skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations; this looks like some seriously nice results! I haven't used FaunaDB, but it's nice seeing your name around. I still remember your personal blog (blue/grey color; with flowers, right?) fondly from way back, and I believe also "Fauna" existed back then, but it was more an umbrella project for your open source work?

Anyway, FaunaDB looks like a well-engineered product in a highly competitive space and I hope you will succeed :)
Because people have these movie weddings in their minds and are willing to pony up anything for a day to remember. Personally I find the whole experience rather sad and very very overrated. I have been to many weddings and opted out of the entire experience when it came to ours. Best decision I’ve ever made. Wife mostly feels the same but occasionally wonders what it would be like to have a traditional wedding. I don’t know, maybe the fact that I’ve been to so many weddings in itself has ruined the experience for me? Everyone I’ve even seen married never seem to have a great time - there is always a ton of stress, discomfort, expense and cliches that feel rather silly. I know women are the ones who mostly look forward to this, so hopefully they are getting their money’s worth and that day to remember.
It's not 100x as stated by the OP, but I wouldn't use it (async_hooks) in situations where performance is actually a concern. I wouldn't use node there either, but that's besides the point.

async_hooks are 100% usable in production right now, we use it at my current gig for tracing and its had minimal impact on the services using it.
One of my kids has perfect pitch and it's very weird. I used to randomly test her with things and she was never wrong. I'd ask what note the microwave beeps or her toothbrush buzzes and she could easily say answer the question (or at least say what two notes the noise falls between).
Thanks, I’ll give it a try
This line was puzzling:

# Remove the bogus tor service Ubuntu installs by default

Is there a bug in the upstream package or something? Otherwise this just looks like a big step back from systemd to SysV — without automatic restarts the first time the daemon exits, you're locked out of the server.
Oxide: A Formal Semantics for Rust
I worked at the two companies that made the two most important games I ever played. My experience at the first directly led to me keeping a bit of detachment the second time.

At the first, the company made some decisions that were unpopular with players. I was young and got caught up in frustration over those decisions on behalf of players, as a player myself, and over the damage to the company's image.

The second time was years later and I was able to advocate on behalf of players while not getting so emotionally caught up in the outcome of those decisions to affect my career there.
First of all let me just say, I love HN because of these conversations. It's so rare that we can have a place for rational discourse. This has been a great conversation.

Dealing with VCs/CEOs typically involves having the money in the first place. You have numerous cases of people without degrees at all getting VC money and building platforms. I deal with CEOs of large companies on a fairly regular basis. While the Alma Mater matters it's typically a stand in for economic class. People who can afford to not work for a few years to go the HBS aren't typically in the lower echelons. Also workplaces are more conducive to taking time out of your regular schedule for educational advancement the higher up you go, especially since you're usually always working. So the degrees come back to money.

Of the people who voted for President Trump almost all of that lies with white, male voters and that was regardless of whether they were college educate or not, and most of that was in the South. Take from that what you will as neither candidate was a PoC so race wouldn't apply as a divisor. What might have had an impact was the border security discussion. The President's election was as much a fluke as a response to disaffected Sanders voters as a weak Democratic candidate.
There are a lot of examples to read through here: http://ioccc.org

C is used rather than C++, because C++ is a car crash before you even start trying to obfuscate.
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For even further clarity, I like the very prescient '>' in combination with italics:

> this is a block quote right here

It's very clearly a distinct block
This being an ad aside, I'd like to see the conversion rate and other meaningful metrics of those "web design 3.0" websites, especially for the examples at the beginning.
This works pretty well, especially if you have personal computers behind different NATs. One of the issue is still that you have to distribute the tor domain name out all over the place. You also need to keep the keys safe if you want to keep that domain name.

