skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been watching Matrix for a long while now, and just now I see this:
> "innovative bit of Matrix is that it's a replicated database of objects (events), similar to Git, but designed for syncing conversation history around in realtime."

and think, this is basically blockchain workings right? IF we had only created a client that worked on iOs only, could store and send chat coins and log votes for each group, this could be presented in press releases as a new blockchain chat and get all kinds of posts and maybe money thrown at it.

kidding aside - I have more faith in Matrix moving forward than any similar projects at the moment, and I don't see that changing soon - so I hope more can be done to polish clients and make sure bridges and other features are well done.

As soon as moderation tools are enhanced I'll begin to use it on several sites.

I'd love to see some bubbles of related issues that need love and have some people put some estimated time and money on each bubble - maybe we could crowdsource some code for some bubbles and money for others or something -

I feel there are many groups of people who want / need different things in order to increase adoption, and I feel for the folks coders / maintainers who are trying to extinguish all the fires at once.

I put a few hundred into bug bounty like thing to get some features added to rocket chat so we could use it.. then found the amount of other bugs left un worked at the time meant it was not feasible for our usage any time soon. Hopefully with the funding and such of Matrix it can evolve on multiple levels at once and become a solid framework with many clients and ux options.

A bridge for COI and delta chat or any others. I'd love a client that bridges with email address and has one click to keybase auth or pgp and such - and puts things into a timeline / fbook feed like view.. not for me, but for others.. group friends, display on phones and web.. seems these things could be close to reality.
I got it done via OmegaQuant, costs $99 and can be ordered online.
Exceptions seem less unstructured than "goto". With exceptions, at least everything is strictly nested.

And there's a new class of bugs: forgetting to check for an error. In Rust, the compiler won't let you forget. With exceptions, forgetting to handle an exception will result in a somewhat controlled termination process. In Go, execution will just continue in a bad state.
Ummm... you probably meant "median". Note, "average" is just "arithmetic mean".
I was an H1-B for a couple of years many years ago, I don't remember spouses (H-4) having the ability to work back then. If this passes, it would be reverting to how it was for the longest time.
You can reproduce the problem in postgresql with the following:

create table counters(counter int);

insert into counters(counter) values(1);

BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL serializable;
select sum(counter) from counters; /* this will return 1 */
/* insert sum into counters. wait until committing next transaction before executing the insert */
insert into counters(counter) values(1);
COMMIT;

/* this transaction should commit before doing the insert in the above transaction and after the above transaction has calculated the sum */
BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL serializable;
insert into counters(counter) values(10);
COMMIT;

both transactions commit and the final table looks like:
1, 10, 1

which is possible if the first transaction committed first, and then the second transaction committed which is different from the order the transactions committed in by the wall clock. so it is possible for another client to see the table as:

[1] (the initial state)
[1, 10] (after the second transaction committed)
[1, 1, 10] (after the first transaction committed)

which is a sequence of states which should not be possible. if you see [1], [1, 10] then you should see [1, 10, 11] as the last state. hence it violates external consistency.
>activated

by a bum you paid $10 worth of cheap alcohol
>I think the underlying principle is not as much about "perpetuity" as it is about whether the contract with dead must be honored even years later.

But who's going to enforce this? If the owner of a cemetery stops maintaining a grave, a random person doesn't have standing to sue. In reality what's happening is closer to honoring contracts with the still living relatives of the dead.
Did you know even the old-school computer mouse uses light to work?

The new school just don't have a mechanical component of a ball and two rollers which spin two separate "gears" which blocks light and then math to figure out the horizontal change + vertical change.

I found that pretty neat when I learned. (I'm old enough to remember the pains of using a gunked up ball mouse.)
Yeah really. I've gone through security with pretty big knives by accident and gotten "啊!你的水果刀" "your fruit knife", and it was apologetically confiscated with little hassle. Although I'm sure stereotyping (white skin not poor) worked positively in my favor. While in the US, for example, I go through with cup of demonstrably potable liquid and have to do some petty compliance exercise like take a walk around the terminal and wait in line to be screened by the same person again. I think it might have do do with rule by law vs rule of law
Stitcher is building a garden. I think they are trying to combat the unassailable dominance of Apple.
Notice I used the qualifier "mundane." Funny potentially meme videos are one thing, unexceptional videos of kids' talent shows or just doing everyday things should be not be advertised. Ideally they should be unlisted or posted to Facebook or some other social network that isn't broadcast to the entirety of the web.
I have never been into sneakers...in 1989 I wanted Jordans but they cost $120 at the time and I was only 9 and my parents said no. They insisted that they weren't any better than "Fives" (generic shoes we would get at Big 5) other than better marketing. My parents were well off (dentist, real estate appriaser) but they were big on saving and living frugally. Now that I can basically buy anything I want, I still get the cheapest shoes I can find.
That's the more important point in my opinion. The demands weren't reasonable regardless if it was a religious holiday or not.

