skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally abhor receiving trinkets that I really have no use for and although I have a hard time to, I am learning to accept gifts without saying "oh, you didn't have to". I'd say the best thing is to either ask for a wishlist or simply give an amount of money in some form that is not offensive: giftcard etc. But this varies from person to person. Some people like receiving anything at all and consider it as a token of attention. Know your target before buying up gifts. When I tell family and friends "Please! no gifts for me" I absolutely mean it.
Thanks so much for making the book available on the site.

Have you ever written about your game development company and how you managed to get the contracts to produce the Ghost Whisperer and other games?
> A commonly used datatype to store monetary values is the MONEY data type. In SQL Server, the MONEY data type’s behavior is fixed using four digits to the right of the decimal (e.g., $12.8123). However, in PostgreSQL, the MONEY data type is fixed using two digits to the right of the decimal.

> So, when the application tries to store a value of $12.8123, by example, PostgreSQL will round to $12.81. This subtle difference will result in a rounding error and break an application if not correctly addressed. To ensure correctness in Babelfish, we need to ensure such differences, small and large, are handled with absolute fidelity.

How are they going to solve this with just a query translation layer? Isn't information lost on save?
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So the key difference is that columns are not compressed, and can be in smaller batches. Can those not just be options to the Parquet file rather than having a whole new format?
Not when your competitors are completely free
They also need email. They should buy Zimbra.
>Where did you get 43.84 from?

WORK closing price. I just realized I can't read though, misinterpreted the press release.
AppleCare and the Apple store Genius Bar are readily accessible, too.
This is why human resolution layers such as Kleros exist. You can rely on human juries to resolve certain conflicts that automation could not possibly handle. The system relies on game theory to disincentivize dishonest jurors. Whether it will hold in practice remains to be seen, but a few (~100 for Kleros I think, there are also other solutions such as Aragon but I'm less familiar with them) cases have been dealt with succesfully so far.
This replaces a use case of pip freeze. If you only use pip freeze for that use case then it is a replacement.
Just curious, what Salesforce aquisitions ruined a product? The only ones I know of are Heroku, Quip, and Tableau. I don't see any mention of Salesforce other than optional integrations.
That and software wasn't a service, so you weren't chained to the price points and plan levels that executives decided. If Salesforce decides to force everybody using Slack to get Salesforce instead (which seems not unlikely), there's no recourse. We can't just say "well, we have a perpetual license, so we'll do what we want."
PineTime is the only watch that is cheap and can be programmable. However, it's software isn't mature enough for daily use.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-dev-kit/?v=0446c16e2e66
It's actually pretty smooth since you can do `/chime` in a Slack channel or DM and it automatically starts a Chime call. Otherwise I just keep Chime open for scheduled meetings.
Whoops! If you can't tell, I didn't actually look up the years! Thanks for the correction.
In some cases their hardware is xiaomi hardware. Their model is to utilize existing low cost hardware but run their own custom firmware on it. This is how they have grown their product range so quickly.
This does not appear to be open source?

It doesn’t even have a pricing section.
I’m going to say it again.

Good grief! Teams, suck!
Good info. No, I did not know that. Do you know about the Chennai Snake Park? It was founded by an American, Romulus Whitaker. I've been to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai_Snake_Park
Slack never really fulfilled its promise as a stand-alone company, so not sure what you’re afraid of now.

Very unreliable at times eg latency, missed out of video calling, did not take advantage of WFH boom at all, document search was bad.
Slack - Too much thread

Discord - Not enough thread

M$ Teams - Just right thread

As much as I hate to say it, after using all three, I definitely like the Teams threads the best. That model offers the best balance of visibility and organization that I have seen.
You might be surprised at how human ingenuity sometimes finds a way to make expensive hardware using just as much exploitation…
You click the video button, switch tabs, and click the screen share button. I agree that chat sucks compared to slack and teams, but it's got enough functionality to not be a deal breaker for companies that are already paying gSuite. Especially if they've never used the superior competitors.
I'd personally phrase things a bit differently: an _individual_ was able to pull this off while surrounded by screaming children. A large government, with all its resources and hundreds+ of people, would pull this off regularly and without breaking a sweat.
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A while back someone posted to HN a tool for creating things just like this. In some places it was derided as “single player Facebook” but I could see it being very helpful for a person who sticks with it
I think you're right, but I don't think of that as the result of a lack of competitors. In the enterprise space, it's going to be Salesforce/Slack vs. Microsoft/Teams.
I feel like the strength of being misunderstood is more like the strength of being correct.
Just because other people don't understand you doesn't mean you are correct.

