skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federated has some, perhaps different, individual or organization in charge of each server to which users are able to connect. There may be hundreds of different individuals and companies hosting and controlling different servers. All of which could either choose to communicate with each other, or not. Each of these servers would have, perhaps, millions of users who would then be beholden to the regulatory whims of the individual or organization controlling the server they join. An example would be Mastadon.

In a completely decentralized architecture, every client would also be a server. And every client could, potentially, connect to every other client. So every user is beholden only to himself. Other users would be free, of course, not to connect to that user, but the user could post whatever s/he wanted without fear of being cut off. There is no good example of this architecture out there right now.

Basically with Mastadon, you can be cut off. With a hypothetical completely distributed social network architecture, you can't. (Well, maybe your ISP could cut off your internet connection? But that's a whole other issue.)
Reactivate it and edit your profile to make it blank. You can delete your work history but still keep your contact list.
Rust seems like a good candidate.
I think this is really dependent on your choice of field to enter into. In the tech space, so many engineers didn't major or necessarily even take CS courses in college. I have interviewed and hired plenty of people with diverse colligate focuses.

Sure, CS or STEM courses are probably really solid to pair with a non-CS major because it teaches you stuff that helps extend your abilities in your own field. So I can see why my friend that was going to school to be a nurse might have wanted to take a CS course or two instead of minoring in sociology.
I'm a bit confused what you're arguing against in my point - you continue to super specialize in your off time. If you wanted to switch vocations from something in the CS domain, how much of what you now know and have self-taught would apply?

At my university engineers were offered two elective courses in the faculty of arts or sciences. That's not a particularly broad education.
One of the key things that makes unbound amazing is how tiny and fast it is - this enables use-cases like running it on every node of a giant deployment to provide better dns failover and other things, without wasting too many fleet resources on dns-on-every-node overhead. It's not impossible to do the same in safer languages, but there aren't a lot of great options.

Java - which others have suggested - definitely wouldn't work - no way you could make it anywhere near as tiny. Go is a bit better but you're still paying costs over C that add up if you're running hundreds of thousands of instances. Rust simply didn't exist when this was written. D? maaaybe, but then you just annihilated your pool of contributors. I'm not sure what the best choice would be, honestly.
"Our current understanding of the social impact of mathematics and of barriers to diversity within it is decidedly different to that of mathematicians in the mid-twentieth century. If committees today were given the same licence to define the award that early committees enjoyed, they could focus on mathematicians who have backgrounds and identities that are under-represented in the discipline’s elite."

This is yet another call to recognize people based on demographics rather than achievement.
I don't think the implication is that "fully/100% remote" is inherently good, but that it is an important quality to a population. For example, I only seek fully remote work, so knowing that a position is 100% remote is critical to my search when looking at jobs.
Thanks for answering.

> The specification as-written is really, really bad

We get a pretty wide range of feedback on the spec fwiw: some people seem to really like it. Others say that it’s “really, really bad” which doesn’t exactly give us much to go on...

> Synapse is kind of... and Dendrite is stalled

We have no choice but improve Synapse currently, and while it is still quite a resource hog it’s improved by at least 3-5x over the last year. Dendrite instead has become more of an R&D project for future homeserver shapes, but it’s not entirely stalled.

> The matrix.org server causes de-facto centralisation

The server has been less than 50% of the visible network for several years now - and ironically the datacenter perf issues (unrelated to Synapse) we had over the last few months have shifted that balance further - it’s about 35% and dropping. Ideally we will turn it off entirely once we have decentralised accounts.

> lack of e2ee by default is iffy

Our main project right now is to fix this. Cross-signing is mid flight; E2E search is done; Pantalaimon (E2E compat for dumb clients) is done; remaining key distribution bugs are in flight. We’re aiming to turn it in by default in Jan.

> “I couldn’t figure out how the state resolution works”

State resolution is the main technical novelty in Matrix, and yeah - it’s hard, much like git’s merge resolution is not exactly easy either. Unfortunately it comes with the territory; if you want to have consistent room state while replicating them over a byzantine network of servers to stop hijacks and other abuse, you have a relatively hard problem to solve. We got it wrong the first time; the current version gets it right (as far as we know).

