jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes! Have one-to-many data that you know you will usually always grab all in one go, and won't ever participate in a relation? Arrays are the way to go. JSONB can be similarly highly appropriate. They can greatly reduce the number of disk reads needed for certain workloads.

Don't forget that both can be indexed in Postgres! And the indexes are more powerful than what you can do with the equivalent relational layout, as they support efficient subset queries.
> Aren’t backups usually just run relatively infrequently on a fixed, automated schedule?

not familiar with this system, but for large setups, having the maintenance operations block usage can reduce the backup window enough that it impacts your desired scheduling pattern
Ah yes, the optimal way to send money over the internet must surely involve burning up an amount of electricity which could’ve powered my house last week
The resolution is not a problem for me (but yeah I get it).
But the primusrun does seems like a big issue.
I have a notebook.A haswell i3-4005u with a intel HD 4400.
For most of my requirements is more than enough.

But I have a wireless Xbox 360 controller (in Linux yeah) and I will love to have a better use of it.
antimicro could be an option (it's a great application that maps your controller with your keyboard/mouse).

I played Sid Meier's Pirates(in wine) with my controller using antimicro, but I didn't end with an acceptable configuration for Torchlight yet.
I found Go extremely difficult to build abstractions in when I did some work in it last year. I would actually rather write Java (speaking as a Lisper). :-)
One way to solve this is that instead of asking for a yes - no answer, you ask for a ranking, and you disallow equally likely. Is bigfoot more or less likely than telepathy? Is telepathy more ore less likely than the vaccines being dangerous? Are the vaccines being dangeroues more or less likely than some guy achieving cold fusion in his garage?

A ranking forcibly brings the metric away from accuracy (which the heuristic can score well on) to something based around precision-recall (which it cannot).
You got it the other way round. I haven't won any case.
Hi speedgoose; I'm founder @ Retool. I'm sorry you were priced out of Retool; we don't want anybody to be that way. We're trying a few pricing experiments now (including self-serve on-prem, not billing per-user, etc.). I tried shooting you an email to a) fix the issue, and b) gather some feedback, but I don't think you have an email listed. Do you mind reaching out to me at david AT retool? Thanks!
From the perspective of a non-functional language, it is argument deferral because you're composing your sequence of functions first, which can then be used by later adding inputs for evaluation.

Were you thinking of partial application (not the same as currying)? I would agree that this is not argument deferral, rather it's more like argument presetting.
Barbs are wrapped around the twin wires, yes, but the twin wires are already touching each other. But a fence will usually have more than one strand of wire (though not always barbed) - I imagine one stand was Tx and a different strand was Rx.
This is a great move and incredibly employee-friendly. We'll see if this is the beginning of other companies following suit, but I doubt it.

As has been discussed before it's not the mechanics that matter here, but rather the psychology of founders.

More often than not, there is the belief that even if you've been an employee for 2+ years, if you're not "in it for the long haul" then you don't deserve to hold on to your equity without paying for it in cash (or taking the tax hit).

Not to mention there's very little incentive to amend these policies outside of generating general goodwill.
If a company can 'put the entire Internet at risk', even if 'solely for the convenience of [their] IT operations', the system is fundamentally flawed.
Looks like the Fortune article missed a big point: The exercise of the options often requires a big pile of money to be paid by the leaving employee to the company (ie, the strike price of the option. This occurs regardless of tax issues.)

The advantage is seeing how well the stock performs, then performing the exercise. If the company has gone public, then no real money needs to be put up by the employee; Exercise and sale can occur in one fell swoop.
My mother runs one of the voting stations in her area, I was simply repeating what she has told me.
Great Story!! I love the founder’s journey! Nothing was handed to you. You worked hard for everything you have! I can identify with that. This company would have kicked butt at SXSW because we did not see many fitness companies there this year.
The NY Times also benefits from a specific provision in the Bill of Rights, freedom of the press.
It's a criticism of current technology critics, in particular the sort that decry automation as reducing peoples' humanity by depriving them of the personal fulfillment that comes from "traditional work".

He calls these critics "conservative" or "romantic", because they idealize past definitions of work and mourn the coming end of virtuous human skills like driving a manual transmission (due to self-driving cars). He considers such criticism elitist.

