skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, your "uncheckable strings" (which could be checked by spinning up a testing database) is replaced by 700k lines of code that, although tested, is still full of bugs.

The Hibernate repo is 700 thousand lines of java code!

There's a tendency amongst some (especially "enterprise" programmers) to forget that dependencies are also just code. If they break, you are on the hook too. You own that complexity.
navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands, prompting for argument values.
Isn't Firefox a fork of chromium? Same as Brave?
>Given Bloomberg's bad track record on infosec stories I say I have my doubts.

This is all speculation:

I've noticed a weird amount of ex-CIA find their way to that publication. I sometimes wonder if the China story was some kind of plant. So then the question becomes, do we think this is truthful propaganda or just propaganda?
If you'd like some interesting reading, take a look at the traditional Catholic analysis of usury: https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-.... According to this modern summary, anyway, any interest-bearing loans that are personally guaranteed (such as credit card loans or student loans) are immoral. However, investment is permissible, as are collateralized loans (either against property, such as a house, or against a corporation, which is a sort of property); however, in the event of default, it would not be permissible to go after the corporation's owners to recover the rest of the loan (although if the owners illicitly withdrew money from the company they'd still be liable for fraud).

EDIT: Submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21032154
Climate change might also result in war! But I think cutting people off from other countries makes it a lot easier to categorize populations as 'other' and thus ok to go to war with.

There's a lot of ways for the world to fail here.
> they can do things that others can't.

when they start to be so influential and market shaping that the 'things they can do that others cant' threatens to be 'sell products effectively enough to survive independently' or 'compete in this space at all, even with massive backing' then no, this is not what we want.

granted, I don't think amazon is there yet, but they are certainly making impact.
> individuals are free to choose which behaviors deserve dollars

That's more a function of a free market than capitalism.
It's one I hand rolled in Node. It boils down to markdown for blog entries and handlebars for templates. Not exactly in vogue, but I've found the mix (with a little hacking around) very productive. The code is at https://github.com/qubyte/qubyte-codes if you're interested. :)
If used with pure intentions, entheogens/psychedelics are medicine. It's sad that so many just see them as recreational drugs. It's only a matter of time now until mainstream society accepts this truth that indigenous people and the mystically-inclined already know.

I started out with psilocybin in 2009 when I was 19. Over the course of the last decade, I dove deep into EVERYTHING from Antiquity to the Renaissance to the Counterculture. I feel psychedelics helped me synthesize so many different aspects of STEAM fields in a meaningful and practical way.

Meditation and gratitude keep me child-like, I can't even put it into words really. It's just something that has to be experienced to be understood, I'm sure you know what I mean!
> While I agree that books tied to plastic hardware is bad, but felling trees isn't less evil either… it is only more so.

No, it isn't. Paper is leagues and bounds more renewable and most data shows the rate of deforestation is going to stabilise within a few decades. Paper decomposes cleanly (and recycles) whereas a Kindle will be the same hunk of scrap for centuries if buried.
Like others have said, the pushback came from saying it was happening, not that it was plausible. As well as refusing to pull the story or clarify the details.

I also swear I had read articles months/years before that companies like Apple literally photographed motherboards before shipping and compared them after arriving to look out for hardware tampering in transit. That, to me, shows they are not only aware of issues like that, but taking meaningful steps to detect it.

Edit: Here's an article from 2016 about it https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-worried-about-spy-tech...
IBM sues Zillow, accuses real estate giant of building features using IBM tech
Do we arrest children who are caught reckless driving, though? I bet we do.

Unless you're saying that after the father crosses illegally into the US, ICE invades his home country and kidnaps his family?
When the Fed monetizes assets (QE) it adds to bank reserves (monetary base) AND adds to demand deposits at commercial banks (money supply) that held those assets. Where does the Fed get money to purchase the assets? They create it. Obviously no “printing” is happening it’s on a computer.

When the Fed buys the assets they add credit, giving the banks more than they need in reserves. Banks then seek to make a profit by lending that extra money, thus “stimulating” the economy.

The whole point of QE is increasing liquidity by increasing the supply of money.
Usury FAQ (2014)
Failing is really the default for startups. A better question would be, why do you think you did not succeed. I'm guessing they simply did not make enough money, which is the norm.

EDIT: if you read the article, they "failed to monetize" so there's your answer. Because they failed to monetize, it's hard to know what they could have done differently to monetize.
That claim appears suspicious to me. Is there some data to back you up on that?

Libraries with books that are hundreds of years old.

but felling trees isn't less evil either

New trees literally grow on trees.
I meant, finding a backdoor in its full form on the main system would be a much more significant find, and its impact and newsworthiness is greater than any hypothetical or baseless speculations, such as Bloomberg's BMC affair.

