skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they keep it secret from the families and children unless it's doing something nefarious?
The trend is is to downplay the issue in status messages to obscure the real problem. That message could mean anything from an extra 1% of rejections to 99% of transactions are failing.

The vagueness is the point, because they want to avoid admitting serious problems.

We had this problem with some devops hires who came from a big company. They’d delay updating the status page as long as possible, then update with the weakest language that was technically correct. “Some customers might experience degraded performance” was their go-to message for nearly complete outages. They’d argue that it was technically correct because some requests were getting through in some logs somewhere.

It was a side effect of working in an environment where their bonuses depended on downtime and the severity of outages. The game was to admit as little as possible to keep those bonus numbers high. We didn’t calculate bonuses that way but they had ingrained the behavior from years of BigCo performance reviews.
I'm assuming it was a trackball mouse from the description. The OP said it was cheap so I don't think cost was an issue but from my experience some employees are very particular about their peripherals (don't blame them one bit!). If they're important enough (or maybe just nice enough) I could absolutely imagine spending the time to make sure their preferred device is working properly.
I literally have said that to a woman who was having a tough time her sr. year of high school with catty girls in her grade. There was no avoiding them, the behavior didn't rise to the level the school was going to do anything, and she wasn't in a position to transfer.
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I actually agree with the "lifetime" argument. The real fallacy is here:

> Vendor Product B will be maintained from the vendor side, thus removing that wildcard of X.

Product B also has a lifetime cost as you'll be paying monthly for the subscription.

Also no product is maintenance free, even as you pay for it. Products evolve, you also do, next months JIRA could break some of a company's use cases and they'll have to deal with it. The vendor might be helpful and guide thsm through the process, but that's still work.

A good example of that is Microsoft's enterprise offering: it's a paid product and you still need a department to manage it day to day.
The best CO2 sequestration technologies we have are soils, forests, plankton and seagrass. Unfortunately, all of them are being impacted by the effects of (mostly animal) agriculture and the fishing industry.

Act accordingly.

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin...

Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests - better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/65/3/302/784343

Effects of climate and overfishing on zooplankton dynamics and ecosystem structure: regime shifts, trophic cascade, and feedback loops in a simple ecosystem

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seagrass-ocean...
>Is this a good deal for the American consumer? That’s a trickier question. Paying for a flight or a hotel room with points may feel like a free bonus, but because credit-card-swipe fees increase prices across the economy—Visa or Mastercard takes a cut of every sale—redeeming points is more like getting a little kickback. Certainly the system is bad for Americans who don’t have points-earning cards. They pay higher prices on ordinary goods and services but don’t get the points, effectively subsidizing the perks of card users, who tend to be wealthier already.

It sounds like their actual issue is CC fees, so why not write about that? Why not demand congress institute fee maximums or something? Meanwhile, I still don't understand what the actual harm is in airlines being "quasi-banks", other than these fees which are not set or managed by airlines.
I'm not sure I understand... this news indicates that Goro will not be leading Ghibli. So what would be the double-edged sword?
The "you" in that comment were the people who you were characterizing.

>Not really sure if much of the world shares your opinion.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022

Yes, most of the world views India as a fundamentally corrupt nation. I mean, you literally described a tacit acceptance of scammers as a norm...

>If 7% average annual GDP growth for the last twenty years is now considered "faltering"

After 20 years of that GDP growth, India now has a GDP per capita between the Ivory Coast and Nicaragua. When you have nowhere to go but up, and are basically a ship being lifted by a rising tide, it isn't that demonstrative.

India had the English language and a membership in the commonwealth in a world where that was a tremendous advantage. While Hong Kong, Singapore, and others became incredibly rich, India became known as a corrupt nation where public corruption was endemic and criminality/scamming was tolerated (again, you literally did exactly this justification). When criminality is tolerated it levies a cost on the entirety of that society. India should be decades further in prosperity than it is, and I think you might be missing the point. And at some point, someone is going to say "you know, being internationally infamous for scam centres isn't good for us" and there'll be a concerted effort to shut them down.

>Applying the same logic, I can say that US is more corrupt and low-trust because Qatar has higher GDP per capita.

