skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expensive? On the contrary, Facebook appears to have made money with these four words -- time and again.
Instagram announces IGTV
Still growing strong I assume:)
They did ban nuclear testing in the open air fairly quickly and resorted to underground tests which produce much less fallout. Then they did ban those too.
> Composites are not allowed to contain instances of themselves within any of their fields

Do you mean recursive type definitions? Or? Who does allow that? And what would you use it for in an SQL context? Please elaborate, I'm curious what you are getting at here.

> Table inheritance doesn't work well with uniqueness constraints

This got somewhat better in postgresql 11 (beta1 is available now) in that unique works for partitioned tables. I don't know if that also includes inherited tables, they are similar but not the same. Partitioned tables are the case most people are interested in anyway.
SEC documents detail scores of fraud allegations against Coinbase
My primary issue with Julia is that it has a relatively high latency in a REPL environment. I and many people I know primarily use REPL environments (e.g. Jupyter Lab) for scientific computing, so this is a pretty relevant use-case. For example, if I start Julia and type

[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] ^ 2

I have to wait about 5 seconds for a response (on a first generation Core i7, SSD). On the other hand, running the following in a fresh Python interpreter is almost instantaneous:

import numpy as np
np.linalg.matrix_power([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], 2)

Unfortunately, in most scenarios the actual execution speed (where Julia is far superior) is secondary. People just tend to run larger experiments over night; and as long as you can express your code in terms of numpy matrix operations, Python is fast enough.
Interesting, I'm curious to know what kind of speeddating events/services/apps are out there. I've never used any.
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No accounting firm was ready to vouch for them ? This sounds like Theranos all over again
I live my life by this quote. The Swedish version even rhymes and sound charming. It's a great mindset for trying new things and exploring new ideas, which would have been blocked by bureaucracy if approval were needed.
Geez man just relax a bit and move to a smaller city. I make 100k and live in a 2200 square foot house with 3 grocery stores within walking distance and a 10 minute commute. Life is pretty easy, I make websites for my companies marketing team.

Unfortunately not all of us live in America :( 100k USD for a run of the mill web-developer is just not going to happen where I am (New Zealand), and housing is much more expensive too.
Pretty consistent. I haven't timed it, but it certainly feels like more than 15 seconds for my 50-100 tabs. I'm not in quite as pure of a situation as that benchmark though-- I have plenty of other programs using memory and I'm waiting for the page to actually render. During some of my Firefox launches lately I also had a bunch of other applications launching at the same time since I was trying to debug a WebGL page that sporadically hangs/reboots my machine (in both Firefox and Chrome)
Cool feature indeed, though keep in mind that for it to work you need to have the "virtual field" in the `search_path` of the session user.

In PostgREST, we take advantage of this behavior to generate queries without the need for extra code to differentiate between a field or "virtual field", we call these "computed columns" though https://postgrest.org/en/v5.0/api.html#computed-columns.
> The alternative is that they keep XUL

I do not believe that was the only alternative. I have spent a lot of time reading bug reports / feature requests relating to this functionality, and it certainly seems that much of it could be enabled, but apparently never will. The developers seem to think that giving extensions "too much power" would be dangerous, and thus it is best not to let anybody choose power over safety guarantees.

It seems a little too harsh to bring up Linus Torvald's "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it" quote, but it tends to come to my mind whenever I read the abovementioned discussions.
did not know about the video cool thanks
Please tell me - why is decentralisation a positive here? Why should I care about it and what does it get me?
Looks like it's just come back, one of my servers just woke up.
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I was hoping for more than just an arbitrary reason, but how much can one really expect from a throwaway account?
The author's point seems to be that yes, video games are addictive, but there's usually an underlying condition like anxiety or depression.

I think the truth is probably in the middle. Video games, screen, sugar, etc. are all inherently addictive and the addictive nature is probably exacerbated by emotional distress.

I spent much of my teenage years playing hours of video games like the author. I think it was a combination of the dopamine rush of winning and seeing my rating go up and a way to suppress feelings of loneliness.
The right solution is to get two upstreams and BGP.

...

which is unfortunately rather more difficult when you are in a datacenter owned by he.net :( It's possible, though, and I thought linode had done so, I think XO communications is in that building (that could be the other fremont he.net data center, it's been a while. Who owns XO these days? Verizon. I have been out for a while.)

I was in that same datacenter for a while, and I left due to power outages rather than network issues. (this was... man, almost a decade back now; most of that power equipment should have aged out by now.) - but he.net is a budget provider; I used them in my bgp mix for a lot longer...and usually they are fine. But I wouldn't use them without a backup. (he.net and cogent or whatever other cheap bandwidth is available usually is cheaper, and in aggregate, more reliable than a top tier provider on it's own.)
While this quote rings true most of the time, it's important to discern whether this mindset is merely enabling mischief or allowing for an acceptable level of disobedience.