And he says the real underlying problems, addressed only by "radical" tech critics, are the socio-politico-economic issues raised by technology.
...where regional committers are elected, and once elected, act in blocs against their electorate?
Interesting, I didn't know the existence of the quote or the mail. So... if what Satoshi claimed is true, this choice was actually a pure coincidence and doesn't really have any significance, hmm. I don't know what to say - yet another strange coincidence in history I guess?
DNA Lounge has a sticker made for the placement over the Apple Logo. http://www.dnalounge.com/store/stickers.html
> Nintendo is a 132 year old company (111 at the time this happened), with a "war chest" of $10 billion.

Now they are successful, after the huge hits of the Wii, DS and Switch. Even with that the company was in a lot of trouble during the Wii U period in 2014, with executives taking 50% pay cuts.

When this played out in 2000 it was during the N64 era, with GameCube being close to launch. While those were not failures per se, they were very, very far behind the PSOne and PS2 in terms of popularity.
Is protestor still the right word when they forcefully enter a building with a mob?
Reasonable is whatever Twitter decides.
I finally deleted WhatsApp, even if here in Europe it’s the ubiquitous messaging application and maybe things will be a little complicated at first. I should’ve done this long ago, the same day it was bought by Facebook.

Anyway we have so many ways to communicate with one another that if someone wants to reach me he can, probably it will be less a big deal than what most of us think.

If all of your tech savvy friends disappear from WhatsApp in a matter of a couple of weeks maybe some other people might follow... I kind of hope in a domino effect right now, let’s see how it plays out!
Kettling involves directing protestors to an area to be arrested or otherwise forced to leave -- not to allow them easier access to join the rest of the rioters at the Capitol.
I agree that they can deescalate when they want to. However, the way I understand the defund the police idea was to defund and eventually get their needed funds back with lots of reform. The prospect of funds does change things quite a bit. Always! At this point they're overfunded so no carrot to get them to move forward.
Obviously it doesn’t look great but I think the experience with the various protests over the summer (despite looking, I think no one found significant increases in cases due to big protest marches in the US) suggests that this is reasonably benign, though maybe it’s worse with the new strain. In particular these people outside where the ventilation is good are not huddled together in bars or restaurants or sitting rooms with their friends/family which is a much more reliable way to spread the virus.
I've spent a few thousand on itunes gift cards over a decade or so, all at above face value, because it's the only way to get funds into my "US" account, which is the only way to get access to a lot of content without torrenting it.

These days though, I just torrent more often than not. It's just too much work trying to pay for the content I like.
Not only are fresh Ubuntus a bit touchy, but upgrading in-place has bitten me badly in the past. It's always a clean-slate install for me now.
First of all don't tell people what the should or shouldn't think. Not only is it condescending but its ridiculous. Also this wasn't an assumption it was an observation. This wasn't people with their head down working, this was eye contact I made with many people in different states of being at work and none of them could muster a friendly smile. That's completely different.
Careful there, buster.
Maybe this post might be useful to some of the readers here. Let me know if you have comments or questions!
High schools vary wildly in how rigorous they are, one high school you could get a 4.0 by taking four years of underwater basket weaving, another school you could get a 3.4 because you took AP Calculus/Bio/Physics your senior year and they were tough. Not to mention that sometimes your school weighs your GPA differently and that makes those numbers not make sense.

The SAT is administered by a private "not-for-profit" corporation (College Board) and doesn't test anything like history or science that most schools try to teach kids (well, probably all schools have a requirement). And every time someone wants to put together a national test as a replacement, it gets shot down (sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for not good reasons).

I did AP all four years of high school because I found the normal classes too boring, and my GPA probably would've been higher if I hadn't, but I got into college.
Pulsar positioning system:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03316.pdf

While not a primary source, it's still an answer to absolute time from pulsars:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/175981/can-you-u...
True, but the author of the blog post posted this '1 hour ago' (As of my comment) and maybe should have at least triple-checked the signal-server repository again rather than linking to a now outdated discussion thread on Signal-Android [0].

