skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/05/developer-salaries-in-...

Well, ok, I guess it's not that grim. Still, it's a pretty crappy job.
Forty Years of Unix, and 'The Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done' (2013)
Katskhi pillar in Georgia: One of the world's most isolated churches
Well, witness North Korea in the present day, and many other dictatorships besides, they usually lose their ability to innovate about as fast as they bury their dissidents.
Common perception about soviet anything is generally wrong, at least in the us.
Because you said "preferably through USB-C".
> human brain controls to get us to do things we don't want - Work

We already have that: coffee.
Apparently they’ve only sold 300 of them. Same thing with the new updated 747.
It’s in almost all chain lubes for bikes also. There is one brand I found called Green Oil that doesn’t use it, but it takes a week or so to ship from the UK and they only make a wet lube. Not thrilled with using a wet lube year round, but still much better than having Teflon dust in my apartment.
Is it really that much more expensive as an airport, or asphalt travel? I'm just curious whether you have found some pricing details somewhere :)
Heart breaking. Rip mamba.
On the universal structure of human lexical semantics (2016)
This is scary: "We estimated that the mean R0 ranges from 3.30 (95%CI: 2.73-3.96) to 5.47 (95%CI: 4.16-7.10) associated with 0-fold to 2-fold increase in the reporting rate."
Really? Suppose you just ran a twenty year, many million dollar field study, the hypothesis was not confirmed, you just throw everything out & that's that?
>This is the dumbest flaw ever

Actually, the dumbest flaw ever would be to give all the previous footage to the new "owner".
Wikipedia is up in Turkey for already a week I guess. So no.
It depends on the user's settings.
> Bezos likely has hundreds, if not thousands of industry-leading security experts working for him at Amazon.

Not even close. A few dozen or so, most of which aren’t iOS or forensics experts. Also, nobody had this report until after it was written.

If you think executives can evaluate the competency of experts in niche fields, you are absolutely kidding yourself. This is also why nearly every CISO in the industry has absolutely no idea what they are doing.
the thing inaccurate about it is the relatively recent merging of the one term with the other. but you know what, i still think he has to do some more searching to do to find out what the issue is. because from his writing it is unfortunately clear it's more and less than ad(h)d alone can explain.
I'm not a huge carnivore so those guys will never get my money, heh. SO MUCH MEAT!! All in one meal! Today I split a 6 oz. steak with another person and it felt like a lot of meat.

This thread! All-you-can-eat as a hedging strategy is a bit unnerving, it's like a bet for my vice, that I'll come out ahead. Something like The Purge, all the crimes you can commit in 24hrs.
Tell me when you can grep or sed an sqlite database, or cleanly check it into a git repo.
Well given that Ebola, Coronavirus, etc have been sourced from people eating these infected animals, this 'wild animal trade' in China and similar should be permanently banned to reduce the risk of another situation like this.
Consider the gross inefficiency in the other direction. To simply edit done simple data, you have to have how much code and infrastructure? And how much of that is plagued by bitrot?
Great start, I end up with 49 products that meet my basic filters. I'd really like some more feature differentiation to decide. Release dates might help too, as I'd rather buy a newer product.
Here's a review that covers a few of their cameras and both their older NVR software and newer Protect. I didn't write this, it's just a blog entry I came across while looking for a comparison of Unbt's video offerings.

https://michaelkummer.com/tech/unifi-video-review/
The Octane had a PCI card cage option so it's possible you could add a pci sata card.
Would you be skeptical to what a billionaire CEO would have to say about Income Inequality? Or what a dairy farmer would say about Oat Milk?
> Then I noticed a difference between my test ROM and Pokémon Emerald when they hang. There was music playing in Pokémon. There was also music playing in Sonic Pinball Party. There wasn’t music playing in Hello Kitty, but this gave me an idea.

Maybe there was supposed to be music playing, this was for timing it, and it was removed, broken, or just forgotten about?
Getting direct contact about the issue directly seems very transparent to me?