Many monumental breakthroughs were accomplished by disregarding permission, and rebellious attributes are attributed to people like Stephen Wolfram[0] and Albert Einstein. The MIT Media Lab even has an award for disobedience [1].

This mindset, though, can manifest into an unhealthy obsession with breaking the rules. An uncontrolled expectation to "ask forgiveness" can lead to murky moral territories. Where do you draw the line between accepting rebelliousness and enforcing the law?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Education_and_...

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/
If I had a lever long enough, I could move the universe.
Why another tshark/tcpdump? all this can be done with a simple script with few lines. Today we need javascript recorders, traffic recorders are a kid game and using a certificate to touch https is a dangerous way (but every project there is doing same). Tshark and sslkeylogfile is the only safe way...
but I like this project I don't know why! I feel something.
If Lyft accounts for 25% and they have made every/all Lyft rides carbon neutral, that would be more than a drop in the bucket. It would be 1/4th.

However I don't understand where they are getting the money to pay for the carbon offsets without raising their price point above the competition.
The economics are broken. Incent cleaner waste stream, and you'll get better outcomes. I have no idea how to incent it except to note cash-back schemes aren't being pointed to here.

The economics of garbage sorting are broken. but that doesn't mean garbage is broken, or recycling is broken. It means we need to look at what we want. If we want more people to recycle more, we need to tool up to handle more incorrect waste going into the input buffer.

If we want people to recycle "better" we need to be prepared to lose some inputs, because of the cost burden in the community of dealing with contamination. Or, we need to remove the complexity by making it easier.

Personally, my bugbear is the local (Qld, Australia) refusal to take the shopping bags full of recycles. The bags are recyclable, the contents are recyclable, but our local provider has decided not to accept the bags, but only the contents "because reasons"
It’s for your average NY Times reader that doesn’t keep up with the day-to-day tech news world.
Show HN: ViewPager component for the web
But Hurricane is pretty unremarkable. I'm suggesting that an imaginative rancher could create something interesting enough that people stay there despite fewer services and despite being further from the park entrance.

I'm not talking about a farmstay but the sort of thing that people will travel from abroad to stay in because it looks incredible on their Instagram feed. There's nothing comparable in the area. And it need not be expensive to create like a desert resort.

There's a kinda-yurtish tent in the countryside near me that's styled up for photos and it rents for $140/night. It's much more basic than the yurts you see renting in the States. But still, $140/n and they have 60+ reviews already.

Loads of people will pay a premium on a motel or pick an alternative to a nice but plain hotel because it creates a better memory or looks more amazing. I'd be going after that market.
Everytime I see this argument I shake my head at the naivety. People with high net worth are so because they have capital tied up in assets. Nobody is rich because they hoard liquid money.

Say you distribute a rich man's investments in risky instruments to a community living in a remote, impoverished land. Now each investment becomes infinitely less useful because they are not part of a portfolio, it may be difficult to find a buyer for them. Next, how does the community in the remote land trade them, seeing as they live so far from a market?

This is a structural issue of capitalism and not something that anyone can boil down to some greed of the rich. For as long as populations do not see the need to pass laws regulating wealth, capitalist countries will always develop high inequality.
This is kinda what a status page is for, not the HN front page - linked being down is nothing new - it’s why we moved our stack away to AWS, what, seven years ago? Well, that and the horribly overloaded switches and poor implementation of the Xen packet scheduler that caused unacceptable latency spikes to memcached.

It’s great for hosting toy sites that sit on a single box and don’t have an uptime SLA - and people saying “well it’s cheap” - moving to AWS saved money, as we had to run big linodes for the workload purely for the additional internode bandwidth.
I'm thinking you aren't the target market. I hate vertical video as much as the next guy, but it's very popular amongst the Snapchat and Instagram demographics. I see younger people (including myself) using vertical video very often.
The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression
Some environments are designed for isolation/security to such an extent that you dont have internet access to external repos.
Yeah, I am getting hit by this too. I still want to support Linode but can't if this is going to be a regular occurrence. How long ago was the last outage?
Unfortunately, I don't think the rules of what's acceptable to recycle and what's not are clearly defined or communicated.

I tend to err on the side of recycling because I feel like putting a recyclable in a landfill hurts the environment more in the long run, but it would be nice to feel more confident about which bin to put an item in.
Florida airport to require all international passengers to submit to a face scan
They just updated:

Identified - At this time we have identified the connectivity issues affecting our Fremont data center as
being the result of a power outage. Our team is working as quickly as possible to have connectivity restored.
We will provide additional updates as they develop.

