skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in order to solve this problem I watched 77 presentations from industrial conferences and blog posts on the use of chaos engineering to identify the types of resilience issues that companies experience and how they go about identifying them.

I believe what is observed here is symptoms and not root cause.

My experience in this area tell me that after you go the "Micro Services" route, there is no coherent view of the system and a holistic design & architecture is derived from the many integration issues instead of trying to improve the data domain and it's inherent business challenges. So basically (over)engineering vs creating features..

I can't see how an academic could arrive to this conclusion unless he took part first hand in several organizations taking this route and contrasting this with first hand experience with a more "monolith" approach - or less emphasis on "micro-servicing-all-the-things"..
Same behavior on windows in firefox. I am pretty sure this is the default for most browsers
Whatever, pork-barrel corruption is already an everyday part and parcel of our system. Paying 2x-4x for some piece of land is still waaaaaaaay cheaper for society than drowning in decades-long quagmire while infrastructure falls apart everywhere.

Any time you have a massive building project you're going to get corruption. If you can't even eminent domain it through useful areas, you're just going to get developers buying land in the middle of nowhere and selling it back to the government as the only remaining viable route.
Hello Hackers,

We're in 6 years in Telegram and Bot development business.

We choose to spin up one of our products as a SaaS. After a private beta period, all of our beta users continue as a paid customer.

I would mention about MossChat's features:
- Teams: Add as many support agents as you want

- Team chat: Besides the moss.chat’s web app, your team can also use Telegram apps

- Multiple projects: Create as many projects as you want and all will be isolated from each other.

- Unlimited messages

- Unlimited chats

- Unlimited attachments

- Free admin agent

- Edit sent messages

- Unsend messages

- Custom messages to welcome your customers using custom variables

- Delivery reports

- Mobile-friendly design for all devices

- Fullscreen mode

- Chat sounds

- Instantly visible simultaneous messages for all team members

- See which agent sent a message

- See the same message on both Telegram and moss.chat and reply anywhere

- Message templates (very soon)

- Dashboard (very soon)

- Bring your own domain (very soon)

- Fair and partial pricing

Some features are available for a specific subscription plan.

First Early Adoptive Customer:

- Telegramic.org, a well-known Telegram search engine with millions of visitors and more than 150,000 registered users, also prefers moss.chat to communicate with their customers.

Did you know that...

* 52% of respondents have switched brands/service provider because of poor customer service (Accenture)

* 89% of respondents expect a brand to respond to them within 24 hours. (SAP Hybris)

* 80% of respondents say that the experience a business provides is as crucial as its goods or services (Salesforce)
Citus is probably the best way to do it today as it will handle most of the work for you.
I really love DDG but I can’t stand when companies reply like this. It’s very obviously not “completely transparent” if a user has asked about it, and then, having gotten an answer, another user tells you they don’t think they were properly informed. The gaslighting is infuriating. If it’s really no big deal to your users then at the very least you need to explain it better.
It's important to note that these aren't invincible. They just are near impossible to shoot down when they get up to speed. Still highly vulnerable during launch and while getting up to speed.
Not much different than LEO in California being able to buy off-roster handguns and resell them for profit.
It really is great. I genuinely think it's the best space opera ever made.
A bit late to the thread, but I also created something to solve this [1]. Currently only works on Mac though, so it does not solve the OPs problem. Hopefully others may find it useful.

The gist is:

- It unifies your browsing history for Firefox, Chrome, most browsers into one sqlite database.
- Provides quick (autocomplete style) full text search over that database via a UI.

[1]: https://www.browserparrot.com/
This is in fact how many projects get built today, even without eminent domain.
and that’s borderline, a seasoned dev can find better offers at that rate… and with more benefits

senior devs easily cost a company $200k between taxes, insurance, and benefits
> Japan has higher median salaries than US does.

Where do you see that? Wikipedia says the US has 2x the median income PPP than Japan [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
Apparently they've been running it every year for a couple of years now.
Googler opinions are my own.

If you search around the internet, you can find some full screenshots of it as people discovered the features.

https://www.techjunkie.com/google-hangouts-easter-eggs/

Many of the commands that exist, are effectively just text replacement where you swap out some / command for a string that is an emoji like thing, such as: /tableflip

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

The above was actually added to hangouts by a coworker long ago when there weren't as many Easter egg commands (and we worked in payments at that time). The fun of having a fully open codebase, where you can edit and propose changes to anyone's code, you just have to convince them to approve it.

