skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where the author is coming from, and for purposes of aggregation or filtering, they are correct; it’s often better to do those things in SQL. There are two problems, though. CPU and IOs on your DB server are likely your organization’s most scarce resource, and SQL is often hard to test and has unpredictable performance characteristics (cliffs, blocking, etc). By all means do the things you must do to get your app servers the data they need with the fewest IOs and bytes across the wire possible, but please do your string concatenation and sorting (when not using TOP or LIMIT) on cheap app servers that you can always deploy more of.
No, nuclear and renewables do not mix well at all. Intermittent low cost sources of power shoot nuclear's baseload business case in the gut. The reactors cannot sell power at high enough price enough of the time to make sense.
My guess, for what it's worth, is that chromium is vulnerable because it exposes sqlite to web applications, which can then execute queries in such a way as to achieve code execution.

I highly doubt this would affect, say, a blog running with a sqlite database. From the alarmist nature of this post, though, it's unclear.

I see chromium, in their patch, switched to using new flags when opening the DB. There are also some sqlite changes that seem to prevent meddling with virtual table shadow tables (eg inverted index for the fts3 extension).

The question I think everyone is asking is how much sqlite needs to be exposed by an application in order to be vulnerable?

Just my thoughts. Eager to learn more.
I get what you're trying to say here, but this is not about work that has already been done, it is about work that still will be done and to avoid the sharecropping that will inevitably be the result from those citations. By giving ample warning it would be clear that those venues are toxic and that there is a good chance that your work would be better served by seeking an alternative venue for publication.
In what fantasy scenario does a much larger, much more complex, made from much more advanced materials, system end up CHEAPER than the smaller, simpler, low tech one?
The hot water in your water tank may contain an excess of salt deposits, leeched metals, and rusts that you don't want to consume.

Cold water has less solubility of most substances than hot water and it spends less time sitting in a hot container of those substances.

Therefore, use the cold water to make hot water on your stove and regularly clean the kettle: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn/comments/7uu0jz...
I am sure. I am very familiar with that specific market. I know exactly what it is like to compete with CenturyLink, Verizon, ATT.
covering large portions of our planet's surface with solar panels

Have you calculated it? If I recall correctly, it's actually not a large portion at all. It's large in the sense that it would be a large infrastructure project, but it's not larger than the combined area already covered by buildings.
I see lot of answers indicating the meaning of DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) but no answers on its applications. Here is a very simple one -

Pre-requisite graph - During an engineering course every student faces a task of choosing subjects that follows requirements such as pre-requisites. Now its clear that you cannot take a class on Artificial Intelligence[B] without a pre requisite course on Algorithms[A]. Hence B depends on A or in better terms A has an edge directed to B. So in order to reach Node B you have to visit Node A. It will soon be clear that after adding all the subjects with its pre-requisites into a graph, it will turn out to be a Directed Acyclic Graph.
Generally speaking a chunk of memory you free is simply marked "free" for reuse but not given back to the OS. So in this regard, it is not a burden to the OS.
> all global powers starting to put tariffs and trade barriers up

That's a bit of a stretch.
>the problem is licensing, once implemented, is almost never critically reexamined and regularly gets pushed for more difficult requirements regardless of those requirement's efficacy or results.

There's also the "license fee" treadmill, where the state sees an easy way to get more money from a captive audience by raising fees. For example in California this year the license renewal fee for being a locksmith went from $45 to $500 every 3 years, and it's still just a paper card they mail you that certifies that you sent them a form and a fingerprint livescan once, usually many years ago.
This is exactly why I don't find code coverage tools useful. Now, a tool that can show what the tests assert against? THAT would be useful.
Unlike a game such as Go, in Scrabble once you place your pieces they are no longer only yours and can now be used by both players to add on more pieces next to them (although you do get payment for placing them at first, especially at positions with multipliers, since then your opponent can't use those multipliers).