The spec (which is deliberately formal and terse) is https://matrix.org/docs/spec/rooms/v2

However, there are supporting documents linked from the spec to help clarify: the original spec proposal at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/erikj/state_re... and the guide at https://matrix.uhoreg.ca/stateres/reloaded.html etc

Ironically I think that state res is one of the best documented and understood bits of Matrix now (which is just as well, given how important it is).
I think the classic ideal of a liberal arts degree is awesome... as a second or mid-life degree. The option to read and think in-depth and breadth seems to have more potential once you've lived a little more than the average 18-yr-old, just because you tend to have more experiences and viewpoints than a high school grad heading to uni.
This will not end well...
Basically nobody buys a house outright, so they're not paying the upfront cost anyway, they're taking out a loan. Taking out a larger loan so that you have a larger loan payment when the increase is less than the amount the panels save you in buying electricity from the power company doesn't cost you anything, it turns a profit.

Being forced to pay for a parking space even when you don't own a car costs you rather a lot.
What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry
Just curious to see if anyone knows how it compares to using Apache Drill as an external scalable process to Postgres Jdbc store?
It's difficult to judge the production performance and bundle size
This is not a genuine post. This is a thinly-veiled informercial.

She is an angel investor and owns a fund that invests in the type of professional networks she is promoting. She is even an angel investor for a company that she directly promotes in the post (Webflow).

LinkedIn is sufficient the way it currently is.

1. Connect and contact professional peers

2. Contact recruiters

3. Display bare minimum work experience and look up this information of peers

4. Link to specialized work and portfolio e.g. github

That covers the majority of consumer use cases and anything more complicates the website.
But what do they cost? Isn't there a monthly price tag, so I can compare with other VPS providers?
> You're frankly uninformed on many levels, and while I'd normally refrain from replying to someone so obviously delusional

This would be inappropriate even if you weren't factually wrong.
after I read the article I thought was this a situation of stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime?
Cool. Gitlab even has a salary calculator.
> Great, so if we can't all have something, none of us should have it!

This is a false dichotomy. I didn't suggest "Everyone must give up cars", only that the world should not be designed to FORCE everyone to drive cars.

> Is it also repressive to "force" people to hold down jobs to participate in society?

Hyperbole much? The two concepts aren't even remotely related.

> I do not understand how people can be so focused on equality as to totally ignore the average, greater good.

As if requiring cars is the greater good? It has been demonstrated in many many places that designing infrastructure which enables people to move around safely and reliably without the use of cars improves the quality of life for everyone.
So only people without cars would buy them? Do you think a developer would risk only selling to that market? It seems like that would limit what they could sell the units for, and as a buyer I would have to think carefully about being able to re-sell the unit.
> But we already have fonts that make the Latin alphabet look different on different platforms.

But the differences in appearance are abstracted away; the whole point of an alphabet is that it's a small fixed set of symbols. Conversely if you see 𓀪 on one platform and 𓀫 on another, you have no idea whether the difference is meaningful or decorative.
I think that depends why you didn’t know about the existing solution when you started. Is it because the existing solution has a major flaw or gap (mediocre product, no awareness among its market/users, under or over capitalized, solves a related problem but not yours, etc.) or is it simply because you didn’t know anything about the field?

If it’s the former, the problem hasn’t been solved. Keep going.

If it’s the latter (and as a customer, you’d have used the existing solution if you’d known about it when you started), reconsider.
Toll roads charge you for travelling over them. They don't charge the business you're travelling to based on how much value you have to them as a customer.
What were the choices you didn’t like about Scuttlebutt?
TIA should get money from the UN. Or be the only beneficiary of a flat tax on network ports - I bet even just $5 on every small router sold in the US (which is basically nothing) would generate a ton of money for them.
UniQRde
Since the ultra-wealthy are by definition a small portion of the population, and retirement contributions are capped at a low annual rate, it does in fact make the point that the parent commenter is trying to.
They already do pay their own way. Gas taxes, tolls, vehicle registration, emissions fees, license fees, premium taxes on car insurance, traffic tickets, parking tickets, parking meters, sales tax on the purchase of a car. Very few things in the United States are taxed as exhaustively as private vehicles.

I'm not sure when "subsidizing" came to mean "giving people something back for the money you took form them in the first place".

I'd love to see a less auto-dependent society, but it's not accurate to say that drivers are subsidized. Perhaps one answer would be to get rid these myriad taxes and fees and just privatize the highways - make it fee for use. Right now, very few drivers ever see the true cost of their transportation choices because it's a little bit here, a little there, and so on.
HR loves to trot out this saying, attributing it to the enlightened CEO or such. In my experience it's about 50-50 if someone stays because we offer advanced training or leverages their new skills to get a new job.
JSX with Vue doesn't help that much, since you've still got a lot of this.whatever variables that can't be programatically verified at compile time (AFAIK), unlike Typescript verification of prop usage.
Wait, you forgot the bit where you are stuck in downtown traffic for hours and you can't find a parking space near the location of where you are going. Then, what if you want to go to multiple places a day, each a mile or two away, the whole ordeal repeats.