Though I will add, some of the commands actually had animated pictures with them, such as /shydino and /corgis.
Yes it’s definitely less than ideal that New York was built without alleys or some other means to store large amounts of household trash besides the sidewalk, but I disagree (at least with the severity) with the rest of this comment.

A subway car that’s vacated due to smells, while it happens, is extremely rare, and the average station is just as clean as any I saw in Rome or Paris. There are definitely exceptions to that, and the worst case is worse than what you’d see in the rest of the developed world, but it’s still an exceptional experience to see something or smell something terrible in the subway system.
Spoiler alert: They didn't end up reducing the number of these crooked little artifacts of police bias.
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Why does it matter that the Texas thing is a workaround? That's just a technical detail. The point remains that in all those mentioned cases, the government is encouraging people to turn against one another. Sometimes resulting in violence, as indicated in the article. I feel like people are already becoming increasingly antagonistic toward one another, and this citizen enforcer trend is adding incentive in the wrong direction.
Introducing WeHelpDesign
> criminalizing behavior that would otherwise be considered acceptable

Again, these situations are not comparable. Idling commercial vehicles are already disallowed, this program literally gives a cut of the fine the government is going to impose.
It covers whatever the police agree to look the other way for.
FaceTime does what you want.
If it doesn't matter to the overall point whether various historical claims are true or false, then why include them? All it does is make the piece feel amateurish and contribute to a common problem of taking historical research flippantly and ignoring the community of experts.
I'm hoping to see "contrails" ie trails created by vehicles moving through interstellar space at large percentages of the speed of light, as it interacts/hits and heats interstellar gases.
That's quite interesting. I had a mac at home and at the university we worked on Solaris machines (laughing at the 3 guys sitting in the Windows room); I always thought 'with a bit of polish on Solaris or a LOT of improved stability on Mac OS, computing is damn near perfect'.
Needs a 2022 update.
This is the reason, exploitation and colonization are the consequences of more power and wealth, not the causes.

> How did Europe quickly go from inferior to their neighbors in the ~1200s to colonizing the world by the 1700s

This is the question that needs to be answered. Guns, germs and steel attempts it
The military is very incompetent. It has bases that it neither needs or wants and are just make work projects. But this is the fault of the civilian government.
Whether a project needs those things is up to its author(s) to decide. If you don't agree with them you're welcome to fork.
https://archive.ph/aJN86
>What scientific procedure would you use to establish whether one working scientific model “matches” reality; while another working model doesn’t?

See what model1 gives as a prediction for input X. See what model2 gives as a prediction for input X.

Input X in the world and compare what actually happened.

The models that more closely predict the observations are more likely to reflect reality (aka being closer to the truth).

You don't have direct access to reality. And yet if someone thinks F = ma isn't closer to the truth than F = ma^4 (for the usual symbols and approximations and blah blah, assume I'm aware Einstein existed) then they got way too drunk on other people's philosophies.

Most scientists I met and worked with care if their models are close to reality/truth. Epistemological uncertainty does not mean every model is equally untruthful.
the usual polls show Vienna being the best big city to live in, and for smaller cities there's always the Riviera or Marbella ahead.
It baffles me that New Yorkers just bend over and take that stuff.

In most places, when an identifiable group of people, (e.g. city government employees) is such a bunch of jerks to everyone they would normally be abused right back until they stop being jerks.

Imagine if the government of Detroit acted that way. The inspector would come out to find their car on blocks three days a week and nobody would admit to having seen anything.
Yet another manifestation of how humans do not scale; as soon as any human population reaches the point of individuals being able to view other members as anonymous, fairness is skirted, social order breaks down, and police and laws are required. We need to focus on this aspects, this treatment of anonymous as deserving less than fair to be our Achilles' heel, our fundamental failure preventing our societies and our progress from forward fair movement.
I always felt like (lifelong socialist and therefore not exactly unbiased) Umberto Eco had to tack on 2 or 3 extra bullet points to his definition of "ur-fascism", so it wouldn't just fit to totalitarian communism just as easily. Which isn't surprising when you look at the political career of Benito Mussolini.
Personal Power - Robbins, How to win friends and influence people - Carnegie, Feeling Good - Burns, Godel Esher Bach - Hofstadter, Fundamentals of Physics - Halliday and Resnick, Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Bach, The Commodore 64 User Manual, "Stocks for the Long Run", The Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide - Gygax, Dune - Herbert
Generally there is little you can do to avoid them. The incentives are just not there.
I thought genetic programming was going to be The Way Forward for AI, because it seemed to take an intractable problem (write a strong AI) and turn it into one that might just be tractable (write a fitness function that can recognise a strong AI). Then neural networks came from the back of the pack to dominate the field, and here we are. At least we're really good at pattern matching now.
Google keeps stealing my Google voice numbers, despite having a credit balance
Am I the only one experiencing this with Google?

