skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how all those column-based database deal with salability. I've heard some miracle stories about their performance and they seem to be used for really, really large data sets. I've never heard anyone complain about lack of flexibility, but of course there are many different flavors of column-oriented storage. Some are relational and support SQL.
A New York City lawmaker is taking on companies that mine your face
Where is GNU TECO (the editor I wrote my PhD thesis with in 1975)? (I'm very curious what my fingers remember 40+ years later.)
I'd wager you are not a great representation of the market that 99% of apps serve. Apps abuse those features because it works well for their business.
It certainly isn't fully self-driving, but I must say that it does remarkably well on interstates. Still isn't worth the additional 5-6k for me yet.
Boom Supersonic raises $100M, aims for 2019 test flights
I've thought of it more as "one man's strategy is another man's tactics" but I like the strategy/tactics/micro distinction a bit more
ActivityPub! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
Lots of people have died in car accidents. Many people have died because of knifes. Many people have died because went to the wrong place where wild animals were hungry.

What is the solution in this case ? All the situations here are riskier.

Many people die after they wake up and leave their room. So its risky to leave their room.

You are not a genius.
Understanding that ex(1) is not ed(1), I did give myself an “ex(1) challenge” where it was my only editor, whenever available, for 4 weeks. That experiment probably lasted ~6 months, then I drifted back to vi. I’d happily go back to ex(1) though.
I generally categorize philosophy and ethics works into separate categories: profound, interesting but not particularly useful, and inane. This one falls squarely into the third category, especially when the author tries to play off spending money on yourself as wrong. To be fair, he seems to be entirely Utilitarian so I guess I can't blame him for suggesting self-flagellation.
Location: Austria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C# (ASP.NET), Javascript (React, Typescript), GraphQL, Docker (I'm somewhat a full stack developer tbh)

Résumé/CV: On request

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I'm still young (currently 20 years old) but I'm ready to learn new technologies (I'm currently trying rust)
And don’t forget transactions...
I had the pleasure of trying out ed(1) in its natural habitat last week at CCC, which was very nice https://twitter.com/ProgrammerDude/status/107899350944788070...
Its not like tests are impossible. It's more that TDD is almost impossible.
You can trivialize almost any profession by stating it reductively. "All we do is put boxes on a page, or change the color of the boxes." OK, well all a farmer does is dig some dirt, and sometimes put some plant bits into it or pull some out. All most doctors do is talk to patients and sometimes give them some pills. All a soldier does is point guns and pull triggers. All a factory worker does is pretend to be a robot eight hours a day. Etc.

I don't admire the guy for failing to adequately state the value he's bringing to the table.

More to the point: most of society is by his estimation engaging in trivial bullshit. Faux intellectual software developers like to self-flagellate. Sure. We work on stupid stuff. But what do they think toy makers, the entire entertainment and financial industries, fashion, much of the auto industry, and even the majority of the housing industry are busy doing? They're all selling products that people don't need and probably won't make them much happier or better off. Don't like it? Go be a hermit. The story of the twentieth century was the pursuit of largely pointless (from a well-being perspective) excellence. That will probably remain the case for the rest of human history, since we already have almost everything we need for well-being built in, and the small remaining set is really cheap and no longer economically significant.

(I guess this is ultimately the point of the article . . . sort of . . . but I'm so over the trope in the first section that I just had to react to it.)
I would like to know more about your reasons for thinking Python is a maintenance nightmare.
Branches actually make this much less painful. Just reverse merge from the trunk back to each branch on a frequent basis.
Service workers allow for push notifications and other background tasks.
To put it simply and bluntly - those cultures remembered it takes a village to raise a child and have sane cultural expectations around children and child rearing.

In the US the typical "middle class" child raising experience is utterly miserable. There is very little expectation in the rest of the world to end your life as you know it just because you had kids.

Family, friends, even the community all sort of collectively engage in child rearing. In the US it's gone down this relentless road of sequestering oneself off from society whilst simultaneously being expected to devote your entire existence to child rearing or be seen as a bad person.

This is a topic I've thought a lot on and have my ideas of what caused it, but it's really not for a place like HN :)
Are you new in tech? Then read this
Was the bit really low-brow, or did you just not like it?

(Paraphrasing)

“You will address me as ‘there’; I identify as a location.”

I thought that was pretty funny.
this is scanned from your emails and you gave permission when you signed up and accepted the terms of service.

I love this feature since the data is already in gmail and they're breaking it out into a more visible location. I wish it was complete (it misses a lot of purchases) and accurate (it doesn't handle cancelled purchases well).
"Earning money (via production) is good for others. Spending it (via consumption) is bad."

