowering the price would practically mean subsidies.
on the test that's testing whether you're proficent with _official method_?

or maybe because your _official method_ was "under some assumptions" or "by guessing that"

I've heard that complain countless times from friends and I think always the reason was that it wasn't formally correct.
Don't fall for the false "terrorism" accusation. The real issue is the geopolitical importance of xinjiang: https://youtu.be/ZxvYcByv2M8
Not defending gmail, but for them offering a gmail.com address is working out for many. Outside HN and tech, I doubt people care if their email suffix is `@gmail.com`.

Google Apps (or whatever they call it these days) is very affordable and gets many aspects of emails right. There are other well established alternatives too, like protonmail
> Most hobbies cost money?

Yes, real costs such as parts for a home server or model aircraft. Not artificially scarce data that isn't even supposed to be copyrighted anyway.
South Park's Band In China episode had this exactly right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_in_China

Earlier last year when people were joking about Apple not showing iPhones getting broken in their shows on Apple TV, the less talked about but much more alarming bit was their comment about China.

"Today’s report also claims that Eddy Cue has told Apple TV+ leadership that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China,” referring to potentially angering China with any of its original TV shows or movies."

https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/13/apple-tv-plus-gawker-show/

Does this mean no news on Apple TV? That soft-censorship for corporate economic interest reasons will allow the CCP to do terrible things because companies are incentivized to ignore it/suppress speech around it?

Apple also capitulates to the CCP, allowing them to host iCloud on CCP servers in country. They also remove the Taiwanese flag from Chinese iPhones, and remove podcast apps/content from China.

On one side you could argue this inter-economic dependence lowers the likelihood of war. It is not without an ethical cost though. Is genocide an acceptable cost for stability and compromising your principles? Is access to the Chinese market worth that?

https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

The outcome of the South Park episode:

"In response to the episode's criticism of the Chinese government, South Park has been entirely banned in China, including on its streaming services and social media platforms.

In October 2019, insiders told Bloomberg that Apple, which has a significant portion of its users and manufacturers in China, was reportedly unlikely to bid for the streaming rights of the series due to the China ban."
didn't andy warhol manage to make valued art from prints?
Yes, some would say so, just like they would of the deaths at 9/11 versus the 50.000 dead children caused by the reaction.
Read the follow up comments and don't jump to conclusions. I know you are biased but try to have an open mind.
So you're arguing the first one, never implement technology to save labor because people deserve the dignity of work. How far should we take this? Should we burn the tractors? We could create lots of new jobs for agricultural laborers. Or perhaps the government, instead of handing out welfare, could pay people to dig holes and fill them in again.
Hey Bert & Otto. It's Brian from Labelbox.

Congrats on YC! I'm excited to see what you build next.
Maybe you should write an article about that, and put it up on HN, given that it's such a common point of contention/misunderstanding.
Let's dive in:

> Of all the things that impact climate change, this is the offender we decide to focus on?

Whataboutism...

> Of all the ways criminal activity is facilitated, this is currency we focus on?

Also whataboutism...

> Such a brilliant technology seems lost on HN because people are jealous they missed the boat.

What's so brilliant about it? And you're really projecting here re: the jealousy...
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Are you familiar with SQLAlchemy Alembic[1]?

For best results it requires modeling your project in Python using SQLAlchemy, and even then, some migrations may require manual tweaks. But it is free and supports an extensive range of database systems.

[1] - https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/
As always we don't measure what matters, but what is measurable. There are actually very good arguments against giving grades at all, but it's sadly way out of the mainstream ...
Why is this topic on HN?
Company that sells interview practice says interview practice is important... more at 11
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Downvoted by transphobes.
The people running ISO and other “commercial standards” are in it for the grift. If they make the standards free their gravy train runs out.
If we compare China to Nazi Germany, the first legislation acts against Jewish Germans began in 1933, 12 years before the end of the regime. The rest of world was already aware of the abuse of Jewish Germans because they began to flee the country at that early time. Unfortunately, it is one thing to denounce an act and another to end it.
There is already a movement going on in India to boycott Chinese made goods. Issue or not an issue, it is imperative that manufacturing has redundancies like Apple making phones both in China and India.
Sorry, what does a bombing in Afghanistan have to do with the CCP performing a genocide against an ethnic and religious minority?
> Note that genocide means the (attempted) deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group[0], shooting civilians deliberately or accidentally is not genocide.

