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> In practice, /dev/urandom advocacy has won for almost all apps.

Which is a shame, because the thing that should've won is arc4random_buf or something similar that always works (empty chroot with no /dev/ under it, isolated user with no read access to anything on the filesystem, and no free file descriptors? still works!) and can't give an error.
I don't think it's going to be a fairly high price point. Satellites are becoming commodities, Space X drove the price of launching down, and with the current technologies a small computer can process a lot, especially if you don't have to care about heat dissipation. Quite the contrary, you don't need to construct many towers in cities to get coverage, with all the legal burdens that implies and all the maintenance it requires. You will cover a much broader space, so your potential customer base is bigger for the investment, and you can even cover places that would have not been before. In fact, you can even have better signal for moving people like in trains, cars or... boats and planes !

Of course this is all speculations, but it has a lot of potential.
Ask HN: Hiring contractors for side projects
I'm a freelancer and I have a number of paid projects and unpaid side projects going on at the moment with various people and a few more coming up. I've always been able to manage but now I feel like I'm getting in over my head with the workload. I could of course say no to some of these but a lot of them I really want to be a part of. Have any of you had luck hiring other freelancers to help you with various projects and freelance gigs? If so where did you look and find people?
This is why we can’t have nice things!
Didn't you guys get fined for reporting bs recently? I'm gonna just give it a few more weeks before taking this seriously :p
Which is always, is it not?
There's a similar open-source tool with an Emacs front end called Semantic Synchrony.

https://github.com/synchrony/smsn/wiki/What-you-need-to-know...
Hey, I'm on this journey too ! https://github.com/austil/datapuller
I think it's all those videos/gif in autoplay.
Your comment pretty much ignores the context of the statement about the correctional officers.

You are basically saying "we can't tell a thing about the officers, but we know the author is a jerk for castigating them".

Never mind that the author has all the things you want, the broader knowledge of the situation and so on.
It's actually semi-useful if you don't use objects.
It was a semi joke. It's an interesting project, but note that:

It is not so popular, so they didn't have this string before. (Perhaps they can preload some common cases, but perhaps is too much memory.)

Once you send your secret random stuff to a random site in the internet, it's no longer secret. You can send some samples as a test and discard them, and use other part of the random stream, but from a security point of view I'm not sure it is a good idea.

I agree that flukes are a problem if you call something like this too much. I'm not sure about the implementation details to be sure how strict it is.
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Of course... Money over free flow of scientific information.

How is this possible? Much of this research is - at least partially - tax funded. And then publishing corporations skim money from the distribution of the information providing little or no value. In my book that perfectly meets the definition of a parasite.

Perhaps I am missing something.
There's a lot more evidence for rehabilitation than there is for mass incarceration with brutal staff.

There are of course some people who are so dangerous, so relentlessly violent, that they can never be released from prison. Does that mean we should be brutal to those people for all the years they're in prison? Why? What's that going to achieve? It doesn't stop them being violent, and it may well escalate their dangerous harmful behaviour in prison.
Making kotlin ready for data science
Crashes mobile Chrome.
Given the false reporting done by the Washington Post on the Covington kids when they had video of the incident, I place no value in their reporting. Thanks for dragging politics into this discussion.
> If an author can't even get their physics straight, why should anyone care about what they came up with on the social side, where it's a lot easier to get away with blind guesses or wishful thinking?

Because they require different set of knowledge and different focus. Perfect physics does not imply good characters or understanding of society regardless of how difficult they comparatively are.

Moreover, Asimov resonates, because he wrote feel good stories. Many of them are effectively detective stories with some futuristic simple idea of world.

Asimov however does not appeal to people who care about characters nuance and exploration of society under this or that condition. Asimov appeals to people who want to have fun with a creative idea without uncomfortable feelings.
Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
It is very hard to make this work, i am not saying you will not find someone but often times it will be more work for you monitoring what somebody else is doing and fixing their work if they mess something (its basically like you own agency but bit smaller)
The video says scale 1:3, but still impressive.
Came here to post the same thing. And honestly, it's a bit sloppy to release without checking, given how trivial it is to open an alternative browser.
Browser Shell: Linux VM Mounting a JavaScript Filesystem
>> This mandate already amounts to a significant government intervention in the private market.

This caught my eye. I find it curious that "government intervention in the private market" seems to be treated as de facto harmful.

The "mandate" refers to "a legacy regulation that is still in force today" under which "proprietary journal articles that report on federally funded research must be made available for free within 12 months of publication".
Show HN: Bookmarks – A Burp Suite extension to bookmark requests
Wellbeing is one thing (I know I would enjoy this a lot more than an office) but long term UV exposure is not forgiving for longevity. I could find sources, but it’s not my area; my partner is a dermatologist and I take her advice on this. It’s worth wearing sunscreen every day (even in the winter), though I believe you have to be careful about choosing products in some places like the US, where sunscreens can be zinc-based.