The primary number I had associated with my cell phone had a 10 dollar balance on it, and I literally put the google voice number on presentations.

Despite logging in frequently to check it online, they sent me repeated warning emails and eventually took back the number, despite having a 10 USD balance on the account.

Now they are coming after my personal google voice number.

Google needs to be regulated as a utility if they are going to provide phone numbers. This is a huge problem.
What does 'advanced' mean in this context?
You are talking about situations that do not include military aggression. We do not grant foreign adversaries the privilege of petitioning our courts and we never have.
We do plenty of that (Voice of America, Hollywood, etc.), and other countries are free to block us too (and they do).

We tried the whole "global village" thing. It didn't work. People are too tribal and shortsighted. Back to our little cloistered in-groups... sigh.
I have no opinion on them as this is the first time I see them but their misrepresentation of Amdahl's law bothered me as their version makes it incorrect to the point of being useless. Here's how they present it:

T(n) = b + (T(1)-b)/n

T(n): Time to run task for n parallel threads (workers)
b: Time it takes to run part of task that can not be parallelized

Therefore:

T(inf) = b

This misses the cost of coordinating between workers. It also removes the key part of it being a theoretical limit of the speedup as resources increase.

Their attempt to simplify it makes the new version dangerously wrong if you take their word for it.

Less wrong:

T(n) >= b + (T(1)-b)/n

Or even (but now it's not really Amdahl's again):

T(n) >= b + (T(1)-b)/n + C(n)

In fact, for many problems T(n) > T(n-1) for some n, as at some point C(n) > (T(1)-b)/n

This is not really "a more subtle improvement", "new version", or "refinement". It was known in the field in the 70s. That is, Brook's Law can apply to parallelized computation, not just to teamwork. Which OP observes but still doesn't make them see the errors in their previous assertion.
Yes. Every company who needs changes in a FOSS project should fork it. Freedom is the freedom to fork, it's the whole point.
Slowroads.io – a browser-based, procedurally-generated driving game
I disagree that this is acceptable status quo. Emotion has roots, and people can be reasoned with. Lack of care is a threat to democracy.

It looks like if underlying issues are resolved, then there would not be a need for such overreach.
As someone from across the pond, is the territory of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth not considered Eastern Europe?

It seems to have competed well from 1385 - 1772, until the forced partitioning by surrounding states.
Theres so many armchair specialists when it comes to criticizing RISC-V. I've seen people claim an ISA is better because it has branch delay slots.. which seems clever to someone who knows enough technical details about CPUs to understand what the benefit of that feature is ("free" instruction execution for every branch taken), but is a terrible idea for a truly scalable ISA (huge PITA for out-of-order architectures if I've understood correctly)

I'm sure there are some bad decisions in RISC-V, but I've yet to see one that isn't in the process of being remedied.
There was a good argument for a lack of POPCOUNT instruction being bad, but I think that's being added soon
The author is a contributor to Apache ShardingSphere. https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere
Almost all devs that care too much about their work burns out eventually. It is just FOSS devs have higher percentage of "caring too much about their work" syndrome, to the point doing it for free.

As someone that had similar issues, I would highly suggest everyone to view their job as job. You work on the time you were supposed to, do your best within your capabilities, raise issues when you see them but that is all. Don't overwork and try not to worry so much when things are not going the way you want them to be. You can still enjoy your work, just try not to have personal attachment to it.

But I guess that is harder for FOSS devs, since the reason they work is being too attached to their projects.
It's already been done [0]:

> This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876261/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PFRIGx69bw (scenes of drug taking)
I’m more excited for self driving cars when I’m not physically in the car. Why park at the train station when I can ge dropped off. Kids on a play date? Sure I can drop off and pick up it’s a couple taps on my phone. Having small kids and a public transit commute is certainly a demographic for this.
>So you feel the tone is too harsh.

No. My objection is that your comment is spiteful and hysterical.