That's semantics. Endless wars without a purpose and thousands of death civilians, what's the difference?. Drone flattened a school? Though shit. It's war so you cant call it genocide.
I think it's reasonable to expect a better response. This is a matter of their system behaving incorrectly - not of, say, some conspicuously absent feature which I would like to have. It is their responsibility to ensure that their email is not sending unwanted spam to someone else. As the founder of a company which deals with similar problems, I find it entirely reasonable to impose upon myself a responsibility to expediently address problems my software creates for others, and to maintain a clear line of communication with the affected party while the issue is addressed. If GitHub doesn't want to do that, then fine, that's their perogative, but I think their reputation deserves a hit for making that choice.

As for the problem itself, I'm sure I can think up any number of workarounds, and I'm likely to apply one at some point. But that doesn't change the fact that I should not have to.
It's pretty much irrelevant what happened in 1948. The status quo is very different.
This is obscene. Don't do this.
Very unfortunate when openly Antisemitic comments are tolerated, while replies pointing their bias are censored.
I find your sentiment interesting, but we can't ignore a fact in favor of not hurting people's feelings. Of course, more research is always being done, so I'm sure in a few years a new research paper will come out and we will hear a different facts about a certain gender's academic performance. Then next big paper comes out and the cycle repeats.

That's just my two cents anyways.
Flutter2 is trying to tackle this issue by using the same code across mobile desktop and web but also being AOT compiled. Maybe it'll be more efficient than electron?
This is exactly it. I love Strava, however, if I want to feel like i'm connected with people. I'm definitely not a marathoner, and I'm someone who needs the motivation to put on my shoes in the morning.

Knowing that a coach is going to guide me, and that they see I'm signed up is great, but knowing that there's other people running at the same time make it even better.

Thank you very much for the kind words!
And the fact that they haven't done it yet indicates that they are not interested in doing it. Why would they? Mining a large part of the world's Bitcoin means lots of foreign money flowing into the country.
I said this yesterday and will say it again. We discuss interviewing a lot here. Despite all the proposals things don't really change. FA(A)NG style interviews are just that - whiteboarding solutions to N algorithmic problems in M minutes (or minor variants of this). Either we accept this and move on with solid preparation or modify our priorities such that we're fine with not wanting the money and/or the quality of work (debatable) offered by these companies. At the end of the day, it's a choice and it's still in our hands.
> What makes you think this is a one solution problem?

I don't think that. I think Solar + Wind complement each other nicely. I think hydro can be good if the circumstances allow it. I think we'll need to explore a variety of storage technologies, better grids and demand side management to complement wind+solar.

I just don't think that an extra expensive technology with plenty of problems is contributing anything.
> Starting April 1st 2021, we will charge 15% of all sales through Cultivate.

Man, what a great way to support American business...
Three years ago, I was sent as a consultant to help a struggling small, local health insurance agency. They had a three man team, the lead had been there for fifteen or twenty years (built their system). He assured me on the first day that they didn't really have any bugs and that the system was pretty stable.

We were called in to help them because their management (and users) were aware they were underwater with the amount of bug fixes, live production data changes they made to keep things working, and impossibility of adding anything new to the system without tipping something else over.

It seems the attitude that "there's no chance we have any bugs" is pretty prevalent anywhere I've ever been, along with the usual mix of "how did this ever work" which I still always find pretty shocking to run across.
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This is all so fascinating. The idea of using wood thousands of years old. The craft of the people doing it. The realization that there are colonies of trees still standing, yes still standing, that are hundreds of years old.
From a network perspective it’s indistinguishable from a 4G hotspot

The devices are also heavily rotated, they can also have IMEI numbers updated

To date with all of the public breach details it’s always been humint that lead to the networks being taken down
> I think any reasonable person can look at what's happening with the Uyghurs and only come to the conclusion that it's appalling

Maybe, yeah

Detention for fear of terrorism is bad when the US did it with Japanese born citizens in Wwii and it is bad when it was done in Guantánamo, and it is bad now

That said, why are the supposed witnesses to these crimes changing their histories and narratives to make it seem like a B type horror movie rather than stick to their original telling of it?

I can't but remember the Nariyah Testimony in front of Congress

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-bu...
The final proposal comes down to a separation between "chat room" & "posts", chat where there is social babble, and posts, where notable & distinct things go.