These two part I found to be more annoying to deal with, although this is true for most VPN solutions (thinking about tinc, wireguard).
Eh, I work for $BigTechCo, albeit outside SV, and I think my entire team is 30+, with a few 40+. I'm one of the few without kids.
Low paying jobs in developing economies have to be considered in the context of existing alternatives. If a Vietnamese rice farmer's son previously had only daily hours of backbreaking labor to look forward to on his father's paddies for what amounts to a dollar worth of earnings per day (only paid when they can finally sell the rice after many weeks of toiling) and then one day American McShoe Factory opens in the nearest city offering 3 dollars a day paid biweekly, this is a move up in the world. He'd willingly redirect his physical capacity for the job and trade it voluntarily for the money. Is this ideal? No, and to the labor market sensibilities of people in developed countries it could be seen as "looting" of workers but in relative terms, it's a previously unavailable, voluntarily chosen improvement for the farmer's son.

Yes, human rights have to be seriously improved in many countries and many companies offering jobs in developing markets really need to clean up their worker rights standards, but on a fundamental level, we can't simply compare a given economic change to our ideal of how things should be (because ideals are not limited by any practical constraints). We have to compare it to existing and previous alternatives.
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Exactly this. They are buying a fantasy, a dream. Who wants a $500 dream? They are only doing this once and it is the most important day of their entire life so money should be no object!
The fun and frustration of a Tesla Model 3 owner
It’s fair game for a python/java/c# interview though! /s
Lazy loading of Feature Module from the node_modules folder
From my time in the game industry, I haven't encountered too many employers that were friendly about personal projects. I was able to get an explicit exception for one of my already released games in my contract for one of the companies I worked for, but most made it clear that they expect me not to work on anything in my own time, or that it belonged to them.

Even a game that directly led to my employment at one of the companies, as they saw my game showcased at a game convention when it was a finalist in a major game competition, saw I was local, and brought me in to discuss a possible publishing deal (which turned into a job interview).

As someone who had made and released about 8 small games on my own and liked doing it as a break from my other things, it really rubbed me the wrong way, and I didn't end up releasing that game until after I was no longer working for the company and I had lost all benefit of the free marketing I had from the contest.

It's part of the reason why I haven't gone back into the game industry since I got out. I don't want to feel like I can't make anything on my own again (especially now that I'm getting into board game design and getting game designs signed with board game publishers).

My current employer's business has nothing to do with anything related to gaming whatsoever, so even if they did try to take control of my games, they'd have a hell of a time taking me to court over it, or acting like I violated any noncompete laws.
> you can go to a baker and say "I want a cake" and they'll say "$20" but if you say "it's for a wedding" the price becomes $100

This is very important to keep in mind. Never mention that you are working on organizing a wedding. Renting chairs? It's just for a party. Getting flowers? It's for a birthday. Vendors will almost always apply a huge markup when they hear "wedding".
>your anus is no different from your ass checks

Doesn't stuff in your intestines get naturally absorbed into your bloodstream by some mechanism? I always figured the danger with putting things in your ass was that you would bypass the safety mechanism that the stomach acids double as.
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(almost) nobody would dream of working for Facebook if the salaries weren't there. The "problem" with the games industry, and other industries with prestige jobs like publishing, film, etc., is that their toxicity derives from the drive of jobseekers to desire these jobs all out of proportion with their benefits and compensation. There's nothing inherent with the production of computer games that requires this attitude other than employees' and jobseekers' irrational (and very human) love of games. There are exploitative games that are bad, but there's no reason that all games have to be this way.

Facebook is toxic because it fundamentally makes money in an exploitative way that is bad. There is no way for Facebook to both be a business and not be sleezy. I think it's potentially possible we could build something Facebook-like as a non-business, but if we expect it to make a return for investors, it absolutely has to do fundamentally objectionable things to its users and society.
How much a plate will it cost for food? $125, $150 more?

If the typical mobile, prepared in advance, reduced menu restaurant with no real physical footprint can charge per plate what the finest tradition restaurants charge then there is clearly room for disruption.

Just as a comparison, the most expensive group dining option at Ruth Chris (selected for no reason other than I like their food) is $115 a plate. That is less than 2/3rds what we paid per plate at our wedding for something called "beaph" and looked like an old shoe.
For me at least, I would not use a throwaway.

