Hacker News: maclockard

New comment by maclockard in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

maclockard — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:58:34 +0000

I think that trust needs to be 'pushed deeper' than that so to speak. While this would be an improvement, what happens if there is a malicious actor at Github? This may be unlikely, but would be even harder to detect since so much of the pipeline would be proprietary.

Ideally, we would have a mechanism to verify that a given build _matches_ the source for a release. Then it wouldn't matter where it was built, we would be able to independently verify nothing funky happened.

New updates to Hex's AI tools for data analysis

maclockard — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.hex.tech/changelog/2024-03-21

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783302

Points: 1

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New comment by maclockard in "Storybook 8"

maclockard — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:29:20 +0000

What does MSW stand for here? Maybe "Mock Service Worker" https://mswjs.io/?

New comment by maclockard in "95%-ile isn't that good (2020)"

maclockard — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:22:59 +0000

I love dan luu's blog posts. Great examples of principled thinking. Much of their writing on (computer) performance has pushed my own thinking and expectations.

New comment by maclockard in "Accidental database programming"

maclockard — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:44:23 +0000

Not just delivery, but also security. Browsers offer a level of isolation and safety that you generally don't get with native desktop apps. Things like iOS do bridge the gap a bit more though

New comment by maclockard in "Accidental database programming"

maclockard — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:42:33 +0000

> make the browser a full blown VM and just write normal programs that run in it

This is actually happening, albeit slowly, with recent efforts around WASM etc. If you want a fun hypothetical of where this all goes, check out the talk "The Birth & Death of JavaScript". Link here: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

New comment by maclockard in "You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience"

maclockard — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:08:59 +0000

Wrote about something similar a while ago https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...

Using a server to tie break and locking has worked pretty well for us

New comment by maclockard in "You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience"

maclockard — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:54:19 +0000

I understand what you are saying here in terms of the difference between using wall-clock or causal ordering to determine who 'wins' for LWW. However, both of these strategies seem convergent to me? In any case, all clients will agree on whose changes win.

1. With wall-clock decided by clients, A + B changes will win since C's wall-time is earlier (yes, C could lie, but still would converge).

2. With wall-clock decided by server C will win and everyone will agree.

3. With causal ordering, everyone will agree that A + B won.

2 is not a CRDT since it requires a central server, but I think 1 would still count? Or stated another way: I'm not sure the _convergence_ is what determines if these strategies are CRDTs or not, but rather whether or not this decision making is _distributed_ or not.

New comment by maclockard in "Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering"

maclockard — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 22:02:24 +0000

> This is the same guy who tried to make "effective altruism" part of his image. That was a pretty strong signal that the outcome we all witnessed was highly likely.

Why do you think that was such a strong signal?

New comment by maclockard in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"

maclockard — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:27:25 +0000

FWIW I'm not sure analogies between intellectual property and actual property really work, since they are pretty fundamentally different if you compare the specifics.

New comment by maclockard in "How A24 Took over Hollywood [video]"

maclockard — Wed, 17 May 2023 05:01:08 +0000

Even better, Jamie Lee Curtis was in both of those movies.

New comment by maclockard in "You might not need a CRDT"

maclockard — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:01:20 +0000

I actually talked to the drifting in space team about our experience implementing multiplayer. Really cool to see their findings!

Our team ended up having a similar take away, we wrote a blog post detailing our approach and experience here: https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...

For the most part is been surprisingly solid! I was very much expecting to need to completely rewrite it by now, but its met most of our present needs.

The only real shortcoming is not being able to support line specific commenting. While we _could_ support it, any minor update to the text would result in the comment being marked 'stale' with a high false positive rate. I've considered adopting CRDT/OT just for the text editing portion to solve this.

New comment by maclockard in "Bringing “no-code” cells to Hex"

maclockard — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:29:14 +0000

I really like how well this bookends with https://hex.tech/blog/long-live-code!

(Disclaimer, I work at Hex but wish more tools would embrace ejecting to code in the same way)

Stop using so many CTEs

maclockard — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://hex.tech/blog/stop-using-so-many-ctes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32196797

Points: 2

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New comment by maclockard in "Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig"

maclockard — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 21:56:12 +0000

I'm also pretty cynical of most JS rebuild/reinvention projects. I'm very tentatively excited by this one _because_ it looks like all it does is incrementally improve. Having something that is a drop-in API compat replacement for yarn 1/npm and node makes it potentially really easy to get the benefits of incremental perf improvements _without_ needing to reinvent the wheel like yarn 2 or deno.

New comment by maclockard in "Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks"

maclockard — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:30:56 +0000

https://linear.app is pretty great

Hex scores $52M Series B

maclockard — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/22/hex-scores-52m-series-b-to-grow-data-science-collaboration-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30768231

Points: 2

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New comment by maclockard in "Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (1998)"

maclockard — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 06:27:26 +0000

This sounds really similar to Dutch Blitz! https://www.dutchblitz.com/ surprised I haven't seen anyone else call it that in this thread

New comment by maclockard in "Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?"

maclockard — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:32:44 +0000

That's assuming that these people only contribute to PostgreSQL. I'm betting most of the folks listed here make major contributions on other projects or at work.

Your comment feels like a bit of unfair judgement, particularly since a lot of those you are implying that are 'only 1x programmers' are effectively donating their time.

New comment by maclockard in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell"

maclockard — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:11:03 +0000

How much time do you spend a month on marketing for placecard?