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> use official docker images

(as a mitigation)

okay, but even for official images, figuring out the provenance of a build on docker hub is totally impossible

I challenge you to start with an image sha and tell me what git version (or even what repo) was used to create it

docker needs to get better at supply chain
I wonder why they chose it over facebook’s 8 bit posit: https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/
Naaah it just works fine
Web browsers are where it starts but we're getting native WASM runtime/containers that can just start a program from the disk. The browser then just becomes a shell around it with the ability to find a binary over a URL rather than locally, along with some other web-related features.
Raises an interesting question: how long can modern bridges last, given they consist mostly of steel?
No way, hate social media
> files you create inside the IDE are virtual files with no foot print on your real file system. This is done to make sharing a project as easy as sharing a single file.

This sounds like it would prevent the proper use of version control systems like git, which seems like a terrible idea. Is my interpretation correct?

It seems like it would be better to develop with normal files (and the decades of powerful tools that can operate on them), and then bundle into one file for distribution.
The problem seems to be that you can't use this in front of other repository, for example Gitlab
My friend's friend interviewed me for the college paper re: online poker. Her final article had quotes taken out of context here and there. Painted me as a degenerate gambler drowning in luck. In reality, I had 2 years of positive cash flow and stable, increasing profits with records of every single hand played. Fortunately, the editor threw the article away (I'm not sure why, but I like to think it was seen as biased). How naive I was, though. That article could have been on the reasonably prominent paper website, available to anyone googling me even now. I lost a friend over it. Everyone's got their own agenda. Journalists are just closer to the public eye.
The paper:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b04272

They really get dramatic with these press release titles huh?
Star Trek: Picard
bfloat16 is very similar to traditional IEEE 754 floating point, and Google+Intel already have history building hardware for it.
There's also no output to psychology, so there's nothing to validate you. Especially because it doesn't matter if you get psychology wrong - who cares if you don't know how your mind works? It doesn't care, it's going to keep thinking.

But also, a psychology degree isn't used for becoming a "psychologist", right? That's either an academic or a kind of talk therapist. I think the people I know with that degree work in HR.
SSR is the default for the web since it started.
You couldn't be more right. QE and the Fed propping the market up are why we're at where we are right now. Conversely, last December the tough talk, rate increases, and general hands off approach led to the sharp sell off. Until policy changes or something else drastically affects the market in some way, we're probably back to the slow grind up.
When they said tar-like, I imagined they meant individual files could be extracted from an archive, but it seems not.
One thing I was wondering, but is probably a bit too ephemeral to find out more about in primary sources: I have always been amused by the "DEC Chair", which came with all bigger PDPs. Some of the Royal McBee materials suggest (loosely so) that the LGP-30 came with its own chair as well and that this may have been a broader habit in the first few decades of computing, when computers were still voluminous and expensive. (However, I don't think that IBM did ever ship a chair with their equipment. But this is just a personal impression.) – Are there any personal memories?
I'm using the word pejoratively, but I was specifically referring to the handwavey discussion of skull measurement as a synecdoche for the whole article.
This is called corruption. The first part,where you were asked to stay longer than needed is just a form of overbooking,where one declares the scale much greater than it actually is.I've seen this being done on a smaller scale,where instead of 5 people, company brings in 15 and then the extra 10 just wandering around nit doing much, however the end client is being billed as it was a job for 15 men.The other example was where a 1 truck of bricks turned out to be 15 trucks on paper...Again,the end client is charged. The part with drones is most likely where the locals with the right connections in the border services create some random company,then public tender is made in a way thst it just fits this new conpany. Once the contract is won, they'd buy drones from the major players anyway,just with a nice margin on top of it.
Magicleap for me. After seeing investors like Google pour billions of dollars in it I was pretty hopeful it would be as big of a game changer as iPhone was back in the day. Turned out it was just vaporware.
> Same central planning mentality.

The high-speed rail project was never viable to build in 2019.

California already has a successful high-speed transit project - it's called Southwest Airlines.

However, the high-speed rail problem is the exact opposite of a central planning issue.

If the state government had enough power, it could fund and eminent domain all the property needed.

Instead, private contractors are in charge of the project, and money comes (and goes) at the whim of the Trump (federal) government.

From a political standpoint, transit projects are just pension rewards for supporters. That a member of the public could actually get from Point A to Point B is irrelevant.
"You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story.". Actually It's a lot easier to enjoy the story if you aren't an engineer. The use of compressed air is so bog standard on production lines it would be the first solution proposed before a meeting was even scheduled.
The concept here is fairly profound and you could make the analogy of power to something like Lisp.