In the buying-an-iPhone-is-consumption-and-bad spending example, if the iPhone is also used to increase the reach or efficiency of production, does that cancel it out? I like the yacht example better.
>We earn money by providing value to other people. And consequently,
>The money you've earned represents value you've contributed to society.
>This holds across almost every asset class and profit-making strategy in the modern world.

if i extract 100 tons of carbon from the earth in the form of petroleum, then sell it to make a profit of $100, that profit does not take any externality into account. i could be making it such that $101 dollars of future economic activity is prevented by virtue of the extraction process or subsequent combustion and ruination of the environment. the petroleum "provided value" -- positive short-term value, but with a stiff cost of net negative value in the future. the fact that i subsequently use those $100 that i made to consume some product isn't relevant. society would have been better off if i hadn't made the money in the first place.

this stuff isn't hard.
So ammonia wouldn't be able to utilize the existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure.

That's not what I'm advocating. I was talking about the precedent of companies that know how to run pipelines, do transactions with storage pools, and scheduling. Of course the physical pipes and other equipment would have to be different. But all of the commercial contractual, financial, and legal frameworks are all pretty much worked out.
Without having a semantic debate, I think the point is that since there are no static addresses, parties cannot send money in a one-way transaction. Every transaction must have a handshake. Those two people could be in person, or online, but they don't need to be connected to the grin network until either wants to post the transaction.

> you can send to an address; that address can be a cold wallet, or could not exist at all

I don't think this is accurate since the other party must participate.
When they say that ed is the standard editor they really mean it.

A couple of years ago I had to boot a Debian/68k virtual machine and both vi and emacs were absent (there was joe, but at the time I wasn't aware that such editor even existed, and I wouldn't have assumed it came preinstalled anyway).

Well, ed was there.

Quite a challenge to use it because my ed-fu is weak at best, but I was able to edit the necessary files to configure networking and to be able to ssh into the machine.
Productivity hack or make-work project?
This is bigger but less powerful than its predecessor. Is it a higher bypass engine, sort of like a turbo prop hybrid type thing?

What's the limiting factor re size? This seems an obvious thing to do to increase efficiency?
> akin to tinkering/customizing on Linux. Interesting and fun but not really something you want when you want your tools to get out of your way and just get things done.

That's rich. I use MacOS for development out of mere inertia but my god does it require a lot of tweaking work and pricey paid apps to become a useable environment.

* Finder is the worst file manager I've ever seen. Gotta replace it with Path Finder.

* The command+tab/command+` distinction is ridiculous. Gotta buy Contexts so that you can switch between windows.

* The dock is a horrid workflow for launching apps and Spotlight is terrible. Gotta buy Launchbar.

* No on-screen window switcher without the Dock so I've set up dedicated hotkeys for all my apps. This requires jumping through some absurd hoops to do with Automator, or installing Apptivate.

* Windows move all over the place when I connect and disconnect my monitors. Gotta buy Stay.

* There's no way to turn off mouse acceleration for USB mice. Gotta buy a third-party USB driver.

* The built-in firewall has no way to control outgoing connections. Gotta buy Little Snitch.

* How do you live without a clickable calendar on the menubar? Need to install Itsycal.

Etc etc etc, just to make it useable as a modern operating system.
My apologies, I didn't intend to suggest anything like people with no intention of having children are simply "pre-kid" until they come to their senses.
+100 on that book.
I think psilocybin is a great drug to test legalization and it's effect on recreational usage. If I had to guess, I think there would be an initial increase in psilocybin use. Though, over time I think it would decrease back to a number slightly more than today. More than just usage, it would be interesting to see its impact on crime, dui, 'addiction', etc. Just maybe this would lead to a more rational view of drug use and further drug legalization.
I run a PWA and can track this based on the "standalone" property. But what's more telling is customer requests. It's a confusing request that it seems like many potential customers haven't seen before. Lots of people ask me to "just put it in the app store" despite having an FAQ with instructions on how to add to the home screen. Many more say they will become customers "when you have an app"

Because of this, I'm working on making my UI more app like and using Cordova to publish it to app stores.

edit: My app is still pretty small but the percentage of logged in users who have ever loaded from the PWA is < 5%
I'd read some inconclusive but suggestive articles correlating them in the past.
The area under the curve is empty until then.
Crazy doctors! Don't they know all their patients will die anyway, eventually?
I have many friends in the restaurant business in Seattle, both on the business and employee side, and mostly not in the national chains (and the national chains that do well in Seattle usually defer employment practices to their Seattle sites). The labor situation has a lot of similarities to software engineers in the big tech cities actually.

The reality is that there is an extreme shortage of restaurant labor in Seattle, so employees have all the leverage right up to the point where it breaks the business. The employees I know have told me that if you want to take three weeks off etc, at this point you just tell the manager because they can't say no or even negotiate really -- they won't fire you because they won't be able to replace you, and they know the employees will quit if they don't say yes and would be employed equally well within an hour of looking.

