skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that it makes it more or less effective, but my public school in Birmingham Alabama required clear backpacks back in 1996
There's no chance in hell anyone learning Swift can figure these two lines out.

Besides, there are immediate additional questions:

- what's a bundle, and why does a Bundle deal with urls?

- What's the difference between Bundle.main.url and FileManager.main.urls, and why one and not the other?

- where does the resource come from?

- how do I read a file from a path?

- Why is String responsible for reading (and writing!) contents of a file? In which world is this good design?
Someone who wants to pack heat to school isn't gonna be stopped by a clear backpack. They'll cut out a texbook or hide it on their person. Look to the TSA's track record to see why making the formerly hidden visible doesn't actually help that much.
Freedom from arbitrary restrictions does something.
What does you comment have to do with teaching Nihilism in schools? Why does it matter that people are also discussing this elsewhere?

I don’t understand how this is a response to my post, rather than that thing where people put their hand up to ask a question and then just state their position instead.
Or Pinocchio saying:

“My nose will get longer”
afaict, the issue is in amqp_handle_input()[1]. The fix was

> "add additional input validation to prevent integer overflow when parsing a frame header"

Wouldn't this be a bug in the MQ and not in the C library?

[1] https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/commit/fc85be7123050b91...

EDIT: sorry I just realized this is an internal rabbit MQ (C) library, I misunderstood the reference to "C library" thinking it meant the systems g/libc
The worst part is that it drives good women even further away. Now you're not just a nerd but also an asshole.

The kinds of women you will get by being an asshole are the kinds who are assholes themselves. The result is usually an abusive relationship where she treats you like shit, which further reinforces the misogynistic ideology by "proving" once again how bad women are.

So yes it's an obvious downward spiral. Kudos for seeing it.

It sounds like Virgil slammed more kool aid than I thought.
please tell me that python did not adopt the javascript async hell. async should be an optional keyword on the CALLER side, not an invisible trait of the function. go figure()
Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding
With repression and fewer liberties, mostly?
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> the people who make their living moving around illicit substances drag up the average.

Isn't that happening all around the world though ?
San Fran has rougly 800k people and assuming that 70 cars gets stolen a day and everyone there has a car, that's a 3% chance that your car will get stolen within a year.

This doesn't obviously address the issue that I doubt there's even 400k cars there which more than doubles the likelyhood. That's not nothing, it's over 25k stolen cars in a year and an enormous burden on the local police force.
Google suggests there's approx 500,000 cars in SF (as of 2015). 70 burglaries a day is approx 0.01% of all cars.

edit: slightly disappointed I was downvoted for this; I literally just googled how many cars there were in SF and tried to work out the percentage. Am I factually incorrect? If not, can someone please explain what I've done wrong so I don't do it again, please.
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I didn't say it is absolutely inappropriate to collect any user data, it could be ok after obtaining explicit user permission. Firefox experiment installed data collection add-on to random users without opt-in, and I still cannot understand why you thought that was good idea.

>That is impossible - to us, each single URL comes as a detached datapoint

IPs could be used to aggregate those datapoints, and you obviously cannot avoid receiving these. It is only promises that you or your proxy provider doesn't store them. (though maybe it is possible to implement P2P mangling network? encrypt UDP data packet, send to randomly selected peer discovered from DHT, peer delivers it to your server. Or directly send UDP packet with spoofed source address, but this is not possible for browser sitting behind NAT)
Hey Jessie, congrats on getting your company up and running!

> setting up infrastructure themselves is in a great deal of pain and they have been largely neglected by any existing vendor

Can you elaborate on what these pains are, and how OEMs aren't helping their customers with this?

I guess what I'm trying to ask is: what will Oxide do different compared to existing OEMs?
well what i am getting from cantrill's article is that they wanna build the hardware and the software together. i think maybe on-prem contracts with ibm or dell might not be the target here. in fact open firmware got mentioned a few times.

i wish them luck, it's a very interesting approach they are taking here.
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It's essentially the same thing as air travel safety vs cars. What seemed to work for air travel is to make it into trivia so that any time this point comes up somebody repeats back the trivia.
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>It's a gun problem

Then how come gun ownership is negatively correlated with homicides?

https://medium.com/@tgof137/gun-ownership-rates-do-not-predi...
Jessie use to be on the Docker core team [1]. I am not sure if she still is or not. She is also a very active blogger.

