skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries, this is a valid point and does not come off as a dismissal. As you said, there are many PaaS's built on Kubernetes. And they lie in a spectrum of abstraction: on one end, there are OpenShift and Rancher that requires knowledge of Kubernetes to some extent. On the other end of the spectrum, there are hosted PaaS's like Render that look more like Heroku, and the user does not even know that their applications are running on Kubernetes. In my opinion, at least as it currently stands, Cloud 66's Maestro and Convox fall somewhere in between.

Our goal with Porter is to create a platform that accommodates both ends of the spectrum. And this is motivated by seeing companies develop internal developer platform (IdP) that I mention in the post - we want to create a platform that abstracts k8s away to the extent of Heroku's DX while accommodating the DevOps engineers' need for flexibility/configurability on top of k8s. This is why we invested in features that optionally give the user more visibility into the underlying k8s cluster and helm charts.

By default, Porter looks and works just like Heroku. With "devops mode" turned on, Porter looks more like OpenShift and Rancher. Essentially, there are two user personas we are building for: an application developer with no knowledge of k8s and the devops engineers who need to help the application developers and often even build out an IdP. We are focused on the former for now, but I think what distinguishes us from the other k8s based PaaS's is our commitment to building the mature version of Porter to accommodate the latter.
Similar boat here. When we were still in the office, I would go to a handful of meetings, and then the rest of my actual working time was spent alone in a solo or shared office space. Going forward, a hybrid approach where I could go in a day or two for bigger group meetings and then do my actual work at home would be preferred.
What kind of question would you like to be able to ask better?

How would you know you got a good answer?
I agree, having a general % vs absolute value switch for entry boxes would be nice. I think about my 401K contributions in terms of dollars, and this forced percentages, ostensibly because many employers work that way and there's a focus on salary. Would be nice to just plug in, "My goal is $10000 per year" or whatever the goal is.
It’s a fair point, though the dialog I usually see says “macOS cannot verify that this app is free of malware”. Presumably that’s because Apple scans the uploaded executable for malware during notorization.
for younger developers, Microsoft's MakeCode is a really great solution for the micro:bit
Recently getting into web development, getting things to look right on Safari has been such a pain... they really just work on Firefox and Chrome, but every time we deploy a new version, the one coworker with a Mac will message us about some arcane difference in behavior for certain CSS we're using on Safari.

I wish we could drop it, but our Analytics disagree, sadly.
Not when other companies offer better pay and a remote option.
Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
How many of them have slowed down b/c of the pandemic vs WFH? I can imagine a job being a lot harder if suddenly your children are home all day, heck my kids aren't even school age and my wife is home fulltime and I still sometimes have my little ones come in asking for juice or to help them put on their shirt, or something like that.

Not to mention the additional stress and isolation that comes from all of the pandemic management measures, and the omnipresent low level fear. Honestly if WFH has even remained steady with in office in this hostile environment to me that is a pretty big indicator it is better for businesses.
> to drive and prioritise which features they want in the development of Rust.

The foundation is not involved in feature development, so this doesn't make a ton of sense.
I can never coalesce the whole pandemic and stock returns thing with the actual "fundamentals" of these companies. Yes - there was a pandemic, but the 5 largest companies in the index, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, which make up nearly 20% of the index all had insane revenue growth. Amazon nearly doubled it's profits, Google growing as much as 30%.

When every other investment vehicle, except maybe housing is cratering you have a one-two where stocks looks great to invest in, and are much better than everything else. If it were to ever pop it would be because other investment products started to get much healthier - which to me isn't a bad thing.
gmail is 25MB, yandex is 30MB.
People quit jobs they aren't satisfied with all the time.
true serverless
“Productivity” is not something a person can measure themselves. Sure, some people may be closing bugs faster than when in the office. But productivity manifests itself in different ways over longer time periods. Is there a strong corporate culture? Are junior staff being mentored and trained? Are new product ideas like Chromecast being thought of and shipped?

The individual employee is not going to be a reliable indicator for any of these questions.
It didn't for me; in the end, I backed up the files, scraped the machine and put the drives into Synology box.

So take it as an piece of the puzzle why is Synology more popular.
the last buyer.
People quit Google all the time. Big companies in SV actually have pretty short average retention times.
management doesn't feel useful unless they can see their team's butts in their seats
FWIW, considering what's in it, Chromecast with Google TV probably has positive margin in the USA. It is using only off-the-shelf very cheap components. Except for USB-C part, you can find same-speced boxes for 30$ on chinese market. I'm not even going to mention the price of Chromecast with Google TV in Europe, for which Google probably has 30-50% margin, (It's 70€, so 70$ tax-excluded).