If you just suddenly disappeared without a note, that's one thing. "Please stop action X occurring on your network" sounds very clear and direct.
There is also an option to take Stockholm-Turku ferry (10 hours overnight) and Turku-Helsinki train (2 hours).
Iowa Caucus Voting App Stirs Security Concerns
The on-board NIC in an octane is 10/100, so network anything will be painful.

It's possible to install gigE, but you will need a PCI-X shoebox and also a NIC with compatible firmware. Not super easy to find.
In my particular case it was also a design decision made back in 2006 or 2007 already. It's designed for fast random reads from the ground up due to the versioning focus (reading page-fragments from different revisions, as it just stores fragments of record-pages). I'll change the algorithm slightly to fetch the fragments in parallel (should be fast on modern hardware, that is even SSDs and in the future for instance with byte-addressable non-volatile memory).
Cute Animals Got Me an ‘A’ in Data Structures and Algorithms
It's easier to criticize, than to actually do something.

You can also get labeled as a jerk, and ostracized among your social group. You become known as "that guy.."

Often, it's more fun to use it to share an inside joke with someone, when you use it to criticize someone else.

When I give feedback, I like to preface it as a constructive criticism.

When something doesn't affect me directly, I prefer to just let it slide, than to deal with the blowback.

As with anything else, it's better to use it judiciously.
Things I want to learn more about
CO2 doesn't decay in the short term so talking about current production is meaningless. You have to consider cumulative emissions [0] if you want to talk about fairness.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/10/Cumulative-CO2-tr...
Ffmpeg Audio Waveform Overlay How-To
Yes, technically, although they make the distinction is that it's in the same process.

It's a bad definition. I would stick with the terms "embedded" or "in-process" which have been around for decades and are well-understood.
Hackers using ‘money mules’ steal $10.5M from RealPage
I don't think we fully appreciate just how pervasive SQLite is in our computing devices. Apple recognized its power and utility and embedded it in macOS and iOS, and Google apparently followed suit in Android. The universality of SQLite is due in no small measure to its stellar quality and the trustworthiness of its author, D. Richard Hipp.
That's because they stole it. When you stand on the shoulders of giants it's not difficult to take the next step. In cases where the Soviets outpaced the west, most notably in the space race, they did so for lack of prudence. The US could only tolerate at most one accident (Apollo 1) else the entire endeavor would have been jeopardized. Rigorous testing, empirical investigation, and redundancy all imposed costs on the US. The Soviets instead just devalued human life and kept all their failures secret, lowering their cost to gain agility for progress.

In the end the Soviets produced a very small amount of organic peer-reviewed cutting edge research in contrast to the west. Worse, the politics impressed on its academics lead to Lysenkoism.
On Arch it's like ten seconds tops. How slow is it on others?
With multiple servers you can add space to each of them. With a single one there is a much lower limit to what you can do - that's the idea behind vertical/horizontal scalability. That, and the systems with multiple nodes can be made more reliable than single node servers.
I’m not sure I buy this. Sure you can have access to the “truth” in the west, but you also see a staggering amount of propaganda/mass manipulation/willful distraction and no easy way of differentiating the two.

That said, wikipedia specifically would be a massive loss to anyone.
Or before they are even ill (plus it's possible that some percentage of people will be infectious without ever having any symptoms).
> Drop in replacement for PostgreSQL

Well that's impressive. Can I just drop this into my test suite and get a mega speed improvement? Could be worth it.
General Motors Puts Its Computer Software and Security to the Test
LA Fresh Poultry: A Store Where Los Angeles Converges
Holy nitpick, batman.

