skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Iridium donation from Handshake
Joker was created by a team mate and I can't overstate just how useful it is; we do a lot of our DevOps work using it, it's a linter for our Clojure code, it's just handy.

It's optimized for startup time and its scope is limited; within that scope it is invaluable.
I liked how Matt Yglesias summarized the quality of this research: "Kids who grow up in households with lots of pants suitable for tall adults grow up to be tall as adults."

Making causal claims without accounting for genetic confounds is simply pseudoscience, there are no excuses.
Thanks. I have an attorney friend who gave similar input.

I had someone not pay me for work 10 years ago. I filed a lawsuit, and... got back 20 page document about all the reasons they said they didn't owe me.

One was we didn't have a written contract. Well, I'd signed their contract, and sent it back, but never got a countersigned copy, and they're claiming they never agreed to it.

Another was 'laches' - I waited too long. Work was done a bit in April, then I was away for a week, then wrapped up basically by end of May - maybe 6-7 weeks in total. No money in June, lies in July ("it's coming, I sent it, etc") and then I filed suit in August.

Another was I'd waived my right to payment because in an IM I told the guy I was working for that I could wait a bit until he got paid. They took that as I was waiving my right to ever be paid.

I have to go find all my paperwork and screenshots now because - 10 years later - my court date is set for Dec. I had dozens (hundreds?) of emails and IM screenshots acknowledging receipt of invoice, promising payment, saying work was done, final client approved, etc. Email threads about all the work over several weeks.

At no point during any of that working project was there any "whoah, what's the invoice for? who are you? why are you working on this project?" The totality of the working relationship was that I was working on something with the understanding that they would pay, and there are multiple assurances that they would, in fact, pay. Yes, lack of 'written contract' was one piece, but the totality of the picture will hopefully weigh in my favor (but I gotta find all my stuff and get to court now - it's in another state!).

FWIW, first invoice was submitted, and the 'contract' (which they didn't countersign) stated invoices would be paid within 3 weeks. Not unreasonable, and faster than some other places I've worked for. Problem was, the rest of the project was completed in the next 3 weeks. BIG lessons learned on this one.
Ironically it doesn’t look like they restrict sending mail in the above quote, only serving it. If that’s a violation, so would be using your browser.
Nail that first client: A workflow for new freelancers
I can imagine people having the same conversation back in the 90s: "Who needs images?"
Maybe I haven't been paying that much attention. I travel wearing a mix of dress/ converse/ boots type shoes but no issues so far. Neither has my GF had any issues (that I know of).
This is true. Nothing to do with what I said, but, it is true.

It isn't what happens at the moment. Every dollar of growth worldwide is subtracted many times over from our environmental commons. At the moment the global economy is a heavily negative-sum game.
Yes, the infamous "browser toolbars"[0] came first. Luckily they are long gone. I meant the first "modern", single purpose, browser extension.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_toolbar
AFAIK (Because I studied at one of these institutes) it's open to only NRIs (non-resident Indians)
China also makes it easy to see there really isn't much difference between the two corporations, accept that of convenience. Apple already operates in China and complies to the whims of the Chinese government. Google too may start doing that. The Apple business model allows Apple to have a stronger stance for privacy when convenient, but they aren't willing to forgo the big buck when it comes to the big business (China)
I had read a bunch of these stories before going to NYC as a tourist a few weeks ago. I didn't see a single block that was full of empty storefronts and the whole city was packed and vibrant as usual. Bought some clothes at temporary popups as well.
> Generally speaking yes, but it's not clear when exactly that will happen (if at all).

It's still enabled by default in 12/master. I'd expect it to stay that way. But reports for v11 will obviously influence that.

> Firstly, at this point JIT requires LLVM, with may or may not be available when building (so it depends on the packager). We might add other JIT providers in the future (e.g. GCC) but that's not done yet.

I see very very little point in adding another JIT provider to core pg. If somebody wants to write an extension that does so, ok, go ahead, but why would we maintain two nontrivial pieces of code in core? Also the GCC based stuff isn't even close to being competitive.

> Secondly, we need to improve the costing model, so that we make better decisions when to use JIT for a query. AFAIK this is the #1 reason why it's not enabled on JIT-enabled builds now.

Right.
Not really. The direct costs to Apple for this revenue is probably inconsequential.
OpenBSD just isn't performant enough for me. I can't honestly say that it has what I need when I get multi-second system freezes when opening or closing tabs in chromium (though this was under 6.0)

Battery life under OpenBSD is atrocious compared even to Linux.

