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GitHub Availability Report: March 2022

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The Dropout – The Story of Elizabeth Holmes

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Ask HN: Any New Years' Resolutions?

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hackandtrip
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Another possibility is using the `scripts` in the `pyproject.toml`, as described here: https://python-poetry.org/docs/pyproject/#scripts
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
We keep seeing the number 8$ billions of losses, but I wonder: does that number already include the enormous depreciation of Crypto which is taking place after SBF's demise?

What if users' possession on FTX are actually valued much less now?
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Apparently when another VC firm (Social Capital) suggested to create a board before going through with their investment, they received a plain&clear "f*k you".

Corporate governance, accounting, and all the other boring stuff should literally be the first things which you should look at when assessing whether to fuel or not an exchange.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
There is no way a person in his position has any time for focus. CEOs of big companies (especially in case they manage multiple companies!) usually act as firefighters and mainly mentors to top-management. They need to be able to quickly jump between calls, board meetings, press, Q&A, in matter of minutes.

Something very similar is also written in Cal Newport's Deep Work book, where Jack Dorsey's typical day is outlined just as a series of interruptions.

I guess that tweeting between these interactions is not that time-consuming for him, + he actually sleeps at the workplace and is 100% focused on work.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> Apple is TSMC's largest single customer, but they're only ~25% of their revenue.

Consider that Apple is also 25% of total assets of Berkshire (around 250$B), so it's not much of a surprise that Berkshire is going into the main manufacturer of the biggest stock they have - hence the strong linking between the wto.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Not a scientist so more of a question than a statement, but how can this be relevant given that: - We are talking about a pathway found in mouses, we are not even sure it exists in human - These bacterias are only markers, therefore doesn't it mean that causation!=correlation and this does not prove anything?
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Ideally, you could have a Postgres instance specifically dedicated for secrets - I don't see why you should couple sensitive and non-sensitive data. Many OSS services like HashiCorp Vault just do that: you give Vault a backend (which can be a Postgre DB, just like the one Supabase is offering) and it's gonna use that to save the secrets.

You could then use (e.g.) OpenID to connect to the specific instance of Supabase with those secrets from your application
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Did anyone try Renovatebot[1]? It should be OpenSource and endorsed from OpenSSF and Google. Main advantages I see is batched updates, which reduce a bit the dependency update spam.

1: https://renovatebot.com/
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Public company pivoting so many times on low-impact high-competition niches?

They surely must have saw that there is a hole to be filled, but I find it a bit hard to see them surpassing Gumroad.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I do wonder how this plays with the acquisition. IIRC, one of the merge agreement was for Twitter to avoid drastic changes that could impact the value of the company - this seems pretty big to me.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I work at a fairly complex distributed system (lots of infrastructure, mostly event-based system with milli-seconds latency for interactions between services managed mainly through queues, either managed externally or internally, 90 million MAU) and I cannot agree more.

Also, I would say that the difference is not much "scaling" a CRUD app for request/seconds, but for engineers on a single codebase/service, also architecturally. It's one thing to work alone on your project (which will probably handle k req/s, it's very easy nowadays with classic PostgreSQL and some other queues like RabbitMQ if you need event-based system). It's another to work on the same system with 100x more features, complexity (either in the same monolith or in different micro-services), and especially understand how to be pragmatic and solve problems you did not account for.

No amount of study can prepare you, other than first years at work. Afterwards, in my opinion, the challenges become improving the technology to scale more, and management.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Talking about actually genial FizzBuzz interview answers, I have yet to see someone even going close to this: https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Did you give a try to https://www.terraform.io/cdktf ?

Unfortunately, it is not stable yet... but we all used Terraform <1.0 for years, and I'd say the experience was never that bad.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
The Italian version is fully public, and it was made by a third party which offered to do it free of charge.

https://github.com/immuni-app
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I hope the growing interest (probably driven also from the crazy $$$ that prop shops are paying) in algo-trading will lower the barrier of entry.

Another interesting platform which grows on similar concepts is Composer: https://www.composer.trade

A big missing piece in OP's project is a backtesting - I think that a very important part of testing your strategy is trying it on real-world data.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
UX-wise, as other said, I think it makes sense to ask for the CC as late in the process as possible: you will make your most valuable user understand how great your platform is.

Also, I think that for a platform such as yours, credit cards are absolutely a must. The risk in opening it to scammers (mining, torrent seeds, etc) is just to high; I remember reading this from fly.io [0] that explains the pain in reducing fraud.

0: https://community.fly.io/t/new-prepaid-credits-and-a-bonus-s...
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
What's the difference between that, and just using a private variable?

Languages may not be able to restrict the operations you make on certain variables even if they are private, and even if you should use only public interface, it always happens that you try to tinker with libraries internals to get your hack working... Having this explicit in the name to me is just a stronger repetition of this concept!
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Caught it during July 2021 just two days before my planned second dose (Italy's vaccination rates were quite slow back then), had fever at 40 degree celsius for around 3 days, and around 38 for the next week. Luckily very mild cough. Paracetamol had no effect when symptoms started.

No idea on the long term effect, but surely I will remember for a while being delirious for three days straight.
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
It is probably caused from postmortem culture not being shared in the community.

"Having problems" in this world (any kind, not only due to the github scale!) is something that happens - we are not perfect and we work on an incredible amount of layers of complexity.

It is sufficient to actually touch production code on a daily basis to see that it can happen to the best, with the best observability systems or processes. The key is avoiding blaming, and understanding iteratively how to fix the problems underneath (faster recovery, detection time, and so on).
hackandtrip
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Add some kind of exponential backoff to be a good citizen!