skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use cockroachDB in production and before that we were on MySQL and as of yet we don’t have a specific usecase where we use serializable transactions. Snapshot isolation or even read committed is just fine. So I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary
It pretty much is, but the appeal (at least to me) is abstracting away all the framework writing. It seems like it’s easier to run small, unique jobs on it similar to something like YARN.
Small detail, that's not what it means in French, it's basically used the same was as in English (a group of cyclist, group of race car drivers, etc.)

It is however pelota, ball, in Spanish.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-d... is related.
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I mean, the difference is that you don't actually want less of the thing, or even less of the externality, you just want the person buying the thing to pay for the entire cost of the thing.
That take is not one Paul and many other Christians throughout history seems to agree with. In Philippians he describes there being virtue in suffering as it brings you closer to the experience of Christ on the cross. The practice of 'mortification of the flesh' is another example of Christians seeking out suffering, believing it will bring them closer to Christ. And as I hinted, the Crucifixion is very far from the only instance of Christ's recorded behavior used to justify suffering as a virtue. There are other examples, such as Christ fasting in the desert for 40 days and nights despite there being no obligation (not of his own creations) for him to do so.

As a ex-christian it seems distasteful for me to start quoting scripture, but I can if you demand it. There is ample scriptural evidence for Christians believing there is virtue in suffering, and ample historic evidence of Christians acting in accordance to this belief.

It's a pretty straight forward element of Christianity: Christ suffered, therefore you can bring yourself closer to him by doing the same.
That is exactly my point of view.

Want to use the work of others for free, then to you what others get.

Willing to actually help upstream keep doing what they love, then great.
Spacesuits - are not "clothing"- they are miniships. They can bring you into a world of missery, if they do not fit.

They even bring you into a world of missery if they do fit.

https://www.space.com/9217-spacesuit-gloves-astronauts-finge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Absorbency_Garment

The truth is, if the mini-spaceship does not fit, you can not work properly outside. You can try, but you will fight more with the mini-spaceship, then with the task you should accomplish.

What fascinates me is how, they do not have a 2nd spacesuit up there if that spacewalk was planned that way. Nasa usually does not mess up logistics.
15k at a $200M outcome (ignoring liquidation preferences) means he had 0.0075% assuming 70% dilution from the time he joined to exit. He joined at 0.025%. assuming everyone before him got on average got 5x what he got that's still 1.5% to all the first 15 employees combined. Which is beyond attrocious.

My guess as to what happened here is op got bored with job at big co. Startup offered 10% higher or same salary. Told him he is getting some stock, he didn't bother to find out how much.

What you should get as employee 15 at a startup if your 2+ years of experience (according to ops resume on his website) is at least 0.1% which would have translated to $70k (assuming 70% dilution). In India a big co employee at 2+ years probably makes $40-50k at best including stock. That's close to 1.5 years salary at least at exit having worked for 2 years at the company. Assuming 25% of salary was in stock at big co he lost 20k in stock over 2 years. 70/20 is 3.5x and gives an annual rate of return of 80% which is roughly similar growth to big co. in it's best years.

Moral of story count your stock when joining a startup.
I am not a lawyer, so this may be all incorrect and you certainly shouldn't rely on it as legal advice!

The term you are looking for is "Patent exhaustion" which is a system whereby the first person who makes the device incorporating the patent is on the hook to pay fees/royalties but then you can resell it and the person buying it doesn't have to pay the patent fees again, because they were "exhausted" in the first transaction.

Imagine if you had to repay all the patent holders for stuff in a car when you bought it used. Not practical.

Qualcom has created what they believe is a new system where they "forego" royalties from the person who makes the chip and instead charge the person who designs in the chip, in this case Apple. Apple continues to push the patent exhaustion angle saying they don't owe anything.
Apparently your idea discourse is making up stuff that I never wrote. This is indeed pointless.
> HN in general has weird standards around game quality considering many of the users work on software as service start-ups that launch as almost broken MVPs.

Thank you so much for saying this. This community is very toxic in a few ways, and this is one of them.
Maybe I got old already, but this looks like a horrible idea.
Can eBikes be taken long-distance to rural areas?
Along that line, if the US had a similar system, our current president would have been marked a "deadbeat" long before he got the chance to run for office (not saying the system is right, just saying)
I’m sorry you went through this. Are you okay?

I’m encouraged to hear you’ve used NVC, since I have learned it, too, but it’s also educational to see in certain situations even that can have its limits.
Sure, it's the same reason why Apple sued Samsung for features built in Android by Google. I think it falls under "secondary infringement."
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There’s actually a really interesting historical relationship between the U.S. postal service and newspapers in the early republic; basically, newspapers could be mailed at a rate far lower than then-expensive personal and business correspondence.