The impact of the BMC affair, if true, is showing real evidence and real demonstration that such an attack has happened, has been used in the wild, rather than showing that the attack is possible (we all know). Unfortunately, bad journalism at work.

P.S: I'm not saying that the ME subsystem, or buggy speculation (pun not intended) isn't a threat, just to make a point.

> I'd be pretty concerned about ME bugs and backdoors disguised as ME bugs.

Same consequences. I'd say they're effectively the same thing.
If CIA has editorial control over Bloomberg, would be a great way to manipulate the market to fund black ops.
This is delusional at best, but i suspect just blatantly dishonest.
The original disclosure was about a targeted hack. What further evidence would you expect to appear?
> huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist

Maybe they want to make buyers hesitate on buying a Tesla Model 3 right now and wait until next year.

If you assume cars will sooner or later go electric, automakers would feel they need to capture part of that market to survive. The article says VW is making a "multibillion-dollar push", so it seems likely that's their strategy.

So if all they get out of these ads is to put people into a holding pattern until 2020 to decide on VW or Tesla, that combats the threat of Tesla dominance, which in and of itself could be worth what VW spends on ads.
"If air travel accounts for less emissions than passenger cars..."

I presume you're talking absolutes, but ICE cars (particularly the more fuel efficient ones in Europe) produce less CO2 emissions per passenger mile that planes as far as I understand it, particularly cars with multiple occupancy. I live with my Spanish wife in the UK, and our family goes to see her parents in northern Spain once a year. Having done the calculations it's way better for the three of us to drive than fly.

I also don't agree with the idea that you need to fix one thing before the others - why not try to fix all of them? I don't think it's beyond our ability to tackle more than one thing at a time. The issue here is that emissions from air travel are accelerating - if we do nothing now that will just get worse.
I always like to link these articles when the topic comes up:

https://sivers.org/pg

https://www.vertabelo.com/blog/business-logic-in-the-databas...

https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/dblogic.html

There is also this video on how to properly architect these kinds of applications: https://youtu.be/PMPW024NIDE?t=1052
No. Firefox has always been separate; it has its roots in netscape navigator, while chromium dates to KHTML.
Are there korean made vw ID.3's for sale at roughly the same price? because that is what this person is actually talking about waiting for..
> The bigger problem is why do we value the wrong things? or why are we unable to develop better solutions?

Because capitalism is based on exchange value, not use value. The exchange value of keeping CO2 out of the air is $0. The exchange value of keeping bees and birds alive is $0. Neither of those things have any exchange value, but they have a massive amount of use value. There is a huge disconnect there. Explore marxism / socialism to learn more about this stuff.
I've always thought the "being SQL database agnostic" theory of ORMs was more about a development team being able to choose from some common choices than about apps being portable in practice.
seeking insight from older philosophy is about starting a journey towards achieving contemporary philosophical insights.

One isn't supposed to conclude that these problems were or are ever solved.
And sometimes they maybe have a point. Ponzi schemes exist because people chose not to see what's right in front of them, that those returns are not credible.

See my answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21032129 elsewhere on this thread and rebut that, because if you can then we can perhaps, perhaps, suggest something better.

I sound like I'm arguing for con artists but |I'm not, they are maybe a price that has to be paid. I really don't know. Maybe there's a better way. I don't know.
Creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
That has only 8MB RAM, and the company seems so fly-by-night they can't be bothered setting up Let's Encrypt.
I understand the Jevons paradox. However, unlike hybrids, electric cars allow complete elimination of emissions. It's a totally different animal, and it avoids the Jevons paradox while also allowing near-term emissions reduction. It's at least 2.5x better. You're not going to drive 2.5x more.
HMU when you install uBlock Origin on your iOS version of Chrome
Ah yup, that makes a lot more sense. I can imagine how fun that might be trying to do through EF.

It sounds like a workflow engine. I'm picturing one table that is very generic that tracks "this job id, this workflow type, this stage in workflow, this entity, this state of the entity" and a single job has multiple of those entries over the lifetime of that job execution and the JSON blob is the current state of things, so that you don't have to go and recompute that.

Yeah, it seems like a reasonable choice.

What sticks out to me in a scenario like that is a good CQRS implementation. The write side of it pumps in the history of the job execution, then denormalizers run to project that into a shape amenable to being read by the application.
It happens at the state level too. And it is not just politicians but also regulators. Also prosecutors/state attorneys/etc. with connections into the court system are often hired by law firms with that being a big positive attribute in their consideration.
UX is pretty much a logical process.
Sorry, I'm tuning off. A quick browse of that site raises a ridiculous amount of "propaganda" red flags.

