skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The ONE MONTH OUTAGE that WebEx suffered a while back was embarrassing beyond belief and I can't believe my company kept the service after that.

Citation? I've been using webex throughout 2020 and 2021 nearly every day. I recall an outage of ~24 HOURS, we definitely didn't miss an entire month.

>The "mute" button status does reflect whether you are actually muted!!! I've had the entire meeting hear me even when "muted". This would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. It occurs if you have a simple network hiccup, btw.

I'm not one to "blame the user" but, what? On mobile it's a picture of a microphone that is a white background with black text fills up with green as it hears sounds when you're unmuted, and white with red text and a line going through it when you're muted.

On desktop it's basically the same, except the icon also literally says "mute".

>The innumerable variations of "WebEx" encountered that all behave and suck differently. I recently discovered "WebEx Events" where I had to hand over contact info (twice!) in a browser to join an entirely internal meeting. Then I had to quit right away and add Audio access in macOS and join all over again, since it wasn't the same "WebEx" and didn't have permission.

There's literally 3 options. There's a webex for conferences that's slightly different because it allows hundreds of participants. There's the standard webex meet that people use daily, and there's the competitor to slack that you'd never need or likely ever use.

>For text chat, I primarily use WebEx through a browser as there is no native Linux client. It's atrociously bad. For example, clicking a link does not open a new tab. No one wants this behavior. It would be less bad if WebEx didn't take 5 forevers and 10+MB to load. I've hacked around with TamperMonkey for now.

I've never had webex on linux not load a link in a new tab. Given you're grossly inaccurate summary of the rest of the app I'm questioning whether you've ever actually used it.
Yeah, I could believe it. It was a small bank and the card was being sent in the mail. Nowadays my bank (a different one) can print a new card on the spot.
You'll also want enough time to give the other companies a chance to counteroffer. You have more leverage with an offer in hand.
This, I don't have a common name, but I'm roughly the same age/regional origin as someone with the same name as me who has generated enough internet noise from things like sports that the tracker pages (as an example) have us deeply confused. Very comforting, except for when we get emails meant for each other.
Ouch. Sounds very tedious. I guess it could be a good idea to have more than one credit card, especially when travelling.
I was a vim user for 16 years (very proficient -- other developers in whatever office I was in would ask me vim questions) when I switched to emacs about 8 years ago. I switched for curiousity and to check out evil mode and magit.

A couple years ago during a lull in a dev cycle I built a neovim setup to see the state of that art but I didn't stick with it.

I've rewritten my emacs configuration many times, swapped between spacemacs, vanilla, and doom. I am currently on doom emacs with my customizations.

I also do not use evil mode anymore. Default emacs bindings make a lot of sense to me. I can still use vim with muscle memory, but I reach for "mg" if I need a quick edit more often than not.
It's very hard to create a persona, if you use stock photos or steal them, then they are traceable.

Synthetic Content solves this problem, although I've yet to see anyone using the same 'synthetic' person in multiple shots.

I'm not even sure any of the bad actors are generating their own people? Maybe they all from thispersondoesnotexist?

No one is faking 'synthetic' video/audio or propaganda pictures yet. They are to easy to disprove and hard to make. This is an army of foot soldiers swarming researchers and defence AI, not precision bombing.

Here's a real life example of what is happening - https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_f...
Is No-Code a Fad?
For large downloads, does BB support the Range header. If the user is on a connection that that is not suitable for long downloads, could the Range header be used to download a large file in several parts.
Yes; but you have to remember that git forges like GitHub and Gitlab push you towards that the open development model with their defaults.
There are multiple settings for paperless. On their web site go to the profile icon, paperless to see all of them.
I suspect it's a lot "cheaper", so even if M1 just ties Intel performance and is cheaper & quieter & lighter.. it's good for everyone (exept Intel). Current gen of new Apple macbooks are both really good, and a really good bang for the buck.
Admitting that the point of vendor lock in I do feel and did not think about that long But compared to bootstrap with custom styles applied I pretty much have the same situation i guess
My personal guess: A queue calls into an external 3rd party service, but the external service is not transactional, so it can receive and store the request, but before it finishes executing, it throws an exception and returns an error code.

The queue keeps retrying into the external service. While the external service keeps printing cards.
Yes, it would. But right now the long term maintenance of the A380 is shaky despite Airbus still being around. Devils advocate to long term maintenance with a large company: they could just stop caring about you as a customer or refuse to support you.

It's a difficult space to make decisions in and I think it's difficult to make any broad statements about reliability of product or company. Someone would need to actually run some numbers.
Renewing is different than replacing.