To make matters even more crazy, there are investors running around Seattle offering buckets of capital to the employees at restaurants to start their own restaurants. I know a few former-employees-now-restauranteurs that have taken the money, and had very tech startup-like learning curves which has been fun to talk about. (Like I said, oddly analogous to tech boom craziness.)

These things ebb and flow. At some point in the not-too-distant future, the businesses will have all the leverage again.
By that point in the conversation, however, I had already conveyed that my parents were from Korea, and I was born and had grown up here.
Pick your poison:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/i...
That's the "banking" path proposed and not further explored in section II.
And this trend continues. The further you get from development, the vaguer the terms are and the longer and more imprecise the feedback loops. (In fact, I'd argue your job consists of creating useful and lightweight feedback loops)

This can be quite frustrating if you're not prepared for it.
> (paraphrasing) No PWA competes with a native experience even development wise

I'm personally too spoiled by the React debugging experience, and I'm saying this as a developer who mainly does C#. On the other hand, I know many developers who can't stand a line of JavaScript. The answer is here a huge "it depends, really".
PWAs are becoming reasonable for mobile devices and could really help with some apps for initial distribution and usage.

I might implement the first version of mobile reading within Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) by using a PWA.

The general idea is to have both a PWA and a native app.

The PWA gets the users addicted and then you can have an 'install app' button within the PWA.

If your app is insanely complicated it's possible to have your app as just a PWA on steroids (though not always straight forward).

We're using Firebase (just wrote up a post about it here):

https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/03/building-cloud-sync-on-go...

... and the cool thing about Firebase is that there are SDKs for basically all platforms with really solid mobile support.
I would really appreciate reading stories from that time (1979). Have you got a blog with your memories or something?
Take a look at https://www.harrisonmetal.com/ - even if you're not in the bay area.

I had a chance to sit in on a dinner of General Management students from a ~dozen companies. The vast majority were going from individual contributor to management roles.
It's a Linux-powered car world
Having a Backup CA for Let's Encrypt
After checking the README, this actually looks like a pretty cool build tool. I'd love to have Rust support in the future
hooray Archive.org ; long-live Archive.org !
Exactly - like cash. It's cash for the internet.
Ahem - never thought I'd see a link on hackernews glorifying hoarding (the economics type), but here here are.

"Imagine a particular bag of grain that you bought at T1 for 200 francs, and then sold a month later, at T2, for 800 francs."

What about at 1600 francs? What about at 16000? The original argument was about morals, not math or some kind of utopian economy where every transaction is fair.
I honestly think it is less, speaking as someone who does it day in and day out. That HTML/CSS is so complicated to require specialized positions to handle the intricacies of these broken technologies, instead of having well though-out systems and visual design tools, speaks volumes about the rotten state of the web and and web development as a discipline. In this day and age we should not need a small army of so called developers to maintain a single marketing website.
Amazon patent censoring websites while surfers visit Amazon-owned store
Ask HN: Spectre/Meltdown and New Desktop Purchase?
The Windows PCs my friends' own are dated, due for replacement and they are asking for recommendations. They're all small-business + web surfing users (no developers, no gamers).

Is there a preferred architecture given the Spectre/Meltdown situation?

And what _is_ the "Spectre/Meltdown situation"? Is there a trustworthy clearinghouse of information about this problem?

For myself, I run Linux and do my best to keep the system updated - but is that enough? Do I need a newer, safer CPU (and consequently PC)?
I haven't any preferred term. You may call it multiarray, mdarray, ndarray, hdarray, MDA etc..

I don't agree that "tensor" is a good convenient term. E.g. C++'s std::vector does not really support vector operations, but most programmers can guess that it is a 1D array in terms of memory layout. "Tensor"? It's just a meaningless term to most beginners. If you think MultiDimensionalArray is too verbose, you may call it "MDA". It is shorter, conveys the meaning of the term better than "tensor" does and it's by no means misleading.
You're right - so Compass the for-profit has only filed an application for patent. But it's likely they're trying to patent a method of manufacturing the compound, rather than the compound itself (which, as you say, is publicly know.) As for the IP owned by Compass the non-profit, they didn't respond to comments on what that is, so it's not clear what exactly it entails.
This looks great. To echo other folks’ sentiment - I think you mean CI-like pipelines specifically, though it could be extended to do some other stuff. You probably want to list some concrete use cases on the main site (e.g. CI, cron jobs, ETL?).