However, if you do not use all of your cards in one turn, you will keep some and can plan ahead a bit, for use later.
I don’t think CenturyLink thought through the implications of what they just pulled. I know that there are a significant number of people that use VoIP services like Vonage.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night with a need to call 911, but your ISP purposely broke your internet just to sell you a “security offering.”
Not sure why this is being downvoted, but you're correct. Now, a networked application that exposes some level of access to sqlite? That's another story. The question I think we all are asking is just how much "leg" does sqlite have to show to be vulnerable?
Quixotic which I think that's derived from isn't that obscure.
This is an excellent question. I can imagine the difficulty of such clause would be to quantify the value that was diminished due to a breach in financial terms. Most likely the case is that the government has a vested interest in keeping tight security over their program - from engineering to manufacturing and small suppliers rely on security engagement from the gov. Big suppliers such as General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman, I am sure security breaches are taken very seriously and it would impact future supplier selection process and bidding.
i got it up and running within 30min or so.
You know what is even more weird? Reading a comment on HN of another person saying he also grew up there ;-)
Isn't that the definition of branch testing, to test all possible branches within code and also testing the logic in all of those branches?
HN is not letting me edit, so here's the source: [ From the Museum Plaque / Card]. This is a photo I took when I was there.

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The only thing incorrect in my original statement was, it was the province of Bengal (now the state?), not Calcutta.

Please read this entire thing. I've typed out the text in the photo verbatin. Last line says it all.

The Colonial Impact

Why did the British make Bengal their chief focus, and Calcutta their Capital? Bengal was India's wealthiest province, for her granary, rich in muslin, silk yarn, and salt petre, products which European trading companies were particularly interested in. Profits were high, and the East India Company saw it as a promising area to invest in.

They were proved right. By the mid-18th century, Bengal is playing a lead role in commerce., It provides the finances to sustain an expanding colonial state, especially after the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, revenue in 1793.

By 1856-7 Bengal alone is contributing 44% of the total revenue from British India. This is 260% more than Bombay. These figures tell us that Bengal is colonial India's most exploited region. Calcutta flourishes as a typical colonial city, linking the hinterland of primary production with plantations and mining resources, and exporting everything for the benefit of an imperial economy witch enriches Britain at Bengal's cost.
It's a single data point because I'm not going to do your research for you.

It's something that happened recently and was mentioned on HN, that's why I provided the courtesy of posting that for you.
IMO it depends on how much memory is expected to be consumed. If its only at most tens on MBs, then I think not doing memory management is not just smart, but more performant.
It will put more pressure on the allocator when running, doing that a lot will likely have some kind of cumulative consequence down the line. I know from experience [0] that even reusing allocated memory rather than bouncing it back to malloc can have dramatic effects.

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl/blob/master/src/snigl/pool.h
So, these medical people did not consult House?
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_(patient)
Example uses of a directed acyclic graph in programming include more or less anything that represents connectivity and causality.

For example, suppose you have a computation pipeline that is configurable at runtime. As one example of this, suppose computations A,B,C,D,E,F, and G depend on each other: A depends on C, C depends on E and F, B depends on D and E, and D depends on F. This can be represented as a DAG.
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I guess it was the province of Bengal, not Calcutta. Bengal was India's wealthiest province at that time.

See my follow up response to this thread.
Ask HN: Are my feelings of job inadequacy in reality or all in my head?
Hello, I have to ask something about my abilities as a developer in a professional capacity. But I also have to rant. I feel very inadequate. And I don't really think it's just impostor syndrome anymore.

Reason 1 for feeling inadequate: I do not have a proper CS degree. Although this seems like the least problematic thing for many people.

Reason 2: I lack a good network for my years of experience. I rarely follow up with co-workers because I'm asocial. My closer friends also can't tell apart a programmer from an IT employee. So they're not good for leads.

Reason 3: I am probably an Expert Beginner. A chronic problem if you're 10 years experienced like me.

Reason 4: I'm grossly underpaid for my local area, living in a big city.

My objective and description: Web developer of ~10 years experience with Arts degree seeking low level embedded work, and gradually working into a semiconductor company to do work that's more interesting to me. I'm super burned out on web development and want to get away from it.

With my experience, several people have told me that going back to college is a waste of time. But I don't know about that. My applications get ignored in certain roles and departments I'm targeting. These companies go ahead and hire entry level CS graduates for these departments. People with little real world corporate experience get picked over me. I feel like a washed up NBA pro that loses 1-on-1 to many college rookies.

But I see "Experience trumps college!" being parroted around a whole lot, as if your length of job experience is the only relevant variable. People should really stop saying that. They place zero recognition of other variables that affect the individual's chances to land their target job, or even to get the first interview.

So is my inadequacy grounded in reality? Is it really true that I am as bad as I think? I can't tell what is dominating me more, impostor syndrome or real lack in ability.
It creates a small inline script with this code:

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I used CRX Viewer extension by Rob Wu[1] to just look up the extension code in Chrome store.

