skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've followed Dgraph off and on. I enjoy looking through their open sourced work. A lot of it is interesting.

Manish seems to be THAT person. The technically competent, unwavering to the technical vision, doesn't work well with others person at your company. He went on to found a startup so he could do what he wants, and unfortunately has now realized board members are very similar to managers at Google.

Here's a blog post where he stepped down from being CEO to being CTO: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/changing-guard/

> I’m very confident in my abilities to bring in a solid VP team and lead the GTM motion. But, I’ve also realized that Dgraph is an intrinsically technical product. While I can find other S&M folks, finding a true engineering replacement for me has been, and will continue to be a real challenge.

Reviews from Glassdoor confirm this inability to let others touch his baby: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Dgraph-Labs-Reviews-E12849...

> Massive layoffs with no warning and almost no severance pay. This is a sinking ship, not a rocket ship - avoid it!
Inept founder (was CEO and CTO while I was there) who only believes in his ability and doesn't trust employee expertise. He would rather be right than make money or see his company succeed. Manish doesn't listen to employees or managers and even disputes data showing false assumptions or failed business approaches. Micromanages in departments where he has minimal knowledge or understanding, leading to low morale and poor results.
It is important to inform people about the potential dangers with the technology and investing in it, especially since there are no regulations to create, e.g., new tokens. There are scams going on and it is easier to get away with it because it is an unregulated market.
However, blockchain technology is an emerging area and it's bound to be chaotic in the beginning. We should highlight the risks but not condemn the tech. Also, stay positive!
> can't emphasize to them enough that no one outside computer science and math fields will ever associate them with anything but cryptocurrency (and thus scams)

How so? "Private blockchains" (with no general access + cryptographic proof of commitment) are practically indistinguishable from plain old Merkle trees, and yet I don't see many people arguing that git is some sort of "scam" even outside the CS and math community.
Spencer Kimball talks about this wrt CockroachDB in this changelog (founderstalk.fm?) podcast

https://changelog.com/podcast/448
Housing is a huge problem in other countries also. Low interest rates
being the main cause for it. Large pension funds and other investors gobble up properties looking for yield they can't get in other investments.

"Why is there a housing shortage in the Netherlands?"
https://dutchreview.com/expat/housing/why-is-there-a-housing...

"Germany's next government aims to tackle housing crisis"
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-next-government-aims-to-tackl...

"The History of the UK's Housing Crisis"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78mm3/the-history-of-the-uk...
The way it loads and automatically converts a textarea seems a bit odd.

I guess my first thought is how it compares to MarkdownIt?
Technology maybe, but what about ramifications?
This crypto madness kept way too long. I say it from 2017:

https://meaningofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-bitcoin-will...
Prometheus follows the OpenMetrics standard I'm not sure what you find propietary about that or specific to prometheus.

https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/s...
Sure, but we're talking about an application written for a cloud/hosted environment in a datacenter somewhere. nicking at the size of a statically linked binary meant for production grade environments with fast computers and fat pipes feels overly pedantic no? Especially when we're talking about a mere 100MB
Do what Dan Olson is doing but directly at your local representatives who can't understand any of it. Condense the info into to a letter or a flyer and get it into their hands. If the issue is not already on your local representatives' plates tell them how it will become so in the future.
Vitamin K2 can address that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566462/
Manish and his team have built wonderful pieces of software and have been nothing but amazingly helpful to me when I dabbled with Dgraph three years ago or so (early versions).

Feeling sad for them but I'm sure they'll come out stronger and current users will follow them.

No clue about the politics and $$$, but the product was already promising and different from the competitors (ArangoDB and Neo4j).
Weird kind of paywall. You pay them money and they physically ship you a copy of the text, printed and bound on paper? Seems inefficient.
I don't think you realize just how much these technologies benefit people in countries with poor currencies. You need to address this before painting with such a broad brush.
it can help your tweet rank higher
Didn't even assume there was a Wikipedia entry. Thanks for the detailed answer.
I love how iDrac shipped with a password everyone knows. I would have thought it was trivial to make it a 1-time passthrough to change it, to stop this being the cartoon character we know and love.
Nice project. It's pretty similar to my project CalcuLaTeX (https://calcula.tech) although I think the intended usecase is slightly different
Russia is not interested in invading Ukraine.However, if the Ukraine nationalists severely escalate the civil war against the Donbass, Russia would almost certainly step in.

