skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree.

Systems are more complicated to build with a lot of dependencies that's true, but this is mitigated by shipping pre-built binaries and containers which have the dependencies bundled. Yes, those binaries can be from untrusted sources but if you use those you're taking a risk - the same as if you use code from an untrusted source (just because it's not compiled doesn't make it safe, when was the last time your organisation audited anything), ultimately a business should be using banaries from businesses they trust.

Containers actually increase security in the following ways:
1. They run isolated from the host system and if you set things up properly they should be non root.
2. They're immutable and cannot be tampered with.
3. Because they work on layers you can change them without affecting the underlying container, to upgrade you can just replace the layer that you inherit from, simplifying the upgrade path (and being immutable, stateless, and versioned there's no risk to upgrading, you can very easily rollback).
4. In the example listed above like Haddoop you can install the outdated version of Java that it depends on without compromising the host or other workloads on that server.

Of course, this all breaks down if you don't use containers from trusted sources and if you don't have processes in place.

It works in a modern environment with pipelines and automation, it doesn't work as well in a more traditional environment with sysadmins hand wrangling deployments.

Of course the most secure way to do things is to have deterministic builds of a codebase which creates a hash which you can compare with a canonical source, but this is tricky and not all build toolchains support this properly so you'll end up with mixed results. For a streamlined business the best compromise is to get applications from trusted vendors and rely on static analysis and the ability to quickly upgrade if a vulnerability is discovered.

Ultimately, the one of the best ways to secure a system is to establish an unbroken, audited, and automated trust chain and remove the ability for human intervention.
wait till eink is the thickness of a sheet of paper, and cellular modems and antennas fit as well. holding a piece of "paper" that can always reflect a current source of truth, or be etched and locked to never changed.
You sue the corporate officers, and it's up to them to find someone to defend them in court.
Thanks for this, I was looking for the name in the article. They clearly had different idea about the company.
Ah, the good ol' default "all" Shopify collection.
An LLC does not protect one in cases of fraud. IANAL, but I believe the practices of Unicorn may constitute fraud under a legal definition.

In such a case, Nick Evans would be personally liable for damages.
Similarly, I bet the mechanic is going to be held to their work and dropping in a new engine shifts the responsibility to a warranty item vs. them finding there is more work needed after digging in and replacing a part.
> the sense of purpose I feel about teaching my child about the alphabet

I don't think that's what parents find difficult. It's the other 99.9% of being a parent.
> light house cleaning.

I'm blind, and my screen reading software's speech synthesizer amusingly pronounced this as "lighthouse cleaning". Which is a very different thing and made you sound fairly unreasonable...
I think a lot of folks who have been through a few tech cycles just see us building the same tools over and over again adding complexity to the overall system.

I think the main cause here is, ironically, the fact that businesses keep trying to remove sysadmin (as a discipline) from the IT value chain and replace it with subscription services. Sure, you can do it, but at some point things will break and you need someone who understands what is happening at the lowest levels of abstraction.
> I would be very careful about making that large a generalization (that all else being equal, women would prefer to stay home over working).

The conversation I rarely see people having is wether a people group (men or women, for example) has a long term positive/regret recollection of the choice. I understand that most of the messaging today is that women can (and should) pursue paid employment and so naturally that becomes the narrative that people repeat. But 30 yrs later do women generally regret entering the workforce to the detriment of having / raising children? Anecdotally I know many men regret spending so much time at work and not being more involved in their children's lives, could it also hold true for women?
I was expecting Noether’s theorem to make an appearance in this article, because it is utterly fundamental to this kind of work. Her insight was that mathematical symmetries (like the spin symmetries that the article discusses) lead to laws of conservation, and vice versa. So laws like conservation of momentum correspond to translation symmetry, i.e. the assumption that the laws of the universe apply everywhere equally.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-mathematic...
In my state, a single childcare worker can watch up to 6 children. If they are infants I belive the number goes down to 4.
> You don't rely on biases, you rely on the info you have on that person.

Well this is the crux of the problem. Do you really rely on an objective evaluation, or are you influenced by cues which you think indicates competency but actually just (say) indicate class or subculture background?
Gardens of the Sun
I'll bite.

Why should that user feel obligated to have children?

There are other users on this site (I'm not one of them) that argue that the world is suffering from overpopulation. I'm interested to hear your perspective as to why the opposite is not only okay, but imperative.
Never, but apparently some folks do or else they'd quit doing it.
> ... but we must still ask why the deeper laws exist.

Don't things have to stop somewhere, otherwise there's an infinite regress ("turtles all the way down")?
In the UK, the NHS — which some people admittedly consider to be chronically underfunded — was about 7% of GDP [1] in 2018. Norway's is about 10.5% [2] (2016), and increasing by about 2% a year.