It's an outcome. "Solution" depends on the goal. If the goal is to have a planet so choked with humanity that almost everything else dies, then no, it's not a solution.
You're not allowed to use full PWA capabilities on iOS though right?
Not in this thread apparently. I guarantee nobody here as ever used the term "serverless" over "embedded" or "in-process" in their entire career but apparently the purity and nostalgia of SQLite overrides it.
What exactly does “low-key” mean in this context?
Given that the US currently I has no vehicle to bring people to the ISS, it look like they lost in the long(er) term. /s
Wow, that looks like a great route. I had to check it on a Map to see what shape it would make. It has a nice curve to it :)

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Helsinki,+Finland/Tallinn,+E...

I'm travelling from The Netherlands to Berlin next week and although the train is comfortable. It's a bit annoying that it has so many stops in between. (taking the DB train, not the high speed one).
A better analogy would be this. You have very limited mobility, your head is immovable, and your feed is a conveyor belt which slowly brings to your mouth hamburger pieces. You've been doing this for a while. Your hands have some mobility, so you can affect what's on the conveyor, but rather slowly.

In this situation you suddenly realize that cholesterol is bad. Remember, you've been doing this feeding for quite a while and, while knowing about cholesterol, weren't that concerned - things didn't notably change for you. Now you start feeling some inconveniences and decide to do something about the cholesterol, as doctors recommended. Now you still have to eat regularly, and can't stop the conveyor, and can change what's on the conveyor only rather slowly - so what would you do?

Among other things you'd probably think "sure, the cholesterol is bad but if things would go too bad I can at least get a heart bypass". I think it's a usable model of the current situation.
Today is a weird time to get into mobile app dev. The standard 'native' UI frameworks are pretty terrible in terms of how they cope with complexity and their ability to change over time with their dated OOP APIs. Though on both platforms the tooling has been climbing ever upwards towards local maxima.

The best options available for most Apps today (even if just for a single platform) are typically React Native or Flutter. With their React(-ish) UI approaches you can both quickly build and iterate in the future.

SwiftUI is not ready for most uses (I've shipped a small but non trivial app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pattern-maker/id1484249212 and was surprised by how many bugs there are for very standard things and how many hacks seemed to be required). Jetpack Compose seems to be at an even earlier stage. I expect both will be great but probably not for some time.
all of us
So, according to the author, a PhD in Sociology, Elon Musk is a "Snake Oil Salesman" and the "irrational" share price of TSLA is case for "democratizing the allocation of wealth" or as she puts it "socializing finance". Umm, no, that's not how it works in a free market and free society. People can do whatever they please with their own dollars, including risking them on a stock.
That argument doesn't work because the Mac App Store is not a popular way to buy software. Most of the apps people still buy Macs for are not in the Mac App Store (source: none of the most popular creative apps are in the Mac App Store https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...), so it didn't help security (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/8/20687014/zoom-security-fla...). What it did do is harm the Cocoa apps that relied on Apple's stack. Look I understand the prism that you're looking at this through, and I do believe that was the security team at Apple's intention, but I don't think that's the reality of how it has played out.

UPDATE: I think the fatal flaw of Apple's security teams approach is that it only would have worked if there were some way to pull mobile use cases back to the Mac, because those use cases are compatible with sandboxing. But that just hasn't happened, the use cases that moved to mobile, e.g., social media, chat, video consumption, aren't coming back to the Mac ever. And the use cases that did stay on the Mac: audio/video editing, 3D, programming are just simply demonstrably not compatible with sandboxing.
Perhaps I am a bit slow, but could someone else with better understanding ELI5 what benefits this provides over Postgres?

I would really appreciate it.

The only bit I really understood was:

The system automatically parallelizes user functions

Now granted, I only understand how DBs work from a user-facing side so that might be a barrier here.
- SQLite is damn easy.

- It's almost a standard due to licensing.

- Tiny, really tiny.
Well, no? As stated in the article, the truffles and oysters were hidden. This is assumingly because people optimise for most expensive dishes.

If one would optimise for calories, she'd just take the cake and fatty meats (which are also usually cheaper meats).
This is some of the most exciting stuff happening in the unix world these days.