Saying you were observing a religious holiday will definitely earn you sympathy from the public but probably not legal relief from the courts.
I have to use it, as it's the only app on the Apple Watch that allows you to stream over LTE/cellular.

I'd love to be able to use Pocket Casts or Overcast.
Well... I gave it to a child who subsequently tore the keys off of it. Overall, it was mostly okay. Superdrive rarely worked (it'd just eject discs randomly - started happening day 2) Logic board went in the first year. It was replaced by Apple, but I lost everything on the HD. HD went on year 4... I replaced it with an SSD. That lasted right up until the child incident. Who knows, perhaps I could still get it to boot. It was a fun machine to work with.
Personally, I couldn't care less about animation. Remember when Windows used to only show a frame when you were dragging a window around or resizing it? That was fine.

The lag in that video is about the same as my cheap Moto G phone. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I just want a phone that I can trust isn't spying on me 24x7.
GNU C supports nested functions as an extension. I use them for the exact reasons you mention.
That's not how many employment opportunities work. Allowances, expenses--hell, even salaried compensation are all ways in which non-40hr-work-week positions are handled. Whether compensation/interaction in these circumstances happens ethically versus exploitatively depends on many things, but not "whether or not someone works more than 40 hours a week for a non-hourly-wage position".
That doesn’t make it okay.
Oh boy, another trashy story line follows from this guy.
One solution is to upgrade the IMAP connection to a direct TCP one, using ICE (from WebRTC). This was part of a project I helped work on: https://github.com/tkoft/GoingPostal
You should know that the computation capabilities is not the only factor of the industrial embedded system and that chip does not even look at it.

It much more focused on real-time capabilities and hardware control. Notable examples are 1. Built-in Cortex M4 microcontroller 2. RPi doesn't have ADCs but STM32MP1 got 16-bit ADCs and a sigma-delta modulator. 3. It's got 5V-tolerant GPIO whereas RPis are not 4. Best-in-class timers for PWM and quadrature encoders.
Consider that early adopters who are willing to put up with teething issues to be on the forefront of innovation are not the same market segment that reads consumer reports to determine which vehicle to purchase.

It can be simultaneously true that Tesla owners love their cars but someone that wants to get from A to B should not buy one yet.

Jumping to the assumption that it's some kind of anti Tesla conspiracy when there's a perfectly simple explanation is not helpful.
And the cheapest part is $4.848, that is pretty damn affordable. Many of STM32F4 are more expensive than that!
Crazy idea, but what if Twitter spun off a subsidiary called Odeo to capitalize on this novel trend‽
> Google will flat out refuse.

Not necessarily but somewhat practically. I've applied internally at 2 of the big 5 companies for outside activity projects and 1 was denied and the other was approved. It definitely blacklists a ton of ideas which sucks but it is possible (my side project which got approved has a main competitor which sold for over a billion USD).
If you follow the rule that you are not experienced enough to pick out individual stocks you should also follow the rule not to pick various sectors or all the other possible index funds that exist.

Following this invest in only two funds. A total index fund for the companies in the country you want to live in (and hopefully the one you already do live in :) ) and a global total index fund of some type. I would choose a global fund that invests only in places that had a decent rule-of-law culture, but that's just me.
Yeah, this is real.

On a throwaway for obvious reasons, but this is from an employment contract I've seen in the past:

"I acknowledge that I have no reasonable expectation of privacy in any computer, technology system, email, handheld device, telephone, or documents that are used to conduct the business of the Company. As such, the Company has the right to audit and search all such items and systems, without further notice to me, to ensure that the Company is licensed to use the software on the Company’s devices in compliance with the Company’s software licensing policies, to ensure compliance with the Company’s policies, and for any other business-related purposes in the Company’s sole discretion. I understand that I am not permitted to add any unlicensed, unauthorized, or non-compliant applications to the Company’s technology systems and that I shall refrain from copying unlicensed software onto the Company’s technology systems or using non-licensed software or web sites. I understand that it is my responsibility to comply with the Company’s policies governing use of the Company’s documents and the internet, email, telephone, and technology systems to which I will have access in connection with my employment."

tl;dr: Any device you so much as check your work email on (which taints it as a device "used to conduct the business of the Company"), is subject to search by the Company "for any ... business-related purposes in the Company’s sole discretion" (meaning the stuff about software licensing is superfluous). So ultimately the employee has, as stated, "no reasonable expectation of privacy".