Check out David M. Henkin’s Postal Age [0] if you’re interested in learning more.

[0] https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo41...
The failure mode is pretty well known, there's already was a known workaround (but pilots need to be properly briefed on it to know to actually apply it in these cases).

There's not official certification on said workaround, and a longer term and more proper fix is currently in testing, so it doesn't make sense to create a procedure to use the current operating configuration in a passenger context.
Runbox is great, although I'm not an email power user.
He is not really anti-Qualcomm, but rather very pro-Apple, no matter how wrong Apple is. So I wouldn't use him as a valid source on this.
frontend in python?
How do you transport it to service center?
That's a really roundabout way to do that though... He's basically taking free height data, converting it to a raster image, and then approximating it in the editor (which tries to convert the raster heightmap back to a proper map). The actual satellite imagery might be harder to (legally) get (and he basically suggests removing the copyright notices in the video).

It's cool that it works, but it's also the "wrong" way to go about it considering all the tools around to work with open, free GIS data.
And I thought reCaptcha was invented to torture and condition humans.
Programming is not telling the machine what to do. That's the easy part.

What programming is about, and what's hard, is telling the next programmer what the machine does.

This makes the easy part a bit easier, and the hard part much harder, than using C. And I already disliked C to begin with, for similar reasons.
Or worse: an empty plaintext
The risk of a crash simply isn’t high enough to ground it completely.
The worst is a "PIN" input that is only numbers, and the numbers on the keyboard are behind a modifier key, that you have to hit for every, single, number. Not including negative, separator and decimal characters on number input is worse.
It's an obvious generalization. Everybody else gets what he meant, don't you?
I wish* exist a simplified implementation of this (or APL) in "normal" looking code.

Array languages are the most "obscure" of all paradigms I have looked into. Even concatenative ones have some few resources about how work.

Also, the community live in a parallel world! So when asked about stuff, redirect me to https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum or https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona as if it somehow make everything so obvious ...

P.D*: Because I'm building a language that try to draw some ideas from kdb
How well would it cope with the evolution of an artist's ouevre; would it recognise that certain sounds are from a certain period?
Is there a reason why student debt and not other kinds of debt (e.g. credit card)?

Also, how does the DMV know what someone’s debt history is?
It depends on the point of view, for startups looking for a tech solution at a small scale to test their products, these solutions are usually much cheaper than doing everything by yourself. It's only when you start to scale that you realise the financial impact and the lock-in that the platform have upon you, and at this stage it's too late for the paradigm shift to operate.
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How do we know the reason why the horns were drawn? Is the motivation documented in an inscription?

Note that drawing horns on Moses would almost certainly constitute heresy. Moses is at least somewhat a holy figure from the Bible; drawing horns on Moses is just a step or two away from drawing horns on Jesus.
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Nothing, just false advertising on complexity improvement over OpenGL.

Anyway, middleware has won the battle of 3D graphics, what goes on the bottom layer is largely irrelevant to most devs.
Not to defend Uber/NIH syndrome, but if Google wanted to specifically charge Uber more for maps because of usage, could they legally do that?

Maybe the rewrites are risk management?
I never said there would never be anything, just that there's literally nothing right now except the FTC announcing a study and speculation HN folks who never made it past the article title. I fail to see how this is 'news worthy'.
> safer than mainland SE Asia

Safer in what sense? crime? traffic? other?
This is wrong. Big-O can be used to talk about any function you like, whether best case of an algorithm, worst case, average case for uniform inputs, average case over some different distribution of inputs, how many branch mispredicts a Skylake core hits while running the code on backwards sorted input, the median price of a Big Mac as a function of a country's GDP per capita, or anything else.
I think you are right.

I think that what is going there is also a bit political. They started to grow their Engineering department so fast that they need to justify the headcounts now. So each team is trying to invent new projects all the time. Anecdotally, this was partially confirmed to me by a friend working there.

I said this before, but I still cannot understand why a service like Uber need so many engineers in the backend (multiple thousands). It is a complex distributed application, but nowhere near the scale or complexity of a Facebook or Google.
> Officials went on to say that there were only two passengers: a pilot and a co-pilot

Brilliant reporting by Fox News as always
The term "peloton" obviously predates the company of the same name...
Yes, because the government took over most student loans a few years ago[1], and they make the rules (and want you to pay).

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Feds-take-o...
I played Rez on PS2 and it was amazing. Looking forward to buying Rez Infinite on PC.
Never heard of Safe Browsing and Classroom (probably because I'm not using Chrome) but Docs and Fonts are definitely true!