[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/dogfooding-docker-to-test-doc...
Of course management could be negligent and I never said otherwise. That still doesn't relieve any Professional Engineer of their obligations and responsibilities.

In this case the author of the software was almost certainly not a P.Eng. (and thus shouldn't be called a software engineer IMHO) and couldn't be found guilty of malpractice.
If you're going to "beat" C with another language, it will obviously be one that compiles to C.
Part of the problem is likely that the AECL is a quasi-public entity, and governments tends not to be nearly as vigilant when regulating or policing other branches of the same government as they are when regulating a 100% privately owned company.
Far more school shooting deaths than any other developed country by my count. You're choosing to brush it off because it represents a small percentage of the population. That's a ridiculous position, you could hold the same if school shooting fatalities were in the 10,000s instead of 200s; too insignificant. The weight is in whether it's acceptable or it isn't, not how likely your kid is to get shot. It's been worse in the past 20 years than the 20 years prior. You're either a) tacitly saying that the certainty of future school shootings is absolutely fine with you, or b) that it can't be helped, which isn't true. Pick one.

We don't have to accept high rates of vehicular deaths either. Automation will make this moot in the end, but far stronger punishment for inebriated driving is due, among other things.
I can see why you would say that, but isn't classical engineering a counter example? Professional engineers have a culture of accountability and responsibility. No system is perfect, but (to my eyes at least) classical engineering works safely without a culture of blame.
“In the northeast and midwest” should be appended to the title.

California experienced negative growth. Texas, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Washington “0-5% growth”.

Dr. Woolf said one of the findings showed that the excess deaths were highly concentrated geographically, with fully a third of them in just four states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana.

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“I’m not sure the dramatic, ‘there’s something desperately wrong with the entire country’ narrative is entirely accurate,” Dr. Harper said. “Certain groups, such as Hispanics and Asians, are doing O.K. It’s not like the entire country is being subsumed by a single social phenomenon that can explain all of this. There are a lot of moving parts.”
In some countries like the UK, even adults are discouraged and disallowed from carrying folding knives anywhere. Scenes like this are commonplace: https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/974645778558980096
Microsoft also provides Tensorflow bindinds via ML.NET.

So any language that can target .NET is also able to plug into it, and I certainly would pick F# over Swift.
Nope. It's the C library's problem: who is to say which AMQP implementation is at the other end of the socket?
Never. Pacific salmon released in the Atlantic (or was it the other way around?) were touted as an ecological disaster. But they mistook the gravel bottom for their normal food supply, ate rocks until they sank, and all died.

Fish are not master tacticians. More like a bug with fins.
> How many hundreds of hours of entertainment for $167?

That's not relevant. The simple fact is that $167 for a season is well beyond the budget of the average person whose opinion you're considering. "Hours of entertainment" is (always) the wrong formula, by the way. Nobody needs to steal anything to enjoy hours of free entertainment doing a myriad of activities. Most TV shows simply make no effort at all to price either episodes or full seasons for a wide market.

Compare two ABC shows on Amazon Video, General Hospital and The Bachelor. General Hospital is a daily soap opera with 36 minute episodes and modest production value. The Bachelor has 2-hour episode with higher production values. A full season of The Bachelor is reasonably priced at $20. Individual episodes are $3.

Individual General Hospital episodes are also $3 each. This doesn't seem too crazy if you're talking about someone who might otherwise miss an episode because they are traveling or something. It's probably steeper than it should be, I imagine most soap fans will just read up on what they missed if they care enough rather than shelling out money to watch. But regardless, the full 241-episode season is $735.00. This is quite obviously not priced to sell as a package. No one would buy that. It is simply 241 episodes times $3.00 per episode, which is a generic Amazon price for an HD episode of anything. In fact you can buy the SD version for $15.00. It is clear that no real thought at all has gone into the pricing scheme.
>engineer-style licensing for certain types of software development

It was. There was a PE for software engineering until relatively recently in the US but no one took the exam because it basically wasn't required for anything.

Be careful what you wish for though. The requirements typically include a formal degree and some number of years working under a PE.

There's nothing magical about such a certification though. Other than the education and experience requirements, it's pretty much a GRE-type exam. I took the engineer-in-training exam way back when in a different engineering field but I stopped practicing before I sat for a PE.
For Mac OS only apparently.
This post title is a reference to The Soul of a New Machine, which both Cantrill and Frazelle have written posts on:

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/new-golden-age-of-building-wi...

