skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my POV the rise of 'NoSQL' some years back was tied into a number of things:

- Misunderstanding by most developers of the relational model (I heard a lot of blathering about 'tabular data', which is missing the point entirely).

- The awkwardness and mismatchiness of object-relational mappers -- and the insistence of most web frameworks on object-oriented modeling.

- The fact that Amazon & Google etc. make/made heavy use of distributed key-value stores with relatively unstructured data in order to scale -- and everyone seemed to think they needed to scale at that level. (Worth pointing out that since then Google & Amazon have been able to roll out data stores that scale but use something closer to the relational model). This despite the fact that many of the hip NoSQL solutions didn't even have a reasonable distribution story.

- Simple trending. NoSQL was cool. Mongo had a 'cool' sheen by nature of the demographic that was working there, the marketing of the company itself.

I remember going to a Mongo meet-up in NYC back in 2010 or so, because some people in the company I was at at the time (ad-tech) were interested in it. We walked away skeptical and convinced it was more cargo-cult than solution.

I'm _very_ glad the pendulum is swinging back and that Postgres (which I've pretty much always been an advocate of in my 15-20 year career) is now seeing something of a surge of use.
So I saw an interesting little travel show, where Norwegian presenter Line Elvsåshagen was trying to travel on the "kindness of strangers": she'd post on instagram that she was looking for people to meet/eat/stay with, and film the result.

This worked even in Iran, and she met up with a Norwegian-Iranian family; but her government assigned minder/'translator' wouldn't let her sleep in their house. She counted as a journalist and there's no way Iran would let a loose journalist float around their society interviewing unsupervised ordinary people for the TV.

Pity, it does look like an interesting place to visit.
The current UK rules state a maximum of 400 feet (120 m), AFAIK.
Also, speaking of EU, most urban areas of France are off limits, and the not-so-urban ones allow at most 30m/50m (depending on distance from urban areas).
Exactly the kind of nitpicking negativity I expected to see when I opened the thread. It’s an app for running VMs, not a piece of consumer software, it’s not being marketed based on how it looks. Say what you will about oracle’s business practises, but it’s a crying shame that this is the top comment.

Edit: was top comment. Crying shame averted.
Iran is an easy enemy for the US government to offer to its citizens.

Because of the fairly harsh anti-US rhetoric circulated by the Iranian government to its citizens since the revolution (itself because of our previous support of the Shah and current support of Israel) for purposes of maintaining power, it's easy to say "Look, Iran hates America."

The Shia / Sunni distinction is largely lost on the average American.

And just as a personal note, almost every Iranian I've met in the US has been an awesome person. They've got a fascinating history and culture.
State face recognition doesn't have to be any more accurate than other forms of institutional, armed, racism.
> Call me a snob, but it reeks of sloppiness.

Snob.

The utility of the application far outweighs the aesthetics.
We're not a US company (I hope there are no sanctions in our own country. I somehow doubt it, but I'm not entirely sure to be honest, so I won't mention the country to avoid getting us in potential trouble... Anyone knows which other countries enforce similar sanctions on Syria??).
Hello, I'm from India and I am really looking forward to this opportunity. I wish I could explain how excited I was to find out about your program. As someone from a low-income family who decided to teach himself because college was too expensive, you must realize what an amazing chance your school is to better our lives. Keep up the good work.

Meanwhile, I'll just continue learning on my own.
If you have on the host system a graphics card that you can fully dedicate to the guest system, you can then do pci-passthrough and let the guest system have nearly-full access to that graphic card with nearly full performances.

Also, kvm has some nice features that AFAIK virtual box does not have. For example you can have gnu/linux and windows guests use the balloon memory driver, that basically allocates and deallocates memory from the host system. Imagine having a guest vm where you can say "this vm should have 2GB ram, but it might burst up to 24GB if needed, and then go back to 2GB when the need is satisfied". Can't do that with VBox (AFAIK - and it works on windows too!)

Regarding sound, if you are virtualizing windows, imho you're better off connecting via rdp (avoid remmina, use rdesktop) and using local speakers as audio output.
Neutral countries? What’s a neutral country?
> the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles

> Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content.

This is hardly a unique thing to Chinese.
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That actually made sense.

I just wanted to point out that for me, C is more for embedded code, where modifying random parts of memory is a common task. So saying that a function that filled a pointer, used it to reset or set some parts of memory can be removed just because it does not have a return seems a bit extreme, but I agree that it is allowed.

