skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a right of passage to generate the Mandelbrot set. I have fond memories of being handed the scientific American article introducing it- apparently you can download a pdf version here: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/inl...

As a high school student I was fascinated and implemented it on any machine I had access to. I remember being bored in math class and coding it on my TI-81 calculator. That took a while to render in black and white but it did work!

Great memories. Thanks for posting.
Yup. Not a lot of people know that in the early 20th century there was a lot of malaria, yellow fever, etc in the southern US.
Yeah it's been the only way to make sure people with disabilities aren't left behind.
So, last time I had a web dev job was back in 2016, so the whole container thing kind of passed me by. So I don't know the details- but, on the other hand, I also don't have any baggage about it being "a VM".

But, starting from that kind of "clean slate" state I have to say that if it takes exasperated internet posts, like your helpful comment, to explain why containers are not like VMs and how they are not like VMs... well then maybe they are not that much not like VMs to make them such a big new thing.

That goes for many things. Like, I don't get the difference between Volley and Beach Volley. One is played on the beach. So it's volley? Played on the beach?
> Technology changes quickly, but trees grow slowly.

When you phrase it like that, it sounds like all we need are faster growing trees. Cue grey goo scenario, but with trees.
> What else should you do with a store of value that you expect to appreciate in price because it has inflation going to 0?

Do you expect to increase in price solely because there are a limited amount?
There are many things which have that property, but are not good stores of value. Your ability to sell it later for more money is based on continuing demand. Unless there's some other use case, where is that demand going to come from? Isn't some of the value it is allegedly storing based on future expectations of utility?
Well, when I got the device, the Lyft app was not installed. I visited the Play store, installed the Lyft app and ran it, and then: the Lyft app immediately signed me in, told me that my full name was Britney G-------, showed me "my" full e-mail address, and offered to let me book rides on her behalf, paying with her linked Visa card. It wasn't even clear how to switch accounts; it was like they were using the phone # as a primary key.

I sent Samsung some feedback about this but don't think the issue was on their side per se.
The non-spammy network operators that interconnect to the spammy network operators make money through that interconnection. If you want them to disconnect their spammy customers, you have to convince them that it's worth it to lose them. This is a manual process and takes time.
> What else should you do with a store of value that you expect to appreciate in price because it has inflation going to 0?

It depends on the price. If the price if above what it's "real" value will be (after factoring in later deflation), then you'd sell it.
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I like that... subcontract to a better or audience-specific comment platform. If it does get on those, and there is value, one could edit and put a 'Follow discussions on [HN link], [Reddit link]'.
> So no, no one has been "permanently crippled by colonization"

Your post is quite long, but none of it actually supports this conclusion, or even mentions colonization at all.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s just focus on bitcoin as an investment vehicle.

Rarity does not confer value. My toenail clippings are limited in quantity, but valueless. There has to be some sort of underlying demand before rarity gets to play a factor in the pricing equation.

So for bitcoin, what has been the underlying value proposition to justify purchasing? A large part of it was that bitcoin is the future of money, and that once “mass adoption” began, the price would go up.

Of course, bitcoin is a miserable failure of a currency. It doesn’t have properties that most consumers and vendors want. So this leaves us with “bitcoin has no inflation”, which is as I’ve mentioned above, not a good reason for anything to be valuable.
Docker famously doesn't isolate very well, as known in infosec circles for years now. If you're unaware, search 'containers don't contain'.

MicroVMs start faster and provide better isolation.

Meanwhile, none of this is relevant unless you're building your own cloud platform, which is a huge waste of time for most companies.

MicroVMs, containers, VMs, zones and bare metal are places to execute code. Serverless makes all those distinctions irrelevant.

Sorry if you spent 2015 getting really into Docker. You bet on the wrong horse. It's OK, this happens in tech.

Edit: if it's unclear, I don't mean Docker itself is the wrong horse, I mean containerisation tools per se are the wrong horse - and a bad place to invest your time unless you work for a cloud provider
> it had developed superior strategy

The problem is that when it starts to play against humans the humans develop an anti-strategy after just a several matches. Feeding that back into AI doesn't immediately give enough data points for training.
> You're right that containers are not VMs, but that's only really relevant as pedantry of technical details.

That isn't pedantry, it is an extremely critical point and the one most people miss when figuring out Docker. Both from a security context (docker doesn't provide vm level promises about isolation) and from a resource management side (docker is really close to no overhead).

It is not uncommon to deploy containers on VMs in the real world...
Are you talking about CSS-based fingerprinting?

https://browserleaks.com/css#explanation
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I avoided saying that processes should always be isolated because there are sometimes very good reasons to not isolate a processes with the containerization approach we're talking about, performance being one that came to mind quickly.