This doesn't hinder your argument though.
People have clearly decided it's now completely safe to come out and continue the war on remote working.
Gfx-rs ecosystem releases v0.8
You would think the rational thing to do would be to maximize productivity and minimize cost: You can get the same or greater productivity from WFH that you can from open-plan offices, with WFH being a huge cost saver to the business.

But I do think company leadership likes the psychological aspect of everyone being in the office and are willing to take both a cost and productivity hit to fulfill this need.
Dude come on...

1. You seem to think that your interview version of basic concept of 'simple ifs and for loops' is the base tier of programming. It's not man, everyone has their blindspots and you are selecting for candidates who are most similar to you.

2. You display hubris in your skills test by assuming that people who can brag the most are somehow more qualified than those who are more humble. Protip, people who code outside of work are not better developers. They are just enterained by their work skills in their personal time.

3. You display immense superiority claiming that your 'class' could not achieve what you wanted them to achieve. You attach meaning to this result. Not many people really want to study at work.
I was hoping this would include a lambda set up to respond to incoming requests on ports 25/465/587, but all the SMTP parts (both server/inbound and client/outbound) are being handled by Amazon SES, not by the serverless functions.
It stinks that housing prices have gone up, but fortunately you can rent instead, which is accounted for in CPI measures of inflation.

I would think we could discuss the affordabity or unaffordability of homeownership without making up terms like "asset inflation" and falling into alternative fact rabbit holes about the collapse of U.S. currency.
I love working in the office and being around colleagues on a daily basis. If people want to leave that will open more spaces for folks like myself.
The shown dialog box quite heavily implies that "NeoFinder" might be malware, and that the fault is with the application developer and not with Apple.
You're not wrong. Aren't we all just manifestations of the Principle of Least Action?
I feel like saying it won't be 'uncontrollable' isn't the same as calling that there won't be inflation and getting the reason right.
Is it? It's at-will employment. Quitting is the easiest thing in the world legally speaking.

Way more tenable than suing.
The goal of Squoosh is more to teach out about all the options and levers codecs have. JPEG is not “suggested”, it’s just literally the first codec we ported to Wasm so that’s the auto-selected one :D

The Squoosh CLI has an auto-optimizer that will make an image as small as possible while staying under a given Butteraugli threshold, but you still have to decide on the format yourself.

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/cli
I scanned the article and missed it, so thanks for pointing it out.
I would say one who says vegan cheese might pass for an alternative to regular cheese has never tasted something that passes as actual cheese [in Switzerland/France].

A lot of cheese you can get on this world has IMHO nothing to do with cheese in terms of taste, texture and the knowledge required to create an actual good cheese.
Tailwind is hot right now.

Wish someone would explain to those of us not as deep in the trenches why that is!
It’s better, more robust, faster, and more flexible. Bigger user base and network of creators and apps to draw on.

Node support is A* and deno is still experimental.
technically not the exact word but malware is just a portmanteau for "malicious software", which is in the screenshot
Headline is a bit of a reach. A few employees grumbling on Twitter does not constitute any meaningful representative given the size of Google's workforce.

That said, WFH is not for everyone. And a flexible 3-day office presence is a good healthy compromise.
Yes, that's all true, but none of it changes the point that it's a poorly constructed visualization that is ill-suited to how the author is trying to frame their story. Edward Tufte would weep.
Lots of comments around the line of "ok maybe 30% is too much, but we can all agree they offer a valuable service, so what percentage should they take ?"

Uhhhh, not a percentage ? Do you imagine AWS billing you a % of your revenue instead of a given price for a given service ?

Give a price to be listed in store, to be reviewed, to be downloaded by a user, ... And let company pay what they owe you. Let them pay through the provider they can negotiate and then pay you back the cost they owe you.

It's ridiculous that it doesn't matter if my app has a 5$ sub or a 50$ sub, I owe them 30% anyway. What they provided is the same in both cases, they should be able to price it out to me. Their current pricing structure is not setup like a fee for services and infrastructure usage, it's setup like a tax.
If the smtp server is allowing spam to be sent through it, then it is not trustworthy. It doesn't matter which domain it was sending on behalf of. Though the real reason is that we've only had spf records and what not for a relatively short amount of time, so most systems are designed from the perspective that you can't trust the domain a message is claiming to be from.
It seems that something else is going on. The Amazon website knows where I am, because it tells me what I can watch while I am “travelling”, or something like that. But if I actually buy a show through the website, I can only watch it there, and not through the Roku. Even though I am also logged in to Amazon through it Roku, it seems to be unaware of what I have purchased.
Rather than looking at returns in isolation it might be more interesting to look at returns vs. P/E or vs. some other parameters like interest rates. e.g.:
https://www.alger.com/AlgerDocuments/AOM_singleGreatestPredi...