[1] https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R143.pdf#page=20

[2] https://www.ssb.no/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statisti...
Bitfields aren't commonly used, especially in public interfaces. But usage is far more prevalent than for typical "largely academic" features. For example,

$ grep -rE ':[[:digit:]][[:digit:]]*;' /usr/include/ | wc -l
702
$ uname -a
OpenBSD orville.25thandClement.com 6.6 GENERIC.MP#3 amd64

$ grep -rE ':[[:digit:]][[:digit:]]*;' /usr/include/ | wc -l
276
$ uname -a
Linux alpine-3-10 4.9.65-1-hardened #2-Alpine SMP Mon Nov 27 15:36:10 GMT 2017 x86_64 Linux

$ grep -rE ':[[:digit:]][[:digit:]]*;' /usr/include/ | wc -l
532
$ uname -a
Linux splunk0 5.0.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 09:46:06 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The payphones ringing in the airport as the AI tries to call Case in Neuromancer.
Is "But Facebook ate all my money" the new "But a dog ate by homework" ?
> Another way to look at it is that it's a way to buy government bonds on credit - you can buy a bond and then immediately repo it, using the money you've borrowed to pay for the bond. You have to pay the interest on the repo until you sell the bond and pay it back, but you never have to come up with a big pile of cash.

And the reason you'd do this is... to lock in yield in a declining interest rate environment?
If we assume you a reflected/intelligent person it improves the quality of this community and the content posted here.
Neuromancer itself was written on a typewriter. That's how different the world was.
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Thank you for the search-based bookmark platforms, that’s what I really need but haven’t found... a Google search engine for just my bookmarks
Assuming for a moment that there's no fraud with this company, this is a great example of how you can quickly go broke selling a popular product. If the payment terms, product delivery logistics pipeline, etc. are more protracted than your suppliers', you will get strangled by your accounts payable before your receivables can save you. This was the genius of Dell's built-to-order system: they had (have?) a negative working capital position.

Of course it's also a great example of how you can, if you're not careful, light a pile of money on fire with performance ads. Please, people, please, test your advertising!
Unless parent edited their comment, sounds like you're way over-interpreting their comment. I wouldn't mind being a stay-at-home parent if my SO made bank, it's not because I think it'd be "not work" though.
How much time have you spent in engine bays? What do you know about tolerances i jet engines. You aren't qualified and will likely never be qualified to be your own jet mechanic, let alone your own aero engineer.
There is nothing wrong with not wanting kids. Makes sense.

That being said I would recommend toning down the rhetoric of how much better you're off for not having kids - it rings fake and forced as if you needed to convince yourself repeatedly and it is needlessly antagonistic.

The analogy is that of having a dog. I'd like to have a dog. I think it is fun to have a dog. Alas, dogs are not for me, they feel the kind of work and responsibility that I am not ready for. But I respect and admire people that have dogs!
I am not going to say that I am so much better off for not having a dog.
Yeah I've heard the IKEA complaint in a number of places, but I always found the instructions very good. And I don't consider myself handy at all.

Then again I just tested my blog and it has no errors in the console in Chrome or Firefox (except for missing favicon which is not really an error):

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/

There is still a small, useful subset of the web that is very functional. And I've even grown to like CSS after writing 100 lines of it by hand. If you have 1000+ lines of CSS then you stop understanding it, and apparently the browser stops understanding it too.
How does it compare to `git add -p`?
Very true. I built a business as a sole founder five years ago, and to this date, coming up with task lists and what to do next is the largest hurdle I face, almost daily.

A lot of projects to work on, a lot of things —create new stuff, do recurring tasks— to complete, but deciding what to do now, and what to do when, is incredibly difficult when you're on your own.

I have a few freelancers and an assistant and even deciding of their tasks is a little improvised.
Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art
It is pretty well accepted fact in economics that a growing workforce is a good thing for economic growth.

> it's a simple supply and demand curve. Increasing the number of workers decreases their value.

You are leaving out a crucial factor - the wages that the 'new' workers earn are going to be spent in the economy, growing the economy as a whole. This is increasing the 'demand' side of that supply and demand curve.

This is the same flaw that anti-immigrant people use when saying that immigrants 'take our jobs'. They take a job, but they also create jobs by spending the money they earn. That is what an economy is. Every worker creates more value than they take (otherwise no one would hire the worker in the first place!)
Not exactly fileless. There's a persistent component that remains on-disk (disguised as a cryptocurrency app), and when the OS launches it after boot it contacts a server to download the malicious, in-memory payload.
So true. We have two kids under 3. I am far more drained taking care of them for a day than I am after a day in the office.

We pay $42,000 a year in childcare (2 kids, $1,750 /month, which is one of the cheapest options in our area). After taxes its 90%+ of my wife’s entire salary.