That isn't the same logic, and I don't think you're following.
Interestingly Slack Workflows also introduces pricing. So it seems both companies are targeting charging for automations / charging for things which used to be free.
I work in a 100+ year old giga bank, systemic in the country it comes from, in their Hong Kong investment bank branch.

We loved Splunk, we invested quite a bit in it both for technical monitoring and business intelligence. After a while the price went so high we cut it all, moved to kdb/tableau/elk/whatever crappier system that cost less.

Money is ALWAYS an object and Splunk makes sure to dig a hole deep enough for even the deepest pockets. I too prefer my shareholders to collect the fruit of my labor rather than... Splunk. At least they can reinvest some profit in us. Not Splunk, nope, they keep digging that hole in our pockets.
YMMV. I self taught as a child as well and gave up trying to crack FAANG. I still enjoy my less blingy current role.
It's better -because it's easier to scale- to sell a single 1M$ license than selling a thousand 1000$ licenses.
Right. Like the Newtonian physics of trees.
I mean its really not that good. I got bored with it pretty quickly and some large sections are pretty tedious if you don't save scum. I think some people were just enamored since it did some things kinda nice (no microtransactions)
We've gotten very good at using containerization and virtualization to isolate and abstract away ugliness, and as a result we have been able to build unspeakable towers of horror that would have been impossible without these innovations.
I drove into a ditch in Costa Rica following google maps. It was the end of any fantasy of ine that they still wanted to organize the world's information. Luckily it only cost $500 or so for the privilege of finding that out for sure.
> it makes more money from financial shenanigans than providing the product or service recorded on it's business registration

This seems to describe a lot of sectors of the economy, unfortunately
Typically companies just pay the menial fine.
It's run by a self-regularing body and doesn't impact your citizenship -- it's not the government who enforces it.

I graduated from UW in 2011 in software engineering. Never did my P.Eng.
I drank the juice that software practitioner will need liability in the future....but it never panned out.
"Directly"? Isn't the point that they get to invest the money their customers add to their cards, for whatever time Starbucks hold it? That some customers also fail to redeem the balance is for them a bonus, but not what the "Starbucks is a bank" comment addresses.
This was my first thought, but this connection was not made clear in the article - or if it was a naming coincidence.
Okay, to be more pedantic - the vast vast majority of people living in suburbs have access to a car and do not consider a 2 mile drive to the grocery store an inconvenience. To say these people live in a food dessert is silly.

You are very clever to point out that people can actually walk around in a suburb, doesn't change the point.
Just want to say this is a great idea and while I cant dive into it now (time) Im excited to dive into this in the future. Ill hve to bookmark this and return to it
> Postel's law is a good indicator of how robust a language is: the more a language is able to make sense of different types of input, the more robust the language.

Into the trash it goes.

Seriously, the avoid-crashing-at-all-costs anti-pattern is what made HTML, JavaScript and PHP the messes that they still are, from which the latter one is only now recovering at a glacial pace. For once, we could learn the lesson.
Any sufficiently large commercial organisation is a bank. Starbucks, airlines, utilities...
My comment did two things (but they were somewhat muddled). It: (a) laid a particular model; and (b) offered {explanations/claims} of causality. But unfortunately it said nothing about (c) experimental design.

I'll start with (c). Attempting to talk about a model in isolation from its experimental design can be misleading, as it ignores the context that gives the model its interpretive power and validity. In this case, a good experimental design must include a sufficiently diverse sample of people to account for variation.

Regarding (b), depending on the person, the influence could flow either way between `I` and `T`, to varying degrees.

- Example of `I->T`: One person might come into the store strongly preferring one type of ice cream (`I`) and be willing to take time to look for it (`T`)

- Example of `T->I`: Another person might come into the store in a hurry and be motivated to procure the closest ice cream flavor.

Regarding (a), no model is 'true' but some are better than others for particular purposes.

- To the extent that prediction is the key goal, confounding variables don't usually matter.

- But to the extent that _statistical inference_ is the key goal, there are many techniques for teasing apart influence.

