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Show HN: Atreeyo – Esports Gaming Platform
Hi HN!

My name is Paris, a former student of Startup School and one of the co-founders for Atreeyo which is a platform where influencers, pro gamers and content creators connect with brands to find sponsorship deals.

We started this when we noticed that lots of gamers traveled to
Esports tournaments around the country in the hopes of securing a sponsorship deal with vendors in attendance.

What ended up happening was these vendor booths would get overwhelmed with requests and many of the gamers weren't able to fully articulate what type of sponsorship deal they'd be interested in with the allotted time.

Atreeyo was created to streamline the process for both gamers and brands.

Our team isn't very big at the moment and consists of 2 people, my co-founder and myself, with me serving as the entire development team. We are officially now in the soft launch phase and wanted to get as much feedback as we can on the site, concept wise, technically, etc. before ramping up on staff.

We would love to hear any and all feedback.

https://atreeyo.com

Thanks!
I don't think he can't prove who he is. He is, after all, the same person. Rather, he can't verify to the service provider that he's the same individual that they have on file, despite being the same bag of flesh and bones he always was. And that is absolutely the service provider's fault.
There are alot of cities that have so many drivers uber and lyft wouldnt even be able to employ them all. If all of them were required to be employees, there are many drivers that may be out of a source of income. Personally, i think that its the contractor agreement that should be drawn into questiom. There are rules tgat are forced upon by uner and lyft that gives drivers no option but to agree to. Secondly, is this really even needed to be a talking point now? Not only are we in a pandemic with so much uncertainty relating to drivers not knowing even if they can go back to driving, bit alos just with autonomous cars likely to be here within 5 years.
To my mind there are two camps of language support in Emacs:

1. Languages where people put a lot of effort into implementing bespoke support inside Emacs itself (as Elisp packages)

2. Languages where no one bothered to make Emacs-specific features, but are now supported quite well via LSP

Python seems to be in the #1 camp, and that seems to be what you describe.

The #2 camp, however, is superior in my experience, so I would suggest trying that instead.

I haven't worked that much with Python for a while, but at one point I used lsp-mode and pyls and it seemed pretty good:
https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/lsp-pyls/

You can also choose Microsoft's Python LSP server instead:
https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-python-ms/
> oh yea, you can Tweet whatever you want.

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but:

https://www.cracked.com/article_25266_6-totally-stupid-thing...
Pancreatic cancer could be genetic but we basically don’t know what causes it. The diet theory is a bit speculative imo
Nurses have a lot of these benefits. You can work certain shifts for more money than other shifts. Similarly restaurant workers.
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Or just the second group. It is described as downwardly mobile already.
Uber doesn't tell the driver how much it's charging the customer, takes an arbitrary cut, and doesn't let you decide of the price, exactly unlike the Apple App store, Amazon, Patreon, and Steam. There are also more reasons why they are employees, but these are material to your claims.
> the construction industry is growing fast, how come there are no new hammers being invented every other week?

Maybe not hammers, but there is still a lot of innovation in the basic tools of the construction industry. Look into some of the interesting recent cement innovations, a tool that's been in use since the Romans!

Humans always keep innovating even if the benefits are marginal they add up over time.

I'd say there are still lots of opportunities for language innovation. The increasing reliance on concurrency to achieve performance gains has spurred much of this. People are also looking at languages to simplify formally defined software systems. AI may make it possible for much more terse methods of programming. I'd personally love to see more work done on declarative ETL specific languages.
QUEL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages ), the original query-language for Ingres, was more orthogonal and consistent than SQL. But IBM decided SQL was more business friendly. Who can argue with that.

And before that there was ALPHA. From https://www.labouseur.com/courses/db/s2-Remembering-Codd-2.p... :

"Ted [Codd] also saw the potential of using predicate logic as a foundation for a database language. He discussed this possibility briefly in his 1969 and 1970 papers, and then, using the predicate logic idea as a basis, went on to describe in detail what was probably the very first relational language to be defined, Data Sublanguage ALPHA, in “A Data Base Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus,” Proc. 1971 ACM SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control, San Diego, Calif. (November 1971). ALPHA as such was never implemented, but it was extremely influential on certain other languages that were, including in particular the Ingres language QUEL and (to a lesser extent) SQL as well."
> Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the Nasa Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its surface

Scratching my head. Trying as I may. But not making sense.

[insert subthread about Gell-Mann amnesia here]
I calculated ~400m/s for the pressure wave (judging by destruction, not the white condensation wave).

I guess it makes it a proper shock wave, rather than just sound.
The first feature pretty much only exists to make interop with C apis less error prone. It's not really something that should be used in idiomatic Python
You could say he was criminally inept.
Misleading title ! The author basically tried to rezone agricultural land into industrial land.
> Chris Date and Hugh Darwen unsuccessfully tried to fix SQL with Tutorial D.