I often see people pushing for -Wall and -Werror. In most professional projects I have been in, though, we have to use black boxes (or, currently, non-standard compilers) that prevent correcting many warnings. I wish we had a finer granularity there but well...
This is like when you see an HN thread about labour conditions and everyone says W-2, H1B, and "at-will state" as if the world has only one country.
Links force a reload of additional assets, break ongoing socket connections, and at minimum requires a re-rendering of the entire DOM, which is a waste for many navigation actions that still deserve their own URL. In particular, the many tcp handshakes necessary for a total page refreshes are expensive on mobile.

As a concrete exampke, rich news experiences that let you scroll through preloaded stories benefit a lot from not needing to re-render all of the surrounding layout when the content changes, and from assigning a different url to each story.

Btw, I never said this was worth the current trade-off with malicious sites, just that the history features were originally inspired and still used by honest sites. Fortunately we have better options than all or nothing; sounds like Chrome is implementing a heuristic that makes sure url history can only be updated in some proportion to human actions. Another option might be a whitelist check like "<site> would like to update your history".
The Christmas carol that (briefly) stopped a war
But direct exchange goes two ways. Fixing a bug in your project does benefit the project specifically.
Even if it wasn't given up, what would the lawsuit complain be, and what would one gain from it if it succeeds? Isn't Slack legally entitled to shut down any accounts at any time?
No, because a lot of artists can only earn enough to survive because of copyright law. A new songwriter can only get their royalties because of copyright law, otherwise you can bet the big studios would just lift the songs and record them however they liked.

Copyright is a valuable tool to protect creators, but it does need to be measured properly because in its current form it becomes more about protecting giant international beasts like Disney (who hardly need it with all the new stuff they're producing, surely). The term lengths are ridiculous. I don't really know what they should be, but I'm pretty sure you could make a reasonable stab at it by looking at some statistics about how revenue drops off from works as they age.
Hate towards certain ethnicities and countries is a tool used by the leaders (political and business) of the US to further their economic interests, either for selling weapons or sewing discord to take advantage of other people’s natural resources.

Kind of ironic when you consider the leaders of a country using patriotism for their personal gain. It’s so weird seeing all the flag toting, national anthem singing population in the US tow the line when they can’t even be bothered to learn their country’s history or participate in the civic process and hold its leaders accountable.
I agree! I met a lot of (musically) like minded people that Im still in touch with until today.. I even “met” my wife there!
With two images there are lots of false positives. But if you have three or more you can look for stuff moving in strait lines. That can be easily automated. Most near-earth object detection (bright, fast objects) is now totally automated. Hunting for planet X is about finding a little smudge of pixels moving a pixel or two to the right.
Pretty sure that Disney will have trademarked Mickey Mouse and therefore a lack of copyright would be irrelevant anyway.
Aside from the obvious wrong of blocking people based on their origin, what's up with these companies closing accounts with no warning and no recourse? I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Why not give the user even a few days notice so they can communicate with support to try and clear things up? Taking the OP's story at face value, Slack should easily be able to verify with him that he lives in Canada. Instead, they simply block it and bye. I find this extremely hostile.
The backfire effect seems to be heavily exaggerated - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2819073

And just think about how the research is done.

"Hello conservative test subject. Here's a 1 page article explaining why Climate Change is a real problem". What impact do you think it will have?

How about this. Dear liberal, belief in a just world is psychologically healthy, and belief in an unjust world is linked to mental health issues, where's a wikipedia link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis#Current_...

It seems likely to me that a couple of pithy arguments are unlikely to change a core belief, but is very likely to create some short-term pushback. If they do change a core belief then I think it will have stronger and longer-lasting impacts than the push-back. I also suspect there's a delay - arguments might take a while to sink in.
Or don’t rely on U.S. providers for any kind of international internet communication.
I don’t think hiring based on ethnicity is a legal investment strategy in Canada. Even if it was written down by some idiots on a slide.
When were you in the UK system? I've noticed a lot of variance between people's opinions based on the fact that there's been a sort of sabotage campaign against the NHS in recent years (it's dropped ten places in the worldwide healthcare rankings in the last five years). So people that had experiences with the UK system in the early 2000's generally had a good time, whereas later, it became a lot more mixed.
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Zulipchat offers free SaaS for open source projects and also provides you with the ability to export your data and choose to self host at any time in the future. I've found it to be superior to Slack but it just doesn't have the same level of name recognition and thus people are less inclined to use it for some reason. I hope this builds into a real campaign to have free software projects choose a more ethical alternative.
Actually surprised to see this here. Saw it on betalist a couple weeks ago and gave it a try. There’s definitely room for improvement, but it already works very well and does what it advertises. Got a lot more feedback compared to traditional methods and the person/team? behind it seems to be actively improving it. Happy to be a customer. Good luck!
I don’t smoke cigarettes but I’ve been exclusively vaping weed since 2012. Hope I’m getting some similar benefits.
in a perfect world this would happen and people would maybe go back to living in real life instead of the cesspool that is FB/Twitter, etc...
Is this because of export controls on encryption? Or something else?
There's a process by which US courts can enforce foreign judgments. I wouldn't be surprised if supervisory authorities apply to do this for intransigent US companies.
You do understand that your point of view is only one among many valid positions on the subject, some held by authoritative figures? (and I don't mean me, I'm thinking the likes of JJ)

This isn't solely a defense of the position you challenged, more a call-out on your tactic here. You're not exactly representative.