Unfortunately, too often in machine learning contexts, the word "inference" refers to the process of using a trained model for _prediction_. Yikes. This contrasts sharply with the term's use in statistics. The field of statistics got this one right, even as ML techniques have taken off spectacularly.
It's been funny to me that the mileage calculations oftentimes have no tie to the trip mileage--I'm a civilian pilot and often track the flight via foreflight. I'm a frequent filer on United, and I've often wondered the crazy math they come up with to get the number of 'miles' I earned--as the article says I think its purely based off of dollars now despite United also having 'premier qualifying points' which is directly tied to dollars spent.
Are these government institutions in Bristol? If so do they have public blogs or other citizen friendly mechanics for sharing important decisions?
Here is the location of the damaged bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B046'53.6%22N+81%C2%...

You can see it you move out to the main road which has an more recent 2023 street view image.
It's the same difference as between papa and papá. We are trained to perceive different accented syllables as different words with different meanings.
The garage door openers aren’t terribly old, but they are terrible!

I have a HomeKit opener attached to it that we use during the day. Fortunately that’s been reliable enough to get around the issue.
You will find examples from companies moving away from Elixir, Python, JavaScript, Scala, Java, etc. I don't think there is any programming language that is "unditchable". So I'd suggest to analyze the reasons that made a company move away from X, check if they are still relevant, if they'd apply to you, and, if yes, if they are a deal breaker or something you can work around.

For the Brex case, if I remember correctly, lack of static typing and early-development of gRPC tools were the reasons back then. How much this impacts your needs is up to you.
Oh I totally missed the Real part, you are right thanks.
Getting acquainted with BPF as a security tool
A Game Engine is just an Operating System built by playful people instead of bureaucrats.
That’s not strictly needed; it could be scanned by the E2E messenger app itself using an offline database of hashes, before sending.
Amazon was founded in 1994, that's not the same era.

Ruby didn't even exist back then and was released a year later.
Rails was released in 2004.
Shopify was founded in in 2006, 12 years after Amazon.
The account was restored in less than 2 hours with a simple email
Quite, if you've done nothing wrong then you've nothing to hide ...
You think Linux usage is not more widespread because people don't know that it's easy to install?
That doesn't follow from what I said. Scam centres might contribute an absolutely tiny, minuscule amount of economic activity. But the fact that they openly exist, do effectively nothing to hide, and authorities do little to nothing to combat it, demonstrates pervasive corruption and criminality.
I want Codeberg to succeed, but every time they have a problem they ask for "help", and you go read the issue, and... they're still working on routing contexts through DB queries? Like, really, the problem is essentially a lack of typists?

And stuff like https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/220#issuecomment... is really worrying, like, you're counting non-critical integers one at a time, but you also think you're outsmarting the MariaDB engineers? I don't know how you productively enter a discussion like this to "help".
when you read Hacker News thread - every single one of them feels like the world is falling apart. Splunk is a dud or so everyone here thinks:

https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/23/splunk-shares-surge-stro...
I read a lot of James Bond novels, so I can imagine what goes on...
So... this is so funny because it feels like you totally missed my point.

I did not talk of reading documentation because i am literally one of the person you should come to if you need something in the doc. I learned how to write elixir and erlang by reading their doc.

I also do not use an IDE and am really relucant of them because i don't find them useful.

And I am a big defender of prolog. And i am not denying the strong architecture and infrastructure of erlang. I literally contribute to it.

But what you have not addressed is ... all I mentioned. The broken testing libraries. The inability to do the right thing nicely because the parse transform are a pita. The fact that modules names cannot be aliased, generating painful to navigate file structure and names. Etc etc.

And look. It can be made better. We have worked on documentation and there is more coming. We are getting multiline strings. Rebar3 mostly work. Hex can be used for erlang projects.

But in order to do things better we need to acknowledge the problems. Not just say that the kids don't understand. Especially when the person you say that to is actually understanding it pretty well thank you.
I have an order of magnitude more machines than you and would never in a million years consider splunk

Right tool for the right job. Splunk is for mega-scale setups
You're thinking very small. People who actually own global businesses think in terms of billions, and SBF had billions. $10M is rounding error to them.

I've lost $50M for my employer (a large, reputable, very by-the-book tech company). I've also gained $100M for my employer, on a project that was canceled because it didn't make enough money. (I half-jokingly asked "Well would you spin it out, I'd love to have $100M?", but it was too tied to corporate infrastructure.) My current project is on track to lose ~$10M/year for my employer, but it's considered strategically important, and so we've run it up the chain and every indication is that it's going to launch anyway.