I feel like this is already embodied in chat rooms that can pin messages. That can designate: "here are the active articles of discussion." This reflects my own bias, that it's not about having difference places, but more about ways to raise up content, highlight it, create views & indexes of the information we browse through.
Source for the stats in #1?
Very nice, thanks. $43M of revenue is a lot more than I expected. I wonder what they spend it on?
>Having Babies. Really, being a mother is what skews most stats about women on money issues.
There has been policymaking about this in a bunch of european countries, and if they are released from financial constrains (handouts, public housing, whatever) they seem to double down on it.

Curious as to what you mean by 'doubling down on it'?

You're not wrong in your statement that having kids kills the career of many women. The question is, why? The drive to reproduce is probably our second strongest in the human species, right after survival. Why, then, is it not easier to have kids and a career? It's about as universal a value as we have. Why is it not more supported? Why don't we have any guaranteed child leave in the US? Why don't we have universal daycare / preK?

I say all this as a guy who doesn't even want kids, but I do think it would be better for society if there was more support for parents, even if I paid more taxes to pay for it.
> all job categories, except for ones that require people to be a specific gender for some reason, should have participation roughly proportional to the proportion of that gender (or other attribute) in society.

Why?
A theme of this article is to say that you are reachable from the metaphorical armchair of your residence. And if you are gay, you are within reach. If you have a reason for insurance companies to cut you off, then that is the smell of of leverage.
No it is the steam turbine (& associated heat exchangers) that makes the economics of the lwr impossible. It is what made the economics of the old-school coal burning power plants impossible in most places compared to the methane fueled gas turbine not to mention wind and other renewables.

The power density of a gas turbine is so much greater than that of a steam turbine that a closed-cycle gas turbine powerset for a sodium cooled fast reactor would fit in the employee break room of the turbine hall of an lwr. Running at higher temperatures with liquid metal, molten salt, or gas-cooled reactors poses many practical problems, but means building a machine that processes more energy with less mass thus drastically lower capital cost.
A document not containing all details necessary for an implementation is IMHO not a standard and should not be charged for. I'm looking forward to someone asking a refund from ISO for an incomplete standard. :)

But let's assume ISO would publish only high-quality standards. Wouldn't those be worth their salt?

While I do understand that paying for any document is an issue for hobbyist, let's be honest. Every hobby has costs. A good hobby gardener probably spends $100 on books alone. So, if the standard is good, and really teaches you something, I would buy it even for a hobby.

P.S. Funny that you contributed to ZBar. Our paths cross again. :)
You're aware that the Israeli military openly purged extremist groups, yes? Those paramilitary orgs predated the state of Israel to fight the British.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altalena_Affair
Lambda is absolutely the worst thing to happen to software engineering in recent memory, IMO. I've seen it used well, but only a tiny percentage of the time. The rest of the time it's tortured and abused and the project turns into a sadistic exercise in forcing the problem to fit the desired solution, instead of the other way around.
That's not true. Sometimes you can make up more on a secondary market (side bets) or are forced to play.

The most mundane example is minimizing your losses to take advantage of comps (typically free drinks). We did this a lot when we were 17-18 to drink extremely cheaply until they changed the rules on us.
The key word in what you wrote is "shady" because that word is going to be open to interpretation by the enforcers who are almost certainly corrupt to some extent. So, it's better to just limit the power of the enforcers as much as possible (in other words, the maximum limit that you can convince your society to allow).
So then logging out just logs them out in their own client?

edit: fair enough if it's a portfolio project. I didn't see that here or on the site itself.
I get contacted by a ton of recruiters, as I'm sure most of you do. But do I have the time to practice for programming interviews? No.
Hehe, just did a show HN[1] for Diahook (webhooks as a service) earlier today. I wonder if that's what triggered this posting. :P

Anyhow, I wish more people had better webhooks, it's such an important part of any API, so please read this blog post, understand the challenges, and provide a great webhooks experience!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672
If we let the possibility of spam prevent us building technology, we should never build anything.
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This is insanity. It's not just the money taken in taxes, it's the fact that you additionally have to deal with the additional administrative overhead of filling out US tax paperwork, praying you don't get it wrong or paying a US-focused advisor to do it for you.
>Yes, but after a while if it's not getting fixed I just quit!

Unionization doesn't remove this ability, you know.
There is something really cool about this. It is the kind of service I think I could implement if I invested enough time, but at the same time since you are taking care of all edge cases and just provide it as a service with such a simple interface, I'd rather just pay for it!

Will definitely be using this on my projects.

Congrats!
The issue is raw material. China controls fuck tons of raw material in Africa and within itself, while the West ignored most of the "poor" countries. Not that China has been a positive force, but at least China hasn't invaded any countries in the name of bringing democracy to them.

Fun stuff, Afghanistan has some of the largest deposits in the world for lithium, rare earths, gemstones and uranium, but good luck convincing them now of mining that. Also, yep, China has started both mining operations in Afghanistan, and an open declaration from the Taliban stating they won't touch their facilities.
Economies of scale and a heavy reliance on forced labor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-so...
I remember reading that the Chinese embassy once proudly tweeted something to the effect that they are "encouraging" Ughyr ladies to get sterilized
lots of good insights. thank you!
The roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict were all laid out in 1948 and the years immediately preceding it. 1948 also reflects the attitude that Israel's neighbors have repeatedly taken towards it, namely: trying to destroy it.

Israel was attacked again in 1973, 1991, 2006. They suffer regular rocket and terror attacks to this day.

It's also hard to blame all aggression in the region on the Israeli (Jews) when we recall that they were attacked by all neighboring nations as soon as they tried to find refuge in Israel, before there was any history of hostility.

Simply put: Israel's neighbors targeted it for destruction from day 0.
Here's a serious question, does any job paying over 250k have an easier hiring process than FAANG? The thought of going through an investment banking, white-shoe law firm or medical residency pipeline seems utterly terrifying compared to 'show up in jeans and take this algorithms test which has near-infinite practice material available'.
Yeah, they share a lot of the same challenges as they are both unlike the rest of the web stack (which is just request -> response). There are a lot of similarities, but a lot of different challenges too.
The BBC didn't dare to name the businesses? Weak as hell.

I remember when the BBC was a shining beacon of broadcasting excellence via shortwave radio. How the mighty have fallen.
Yeah man, that sucks.

But your behavior towards the GitHub support person was childish, and I think you owe them an apology.
It's worth reading about the founding of Israel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

It's been a colonization project since inception and it continues to this day. Antisemitism is not an excuse to colonize others and commit human rights violations.
Unsubscribe. Too much is too much. Life is too short and too hard for such distraction.
I haven't read it all yet, but are there any (1) incorrect statements of fact or (2) specific opinions that seem unjustified leaps?
Because it is splattered all over western news outlets, and because HN over the last couple years has been seeing an influx of reddit users whom are not used to HN standards
Wouldn't that make the glass blower the Mohel?
So the logic is to attack them with adaptable crew that look to them like sci-fi movie in outer space - viruses.

Those guys fight for millions of years. Its also in another dimension of reality we currently do not have much access to (only glimpses).
Good to see this being addressed! We used to offer webhooks-as-a-service at Fanout, but it wasn't very popular and last year we discontinued the feature.

There are several reasons I believe we weren't successful with it:

1) There is a perception that webhooks are "easy", and so developers might not even think to look for a solution. After all, anyone can send an HTTP request. The devil is in the details of course, and a good webhooks system is actually a lot of work.

2) I believe most devs looking for a "push" solution are usually looking for something like WebSockets (which has a more common perception of being hard). And so the people finding us or landing on our page had a specific goal in mind, and our additional offering of webhooks wasn't enticing.

3) Our webhooks feature simply wasn't that good. It handled retries, fan-out, rate limiting, ordered delivery, and full payload customization. That's a start, but a complete solution also needs inspection, response feedback, test calls, and UI widget.

With the right product and GTM, maybe it can work. Good luck!
Awesome! Congrats on shipping. We launched Terminal49 APIs with webhooks as first class citizen. So this is top of mind.

There are many industries where push APIs haven't caught up and are much needed.

Let me know if I can help akshay@terminal49.com
Yeah it can help in a pinch or for some specific workflows, but that's not a substitute.

I am hoping that my 2015 15'' MBP does not die before the next 15'' or 16'' are released. 32 GB (bare minimum) or 64 GB (for future proofing) and a better CPU would be great.

I don't have enough time to play even my backlog of Mac and Switch games. I wanted to build another PC for fun and to play, but I am not sure I will anymore.
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When you consider the risk involved, no.
I'm really biased as I am building it myself: Starboard Notebook puts literate programming into the browser without a lot of magic.

It's amazing what browsers can do these days without any build step!

[0]: https://starboard.gg
The difference is - your script works out of the box, or you need to install ripgrep.
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