It doesn’t make financial sense for her to work, but she’s good at her job, and she’s in a career where taking years off is punishing (law). Honestly though, a big part of it is she wants to work, stress and all. It makes sense to me.

As for me, I would prefer to stay home with them instead of work, but I am the primary earner and am also in a career that punishes people severely who take time off (finance). So here we are.
I have a disability group that actively discourages email messages and recommends - or, that is, recommended - that members use the Files section for answers to frequent questions. Email is for questions not answered in Files.
This group would be intolerable without a website, with the same questions asked over and over and over again. Yahoo is totally wrong that email is all groups need.
> it looks like its memory addressing scheme still assigns addresses to bytes, and has special operations that allow you to further specify a bit offset within that memory address.

There are also instructions which use an addressing scheme which takes an 8-bit bit address, with the 0x00 - 0x7f corresponding to lower memory, and 0x80 - 0xff corresponding to 16 specific registers in the Special Function Register set.
I don't believe anyone is suggesting enslaving doctors and nurses, any time, anywhere. (I'll adjust this if you now come back and say you believe medical professionals should be enslaved as a form of national health care.)

The discussion always assumes they will be compensated, and as is pointed out often, the question is how.
Ah, yes, I've heard about this: proper justification with even spacing is incompatible with the CSS spec, as iirc the spec pretty much says a paragraph must take minimum vertical space. Alas exact details elude me, as well as why a spec change wouldn't fix this.
You're not wrong, you're an idealist, which typically are very closely intertwined when it comes to reality.

If you gave $700 to a company who promised to deliver you a scooter a few years down the line if all of the dominoes fell exactly as planned... I would argue that you got what you paid for even if it amounts to nothing tangible in the long run.

Which is to say, you paid for a pricey digital lottery ticket with a very low potential ROI.

It's a crying shame, absolutely.

But it's nothing to burden the court systems with.
Blocking DNS to arbitrary IPs is very common in locked down environments. They force you to use their resolver handed out by DHCP.
That's the question.
Up in MA (about boston) they now have to charge for bags. 10cents in cambridge, 5 cents in Boston and a bunch of surrounding towns do the same. Its been a couple years and you seem to see a lot fewer of them as trash. (We had one that got blown up into a tree near where I live..)

After some initial griping I've gotten used to it. Its not a lot of money, but it makes you more conscious of it (Because "do you need a bag" = $).
> Social mores have dictated the man be the provider for centuries, if not millenia.

That is kind of not true.

1.) That is what happens when there is no war, country is rich and when industrial revolutions take people to factories. When they worked on small family farm, both genders had to tend animals, do crafts and so on. Most of things had to be made. The work was gendered, physical strength mattered, but it was not women twiddling fingers at home painting pretty pictures out of boredom.

2.) During economically bad periods, women had to work to survive. Their chances and options were just inferior. Victorian england required male to provide for women, but economics was bad - marriages not happening. (A lot of prostitution tho.)

3.) Plenty male occupations killed males soon. Miners were old by 40 and dead. Women lived longer and used to live from crafts they made and sold.

4.) And obviously, as men die in wars (and some wars killed a lot of men) or are just away then you cant possibly have all women having male provider. Plus, women were raped making them less viable partners.

5.) Take California gold fever - demographics very heavily skewed toward males (and very violent). That means, other places necessary lack males. There is no way for all women to be provided by males, social mores or not. Because males are not there, they are in California and anyway are killing each other. Not coming back. Some women were provided for by family and brothers etc, but the less rich family was the more they had to figure out how to make themselves some money.
Sorry, my phrasing is a bit funny :) A surgeon is considered more likely to take risks in treatment vs a general practitioner. A surgeon is also more likely to die in a small plane crash.
Reading list for cloud infrastructure service engineering
Don't know about Germany but in Switzerland the managers are not personally liable for the debts of a company.

Except the damage to the company/employees/clients can be be proven to be intentionally or negligently caused by a manager. For this, the they can be held liable with their entire private assets
It wasnt an unrelated tangent. It's directly related to the drivel in op.
Tefter (https://tefter.io) co-founder here. I’m glad we made the list!
It’s under the visual-based section, but arguably meets the criteria to be in many more categories.

It’s list-based and tag-based, since you may organise your bookmarks using either lists or tags.
It’s also search based, since bookmarks have their contents indexed and ranked and there’s autocomplete. For read-later, we keep archives and you can mark bookmarks as “read later” to read them on the mobile app.

However our favourite feature is the team collaboration. You can create organisations, install the Slack app and add bookmarks and aliases (think golinks.io type of short links).

A mostly complete list of features can be found here https://github.com/tefter/tefter.

