skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Couple dozen 55km Boring Company Tunnels could do the trick, no?

The Boring Company is not the only one using COTS tunneling equipment, nor has any relevant engineering project under it's portfolio. Although it excels at marketing, I fail to see how it should be used as a measuring stick in geothecnical work.
I don't think you can scale up and scale down Fargate based on Http requests
I realize it's a minor point, but it's in the site guidelines for a reason: please don't use uppercase for emphasis on HN. It's basically yelling, and if you start yelling, other people start yelling back, as exemplified below. Ironically, that makes everyone harder to hear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I do not want to spread misinformation. If that statement was incorrect, could you let me know how to correct it?
Andy Grove is a PMC on Apache Arrow, and a great columnar store community member. It was probably less of a literature review for him than a reflection on past experience.
I don’t get it. Reading this article it almost sounded like satire. Stock market goes up, in a quality grows greater. Black market goes down, inequality worsens. It’s as if the very concept of a public company is hated which begs the question: Is there any society where a free stock market does not exist that can hold a candle to the generally improved standard of living for everyone??
You can have them untill someone reports them. As long as you keep them private to only manage pages or groups it should be fine.
Which is exactly why banks require 2+ years of business history, collateral, or a personal guarantee. They will also review your financials when you apply for additional credit facilities.
The types of education that are most like an efficient market are recognized and necessary certification based training in fields like nursing and agricultural tech/safety (probably other “skilled trades” too), the product of regulation. When you “deregulate” education, you get predatory actors like ITT Tech that try to imitate real trade education.
Leaving aside the optimisations, I assume you are doing N^3 multiplication, whereas Strassen algorithm with complexity N^2.81 or even Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm with complexity N^2.37 with larger constant is better with 5000x5000 square matrix.
Are you assuming that everybody who is able-bodied and has a scale degree should be able to find employment?

Did over 12 million people in this country really get worthless degrees or become incapacitated?

Getting a "good" degree might not matter so much, if so many other people also got those degrees. One could say that degree is therefore no longer so good, but there is not an endless train of "even better" degrees for people to move on towards.
The episode of Michael Taft's excellent 'Deconstructing Yourself' podcast featuring Douglas Tataryn was definitely a 2019 highlight.

Excellent exploration of the intersection of psychotherapy and meditation. With bonus Circling practise and Integral theory talk thrown in.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/meditation-emotions-bi...
I, personally, and my businesses, have a tremendous amount of time and money invested in FreeBSD as a platform.

JohnCompanies[1] was started on FreeBSD, rsync.net runs FreeBSD exclusively, and Oh By[2] runs on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is an operating system by, and for, the FreeBSD developers.

You may choose to deploy, and invest in, FreeBSD for your own purposes (as I have) but you need to understand what the development process is and how FreeBSD is "released" if you want to make meaningful investments of actual money into adopting it.

In short: the official position of FreeBSD is that -RELEASE is the only production release of FreeBSD and, technically, -STABLE and -CURRENT are not production ready. Yet at the same time all investment and development of FreeBSD by the actual developers is done with -CURRENT.

The result is your legal, contractual, fiduciary, and even moral obligations to the customers you serve demands that you run only -RELEASE. And yet, any issues you have with -RELEASE will be difficult to resolve because the entire community is already 1-2 major versions ahead of you in their development, their workspaces, and even their personal machines. You will be met with incredulity when you insist that you need to run only production code and your "current" problems with the "current" -RELEASE will not be addressed.

This makes it very difficult (although not impossible) to make any kind of long-term investments in FreeBSD.

Pointing to the big name firms that run FreeBSD, like Netflix, is a bit disingenuous as only they have the resources to, essentially, run their own forks of FreeBSD (which they do).

I have written about this in detail, twice:

First, in 2012[3] and then later in 2014[4]. The 2014 posting is probably more succinct and relevant here, but if you really want a deep dive in the culture and tendencies of FreeBSD development, read the 2012 thread.

[1] JohnCompanies, started in fall of 2001, was possibly the first "VPS" provider as we now think of it, although we called them "Server Instances" and did not coin the term "Virtual Private Server".

[2] https://0x.co

[3] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Jan...

[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-Jun...
It's one way to rest your eyes. Being glued all day to blue
light screens wrecks sleep patterns and creates a lot of eye strain that makes your eyesight age faster. It can also
create a feeling of anxiety and lack of focus.
And even as an employee, if you tell them over and over again that customers keep asking for that feature, they disagree with you over and over again.
What is the mechanism to identify and count people who were voluntarily retired but now wish they could find a job but can’t?
Not all coastal cities. Multiple studies have sourced most ocean plastic to Chinese rivers and coastal cities (90th percentile) followed by India and a few other places.