This is only a 20 year period which is pretty short, but hey, doesn't look as random any more.
Thank you for this explanation, it helped me to understand better how it works. It is a really nice initiative!

Another really happy customer.
> only paid the 15% on 0.5% of the App's users.

That's the point.

This is clearly because they removed the ability to subscribe in the app to avoid paying those 15%. So the rule imposed by Apple is costing them subscribers, all those who would have subscribed if it was available in the app (or even just if they could be informed about how to subscribe).

The fact that Spotify has barely no customer who subscribe through their app is showing that there's anticompetitive behavior. In a healthy market they would have a share there.
I think a lot of employees are in this situation but aren't going to say this because they don't want to lose their job or have it held against them and be managed out of the company before they're told they need to come into the office.
There has been a big leap in technology over my lifetime. "Not impaired" isn't the target, if all the wealth gains weren't being directed to asset owners by asset price inflation then the people who were working to create them would be getting a bigger share.

I've done the obvious thing and bought assets, but it keeps getting harder and at some point maybe all the people who are working hard might notice that they are doing all the work and people with assets are getting all the benefits. The government should be more neutral on whether asset owners or workers get the benefits of work - the market is naturally slanted enough without it being further tipped towards asset owners.

You might be happy in stasis. But this is an age of wonders and the people who do the work to bring it about should be compensated roughly in line with their contribution. As would be happening if the government didn't keep leaning in with monetary policy to prop up asset prices relative to wages.

As a bonus, if the government did leave the market alone, people would probably work harder and there'd be more stuff to go around, even ignoring the fact that more of it would be distributed to the sort of people who work hard.
I'm a developer and spending 1-2 hours a day to commute to an office where I have to microwave a lunch, sit in a cubicle all day, and be forced to overhear coworkers talk about inane things while I'm trying to concentrate sounds like hell to me. Working from home has increased my productivity and made work more enjoyable.
Google isn’t Yahoo for sure and I presume they have better ways to know if people are putting in work —but... Marissa Maier had the unfortunate discovery that many of her remote workers were ghost workers. On the payroll but not doing much. Some might have even had other full-time jobs.

That’s bound to happen when you have large workforces. You have groups of people who make it so that productive people can’t have nice things. A kind of tragedy of the commons.
1. I'd assume that a cost to replace 1 SE employee at google is close to USD 1,000,000

2. It's hard as never before to hire someone to from from the office (US tech giants are hiring many H1Bs)

So, I disagree. It can become a long-term crisis.
I wrote a little sh script to notarize HandBrake two (or maybe three) years ago, and that's was it. It's not rocket science. But like every new thing, it required a bit of time to read the documentation and to understand what's going on.

The plugin issue described in the article is probably related to the hardened runtime, so it's unrelated to the actual notarisation process.
> Without this one example of competition and sorting, hiring good people would be a roll of the dice and I'd even say that our whole economy wouldn't be able to function.

It's difficult to prove. Where is the philosophy in that? Where is the theory about competition? How do you evaluate if a person is competent by the way? How do you really "pit" themselves against each other?

I would say, let people candidate for the jobs they want to work, just put some simple requirement, and roll the dice. If those people are not happy with those jobs, they'll quit.

> Everyone is better off with it, because without it we'd all be in desperate poverty, since the economy wouldn't function.

I heard that argument thousands of time, without proof or arguments. I mean there are alternative but if all you say is that "There are no alternative, we do things this way because we don't know a different way so we're stuck", it's hard for me to be convinced.
You say that like senior management typically makes decisions based on data and facts, rather than the reality where they just shoot from the hip using their "gut."

By the same logic implied here, we cannot trust senior management to know what they're doing.

PS - Also Google's measures of productivity are terrible, that's why they keep starting/killing new projects ever other week, and killed their golden goose in their so-called "20-percent rule."
>> What always baffles me, truly leaves me flabbergasted and confused, is.....who is going to force you to use any other app store other than the Apple Store??

Think of the new privacy controls: Facebook doesn't like them. So they open their own iOS store, circumventing all Apple rules concerning privacy labels and do not track status.
my unhelpful take is that I like both
IDE support is still there, https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/removed-features....
At least the title of this post needs a "(2020)" added.
As long as you're aware of the dangers, it's fine. Personally I try to model offline from analysis to avoid this issue, and set eval to no in org for those cases where I've built the model inline with the analysis.