This is a case of reach-as-far-as-you-can lawyer'ing in a setting where there's likely to be little push-back from most job candidates. Takeaway: Go over this stuff with a fine-tooth comb and threaten to turn down offers from companies who try to pull this. Then if you _have_ to take the job, keep a hard boundary between your work and personal systems.
Thank you! That's a great review - long, well-informed, savage yet trying to be fair; totally accurate as far as I could tell, although the criticisms seemed far weaker in places. Lots of good links too. ... 168 other long reviews by Cosma Shalizi on that site, and a lot of other stuff. I hadn't heard the name before, thanks again.
That's all true, but only considers state-criminal relations. I urge reconsidering this from the point of view of political conflict rather than simple criminology.
Who cares if he’s arrogant? Linux is a mean bastard and Stallman is a weirdo who eats stuff of his feet during interviews. None of these people are well balanced great guys you’d take to the pub to watch football, but that’s not why their impressive in what they do and accomplish.
It's already done, and has been for ages - dried crickets can be ground into "cricket flour". This takes care of the things crunching while you eat them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_flour
TurboTax Live’s Approach to a Gender-Neutral Design System
Heard of depesz; haven't used it.

I rather like the PostgreSQL Explain Vizualizer. [1]

I can keep multiple plans around, and it has a lot of detail.

[1] http://tatiyants.com/pev

[2] https://github.com/AlexTatiyants/pev
You are correct. This was only introduced in 2015.

From the article, it reads, "In 2015, the Obama administration created the H-4 employment authorization document, known as H-4 EAD, to allow those spouses to work until the family can get green cards."
Apple was only popular (this millennium) when they were making the BEST PC you could buy, and they did that by tracking with intel's latest and greatest offerings but then intel hit the wall. No innovation from intel, no innovation from apple. We'll be doomed to just get slightly faster busses and radios year-after-year until apple moves to a better core tech partner (Power again pleaaaaase!!!) =or develops a new computer platform totally inhouse (much more likely) that is a performance and quality leader.
Workplace discrimination suits are vanishingly unlikely to end up before any sort of jury, at least in the US.
Oculus Head of VR Product Nate Mitchell: Why I’m Excited for VR in 2019
> “When we came out with this new license, there were many different views,” he acknowledged. “Some people condemned that. But after the initial noise calmed down — and especially after some other companies came out with a similar concept — the community now understands that the original concept of open source has to be fixed because it isn’t suitable anymore to the modern era where cloud companies use their monopoly power to adopt any successful open source project without contributing anything to it.”

So, is it true that HN now understands and is cool with Redis Labs "fixing" the concept of open source?

From reading previous threads on HN this seems like a mischaracterization, but it's quite possible I missed the relevant thread(s).
He supports Maduro.
Fun fact: Pinkerton is still around and is "the world's leading provider of corporate risk management solutions" [0]. Companies regularly hire Pinkerton muscle to handle "security threats" related to union organizing.

Interestingly, even Google retains Pinkerton to investigate internal leaks [1].

[0] https://www.pinkerton.com/

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/147619/pinkertons-still-neve...
Even with the best estimates for people born in India, the Green Card wait times are at least 10+ years to 120 years. What are the spouses of such people ought to do?.

There seems to be no interest in fixing the root cause of the problem. The only partial fix for the problem is to let the spouses of approved GC petitioners work. But, this administration is bent on removing those provisions, without providing a fix for the problem in the first place.
un-self-aware self belief is a commodity to exploit for the people who pay dang, just like our continued engagement with this forum. There is commercial value in engineering the tone of the discussion, artificially or otherwise. Your perception is the desired outcome.
Wolfram is a notorious misogynist. I recall hearing complaints how badly his staff was treated. From finding socks to finding pencils, this story is yet one of many highly highly distorted one.
A Complete Guide to Microsoft’s Comeback
Well, it is what you say it is, but why?
Pardon my ignorance, but who's paying their fees, and why would anyone pay fees to people who ruin companies and pocket fees for doing a poor job?
The implicit sharing of his sleep schedule through his email times over the past 25 years makes me feel better about myself.

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2012/03/outgoin...
People do that with their deleted items in outlook.

helpdesk empties deleted items

Hey! I keep stuff in there!
Onions broadcast themselves to the directory to they can be accessed
The biggest change here is the name. Instead of "Apache 2 modified with Commons Clause", which risked causing confusion with Open Source software, and with Creative Commons licenses, we get the much clearer "Redis Source Available License". "Source available" is standard terminology for this type of proprietary software license, so nobody should be mislead. I approve.
Is there a tool for Postgres that will provide optimization tips over time, based on actual queries run against the DB?

Seems a much more efficient approach than analyzing and diagramming (sometimes) complex explain results.
For employees, yes. The company can offer a settlement for basically all the monetary claims if the employee skips discovery and agrees to not speak about the case.
salaried software engineers (in california at least) are exempt employees and thus don't have to be paid overtime.

I'm pretty sure if you are not an exempt salaried employee or you are hourly then you do in fact have to be paid for the time on call that you are actually working and if you are not that is in fact illegal and wage theft.