There is almost no risk of a major, nationwide war. I would wish that this faux "crisis" could teach more people to be highly critical of anything coming from any of the 5 eyes states (And thus anything in the Western MSM.)
In TS this is controllable. If noEmitOnError is true, then any error (including type errors) will stop it emitting JS output.
There is a huge amount of constitutional jurisprudence around the notion of national security clearance and all of it rests on the idea that it is a strictly limited exception to the First Amendment, generally one that is used sparingly and only when needed. This is why private citizens must volunteer to obtain security clearances. The General you speak of is presumably a volunteer who also agreed to be bound by stricter rules around classified data.

The NSF does not (generally) fund classified research. They fund unclassified research at open academic Universities. If the researcher in TFA had joined a military lab and submitted to a clearance, this would be an open and shut case. He did not do anything of the sort, and so the prosecutors were forced to hunt down some workaround to achieve their desired result, then ultimately drop a groundless case.
Our customer (300k+ employees) switched to AWS a couple of years ago and I simply hate it so much.
The “predictable, scalable” service we’re using, MSK, is a pain to develop against.
Log files are all over the place, thanks to microservices and because no one, myself included, has a clue on how to make them manageable again. AWS’s graphical user interface is a constantly changing mess.
I hate clicking my way through a GUI just so I can download individual log files manually.

I wonder how you folks manage to work with AWS and not hate it.
or if you're an ecologist

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/dynamics-o...

> Parasites with complex life cycles require two hosts; in some of these systems, prey function as intermediate hosts for the parasite, with predators acting as primary hosts. Parasites can manipulate the behavior of the intermediate host to make transmission to the primary host more likely.

not sure who is who in this metaphor
You're limiting your thinking to the paradigm of visual interfaces paired with a mouse and keyboard. When all you have is a hammer...

Here's some examples where bandwidth and latency wins with speech:

1. "Play here comes the sun" vs. opening spotify, waiting, clicking the search box, typing here comes the sun, pressing enter, waiting, scanning the page and clicking the right song.

2. "Send email to John asking him if he would like to Play golf" vs. opening Gmail, waiting, clicking compose, start typing john, click the right email, tab to subject... etc.

There are cases where keyboard and mouse input is better... e.g. editing text, graphics production and editing, etc.. But certainly not in "almost all tasks" as you say. I think speech is the 3rd big computer interface that complements the mouse and keyboard and will make computers more productive and convenient for everyone regardless if you have a disability.
> it doesn't imply either "using zero cloud services"

Enter big-three cloud egress pricing. Designed to make sure that you have to go all-in.
> I'm very sure at least the eastern part would have been mostly private-run if it wasn't taken over by the communists.

What do you base that on? Pretty much every western European country had state owned telcos. As far as I am aware, prior to the 90s, private telcos seem to the exception rather than the rule across the world. It seems mainly to be a specifically north American thing to have private telcos prior to that. Looking at the countries surrounding the former soviet states going from north to south:

Finland (originally a cooperative now owned by Norwegian state telco): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Oyj

Sweden (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televerket_(Sweden)

Germany (originally state-owned): link above

Austria (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1_Telekom_Austria_Group

Italy (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruppo_TIM

Turkey (originally state-owned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrk_Telekom

Looking east:

Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Telegraph_and_Telephone

Malaysia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekom_Malaysia

South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Corporation

Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra

India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Sanchar_Nigam_Limited#H...

Indonesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_Indonesia#Early_years

And a couple of others:

Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisscom

South Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_(South_Africa)

Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebr%C3%A1s

I mean that's pretty much every major economy on the planet (with north America being the exception).
Wait until they learn about people using perfect cryptography (one-time pad).
There was a good discussion a ~16 months ago (and the author even showed-up to comment) on an MD's article re: vitamin D that discusses toxicity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138590
It's a weird situation for a weird verb. Memento is an imperative form meaning "remember/be mindful". The plural form would be "mementote mori", but that makes no sense here at all, so I agree it would have been better to leave it alone as a fixed Latin expression grafted onto English.

Originally I thought the title was trying to be clever (expected something about breath mints, perhaps).

Nice to see The Baffler still kicking around, though!