It has nothing to do with acclimation - many European cities cannot operate in a car-dependent manner.

As for being in close proximity to strange/unpleasant/criminals ... that's the American thinking. Yes, there are many places in America where getting a bus is very troubling, stinks, dirty ugly etc.

But then there are plenty of public transportations options in Europe and elsewhere that are almost free (for a day's parking you can travel for a week on every mode of transport), clean, fast, efficient, not crowded. Incomparably simpler, easier and better than driving - especially if you are going a mile or two away.
>Was Puerto Rico unaware of this when they took out the loans?

The fact that it went to the Supreme Court of the US [1] means that it is unprecedented and required the highest court in the land to interpret the law means that no parties were fully aware of how Bankruptcy would hold.

[1]https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/15-233
Intel is playing a dangerous game if you ask me. AMD lost a class action lawsuit because someone was disappointed in the performance of an AMD chip even though all the performance metrics were available for them to research[1]. Intel is still selling hyper-threaded processors. You cannot buy an Intel laptop that isn't pre-configured to be vulnerable to Zombieload[2], unless you find one of the 4 obscure Intel chips like the Core i5-8500B Processor in a laptop

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/8/28/20837336/a...
[2]https://zombieloadattack.com/
In re:

> Heading out west, San Francisco’s government has voted to close Market Street to cars. Market Street is one of the main thoroughfares in the city’s downtown

It's not closed to cars, just private cars, if I understand correctly. There will still be cars and buses, and car traffic will still be crossing market street.

http://www.bettermarketstreetsf.org/docs/bms-vehicle-circula...

- - - -

Edit: The more I look into this the worse it seems. I thought I was reading
the picture wrong, but they have bike lanes running between bus stops
and pedestrians:

> At curbside transit stops, the protected bikeway would be placed between
the transit stop and the pedestrian through zone. Boarding and alighting
transit customers would be separated from the bikeway with a raised
railing-like feature and provided a designated place to cross the
bikeway. On the sidewalk between the bikeway and the pedestrian
throughzone, there would be the 3-foot buffer zone provided except at the
aforementioned designated crossing places where there would be crosswalk
markings and other features.

~"ResponsesToComments_Vol1_Better Market Street.pdf"
from
https://sfplanning.org/project/better-market-street-environm...

It seems to me that the new Market St. would maybe be safer, but it
will be much less convenient for each mode of travel. It seems to me to
combine all the right elements but in all the wrong ways.

E.g. the "protected" bike lanes aren't really separate from the pedestrians, so bike riders are not going to be able to go fast on them, because there will be people there.

This obviates the bike path: If you can't ride faster than pedestrians anyway then you might as well just mix the two kinds of traffic and let people sort it out naturally.

The new plan doesn't seem to me to help people commute by bike.
“Rooms” in Matrix are more a space in which you persist arbitrary data rather than a literal chatroom. They can absolutely be world visible and used to create per-user timeline or per-tag timelines as you need for microblogging.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762007
My phone correctly read the code from my laptop screen as-is. I don't think it would with actual low-byte characters.
Doesn't it tell you how many applied? That is the one piece of data that could help.
Most STEM courses aren't vocational training and aren't super specialized. I think you might have a biased negative view for what STEM courses are?

Edit: Let me state it a different way that might shed more light on my point. A CS major can pass all of his/her classes with a perfect GPA and still be incapable of writing software ready for a production system (even at small scale).

The STEM degrees emphasize fundamentals that are rarely (if ever) used in day-to-day "real jobs".
Using LoRa and going omni-directional lets you get away with less upfront setup and a sparser node coverage. Point to point requires some knowledge of node locations for bringing more areas online.
Currently living car-free. Pedestrian only streets are a godsend for quality of life. But considering that a couple generations worth of capital went into building a nation dependent on cars, I don't expect car-free streets to be too widespread and certainly not in the places I would really want them (e.g. I would love to have a pedestrian-only path feeding neighborhoods to train stations, so my morning commute isn't subject to the dangers of the car commute that I wanted to avoid. But it won't happen.)

Car free streets are mainly in downtown shopping districts where cars never made sense in the first place (and everyone just goes two blocks over to grab an Uber so it's not really freeing congestion from roads or anything)
They also archive ROMs for different consoles.
This presumes all of the transaction data is centralized one place. 99% of the battle was probably getting that data aggregated, then performing the analytics, which is chalked up to this simple SELECT statement.
The Art of Bargaining, Positional vs. Interest-Based Negotiation
I'm a bit lost. Which of these is this advertisement claiming:

- Without their route planning, latency is introduced by packets spending too much time in a device while it chooses which route to send them?