Lisp everything is a symbol, in Plan9 everything is a file and all namespaces are mutable. This concept is combined in the Interim OS experiment[1]. The idea of everything is a file is very literal and very serious compared to say, unix.

It's worth noting that 9p, while a filesystem protocol, is closer in concept to a REST api than something like say ext4.

In Plan9, the kernel could be thought of as a 9p connection router/multiplexer and all system resources and all servers must express themselves as 9p filesystems. The tooling 9p provides allows you to take trees of named objects (filesystems) and rearrange them however you please and place child processes under rules for modifying their own trees and how they can break scope, if at all.

Forking is more dynamic as provided by rfork[2] where you can give a child a specific subset of your process's namespace. So you could make a child who can only see specific files, executables, or resources and make it so that the child can't mount, unmount, etc.

[1] Interim OS: https://github.com/mntmn/interim

[2] http://man.cat-v.org/9front/2/fork

Some cool manuals:

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/1/bind

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/1/ns

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/3/proc

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/5/intro
I use Auth0 for my React frontend. The Auth0 folks themselves say you shouldn't use refresh tokens for single page apps, you can't trust the client-side.

Instead of using refresh tokens, they have a "silent authentication" mechanism[1]. The idea is: sometime before the user's initial token expires, your app goes through the silent-auth process in an invisible iframe. Assuming the user's authentication credentials are still valid, the invisible iframe will eventually use the browsers postMessage() functionality to deliver a new token to the main app's frame, your app then quietly starts using this new token that has a new cryptoperiod.

The silent-auth mechanism doesn't use any different inputs than a normal Auth0 SSO login. Your app is constantly re-authenticating until the user is not allowed to login any more. This allows you to set short expiration times with no interruption of the user at all.

[1] - https://auth0.com/docs/api-auth/tutorials/silent-authenticat...
Didn't learn about this in school. Pretty pissed at how sanitized war history was.

I think Canada was in a "littlest brother of the commonwealth with a lot to prove" position. Confederation was in 1867 but we weren't really
a country until much later. We couldn't even declare war on our own. Just went wherever England went.
You vastly underestimate the difference between non-evidence (which held back civilization plenty) with fake evidence. People will easily believe lies.
$5,500 doesn't matter in this context which is why the pricing is structured this way. This is destine for a server in a datacenter, the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking costs.

This largely comes down to a problem of folks assuming that 'price' is correlated strongly with 'cost'. It's not and never has been.
Most billionaires don't go broke because they spend more than they have on personal expenses. They tend to go broke because of bad investing.

Plenty of billionaires became billionaires in the first place by investing aggressively and using debt to build something. And once the music stops, or the table turns, that might all crumble if caught off guard.
Dark matter is 85% of matter. You are talking about such an obscene amount of light that it would be very very easily detected. Space isn't empty, and the space around galaxies isn't empty. You are talking about there being so many supernovas worth of light out there between galaxies that it's just ... I dont even know. The only way it would make sense is if the huge amount of light out there didn't interact with regular matter in any sort of way. Otherwise it would be scorching the earth with a fury of a trillion gamma ray bursts. Hmm, a form of matter that is everywhere but doesn't I interact with normal matter in any sort of currently detectable way ... I wonder what that would be.
New trailer for the series. I am putting the YouTube link below as well but it may be regional. It might sound ridiculous to be so excited over a TV show, but TNG was formative for me. My life is completely miserable and hopeless and day to day I don't know if there will be another, and I really needed this. It's something to hang on for and if you get it you get it. The emotion of seeing this was profound and energizing. Hope it gives you the same feeling. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXy0f0aCN0
What about all the projects being posted lately (quid, Mozilla with scroll, brave Browser, etc)?

I think the friction of getting started, both as creator and as contributor is still too high. I created a proof of concept site about this as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448087), but I don't think that's an ideal solution either, just maybe a little easier to get started. Any feedback is welcome, of course.
Have you bought anything online in the past two decades? Because pretty much every online store uses a third party who processes the payment information on their behalf. Your CC info never goes to the seller. Examples are PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, Dwolla, etc.
The Last Centurion of civil engineering.
It's pretty easy to become a suspect for walking while black, smelling like marijuana, resisting arrest, driving suspiciously, having a dog respond to you…
s/o to the wip 9front ports tree, too: http://code.9front.org/hg/ports
Fastcompany article is plagiarized and stripped down from
Axios:

https://www.axios.com/the-coming-deepfakes-threat-to-busines...
Most physical banks charge you fees for having a checking account, fees for overdrafting, etc. If you don't pay one of those you can be banned from banking by Chexsystems.
As long as your processor supports vmx ofc

Just ask aux/icanhasvmx :)

Manuals:

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/1/vmx

- http://man.cat-v.org/9front/3/vmx
This research seems pretty obvious, or at least it doesn't tell me anything that's surprising.