Why do we have to pretend that all coastal cities are equally at fault when this is clearly not true? Are people afraid its somehow racist? It has nothing to do with race but with certain governments that just don't care. It's become a pet peeve of mine when charges of racism is used to deflect political criticism of governments.

In the US dumping trash in rivers is a crime and will get you in serious trouble: large fines, seizure of trucks and equipment, maybe even criminal charges.
Multi-Region Communication with AWS VPC Peering and Private Hosted Zones
As a counter-point, I am much more productive on Linux than on Windows, and I don't need to deal with a new OS every 4 years with forced upgrades. I believe Windows 7 is going out of support soon, even though many people still run it as ... it does what they want, and they don't need to upgrade.

Meanwhile, my Linux/BSD environment only changes on one condition: when I want it to. While some internals change (i.e. systemd), much of the UI is very consistent.

This is a massive time-saver for me, because I don't want to deal with learning Windows 10 or whatever new Microsoft comes out with.
Share consistent state. Eventually consistent models (most web apps) are often generally okay.
It is downweighted on HN like most ideologically driven publications, but we've found there's occasionally a worthwhile article for discussion, as with other such publications. One test is whether there's enough new information in a piece to provide support for conversation, as opposed to angry opposing recitals. Since this is a well-known case with new developments, it seems to qualify. Also, first-person accounts tend to allow for additional aspects because human lives are complicated. His story about being gay seems to me an example of that.

Whatever point one occupies in these spaces, in whatever region sectioned off by the major divides, it's uncomfortable to have an article in one's face that comes from an opposing sector. Every one of us has this experience. Even users who identify with occupying no such region have this experience—maybe most of all, since they don't want to see any of these, whereas most of us quite like the ones from the spaces we identify with. I don't think there's any way out of this conundrum. We all have to tolerate that discomfort if we're to survive as a whole community. Indeed it seems to me that tolerating such discomfort is the essence of tolerance. Fortunately it's a skill that can slowly be learned, so the hopeful view is that we're slowly learning it together.
Good luck telling the judge your single person LLC with no investors shouldn't be pierced to pay debts incurred by its only owner and only employee.
Sean Carroll's solo podcast where he explains how the plank lenght is relative and how we should arrive at quantum gravity through the means of quantum physics, not by quantizing relativity. Blew my mind several times over.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/09/09/63-s...
The same has happened to me. I used to never make mistakes with homonyms but now do so quite frequently.

I had assumed it was somehow related to changing technology and how that ties into my mental pathways. Now you all have me curious if perhaps it’s an artifact of aging
ideas about what? i'm dimly familiar with it, or at least the hosts, but haven't listened to it.
There is actually a paper about this topic: "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages"
Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Run as an SRE.

Google Cloud has an official deprecation policy. If a product is labeled GA, Google Cloud guarantees that the service will continue running for at least 12 months since the announcement of deprecation.
It's pretty clear that the current Ontario emergency alert system doesn't have enough checks.

They need to pause the whole system and add in an external approval before messages are sent out.

Also everything is sent out at the "Presidential Alert Level". Presumably because someone gave the contract to their cousin.
What an arrogant narrow minded ideology this researcher has "If you just use your money to, I don’t know, buy the tenth car for your garage, that will only stay in your garage. [...] there are just way more effective ways of enhancing the public good than being, in layman’s terms, “economically productive.”"

You can afford the tenth car because you already contributed to the common good to earn that money! If you're supposed to also spend your money enhancing the public good then it's not really your money so how are you rewarded for the work you do?
How much do you end up paying on average for a tweet-sized generated text?
Sure, but so are tabloid newspapers, glossy magazines and junk food.

(Edit: These are other examples of billion dollar industries that equate to low quality experiences you can choose to give yourself, but which will have longer term implications.)
Pretty much.

And the introductory paragraph implies a billionaire will somehow profit more than a billion consumers he serves. He could move anywhere and still be a billionaire, but he chooses to put his 99% share into the pot.
Pickering area -- 40 km away from Toronto. Nonetheless, training exercise that erroneously issued a provide-wide alert.
Up until the 80's wages and productivity moved in lock step, and since then wages have flatlined due to a various factors (weakening of unions / globalization).