It just doesn't matter when you make billions. It's like how you stop clipping coupons when you start making a six-figure salary, because the time and attention needed to sweat $0.50 isn't worth it when your paycheck is $10K/month.
There are not many people who have done worse things for this world than Rupert Murdoch. I cannot wish him anything but the karmic retribution for all the hate and suffering he's caused over the years.

The hilarious final paragraph where a billionaire is criticising the "elites" is just the icing on the cake:

> He also criticised other media outlets as being "in cahoots" with a "rarefied class" of elites who he accused of "peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth".
this is a layer on top of sendgrid. common functionality that a lot of users have to implement before any sendgrid api endpoint is invoked.
In life sciences the qualifying exam is an oral exam where they can in theory ask you anything. In comparison with for example the physics qualifying exam which (as I’m told) is a traditional paper exam, just ridiculously difficult.
Buy based on protocols, and then focus on whether the bridges are trustworthy.

That is, be cautious about anything that will directly link to your wifi (and so doesn't need a bridge) unless you can confirm you can isolate them on their own wifi network or firewall them off should you feel the need to now or in the future, or anything that uses proprietary protocols where you can't rip out the bridge if the provider goes rogue.

Hue bulbs uses zigbee, so the bulbs themselves are not a problem. The bridge is. There are "dumb" zigbee bridges/interfaces, including USB controllers you can use with open source options like Home Assistant.

If you can't avoid a proprietary bridge, only buy what you can afford to replace, or where the device is still serviceable to a sufficient degree if you turn off/remove the bridge (e.g. Lightwave switches go "dumb" if you turn off the bridge, but still work), or if you firewall it (e.g. if you can still control it via wifi even if the bridge can't reach the internet).
I think Doctorow said something along those lines, no?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology ends up regulated as a bank" or similar
I think you are right but the hook is not captivity, but rather simple drug and vice addiction
> it could be easily scaled to way more than that with a bit of work.

I guess you'd appreciate the words easily and bit are doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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So the underlying/fundamental UN doctrine and principles should somehow be different?

You should still be able to glean the overall UN position on similar practices.

Whether you intended or not; your comment came across slightly xenophobic. 2 out of 3 main points (UN stance, forced criminality) are on point and shouldn't change based on the geographic region. Your comment read as if you were offended that the same pointsfor SE Asia could ever apply to India.

I hope not though. Either way it's important to acknowledge higher(meta) level perspectives for what they actually say, not who they're about.
Google Calendar down – 500 error
Well, not a drill. Google Calendar seems to be down, returning 500 errors. What's next for you today?
This is a category error. The worst uses of surveillance in general do not apply to this case, unless someone tells us how it does.
Not the first time they tried to buy a license!

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cisco-made-20-billion-plu...
Plex is a piece of software for playing media. It's not an operating system.
If we've done nothing wrong, then why are they looking...

By the way, can you send me your bank and credit card details so that I can just verify that you've done nothing wrong?
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As someone who's enough of an early adopter to have been running Rust in production since ~2016, and who takes a good look at Elixir every few years, there are two major things holding me back:

1. Lack of strong typing. Dynamic typing is great on 10,000 line projects with two developers. Once you reach 50,000 lines and have a little developer turnover, it stops being fun. And dynamic typing also usually means far less IDE support. I'm spoiled; I want auto-complete.

2. Elixir is amazing for UIs like Discord, where your users interact in real time. If each of your users lives in their own little world, Elixir's greatest strengths have less chance to shine.

Right now, TypeScript is a no-brainer, because React is the dominant choice for UIs, and using the same language on both client and server is a win. And frankly, TypeScript's lovely, even if the ecosystem is a constantly-churning trash fire. So for a variety of commercial projects, TypeScript is a responsible choice. Typed Python, C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift or Rust all have compelling use cases, too.

But given stronger typing and an project that needed Elixir's strong support for distributed systems, I'd definitely consider Elixir.
> Software developers tend to like their new toy

This depends on the industry, I suppose. Out here on the east coast in the defense industry it's a badge of honor to have a stickered-up 12 year old ThinkPad running a BSD.