I’m curious what differences/trade offs there are in Gaia vs something like Argo (https://github.com/argoproj/argo) or Buildkite (https://buildkite.com/). It looks like at least one difference is an actual API for steps rather than bash commands. Is there anything interesting in terms of cross job caching (e.g. saving npm install data) or persistent runners? And obviously - what else am I not thinking about?
Cool. This puts my homelab to shame. I've basically got an old i5 server running Linux (non SSD), an unstable HP DL160 (never buy HP, kids!) and a Raspberry Pi for home automation. I've also got lots of additional hardware that I rarely power up such as Sun Blade 2000's, SGI's etc.
1990s web development used a lot less JavaScript. Also, I think there is more of an expectation today for developers to be designers and vice versa.
To me, you were describing today's world. Maybe that was the point.
What do you imagen happens to unspent money put in a bank?
Chrome on Android will show a banner to add it to your home screen.
Are you actually comparing calling a black person the n-word to finding it pretentious when someone demands to be referred to using a made-up pronoun?
Doesn't this argument break down fairly quickly when you take into consideration information asymmetry between actors.

Let's imagine you are providing future options to Congolese farmers, but you know you can poison the water supply and cause specific crops to fail. In this situation you, you sell the Congolese farmer a contract stating that he will sell his crop for a specific price while you know the constrained supply will increase the price to absurd levels.

Know you just got a bunch of money and yes you provided "value" to the farmer but at the cost of everyone else.
How common is it to have designers that are actually writing css and html? Of the dozen designers I have worked with, every one of them was using a tool like Invision or Sketch and as far as I know, have no html/css knowledge.
More than 1 in 10 US adults has a food allergy, study finds
It's five times my mortgage payment on a five bedroom house on a half acre, inside the city limits of a town ~13k.
Well... I think the oneness effect is interesting where people basically feel interconnected. Kind of like astronauts who see the world from space. That feeling should be a positive one. It's also not clear it is permanent. It may impact your degree of openness.

What I've found interesting in his book is that the suggestions of the therapist lead basically influence the result. So if someone says what will happen on shrooms you basically have a similar experience. That is interesting.

Further along the meta magical thinking idea is the stoned ape hypothesis which basically tries to explain how we were able to transcend "primitiveness" and develop abstract reasoning and as such technological progress by using psychedelics. Whether there is evidence for this or not I don't know.. haven't read the stoned ape book.. It does seem more plausible that magic mushrooms led to religion. I've been reading Pollan's book as well and the part about AA 12 step and Bill's wanting to use magic mushrooms as part of the process is very interesting. Turns out that the board allegedly wanted to keep the straight religion aspect in it for control vs surrendering yourself to mushrooms. This is partly why psychedelics are being tested on reducing alcoholism.

If it can help alleviate depression and anxiety I am 100% behind it. So much time, energy and life is lost to that mindfuck of a state.

* also we don't really understand the long term implication o f a lot of things we eat or drink or the legal drugs we take. Should you eat eggs? margarine? wine? tea? how much coffee? etc..
If $100 per year for the Apple Developer program is too much, is whatever you’d be making an app for even worth it? Not saying app-first is or isn’t the answer, just questioning a criticism of an expense that’s comes out to $8.25 per month.
Grin is different private. I wouldn't say it's less private. The fact that you can submit a truncated set of transactions, can in some cases provide far more privacy than Monero.
The problem is not whether "the sending of the bills with the “Thank you for paying” note could... have been understood by any reasonable person to constitute a claim of any kind." It is that the jury was not properly instructed that they would have to decide this as a matter of fact, and that Glaub's free speech was otherwise protected. It's a subtle procedural issue, but ISTM that the article author has a point.
We are looking for someone to join us on site, but depending on the Visa process, we are willing to help matching candidates with the process. And we have non-European team members.
>It depends.

Sadly I think to often people are to focused on "apps" fail to make that consideration. Businesses seems focus on getting their little icon on the home screen of people phone, to keep them coming back to their service. News sites are especially to blame here.

There are also some app that completely fail to recognise that there are people who need the service an app provides, but doesn't have a smartphone. For instance the only way I can buy a bus ticket with my debit card is to use an app on my phone, but what if I didn't have a smartphone?
The big one that left a lasting impression for me at an early age was Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434. It does a very good job illustrating a lot of the technical mechanics of the format and the Hollywood guidelines and expectations that have built up around it (including the page per minute expectation, and even the expectations on page per act, which is another formula that Hollywood has), and some of why, using an example screenplay throughout.

(Just be forewarned it is not a great example screenplay in the usual fashion of such teaching examples because it is designed more towards the lesson plan than coherency/quality as a story of its own; and also arguably another example of that old weird maxim "those who can't, teach" given Lew Hunter's mostly TV Movie writer IMDB credits.)
And sometimes even start with a mailing list (especially anything marketplace related)
True, the situation on Android is much better than iOS. Also after you do this, you get an icon in your app drawer and not just the homescreen.