If you aren't correct, this post will do nothing for you but make you bull-headed and closed off to criticism.
Oh yes, of course. My mistake. I did look up all the grep options used, including --byte-offset, before commenting, but somehow your point did not occur to me. Yes, the byte offsets would be meaningless after the data was piped through strings.
A meme or real? Community for the global elite
Not to mention video.
That's a moat, not network effects. A network effect would be if your friends at other companies get value from joining Slack while you're on it. But there's not (except maybe sharing integrations/bots).
Compute wise they may be same but configuration wise EC2 instance is a super complex.
After making an account a couple years ago I came back to Element a few days ago. Mostly, it's fine/good. It works as I expect text chat too, including the niceties we've come to expect by now.

One thing that really stood out to me is that you can cross-sign your device certificates! That means your chat partners don't need to verify the signatures of all your device keys, but only one. Even though this is the only good option (in my opinion), the only other messenger that does this that I'm aware of is iMessage.

I wish more people used it. Not just individually, but for their communities. There's a couple of good bridges which I intend to try, to bring my Signal/Telegram/... contacts all into one place, but you need not only the bridge, you also need to host your own homeserver and I haven't made the dive into all of that yet.
No, it doesn't, no more than the United States government needs to be "for everyone."
I wonder what we get if we feed enough essays like these into GPT-3. Enough self help books to make a living, I suppose.
Maybe "zig std is a wrapper rather than a rewrite" was the slip and what's written is the opposite of the idea? I wouldn't call zig's std "a wrapper" in this case where it implements the functionality without the C standard library? Had it called something in the C library, then I'd call it a wrapper.
I joined Element about a month ago (we're hiring! https://element.io/careers) and now that I'm on the inside, I'm genuinely optimistic about our trajectory. We're not taking over the world overnight, but we are steadily growing.

From a business perspective, data sovereignty and end-to-end encryption seem to be really potent differentiators for certain market segments, especially government. To wit, the French government has a massive Matrix deployment under the name "Tchap", and the German military began rolling out a similar initiative called "BwMessenger" last month: https://esut.de/en/2020/11/meldungen/24138/matrix-messenger-...

On the opposite end of the spectrum you've got Mozilla, who replaced their IRC network with open, federated Matrix and saw greater far greater community engagement as a result.

October also saw a commercial entity (Famedly.com) begin sponsoring the development of a third-party homeserver implemented in Rust (Conduit). So we're starting to see glimmers of a potential ecosystem around the Matrix protocol independent of Element.

We don't have the same pop culture buzz as Slack or Discord, but I absolutely think there is something of substance here.
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Unhelpful 1-star user reviews. This is normal?
Do you think it is possible to rate 1 or 2 star for the high price of the application or for the permissions it requires? However, the price and the required permissions are indicated on the application page and are known to the user in advance before downloading. I find such reviews useless. Google Support considers the reviews to be likely helpful and will not remove them. Let's discuss?
I don't understand. What argument are you tired of hearing? Teams has more users than Slack. Doesn't matter how/why they got them.
>I adore my two but the planet is likely to be worse off, ecologically at least, for their existence.

Our planet is already on the tail end of its lifespan, in terms of how long it will be able to support advanced life before the sun gets too hot and cooks everything.

Ours is, as best we can tell, the first and only species to arise that has enough intelligence to be able to do something about it.

If we expired as a species tomorrow, the chance of another one rising to the challenge before things wind down is (probably) very low.

We need smart, motivated people to work on the problem, and we need these people to have kids and pass on the same pro-education, pro-problem-solving cultural habits to the next generation.

In my opinion, that's worth far, far more than the extra eco burden one additional human life adds.
It all depends on how your dev's compensation is structured.

AWS has great reliability and a complete ecosystem of plug-and-play offerings that just work. And it's well documented. It sure is more expensive, but it's easier to achieve the same result. And faster. And keep in mind, the dev isn't footing the AWS bill. And isn't getting paid a penny extra for trimming down said AWS bill.