Well, just the D class of languages; Tutorial D is (as the name suggests) a pedagogy-focusses implementation of the D requirements, the intent was that there would be one or more Industrial Ds.

(Dataphor is a D—the first implemented, IIRC—and is successful enough that it's a still-living commercial product.)
Steve Jobs had won and he knew what effort to put in to get where he got. And he probably got fulfilling moments here and there but his drive to succeed must come with some downsides. Woz on the other hand calmly followed his passion and was probably always fulfilled for he did what he liked.
I had to re-bytecode-compile lsp-mode to get it to pick up the faster JSON support (`M-x package-reinstall lsp-mode`). See `lsp-diagnose` for a quick way to check if you're good to go.
It's a nice refinement over the C version, though do-while would also be convenient to handle paginated batches of work without unrolling the loop.

for-range desperately needs to support some interface that would make user-defined types iterable.
It isn't specific to GCC at all. It's widespread among unixes historically (and they generally have their own C compiler which is not GCC), and it was mentioned in the C89 standard.

However, it is not part of standard C or POSIX/SUS.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10321474
I agree, Fyre was more a product of magical thinking than anything else. McFarland did engage in outright fraud in the aftermath though.
Considering his fame, brand recognition, and interests in education, it's pretty plausible to me that he got sort of "scammed" by the people who proposed woz u to him. If you read up on them, they're unsavory for sure.

It's a bad mark, for sure, but basically the only bad mark on an otherwise impeccable record. I feel like you certainly get one. So no, I don't think he was trying to scam people. He certainly didn't seem happy about the situation or try to smooth it over.
Would you invest in a disruptive new startup that made an app which allows individuals to communicate with end-to-end encryption, and had no restrictions on "anti-American" sentiment (meaning "anti- some particular political party" sentiment)?

The startup might win the court case, but you might lose your money before the government gives up its appeals and injunctions.
What's your mental model for AWS services?
I assume this is different from the D programming language?
Zero-trust infrastructure is what you're looking for.
The article explicitly says that this wasn't 10% fraud. Please leave your political views at the door.
Ask HN: Government vs. Industry
Hello! I'm a university student just finishing up an ML research internship with a government contractor and I am desperate for advice. Most career advice I see is geared towards maximizing comp, which is definitely nice and all, but I find I relate better with what I imagine are the hackers of old, with their slightly irrational passion, creativity, and taste for the eccentric. Working for the government was an awesome experience; it is the closest I have gotten to what I imagine bell labs was like.

I'm wondering, though, what am I missing? Working for a startup sounds like so much fun, especially since I love wearing many hats and the idea of constantly learning about unrelated foci. In addition, it seems like FAANG companies advertise something similar by allowing employees to choose their work. However, I also see many posts about startups' financial downsides. In addition, if what I hear is true, corporate politics and being locked in perpetual competition (FAANG) does not sound appealing.

My question is, how do I separate signal from noise? As more and more people enter the field for the money, I wonder if their experiences bias their views on the industry. Where can someone passionate about their work thrive?
Born on one coast, living on the other, I can safely say it's the same people stereotypes, just different land use.
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I certainly agree that "Normal PDFs are simple, reliable, and interoperable". And yes, virtually every PDF out there is designed to be printable first, and in that context they're pretty great, and the flaws that they do have are mostly flaws created by the choices of the humans who made them.

But I strongly disagree that the article is arguing against a straw man.

Too many websites, especially from either very large organizations or very small ones, when asking "how should we architect our new side", answer "we already have some printable documents... let's make most of our pages PDFs!"

And TFA's point is: that's a disaster.
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Uber drivers literally need not even show up. What "control" are you referring to?
There are many reasons a non-pedophile might do it. Someone who is hypersexual might see them as the only option available to them. They are easy for them to overpower too unlike someone older.
I like Wozniak too and find him very inspiring but in a different way than Jobs - who was all about outwinning himself. Wozniak is a good soul type of guy, it wouldn’t even suit him to be in the same limelight as Jobs.
A society of monks living mostly alone would be more advanced than a society of busy workers competing for resources in a city hive. Octopuses may also have other means of communication: just like we use radiowaves and electricity, octopuses may have some natural radiowave emitters and receivers in their brains. And a short lifespan is a subjective measure: what matters is the amount of experience.
If SQL and GraphQL had a baby...
>I don't think it is sensible to justify exploitation with "but the public benefits from it' and 'without it the business might go under'.