Edit: the more I think of it, the more I think it's okay -- it is just a play on the phrase and our borrowed noun "momento". Objects that have died in relevance in some way, rather than things that remind us of our mortality directly. Surely the use of Latin in English is not too far from once ubiquitous and now largely forgotten ashtrays.
What Bitcoin has brought to the table:

- More convenient ways for malicious individuals to conduct ransomware attacks

- Fraudulent exchanges

- Persistent and global GPU shortages

- Anonymity to criminals

- Staggering consumption of real-life energy supplies, produced mostly with fossil fuels

What Bitcoin has not brought to the table:

- A store of value

- A trusted unit of account

- A widespread medium of exchange
I personally think spam is speech, and it should be protected speech. I'm not a fan of spam being censored on social media. People should be able to say as much as they want on the internet
Should let forex traders know that they can't make money on USD.
I do not know what to tell you. This is like Albania pyramid scheme in late 90s.

When I see Matt Damon, Tom Brady, Elon Musk, etc promoting NFTs it reminds so much of that. Now I see ads on YouTube telling people to take their 401k and invest in NFTs..

The only way we fix this with some laws - but even Elizabeth Warren is silent. We are fucked and I’m very pessimistic about the outcome.
1) Compressed X-axis makes it look visually worse than most graphs.

2) A combination of inflation and nominal GDP growth has resulted in the effects not being as bad as it otherwise would be. (Modern Monetary Theory essentially argues all three are intrinsically linked.)

3) It actually is fairly problematic. Rising debt (especially since 2009) has largely been possible because of the Fed's near-continuous lowering of interest rates. Faced with the prospect of those rates rising, it's questionable where the finances will come from.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/591226-can-our-nation-af...
those are indeed much lower numbers than i had expected

that said, the other person pointing out that it's a three axle bus makes me relatively confident that the fleet contains no domain-relevant busses that had any business going over that bridge in the first place

it's worth noting that when i was growing up, patransit tried to send heavy construction trucks across the larimer bridge. one of the crew members stopped them at the last minute when they saw the bridge and called it in (this is way before pocket internet,) and good thing - basically this would have happened, and in that case, it's a probably five or so story drop onto an active highway. would have been a catastrophe.
How can you create an unmoderated forum and not have it populated by all sorts - especially those refused by moderated forums.

"Haven for all sorts" is the "destiny" of any unmoderated communication platform.
Oops, duh, can't believe I messed that up. Too late to edit it now.
Hey, my mother was in almost exactly the same situation and has been talking to people about it. They should get in touch, although I'm not sure how to do that.
I wonder if Heller’s solution mentioned in the article also tackles the lunar inclination problem.
I worked for two gay guys that had their office in a flat next to their home. Sometimes they'd forget which side of the partition they were on. In the beginning I was a bit flushed about this, after a while I didn't even notice any more.
Yeah, the atmosphere is by far the biggest effect. Geothermal heating (especially by radioisotopes) is a rounding error in this case.
This document gives the how, could anyone here perhaps give us a why?

Genuine curiosity, provisioning is not something I deal with much.

There are so many paths that get you the same results, that don't require you to hand out full control to this ever fair and totally predictable friend of ours.
You keep talking about gold coins on the one hand and the US Dollar on the other hand. Sorry if you are loosing me here.

Which dictionary defines Gold Coin as Dollar, in which lemma, and how can it predict and continuisly update the exchange rate if there is no authority to poll?
I downloaded an app from F-Droid once, it was Spotify. Later that week I started getting strange spanish songs on my recently played. Checked my logged in sessions and there were several from latam. I deleted the app.
The moderately wealthy (probably overrepresented on HN) can afford housing. Everybody else gets to choose between either fighting over whatever's left over or moving somewhere that's cheap but not actually where they want to live.
My personal opinion is we should be clear about why many companies are not contributing to or shipping GPLv3 software.

The schism over GPLv3 was widely known and discussed at the time the license was being drafted. Many companies told the FSF they would not be able to continue shipping or contributing under those terms. The FSF chose their own path and moved their projects to the new license, with predictable consequences.

I happen to think it's an unfortunate footgun that set back the free software movement but I can see why others might disagree. I also agree that the FSF was within their rights to make such changes. The FSF bears responsibility for the decision to prioritize perceived "anti-TIVO" concerns over unification of the free software movement.
Exactly. Maxwell and later Nvidia architectures contain internal CPU cores that manage parts of the GPU and I believe even job scheduling. They refuse to run anything not signed by Nvidia, so developing an open source high performance driver would require obtaining their root keys. If someone does that and can't prove they did it by brute force or some other vulnerability in Nvidia's software, they're going to be in a world of hurt.
> Crypto hasn't created anything new fundamentally

Orchids and Baseball cards and Beanie-Babies. We don't need a decentralized immutable, distributed ledger to verify something's value. We're already good at prescribing disproportionate value to arbitrary things. I don't think we ever cared that it was centralized or not.
> most people underestimate how reliable server grade hardware is