Happy to answer any questions.
Why would an activist's article propose a state-level policy? The point of activism is to push the agenda forward by demanding a lot MORE than you can practically get via compromise.
* In most databases you can explicitly specify the kind of index, for example Postgres:
CREATE INDEX name ON table USING hash (column);
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/indexes-types.html

* In databases, ORDER BY is regularly used, making hash indexes as a default a bad choice

* See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#Advantages_of_B-tree_us...:
The B-tree uses all of the ideas described above. In particular, a B-tree:
keeps keys in sorted order for sequential traversing
uses a hierarchical index to minimize the number of disk reads
uses partially full blocks to speed insertions and deletions
keeps the index balanced with a recursive algorithm
In addition, a B-tree minimizes waste by making sure the interior nodes are at least half full. A B-tree can handle an arbitrary number of insertions and deletions.
> Your earnings go up as you acquire job skills that fewer and fewer people have. Supply & Demand.

No, they don't. Very few people are able to juggle 8 pins, but my earnings will not go up if I acquire that skill.

Your earnings go up when you acquire a job skill that people are willing to pay a lot of money for.

> For more conventional skills, you'll never make much money as an engineer if you skip the math classes. I

Define 'much money'.

You can easily make 400K/year at FANG, without having the foggiest idea of how to do linear algebra, calculus, arithmetic, statistics, or really anything but interview O(N) analysis.
I enjoy his early work as well. I read his newer ones but mostly out of an appreciation for the old stuff.

I find the new books to be about things that are very low stakes, like an ad agency, or rich people from the future messing with people as a hobby. Because of that I'm less engaged.

But even with the low stakes the language is very high minded. I spend a lot of time with the lookup feature, which makes me glad I use an e-reader.
"pays for itself...via increased income taxes"?

It's a "nit pick" for sure, but in my understanding, something that "pays for itself" is not dependent on government subsidies. Quebec has some of the highest income taxes in the country - you pay for such services one way or another.

Plus, according to the linked article, there is not enough space in the subsidized program to meet demand, so there are private options available, which must be paid for out of pocket and covered by a tax rebate. According the to the article, the private options do not provide the same standard of care.
No JavaScript or paywalls: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/613
Just wait until the scooter companies and operators get nailed with an injury class action lawsuit. A good friend was seriously injured on a rental scooter, going 2-3 mph, catapulted onto her face, ended up with brain damage and multiple facial fractures requiring reconstructive surgery. A high school physics student could work out that tiny wheels combined with a high center of gravity is a bad combination.
This is essentially what the big tech companies do with their onsite daycare. They have adults who get hired just to watch the kids, and you can pop in and out as your schedule permits.

It's hard to get work done when there are kids in the work area, so I can see why most companies don't encourage this. Especially since some people don't like kids.

Another even better solution is a remote workforce. Then only you have to deal with the distractions of your kid, except during meetings. As long as you can find something to do with the kid, or people are ok with kids on the conference call, it works out.

My employees are used to seeing my kid pop into the frame during video calls, and it's not really a problem.
While we need more context as to where this handwritten SQL is going (into a codebase [with parameterization ] to get code reviewed / PRed / compiled , vs. being typed in by a user to some textbox etc. ) to more specifically comment, I have a tendency to avoid ORMs at all costs since (dogma ahead!) they are never worth it long term. In very specific circumstances, they can make translating domain types into database access feel simpler, but their indirect costs almost always outweigh their use in my (limited, granted) experience.
Eh. Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683013
Reddit Says Influence Campaign Is Behind Leaked U.S.-U.K. Trade Documents
Well, no not all. Batteries (non-rechargeable) and nuclear are given energy by previous supernovae, I would assume.
Well that's not true. There are two from the late 90s missing here: Blink and Bookmark Box.
Basically, to write up and explain the idea, and it'll get passed on to the right people.

(At least one of whom is frequently seen on HN.)
Small-town America fights for its life
Does there exist an effort encapsulate WireGuard in HTTP/3 or, when UDP is blocked, in HTTP/2?
This reads like someone who did not read Neuromancer when it was released in 1984, so they fail to understand how groundbreaking it was for the time. And someone who doesn't know it was the first novel to win all three major awards of the science fiction genre. And how influential the novel (and the Sprawl trilogy) were to a broader cultural movement.
>Women define male attractivness based on his socio-economic status. Of course if you don't want your wife (and other females and society at large) to look down at you, you will eventually go back to work and work your ass off.

Yikes, what is wrong with me? One of my best friends quit his job to become a stay-at-home dad because his successful lawyer wife made more money and wanted to keep working. I've been supposed to look down on him this whole time? Sorry society at large, I guess I missed that memo.
SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company
Just a guess but the areas where they may have the greatest economic impact may not be the wealthy states like CA, MA, WA, but some of the poorer states.
> Especially since some people don't like kids.

Well those people can be shunted off into some sad depressing part of the building? Or work from home.

Remote work is great, but it's also very nice and social to bring babies in to the office to meet your friends. What's so wrong with that?