- Without their route planning, latency is introduced by packets traveling geographically inefficent routes?

- Internet routing technology isn't able determine the best path to send packets along?

- The internet links are too saturated, route onto our network as fast as possible?
I agree to some degree, but I don't think an open source economy is fundamentally opposite Libre/FSF style objectives, in that they are not opposed to people getting paid for their efforts, but that binary only distribution and restrictive licencing are bad in a variety of ways.

If we consider a company like Oracle, which seems antithetical to open source principles on many levels, it would be possible to treat them as an open source debtor. Transactions between Oracle and open source economy participants would incur a tax, making their products less competitive with others, until they started contributing or bought open source offset credits. This provides the dual benefits of funding open source and penalising non-sharing. Things that really cost companies nothing, like publishing their Android patches, become valuable, and keeping them private becomes a cost.
It came preloaded with a bunch of different versions of software package for various operating systems and architectures. This was for an on premise deploy of Kubernetes where downloading files from outside the cluster was not an option. We were in a rush and this was the best idea anyone had at the time.
Another advantage for many different kinds of shareholders (foreign, non-profit, tax-loss-holders, long-term-holders etc) could be that the taxation rules for buybacks are specific to the shareholder.

Dividend and company taxes can really screw certain types of shareholders.
they apprentice after become a [trade]-apprentice. If you're brand new you go to school & do a mix of lab work and on-the-job placements.

The key (which I think you're making) is that once you're an apprentice you learn by doing and get paid.
Grepping for emoji is harder than grepping for words. Please no. No emoji in commit synopses. No!
Although efforts like internet archive are noble (and I find it occasionally useful), I'm not sure it's always so great that everything anyone does online will be permanently archived.

I know many people feel that everything should be available forever. But for me... it's pushing me away from doing much on the web. I liked it in the 90s when things were more ephemeral. When you could make mistakes and not have them easily found by anyone with a few clicks, forever.
They say that the performance is similar to n1 and the price is lower, but they are not talking about preemptible price, that's more or less the same for both types.
Good article, and I'm not saying that solely because it has a callout to Bixby, which I think is doing more interesting stuff than it's often given credit for (full disclosure: I work on Bixby's documentation).

I think, though, the article dances around the real elephant in the room rather than addressing it head-on: the lack of an open, non-proprietary protocol coordinating IoT controllers and devices. Because my iPhone uses Bluetooth, it can "speak" to my car, my A/V receiver, my speaker, and my headphones; they don't have to be "iPhone-ready" to work. If I bought a Galaxy S11 next year, all my Bluetooth products would still work. It's all Bluetooth. That should be essentially the same for IoT devices: if I buy a thermostat or a wireless lighting fixture, it shouldn't matter whether I want to control it with Alexa, Siri, Bixby, or even something that isn't a voice assistant at all. Yes, I understand the market reasons why this hasn't happened, but I suspect it's a necessary step for the envisioned IoT future to really take off.
Some people like remote work better for whatever reason. If you are a remote worker it’s often better to be in a fully remote company where all systems and processes are geared towards remote work.
"ban cars" is a very popular sentiment on urbanist twitter.
Very relevant context for what they are looking for can be found not in Jack's thread but Parag's thread: https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1204766188074459136?s=19

This rules out a lot of existing projects. IMO rules out AP, SSB, Matrix, etc
Your impression is largely wrong here. The goal here is to make dense urban areas safer, cleaner, and improve the quality of life in those dense urban areas where getting around without a car makes sense.

That may mean people who live in sub-urban and rural areas have to stop at the fringe and catch a bus, walk, or pedal the last leg of their journey, but it doesn't mean they need to give up their cars for transport outside those dense urban areas.
Does he have the Pied Piper USB key?
Car ownership, if you're not acclimated to it, is absurd. Coming from outside the area, I rely on the city to massively subsidize my car parking that takes up tons of space for a vehicle that is used for about an hour a day. The rest of the time it is just sitting there, doing nothing.

I have to buy a car, pay for insurance, pay for gas, sit in traffic for an average of an hour a day, deal with strange/unpleasant/criminal drivers, never mind the dealing with car robberies and damage.

Jokes aside, but rural/suburban life is much more dependent than city-dwellers. 100% dependence on a single car every day, depending on subsidized roads and gas, etc.
I just checked the fee schedule for a few universities -- you're right. Fees seem extremely high these days compared to when I went to school. When I was in undergrad, we had a ton of U.S. international students because it was a bargain for them but I guess that's no longer the case.