This. And there are millions of dollars of cloud marketing materials and programs that are at least partly to blame.
I disagree about complexity, the object storage is the simplest APIs out there. Even if I was multi-cloud, I'd prefer writing adapters instead of trying to host a an object storage. I get the use case but it feels so overreach. S3 has 11 9s, and I'm sure others are high too. Even if it proxies, minio would be a useless layer that is not adding any considerable value and introducing a reliability risk, operation cost, because I'd not prefer writing 3 if clauses to handle multiple cloud providers in my code.
What a bizarre claim.

Prometheus scrapes the same text format as OpenMetrics 1.0 and over 700 public exporters use this format, and there are TONS of other non-Prometheus software that consume the exact same text format. Prometheus's biggest competitor, Datadog (which is not open source mind you), consumes it too. I think even Grafana consumes it directly. It's becoming an IETF standard[0].

Would I have preferred JSON over a custom text format like this? Yeah. But to claim an open source project like Prometheus with effectively no business at all is using a text format like this to have vendor lock-in? That's quite a stretch.

[0] https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/s...
Thank you for sharing these details.
I met someone many years ago who bragged that they did this with sales tax. They purchased expensive items at Costco in Oregon, paying 0% sales tax, and then returned those items in Washington and received a full refund plus 10% sales tax. This was the first time I met a person who appeared normal but lacked social mores against fraud.
A lot of houses are sold to be rented out. I personally know someone who bought a house a year ago, saw it appreciate $150k, and is now using that as a down payment on an investment property. It’s sickening.
I find people dont know how amazing a "immutable" server fleet is until you've experienced it.

It was so trivial to terminate and restart dozens of servers at any given time since unless there was a mistake in the cloud-init, we could bootstrap our entire infrastructure from scratch within an hour.

It was amazing, never had to deal with something missing on a server or a config being wrong in a special case. Dozens of hosts just purring along with 0 downtime since the moment anything became unhealthy, hosts would start auto-booting and terminate the old instance.
>the average older boomer whose wealth is embedded in their home isn't selling.

But they are pushing back against policy to build more housing
We can choose what's best based for the task at hand. In the same way most people don't use the mouse to click an online keyboard, most people won't use voice control to type WASD in-game.

Dictation, for instance, is an easy-win for voice input. Clicking buttons can be more convenient with voice when we're talking to Smart TVs or, perhaps, if our hands have pizza grease all over them and we don't want to touch the keyboard.
> So how do you manage zoning issues, including water and energy management?

Single family housing uses more water and energy per capita, generally one will be fine. And overtime one can slowly upgrade infrastructure -- as is done around the world or what happens in American neighborhoods that are upzoned. It really is a red herring of a problem that is brought up.

> As we saw a good example of in Pittsburgh, how do we maintain the transportation and muni services to these new houses?

As long as one is building the new housing nearby jobs you'll be decreasing the average miles traveled. Also it is usually the other way around you need a minimum level of density to make transit more viable and useful.
Why not? If you have a fault in a lamp switch, the circuit breaker keeps it from burning down your house.

Why can't an OS keep a rogue program from taking down your machine? You could specify what to run, and with what resources, and then even if Satan himself wrote the code, it wouldn't ever corrupt anything other than the resources specified.
I have a V4 in my MVS-4-25. Paired with the 161-in-1, it's an absolute game-changer for the NeoGeo experience. Cheats, better attract mode, even a music player.
unfortunately this is still the biggest problem, plans and niceties...

unless companies like tesla themselves (are probably forced to) recycle the whole shebang we're going to get nowhere fast.
The world surpasses 10B vaccine doses
> But the community has been pretty unified for 5+ years at this point.

Sure, but they accomplished this mostly by displacing anyone who disagreed. That's fine, and Python 3 in a vacuum is a better language than 2. But I'd never make the mistake of choosing Python for a serious project going forward.
I’ve not noticed malware so much, but several legit independent programming resources (baledung, as a random example of a possible target; not sure I’ve seen their content stolen) will have their content lifted wholesale, slightly cropped to remove identifying marks, and then rehosted, stuffed to the gills with ads.

These initially seem fine, and it’s only when you repeatedly search the same topic that you notice the stolen content. You can tell the legit site by having bylines, references, and fewer ads.

Google seems to weight them the same, which is near malicious: it has the history to show primacy.
Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death