Of course, if you add stocks to the compensation structure or a bonus based on cloud spending, that changes the incentives.
Sure, of course.

OP was asking how Salesforce got so huge when it has a medium-negative reputation among tech folks, and that was my answer: Management loves to hear "this will save $$$ on software"
Man never heard of this Gadgetbridge thing. Thanks for bringing it up. The awful apps are the worst part about these kind of Chinesium devices.
What a wholesome project. Applying to this was incredibly fun.
> What's more, with directional antennas, higher transmission powers and sensitive receivers the range of such attacks can be considerable.

I'm reminded of ye olde Gumstix BlueSniper rifle. Back in the early 2000's there were a series of exploits against bluetooth stacks. The standard response by the industry was that they attacks weren't practically exploitable due to the low power of typical bluetooth devices.

The BlueSniper was a cantenna + gumstix SBC specifically constructed for the purpose of demonstrating the low cost of the threat.
Well, there's IRCv3... Problem with multi-device is you need some way of authenticating multiple TCP connections as the same logical user, at which point a lot of IRC's simplicity of implementation has been lost. Whether that's a worthwhile sacrifice is a different question though; I think it might be (as a young IRC nerd).
I think one thing that’s very important is that the judicial system needs to be perceived as somewhat “fair” in that the punishment should fit the crime, AND that factors such as race, status, wealth, etc should not bias the outcome. As someone living in the US, it’s quite obvious our system has a lot to be desired in this area, especially when comparing outcomes amongst different ethnicities or wealth classes. But there is an ideal we reach for that our rules should treat every individual equally regardless of their place in life. Giving judges and juries even more latitude than they have already would completely shatter that.

I’d also point out that, given historical context for such methods, anyone giving strong support to this sort of “justice” system really does need to hear the quote that didn’t really come from Einstein :) “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Yeah, no shit, it's hard to get things like referential integrity and transactions working at scale, it takes many genius engineers and many years.

A better title would be:

Feature Casualties of Large Databases (except for old-fashioned databases like Oracle, DB2 etc. that have been doing this stuff at huge scale for decades).
>Instantly liquid programmable assets

Since nobody really answered this one I'll explain it.

Let's say you create 1,000,000 Blah-Tokens. Problem: your new asset has 0 liquidity. Right? Because there isn't a market for it. If you get it listed somewhere, there still won't be a market until people start placing buy and sell orders. So, can ethereum fix this? Yes! With an automatic market maker like uniswap. Put your 1M fresh tokens in a pool alongside some ETH. We'll say this pool will obey the law xy=k, x and y being the two tokens. We'll also say that the exchange rate shall be x/y.

Now anyone can come along and transact with you and the liquidity is already there! No order book is required. The price is quoted and tokens are added/removed from pool in accordance with xy=k. You get a fee for being nice enough to supply the liquidity. Oh, and anyone can supply their own tokens and split the fees with you. Wa-la.
Most healthcare costs are at the end of our life, and we all die and often spend all we have, so the costs are fairly invariant i.e. you can never “save” $2k.

The ROI for better health is very odd to measure.

If you use dollars (for an economy) then the best ROI is to spend nothing once someone is of no economic benefit (i.e. the vast majority of healthcare spending is on the elderly and provides no dollar benefit to society, so economically most healthcare spending should be drastically cut).

You could also look at an integral of quality of life over time. However “past me” is really bad at caring about “future me”, and “current me” doesn’t care at all about optimising for “past me”.

Most people seem happy to argue that the amount that society should spend on them (or their loved ones) for health services is infinite (you can’t put a price on life), and the amount they should spend on the health services for others should be zero (those scabs should have made better life choices!)

Good luck trying to make sense out of spending $20 to save $2000!
I would love that. There is so much mediocre but popular software out there that uses hard-coded MySQL queries instead of some abstraction layer.

Having to use MySQL/MariaDB after usually dealing with PostgreSQL always feels like such a downgrade.
Unfortunately, it's the same old story. A fairly trivial buffer overflow programming error in C++ code in the kernel parsing untrusted data, exposed to remote attackers. In fact, this entire exploit uses just a single memory corruption vulnerability to compromise the flagship iPhone 11 Pro device. With just this one issue I was able to defeat all the mitigations in order to remotely gain native code execution and kernel memory read and write.