The one thing we get asked to do for social media is always be clear that we have ties to the company but don’t speak for the company when commenting on things that could potentially be a conflict of interest. Both sides of that matter - I.e. I don’t want there to be any risk that someone doesn’t know I work at Blizzard when reading a comment (mostly because of native advertising rules) but I also don’t want them to think I speak for the company (mostly for fair disclosure rules).

I think that’s a reasonable request and I feel like using throwaways goes against that (and make it seem like there’s something to hide when really there is not).
"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."

- Edsger Dijkstra
"One of the advantages of being a software engineer is that there are too few of us to go around"

What year is it?
> ...anyway, this is quite a convoluted proof.

Agreed :)

> Theorem: Given a rectangle R with non-zero side-lengths...

And this is the key problem with the "proof" I laid out. My theorem does not specify non-zero dimensions. Therefore standard arithmetic division by a dimension is not well-defined. Since we're pondering intuition, it's interesting to consider how fixing the "proof" was approached. On the one hand, you fixed it by in effect back-progating invariants to the problem definition. Another approach would be to use a modified definition of "division" ("d = 0 if a or b are zero"--would still require the constraint "c !=0 unless a*b=0").

Mathematically, the former appoach is almost always what you're going to want, since a modified definition will be pretty useless to build upon consistently. From an application standpoint, the latter would be much more robust.

This is kind of one of the points made in the Sci Am article--pure vs. applied proofs are different.
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Whistleblowing/etc aside, if you sign an NDA you should adhere to it. We should not respect people who don't hold to their agreements just because they have some juicy insider information about nothing of any consequence.
How the F* can this be legal ?
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Nice, thanks. I've updated the comments with the information you provided here :)
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I’m honestly surprised yours is the only comment so far that mentions emotions in this discussion (I also didn’t see a mention of this in the article).

I think this is a similar situation to the often extreme costs seen in the Death Care Industry (Funeral and Mortuary services), just with the opposite end of the emotional spectrum being taken advantage of. People get invested in what they think society sees as necessary or appropriate and are driven by an emotional high/low into not really thinking about what they (or their passed loved ones) really want. They are driven by the emotional state to ignore expense and do whatever they can to convince both themselves and others of their feelings/intent, be that the love and promise of a new marriage, or the love and respect for someone who has passed.
Crazy stuff. It's interesting how much unnecessary permissions Hola requires. So much for "free" VPN?
The polemic aged remarkably well
Do you have the same concerns about curing smallpox?
Detecting Powershell Empire Shenanigans with Sysinternals
When you can make a new person and shape their entire life vs. being largely secondary to that role, that completely alters your horizon of opportunities.

Visualize it like large numbers of people are creating characters for an RPG.

For the female version of the character generator, "mother" is a class with a shitload of XP bonuses and it's the only way to complete the "bear a child" quest. Not all of them are going to do it, many will multi-class, but they have very strong non-economic incentives to do so.
I believe a lot of the legal issues with Sony/BMG and others need to be sorted out and I expect the catalogue to be at par with Apple Music soon
I think judging by the oldest extant constitution (or other equivalent legal document), the US is the oldest.
Also brings fun to the party if the cake says "Happy Birthday" instead of having two figures on top :-)
We have glues that for practical purposes would be just as hard to repair.

Repairability is generally a choice of the designer/manufacturer.

Cars have lots of welding on them and are still plenty repairable.
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How could you ever hope to measure and compare the relative vitriol of internet communities? Anyone's perception will be heavily biased by what the media likes to report on (drama on Potted Plant Watering.com is a lot less likely to make the news than tweets about violent video games, which are on the list of talking points already). The most vitriolic ones are probably sub-forums that we've never even heard of.
and that's why we should always celebrate and defend whistle-blowers.
I always felt like those were done for two reasons:

1) tell your clients/press that you have them

2) if you get caught tell you "we've told you not to do it. we're at no fault here"

From my personal experience they are not being taken serious if the client is important. Or are being taken serious in a way that you have people who help you out with that kind of shady business stuff.
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Would that be so bad? What’s wrong with contextual advertising instead of invasive user tracking?
I know they worked hard, I appreciate that. But I got a wholly different feeling about the state of things from those two sources.