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...
Recently I saw "post grayskull" on twitter, that's now my favourite. ;)
> When startups are exploring new spaces [..]

Sorry, but who (with a straight face) can claim WeWork was genuinely "exploring a new space"?

Regus has been offering temporary office space since 1989 (when Adam Neumann was aged 10?).

Oh, there was never a DJ nor free beer at Regus. I'm sure that makes all the difference, though.
It's actually a bit more convoluted because of how these frameworks compile JS into various artefacts https://clojureverse.org/t/creating-websites-with-shadow-clj...

But you're right, for most "serious" projects, people tend to reach for the JVM. Yet, I think a strong ClojureScript presence on the JAMstack would benefit beginners a lot.
Thanks! I agree - this is probably functionally inferior to using your calendar.

I built this as a small open-source Supabase demo and something I'd personally use.
> Not so. The appeals court found in Oracle's favor, not Google's. Meaning they found that the API was copyrightable, and that Google's use was not fair use.

Again, you are not disagreeing; you are agreeing. Thomas is arguing that the appeals court's ruling, which you correctly describe, should have been affirmed. Which is the opposite decision from the one the Court made, just as I said.

> The majority supreme court opinion basically said "even assuming it is copyrightable, this IS fair use"

Here is the exact quote from the opinion:

"we assume, for argument’s sake, that the material was copyrightable. But we hold that the copying here at issue nonetheless constituted a fair use."

In other words, the Court did not even consider the question of whether or not the material was copyrightable. They assumed it "for the sake of argument", which is just a dodge. They should have considered the question directly; and here is what Thomas says about that:

"The majority purports to assume, without deciding, that the code is protected. But its fair-use analysis is wholly inconsistent with the substantial protection Congress gave to computer code. By skipping over the copyrightability question, the majority disregards half the relevant statutory text and distorts its fair-use analysis."

Further comments below.

> You claim that Thomas is saying that "if the court decided it was copyrightable, then they would have also had to have found this was not fair use".

Yes, because the relevant facts that would support a ruling, based on the statute, that the code was copyrightable, also indicate, based on the statute, that Google's use was not fair use. But by skipping over the copyrightability analysis, the majority is simply ignoring those facts and those portions of the statute. That is Thomas's point.

> To form an argument in this way is logically consistent

Not if it ignores additional information that is not consistent with information used in the argument. Thomas is not saying that the Court's argument is logically inconsistent on its face. He's saying that it's inconsistent once you put back in the information that the Court left out: the facts that support a ruling, based on the statute, that the code was copyrightable, also support a ruling, based on the statute, that Google's use was not fair use. The majority is simply failing to consider those facts.

In other words, the Court can't just "assume for the sake of argument" that the code is copyrightable in a vacuum. They have to take into account the relevant facts of the case that support such an assumption, and consider the implications of those facts, and the relevant parts of the statute, for the fair use analysis.
On the one hand, it is ridiculous that one of the main metrics used in admissions is a glorified IQ test. On the other hand, it is ridiculous that we don't have a single commonly used standardized-exam that evaluates proficiency and expertise in the core curriculum.

I know America has a serious NIH syndrome, but the situation could be improved overnight if every single public school adopted the GCSE/A levels or IB curriculum and exams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCE_Advanced_Level_(United_Kin...

https://www.ibo.org/about-the-ib/
Also: a linear function plus a constant is said to be affine!

Reference: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/AffineFunction.html
> When pols call COVID-19 "the China virus" and talk about making them pay for it there's obviously a grudge there.

Are you sure that's ethnically rooted, or that they're trying to describe the CCP and simply chose the wrong title?

A number of people calling it the "China virus" redubbed it the "CCP virus".

You can be angry at Chinese leadership while empathizing and supporting its people.
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IMHO, the correct way to look at it is to compare impact/results.

A 10x engineer might not get 10x done, but their work will be 10x better in a combination of ways: quality, maintainability, speed, portability, extendability, etc. Hopefully the ways in which their work is better fits the priorities of the organization.

That’s the only way you can really call someone an N-xer compared to a productive individual contributor.