Tell them your card was lost - problem solved.
I think there's a strong argument an implied term of the sale was it would only be sold once. The law should protect the buyer here, and if it does not the market could adjust by adding a small contract to the sale stating the seller will not sell an additional copy.
Is C garbage collected? There is no simple answer to that. Link with Boehm (or something similar) and it is. These things are often (with almost any language) aspects of the implementation & deployment, and most mature languages have multiple answers as well. Is Python "compiled"? Well, with Pypy or Cython or etc. it is. (Or maybe it's always at least "compiled" to byte codes run by a slow byte code interpreter.) Etc., etc. I think your standards for "simplicity" or univalence may be, as @SolitudeSF alluded to, unsatisfied by even prog.lang's you like (which you gave no concrete examples of).
> Apple Pay data that has been disassociated from you may be retained for a limited period of time to generally improve Apple Pay and other Apple products and services.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210665
I would call this an ambiguous signal, a lot of CEOs are just like this; but you might know about yourself that this style wouldn’t work for you in a manager. It would not work for me.
I can relate. Going from Emacs to evil-mode (not pure vim) has been a bliss. Text and code editing feels almost like playing a game.
Agreed, I also had a pleasant experience with Styled components, a small boon is that Jetbrains has a plugin for Intellij IDEA.
> It wasn't that long ago the alarmism was centered around a "big freeze" (http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731203,00.html).

The article accompanying that cover has nothing to do with climate [0]. It's discussing the 1973 oil crisis and its effects, one of which is a shortage of fuel to heat homes during the winter.

In addition, discussion of "global cooling"/a "big freeze" appears to be more representative of news coverage than the state of climate research at the time [1].

[0]: http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9082...

[1]: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bam...
For a while they were bundling in spyware with popular downloads, which would not have been stopped by an adblocker, and common sense would have dictated it wasn't there to begin with. They've since stopped now that the site has changed hands again, as far as I know.
I got hired on for a position once where the job description was retroactively written for me after I came in for an interview. I suppose in retrospect that means it was written in a way that it probably wasn't a good fit for most people.
Mostly coal being shipped to the west coast.
Two reasons:

- if you know tar supports your directory / metadata, you don't have to lookup if zst will preserve that info

- interfile compression

I don't think people would say they use tar because it's a stream format. They use it because it packages files/directories into a file
How long before OnlyFans jumps on the NFT bandwagon? :p
"It's just not educating in the specific areas you want."

You are right. I do not want my children to learn whatever is being taught when the school's IT department is threatening children with the police for trying to learn to make a web page and fiddle with CSS and Javascript.
A Medieval Woman Wore ‘Birthing Girdle’ to Protect Herself During Labor
Anyone know how much $ ?

This might give a nice boost to adoption of Julia. And hopefully this spending trickles down to further improve the language itself.
How is “martial tradition” related to protest effectiveness? You know there’s more to building long lived protest movements than street fighting, right? The doc itself lists many forms of effective action that had nothing to do with “martial tradition”.
A couple of things that these types of articles fails to capture:

1. Medical insurance. For a family of 4, this can be quite a bit and paying out of pocket will be a big expense this is the biggest risk.

2. Immigration status. There are a lot of immigrants who are in the system and they cannot retire if they are on a visa.

3. High cost of living areas. If most of your friends and family are in areas like the Bay Area, your property taxes and mortgage will be a significant expense. You don’t want to just move out in order to be financially independent.
Gyro: A Zig Package Manager
Emacs is a great OS but it lacks a decent text editor.
There's a device called the Helicon FB Tube [1] which comes in Canon and Nikon variants, and purports to do this with any camera and lens pair it supports.

I've thought about trying one out - it's not that expensive compared to most camera things, but I'd want it for shooting handheld, and I'm not sure how well it'd play with either the recycle rate on my flashes or the movement rate of the insects I shoot this way. Probably not well with either, but for still stuff I guess it's probably still cheaper than a driven macro rail...

[1] https://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconsoft-products/helicon-fb-...
True, but it's the one that's getting the most attention.

It sets the trends and build what's next. RandomBigCo just follows.
And I am glad it exists because of that. I can read any language grammar book and maybe even try some exercises but what only Duolingo offers is what's missing when you are not in the country : practicing the language every day. (The website is better than the app where you just have to tap the right word in a list of words, you actually have to remember)
I wonder if other taxi services do anything similar regarding drivers they fired for safety reasons
Python as an Excel Scripting Language
Bills. And retirement savings. And college savings for the kids. Oh yeah, saving for the new stove.

I give myself $50/mo to spend on whatever I want. Anything else I mention it to my wife. Oh, and if it takes space in the house I mention it too.
This article fails to explain -why- one would want to switch to emacs from vim.

Org-mode and configuring emacs in a lisp-like are cool, but are not worth re-learning everything for me. I put that time in already by reading "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil and other vim literature online. I'm sure everyone is already aware, but vi is available basically everywhere. This has saved my ass at least twice where I couldn't access vim or had internet access to install XYZ editor.