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What you’re describing sounds very similar to “mutation” testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
Firefox has never supported WebSQL...
Consider a line like:

value = 1 / input;

You can get "100% coverage" if you test that with `input = 1`, but unless you check with `input = 0` you're missing a quite important logical check.
by "the universities", i meant the rituals and ceremonies performed by academics in general. isn't prestige really just a social construct? the universities literally contain all the individual high-status academics, the privileged social circles, and all the peers required for evaluation of merit. they have all the capital, is what i'm talking about.
You test all possible executions of your program when you test with all possible data inputs, which is infinite.
> Trump is probably going to lose the trade war over Iran

Who cares what "Trump" loses? This is about the USA and Trump will be long gone before any of these situations are measured.
The USA is not starting a trade war with Iran (first time I've ever heard sanctions called a trade war), the US is enacting sanctions to hurt Iran without scaring allies like Saudi Arabia.

> China holds far more US debt than Americans hold Chinese debt

That's intentional and good for the US. If you don't understand this, I really think you need to understand why we sell it to foreign powers at all.

> China has far more market reach into emerging markets in Africa

That's a real problem which the USA is losing out on potentially. It won't be apparent for some time, since people who are industrialized enough to get out of self-oppressive warlord control will not handle foreign occupation very well either. The US answer is always to enable the counter-revolutionaries anyway until the US has someone they want to deal with.
Amazon has a way to catch package-stealing thieves
I think you're right. A little bit of Wikipedia research suggested that the top tier is unpaid wages, taxes, tort claims, and environmental cleanups. Suppliers, unless they've specifically negotiated for a lien on the company's assets, fall into the "general unsecured creditor" category, which means they get paid alongside lines of credit and unsecured bonds, after collateralized debt but before stockholders.
Fusion output would be unlimited (almost), you would then have solved any other problem apart of obsolescence of materials. Any other tech would be finite or more wasteful in comparison.
Sounds like they mean “remote” because chromium uses SQLite and JavaScript loaded into your machine comes from a remote source. So because a website can run JS that can exploit chromium they’re calling it an RCE.
It just means "you need to work" to many people.at the end of the day ?

At least thats how I see debt...
In my family, we play a variation that makes the game much more skillful. I'm not sure how common it is. But my grandmother's claim to fame is that she played in college with the inventor of Scrabble, before it was commercialized (the rules were different). These are the variations we play:

1) a dictionary can be used whenever you want, to look up a specific word in mind only (you cannot leaf through it for ideas)

2) When it is your turn, before playing your letters, you may swap a letter in your hand, for a letter on the board. This can be done as much as you like, but only one letter at a time, and each letter must make a new, valid word. No points are scored when swapping.

The result is that turns can take 10 minutes or more, but bingos are very common and individual scores get into 5-600 points often. There is much more skill and very little luck- as you are not limited by the letters you draw- rather, you can use just about any letter that's on the board, if you can get it! Likewise, if you draw the X you are not "lucky" because the X will likely get used again and again over the course of the game by multiple players.

I'm not sure how common this variation is, but I like it, and it's well-suited for serious players.
Very slowly through the postal system.
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I agree with your calculations, but with an 1g acceleration for 25s, the train will travel a bit more than 3km, and getting to the end of the track (which is 3km according to the article) at close to 900km/h is unlikely to lead to a happy outcome.

If my math is right, in order to accelerate to 900km/h and decelerate to a stop again, all on a 3km track, requires acceleration/deceleration of a bit more than 2g.
Probably not, you're not going to go through the YC process where most of the value is.
When it comes time for decision making, everyone wants to be heard, and everyone wants their opinions considered. Treating/dismissing someone as an asshole doesn't facilitate any sort of basis for discussion, debate, agreement, compromise. Then, when the ignored and dismissed get so fed up that they are boisterous and riotous, and their opponents still don't acknowledge or address their voice...what is next?

Answer: Violence
> Yet another example proving that no corporation considers the interests of the public in any way.

This statement sort of clearly false and hyperbolic. Why would you make it?

> I'm baffled that anyone can argue for unfettered free market capitalism with such a bevy of evidence against it.

This is a pretty clear sign to me that you don't understand the argument in question. If you can't understand a position well enough to see why someone would support it, then you don't understand the position well enough to reject it.
It hasn't gotten any better with age.
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You know, it is renewables to lose, apart of local places blessed by any sort of competitive advantage (water, silicon, etc.). However, I am not here for politics and you simply cannot beat nuclear by numbers, though.
You can watch whether this is working in real time: just watch NZ which has rolled out fiber to the home: NZ could be looked at as a rural area.