Someone like Jim Keller is a big multiplier at a higher level. People today understand the value an executive like Steve Jobs brings, but usually there’s debate on the value before it becomes clear a few years later.
Well, in Zimbabwe because of the large user base WhatsApp got when it initially arrived (due to reduced charges, SMSs where about 15cents a pop then) around 2011-2012, the ISPs have effectively made it the only way to communicate economically by providing a "bundle".

Basically they offer you a drastically reduced price to only access WhatsApp, mostly text message without media at that. Compared to the data plan that can access the whole internet it is very very cheap to use just WhatsApp.

The cheapest WhatsApp bundle on the most popular network (Econet) is currently at around 51cents to text the whole week (65MB of data) vs the $13 for 8gigs. Granted the 8gigs is for a month but $13 is a big amount in this part of the world, and with regular data there's the aspect of discipline to not use all that data on youtube and other data hungry apps/websites.
I love being able to convert from millilightseconds to miles, and vice versa. You can figure minimum latency for a given distance or maximum distance for a given latency.
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"Restated, this is claiming that health insurers in the US erroneously deny coverage as a policy. And that is the specific statement I am saying is untrue."

The policy may not be explicitly stated, but having dealt ( and likely having have to deal with both this year ) with medical issues ( and related bills ) in US, to me it is clear that everything is stacked against the recipient of healthcare benefits. In other words, actions speak louder than words. The moment I have to spend multiple hours a day, faxing stuff, confirming receipt, complaining, contacting various overseeing bodies, I think the unstated policy is pretty simple. Deny and delay is a tactic. And it works. Not everyone can devote time and energy to this. It is exhausting.

"The problem that I have in US healthcare is that no healthcare provider is willing to give me a code, even for simple checkups or X-rays or what have you, where everything is known in advance. The healthcare providers don't want to risk"

I am willing to agree here. There is a fair amount of issues that are created for a patient by the providers ( coding, communication with insurer or lack thereof, now standard 'you are responsible for everything insurance doesn't pay' clause and my current favorite 'some of the providers in our hospital may bill you separately' ). It usually takes some yelling to get some of the charges to 'reasonable' level and I have the feeling the only reason I got away with it is, because the election was in full swing and no one wanted another crazy hospital story.
Twitter is becoming the outsourced helpdesk of those poor, shoddy transnational corporations. Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc are too poor and incompetent to run a helpdesk that could actually help anybody, but Twitter can. Twitter should raise a fee from those companies for its services.
All information comes from reality. The act of perceiving it immediately transforms it into a model compatible with the perceiver.

If the information is conveyed to someone else, another perceiver, it is transformed twice more -- once in translating it to the communication medium, and once more to match the new perceiver's model.

Thus, the more steps information takes in getting to you, the more changed it will become. Most of the information we get has been transformed many times before reaching us.

In order to achieve information accuracy in your mental models, you must either perceive information directly from reality, or attempt to undo these transformations with speculation, aka reading between the lines.

This is only the beginning. If you want to effectively understand the world, every time you perceive new information, you must immediately try to fit it to as many of your mental models as you can before it fades, and then cascade down all the rest of them to see if the combination also fits something.

It is a pursuit which takes much uninterrupted thinking, and quiet space is essential. It will also seem fruitless at first, the same way as with meditation. Eventually, after a bit of doing this seemingly without any reward, it will start to come together, and you will begin to have regular moments of insight.

Richard Feynman wrote on this quite a bit, I advise you to seek out his writing.
My personal favorite is the compiler that uses only the printable bytes.
CSGO skins are a slightly different case because of their use in-game. You can't play in an actual competitive game of CSGO with a knife/skin that you don't own.

Yes, there are servers that will let you try out custom skins and knives but you can't play an official game with them. The knives also offer different animations which look cooler than the default one. It's slightly different to me in that there's no inherent usefulness of the NFT's (at least currently - maybe in some metaverse future they have a use).

It doesn't seem like people really want to "own" the NFTs, they are viewing them only as investments which means eventually someone will be left holding the bag. In contrast, people DO want to own the CSGO skins and knives.
This is what I do, I use regex's so often it's easier for me to read this even if it's a little bit more typing
Yeah, HN strips trailing periods for the reason you stated. You can normally get around that by adding a hash/pound sign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...