Furthermore, we are reaching the limits of what monetary stimulus is able to achieve in driving the economic wellbeing of everyday Americans; history has shown that fiscal stimulus is better at that. A decade of easy monetary policy and balance sheet expansion has yielded a large divide in inequality and asset inflation. The non-asset owning working class have effectively been left behind, with now a larger wall to climb in order build relative wealth.

I personally don't think unions and collective bargaining are the best solution, as it can in some cases be overbearing on industry---and the burden can be non-uniformly applied across industries. Also, due to globalization, there is effectively a fixed marginal cost for labor: any inefficiencies will be arbitraged abroad. Even if unions and collective bargaining were the solution, there is no inherent law that labor demand and labor supply will always be near parity---especially with increased automation.

I think the best solution to resolve this, both uniformly and with minimal aggregate complexity, would be expand the Federal's reserves responsibilities into the fiscal space.

The Fed currently has two mandates: low unemployment, and stable currency. I propose a third mandate: wage and productivity parity. This would be facilitated by direct fiscal policy in the form of a floating universal basic income. This would enshrine the fed with ability to affect fiscal policy without politics. The stimulus could be progressive, but would be much more uniform---unlike today's pork projects that have a smaller share of winners.

This coupled with universal health, easing the burden of hiring and firing, consolidation of existing entitlement/social programs, could really open up the economic landscape.
It's still an ugly, tasteless architecture, though.

That is a bit odd thing to say about it, considering that many of the goals are being resurrected these days because its become clear that the RISC/UNIX model is insufficient for modern computing. Sure they may be "pretty" and KISS, but they quickly end up being polluted by ugly hacks to make them both perform well and more recently have layers of cruft added for security purposes. You need look no further than aarch64, particularly the 8.x supplements, or the ARM CHERI efforts to see this in action.
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Does Apple have its own army? Can it?
To me the main value would be a new big area of habitable land in Egypt, where tens of millions could live.

Focusing on power generation misses the big picture for me.
A lot of what you're saying rings true to me.

There are basically two 'tracks' of things that people use in life.

Material goods like food, water, entertainment, etc are getting cheaper and cheaper all the time. On long enough time scales this is true compared to wages. For the most part even the worst of jobs is sufficient to pay for that sort of thing.

I can't speak about healthcare as that's a particularly American problem.

But housing - that's literally an issue across the spectrum. It feels like every 'class' of person has basically taken a step down or two if you compare generation to generation. The upper-middle are looking at just about being able to afford starter properties in major cities. The middle class who would 30 years ago be settling down in suburban detached homes with kids are in pokey flats or sharing houses with other professionals.

Below that you have stuff like crappy flat shares, unofficial bunking up, or homelessness - to be honest looking at what graduates are doing I can't even imagine what say, a supermarket worker does if they don't have family.
Deploy you side-projects at more than the scale they'll ever need at home on your hardware for actual nothing.
Wouldn’t readily available abortion be simply another mechanism by which female mammals could vary the gender of their offspring?
Just because you're closed minded and cannot deal with ideas foreign from your own doesn't mean this man should lose his job or not teach. In fact, your personal shortcomings should have no effect on his life. It's too bad that as a society we are too stupid to see this and too influenced by closed minded hate like you are spewing here to stand up to such bullying and harassment of people based simply upon their opinions.

I would expect a university to stand up to such bullying and hate, but they have taken the side of the closed minded, free speech hating abusers. That brings into question the value of these university programs. And considering the extremely low quality of both undergraduates and graduates coming from so called top institutions like Stanford, it's clear most students, even at the graduate level, hardly know anything.

The reality is, most people are not qualified to be in this field, including most people currently in it. That's why we have so much shitty engineering, bad choice, and horrific architectures. That goes for men and women. It's no wonder this is the state of things when the comp sci program is focusing on gender pronouns and names rather than data structures, algorithms, and architecture.

What would be ideal is better quality software and focusing on gender and equality issues sure as fuck won't get us there despite the delusions of the current ruling class in education.
Probably because it was handy.
I also listen to In our time. But maybe it is because I am not native English speaker, but I find the host quite rude to the experts, often interrupts them unnecessarily etc?
> At the same time, the housing market where I live is absolutely exploding

That's because the US housing market is open to the richest people around the world who are looking for a place to store value. US property rights protect value better than property rights in China.
The HKDF paper[1] has a good definition of a KDF:

A Key derivation function (KDF) is a basic and essential component of cryptographic systems: Its goal is to take a source of initial keying material, usually containing some good amount of randomness, but not distributed uniformly or for which an attacker has some partial knowledge, and derive from it one or more cryptographically strong secret keys.