All I get out of it is that if your policy is to ride really close to the edge (between income and spending), and if you have credit available to you, then there will be times when you take on debt.

OK, but what else would you expect? Some people are meticulous about finances, and some people aren't. Do you expect the people who aren't meticulous to constantly track both credit card balance and bank balance, then stop making credit purchases the moment they don't have the cash to back it? By definition, it's the sort of thing they don't typically do. With no process to prevent it, of course sometimes the credit card balance will grow larger.

In other words, this doesn't really show that debt is the cause of the inability to come up with $400. It might be, if someone cannot reduce their expenses or increase their income, which of course is true for some people. But in general all it means is that they haven't, not that they can't.
bfloat16 sounds like it could be supported with minimal changes to existing floating point units, maybe with just some improved microcode.

FB's approach on the other side requires entirely redesigned and separate execution units. That's harder to justify, that silicon will remain dark for non-DL usage.
My buddy is similar. He's got a decent enough salary, not a lot of mortgage, should be just fine.

Not long ago he complained that he'd been eating instant noodles for two weeks straight because he was short on cash, and was looking forward to next payday. Literally the day after he called me up to tell me about the new GPU he'd bought. Payday had arrived. He'd immediately bought another 2080 Ti, so now he could run SLI! This is a guy who hardly plays games, and when he does it's like Diablo 3 or Civilization.

And guess what was for dinner at the end of that month, again...

I do impulse purchases as well. But not with purchases of that magnitude. Almost always I manage to restrain myself, take a few rounds. Almost always I end up not buying. And because of that, the very few times I allow myself to go wild, I can handle it without sweating.
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I don't really see how a railway between two of the biggest cities in Kenya, with approaching 10million people between them can hardly be considered nowhere...
It's so cheap that a nation threatened by climate change likely will do it "rogue", without international consensus. It's less a matter of "if" but "when."
That's a fascinating scenario. Even more malicious embedding shellcode in a series of tickers and prices kicked off with a few invalid tickers/prices.

I wonder how many other feeds/sources like that in which so many businesses rely on in at least some level of autonomous fashion.

Reminds of the story of Google wiping out all of their CDN servers by Diskerase because of a single detected value, IIRC.
How about using planks of cooling wood[0] to cover parts of the sea instead?

It should float and perhaps can create a cooling effect large enough to make ice out of already freezing seawater?

[0] https://www.coolingpost.com/features/cool-wood-could-take-th...
I wonder why this came to be. At first my theory was that they were upset at being dragged across the ocean to fight a war they had nothing to do with, leading to a kind of personal vendetta against Germany for starting it. But that doesn't make much sense, because evidently the Australians didn't have the same reaction, and as I understand it the average German soldier was not much invested in their cause.

I know that American soldiers only showed up at the end of the war, but did they have a similar reaction to the Canadians?
I really enjoyed Stephenson's latest take on this in Fall. A tech billionaire got sick of people believing in fake news and so created and then open sourced a bunch of tools to allow the generation of an artificial moral panic about any person, place, or topic. The objective was to make it so only blockchainy identities (established by another interesting introduced topic, holographic identies (holograph in the ancient use of the word)) would be trusted.

What it led to instead was the creation of a no man zone called "Ameristan" stretching across the middle of red state America, where people were plugged in to a feed of what one character described as "seriously weird shit," incomprehensible memes that self replicated and led to the creation of a wild ass version of Christianity.

Anyway, it makes me wonder how one could go about implementing this sort of proof of identity based on all sorts of different factors that, combined, are nearly impossible to spoof.
Income tax makes it difficult to catch up once you get behind.
Linux containers feel like a very weak imitation of what they could be under an environment like Plan9 imo.

Linux lacks a lot of core abstraction properties that would make containers elegant to implement under something like the Plan9 model, at least.

Cool project inspired partially by Linux containers: https://doc.9gridchan.org/guides/spawngrid
You could generate a key that way, but then we'd expect pre-distribution of each side. That would help confirm identities to both sides - if the courier and drop don't know each other, they just match the bill halves before dealing. As I understand it though, they're tearing on site.

So I think they're mainly trying to prevent the drop from stealing the money (claiming the courier never showed), and prevent the courier from stealing the money (claiming the drop has it). If C steals, D can now say, "I still have the Boss's whole dollar, why didn't C come take it?" If D steals, C can say "I have part of the dollar, proving delivery."