Also, does everyone run the very latest version of all their software? What use to me is that my vendor has fixed everything in the newest release that I am not using?

Oh and yes, I'm only quoting bits of each (fully knowing you all have links to both and can read it in full), but that's to illustrate the omission from the PR piece. I know that aphyr concludes that work has been done, "By 2.6.0-rc10, Fauna had addressed almost all issues we identified; some minor work around availability and schema changes is still in progress.", but that doesn't change the fact that the blog post doesn't address their past shortcomings.
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19310950
Even if the Apple Watch flew to the Moon and back all on its own, it would only be half as cool as this starship commander's watch. Did James T. Kirk wear one of these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituximab

> In the United Kingdom this amount cost the NHS approximately £182 in 2015.[9] The average wholesale price in the United States of a typical treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (1,000 mg IV dose, 2 weeks apart) would have been $14,100 a month in 2014 ($705 per 100 mg)[10] but the patent expired in 2016.[
A state is not all that different than a mafia (monopoly power). Try not paying your dues.
From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners
Seriously, why do they publish this crap. They talk to some guy, who ran a pretty small hedge fund, and did it poorly. He provides no analysis other than a vague "investors will lose confidence" without any supporting evidence, even anecdotal. If you're going to spread FUD, at least do your homework.
Yeah that is a good way to look at it, I didn't think about it.
I think the bots are being used to buy the sneakers from direct sales channels (Nike, Footlocker, primary market sources) and then you'd flip them on the secondary market. Basically the direct channels will sell the shoes at "reasonable" prices but well below what the secondary market is willing to support so you can walk out the door and immediately sell them for 2X+ what you paid.

You see similar things in rare craft beer releases.
Chess and poker are examples of games with extreme replayability. The issue most AAA games have is how shallow they end up being.

RPG’s for example often represents choices as who do you want to win? That kind of story telling ends up being really expensive in development, but rather meaningless to a player. Choosing side A or B ends up being the same as picking the page in an adventure book. This can be engaging the first time, but replay ability ends up being is this book/movie good enough to read a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc time.
I remember seeing the HP-01 in BYTE. Sorry I don't remember which one off hand. But old BYTE magazines are like a trip back in time. The tech was shockingly primitive.

Download old BYTE magazines from here:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm

Or higher quality scans here:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Or Popular Electronics:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Gui...

Creative Computing:
https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
>Anyone's perception will be heavily biased

i'd say biased by receiving a lot of death threats.
There is intuition and educated intuition. Analysis and topology counterexamples are usually met with high disbelief. And then there is intuitionistic logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic
The bondsman charges you a fee to lend you the money to pay the bail; if you pay the bail yourself you get it back regardless.

You're not forced to use a bondsman, only if you cannot put together bail yourself. There's a decent argument that bails which require a bondsman violate the constitutional prohibition on excessive bails, but I don't know if that's been adjudicated.

Regardless, the judicial system is not charging you a fee.
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Visualizing Seven Years of Twitter's Evolution: 2012-2018
The latest released version, 2.6.0, has most of the fixes as outlined in the post & report. Minor/ergonomic fixes are forthcoming.

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Absurd Design is a project which comes with a set of free surrealist illustrations for landing pages. With this project we try to introduce a new way and visual perception for landing pages. The main idea is to let your visitors a chance to think and connect the creative imagination and the artistic vision.

Problem
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> I decide 100% which content I want my browser to accept and show, and which content to ignore.

Devil's Advocate says the people who make your browser reduce 100% to maybe 60%. Browser extensions are the 10%.
That's actually what coprocesors over PCIe were supposed to enable but they were just pricy and general CPUs became faster and faster.
Thanks for the details. This sounds very similar to Amazon's DynamoDB? Are there features to make macrometa better than DynamoDB?