IME when it comes to climate change, where there's smoke, there's fire. It's tempting to let yourself go and get wrapped by a nice "it'll all work out because they're either wrong or lying" narrative. I certainly wish everyone on earth who says climate change is happening was either wrong or lying.

But the truth is hard and sucks hard. I remember even five years ago seeing an image of a French meteorologist doing the weather forecast for August 2050. high 30s / low 40s everywhere. I remember this vividly, the prospect shocked me.

Here's the image I'm talking about, alongside the real french weather forecast for the last week of July 2019: https://i.redd.it/c37bdoqu4nd31.jpg

Let it sink in that things are progressing off-the-charts rapidly.
That entirely depends on how you define efficient. In pure immediate financial cost, yes - because the negative consequences of shipping are not borne by the shipping companies or their immediate customers.

And of course, there is also the question of whether it is necessary to ship all the goods that we ship. For example, the Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. Beyond the standard farming fields, there are immense plots of greenhouses - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...

Yet, if you go to the grocery stores here, you'll find a lot of produce from Brazil and other overseas sources. That's because it's more cost effective, when total costs are not considered, to grow high quality produce here and export it, then import cheaper produce (not necessarily low quality, but just lower cost) from overseas.
That's a ridiculous statement. Not just dishonest, but totally offensive to a certain ethnic group. Please consider your words next time.
Regarding the "spy chip" story: Other sources. Or other news agencies confirming the sources used. Or any evidence of the chips being planted on any hardware at all.

To be clear: I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that I'm skeptical about the validity and details of their story unless they have something to back it up with.
Glad you understand how most of us feel.
I might not understand the "expired" part.

I understood that it meant the controls would only be in effect until 2030.
> Credulity is not "elective".

Often it is.

> There's no way for the average person to distinguish between homeopathy and pharmaceuticals without running an experiment on themselves

There are plenty of scientific reports and examinations that have been done so they don't have to. If they chose to ignore those, they must have done so willingly. Your answer was not one of the better ones.
>I can generate the model from the database or the database from the model.

Depends on the ORM. Just like "raw sql mode", not every ORM supports that. It's not an inherent feature of being an object-relational mapper, it's part of the bells and whistles of some ORM packages. And I'm going to guess you're coming from the Python/scripting universe, because generating models in other languages is definitely more complicated.

But let's pretend that all ORM software can generate model definitions from the database. Just do the update then. I want to validate your argument that a simple update in SQL is "a lot more code especially if wiring up foreign relationships." If you think an ORM is much less code, or simpler, I'd like to see how.
This 100%! Kids are on the iPads all the time but for games mostly. And they do repeat a lot of steps to pick up the tricks and trade of the game they are on. I mean the new tech more than covers all of the requirement. IMO, it is the education machinery that is not ready for change yet. Or may be it pays more to keep things the way they are.
Provided I have no scientific basis to back this; I can’t help but think this is kinda good thing as I’m guessing there is less greenhouse gas in the South Pole atmosphere (again no evidence to back this) and the excess heat from the earth is then able to more easily escape into outer space.

I wonder how much climate change models take into account the distribution of green house gases and the fluid dynamic of air molecules with regard to temperature differences.
Stealing copyright material has always been easy.

Monetizing it, harder but possible and risky.

Using it in a business publicly very hard.

Although here they have said they used their own models... I see no reason why they had to, it'd be hard to be caught and I'm not sure clear cut illegal, which original model & photographer would sue?

For cleaning stolen goods GANS seem pretty good.

Cleaning a whole non fiction textbook would be interesting, GAN the writting, GAN the diagrams / photos.
I was curious, so I looked into it - apparently the US exported $4.5 billion worth of almonds 2017, with Spain being the largest consumer ($0.5 B). Also learned that the US imports almost exactly as many pecans as it exports.

Seems like they may have included it based on export percentages.
This is awesome, I couldn’t begin to guess how many times I’ve imported csv’s into sqlite to clean them up and trim them down. Great job!
Well, a year later, we still haven't seen the backdoor chip in question being taken to a lab or DEFCON yet... Even the photograph was fake, just a stock photo...

I was excited to read the news story, and it was a huge disappointment.
What that means, invariably, is that they will be enforced less against the politically connected and more on those without friends in high places.
Who do you recommend for payment gateway and for merchant accounts?
I live in a world where tables have 10^12 rows and all the queries need to be manually optimized. In my world, an ORM is the most useless thing in the world. Different people, different needs. However, in all my projects SQL was more useful than ORM, except where the data models were so simple my mom could write the code for it.
Well said.

I'll add my personal bent on this -- if a project (paid or otherwise) really turns my gears, then I have to be careful not to have it turn into an all-consuming obsession. Caring about productivity and quality is "free" in a sense, because it's all I'm about.