My mind was blown after reading two posts on Oil's author blog, a few years ago:

* Shell has a Forth-like Quality: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html

and

* Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/15.html

Warning: these writings can change your view on the shell language. Now you probably think, as many of us did, that shell is a cute little hack, useful for one-off throwaway stuff, but not really fit for serious work. Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention. Pipes are an essential programming tool that must be supported by the core language and not by a library construct (as in python).
I'm planning to use a SCSI2SD adapter for my old IRIS stations:

https://store.inertialcomputing.com/product-p/scsi2sd-v5-st3...
Nothing of the sort is required. If you want to write a simple single-threaded synchronous program, sqlite works great for that.
This is so interesting, how is it that nobody seems to have heard of this?

There are so many usecases where this would fit much better than traditional approaches.

Thank you for sharing!
That is an interesting problem. In the 00's they were cheap and plentiful. Buying old SGI hardware to play with was pretty affordable. Now people want thousands. Same with old x86 hardware.
CCS is definitely less economic that not putting the carbon into the air in the first place.

The problem is that we can't pass an arbitrary policy and expect it to be dutifully followed from day one. So, economists would put a cost on a policy - say, how much money would some oil user require so he'd stop polluting? Remember if you just order him to stop, he can vote you out of policymaking. Or he may happen to live in a jurisdiction where your order turns into something more optional.

Taking that into account, I think CCS considerations make a lot of sense.
I have 2 wide now. 2 ultrawide would be hard to command the whole field. I could deal with a single ultrawide - as long as it was nearly as wide as my duet?
2 ultrawides would lead to craning of neck.
I just bought a card that will drive 4 monitors for a new system, so I will try 2 up and 2 down - and see how I like it.
I could try one up and one down with both ultrawide?
In both cases I would tilt the top down a little and the left and right in a little.
I do geological drawings, so it is good for spanning to all corners as well and cut and paste from panel to panel as I change stuff around.
I appreciate your emphasize on reducing flying. This seems like an unfortunately rare attitude though perhaps changing quickly.
I implemented this in C++ for a commercial game engine many years ago. Both internally, and in the API used by games on top.

We used Emacs-Lisp to generate a collection of C++ classes with all of the arithmetic operaters that were allowed, and only those. "friend" is your friend for this in C++.

We mostly used floating point to represent values, but could also use integers with scale factors (automatically applied in the operators), which is nearly equivalent to fixed point.

For things where vectors made sense, 1d, 2d and 3d vector types were available. So Position2d and Position3d.

Absolute and relative values were distinguished: You could substract two absolutes to get a relative, but you couldn't add two absolutes. You could add a relative to an absolute to get an absolute.

And for time intervals we used wraparound arithmetic and comparisons, like the Linux kernel has the time_before() macro, so absolute times could continue "growing" without overflow in a running game.

Using the classes looked like a bit like this:

Position3d p1, p2;
Direction3d d = p2 - p1;

Absolute_Time t1, t2;
Time_Interval t = t2 - t1;

Velocity3d v;
object.set_position(p1 + t * v);

These types were used pervasively throughout all the game engine, gameplay logic, "AI" and so on.

The constraints provided great type-checking and effectively documented a lot of code as well.

This being a game engine, they had to be fast. So they were all inline methods, in classes containing just a number, or up to 3 numbers for vectors.

Using GNU C++ this compiled down to the same machine code as if we hand-coded the arithmetic in the traditional way; we checked. So there was no runtime cost.

It was very satisfying to use.
Do it! The coast starlight is great. I have taken it a few times from Los Angeles to Oakland. It is so relaxing, the diner car is great and so is the observation car which is a fantastic place to camp out with a book. I've been meaning to take it up to Seattle. I'm sure it's beautiful going through Oregon and Northern California. When you take it to Los Angeles you go right by vendenberg air force base and the Space X and Nasa hangers.
Same order of magnitude. But that’s kinda ridiculous, no?
A reasonable way to look at risk is the severity of the outcome multiplied by the probability it will occur. Your link seems to endorse that that kind of risk acts as a deterrent when sufficiently large.