> this one particularly concerns me because paired with Chromebooks, it brings kids into an entirely closed Google ecosystem very young

I'm not too concerned as many other big corporations (Apple, Microsoft) are fighting this ;)
So you think the browser choice is relevant? Sounds like discrimination of users who use a competitors product... (probably illegal).

I mean, I have noticed those harder captures too since I switched to Firefox, but I didn't realize it was due to the different browser. I thought it was just a newer version.
I can see two areas where they could save some money:

1) Cars
2) Vacation

Drop to one vacation a year (probably more than most people do) - bam, an extra $12k per year (assuming each vacation is a $6000 luxury outing - you could probably drop that to $2-3k and gain some more).

Purchase their vehicles outright - and more importantly, buy used, and keep them for 5-10 years. Don't go for "high end" (BMW? Land Cruiser?) - because that translates to "high end maintenance". Instead - stick to something that requires little maintenance and is reliable - Toyota would probably be best here; a late-90s Camry and a late-90s 4-runner would probably work well to meet their needs. Once purchased, then gone over by a mechanic (which won't be cheap that first year) - after that, saving another $9k per year (maybe more, since there might be better mileage and lower insurance).

There's potentially $20,000+.

Other possibilities? Well - there isn't much left that wouldn't mean sacrificing some real stuff. Maybe a cheaper home, but for where they are living that may not be an option.

But I think the first two basics identified would be the best place to start. Ultimately it comes down to not living within your means, but living below your means. But that a decision each of us has to make, based on what is wanted from life.
Peloton – NVMe-first, PostgreSQL-compatible, self-driving DBMS
NVC isn't a deescalation technique, so its' not that surprising that you've observed that. It is a communication technique, to make sure a message gets through without baggage attached.

In a sense, someone using NVC for deescalation and resorting to the actual formula of Saw [x], felt [Y], request [Z] is likely to not be very good at NVC. People who are really good at that style of communications are going to separate it out so they tell you needs up front, well before you need to know about them, make requests at the moment they want something, and then observations as things become apparent. All 3 at once usually means a surprise has emerged.

There is a pretty basic tell here - it isn't at all obvious why you'd be seething if someone observed a fact, felt strong emotion about it and bought it to your attention, even in a high stress situation. So either you've misinterpreted something (possible) or they aren't communicating - they are pressuring (pretty likely). It isn't called Non-Violent Get People To Do What You Want and trying to use it that way isn't going to work.
This is just not fully realistic and even if it were, peer to peer platforms eventually will also create payment systems.

It was always the excuse that 'only the big bad capitalists' will be hurt by this, but its simply not the case and has always been a false premise.
The furore over the fish-eating vegan influencer is a warning to us all
Here's a mumble web client: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web
Yep, hence given the size of a game engine, it is hardly any different having to deal with multiple flavours of OpenGL/Vulkan, or just use the best API in each platform.

Ergo middleware is the new cross-platform API.
Actually the size of indices can be important in real life. For example, on Nvidia GPUs, a kernel that indexes data with 64-bit indices will usually be much slower than one that uses 32-bit indices.

(Hard to argue that this is related to big-O since there are only two data points, but I'm just pointing out that index size is in fact a real-world concern).
They left off one - Government. Sure laws and taxes are different but a lot of running governments, especially at the local level, is similar.
I have nothing to add, except to say thanks for writing that – I really enjoyed reading it. A bit of whimsy in the preceding paragraphs.
My question was about the whole deal.
Most of the "Trigger" warnings I've seen, seem to be there for the benefit of the writer so that they may signal their proper and approved virtue status to potential readers.
Securedrop.org is now open source
It would be capitalised as an intangible asset. In practice I assume a small company might not bother, especially if the website was built by their own staff, but the clients I worked on seem to get charged quite a lot for outsourced IT work so they would certainly want to capitalise it.
Not sure I follow, if your code throws an exception, you should be able to code against why that exception would have been able to occur, not against "the toString() output of the exception", especially in a landscape with multiple browsers that all have different exception text.
> People are not forced to use Google Search of Gmail.

I think the GP misspoke. It's more accurate to say that people are forced to use Google products. Even if you use DDG and Fastmail there's no escaping reCaptcha, AMP, and Google Analytics - unless you want to limit yourself to only a few websites.
Nmap can run a scan to find devices on the same network as your computer. It's fairly robust at detecting/identifying networked hosts. It won't find cameras that only record offline to a memory card and it won't find cameras that are on a different network (like if you're on a special guest network).