Not all KDFs are hash functions, or hash-function based. There are block-cipher based KDFs, stream-cipher based KDFs, etc.

Hash functions take arbitrary length input (well, up to some very large maximum size) and provide fixed-length output.

eXtensible Output Functions (XOFs)take arbitrary length input (up to some very large max) and provide arbitrary length output (up to some very large max).

Password Hashing Functions take (at least) three inputs: a unique salt, a secret password, and a tuning parameter (or set of parameters). They use the tuning parameter(s) to change the amount of work needed to compute their outputs. For any set of inputs they produce a deterministic output. The output may or may not be directly suitable for use as a cryptographic key, and may or may not be variable length.

Some password hashing functions are KDFs, taking effectively arbitrary input length and producing effectively arbitrary output length. PBKDF2 and Argon2 are KDFs.

Some password hashing functions are NOT KDFs, having limits on their input & output sizes. Bcrypt is not a KDF and not a hash function: it has a maximum 56-byte input (55 bytes if taking a null-terminated string, 72 bytes max in newer implementations) and a 60-byte output. It's suitable for logins where the password is hashed and compared to the stored hash, but not for directly deriving key material. And it's not necessarily suitable for non-ASCII passwords/passphrases, due to the short input.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/264
Traditionally, gold, treasury bills and cash if a crash is due. However, time in the market beats timing the market. If you are 10-20 years out then just focus on buying and buying in the dip. Dollar cost average is what it's called.
Most common reason to use a straw is when drinking from a vessel that's full of ice.

It's funny how luxurious a simple ice-filled straw-included one-time-use styrofoam cup of Coke from the McDonald's drive-thru is, really, and how much we take it for granted.
I wouldn't have thought to look there. I'm sure there's many ex-flash devs who would be happy to check it out if they knew.
There must be added cost for a managed databases or similar, right?

This sounds a lot like aws lambda (except nicer thanks to just running any container). In AWS’s case, you need to pay extra for RDS, redis, and any other persistence.
I don't think politicians actually believe it's a positive. They can't possibly be that naive. They must have basic economic awareness of how $30 p/h FT job in their district has different implications than a couple $15 p/h PT jobs.

They don't discuss the important details because it doesn't drive votes. They also as a challenger during the election want to hold the incumbent to a standard they might not be able to maintain. Politicians, as a breed, are adverse to "live by the sword, did by the sword." As a result we get politician-speak as the normalized standard.
Well, I mentioned Fowler because of this: https://martinfowler.com/tags/clean%20code.html

Though he and Uncle Bob agree on many of these things so one could replace one for the other in my comment, I think.
How are private schools supposed to offer better service at a lower cost, when public schools are effectively free?

This is hardly a market. Even if people wish to move their children out of public schools en masse, it's not like governments are going to reduce property taxes accordingly.
See page 7: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Ranitid...

They did NOT simulate a normal diet with common levels of sodium nitrate. At 10 mM there is no NDMA found. Sodium nitrate concentrations for meat are much lower than 10 mM. The FDA puts a strict upper limit of sodium nitrate concentrations in meat at 100mg/kg, so around a concentration of .015mM (!)

I don't need to do any further math to tell you no one is eating that much cured meat in a single sitting (it's simply not possible).
> A person who believes that the gender gap in computer science is solely because Men and Women are different is not the sort of person I want teaching introductory computer science classes.

What if it's true?
Not very helpful with knowing how much sodium nitrite they added. Are they simulating the diet of someone who eats a bologna sandwich for lunch every day, or the diet of someone who eats nothing but twenty pounds of straight bologna every day?

Edit: sibling comment provides some evidence that the concentrations of nitrites where they observed NDMA are much higher than what might be expected in a normal diet.
Although I also perceive the same things I wonder if there is adequate incentive for the one to create something that provides for others

Simply taking their economic output is not incentive
Should this, should that. I have heard this so many times. If you are a app developer and became successful on the Google playstore, but not on iTunes store then who are you to say that you should never put all your eggs into a single basket. This would never be a deliberate choice. Fact is, that many business lost everything due dragonic decisions made by big tech companies. Unacceptable. That's why those companies need to be split up. Regions like Europe need to restrict massive US invasion and come up with their own alternatives.
I use Gallium on the super cheap Acer Chromebook 11. If I were to upgrade I would get something with more pixels, and perhaps more built in storage.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? We've asked you before, and you've done a lot of it. Eventually that gets you banned here, regardless of which ideology you favor or disfavor. The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html