It's a great server OS but it's not ready for laptop daily driver use unless your laptop just sits plugged in all day.
Uh, docker doesn't help at all with handling dependency upgrades. Good package-manager/version-manager combinations does just that.
I left my tab open long enough to still have the original title:
"Interviews with former Google employees to find out why they decided to leave (businessinsider.com)"
Apple to Hold Its iPad Event on October 30
Not everything that passes through the digestive tract is broken down and absorbed. A major portion of the food you eat is indigestible fiber.
There are too many non-competes and many are over-broad but garden leave of probably at least 50% seems a reasonable compromise if a company feels strongly about having a non-compete for whatever reason. That should be enough that it forces a company to think about whether they really want to enforce this and, while perhaps not ideal for the employee, is likely not too onerous assuming the non-compete isn't draconian in other ways.
I may be cynical but I don't believe this. I think its more about producing goods using more exploitable workers and resources.

If all countries had the same worker and environmental protections and same degree of unionization, aka an actual level playing field, then maybe. But instead its more about exploitation and breaking organized labor unions.
Why? Is it because you think your hobby is putting microplastics into the environment, or because you're helping to fund the plastic industry? I'm not criticizing you, but just wondering.
>Is that supposed to be a positive thing? Sounds pretty unstable and a terrible detriment to developing an actual neighbourhood.

Nationwide, 90 to 95% of restaurants fail in the first year. Not to say NYC isn't worse, but it's more noticeable when it's that dense.
Apple announces iPad Pro and Mac event for October 30th
No I Absolutely Do Not!
"the search app"

Genuinely - what's this on iOS? I don't recall ever having used a "search app" on my iPhone.
the contract might not be literally enforceable by the courts, but the real threat of costly litigation can both intimidate employees and companies that might hire them.
1. You need exact timing between devices for the freq hopping to get to the right freq

If for some reason the OFDM ack isn't gotten, then neither side can understand the timings to actually communicate. So you end up with non-pairing hell. This especially happens between different "specs" of BT.

2. Raises noise floor for whole BT carveout

If they had 2 control channels, and then moved the comms to an agreed upon channel, this would never be an issue. Look at how Simplex ham radio works - do announce on a channel, and move elsewhere when agreed upon. But whatever you do, don't just blanket the whole channel (or all of 2m) for 'reasons'. And heavier bandwidth BT can take over multiple channels. This isn't easy, but nowhere near as difficult/stupid as what it is now.

3. Multiple incompatible BT specs

BT used to be a IEEE spec. Not any more. And there's more than 7 or so major versions. Oh, and many are incompatible with each other. What's that XKCD about "Standards"? :(

4. arcane pairing sequences

Again, pairing is crazy complex. I'll have to post the actual IQ data and show a comparison between FM (88MHz-108MHz), 2m amateur radio (144MHz-148MHz), analog TV, 802.11BGN wifi, and what BT looks like in various states.

To sum it up, "They're doing it wrong".
Wow, thanks for your well-written response. I didn't quite follow all the details; in any case, I have a slightly better idea of what is going on. Next, I look forward to learning a bit more about laminar versus turbulent flow.

I can relate to your comment: "Some people lately have proposed that machine learning could construct a particularly accurate turbulence model, but that seems unlikely to me". A healthy skepticism is important. Different inductive biases in various machine learning algorithms will have a significant effect here, I'd expect.
At some point it has to change from legal to illegal. That is, with n calls then you're still legal but that n+1th call makes you a felon. What is n?

What is n for facial rekognition?
Can I send a thankyou note to him?
You're going to love these guys:

https://youtu.be/H5ii0wnMEBs?t=41

https://youtu.be/3j0Jx9IThII
oh come on, nobody is going to mistake a comment on the internet for legal advice (or if they do, it'll be a learning experience).

adding "IANAL" has gotten just as out of hand. the vast majority of the population are not lawyers and therefore the vast majority of people on the internet are also not lawyers. so why do you insist on calling this out? to draw an analogy here, it's like lawyers adding non-competes to contracts. maybe we can stop adding IANAL to comments first. enough with the ass covering.
Bill Gates' climate change quiz
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Facebook in fresh video metrics row
Then don't email me. I understand that's what I'm asking. That approval process could be built into how we email each other and be very simple and smooth.
Non-Vox links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/europe/russia-ortho...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45870939
Theres a series of Optical Character Recognition repos that should help you with task #1. They are all based around Google's Tesseract. If I remember correctly this is one of the top=> https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless
I've used project naptha in the past... and little known fact that google docs can do the OCR automatically too.

regarding the translation... never had to do it. sorry!
You are confusing capitalism with competitive markets. Capitalists want to make money off their capital, they don't care it's through competition or rent extraction. Having a monopoly is much less work than competing so that's probably the preferred way to make money. Capitalists also historically didn't care about democracy, dictatorship or corruption as long there was money to be made.
>Its primitive, custom-designed computer couldn’t execute Young’s intentions; the sound came out wrong, and the lights rarely synced as they should have.