Edit: for example, my home network has an IP cam. So when I run the following to scan my home subnet:

nmap 10.0.0.0/24

I get an output that includes:

Nmap scan report for ipcam_00626E4E5B97_1.local (10.0.0.50)
Host is up (0.023s latency).
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http

From that I can deduce that 10.0.0.50 is a camera and serving some sort of management web page.
The term "uber" obviously predates the company of the same name...
It’s true that it’s not wrong to stop reading anything. However, it’s not possible to determine bad faith or fundamental flaws in one sentence. And it’s not an axiom that limited time means we should stick to what makes us nod our heads.
Cheaper than building your own datacenter, or buying your own server space and paying a dedicated engineering team to monitor a cluster for you. I can do things on my own or with a small team that would be well out of my reach without AWS or GCE.
for an expository book like this, i suggest having the pdf on one screen, and google/wikipedia on another.
And disabling HTML should help you avoid tracking pixels which tell the sender if you opened the email or not, etc.
Because it's not owed to you to not be condescended to. If someone more experienced takes their time to teach you something, you should learn. If you don't want to learn, fine. But complaining that you weren't spoon-fed carefully enough is to not realize there are millions going hungry. How many people out there are _desperate_ for a mentor, even a condescending one?
That is definitely not "always" the case, and in fact I highly doubt that "50 people working on the feature, spec'd by someone else entirely" is often true at all.

Even as an intern at Google many many years ago, I was one of just a handful of engineers working on a feature, and even though my internship lasted only a few months, I not only had a considerable part in the feature's implementation, I was also given plenty of opportunity to give my own input.

Now, many years later at a different large company, that has not changed. The total amount of people working on a significant feature may be large, but that's mostly when the feature is very cross-functional, and well, just generally large. Most teams we interact with still have the size of a handful of people, and they very much have the authority and responsibility over their components.

Obviously there are a lot of factors in play, and I don't at all doubt that jobs like you describe exist (though 50 people with no spec input still seems like a vast exaggeration to me), but I highly resist the claim that working in a big corp means that you're bound to be a small cog in engineering. Quite the opposite: It can be a large lever giving you the opportunity to work on things of amazing scale and effect, that a startup simply does not have the resources for.
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Just imagine the request read "Can we add column numbers to the stack traces? And to whatever code that relies on to add column numbers to stack traces?"
I believe the modern term is 'galaxy brain'
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I'm not sure that that counts. My recollection of that game was that it's a binary choice of being underwater/at the surface, whereas the music in HL2 in a given spot would change depending on what the enemies were doing, how fast you were going, whether or not you were driving, if you found ammo for the rocket launcher, etc.
I've had this happen to me in Chrome when logged out over VPN
Mumble definitely works, and the voice quality is very good, exceptional maybe, but the user interface is atrocious.

Don’t expect non-technical users to be able to figure this client out.

I know Discord isn’t open, but it’s a lot easier to figure out by most people.
From 2002 to 2008 I was the technical co-founder of a startup, and I had amazing fun. I worked 70 hours a week for 6 years, mostly because we were having so much fun.

In 2015 I was the lead engineer at a small startup that had a self-destructive and abusive top leadership. The technology was very exciting but the context was not.

What I learned from the two experiences is that startups can be intense fun if you are one of the owners, but if you are not an owner, startups can be absolutely miserable. More details are available in the book that I wrote:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
I thought these were grounded[1]? I surely missed something here

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/donald-trump-boeing-...
> I agree that arriving late thrice is a fact. Calling it out can be done in a fair and neutral way.

Boss: Bob! Good you're here looks around the room we were all waiting for you.

Johnny: Sorry Bob I got hungry waiting so I ate your donut.
This is actually what I've been looking into - and the biggest issue is:

1. Capital

2. Crony/Local Graft.

3. Supply Chain/Logistics

4. Talented people/niche rows. Thankfully if it's software, Eastern Europe has best bang for buck, Filipinos are 50/50 and the language barriers for Chinese/Japanese are high (but not so high if you take some time to learn nuances e.g. JLPT N4-N3 for Japanese)

5. Local banking regulation/Residency/Working as a non-national (foreigner.) Especially if you're an American (FACTA)

Tried, and tried again and just you need a solid team of people that know the natural climate/society and see if your clone can be molded to fit theirs.

Still trying though :)
I'm guilty as charged. I even sought out a Gmail Beta* invite back in the day. At the time I was naive and believed Google's "don't be evil" marketing.

*I later also sought out a Google+ Beta invite. That one is harder to justify with just naïveté.
AMP for email is indeed a terrible idea. Google made Gmail extremely slow with latest facelift. The only reason I can see if for Google et al to show ads (impressions vs clicks).
Starting in early 2018, Airbnb added another layer of disclosure: If hosts indicate they have cameras anywhere on their property, guests receive a pop-up informing them where the cameras are located and where they are aimed. To book the property, the guests must click “agree,” indicating that they’re aware of the cameras and consent to being filmed.
I don't see the purpose in sharing that I'm frustrated. Is it supposed to make the recipient feel bad?