The boss is also trying to simplify this protocol, make sure low level drug offenders don't have to do a complex ledger entry during the commission of a major crime.

The tear might be purely symbolic, to make it look more symmetric to both parties, who may or may not have read Schneier.

Or... the tear could be preventing the D from ambushing C during the exit. Once the bill is torn, it would be hard to claim the courier never showed, even if they could get both parts of it back.
Please don't post garden-variety pop culture to Hacker News. There needs to be an intellectually interesting angle for such a story to be on topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would someone buying in volume even have to pay $5500?
Really? I haven't allowed people to log directly only a production environment in almost 10 years. There is definitely a choice.
My highschool had personal economics courses preaching the 70/20/10 rule with saving 20% of your income for short term savings, 10% for long term. People don't follow it because credit(debt) is too easy to get and you can make impulsive decisions to blow money on vacations and other things. I don't know what the answer is but a highschool course isn't it.
Correct. ARDC (managing entity of AMPRNet) then used the lack of use of the 44 address space as an excuse to sell it off to the highest bidder. Those addresses were indeed unused, but not for lack of want.
Canadian here, I never learnt this in class. What a shame.
The Technology to Reach the Moon Was Put to Use Back on Earth
I think I've figured out the IBM-style buzzwords like "mobile productivity cloud", and I'm making good progress on all the ones in SJC airport ads, but the one that's still got me is "digital transformation". Shows up all the time in my promoted tweets.

Didn't everyone digitally transform in like the 90s?
Not only can you not call it signal, you may also not connect it to the signal network so you have to host your own which can't message anyone.
That's sad. I wonder how many people out there can't control their impulses. I also wonder how much of our economy depends on people spending beyond their means. Technically nobody needs to buy anything beyond bare necessities.
It's a warehouse job, not the PR department. Maybe pay a little better if you expect employees with refined diplomatic skills.
Sounds insurmountable. That said, in the context of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, this feels like there are far more knowns than unknowns.

Think of it this way. JFK laid out a challenge that in retrospect amounted to "Here's a iPhone. Go put us on the moon. Soon!"

THAT was madness. Redistribution of some water* - even at this scale - is more Mercury than Apollo. It seems it might be us who now knows too much to be crazy enough to try. That's a shame.

* On a daily basis we redistribute a massive amount of oil. So there is a reference point in terms of volume / scale.
You're conflating bad UI design with user-friendly, intuitive, comfortable UX.

Also, design is simplified because that strategy works. People want simple UIs, while business doesn't want to invest in design, costs of which rise exponentially unless you have talent both in development as well as management at work, or deal with too many unique support requests.
The author is a libertarian think-tank shill, not actually worried about his job.
Yes. When you can important workers on an H1B that will work for 1/2 or less of what an American would make....

You increase the wage of the American by 2x (but don’t hire much of them) , but bring in 10 from a developing country... the company net cost for 11 devs is less, the American worker doesn’t complain, and H1B don’t complain cuz the ones that do get sent back, and the story that there is a shortage continues. But society as a whole degrades lol.

Case in point: America the past 50 yrs
Speaking from experience, you can still default in a recourse state with little consequence.
"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Companies like to play chicken with engineers bc going to interviews to prove your true market value is not something most people are comfortable doing.
-3 votes. HN is so predictable sometimes.
1937 Rockola World Series Baseball Arcade Game
I have a cheap HP convertable laptop/tablet with 2GB of RAM, Windows 10 works fine on it.
> It seems this is more a response to external pressure than it is to some new revelation that the projects are infeasible.

I'd say no. I've been personally involved with now 4 companies that were directly or indirectly involved in all that OBOR kerfuffle.

It was certainly a genuine miscalculation on Chinese side, and a very grave one.

An average Chinese bureaucrat knows no more of the outside world than a lifelong gated community dweller knows of "the hood." And add to that the natural incompetence of China's "aristocrat-bureaucrat" class.

In talks with many members of political establishment, I heard very much the same sentiment: many genuinely expected OBOR to be "a walk in the park." To a lot of them, their first first hand experience working outside of China is a complete eye opener.

The common line they thought was that "if Kenya's GDP is zillion times smaller than ours, then we can put zillion times less money on an equivalent project, and still get the same result."

Another one after that is "if it is so much cheaper than in China, it must be very easy."

Some times they get messed up with analogies beyond silly, like in the case of one OBOR official who was estimating costs of road projects in Africa by trying to find physically similar roads in China, and copypasting their costing.

A lot of things in China are done with presumption: "if it's abroad, it can't be worse than in China." That presumption is just so wrong.