I'm a bit surprised by this. Most professional artists I know put a huge amount of effort into working with / experimenting with the medium they're working in get the results they want. I don't know any (i'm sure there are some) who do one off experiments, they're usually pretty experienced with the materials / medium they work with.
>Most people don't have enough skin in the game to be willing to accept that cost.

This reminds me somewhat of the argument over voting rights during the founding of the Constitution, ultimately being left up to the States. The argument for restriction was that those dependent on the wills of others are not independent or privileged enough to act in a way other than securing their own interests; the argument against this idea is fairly obvious.

From William Blackstone's Commentaries of the law of England is the most concise summary of the pro I'm aware of.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_2_1s3.h...

http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/property-requi...
I grew up in a house that had a library with 1000+ books. Unfortunately I didn't read much of any of them. Nobody ever tried to get me to read them. However, I blame myself for not reading much as a kid.

My point being that the mere presence of books is not enough.
You need to join an Amish community to truly repent and disavow all plastic use.
Docker trends do favour to Linux, while the virtualization in FreeBSD IMO is still a hard wall for many people. Jails, ezjail, bhyve, chyve, etc. Requires amount of works to get it just right. While docker runs a container is straight forward. I don't mean which is better but definitely *BSD is less attractive than mainstream Linux.
> unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation

Hmmm... that seems counterintuitive. I'd think that sea salt that's refined would contain less microplastic, not the other way around. Maybe they get their seawater from a part of the ocean that doesn't have microplastic?

Also, I'd think that Himalayan salt would contain no microplastic, but then again, it wouldn't surprise me if Himalayan salt wasn't actually from the Himalayas.
Temporal preference and temporal discounting helps to solve this problem.

The reward from flipping the coin id delayed. For a average person, the probability of living healthy life at least 10-20 years is very high. The reward from flipping coin is delayed but the death is instant.

The value from for flipping the coin as a function compared to not flipping starts from 0 and grows very gradually over time.

Alter the game a little: You don't need to flip the coin instantly. You can choose any moment of your remaining healthy life to flip the coin. Once you lose your health you can't flip the coin anymore.
I have learnt to value idle time over the last few years. I realized how privileged I am to have idle time. Many people are not that lucky - they have to work multiple jobs just to put food on the table. They have no time and money to pursue hobbies. Few years ago I always used to feel that I should be doing something productive with my time. I still value productivity but now I also value idle time equally. It has made a big difference in contentment level in my life. I don't feel life is whizzing by while I am busy working. I literally stop to smell roses, watch the sunset, look at the night sky. It's great.
450 Amazon employees delivered a signed letter to Bezos stating their opposition to the program. Maybe this person is just a coward.
SSH-ProxyJump
You should read "Deep Work" i found it very enlightening and have put a lot of it into practice to make sure i have time for deep and creative work.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
A Unified Theory of Everything Wrong with the Internet
I never enjoyed reading fiction. Fiction trains your mind to look for fictitious narratives in real life; it distorts your perception of life and makes the world a worse place for others who don't follow those narratives.
Will there be a self-hosted version?
Here's the paper: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.10.003
I've worked extensively with functional programming on tiny microcontrollers like the Arduino. I created a research language called Juniper[1], which is a Haskell/F#-like language targeting the Arduino.

As you mentioned, the memory size and the program size are the biggest two constraints. There's no space for a garbage collector, and everything has to be allocated on the stack. It turns out that it is possible to make the entire thing stack-free. The two biggest hurdles are function closures, arrays, and recursive data types.

Function closures are typically allocated on the heap since it's possible to return functions from other functions. The solution is to include the closure as part of the function type, which means that they can then be allocated on the stack. Arrays are a bit more tricky to allocate on the stack. My solution is to statically size arrays with type level natural numbers, which means that the sizes are known at compile time.

