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advaitaon Show HN: Books to Learn Apache Kafka

Same happens for safari on latest iOS!

advaitaon ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

Are you saying druid hardware costs were coming out to be 10x of clickhouse hardware costs?

Caveat: English is not my first language so might have missed your point in translation. :)

advaitaon What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

Hey man, ignore the comment above, I hope things get better quickly and ya'll are safe, special the little one!

advaitaon 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

It's basically equivalent of cookie pop-ups on websites or ToS.

advaitaon Identify a Flag

They’re loading ad after every choice which seems to take a long time for me (iOS + Safari)

advaitaon Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

Looks like service has gotten the HN kiss of death!

advaitaon Ask HN: Advice for Multiplayer Back End

I dont have answers to your questions but you might want to prefix the post with "Ask HN: ". It will drive better reach.

advaitaon Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores

IIRC, In Sundarban Delta (India/Bangladesh) people put on masks on the back of the head for similar reasons.

EDIT: Yeap, here's NYT article from 1989 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/science/face-masks-fool-t...

advaitaon Peter Thiel: The Education Bubble Is Becoming Dangerous (2018) [video]

IMO, adding 2018 in the title would be better.

advaitaon The Clean Network – United States Department of State

I am _guessing_ they wanted to mean pollar opposite of A-Team.

(As non-native speaker) I always interpret A-Team as your most competent team for a given task.

advaitaon Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

South bay anecdote: Rent was ~3.8k, I tried to negotiate on renewal (4- at same rate) saying market conditions dont justify it. The management refused to go below ~3.3k, now they are offering same apartment at 2.8k after I vacated.

That's deep decrease (~33%), I fully expect the effects to show up starting Q4.

advaitaon Straightened Trees

Hugged to death(?)

Archive : https://web.archive.org/web/20200717180537/http://danieltemk...

advaitaon An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system

No, F-22 is not up for export. Also, F-22 serves a specific role vs F-35 which is geared towards multiple capabilities. There are neither mutually exclusive nor substitute for each other.

advaitaon Reducing search indexing latency to one second

Huh!

I thought it was always me and I was being too cynical but on mobile web, half of the times, I am scrolling and stop to click on media/link in the tweet and freaking add shows up and I end up clicking on that. May be it's just my device but annoying as hell UX.

advaitaon Returning the “killed” RSS of Reuters from the dead

+1 to GP. Seeing this kind of products make happy in general. (Or at least appeal to my confirmation bias about how products should be built)

FYI, you _probably_ have a typo on pricing page "Term Extraction" should be "Term Extension"?

advaitaon Apache NiFi

As far as I see, your link has nothing to do with 1.11.4 release. May be you wanted to link to a specific page?

advaitaon Happiness is a freshly organized codebase

Anecdotally, I like that separation because in absence of it working with any large-ish project (which most real life projects are), it'd get super hard for my brain to pick out tests even if they all had certain prefix/nomenclature.

Caveat: I use IntelliJ and I just jump to tests using CMD+SHIFT+T shortcut so not necessarily a generic example.

advaitaon Signs that a business idea will probably fail

Example: I am physically/mentally/financially capable of taking a bike tour across US, to do that I need X amount of time.

Owing to other responsibilities I can not allocate X amount of time right now. (Ignoring whole COVID-19 saga of course)

advaitaon Signs that a business idea will probably fail

Slightly off-topic, but I have been raising this point (after learning the lesson hard way) within my larger engineering org and seem to be getting nowhere towards convincing people that the #1 reason for degraded quality of delivery is too many big ticket changes going on at same time.

What's the playbook for this? Any recommended reading etc would be a huge favor.

PS: Not necessarily a question to OP but anyone passing by.

advaitaon Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

Very interesting. By any chance do you have recommended engineering/product reading around this?

Even if they're blog posts from eng/prod teams that would be a huge favor.

advaitaon Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

Thanks for responding Patrick, as I said I actually do believe that the claim you're making is not false.

I am always curious about/collecting patterns successful teams leverage for solving problems that I consider important.

Being able to communicate fraudulent payments that Stripe blocks is definitely one of them.

I was being a bit selfish when I asked that, my thought process was like; "Going forward data-collection is going to be scrutinized much more than now and rightfully so. If I ever run a business where we collect data for a very important use case I would want to make sure that we are able to communicate what, why, and how with utmost level of transparency)."

Hope that puts some context to my question, it was a good-faith question. :)

advaitaon Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

millions of fraudulent payments per day

Are there ways for transparently communicating (verifiable) stats for this claim?

To be clear, I am not saying that your claim is not true but if one thing HN has taught me, it is to always ask for data backing up claims that are tall.

advaitaon Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour

Doesnt climate change mean a higher probability of extreme events, and hence higher chances of severe winter storms/blizzard/snow?

I am out of my depth in terms of the topic we are discussing so I might be quite wrong.

advaitaon Over 500k Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web

Genuinely curious, How does this particular report amount to FUD?

advaitaon U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days

Looks like they backtracked on that one https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12379246581854699...

advaitaon Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories

Could it be that they're just bogged down in fire fighting and paying off the tech debt accumulated over years? (Genuine question, as someone who has never worked in >50 eng company, I always wonder how those companies tackle stuff like this.)

advaitaon Things that I think will be important in the next decade

This, exactly this. I have been trying to convert a bunch of my non-tech social network to start using privacy respecting services (DDG/Signal/Tutanota primarily) and have seen more of apathy than pushback. People seem to have no qualms about their search history/messaging being analyzed/indexed/used for targeting as long as they can keep using those services free.

advaitaon This will go down on your permanent record

I hope for the sake of person being interrogated that it is fake but this could be a tactic for intimidating other protestors who are not firmly committed and have other responsibilities in life to worry about.

advaitaon Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

Not OP but I assume it means verizon media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media

advaitaon Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

Quick question for anyone who understands legal side of this, would Smart TV/ Smart TV manufacturers fall under CCPA when it goes into effect?