The talk of transistor amplifiers being perfect and having no sound at all is of course nonsense: typically this kind of claim looks at frequency response and outright ignores slew rate, crossover distortion, behavior as the amp exits its passband on either extreme, and so on. There CAN be transistor amplifiers, both simple and incredibly complex, that are so good that they've got effectively no sound at all. It's even possible that it's easier to get there with a transistor amplifier given enough money and resources. But that's not the claim.
Wealthy Saudi propaganda organizations?

But I think the defiance is why the US elite hates Iran. They successfully kicked out a US-backed leader, humiliated Carter's rescue plan, fought off a US-backed Iraqi invasion, defied the US over nuclear proliferation. Refusing to follow US orders enrages the US.

Ironically there has been extensive on-the-ground cooperation between the US and Iran while fighting ISIS in eastern Syria.
Because you don’t need a hosting provider to self host. You don’t even need a domain name either.

But in all honesty, there are hundreds of registrars and thousands of hosting providers around the world. Not all of them fall under US jurisdiction. But if you’re really really paranoid of getting shut down, there’s also .onion sites or distributed systems like IPFS.

You can not prevent people from communicating on the internet any more than you can prevent people from writing letters.
There is Mattermost https://mattermost.com/
Maybe the issue is that slack is an American entity subject to U.S. law, regardless of where the organization or employee is based.
Exactly, I'm upvoting this to prevent poor souls stuck on Windows from looking for these nice solutions...
Mass communication is a threat to democracy? That somehow only more censorship (fake news screening or whatever people want to call it) can fix? This is such a profoundly anti-democratic position, with extra overtones of “these voters didn’t know any better”.
And public contract it is in many other places, like where I live (Finland). Local government pays ambulances, I pay a sum to the local government out of my pocket after I have used ambulance.
* cough * Israel * cough *.
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1) Is there a way to sync your Slack with a Mattermost or similar? It's nice to have both public and private in case one dies.

2) The US has a reputation for being quite aggressive with certain things. Can't be surprised if some firms take steps that seem overkill. Not that it makes it better, but rocks and hard places.
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Forced updates that risk randomly breaking my machine the night before a big deadline
And the GDPR might cause less tracking through like buttons: "the operator of a website embedding [...] the Facebook Like button, which causes the collection and transmission of the users’ personal data, is jointly responsible for that stage of the data processing" -- Advocate General Bobek [0] (emphasis mine)

[0] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
Was AWS subsidized with retail earnings or they were flush with investor cash which allowed them to invest in AWS?

They also bought a huge warehouse footprint, too.
Suppose I went out searching for a yeti and discovered a chupacabra. I could say it wasn't an accident - I was looking for a cryptid and found one. But I didn't actually find the thing I was looking for, just another in the same category.
Cuba is one of the most popular destination for Canadians, can't ever imagine what would happen if they actually ban everyone that had their IP over there at some point in the last few years.
> almost every Iranian I've met in the US has been an awesome person

Yeah because most of the ones here are the kids of the high-level government officials from before the revolution.
Scheme doesn't define an evaluation order.
Thank you, good to hear and that makes me happy :)
The UI is Qt-based, I believe.
The UI is written in Qt. E.g. for older VirtualBox versions, the virtualbox-qt package was required to be installed in order to have the GUI.
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At least give them access to a downloadable archive of all their content and maybe inform other users that interacted with this user about alternative methods of contact.
I love the fact that all news outlets are using the same 'photograph' of a drone in flight with a 747 in the background. Tineye reveals that this wire service image, first used when a drone was spotted near Gatwick in July 2017, is clearly a photomontage using a jumbo that was snapped landing at JFK in 2010.