Recursive datatypes are a problem that I have not dealt with yet. In most Arduino projects recursive datatypes are not really used, so I just don't allow them. It might be possible to use type level natural numbers to put a bound on recursion depth. Another idea I had was to use run-timed size datatypes. For example, let's say you have a function F1 which calls F2. The frame pointers for their corresponding frames are at S1 and S2. When F2 returns a value of size N, the solution is to copy the value to a scratch space, return to F1, decrement the frame pointer, and then copy the value back into the stack frame. I'm not sure if this is really suitable for embedded systems since it's a lot of code/machinery which takes up precious program space.

Rust is a great language which can work around these issues due to its linear types. I'm looking forward to using Rust once it starts to support the Arduino microcontrollers.

[1]: http://www.juniper-lang.org/
I was about to rule out Poetry due to pyup not supporting it, however it turns out Dependabot (which as a bonus looks to be more actively maintained than pyup) supports it:

https://dependabot.com/blog/announcing-poetry-support/
Suggesting genetics is responsible instead (as opposed to any other variable) is no less pseudoscience.

If only we could find some smart parents and get them to deny their kids books, we’d know for sure!
you forgot ip contracts

i recently had a company try to have me sign a document claiming ownership of anything i create in the time i work for them; meaning the tenure

i asked for clarification and without flinching they asserted that, 'yes, that includes on your own time and your own hardware even in a field wholly disparate from the one the company was in'

i thanked the interviewer for having me in and explained that though i felt they seemed like a kind person the company they were representing was offensive and unethical

first time i ever ended an interview early
While it is very easy to buy stuff directly from China on websites like amazon or even Chinese web sites, it is almost impossible for people in PR.China to buy US products via WWW the same way. The Chinese CCP party intentionally blocks outside products to sell easily in China and keep the profits they got from US to the families of party leaders. Thanks Trump for acting on it!
Uber raised $2B in first ever bond-offering
Seconded. I read this article and thought "nope, not touching any of those tools". I'd rather spend my time building products than spending a week researching the landscape of 10 different package management approaches.
Twelve O'Clock High is a masterclass on running a software project. The higher-ups can see that something is wrong with the team; it's not performing as well as it ought to. The outsider comes in, figures out what the problems are, and fixes them. Not an easy fix, not a quick one, and it takes an awful toll on several people. But the team ends up working well again.

I show this movie to everyone I can. It's full of lessons.
I beg to differ. The web I participated in through the early to late 00s, most of which came before the web app craze, had a far, far better ratio of creation:consumption.

This held true both in meta sense (the web itself) with tens of thousands of individually run sites and blogs instead of a handful of hypercentralized content warehouses, as well as in the proliferation of numerous creative communities and individuals making things. I know because I spent the majority of the 00s on these sorts of sites.

Today, all of that’s died almost entirely and no subreddit or facebook group or anything can hold a candle to it. Today, the web is all about endless monetized entertainment streams designed to maintain the attention of as many eyeballs as possible as long as possible. It’s effectively turned into the modern equivalent of network TV.
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
How would Apple make any return? Do you think DDG's ads are as profitable as Google's?
Don't focus on profit, say the employee who focus on his pay.

The real reason why people work at Amazon is because the pay is better, or the perks are better than the other jobs they applied to. If they go see their boss in order to negotiate a rise, they don't want to hear "sorry, no rise for you, but you should be happy, we didn't sell our product to the police".

The vast majority of employees are motivated by their pay. And in order for them to get paid, their company has to make money. They want their boss to make them rich, and this is what their boss is doing by putting profits over people, and that's why they are still there.

There are a few people who care more about the cause their work serve than money, they are often found in nonprofits, much less so in tech giants.
Not stopping for the other car betrays their complete lack of ethics.
I wonder which (and when), if any, of these improvements will trickle into their on-premise offerings, given Cloud and Server have diverged quite a bit.
I don't read much fiction, but usually when I do, I feel as if I ought to read more, because it seems to engage creative imaginative thinking in a way that non-fiction doesn't.

Anecdotally, of course.
The USAAF split into a separate military service after the war, but it was still considered a separate unit within the army during the war.

My father was in the Army Air Force during WWII - and he always said he was in the Army Air Force and not the Army. They were also nick named the Air Corps during the war.
Gorillas that are great with kids are also luckier in love
Slaughtering pigs on a specific diet somehow makes for a clean conscience? Maybe in once sense of the word.
Event Sourcing with PostgreSQL
Sure, but couldn't it have been given some BFDL/high-level leadership importance in the last five years to rein in the craziness?
Why would it be better than MySQL is you're already using MySQL for years and built knowledge with it and have no issues? Why would I change, why Postgres would be better?
couldn't agree more.