It's absurd to compare providing a service that hooks drivers up with clients to child labour.
Contrary to the article, I think amonium nitrate is a _high_ explosive. That means it can explode via a supersonic shock or detonation wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_explosive_detonation_... says it's detonation velocity is 2.7 km/sec.
Woz was the wiz
> for (int fd = open(...); fd != -1; fd = -1) {

that doesn't correctly (or rather at all) handle the failure case. You should do (IIRC):

#define LET(...) for(__VA_ARGS__,_tmp[0],*_once=_tmp; _once ;_once=0)
/* ^^^ goes in a header file */
LET(int fd = open())
{
if(fd == -1) { /* handle error, return or break */ }
/* do stuff */
}
As it is satirical, it tends to narrowly bucket people.

Bracket one broadly is intended to apply to many if not most upper middle class professionals, including ones who went to top public schools. Some just happen to enter the circle later in life (their 20s rather than at birth).
LEGO bricks basically. They kinda click together in my mind with a sorta super structure of IAM and VPCs
A quick survey of the papers published in 2019 and later (i.e., post Meltdown/Spectre, inclusive) listed at [1] indicate that Intel contributed financial support to the majority of them. ARM was the second-most corporate contributor, followed by AMD.

[1]: https://gruss.cc/
SQL RDBMSes solve a lot of problems / provide a lot of services: locking & concurrency control, computation, consistency, replication, transactions, etc.

Not all of those services can scale horizontally. Concurrency control most especially, but other things which assert global invariants are often too expensive. Most NoSQL systems remove some of these features in order to scale horizontally. But the problems they solved remain, and need new solutions. This has two effects: it forces clients to do more which hopefully means doing less complex stuff (you can write mega expensive computations in SQL where the nested loops might offend you in handwritten code); and it means higher risk of bugs and more engineering effort for correctness (e.g. transactions in application, eventual consistency, reimplementation of transaction log in queuing systems, etc.).

In transport analogies, RDBMS is like a lift helicopter, NoSQL is like a fleet of container ships. Or RDBMS is like a car, and NoSQL is like a train network. NoSQL is inflexible and needs lots of extra attention at the edges, while RDBMS needs a careful operator and doesn't work well beyond a certain scale unless you give everyone (or subgroups) their own instance (which could be sharding, it can work).

And if you don't have a really big problem, NoSQL is probably the wrong choice, not because it's fast with few safety checks, it's because most of them do very little for you, they can just do a lot of that scaled out.

If you're not scaling out, stuffing JSON into Postgres will give you a better experience even if you hate relational algebra.
Isn't NoSQL at this point used in 99% of the cases for basically analytics on logs, especially for ads?
tldr; when a cheap UPS battery is failing the UPS will fail even when the main power is on.

I got personal experience with this failure. Maybe the thinking is that in case of a power outage you don't want to find out that all your UPS devices fail at the same time. But in this case a 24 hour warning would have been much better.
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> The first feature pretty much only exists to make interop with C apis less error prone.

It makes it so that certain built-ins and native APIs can be properly typed, sure, but positional/keyword interchangeability is arguably a violation of the Zen, too.
> The law is meant to protect people who are unfairly classified as contractors outside of a trade.

While that may be, we all know that laws aren't interpreted based on their intended meaning. They are interpreted as one or more judges sees fit.
Your digital security is only as strong as your weakest recovery email
That is the one I saw. I kinda think that he knew he was screwed and leaned in to the persona he thought he now had curated. Its one of those things where he knew he was going to jail(or really was that oblivious) and just decided to burn it down and try the persona...
That's an oversimplification. Uber could just as readily add an exclusivity provision in an independent contractor agreement as waive (or strengthen) any default duty of loyalty in their employment contract.

The fact that this question is practically speaking unilaterally up to Uber and not the result of any meaningful negotiation between the parties makes the relationship even more employment-like, as there's usually much less negotiation around terms of employment (certainly some still happens) than in true independent contracting.

What's more, it's not clear to me that courts would enforce the duty of loyalty (and maybe not even an express contractual provision depending on the state) against a part-time rank-and-file provider of comparatively unskilled labor, just as they wouldn't prevent a 20-hour-per-month sandwich shop employee from spending an additional 20 hours per month at a different sandwich shop in parallel. Maybe a guarantee from Uber of full-time pay would change that. I believe a federal trial court has even ruled that non-fiduciary employees in California have no duty of loyalty, though I don't know if that was overturned on appeal or whether state courts have agreed.
You can pry SQL out of my cold dead hands. Its just not that bad.
Yeah, same here - if it were open to solo devs, I'd definitely be more likely to try out making a toy language. As-is, I'm not going to try to get my friends to join in on something that only I'm going to get anything out of.
> I think they were just completely inept at what they were doing

Setting aside what others are saying about other examples of more obvious fraud, we must, at some point, believe that a reasonable person[1] would notice the misadventure and do something about it.

[1] A questionable but important legal concept.
The last point is a good one around absolute vs subjective experience.

If you’re looking at 1M disks 99.999% availability is great. But if your entire company runs on 10 instances your day will be utterly ruined when any one of those root volumes goes away.