Anecdotally I have a friend who works in IT that is on call and does get paid for all the time on call that he is working.

as another response said on call can or can not be exploitative depending on how it's setup but that is a separate issue from whether it's wage theft.
One of the advantages of getting older is that you develop some perspective on crap like this. I never check work email at night or on weekends anymore. And I just tell people "no" when they ask me to do work stuff on a weekend. The world continues to turn.
Not less but unknown
Pinterest Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
'Faketoshi' Signature Tool Lets Anyone Become Satoshi Nakamoto
That helps me understand what's different this time, thank you.
>> inquisitive and asks questions, and never over speaks them, treats them with respect and asks questions from a point of curiosity...

spot on - this is what I like about Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Most interviewers can't help talking or interrupting, just when the interviewee was about to say something interesting.
NKoS is definitely worth reading especially if you have "boolean" in your username. And it's mostly pictures anyway.
The only carry-over I've had is a faster understanding of concepts like noun phrases acting similarly to parsing expressions.
Thanks for the detailed answer!

I'll dive into your list over the weekend, and if I find some missing movies I enjoyed, I'll send you an email with a few suggestions for you to watch :)
The history of the word “hacker”
A follow-up question is if Robinhood (by massively reducing trading costs/friction) is socially positive or not. Their career pitch is that they democratize America's financial system (https://careers.robinhood.com/), but looking at how the reduced friction just leads to Average Joe losing more money, you could credibly view this as a type of destructive "excessive democracy".
Robinhood sells shares in a bunch of ETFs as well as individual stocks. Their selection isn't as good as a Fidelity or a Vanguard but the value proposition is the lack of transaction fees. There's nothing inherently irresponsible about Robinhood (except maybe how easy it is to get a margin account). It allows individuals to make the same mistakes as any of the larger investment banks.
"The community now understands that the original concept of open source has to be fixed." Well, how lucky for the community that a wise startup came along and fixed open source.

I get that open source business models are hard, especially in an increasingly commoditized space like databases. Still, it rubs me the wrong way when a business wants the goodwill of open source, then tries its hardest to bend the rules in its favor.
Even in Western countries, this varies. For example, in many European countries, there are various dishes involving small fish that's cooked and eaten basically whole, with intestines and all. Examples include Baltic sprats (usually smoked and then canned in oil), or Bulgarian tsatsa (same fish coated in flour and deep fried). Both are delicious, by the way.
Well, practically it is. If something is written down but lost in the archives, it doesn't count for much. People need to at least remember to look for it if they're going to act on it.
How I Fell Out of Love with the Internet
I hve never been to China but in my experience american airport security and immigration is nasty as compared to other perfectly free and democratic countries.
I've found shell scripting to be superior to other programming languages when the job calls for performing some combination of the following:

1) calling lots of commands

2) using lots of pipelines

3) handling exit codes from 1 and 2 for error handling and conditional execution control

4) doing job control for processes and process groups (backgrounding, pausing, foregrounding, sending signals, etc.)
Ask HN: What Is the Best Way to Hedge RSUs During Post-IPO Lockup?
A unicorn I worked at for two years is going IPO soon. The RSUs are double trigger vest.

I want to hedge the risk that the stock gets cut in half in-between the IPO and the lockup expiration.

Here are the two strategies I have found so far:

1. If you have X shares/RSUs, short X additional shares at open of IPO. Cover after lockup expires.

Pro: lock in a sale at the IPO price
Con: requires significant margin reserves & cost-to-borrow might be high

2. Sell costless collar on X shares using options contracts.

Pro: doesn't require huge margin reserves
Con: options market is not guaranteed to exist any time during the lockup

Can I do any better than this?
I started following this same system, and after realizing how much sense it made, and how similar this system is to typical digital data storage system design, I concluded I should always design physical storage systems using the same mindset as data storage.
A Brain Dump of All the Things You Can Do to Make Your React Site Load Faster
And I quote...

> Usually we (which quite often actually means me) will write documentation for a function before the function is implemented.
Well, I close my eyes every time I'm being driven across the Dumbarton bridge, if that counts for anything.
> Should any contract be void if all of the parties to one side or another die? I think we can at least say "no" if parties on the other side are responsible for the death.

As a first cut, I'd say it should become void if and only if the death leaves nobody with standing to sue over the alleged breach.

> If I make a contract with a mortuary to bury me (preferably) after my death, should they be released from the agreement by my death?

Under my standing rule, I'd say the contract would still stand under the argument that the people who would otherwise have to deal with disposing of your body were intended third party beneficiaries and they can enforce it.

Alternatively or additionally, there should probably be a special case for contracts concerning things actually involved in your death or in the short or mediate term dealing with the aftermath of your death. The justification for a special case is that as a matter of public policy we want people to make arrangements to handle their deaths, and the ability to make durable contracts concerning that is necessary to promote that.