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-sou...
Yes! I got my devops start managing linux servers which ran various automation software for the game which made some nice pocket money for a high schooler. I actually made pretty good use of the Microsoft Azure launch because they had a very generous free tier for the time. Sort of a grey hat activity all things considered.
Another argument might be Mexico, they have gun control, but seems to be still having school shootings.
I mildly disagree. I've been reading variants of this sentiment for over a decade, and I agree with peteforde's take: not only is it not true, it's even less true than ever before, and this statement holds as time goes on.
>We can't have children being used to constant surveillance and accepting this as a part of life. It sets them up for so many problems in the future, where they won't understand the serious implications of constant tracking and surveillance.

Credit Scores, Cell Phones, Social Media. These kids will be tracked for the rest of their lives whether they have clear backpacks and ssl mitm or not.
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The odds of being shot at school are incredibly low (~1 in 614,000,000), and have been falling since the 90's. It's just that when it does happen, it's so horrific that we cannot bear even the 1 because that 1 might be ours - myself included. That's ripe territory for companies to come in a make some good money on those mathematically irrational fears. The ones who suffer, though, are still the kids. While the likelihood of getting shot is lower than that of dying while simply traveling to school in the morning, the odds of being stressed and paranoid about it in school are now fairly significant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/school-shootings-are-...

Nothing drives an economy like fear.
All 3 titles should [probably, IMO] be corrected to name "Server Company". A "computer" is a superset of servers, desktops, laptops, embedded devices and mobile devices. That way it is more accurate. Currently it is ambiguous what the "computer company" is actually going to "do"/produce/sell.
If your doctor harms you, you don't sue his boss for malpractice, do you?
No. If we look at the draconic measures being taken the reaction is way out of line with the problem. If we reacted to the other dangers the same way, society wouldn't function.

Schools are turned into high-security institutions, or the appearances of it. Watching kids for fear of them freaking out is not a good signal to send. It means you only care when it's too late.
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/
Looks like I'll be switching to Mullvad.
Vaex seems to be very similar to Dask and Xarray. Which one to choose?
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They earn money for treating the symptoms.

The same thing goes for quality of medical care - when they mess up they get to fix their own mess and charge for it.

For example when our first kid was born, the gynecologist had her trainee pull our son out with their rope thing. She was supposed to apply pressure during the contractions, only she panicked and pulled my son out in one go (she was using her legs to push for force, you can't make this up). The result is that the baby was born quickly and my wife was ripped open. She required urgent surgery to put herself back together, then a month stuck laying in bed and about three months before she was mobile. She still have problems because of it.

The hospital were happy because they could charge three times as much for the corrective surgery than they charged for delivery.

My example was in The Netherlands, where the healthcare costs are well under control and the culture isn't quite so brutally selfish ("free market") as other countries. I can't imagine what it's like living in the US.
I don't know how old you are but I'm a lot older than 41 as well. I am also stymied by the increasing tribalism in this country and I don't feel like a member of either major tribe. But I will admit there's a fine line between a wise elder and a crazy uncle at Thanksgiving. You sound like you started as the former but you're drifting towards the latter if you think you are entitled to respect simply because of your age.

My own frustration is that most of our so-called challenging problems have relatively simple solutions, but one or more of the above tribes will block those solutions so we go nowhere fast. That said, the world is a lot better than it was a hundred years ago. And if we ever collectively get our heads out of our butts and own our bipartisan $h!+, we can fix this. But I'm personally betting that won't happen until we get a moment of clarity delivered to us from China or India. And I'm not sure I'll still be above ground by then.
That’s somewhat akin to providing schoolchildren with a rum ration because drinking alcohol is a central part of culture.
An industry created on the basis of fear. We all know how that panned out after 9/11.

When will this country start addressing the root cause?
It has long been known that up to a certain point any extra familial income gets spent. Problems occur when the spent money is vacuumed up by mega companies that do not invest into the communities they operate in thereby depriving communities of the cash flow they need to survive.

Companies are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid currency. That stagnant money has a massive negative effect on the world. It's not a big deal when a family hoards 10k in cash. But when something like 8% the US GDP languishes in cash that's a whole lot of lost economic movement.

What needs to be learned here is that extractive economic models have created so many of the problems that our cities face. There are real consequences measured in human lives and suffering when people extract labor to become billionaires.
Was the garage actually used?