Well...
Nice, mine are back too.
I second this. I've been using FF with uBlock origin on the desktop and on Android for years now. I'm using fairly demanding and rapidly changing web apps for my customer's cloud stuff, and FF runs it flawlessly where it would have memory-leaks etc just three years ago.

The only complaint I've had was with dog-slow SVG animations a couple years ago (for a simplistic game programming project with the kids), but I believe that has since long improved as well.

I hope we can keep the level of relatively mature support for Web standards accross browsers as it is, rather than make the Web more complex all the time.
They bought La Boulange to shut down the competition because they were typically started around the block from Starbucks. But SB kept them long enough the non-compete ran out. The founder then re-leased several of the old locations and opened as La Boulangerie...

I guess that's what SB can do when they print money and don't want to be distracted by baking.
Linode switched to KVM from Xen ages ago.
is Linode actually cheap though? I have a few boxes with a random no-name provider for 1/3 the price and so far they've haven't seen any down time..
The funny thing is that our ex CTO thinks that using AWS has more disadvantages than having all of our servers in two different regions in Linode. Mind you, he also thought that CDNs were not as useful as serving assets statically from those two servers as well.
Yup, and looks like this was caused by another power outage... had the same thing happen when I was there.
Surprised they still haven't added proper backups after all these years.
I continually have fought this battle with my girlfriend, her mother and roommates… They are convinced you put almost any packaging plastic or paper into recycling. I had to hang the 'what items are recyclable' sheet over the bin.
+1 on that. And company housing is anything but a new idea either. During the post-WW2 reindustrialization of Europe, it was the norm when a big industrial company set up shop somewhere that they would build huge housing estates for their employees right on campus and even facilities like allotment gardens in rural areas, so people can have a garden at the weekend and stuff like that. And this is making a comeback. Munich, for example, is having such an overheated housing market that it's becoming extremely difficult for companies based here to take in new employees from outside, so they've starting getting into the business of providing company housing.
I second Mishima, who has not let me down. I enjoyed "Confessions of a Mask", and plan to read "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" next and the last 2 books of his tetralogy.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth. And first we must know that each of the petals has eighty-four thousand veins and that each vein gives eighty-four thousand lights.
I see your point. But in my book, that's still rogue software. And that's a terrible sandbox. :)
Going to guess the CIA?
At this stage DragonFlyBSD is a research OS and is not attempting to compete against anyone. It exists and innovates, that's what Matt does here. It is enjoyable to use as well!
Well, out of context, in the abstract, tediously checking every single condition with a list may seem "stupid" to someone experienced in an activity.

In the context of flying, where a careless error can result in death, this tedious checking has a very logical explanation, one that I assume most pilots are aware of.

More broadly, I suspect that a lot of rules exist specifically because what seems obvious and natural in a situation gets you in trouble. But by that token, such rules can't help but appear "stupid" but also can't and shouldn't be avoided.
Ah, there it is. It wouldn't be an online discussion of Murakami without at least one person vehemently arguing that his work is garbage, that most Japanese people don't care about him, and that his novels don't reflect Real Japan.
The Case Against Work
With regards to an organizational/hierarchical environment:

Asking for permission puts the responsibility of the decision on the person being asked, which makes everything slower and more conservative.

Just doing it and rationalizing it afterward tends to be more efficient, and helps to captures upside sooner rather than wasting time worrying about the downsides.
Take a look at [0]. I think you can solve your problem with a custom text search dictionary or possibly a thesaurus dictionary. They can substitute or canonicalize documents or search terms and look pretty easy to set up.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/textsearch-diction...
I didn't understand for quite some time why prosecutors couldn't go after and find tax perpetrators who they knew had offshore structures. Until I finally found out how simple it is. One of two or both reasons:

1)As laid out in this article by the BBC, there simply is no record of the true beneficial owner.

2)The jurisdictions have no legal agreements with western countries to hand over their records.

Example: Person A in western country X has an offshore structure going through countries Y and Z, both of which have no legal agreement with country X.
Now through some leaks and witnesses, prosecutors in country X know that person A is hiding something in Y and Z, but they cannot prove it. They cannot obtain those records legally, if there even are any.

That's what must be tackled.
While Firefox is my primary browser there's still something off with their CSS transform / CSS transition performance. Take these hover effects, particularly demo #4, as an example: http://preview.codecanyon.net/item/card-css3-portfolio-cards...