It’s basically something easy you can do in your morning routine every day that will lower your risk of developing skin cancer and some other problems.
Social requires honesty first an foremost. E.g. Don't decide 'we're going to be a cool/fun brand' unless you are. Good marketing needs to come from a position of truth and find a way to celebrate that. In social this is more important than other channels. A great example is Guiness dancing man where they celebrate that their beer takes longer to pour.

Interest, amuse or shock with your ads. You can go for brand recognition with boring ads but IMO thats better for traditional display buying.

Be upfront with what you want people to do from your ad. It's not an absolute rule but generally the best format is to 1) Make a claim, 2) Give a reason to believe said claim 3) Call to action.

Then test and track. Marketing should be an investment not a cost. A dollar should return a dollar+, if not try something else or don't do ads because you feel you should.

Obviously more to it but I feel that's the fast 3 core points.
Even simple stuff like the back button is now hopelessly broken on a lot of the news sites I frequent. The correct behaviour is to bring me back to where ever on the page I had scrolled to but that's no longer possible if you need to click a link to view the whole article. Even without that dark pattern it can still take 10+ seconds with all of the JS bloatware infesting the "modern" web.
MIT says the repo.
That's unbelievable!
> (typically) the more something machine friendly the less it's human friendly.

I believe I have solved some of that problem. Hode (the Higher Order Data Editor), a kind of generalization of graph databases, lets a user enter data in a manner which I believe is as similar as possible to natural language. To encode the fact "cats kill birds" as a "kill" relationship between "cats" and "birds", you just write "cats #kill birds". Relationships involving other relationships can be represented with similar ease, and relationships involving any number of elements. The query language is not much more complicated -- for instance, everything that kills birds would be "/e /it #kills birds".

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode
Is anyone using Monica successfully? What's your experience with it?

I notoriously bad at keeping in touch with people/responding to text messages earlier than in 3 days, so this seems to hit the spot for me.
I though you were joking. But no.

A widget doing:

0 ----------[37]------------------ 100

Is 17kb, __gzipped__. Compressed. Archived.

It's 3ko more than the entire front page of Hacker News, including all the content and assets, after zipping.
Like the article says, it was renamed to Visa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.
>yet mysteriously waffles on the actual value they provide in exchange

I honestly cannot really think of one. For example, conferences organized by ACM still cost an enormous amount of money to just attend and largely break even by accepting company donations. The grants there are also largely provided by companies.
Linux has had getrandom(2) for quite a few years, and there are glibc wrappers which use it.
> It doesn't make much at all

Curious how you decided on a price of $55/year. That's kind of steep for what you're providing. Pinboard, for instance, is 20% of that.
'It's killing us': midwestern workers savaged by Trump's trade wars
That's how I felt when reading about Djedkheperew (an Egyptian pharaoh) the other day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djedkheperew
I've used React as a server-side templating language on many projects small and large. The main feature that makes React great for rendering HTML is higher-order components. In my experience any project of sufficient complexity starts to get ugly with a "regular" templating language. React encourages composition of small isolated components, which tends to result in code that is easier to understand and maintain.

Admittedly this works best on projects that don't require a massively complex interactive front-end, like news sites[0] and data reporting tools. But at some point you can just choose to start hydrating the interactive components in the browser without changing your back-end setup at all.

[0]: https://wildlyinaccurate.com/introducing-a-faster-bbc-news-f...
Coast Guard has never been DoD.

> In 2002 it was placed under the DHS. During time of war it may be transferred to the Department of the Navy, under the Department of Defense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_Un...
>> The argument from authority (e.g., publishing mafias) fallacy is ripe in academia.

I believe the reason Arxiv is not trusted in some fields is that it's seen as a loophole that allows bad articles to avoid the filter of peer review and see the light of day. It would not be a problem if Arxiv was full of such articles, that would never cut it in an actual publication, but such articles are mixed with many that are eventually published and that just adds an amount of noise to the process that makes it hard to be sure what you're reading, especially if it doesn't exactly match your expertise.

In other fields, e.g. in machine learning, putting your paper on Arxiv is de rigeur although of course that means anonymous reviewing goes out the window, so there's legitimiate concerns there also.
May I ask what software you use for self-hosting?
The problem isn't so much that videos autoplay.