If your point is that people (at least those who aren't scientists or statisticians) round small probabilities to zero, then I agree, and it's something that I think people need to be more aware of when considering deterrence or other behavior. However, I don't think you or the article made this point clearly. The article would be so much shorter and simpler if it was condensed down to that one observation.

It's quite reasonable to say that punishment only has an effect when it is clearly linked to an action, but that sounds like a completely different message than saying punishment doesn't work (implicitly assuming it almost never occurs).
Would you consider writing a second article into some of the more useful bits you could do with it?

Or maybe link some resources you found most helpful?

Thank you!
> I can demand a long lasting, repairable, sustainable appliance (and most products) until I am blue in the face, no corporation is willing to make and sell me one.

I can't tell if this is ideology or a mistake, but this is not true. Firstly, if you demand something that can be reasonably built, somebody will sell it to you for the right price. Remember: corporations are just regular folk trying to make money, like everyone else in modern society.

Second, if your argument is "Well, it would be so much more expensive" then this is kind of your own problem, not theirs. Corporations have achieved incredibly affordable production through economies of scale in massive markets. They cater to the demands of large groups of consumers who are willing to pay what it takes for their needs and luxuries. If nobody else wants what you want, nobody will build it for you except you.

Claiming that corporations won't make you a 'long lasting, repairable, sustainable appliance' means (a) you haven't asked or looked, or (b) you aren't willing to pay for the qualities you demand.

> it requires government to regulate to get corporations to all do their bit.

I agree with you here.

> Lets also not forget ... makes you feel worse.

I agree here too - you're right. Advertising is awful, and I don't know what we should do about it, I haven't put enough thought into that issue.
I used to think corporations were where things get invented. It seemed that way to me, looking at Microsoft and Netscape and Apple and SGI growing up. And that in academia, people only made toys, and only got to the earliest stage of invention: ideas partly evaluated.

But my experience in software companies has been that in a corporation you are a slave to convention. Because even if you innovate in your domain, that innovation will be invisible to the rest of the corporation. Because when they look at it, they will evaluate it by asking which conventions it follows. But inventions by definition don’t follow conventions. What people like is to see conventions followed, and the results of that. It reads as progress.

Now I think it’s primarily artists who invent. But it’s hard to much production as a solo artist. So those who succeed are artists who split their time between doing their work in secret and public ally playing the game of performing conventions in a corporate body. If you split your time that way, you will be praised for applying convention and then periodically your secret art will appear as a magic trick and delight people who are already happy with you.

Without the convention theater, the art will just strike them as confirmation that you’re out touch with the organization.

The same is true in academia really. It’s just a different set of convention theater, around publishing rather than sales.
Also denied the Norwegian king entrance when fleeing Norway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_VII_of_Norway)

The Red Cross busses also transported prisoners in exchange for the Scandinian ones. Iirc the Swedish government also send a letter stating to rescue the Jews last. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Buses)

Strategic, rather than neutral I would call it.
I meant why doesn't the government publish a list of IPs blocked, when it started and the reason why.

Edit: I see I'm getting downvoted here but I want to explain why I am passionate about this topic. As someone who supports network infrastructure and it's operation I'm on the hook to find out why x can't talk to y. It's a challenge when dealing with ISP/country level blocks or packet manipulation. Proving that this is something deliberate versus a legitimate broken thing is a process to go through. Not being able to tell a customer why is not a great story. Different countries have different techniques for this and over time you learn them. Seeing your packets in a traceroute going to a hop that has a DNS PTR record that says "DPI" in the name is a nice heads up to an operator to give you that sort of indication of what you're dealing with. I am aware that basically no country publishes such blocks today and ISPs that are forced to implement such blocks are usually instructed to not tell you anything about it (sometimes off the record, if you're lucky).