This isn't about anyone's personality. Can't you see that?
Recipes should probably not have filler either (unless it is a recipe for pie)
Show HN: Lafajol, a live workbench for media objects
Yeah roughly $6 a gallon after currency conversion.
The same way cheating in solitaire is just lame. Or save scumming in a roguelike. Or installing a mod to just make the game much easier. Or walking for a bit on a long run. Or pretty much any solitary situation where you bend the rules for your favor.

Once you do it, you will likely internalize that you’re not capable of doing it and will rely on such methods and general lack of skill for the rest of the game, and eventually reach a point of indifference where it’s not about you doing well but rather just attempting it a number of times where your incompetence works.

If that makes things more fun for you, sure, whatever. I did this a lot as a kid. But now I would be acutely aware that I’m cheating myself of the full experience and skill curve of the game and feel very little satisfaction from it.

I’m current doing a bit of owl cat’s pathfinder video games. The game is pretty well balanced on normal. The game includes a very unbalanced mode called unfair which requires a lot of metagaming hyper min maxed character development. There is further a mode that gives you one self deleting save slot so you have one chance permaloss.

I see a fair number of people playing in unfair, with one save slot, bragging about their completion of the game having looked up character builds for every unit, used mods to make some parts easier, and save scummed to undo the effect of choosing permaloss.

I think they’re morons personally. Don’t delude yourself into thinking you’ve accomplished something when you’ve outsourced, cheesed, and cheated many parts of it. Play games on lower difficulties and play them fairly instead of playing them on harder difficulties and cheating to get through.

There’s a wide spectrum and sure it’s just a single player activity but I find it personally exceedingly lame. My mum plays games and is not technically skilled so she plays on the lowest difficulty and uses guides and it’s still very hard for her and you know that’s great.
Oh yeah, i agree that making PHP or other platforms more widely available helps them get more adopted. But i would have to guess that web hosting providers either were responding to customers requests to run PHP (because said customers felt they could do more), or these providers believed that php was good enough to offer to their customers because it empowered their customers but was not too much of headache to support. I say "not too much" because as noted, php has its warts. But even still if i put my business hat on, i would guess that a business would not purposefully make a platform available that is so bad which would create more work - hence tech support - that it would lessen or do away with any profit margin. In other words, if php were really that bad, web host companies - especially the low cost ones - would definitely not provide such a service because the constant tech support work would kill their profit margins...Full disclosure: i have never been a web host provider company (other than, small amounts of work in setting up web environments for my consulting clients)...so only someone in that industry could confirm/deny my theory.
Is it fair to compare the very small region that is England to the very large region that is India?

A fairer comparison would be Europe vs India at the time, or England vs the most advanced region of India at the time.

"The most advanced region of Europe" vs "the average region of India" is nitpicking.
Ask HN: Upvotes have seemingly new, limited effect or delay
I realized today that my upvotes on comments have either delayed or no effect, while my upvotes on submissions seem immediate, but with the odd inability to unvote without a long delay or no effect. To test this, I did the following:

1. COMMENTS:
Upvoted several recent comments of different users through different threads. Refreshed their user profile in separate tab (multiple times) and observed no increase/decrease in karma. Same results when going back and forth refreshing same tab. Removing cache nor using a separate browser (not logged in) had any effect.

2.
SUBMISSIONS:
Using the same method as above, I upvoted several submissions in new (but older) status. Strangely, the submission would rise by one point, but after unvoting, would remain unaffected, but possibly retract with a significant delay.

I can certainly imagine a purpose or reason for delays, but I'd never noticed previously. My effect (or ineffect) on comments does seem new.

Is this behavior induced moderation voodoo, or standard?
Decentralized exchanges with no counterparty risk that require no user info.

Most people coming from the traditional finance world understand the value of this.
I’m an open source maintainer that asks for donations with a basic “Buy me a cup of coffee” link.

IMHO the person donating already got something in return which is the free software + the good feeling of having donated.

I don’t offer anything in return for a donation because I also don’t want those strings attached and I feel at that point it’s no longer a donation. If I offer something in return it turns into sponsoring or simply buying services/access.
The revolutionary nature of certain advances seems underappreciated in histories.

You could have been the most scientifically advanced culture in the world for centuries (see: 8th - 14th century Islamic world), yet missed out on being so for a few key inventions and lost most of the benefit.
Changing bitrate does not work, do you know how to change bitrate of audio file? Now it always streams the file as it is, even if I change the bitrate to 1 in the settings, it streams the file as it is.
we have our new engineers update the “our team” wall of faces with their photo on day 1 in prod. Not sure why that’s unrealistic if your deploy process doesn’t suck?