The problem is that there's no way for people to set it to "off" as an option, and that any time this option is suggested or implemented someone will see how they can override it, because "people don't really want to block the videos our our site".
So the core data-structure for aggregated data is associative maps, like PHP.
The strange thing is that it works fine in Safari. Usually the other way around
> support the IEEE instead

First time I had to do with the IEEE, I was introduced to it being the "Institute of Engineers Exploiting Engineers". I guess that could be considered an improvement over lawyers exploiting engineers, but I'd rather have none of that exploiting going on.
They will restore the account without a number if you raise a support ticket.
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I don't get health insurance through my employer if that's what your implying. A family is different than an individual though, and that total cost is not per individual.
Your distinction seems to be a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. That 23andMe's genetic testing doesn't have the same high standards of "real" genetic testing doesn't mean that they're not using genetic testing. As far as 23andMe's not using the word "test" meaning anything, there is still an implication that testing is precisely what they're doing. I just Googled "genetic testing". The third result is a link to 23andMe that they themselves have titled "23andMe: DNA Genetic Testing & Analysis". From that page are links to pages like "We're all about real science, real data and genetic insights that positively impact people's lives" and "Know your genes, own your health".
Looking back at my comment I see how my language wasn’t as clear as I thought. Thank you for clarifying, this is what I was trying to say.

THC/Cannabinoids weren’t the issue, contaminants in the oil were.
Agreed, it is nuts. The Liberty ships being built in just days. Planes and tanks and trucks streaming off the assembly lines in the tens of thousands. Millions of tons of high explosives. Truly incredible.

Nowadays, it takes us the better part of a decade to get a minor bridge project done, and building a four-story apartment building is a multi-year endeavor.
Same. Without a mountain of ad locker tech and preferably noscript everything feels like one bloated advert.
Before I proceed, let me just state that I have no particular knowledge of either RDBMS' internals or Kafka, so this is nothing but my own amateur musings on the subject.

Now, I wholeheartedly agree that Kafka is more scalable, but I think the key point here is that there is no particular law of nature as to why that is the case. It may just be an historical accident of how RDBMS - and PosgreSQL in particular - have evolved. Further: many of the properties of Kafka are in fact also desirable properties for the PostgreSQL transaction log.

My take on the inopinatus observation, together with the Samza article [1] mentioned on this discussion, are as follows. You can think of Postgres as two "products" (bounded contexts, if you like):

- a stream-based, possibly replicated, transaction log;

- a projection of that transaction log into relational calculus, plus all of the associated machinery.

Thus far we never had the need to think of these as clearly separate "products", but Kafka makes it obvious that they are. In truth, the amount of tools processing WAL outside of PostgreSQL were already hinting in this direction; Kafka just made it obvious.

From this perspective, it seems a tad expensive to take the original transaction log, convert it to a RDBMS representation, then convert it to events and, in some cases, then store it as an event stream in Kafka. It would be much more efficient to simply use the original transaction log directly - and this is why, to me, even Debezium [2] / Bottled Water [3] appear to be one layer too many. To the best of my understanding, this line of reasoning is also line with the observations in the Samza article [1]. Where I believe I differ from the article is in thinking that the RDBMS representation also adds a lot of value to applications - I see both having a role (e.g. streaming vs batch processing sort of thing). I think this would derail the present discussion too much, so I won't go in to it.

In conclusion: to the untrained eye, it seems that the right thing to do is to extract the transaction log out of PostgreSQL and make it as scalable as Kafka. Then, allow for it to log "things" which are not necessarily "projectable" into the relational plane. PostgreSQL then becomes just a client of the transaction log, together with other "kinds" of clients. I suspect that this is what will ultimately happen, but the engineering work required will probably span a decade or more.

My 2 Angolan Kwanzas, at any rate.

[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...

[2] https://debezium.io/

[3] https://github.com/confluentinc/bottledwater-pg
The discord was made to talk about the last situation that happend on the website. The Cast was not made for any of this Ring thing. Some Kid named Chance done this shit while they were in the podcast.
A Pair of Counterexamples in Vector Calculus
The Web Is Doom
Crashed my phone... (Chrome on Android, though pretty old Sony Experia)
Marketers Can Overcome Short-Termism
I've tried the self hosted version. What kind of app on android should one use? I think there's supposed to be chandler and I either did not find the app in play store or it did not work. It has been many months since I tried that though.
It IS a big problem, but shifting stuff around in a dense city is different from piling some dirt into a shape on the tundra.
IMHO, many flights are late because airlines are extremely efficient, not because they are inefficient.

A plane is used as much as possible without any slack so any delay has a ripple effect throughout the day.
The words "genetic testing" carry a weight that may not be entirely deserved, but it's there regardless. And no, she didn't read the fine print. Most people don't. This doesn't make her a "fucking idiot" as you unnecessarily described her.