This is why the most important criteria I have when considering taking a job isn't pay or benefits, it's whether or not I find the work itself interesting enough.

When I find myself half-assing something, it's because I'm not really interested in it. That's the time when I need to change projects/jobs, or find someone else who wants to do the parts that I clearly don't.
Transitioning from subsidy to transaction fees to reward miners existed as an idea before nullc. It's in the whitepaper for crying out loud.

>Once a predetermined number of coins have entered circulation, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation free.

At any rate, the rest of your commentary is inaccurate. Lightning channels can go offline and be completely fine. I've had one offline for months before I brought my node back online and everything was fine.

The inbound liquidity issues are being resolved through dual-funded channels, which means both parties of a channel coordinate to start a channel off with the liquidity balanced between them instead of completely on one side.

LN is in fact still in beta, and you should expect bugs like any other beta software. That should come as no surprise.

Lightning is however in a state where it is more or less safe to use. The twitter bot I run that relays Blockstream Satellite transmissions has on order of 3,000 tweets -- which means there have been 3,000 payments with Lightning for just this one service.

Keep in mind Lightning in general is more suited to small amounts given the very cheap fees and divisibility down to 0.00000000001 of a bitcoin.

So to sum it all up, your post is pretty inaccurate.
Experience tells me you really need two layers. One for translating databases to objects, second one to translate those objects into proper domain objects.

The way code thinks about objects, behaviors and relationships is unlike the way you need to have it stored. Trying to use ORM-generated objects directly in a more complex business logic is, I learned, a recipe for disaster.

And since you're already writing two layers - data translation layer and actual domain layer - then, one may wonder, why not skip the first layer and implement the domain layer in terms of SQL queries?
> I haven't heard anyone talk seriously about database-agnosticism since the very early 2000s.

Do you use the same database engine for your unit and integration testing as you do production? I don't. I use sqlite for unit and local integration testing, and aurora-mysql for production.

As a side note, I quite literally can't use aurora-mysql for local unit and integration testing. It doesn't exist outside AWS.
I remember recently when these sorts of apps were heralded as bringing new social and class mobility to traditionally underserved areas. This is certainly how they were pitched to many investors.

Now I think of them as loanshark payday loan organizations. Those interest rates are absurd.
From what I have read, AVX512 only affects the one core (downclocking License level L1 or L2), it is older CPUs with AVX2 that affected all cores.

Independently thermal throttling can occur which would affect all cores, although presumably the CPU is generating heat per numeric operation, so AVX512 is neutral versus other instructions per numeric operation.
We actually had these in our office at HP. https://youtu.be/TC4sNztp8dk They were quite well used by execs, but those of us at the bottom end probably only a couple of times for virtual team meetings. They were very expensive, to get the high end video (think 2008). As soon as you have one or two remote attendees though the point of it goes away. After the demerger, building shuffles, they were decommissioned
The hack supposedly happened in 2015. Apple being super concerned about server motherboard supply chain management in 2016 for unspecified reasons lines up with the timeline very well.
I lightly chuckled. I chuckled more when there were two typos in as many sentences; "Goole Chrome browsers" and "said that the extension with "help expose"".
Control is a strong word. I think from my reading, they have journalists willing to listen who don't have the skills (or inclination) to sniff bs. The article seems to not differentiate between SSL and TLS for example, mentioning people breaking the former.
AWS support is good, particularly if you get on the phone.

I had one guy work the better part of the day with several phone calls to get to the bottom of my non-critical issue.

Not all experiences have been excellent (I think they could head off half my tickets if their status page would just be accurate), but Amazon is far from the "do humans actually work there" category.
Probably PDF is not the best format. EPUB can be quite good. I'm an EPUB reader and I never found any impediment. Most of the examples you mention, like "cannot display pages side by side in full screen (you know, like a book can)" are not really useful for reading, but more for admiring an illustration or a diagram. The rest of the points I think are improvements to ebook experience that can be achieved but has little to do with the old book format.
The possible reason to start the campaign now is that a big chunk of the market in Europe is business lease. New vehicles are not ordered in the last quarter of the year, because the resell value will drop if the car is a year old in three months. The lead time for cars ordered by employees is a bit longer than for regular customers. By building the hype over a new affordable EV which in quite some countries come with tax brakes they probably hope people will wait for the car to come out in Q2 and not have another one delivered in Q1.
Are you also ok with this means of protest being directed at your property?
Your assembly/c analogy is more akin to comparing a shovel to a mini excavator. 95% of the time you’re better off using a query builder library for the convenience rather than locking your architecture into using an ORM that will, inevitably, cause long term headaches.

For the other 5% of the time, you’re just building a todo app, use whatever fancy general purpose libraries are hot at the moment.
Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments