skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well 9/11 is etched in the collective psyche, still talked about, and the toll there wasn't great either. Acts of terror terrify. I don't think it's so much that people worry about the odds, they just categorically do not want to accept regular school shootings as a normal thing. Why should they?
>I'm a lot older than you.

This isn't an argument. Age has nothing to do with wisdom.

>I've spent 40 years trying to fix this broken down rotted house and things have only gotten worse in

The thing is, we still have a functioning system. It does not function well, but it works at its most fundamental level.

Large institutions have tremendous inertia. Things don't change until the basic functions are exposed as not working. Once the lie is laid bare and the delusion lifts things sort themselves out quickly. That levee break moment is what makes change, and it usually happens with a whimper not a roar.

>The house needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

This is just catastrophizing.

>When a wiser older person cautions a younger one

ok boomer
> mainstream media pushing scares and sensationalist coverage

It's almost as if fear sells.

When someone's selling fear, only cowards are buying.
Your first 3 points reassembles too much to embedded programming + electronics. And no, there is not just a few or no-one of them: it's an entire industry. I do it all day long and I don't feel like I'm hacking if I know and understand what I am doing.

You don't need to necessarily code to hack. You can hack with just electronics.

Perhaps you are too inclined to java or upper layers of abstraction.
Owning guns is a right, and imho it should rank higher than education.
You mention drinking at home. The law bans the purchase of alcohol by children, but does it ban parents giving alcohol to their children? I dont think so.
How to Collaborate During Internet Blackout?
You can only play financial trickery with obsoleted the h for so long and Intel's entire product stack is dead in the water except for low cost consumer class CPUs with the lowest realtime latencies in the world (and those are mostly used for gaming).

At no price point are they competitive with AMDs offerings and they kind of cursed themselves with their legacy of inflated unchanging prices - they tear apart a decade of profit margin and consumer confidence to shortchange their product stack into staying relevant. C levels at Intel must still be dissatisfied with this outcome.
That's your most pressing question?
The amount of freedom people are allowed is always a question of balance, not binary. If the world you described makes for a better life for the people in it, it's a better world.

In the US, we used to consider dueling to be a freedom and a proper behavior for gentlemen to engage in. We changed our minds on account of the unnecessary death. Maybe people in the future may consider "dropping off the grid" to be weird and quirky, or downright dangerous.

Maybe that's okay. We've known for millenia that unlimited freedom is more damaging on average than partially-constrained freedom. In the era of these new technologies, I don't think we're sure yet where the constraints should be.
At a local Safeway woman loads cart with bottles of liquor. Walks out. She yells “I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.

At another place kids get caught stealing they turn over a display and run out. Again, nothing done. All those costs are borne by the paying customers.

People are gonna get sick of it; the progressive supes are gonna rue this move. The DA race in SF was close. I think it’s gonna go the other way next election.

Also word on the street is apparently thieves prefer SF to Daly City because San Mateo county doesn’t play as nice as SF.
Can you run ad supported businesses in Europe? What does would be dead without? Analytics are used to refine / target site design etc
> Just look at the recent terrorist incident in London. The guy killed two people with a knife before being restrained by unarmed members of the public.

The people restraining him were armed with a fire extinguisher and a narwhal tusk, and he was ultimately subdued by the police shooting him with guns.

Also, since banning guns didn’t actually seem to fix anything, they’re now working on banning knives. So you can’t just use a knife instead. Better hope there’s a narwhal tusk handy when you need it.
Are we all aware that nuclear power plants pay for waste disposal as part of their electricity sales cost in a trust fund called the Nuclear Waste Fund that has a balance around $50B in the US at the moment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act#Nucle...

As far as I know, nuclear is the only energy source that pre-pays for waste disposal.
How do you block specific websites without monitoring which website is being visited? That doesn’t make any sense.
"True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure."
I grew up with this (clear backpacks) ~30 years ago. We all had these drawstring mesh laundry bag looking things. Which, surprisingly, were horrible at carrying textbooks in...so we didn't.
From what I've heard of students, the surveillance they are under is a constant reminder that they are "not safe". People are just now starting to study what should have always been obvious: that active shooter drills are traumatic to students [1].

These topics are much easier to tackle than the real issues effecting students.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/11/10/778015261/experts-worry-activ...
This is just my first impressions so it may be wrong.

Looking at their blog - their proposition appears to me to be, AWS, Google and Azure can build and manage their systems better than Random Corp. trying to build and manage their own servers by ordering from Dell.

Oxide Computer will try and bridge that gap and let anyone buy efficient, manageable servers.

This is of some interest to me as there are lots of use cases for which cloud isn't practical or has regulatory challenges, and this should give organizations for whom this is an issue some good options. If nothing else, it'll be interesting as a target for Google's Anthos or Azure's On-Premises service.

Edit: This is a good summary[1], I think:

> Hyperscalers like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have what I like to call “infrastructure privilege” since they long ago decided they could build their own hardware and software to fulfill their needs better than commodity vendors. We are working to bring that same infrastructure privilege to everyone else!

[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/
>The clear backpacks are silly I'll admit, and also pointless. I agree that kids getting conditioned to be okay with surveillance is bad, but this is all coming from the private sector right now.

I think you'll find the opposite effect. Kids are being taught to hide things far better than before. Increasing their privacy skills for their adult lives :D
If a doctor is told to do something they know will harm a patient, they have to refuse or they are guilty of malpractice.

Engineers at VW were found guilty:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-engineer-sentenced-f...
It’s easier to walk out with groceries than stand in line and pay for them also.

There is no purpose to comparing pirating with legal means.
This is a bad landing page.

1. Bad HN title (doesn't say anything about what they did about the computer they made)

2. Landing page image has some generic background and as far as I saw, no tangible product, other than some shelves of their latest workspace.

3. If they could just include some diagram here or there and put some bold text/say they're building AWS for people/startups, that'd be great and to the point

Not bashing them, but just some thoughts I had about their presentation.

Regardless, I'm extremely excited for what they're building. Been waiting for something like this to pop up.
Author here. I'm trying out an optional email Q&A format on the post, but will also be keeping an eye out here.
Are you seriously judging someone by their great-great-uncle's book?

And why are you including a relative being a Appeals Court judge, and an independent journalist? Is "independent journalist" a code for something?
Headful Chrome
I am also quite confused. After looking at the homepage, I have no idea of what this company does.
I also came here excited about a possible new computer manufacturer along the lines of System76 or Apple. Lo and behold it's yet another "cloud" company, except they are doing on premise "cloud". Please let's stop using the term "cloud" so horribly wrong. I digress.
Finance as Magic
Language Identification, Translation, Smart Reply in iOS with Firebase ML Kit
Congratulations! Some key take aways:

1. Postpone investment in marketing for the first few years and focus on the product. No need to spend time on social media.

2. Bid on competitors brand names in Google Ads.

3. When you buy other SaaS, give them testimonials with back links to boost your SEO.
Their main landing page:

"Oxide is building a new kind of server.

True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure."
Mark Zuckerberg is too full of himself. Not only does he have a track record of not having an imagination, he seems to have got it into his head, that if he reads two books on Economics and Sociology over the summer he needs to be at the policy making table. WTF seriously? I have no idea why he is being entertained. Hand the cash over to experts and fuck off.
It is not similar to Dask, but similar to dask.dataframe. Dask.dataframe is built on top of Pandas, but that also means it inherits its issue, like memory usage, and performance. (BTW, totally a fan of Pandas).

Xarray is more about nd-arrays, less about ~tabular data.

Vaex is built from the ground up with the idea that you can never copy the dataset (1TB dataset was quite common). We also never needed distributed computing, because it was always fast enough, and thus never had to use dask (although we're eager to support it fully).

Also, vaex is lazy but tries to hide it from you. For instance, if you add a new column to your dataframe, it will only be computed when needed (taking up 0 memory). However, in practice, you're not really aware of that. This means it feels more like pandas (immediate results) than dask.dataframe (no .compute()/.persist() needed).

I would say they are all complementary, with small amount of overlap. Small data: use Pandas. Out of memory error: move to vaex. Crazy amount of data (100TB?) that will never fit onto 1 computer: dask.dataframe, or help us implement full dask support.
> the whole thing is private

The US has several public insurers.

About 72 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP.

About 60 million are enrolled in Medicare.

The MHS covers about 9.5 million people.

The IHS covers another 2.2 million people.
I'm curious how you approach the earthquake problem with underground pumped hydro storage?
I would posit it's more profitable to have customers that pay for insurance monthly but don't actually utilize any resources or services. Not using health care seems to be what is encouraged with high deductibles and copays for visits.
there is no drive for "infinite growth". However so far the population keeps increasing at about .7% per year. Housing has to keep up to keep prices stable. If not, where do you suggest the people live?
> if you think you are entitled to respect simply because of your age

I'm glad you qualified that with if. When I said I was older the point was that "I too once stood where you stand now and said these same things."

Not only do I not think I am entitled to respect, I know for a fact I won't get it no matter what. That's why I said this dynamic is the cycle of life. Solomon commented on the phenomenon as well. Each generation is committed to learning their own lessons and knows for a fact that they know better than all that have come before. I would go insane if I thought offering advice would do any good. That is part of why the problems can not be solved. Everyone knows best and that their solution is going to work, and everyone that tried to fix the rotted house before simply didn't know what they were doing. The problem is not that the house is rotted, it can't be, because then how could we justify keeping it. Therefore the problem is not that it is rotted.

Let's check in in 20 years and see how all the various proposed costly repairs have worked out. It will be great to be proven wrong and see that restored house standing proud, working just as well as a brand new one using modern materials, and the repairs all done and delivered at a lower cost than building anew. Alternatively those "OK boomer" chanting people will now be hearing "OK millennial" directed at themselves from a new generation that is convinced their own proposed repairs to the nearly totally collapsed rotted wreck will be the ones to restore the house to glory and the only problem was that the millennials and the boomers didn't know how to repair it properly, not that it was rotted.
Pyotr [0] is a small library I've been developing for a while, based on Starlette. In a nutshell, it takes an OpenAPI specification and turns it into an API application, taking care of all the routing and validation according to the spec. It is conceptually similar to connexion [1], but it supports async and is Python 3 only. There is also a client component, in the spirit of bravado [2].

[0] https://pyotr.readthedocs.io

[1] https://connexion.readthedocs.io/

[2] https://github.com/Yelp/bravado
Why is it upsetting? It isn't an instinct and isn't a basic law of nature (so it can't be derived), so at some point in time one has to learn it. So at some point they have to ask who they are.

I am happy to see this community answer it, but so people don't feel afraid to ask questions, and so people can learn!

Put another way:
https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
> One other way of thinking about it though is that this is evidence we can have a program to make specialized small modular reactors fairly economically. So we shouldn’t be so skeptical about proposals we do it for civilian use.

In Australia we occasionally have a discussion about our submarines. I think we have the largest and longest range conventionally powered subs. Should we get nukes? The argument against is we have no industry. (Although, I think, ex prime ministers are significantly more likely to argue for nuclear subs than current prime ministers. That means something.)

I guess they both play off each other. Life works best with nuclear subs and nuclear plants, or without either.
> (1) Americans consider housing to be an investment.

Apparently I'm the lone dissenter on this, but I think for many people this is a side benefit that they may hope for, but the primary objective is simply to own a home that they can live in and raise a family.
2nd amendment good, 4th amendment bad, mmkay
if you are referring to mainstream commercial movies by the major studios, Macrovision was introduced in 1984 for VHS tapes. DVDs from mainstream studios also had DRM.

What commercial video from the major studios have not had copy protection?
In my experience, many sites never hit that point of having CPU-bound Python code which they can’t afford; the ones which do hit that wall are usually large enough that they can carve out room for a C/Rust library, microservice, etc. rather than rewriting the entire thing.
A proper measure isn't about "scale of reaction" it's whether it's effective. These draconian measures are red herrings; I'm not sure they're even meant to prevent anything, because they won't work. They will not prevent school shootings, full stop. It's opportunistic bullshit from legislators.
The sitting US president is a game show host.
> One side has no leverage

This seems perverse. Game development seems to require a high amount of skill and creativity in terms of design, art and development. But whenever I read articles or hear talks about the business of things it seems like there is a huge disconnect between requirements and the compensation. And not only that but the economical impact of games is rather large. It seems like big publishers are doing very well.

Another (very general) field where this is the case is STEM research. Even though I would guess that you generally earn more and have more financial security, the discrepancy between skill, impact and compensation is even larger. I know it is an extreme example but it showcases a complex problem and other fields can partially relate.

Examples like these at least seem to falsify the notion that the market rewards skill and impact in general. It specifically rewards market and business skills. We as craftsmen often laugh at stuff like the Dilbert comics but there is a truth behind it: The ones that have the most actual leverage, skilled workers and problem solvers, seem to be controlled by people who focus on negotiation and even bullying.

Should the lesson here be that everyone needs to be a negotiator? Should we teach/learn this in school? Are we playing the game of capitalism wrong or is it actually rigged? I honestly don't know, but I personally feel that it all looks imbalanced and even phony.
Perhaps they do, but they are not ready to share it with the world yet?

It's baby steps all the way at this phase.
Plenty of places in the EU routinely monitor customers and block certain websites. Rail companies blocking streaming sites for just one very reasonable example. It can’t be as simply illegal as you say it is.
It's created a cultural stigma that results in most Americans refraining from exercising that freedom, but you're correct; it is not illegal to serve alcohol to minors at home (there are details there that I'm not going to go look up right now ;) ).
As others pointed out, this is break-ins, not cars being stolen. Typical cost of a break-in is one window. I have no idea how much that costs, but let's say $1000, which is probably 10x too much. That comes out to $1000 x 0.0364 = $36/yr.
Agreed. I was somewhat confused on why they had more focus on their Podcast than telling me it was an AWS for startups/people.

Maybe sometime in the future when I have time I can go through these long-form types of content, but they say nothing about what they're building on their landing page/don't describe in the level of detail I'm assuming they have in their podcasts.

Similar to what you're saying, it's like buying the swag for a company that doesn't exist.
Hey these clear backpacks actually look pretty cool.
It's not a conspiracy theory when it happened over forty times.
"Mainstream laptops will be designed around mainstream workloads"

Games are a mainstream workload that will cause most laptops to throttle.

"Better cooling doesn't come free"

You could make the heatsink in a Macbook out of Pure Silver, and it would barely move the price.

Meanwhile aluminium costs $1.7 per kilo.
The last time that a "pound sterling" actually bought a pound of Sterling silver was 1300. Since then, currency debasement was the name of the game and in the next 300 years the silver content of the currency shrank by a factor of three.
No, they are being to taught to hide their activities from the surveillance state, you think the teenagers in high school in their angst phase are going to accept it? Hah.
Do you have a source for any of that?

Who at the Tor Project is a former intelligence employee?
It's the compound interest problem. If you keep compounding growth, like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources within a sphere the same number of light years in radius. So clearly, growth is not sustainable and must eventually slow down until it approaches zero.

To be clear, we're far away from that today. But the parent is mathematically correct, the best kind of correct.
And even in newer and poorer EU states it is not that bad as in US.
> Vortangula Brinderbass

Thank you for the new D&D character name.
>If you bothered to follow the YouTube videos you would found the CUDA projects I mentioned.

Dude, you linked to two hours worth of video. Give people a break.
Security Christmas Calendar 2019
With age comes wisdom. But sometimes age comes alone.
The rise of SQL-based data modeling and DataOps
A fantastic short summary, thanks so much for pulling these out Jakozaur :)
The US isn’t a European country that happens to be in the New World, it’s a New World country that somehow managed to become a superpower. It makes a lot more sense to see the US as an overachieving Mexico or Brazil than as an abnormally violent Britain or Germany.
Some schools actually have banned things such as biking to school, along with playing tag, balls, and even running during recess over the same safety boogieman. It's frustrating how the whole freedom vs security balance thing falls off a cliff when children's rights are discussed.

Sources edit:

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20026414/why-biking-to-schoo...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/03/parents-outrage-...

https://www.thehealthjournals.com/youre-not-it/amp/
In discretionary entertainment goods, there is no “should be” price, other than the price a seller is willing to sell at and a buyer is willing to buy at.

If the media owner determine there is insufficient revenue and more can be had by lowering price, they can do that.

What is relevant is that it used to cost much more to get the same product, and it’s up to the buyer to determine what they want to spend to entertain themselves. There’s so many options nowadays, if GoT $/hour is too much, then choose something else.
I haven't read the book but it has 5 stars with 19 reviews on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Explained-Everything-Deve...
I was taught nihilism in grade 12, as part of my epistemology class, by the same teacher that made high school kids read Nietzsche. At the time, no-one adopted it, because we all still thought grades and test scores were somehow important.

The moral philosophy of the high school student is "get grades that are good enough to graduate and/or get accepted into your 'safety school'". If objecting to or evading surveillance, or using a non-clear backpack, risks suspension or expulsion, it is therefore a moral imperative to use a clear backpack and submit to panopticon surveillance.

It is only later, after graduation, that the experience of being treated like criminal suspects at all times is applied to their developing worldview. And their conclusion will be "the elder generations are all paranoid assholes". They won't be wrong.

I get the sense that the backlash will probably take the form of "You want to strip away my privacy and pry into my personal life? Fine. I will push so much of my personal information onto you that you will recoil in absolute cringe at my oversharing. Here are pictures of me doing all the things you find abhorrent, like having nontraditional gender and sexuality, or voting for a democratic socialist."
TL;DR: Hacking is more alive then ever.

I might be missing the point of his article, but describing the c64 basic coding movement as a single movement is misunderstanding it gravely. The fact that Basic was licensed by Microsoft didn't stop us, it was the the default interpreter we had to programming, which soon was replaced by masm/tasm or machine code.

More so then than today, hackers of all kinds (hackers, crackers, phreakers) were all following their own individual paths and was way less uniformed than todays movements. I believe the main reason most are focusing on OSS today was because of the dis-content we felt with the development of operating systems that slowly but surely locked us in as users.