A lot of people take a lot of pride and interest in their culture. How is that "fucking creepy"? As it happens, there is a lot of Middle Eastern blood in Sicilians, so she may have been right and her grandmother may have been right.

And why do you think that the author is asking people to feel sorry for her? She's just relating something that she learned the hard way that she regrets.
> Science United lets you help scientific research projects by giving them computing power. These projects do research in astronomy, physics, biomedicine, mathematics, and environmental science; you can pick the areas you want to support.

> You help by installing BOINC, a free program that runs scientific jobs in the background and when you're not using the computer. BOINC is secure and will not affect your normal use of the computer.

> Science United is operated by the BOINC project at UC Berkeley. Science United and the research projects it supports are non-profit.

Might be helpful to add the grid computing bit to the title.
Nawa's ultracapacitor-hybrid e-moto radically boosts power and range
Some people are just not all that interested in people. Science fiction is one of the few genres where it is somewhat acceptable to write stories that explore ideas and not feelings.
Thanks a lot :) I'd appreciate a lot if you could name one thing which you're missing in the app.
Thanks a lot :) I'd appreciate a lot if you could name one thing which you're missing in the app. This would help me a lot.
It's probably a casual expression, sort of like how people use the word "theory" in a different way that science uses it.
Thanks :) Is there anything you'd add to the app?
And what can you say what are you working on? I'd love to test it as well! :)
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The app which let's you browse the internet? Type in the address of your server and you should be presented with Monica. Works quite well on mobile.
> Going below the current 12 month ‘embargo’ would make it very difficult for most American publishers to invest in publishing these articles.

Then just stop doing it. If science needs publishers, scientists will soon notice. If not, well, good riddance!

Frankly, ACM just kills it's own value proposition. You publish with ACM, or IEEE et. al., because they propose greater reach. If scientists realize that noone pays the ridiculous amounts of money and usually go to archive.org instead, they will soon realize that they don't need ACM for publishing.

Soon after, free, or very cheap, open access journals and collections will be the go-to default. If the traditional publishers have any more value to add than a searchable catalog and a barely functioning citation index, they will compete. But I doubt it.
If you like this kind of thing you might like https://www.zooniverse.org/
> i wonder what makes the language so nice for writing content management systems in? might be interesting to learn about.

The fact that you just need to drop a file on an Apache server to have a functional web app. It's not so much the language itself but the execution model of the code. No need to stop/start a server when the code changes, no need to actual write a server since Apache fronts everything.

so it has nothing to do with the language, it's about the CGI style model and its simplicity.
I hope so! That mainly depends on how much traction I can get on iOS. If there's decent interest, I'd love to invest my time into building Android app.
I'm not sure I agree. All liberal democracies have the tendency (and usually also explicit mechanisms) to transform into illiberal democracies. That's the whole point of a 'state of emergency'. Most dictatorships (including the Nazis) are inaugurated by a state of emergency, where some liberal rights are suspended. However, democracies also do this all the time - iirc, the US has been in a state of emergency since the 60's.

I also think human rights are distinct from liberal democracy - since liberal democracies predate the concept, and many liberal democracies (e.g. the US, UK) don't really abide by the UN charter in lots of ways, or don't have them constitutionally enshrined.

I think in reality, the line between well-functioning liberal democracy and scary dictatorship is really thin - and states cross from one side to the other all the time. For instance, Montana in the USA imprisoned people for saying anything against the US government in the first world war.

India has obviously been flirting with some scary ideas for some time, most notably with the treatment of Dalits and Muslims - but it's hard to see this as just a BJP problem. I think the BJP make the whole situation worse, but I just don't see how you could avoid this kind of thing in a normal capitalist democracy with extreme inequality and poverty. It's like in the US south during apartheid. The only way the ruling group could secure anybody's support was by convincing their poor white workers they had more in common with rich white men than poor black men.

Unless you neuter inequality, social divisions - caste, gender, race - are always going to be an easy way for the rich to ensure the poor don't join forces against them. So secular, liberal democracy in such a state is just a moment between various modalities of illiberal ethno-nationalism.
> Correctness when you have arbitrarily long input gets complicated very easily.

Indeed. Accepting arbitrary inputs frequently requires an arbitrary amount of resources. Even if there are no vulnerabilities to exploit, a denial of service attack may still be possible because processing untrusted input can result in massive memory allocations.

A concrete example I've recently dealt with:

https://github.com/multiformats/unsigned-varint/blob/master/...

These variable length integers may consume an unbounded amount of memory when decoded. I think it's wise to constrain this by default and let the caller increase or turn off the limits if they want:

decode(buffer) # max=9, per spec
decode(buffer, max=64)
decode(buffer, max=math.inf)