So as a power vim user I see no reason to switch. If I can't use vim, most editors now have support for reasonable vim bindings. So I use that for Jetbrains' products / Joplin / Insomnia / etc.
At that scale, a complete outage is unlikely. I have services which haven't gone down _at all_ for longer than a year. But we lose requests every now and then -- during a deploy, or due to a bug. So we've moved from a time-based view of outage to a request-based view.

This helps, too, as it lets us build out services to be more reliable in combination, rather than less reliable. With retries and fail-over, an outage in an entire region may not necessarily result in any user requests failing.

For scale, pre-pandemic our published figures claimed >100M MAU.

I find https://andrewaylett.github.io/multi-burn-rate-calculator/ helpful for visualising error rates -- largely cribbed from the project it's forked from :) but with the tweakables switched around and the time between alert and error budget exhaustion in the tooltip.

It's worth noting that we only evaluate our alerts at most once a minute.
I'm about to buy some rental properties.
That is very common in the world of government contracts. The just want breathing bodies.
Show HN: A place to buy a business idea / To sell your 200 unused domains
I've noticed that in the IndieHacker space, there are two distinct groups of people.

Group 1: Have a million ideas, a thousand unused domains in their registrar account, and 15 projects that they're currently working on.

Group 2: Have the drive to start something, but for the life of them can't find a good idea to start working on.

I wanted to try and make a tool on my site that will bridge the gap between these two groups.

The idea is this: People from group 1 can list a combination of a domain, logo and business plan on the site. You can list it for sale on any platform such as Gumroad, Shopify, etc. People from group 2 can buy it and they will have a ready-to-go business idea, brand board, domain, etc. that they can start executing with.

If you're listing, there are no fees, commissions, etc. It's just totally free traffic.

Also, we'll be launching on Product Hunt later this week, so make sure you get your listings up before then!

James

URL: https://areyouinterested.co/marketplace

P.S. While most listings will be approved, we do have some editorial standards. We're not going to approve domains like this-site-rocks-123.ninja.
While I am not one of those commenting on such issues except for your prompt–my experience with RPi 1 & 2 has been that they tended to eat sd cards for breakfast. Either needed reimaging or broke the sd cards for good. Had this at happen in at least eight instances. Especially, but not exclusively during unexpected power loss. Which tends to happen in both experimental and production environments, unless you take great care.

Younger generations have not had these issues for me. While I assigned that to my experience, usually reducing logging to sd card, booting off of USB and fewer unexpected power losses, it may simply not be an issue any more.
I had forgotten about this but my first professional job something like this happened with one of my interviewers a few time--not customers but fires of various types. It was a pretty good job for a few years though.
My work Laptop is an older ThinkPad and it has a physical sliding camera cover as well as the F4 key which functions as an all purpose mute button for the microphone. The F4 key even lights up when enabled. So these options definitely exist, to some degree.
I'm about to buy some rental properties. But I have more than that already invested in various things.
They are still learning how to get up websites.
Nim attempts to at least partially resolve this via the {.multisync.} pragma. It's functionally equivalent to {.async.} but means that the compiler also generates code for synchronous IO, this is what enables the stdlib to implement an HttpClient and AsyncHttpClient with little to no duplication.

Of course, the downside is that it relies on library authors to use this mechanism.
> Neither Goldman Sachs nor Mastercard share or sell your transaction information with third parties for advertising or marketing.

Hmm, I wonder why they sell it then? Since they needed the "advertising or marketing" qualifier, they obviously sell data to third parties.
Thanks for your feedback. We've found our customers use Google Calendar in two modes, read mode (80%) and write mode (20%).

What you're mentioning falls into write mode. Gather a ton of context then make a number of changes. This is best done in Google Calendar.

We focus on read mode. 80% of the time I open Google Calendar, it's to check what's next or to get into my next meeting. When that's done 10+ times a day, it adds up.

That's going to be different for different people. Some of our customers who are product managers open Superpowered 30 times a day. For them, it's worth it.
I have been using Emacs for several years now, I love how easy it makes it to quickly browse and edit code. The only downside is that coding without Emacs keybindings makes me uncomfortable and kind of sloppy. Fortunately most IDEs have an Emacs plugin.
>Private companies face a higher cost of capital than equivalent public companies and are unable to borrow as much money as public companies are able to. This is basic finance 101 stuff. Without debt financing, they would not have been able to begin their pivot when they needed to. Netflix is able to borrow at much lower rates than a company with the same financials solely because they are a large public company. Google "equity cushion" if you're unfamiliar with the term.