Containerization of processes definitely increases complexity but if you can take the time to understand VMs then you can (and should, IMO) take the time to understand how containers work as well, they are lighter and simpler (for example, you don't need to build a kernel or make an initrd). I would argue that people who think VMs are simpler are actually being fooled by huge advancements in tooling over the years and the fact that it's become "easy", not that it was ever simple.

I also want to point out that containers should actually make tracking down some bugs easier, but it does so in a counter-intuitive way -- it removes whole classes of bugs from ever occurring. You'll never have two programs clobber some shared folder or resource, you'll never have programs fight over dependencies, or struggle for locally-bound ports if you're running them in containers.

Containerization definitely represents an increase in complexity, but it is well worth the effort, most of the time, granted you understand the tooling.
>I never really began to succeed until I stopped playing stupid games and became a man.

I think this says more about yourself than you realize.
We could have a Fukushima and a Chernobyl a year and it would still be a net improvement.
This is beating a dead horse and the typical argument, but the same can be said for gold. Its "intrinsic value" in terms of practical application is far lower than the market cost given the plentiful substitutes for high current / low heat transmission applications.

I really do wonder why Bloomberg hates Bitcoing. If you read through a history of their articles, they REALLY hate it.
This has truly bit me in the ass. I was 'gifted' and never had to study in high school, or college really. But I was also lazy and it makes learning new things so much more difficult, at least without a structured school curriculum (I do think I might have adult ADHD too, but that's not what this is), despite wanting to make a career change. It's frustrating at times being stuck in that rutt. Oh, well, looks like a new masters for me next year.
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> they call it a VM (and don't qualify/note that they're being fast and loose with terminology).

It's only confusing to people who are familiar just with the popularized forms of computer science terms.

Isolation and sandboxing is virtualization. In a container, the applications seem to have an operating system and machine to themselves.

A single Unix process and its address space is also a kind of virtual machine, creating the illusion that the process has a machine all to itself. Thanks to virtual memory, other processes are not even visible; they are in a different name space of pointers. That concept breaks for multi-process applications: processes are aware of each other through manipulations of shared resources like files. Or effects like not being able to bind a networking port because some other process is tying it up. The next level of virtualization is to have namespaces for resource-related namespaces in the system beyond the address space. As far as just the filesystem space goes, we can virtualize with tools like chroot. A group of applications can have their own global /etc configuration, their own version of the C library in /lib and so on. That's the beginning of "containerization".
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>You can often run daemons as different users and set appropriate file permissions. You can add ENV variables to your start up scripts or configuration files. Volumes are mounted by the system (and you set appropriate access rights again).

That sounds exactly like creating a Dockerfile. The difference is that your script has to work any number of times on an endless number of system configurations. The Dockerfile has to work once on one system which is a much easier target to hit. The "any number of times on an endless number of system configurations" is a problem taken care of by the Docker team.
And this isn't like hubble, where we could (and did) send up a space shuttle to fix an issue after launch. Really scary.
(Desktop/tablet only).

I used to be terrible at remembering what I read, and I read a lot.

Then one day I heard about The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read as popularised by the authors Ryan Holiday (The Obstacle is the Way) and Robert Greene (Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power). It requires you to copy out - in your own words, and by hand - the key anecdotes, phrases, and quotes from books. It requires a bit of work to do, but boy, was it a game-changer. The act of writing key parts out again in my own words helps me remember waaaaay more than simply reading it.

The problem with that system, however, is that you have to write everything out by hand, which means that your notes aren't exactly accessible, you can lose/damage them, and finding shelf space for all the boxes actually starts to become a problem. So I built this web app which is based on the system, but obviously with all the improvements one can implement with a digital version. I can cross-reference my notes, tag them, search and generate a citation at the click of a button etc

I built this for myself, but some friends and family asked to use it, so I added user accounts, a landing page, and put it on a domain I’ve had for years.

Ignore the fact that there’s a pricing page - it’s completely free to use. I built and designed the entirety of the app in my spare time (I’m a car mechanic by day). It’s nothing more than a standard Rails app.

Would love to get your feedback!
There is definitely a joke waiting to be written about Facebook not wanting their user's data to be accessed (without payment, at least).
No need to be kidding IMHO. This could be a perfect opportunity for Huawei to show that there is life without google. Basically the only thing ROMs like Cyanogenmod were lacking was the support of a hardware maker, coming preinstalled by default. Today with F-Droid, Nextcloud, Openstreetmaps and Mastodon it would be doable.
iOS does as well. An app can use the system photo picker to allow the user to select a single/multiple photos without having "Photos" permission.

The problem is that granting full save permission also grants read permission, it would be more ideal if those were split.
Mere habitable area is already not the main constraint by far. Farmland isn't even as increased yield has lead to a decrease and market breaking surpluses for almost a century with lesser yield boosts. If habitable land was the constraint we would see ruralization - instead we see urbanization even when policies favor the suburban.
I was working on an in space assembly project at NASA recently although it was in a research department so we were not concerned about using space rated equipment. We were exploring both traditional methods and reinforcement learning. The cameras we were using were 2048x2048 and I asked around about what we could expect to have available if it went to space and I think the best off the shelf space rated camera was about 720p so anything more would need to be custom.
Huge difference is that Apollo had highly trained human beings on board to fix things that could not be planned for. There were also 10 previous missions to Apollo 11 to work out the kinks, with one failing with loss of life.

JW is not designed to be fixed or fail, nor are there training runs. It HAS to work first shot.
Related: "Florida Plan for a Huge Database to Stop School Shootings Hits Delays, Legal Questions" https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/05/30/florida-plan-f...
As much as I hate more legislation I think the only way to solve this is to make it very onerous to own and compile this data and to level heavy fines (as in criminal charges and/or force the company into bankruptcy via 90% revenue fines) in cases when the database is breached.

Everything else will just turn into an arms race between those who don't wanna be tracked and those who wanna track.

If the US did something like the GDPR but in our constitution I wouldn't be surprised if a cottage industry opened up overnight in secure data-warehousing. I get that it would complicate things for small companies but we brought this on ourselves.
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I am just playing on the nice little dog-whistle in the comment above me.
One simple solution I can think of is to restrict POST requests from Tor exit nodes while still allowing GET requests. Cloudflare will give you a impossible-to-solve captcha even if you just try to visit site.com/index.html and I see no reason for this.
This is a good way to put it. Gab and its sort come from a perspective that putting hungry tigers with kittens lets the kittens teach the tigers not to eat them.
Did you start using that spelling from reading the New Yorker?
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> As a high school student I was fascinated and implemented it on any machine I had access to. I remember being bored in math class and coding it on my TI-81 calculator.

In a recent contract I had very little to do for a few weeks and access to a ~9000 core server cluster and a workload-distribution framework...
Disagree with both statements.

1) is not a containerisation problem. It’s a team problem. I can jam in a load of npm and pip installs in to a shell install script. Maybe even delete /usr/ for the hell of it. Because the script isn’t isolated from the OS I can cause more damage.

This problem is actually solved by doing code reviews properly and team discussions.

2) errr no. Containers != infrastructure. If you want to deploy on bare metal, you can.
but why. Everyone just says they don't want personalized ads but why? Also its not the same thing as someone coming into your house and photographing everything at all, false equivalence.
"My toenail clippings are limited in quantity, but valueless."

Indistinguishable from other toe-nail clippings, for which supply is not limited. Not easy to transport internationally quickly.
you realise this is a carefully-controlled scientific experiment and not the latest Telsa model rollout, right?
r/ethdev is a good one. Much more developer focused than r/ethereum.
Unsurprising given not the nature of Capitalism, but of humankind. Capitalism was conceptualized as the most effective method of containing these impulses. But don’t assume this “race to the bottom” doesn’t exist outside of capitalism, especially considering the rich history showing the opposite. Is there a socialist government where the powerful aren’t rich in a much more inequitable distribution of wealth (for what little they create)?
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Not to fully excuse the Oculus, but calling it a "single station" is kinda ridiculous. It's a hub connecting 9 different lines, commuter rail, and the WTC buildings themselves, and also is a huge shopping center.
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I don't think it's the case that your country code can be reliably inferred from your IP. When I lived in Europe, I had a German phone number but was frequently living/working in other countries.
complexity != complicated
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At the end of the day, most reports/dashboard UI's are a DSL over SQL. It may not be language in the traditional sense - more of a Visual or Interactive language. However, it is a language where the primitives (drop down, text boxes, etc) are understood by many, even more so than the language it is abstracting (SQL).
you had to code it in assembly! I believe it took about a few minutes on my Amiga.
I haven't mentioned intrinsic value once in my post, I agree it's not especially useful to talk about.

I'm asking why BTC value should keep going up without some sort of demand beyond people buying because they expect it to go up? Or do you think that's enough?
Isn't this slightly related to GDPR?

GDPR, in a way, might also slow down the US from listening to EU members, for example when related to industrial espionage...
And given recent revelations, VMs don't contain either!

Docker is far from betting on the wrong horse. I can build a docker container and deploy/orchestrate it however I wish - via a docker runtime, kubernetes (which can vary in its underlying implementation), microVMs, VMs, or bare metal.

But then the containers don't need to be docker either. Theres many options available there too.

Either way, there are many options available. And the horse(s) are still in the running.

As for "serverless" vs containers/other, if you can provision accordingly, containers/other can be a better option at scale. Horses for courses, I guess.
Since you are around, the thesis

> But is there evidence that such a disconnect exists between what we see in the news and what is reality for most us?

is an interesting one, particularly in this case. The leading cause of death for African American males 15 - 35 in 2015 was homicide according to CDC statistics. It seems that’s a very important news worthy focus, especially with respect to policy debates that shape the way US cities are run. Even including caveats in your report would bring an important and nuanced view. I’m curious as to why this was not discussed.
> However, I'm wondering if SQL is the right tool for the task. For instance, the listing 2 seems complex when compared to the query expressed in plain English

For me Listing 2 is more complex and less intuitive than Listing 1 (CQL). Yet, it is a general problem when we try to adopt relational (and SQL) concepts for solving such kind of tasks (windowing, grouping, aggregation etc.) One solution is to switch to some kind of column algebra rather than relational algebra as described in [1] and [2] (it has also been applied to stream processing).

[1] Joins vs. Links or Relational Join Considered Harmful: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301764816_Joins_vs_...

[2] From Group-By to Accumulation: Data Aggregation Revisited: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316551218_From_Grou...
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Hi,

Author of extension here ... This extension is already available in chrome and I just ported to Firefox since I recently started using Firefox as my primary browser since quantum ... This is intentionally a offline only extension designed mainly for having in browser reminders which sits nicely between paper/pen notes and a cloud synced note taking app ... I don't want to sync stuffs to cloud to have transient reminders ...

You can view the source here - https://github.com/palerdot/remindoro

And chrome extension here - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remindoro/njmniggb...
And then hide the warning using CSS too, so it gets picked up by screen readers just like the hidden input!
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How does this work? Does it just block domains known to host fingerprinting scripts? If no, how does it hide addons and settings that interfere with the website? And how does it prevent leaking information by itself that can assist fingerprinting?
I once wrote a PostScript program that generates Mandelbrot, tuned it so that it finishes up in reasonable time, and sent to some old laser printer. On next day morning the machine finished up churning numbers and spat out a known picture.

BTW: .ps (PostScript) is a fun little stack based language, similar to JVM. Document is simply the result of the program execution. You can program it by hand, though I do not recommend anything large.
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This data is like Wikipedia.

Does every Wikipedia entry about a person in Europe need that person's permission before it can be published? Can I make Wikipedia delete my Wikipedia page permanently with no way for anyone to ever to recreate it? What about a blog post? If a write about a friend of mine doing something on my blog, do I need my friend's written permission before I can post?

I'm guessing that this answer is "no."
What I said was that it's pointless to use terms like "intuition" or "fuzzy rules" that are not well defined.

That's because then anyone can claim anything they like in relation with those terms, and nobody learns anything form the discussion, which is a complete waste of time.
indeed, I would take a bunch of 10billion scientific instruments over trillion dollar fighter jets or mid east military incursions any day.
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You can farm trees pretty easily and it’s done in my state with Pine. If you just clear cut the forest and don’t plant it back then yea is going to be terrible. Similar to the Palm Oil issues I hear about in the news.
Bitcoin is indistinguishable from any of its various forks. Cryptocurrency tokens as a class are not rare.
This is interesting but apple only so not that helpful for those of us who are cross-platform.
As a service to the public, could you please share the state-of-the-art techniques used currently by the industry?
Here is a nice thought experiment: substitute the word "privileged" for "gifted" and see if, and how, your response to this article changes.
A similar tactic I have is to just require JS to submit a form. Sorry noscript users.

That said, we encounter many sophisticated bots and also a decent number of what I'm pretty sure are real people in low-wage countries pasting data into forms. That last one is tough.
Honeypots are the best. It will filter out at least 90% of the spam (or so I have experienced everywhere I have implemented them).
The thing is it isn't "unlimited" but based on growth impact and still targets insectoid metabolisms. It isn't Ice-9 here. Fungals tend to be mostly nuisances to humans except for Anthrax and even then it is finnicky as hell to weaponize when actively trying. Apparently a balance to be dense enough to be deadly while still able to spread enough to infect.