To that sad admin it feels like they’re sold 1/100,000 and got 1/10. And their impact is closer to “business critically failing” than “active automated remediation workflow incremented.”
I'm not impressed for two reasons:

1. Anyone striving to build a better SQL should make a comprehensive list of common (but difficult!) database tasks for OLTP and OLAP workloads. This will expose the weakness of their language. SQL has had 50 years and myriads of improvements to cover all these common cases. This is not a fair fight, so come prepared.

2. It's not enough to be just "better than SQL" to replace it. SQL has such a huge momentum that a new language needs to be absolutely better _and_ it should have many features that SQL cannot possibly have. My nice-to-have list would contain predictable performance, lock ordering, ownership relations (for easy data cleanup), and a standard low level language which the query optimizer would output.
I don’t know of a keyboard-only way, but I see that ⌘W does work after you focus the floating window by clicking on its title bar. Of course, you can also click the tiny red close button to close the window directly.
The law at issue simply codifies (and adds some new exceptions to, allowing what otherwise would be employees to be contractors) the California Supreme Court’s interpretation of the law that existed before it was passed.
> Can you model this in EdgeQL?

Absolutely!

WITH
april := <datetime>'2020-04-01T00:00+00',

NewCustomers := (
SELECT Customer
FILTER
NOT EXISTS (
SELECT .orders
FILTER .date < april
)
),

AprilCustomers := (
SELECT Customer
FILTER
datetime_truncate(.orders.date, 'months') = april
),

NewAprilCustomers := (
SELECT AprilCustomers
FILTER AprilCustomers IN NewCustomers
)

SELECT
(count(NewAprilCustomers) / count(AprilCustomers)) * 100;

This assumes the following schema:

type Order_ {
property date -> datetime;
}

type Customer {
multi link orders -> Order_;
}
Plus we're talking about "signature experts" as if there's a solid science there. From what I understand, it's a bit of a cargo cult where you just package up "do they look similar" in the trimmings of hard science.

Plus, it has a way of working out that people with names like Lakisha or Jamal might find themselves stuggling to match their signatures more than people with names like Chris or Alice.
Right, I understand that. I just don't understand the point you are trying to make in the context of the discussion.
Yea, we simply don't know about the intelligence of other things, and so I don't get the perspective that other things are the thing less intelligent when we're in the same boat as them as not being able to communicate with them. There are symbiotic relationships like cats and dogs, and mammals generally share a certain something, but we still have little to no knowledge of what's going on, even in mammals, much less more exotic things. For the octopus, we recognize intelligent of things we notice, but what about intelligence they have that isn't noticed by us.

Your description reminded me of a book called The Dragon's Egg. I haven't read it but need to. The gist is that there's a species that somehow thrives on or in a neutron star. However, their time scales are not slow but extremely fast. That's all I know about it other than it apparently being a tutorial on neutron stars masquerading as a novel.
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> Another problem with silicon is that its basic oxide (Silicon Dioxide) is a solid that is non-reactive with virtually everything.

I was amused once by reading an MSDS for silicon dioxide.

As I presume is required, they do list some hazards of exposure, but if you read the sheets for other substances the contrast is pretty striking. Look at the health effects listed on https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/09890.htm :

> Eye: Dust may cause mechanical irritation.

> Skin: Dust may cause mechanical irritation.

> Ingestion: May cause irritation of the digestive tract.

> Inhalation: Dust is irritating to the respiratory tract.

> Chronic: May cause cancer in humans. Prolonged exposure to respirable crystalline quartz may cause delayed lung injury/fibrosis (silicosis).

> NFPA Rating: (estimated) Health: 1; Flammability: 0; Instability: 0

So yeah, as long as you're not inhaling sand, you're fine.
The author is Raymond Chen, a developer on the Windows team who has been writing well-researched articles about backward compatibility in Windows and MS-DOS for the better part of two decades, so I think it's safe to say he's very well informed on the subject.

But I don't think he's "rewriting history" at all, intentionally or otherwise: QDOS/MS-DOS was originally designed to provide a largely CP/M-compatible runtime environment to ease porting, hence "backward compatibility" — "backward", not because MS-DOS was a "successor" or because CP/M was obsolete, but for the simple reason that this compatibility was both one-way and limited to features found in pre-existing versions of CP/M.
Did you come across Datalog?
They're fine. And she's an MD who spent the better part of the rest of that day doing what she could for the people around her.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-ed...
1) This won’t stop or significantly mitigate hacking from China. China is perfectly capable of hacking US software on US networks.

2) China has the intellectual capacity to meet the US technologically without stealing IP. Putting pressure on them will just encourage faster technological development.

3) At this point, it seems China will continue to expand control of South China Sea, or US will go to war with China to stop them. Any middle ground is fast disappearing. Hawks in US seem to have won control of strategy.
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