Or was it just a folkloric step that is now required by any computer company to emulate other successes in Silicon Valley?
“exuberant”? I think “exorbitant” makes more sense in this context. Edit: Unless you were really really happy about what you paid, I guess.
How to Debug Anything
It's always been difficult to discover this stuff. There has always been a very small subset of people who were driven to figure it out, in part at least, because it was hard.

To reiterate what ChuckMcM said at the top of this thread. The "hackers" who would figure that stuff out are still there still doing things no one expected could be done systems that no one thought would be used in those ways. We didn't actually lose anything. It's just a little obscured by the sea of consumers of computing who aren't hacking on those systems.

The filters that kept the consumer away from computing are mostly gone but that didn't make the consumer magically become interested in tinkering with those systems.
> it’s to make sure they aren’t carrying drugs or other illicit material

"Make sure"? Yeah right.
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But you have to be careful that all dependencies are up-to-date as well.
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I've always left nothing in the car and the doors unlocked in the hope that my windows won't be broken.

Not SF but I once had the cup holder/ashtray stolen from an old mini van I was driving, I assume because it had a few dollars in change in the ash tray.

More amusing than anything.

Cars are terrible for cities, doesn't bother me in the least that protecting tourist's cameras isn't an enforcement priority.

> Tourists are disproportionately targeted because they are more likely to have valuables in their cars
Germany ringing in: nope, we don't.
Only inside your personal echo-chamber, though.
Of course, if you are incompetent enough to write queries that use no indexes and you don't detect that before you push to prod, you will have problems there.

What I mean is: when you start optimising, no matter how well you do, you will eventually hit a CPU performance wall. Then you will realise that only a rewrite will get you out of that hole, and by then it will be late.
Private health insurance and lack of universal public health insurance that is.

All doctor offices in Canada are private corporations, for whatever reason the hospitals are not and that is where the worst of our problems lay.
(Furthermore, checking the git blame, it turns out this bug is my fault, nearly a decade ago. Decoding a size_t out of the packet and then adding a small constant (7) to it turns out to be able to overflow size_t ... sigh. Programming in C should be against some kind of Geneva Convention.)
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Imagine you're a teenage girl and you need to carry sanitary products with you. I imagine that for some of them this is essentially a nightmare scenario. That's a direct harm to kids.
Are you proposing military conscription? Because that is a large part of what arms Switzerland; and most of those 2 million guns are service weapons.
Well, you can bring it back with a major expenses. The problem is competition against vertical semi-integration which is present in China. (Multiple companies but same place - cheap transport and high availability plus widespread knowledge.)

The remaining industries are also integrated or partially integrated.
Back then? Everybody. There was no Agile, few Computer Science degrees, mostly Cowboy programmers with little formal training. Managers knew nothing of these new computer devices, they just hired a six-pack of programmers and set them to work.

I worked at that time in the industry. Half the people I worked with were musicians getting some extra dough by programming.
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It's not that simple, it would be possible to have a socialized healthcare system where entrepreneurs paid for everything and lost more than they gained as a result. It could happen, the public line for that policy would look like "let silicon valley unicorn billionaires pay their fair share" and the private line would be "come on Mr. Congressman, you aren't seriously thinking of taxing your future employer, are you? Find somebody else with money."
> It's similar to what happened in Europe in the last few years, now it's business as usual when soldiers in full gear + assault rifles patrol the streets in major cities or during big public events

I've not seen a lot of that.. More at US Christmas markets.

At any rate, I view policing events in that fashion or China adding security guards for their knife attack problem as not actually the same as US schools. In most cases the perpetrator is an adult that is dropping out and hard to reach. The US is worried about youth going through their social integration system who become violent as a result and that it apparently doesn't catch deteriorating preemptively as much as other societies. Many arguments can be made as to why, i.e. a litigious society leads to little personal risk to address abnormal problems.

A child who goes to a US school and observes the precautions should become paranoid about trusting themselves and their friends not to go on a killing spree. A child going to a Chinese school should mostly be more afraid of a scarier world.
turning the Twitter hounds of hell loose on the guy/woman seems like a good way to fail the responsible conduct part of their "Responsible Conduct of Research" class.
thanks for clarifying, my bad (I misread the meaning of C library)
It assumes most do not, but it’s entirely possible for someone to change a common library which makes several down stream changes wait. Even if there are no merge conflicts, if they effect the same tests, changes will have to wait.