From what I have seen, for most people it means Netflix, and it has had very little impact upon NZ software development (certainly not a billion dollars worth).

Truely rural areas don't get fibre (too expensive per household) and often have no ADSL either (more than 5km from exchange).
> Is it the greatest Christmas song ever?

I’m a church organist inter alia and I doubt any of my fellows would say it was. O Come All Ye Faithful? Certainly. Hark the Herald? Could be. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen with that spine-tingling David Willcocks last verse? Perhaps. But sweet, saccharine Silent Night? It wouldn’t be on the list.
Are these lawyers you have talked to and gotten meaningful and nuanced advice from, or are they lawyers your bosses have talked to and derived maximally avoidant policies from? I'm not saying that you shouldn't have policies that fit your risk profile, but I ask because I have been in those former conversations (and I have done a nontrivial amount of auditing+compliance work in this space) and have never come away with such an impression, while at the same time the level of perceived risk that your bosses derive from those conversations can be entirely untethered from the level of risk that actually exists. (This space is full of people saying "oh, HIPAA means we can't do that" as shorthand for "I don't want to do that," after all.)
I grew up in a rural part of Florida, and while I do remember atheism having a stigma about it in high school, it was more of a mild distaste people would share about it (mostly based on predispositions about it). That being said, religion is a Federally protected classification, so no one can fire someone over atheism and not risk a lawsuit in the U.S. Some of these articles are written by people who are as far removed from rural American life as they are from Poland...and I would take such articles with a grain of salt.
Self censorship != true acceptance of other people.
That's mostly an empty threat.

There are dozens of supposed reasons to start a trade war with China, but most of those "reasons" are just saber rattling.

If we aren't going to start a trade war (or a real war!) Over things like Tibet, or the humans rights violations, or the million people that China has put into camps, then I don't see how something morally silly such as IP laws would be the tipping point.
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TLDR: When not accounting for DevOps and SRE costs, managing your own VMs are a fraction of the cost of PaaS services.
I don't understand this line of thinking. IBM has plenty of people contributing to open-source projects. I wouldn't be surprised if they contributed to etcd even before the acquisition. When it comes to their open-source track record, IBM and Oracle are nothing alike.
In many fields (related to math and computer science) editors are paid by universities and their editorial work is unpaid.
Most economists think this sort of thing does more harm than good.

Only in a hypothetical scenario where it's a battle of equals.

But China has worked itself into a corner now for several reasons:

1. It imports so little from the U.S. that it's almost out of stuff to put tariffs on.

2. Most of the things it imports from the U.S. are used in manufacturing in China, and then sold back to the U.S. as a finished product. So China's own tariff makes Chinese goods more expensive and less attractive in the U.S.

3. China still needs to import a metric ass-ton of soybeans from the U.S. It tried getting them elsewhere, like Brazil, but every other soybean-growing country saw the opportunity and raised prices. So putting additional tariffs on American soybeans will make food cost more in China, and there's nothing China can do about it.

I've heard there's additional pressure on China in regards to the soybean situation because harvest is already over for soybeans in the southern hemisphere. And you know who's sitting on a ton of soybeans ready for export? The U.S.

I don't know enough about soybean growing cycles to say if that last paragraph is still true or accurate, though.
That is an eye-opening book.
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
Why? You can be a “defense contractor” as a one person show out of your garage.

The requirements for selling a toilet to the navy were written at a time when these issues didn’t exist. That the biggest bureaucracy on earth doesn’t respond well to new threats seems ecpected not odd.
Why do many popular sites have bugs in Oauth? Isn't there a standard implementation or lib?
It got downvoted because it is not true. PV scales so well that people are voluntarily throwing panels on their roofs to reduce their energy bills. It scales so well that even with current single junction cells, we could cover just 1% of the Sahara with panels and meet the entire world's energy needs. When multi junction gets cheaper, it's basically end game for power generation. And you're probably going to say that storage is a problem, but again storage is something that scales so well people and utilities are buying battery systems all over the place while multiple giga-scale battery factories are coming online in the next 5 years to push prices even lower. Plus High voltage DC power transmission can get power thousands of miles with surprisingly low losses.

And why do you think fusion might be necessary for the following 100 years? Energy use per capita has been dropping in developed countries for years. Fusion really only makes sense as a "must have" technology for space exploration, which current reactor designs are so far away from it's basically a joke.