I guess I took a different finance 101 than you did - it was at an accredited university though, so I'm fairly certain they weren't making things up as we went. I've literally never heard of a public company being able to borrow more because they were public. Quite the opposite actually, as a private company with a solid financial track record isn't subject to the whims of shareholders and short-term quarterly-returns based internal investment.

Now if you're pets.com that is burning through cash like it's water in the hopes of making money 20 years down the road... that's a different story. That's also not Netflix.
Here's what I would do:

Read technical books.
Practice programming kata.
Learn a new spoken-language.
Take online courses.
Read the source code for open-source projects.

Take a walk?
So,.i went to check out the dlang bindings on the bindings page

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/BINDINGS.md

The ones linked there 404s. But i found these bindings:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/re-raylib-d?tab=info

For a fork of raylib found here

https://github.com/xdrie/raylib

From what i can tell though, this fork is 11 commits behind the master branch but was updated a few days ago so i'm a bit confused...
1 word: zoning
IBM does have the zPDT for running an emulated mainframe on Intel hardware for development, and education purposes. However it is not free. IIRC it is about $1K/year. Not a bad cost for a business, but too expensive for someone to go learn on their own.

You are absolutely right about how hard it is to do business with IBM. I worked for IBM for nearly 7 years, running a small datacenter. It was such a pain in the ass every time I needed to order something. IBM sales and support process is very high touch, and is designed for the large enterprise that has a team of IBM sales people supporting them. If you are that customer it is not a big deal because you have someone to navigate the process for you. If you are a smaller customer, they want you to go through a VAR. Which is still a pain in the ass.

Windows NT and the AS/400 are about the same age. This pain in the ass sales process is a big part of why Windows NT won. The IBM sales people didn't want to sell it because you didn't need to buy services with it and it was too hard to buy on your own. Where as if you wanted Windows NT, you just bought a copy of Windows NT and installed it on an easily available PC.

We won't even talk about the time I tried to use IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise.
I don't know about that
Google Voice numbers are cheap. If SMS is the only barrier to verifying and they don’t block it, could be easy to circumvent.

But then again, this and every other technical “solution” to this problem presented here (piracy, etc) is far beyond what a normal user could be bothered to implement.

I get it. Business team needs to see an upward trend in account sign ups and they’re seeing a plateau. This move will get the normal users legitimized and it will delay a bigger increase in cost for a year or two.
Except... it ends up being a non-reviewable blacklist that most people don't even know exists.

What safeguards are there so that a grouchy driver or engineer can't use it to mess with their ex? For instance.
Uber and Lyft aren't big fans of having drivers accused of sexual assault or theft. I'm sure you could come up with a nefarious take, but it's really just a way of filtering out bad actors before they hurt riders.
> "Sally really enjoyed talking to you but she's unexpectedly tied up in something" can be market-moving information if you find Sally's role on LinkedIn and tie it to recent news about the company.

I'm curious if this level of caution is truly required to meet an SEC rule. I've never heard of another company feeling the need to be this secretive for market reasons.
The launch termination system at least needs a receiver
No. Does it? I just tried in Incognito and it opened the article.
I liked the long form too because there is a lot to learn there. I really appreciate what you do. Actually one of the decisive factors for buying M1 was the fact that you work on making it gnu/linux friendly. Perhaps some shorter form in the beginning could also help for better understanding before one can comprehend all the details but if we ask for that it's better be done in a respectful way. Thank you for your hard work.
Over here "sending a credit card by mail" isn't a thing. At least definitely not the norm. You call the bank to order your new card to a specific branch. You then wait several days. They then send you an SMS saying it's ready. You then visit the branch, show your internal passport (aka "ID"), and they give you your new card.

How do you get one when you're abroad? No idea. You probably don't.
My favorite version of this is having a list of beneficiary addresses that can request to have access to the funds; you can cancel the request at any time within some time period. No fancy token required. I built a demo of this a while back: https://github.com/smartcontracts/dead-x-wallet
Show people articles saying Firefox is faster than Chrome and they'll believe it
Ask HN: What is the most daunting task you sometimes have to do?
Example: my dad runs his eBay business and uses their automatic parcel 'system'. He recently was told that he has to have a copy of each parcel invoice. THe only way is to manually go through 25 pages and click download 10 times on each page. eBay doesn't have a way to download all at once as one PDF...
"Scepticism about what you read is advisable everywhere [unsolicited advice], internet users have become better at it than previous generations.[opinion stated as if fact]"

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-stude...

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/stude...

https://www.chronicle.com/article/students-fall-for-misinfor...
Isn’t it funny people use and hand out camera covers but a mic that can hear the sounds of an entire apartment is forgotten about? :)
For me, I wanted access to org-mode, as well as the emacs ecosystem of packages.

emacs has good vim emulation through the evil package.

Doom emacs, is a decent place to start for a vimmer.