While certainly excessive those demos run flawlessly and smoothly on Chrome, but are struggling on Firefox. An observation I made often when it comes to complex transform effects in Firefox. Does anyone else experience this?
Sounds like a good move in the right direction. Is the system working well? Does it apply to all electric things?
Heh, so it's like they had to search far and wide to find someone shady enough to sign off on them having the money, and even then the form would only do so after adding disclaimers that amount to, "we didn't do a real audit, we assumed that the employees were providing valid information, we haven't checked compliance with any law".
I believe Emma Watson was caught up in this as she had an LLC to obscure her ownership in a flat in London so she could avoid stalkers and thus violence. There are legitimate uses for obscuring the ownership of a legal entity.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/emma-watson-panama...
"root you" what does that mean in this context? Does it mean the exploit can read what you're typing in that browser? It can see your browser history? It actually has root on your machine and can and will do anything and everything? Does it mean less than any of that? All of these exploits are possible and none desirable.

What is your chance of getting an exploit that gives some remote entity administrator permissions against your will from say, your bank? If you have a browser that use say for your bank logins and nothing else I'd estimate the chance of you falling victim to an exploit and suffering loss has decreased.

Given a website: which browser is most likely to lead to you being exposed to an exploit. Answer will depend on the website.

If you fall victim to a cross site scripting security issue, the sites you visit in another browser are not vulnerable.

The cookies you accumulate containing information that you have probably not confirmed is all harmless are not available to a different browser if your browser has a problem.

"Least likely" is not a constant and is quite challenging to estimate accuratel as it depends on your browsing pattern which is not constant and the vagaries of exploits in the wild which are un-knowably not-constant. If the exploited security flaw you encounter is in browser A, browser B is the safer option. Using one browser exposes all of your internet activities to the exploit. Using multiple browsers exposes a subset.

You might get stuck with a mono-culture if everything else is a disaster, but choosing a mono-culture of your own volition is not great practise if your second and later options aren't dead losses. I don't think firefox has ever been a dead loss, if you do and can justify it to yourself, great.

If it is necessary to be more paranoid https://www.qubes-os.org/ is probably a reasonable option. As it is our operating systems, be they proprietary or open source, suck and pointing it out is not terribly controversial. Qubes is a reasonable response - is it a reasonable cost for each of us in time and hassle? Individual decisions are required for each of us to say.

One browser? No reason to be stuck with it, you can do better for basically zero hassle.
Tether Review Claims Crypto Asset Fully Backed – But There's a Catch
That's up to your recycling company. I have found that most distribute sheets that clearly list what is acceptable: https://www.losalamosnm.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_6435726/...

Or at least try in a less slick way: https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/portal/gwinnett/Services/Soli...

What a lot of people do understand is why not. For instance, I read an article where my local recycler said that their biggest problem is loose sheets of thin plastic, which jams rollers in their equipment.
I assume everyone hates the idea of websites being fully responsible for what they serve. It would be interesting to hear why rather than the anonymous negative response.
> The background downloading is nice where it starts the download while you decide to Save, Save As, or Open.

AFAIK firefox does that too, it just doesn't show it. Just test it: click on a large file download link and leave the dialog alone for some seconds. Once you actually click on Save, Save As or Open... it opens instantly (or already has a large downloaded chunk, depending on the file's size and your bandwidth of course).
Somewhat related comparison: Apparently Americans watch an average of 30-35 hours of TV a week (4-5 hours a day).[1] Whereas many definitions I've seen for gaming disorders set a threshold of 20 hours a week or 2 hours a day to define gaming disorder.

Seems pretty likely that the concern over gaming is primarily due to it being a new medium. I fail to see how staring at a screen passively for 4-5 hours can be considered normal, while staring at a screen while actively facing challenges and solving problems for half that time is a disorder.

Edit: Forgot to add the link to the citation:

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/media/nielsen-su...
'Fundraising Disorder', 'Working Disorder', 'Speculation Disorder' should be included as well.

Any system which has a reward as part of the system can lead to a disorder.
Basically have already lived this dream with Haxe. However the cross-platform tooling side of Haxe has historically been the fly in the ointment since it sits above the "real runtime" of whatever you targeted, creating all sorts of bits of friction. And it doesn't cross over into "systems" stuff - it's always within a GC'd environment.
"Universities are often brimming with innovative solutions and innovators who could not sell beer to an alcoholic"

This hits home
What about 40 hour week. Must be a disorder as well.
No disrespect intended, but not all worlds are the same.

A lot (maybe most?) of software is written for explicit purposes to targeted audiences. I am not going to hire a blind person to label signs, a deaf person to review music, or an illiterate person to review books.

Sometimes you have a bunch of C++ code that works, but the difficulty of application distribution upgrade is high... okay, to the web we go!

FLASH was bad in many of the same ways; but it played a valuable role in people's lives.
EDIT: Sweden and Hungary too.