Yes, same old buffer C/C++ overflow problem. We have mainstream alternatives now. C#. Go. Rust. It's time to move on.
I run Matrix/Element on my self-hosted server (address in my profile) and it's great for chatting with people on the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/Peertube/etc.) as a lot of people in that world also use Matrix and have their addresses posted in their profile.

Corporations don't want to spend the manpower to run something like this, considering Slack is relatively cheap and Teams just comes with their Azure/Office365 license.

It's more for hobbyists and hacker types. If you want a nice mobile client for Matrix, try out FluffyChat. It supports room emojis!
Pidgin enterprise where you can log into multiple enterprise chat applications with one account.
Know someone at Amazon in the kindle space and I say them using slack when we went to lunch today. He said his team uses it for a lot.
Yeah, that's the trick. You want something that intersects with "stuff I know person X is interested in" and "stuff that I know enough to make an informed purchase on and X probably doesn't already have". And consumables are a good way to solve the "doesn't already have" problem.
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I attribute my Garmin Vivoactive HR to pushing me from chronic sitting to being reasonably active and its heart-rate monitoring alerts for letting me know when something was off. I agree with you that spending money to get a good device is worth it, especially since my Garmin has lasted me 4 years without issues.
This is actually something I feel strongly about. The absent minded creative professor is the one who traditionally has made the breakthroughs. Recent years has instead seen the straight A student with no curiosity making it into programs, when they really have no business doing novel research and are better suited as orderly wage slaves
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I would guess at least 80% of common SQL and T-SQL from Sybase is still completely compatible with SQL Server.

As a side note, I had no idea Sybase still existed at all. Looks like it's now part of SAP's portfolio.
Posted 2 minutes before you

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The Pac-Man scene in (Black Mirror) Bandersnatch remains my favourite depiction of LSD on screen. Clever concept, too.
I posted this in the watercooler chat at work (we use slack) and got the option to install the Salesforce plugin for Slack.

Because of course.
I don't know if I'd agree that it never fulfilled its promise. It's got a lot of market share and its core product - text chat and messaging - remains pretty solid, despite some missteps.

I haven't had that level of unreliability issue with text, though I _definitely_ have with calls.

I would agree that Slack had an opportunity to compete with Zoom and others because of COVID that it seems to have relatively squandered. Slack calls are still less reliable and usable than Zoom calls for many purposes. You can't dial in with a phone, you can't mute other people's video or even audio (though I'm not sure Zoom offers client-side video muting either), Slack's screenshare is less reliable and doesn't have as many options for limiting what you share, and so on.

So I guess I'd say it fulfilled its core promise: "decent enterprise real-time communications", but it's the failure to innovate or even keep up with competing services in some important areas that's the issue. Maybe that's splitting hairs?
I don't see why not. A complaint about the price is still a valid complaint.
>Its basically known as a fact they have loads of these exploits sitting in their toolbox ready to use when they have a enticing enough target.

Do you have a source for this?
This is fantastic news.

I'm very curious about the invocation latency overhead of Docker. I assume its non-zero relative to the more native runtimes?
> feel bad about every time they use it open a can of beans.

There are no words for this.
It's always going to take an outsider to show someone who designed a feature with good intentions how it can be used by people with nefarious ones.
What will be the corporate version of the famous "Leeroy Jenkins" moment in WoW?
Well, if it's good enough for politicians, the FBI and CIA, every HR department since the 60's, FAANG...

Why not for individuals too?

I like the notion of "single player facebook". It casts Facebook as being an MMO and then that yields clan raids imagery of identity politics and so on. It's damn near perfect!
No they aren't. What is the SF equivilant to O365, Azure, Office, and Windows?
Yeah this is a fun little lesson for me. I’d been thinking through the summer that we need to expand what we do with our money and had been dithering, put together a short list of companies (like kid summer) and slack was one of them. I faffed about, put it off and then last night just decided “you know what, just place some trades and pull the plaster off” so I bought like 50 shares across a handful of companies - I own 3 slack shares so I’m not all that bothered.

I’ve risked very little money in my first share purchases - I couldn’t even buy a new low end mountain bike for what I’ve got at risk.