Unfortunately, it generally takes a couple of terrible situations before people learn the problems with this.
Except that the WideVine DRM library under Linux only does software decoding, so HD video tends to stutter according to the issue logs on said extensions on GitHub. Assuming you get it to work at all of course.
Caltech names eight AI4Science fellows supported by Amazon
The NIKKEI would've given you a positive return if you bought and held and reinvested dividends. And picking the worst point in one of the worst indices does not mean much - most investors are not investing a lump sum (they're usually putting into a pension over the course of decades) and they shouldn't be investing in just index/asset class (all-world diversification and having bonds as part of your portfolio is recommended).
In my experience - Azure is the alternative when it's primarily a Windows-based shop. A lot of legacy applications typically run on Azure since companies do "lift-and-shift".
I don't need to find new land to not be in the same country as you.
I just asked to use Spotify as soon as I updated and now it doesn’t ask anymore. I don’t remember the exact query, but I know it exists.
The 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
Too much escape hatch. I would prefer my configuration to be less than turing complete, tyvm.
Ask open-ended questions.
Note: back in the iPod days, iTunes did serve as a music store for the iPod, but you could buy MP3 files from other providers as well, and transfer them to the iPod via iTunes. This whole process didn't "cost" the provider or user any extra.

Now, it's true that iTunes did get significant traction because of convenience for users of iPods, however there were definitely options for other music distributors. In fact, back in those days, I tended to still buy CDs because they were DRM-free and similarly priced, and I could rip the songs at my selected quality settings to transfer to my iPod.
Beg to differ. Roku offers a lot more than just Youtube. It's a nicety. Our entire setup (for better or worse) is built around a consistent Roku set up. I'm not going to change that for a while, so that means, "bye Youtube". It's expendable.

I'm not happy about it, but there we go. "bye Youtube".
I also read on a blog about minimalism and long distance walking: *amateurs talk hardware, professionals talk software ".
Time wasted is a permanent effect that cannot be recovered, so your argument falls apart.
This same idea comes up with Google search results.

For example, if you search for "mortgage calculator" you get a widget you can use directly. If you click on any of the links it takes forever to load (because it's loading 137 different tracking cookies), you're prompted to sign up to their newsletter, there are ads, the calculator is spread across multiple pages (because, hey, that's more impressions) and so on.

It's a terrible user experience.

So my point is a blanket ban of "competing" is likely to be worse for the consumer.

For this example, Apple has a lot of experience with music, a lot of deals in place and developed the iTunes ecosystem. I don't have an issue with them trying to sell a subscription music service. A blanket ban on this seems like an overreaction.
It's a nice POC but I wouldn't actually use it.
Can't they just Google search vaccines are effective?
iOS discoverability/usability tanked when iOS7 came out and hasn't recovered. It went from being the only OS I'd happily give to my 80-something can-barely-email grandma, to "um... well, shit, I guess we'll get you a Chromebook... but it's gonna suck."

Too many ways to accidentally make crap pop up or get stuck in weird states on iOS, now. Even the old folder behavior, that "split open" the screen to reveal the folder, made it much, much clearer to navigate for non-tech-geeks. Lots of little things like that, plus tons of gesture-initiated overlays and switching-about.
'free market' is not really the wrong issue here.

It was more of 'web 2.0' thing.

Hook your service up to this other micro service and get a cool thing. It was one of the main selling points of web2.0.

But turns out your service is very dependent on that microservice.

I have seen this happen over and over in many products even completely free ones. Service X needs service Y. The people who own the machines for service y say 'hey this is expensive can you chip in?'... crickets. So they turn themselves into a paid for API, or turn it off. Suddenly service X can no longer function even slightly correctly without that service Y.

Had a neighbor that was mad someone was bulldozing a bunch of trees behind his house. He had even paid the builder of his house to 'live near trees'. But he however did not own them. The real owner decided something else was to be done with that land. The lesson? You dont own it, you dont control it.
I hear you... I'm almost to the point of creating a second simplified version for legacy browsers (similar to Gmail's HTML view) and put a banner on the top to upgrade to some more modern browser. I just cannot guarantee that everything will work on their browser anyways.
iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency (ATT) Prompts Gallery
Reminds me of the Stone of Scone, a perfectly ordinary stone carried for over 1,000 years and used in the coronation of English monarchs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
> Nearly everyone I've spoken to has reported that WFH productivity has been equal, if not better than pre-pandemic.

I feel like this should be taken with a grain of salt, depending on what your bubble looks like.
Actually, we've simply stopped testing for the flu. That's it. All of these comments from so many highly intelligent people, and I don't see a single person hypothesizing this.
My wife is a triage nurse for the largest provider of such services in the US. She's literally spoken to 10s of thousands of patients over the last year, and thousands of nurses, MDs, pharmacy techs, and lab technicians. The main takeaway that she's gotten from the largest testing labs over the last year (think labs in the largest population centers of the US), is that they were not even accepting samples for anything non-COVID related for 95% of the year. They simply stopped testing for the flu. She would routinely have a chat with a lab technician, after an MD would put through an order, with the tech saying "stop sending this stuff to us, we're only testing for COVID for the foreseeable future." This has not stopped.