I'm not saying this is a fake-moon-landing scenario, obviously it's real, but it would be great if someone could at least produce one photo or video of today's Gatwick drone actually doing its thing... (though now that I think about it, if Her Majesty's Govt wanted to create a diversion from the current political trainwreck, this would be a good way to go about it. If it turns out the presence of the perpetrator or drone can be blamed on EU free movement in any way, I'm pinning this whole thing on Rees-Mogg...)
I've been using Parallels Desktop Lite which is free for Linux and MacOS X guests.
My point is not a legal one, it's a moral point. If they've complied with the GDPR it means they even have processes and systems to give users their data but didn't have the decency to respect their customer and at least close their account in a much better way. The export law says you are banned to serve Iranian companies (!), Fine, but it definitely doesn't force you to f* your users in Iran!
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Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?
I heard a lot of slack accounts has been closed down today. I was wondering if there's a decenteralised alternative to it?

I also saw a post in HN that MailChimp suspended accounts without prior notification. What's with these tech companies and closing accounts? It's scary.
> Considering all these factors, serverless future looks promising. We think in 3–5 years most new applications will use blockchain.

Looks like "blockchain" was just replaced with "serverless." And we see where the blockchain is now...
Time to #DeleteFacebook, Again
Someone has to start something new. Or maybe it's already the case ?

Who are your candidates to maybe replace Facebook ? Facebook replaced the MySpace, Hi5 and MSN of those times... Is there something cooking now that you think have the slightest chance to the same to Facebook ? Can we make a list of those.

PS: Please only submit little/unknown yet social-networks you know about. Not alternatives like: e-mail, phone, real-life networking etc.

Thank you.
Total Uninstall. Basically a system diff tool. I run it before & after every install.
Is there any possibility there's more than one one Planet 9? This is, in searching for a single unseen planet, the calculations, estimates and such will be wrong if there's actually two (or more?) extra planets.
I'm a professional programmer working full-time on multiple Visual Basic .NET applications. Apart from SQL and the odd bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it's the only language I need to know. I know more and can work in more, but it's all that I and the hundreds of other programmers in the company need.
This should include business processes in addition to UI tricks. For example, you can easily subscribe to NYT online but to unsubscribe you have to talk to a salesperson. FU NYT.
Parallel Desktop Lite is free for all guests except Windows.
That's true of snail mail, or telegrams, or even phone calls. But I'd argue the internet is so fast, and so high bandwidth, and so always-available, that it is a qualitatively different thing from merely a transfer of data between physical locations.

It is a place where things happen that aren't just transfers of information between physical places. For example, Hacker News is a place within the wider place that is the web.

You can argue that it is something other than a "place" (maybe "community"? or "society"?) but then you can just substitute "community" or "society" where I wrote "place" in my previous comment and everything still holds.
Americans don't even understand the distinctions among Christian groups. If you actually went inside a Methodist church and asked people how their doctrine differs from Presbyterians' (or vice versa) you'd get mostly blank stares. So it should hardly be surprising that they don't recognize divisions in other religions. What they do understand is countries, and the US relationship with Iran has long been marked by enmity on both sides. Also, Iran's relationship with Israel is even worse, and that alone would ensure US enmity.
This article seems to imply that Spotify ran an entire messenger client within its front end, which does require full read write access, just like your email client requires access to your email right?

It’s more dangerous because Spotify is a website and so could store your messages in theory.
Simple: it costs them money and resources to go through the process you described, whereas it costs them almost nothing to directly close the account and send an automated message.
You have gone from a hypothetical to concluding that people in the US die because they can't afford cancer drugs.

If your dad was over 65, he would be on Medicare. If he was younger than 65 and impoverished (income between 0 - ~150% of poverty level) he would be on Medicaid or another state plan for low income people. If he's above 150% of poverty level he probably has health insurance available at work or thru ACA. In fact is legally obligated to.
I did move to a new country. That’s not helping the UK (my place of origin), because the UK leadership is utterly tone-deaf to all critics. My German comprehension isn’t likely to ever be good enough to have useful opinions about German law.
Perhaps I should have been more specific; 3rd order IMD. The IMD3 can’t be produced by the ideal JFET drain current (Vgs-Vt)^2; tubes are the same. Of course there are other distortion mechanisms too. This is in the RF power amp world (been designing them for 20+ years), the IMD3 are the main concern as those fall around the carrier; we generally don’t care about 2nd order since those are easily filtered (but not in audio).

Maybe it’s a stretch to apply this to audio. If you play a flat on piano, and IMD3 falls on a sharp, then that sounds bad. The distortion one octave higher sound fine. Even the sharp one octave higher sounds better than the adjacent sharp.

I bought a tube amp kit for Christmas, so it will be interesting to measure the two-tone IMD3. I only have measured audio THD once, and that was using a spectrum analyzer, so only looked at harmonics. Even if you used two-tones, the IMD would fall within the RBW of the spectrum analyzer.