skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many servers and apps being installed by Sovereign that I'm certain few would be able to keep it secure (https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign/wiki/Software-used-by...). The big win for the cloud is that you're paying a fraction of the cost for access to a, typically, enormous security and operations team. If you want to build software like this that allows people to self-host, you need to scale down what you deploy to what a single person can reasonably manage. This isn't it.

Fun todo: Install this somewhere, nmap it for open ports, then ask "How many of these services had a remotely exploitable CVE in the last year?" "If one of these services had one tomorrow, would I know to patch it and take action faster than someone would takeover my box?" I don't see any containment mechanisms on any of these services beyond what's included by default so a compromise of one service likely leads to total compromise of the entire box.

I had to think about this a lot with AlgoVPN (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo), and we built a system with no out-of-the-box remote administration, strong isolation between services with AppArmor, CPU accounting, and privilege reductions, and limited third party dependencies and software. You can't count on a full-time, expert system administrator.
Been using React Native + Expo, and it impressed me. I think React Native would be around for a couple of years, some huge companies as Shopify[0] are now adopting it.

[0] https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-nati...
You have a lot more faith in the ability of government to turn money into progress than I do. The exact same corrupt policies of farming out money to political connections for the F-35 program, resulting in marginal services/products, is what will happen in nearly every local government.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that we're coasting on the infrastructure of the past and aren't really capable of organizing successful new projects that aren't destined to fail from all the corruption.
I think any type of treatment makes it not raw anymore. Since this sewage leaks before it makes it to a treatment plant, its raw
Well, it happens that I use 3 addresses currently :)) But I agree that this is uncommon.

However, again, don't see how this relates to the point.

The fact that a given person will likely use a single email address doesn't mean that we all have to use the same email provider. As a matter of fact we don't. Gmail is the largest, but there are many alternatives out there. Unlike for social networks for example.
I remember seeing little electical heaters, that used some ASIC instead of a coil to produce the heat.
That's ridiculous, I'm from Europe, I like moving around city in a car and I don't mind other cars, but a) there should be only underground parking lots; b) there should be bike lanes everywhere where there are roads; c) parking in illegal spots should be severly punished and d) diesel cars (and petrol when electric cars become mainstream) should be banned from entering city center. I don't understand the mentality that "I don't want cars in MY city so we should ban all cars!" - I don't like some things in my city as well but I understand that it's hard to please all so we should simply aim for moderation.
I can't imagine what kind of reaction you'd get to asking a medical provider to use specific software. As a patient, you're not a doctor, it's not your wheelhouse, it really isn't your place to tell them how to fulfill their job function, even if that software isn't in your best interest -- because the latter point will be quickly lost to the former.
Of course natural geography plays a major role in both cases, but the sewage backup problem in this case seems at least partially manmade.

> Some date the beginning of the problem to the 1986 completion of Interstate 255, which looped traffic around the southern edge of the Metro East region, and was eventually (in 2002) declared by the Army Corps of Engineers to be impeding the flow of water from Centreville into the Harding Ditch, the drainage canal designed to collect surface water from the American Bottom and carry it to the Mississippi. The situation has only deteriorated in the meantime.
You're kidding right? There's SFPD/SFMTA workers everywhere diverting traffic. There's even a long thread on reddit of everyone thanking everyone out there doing all this work.

I rode in this morning and they were all there again so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I thought the example in the article was a little artificial at first. Like why would you only have 12 requests if you have 12 backends?

Reframing it in terms of capacity cleared that up. If the rate of incoming requests is higher than the total rate your backends can process, your queues will grow infinitely!

So something like an average of 12 incoming requests per second with each backend capable of processing 1 request per second is actually fairly realistic. And I think the math still works out the same there.
If you have BetterTouchTool installed, you can do a lot of cool stuff with the touch bar. I have a button that will run a shell script to spin up a local dev environment.
The article only glosses over Sublime. Even at shareware, the only thing it does is a single pop up asking for purchase every 25 saves.
Rude health isn’t really a common term. I interpreted it as poor health which seems rather obvious from the context. It does appear to actually mean good health but it’s pretty obscure.
Mixing SFTP for file transfer with raw commands for remote file operations seems like an interesting concept. Are there other tools which have done this?
I can't even view it. Is there a non-imgur mirror?
Transfast (Money transfer service) is closing down
I don't see the number exposed in Apple's UI, but I can definitely see it on my bank's website.

It's possible that this is an implementation detail and some banks do it without a unique card number...
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The rest of this man's blog is also worth a visit. Great work, Marton!

P.S. Can I suggest you put your name somewhere in your header?

P.P.S. I see you, too, use 'self' when taking notes. Would you also be a Pythonista? :)
True, but its new to some people. Probably 1/3 of the articles posted on HN are several years old, but still new to some people.
Patagonia's also done a great job with this. I have no idea if all their advertising around not buying things you don't need has increased the number of items they've sold, or just the price they can charge for them.
> This just in: you can write bad code in any language.

Pretty sure I pointed that out:

> Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

---

> The title of the article is misleading: it's not "destroying C" it's writing Bad Code using the C Preprocessor.

To put it another way, when I look at something like this, I might moan and say, "They've ruined it."

It's an expression.
> since it can't really carry a huge cannon like the a10.

IIRC, the A-10 was specially and primarily designed to carry that massive gun.
This only works if better alternatives don’t impact the existing means.

For instance if you want a good cable car system or dedicated bus lanes, bike paths, it will go through reducing or removing private car lanes.

In general it’s both effects in one go: transform/reduce the existing infra into the new one, automatically making the new one better when it lands (and inconveniencing everyone until it lands)
Just finished watching the video. Wow. Incredible.
Butler Lampson, in his lecture Hints and Principles for Computer System Design [1], has the following anecdote:

I remember hearing from the chief program officer for the software of
the new joint fighter the F-35, in the US, five or so years ago. He said
"I'm the chief software program officer, and I'm absolutely certain
that the approved requirements for the software for this plane cannot
be met, and there's nothing I can do about it because there are so many
forces being brought to bear on these requirements." (45:45 - 46:18)

[1] https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/video/lecture-hint... (27 August 2015)
Also Nextcloud puts a LOT more effort into publicity than Owncloud.
> So when you visit HTTPS sites, anyone along the communication path... can see their domain names (e.g. wikipedia.org) and when you visit them. But these parties can’t see the pages you visit on those sites (e.g. wikipedia.org/controversial-topic), your login name, or messages you send.

I believe this is the reason Turkey blocked the entirety of Wikipedia[0], which was recently lifted[1]. They wanted to block specific pages that revealed negative information (and I believe they did at some point), but when Wikipedia went https only[2] the only avenue was to block the entire domain.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey

1: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/15/access-to-wi...

2:
Murder requires intent. Involuntary manslaughter is more accurate, if not as emotionally charged.
I bike or scooter on Market almost daily, so I’ve been excited about this change.

I think it was to some degree over-hyped, because this stretch of market was already fairly restrictive to cars, and even after the change they’re still letting all city vehicles and taxis use the street, so I didn’t expect a big change.

Nevertheless, commuting yesterday was noticeably calmer and quieter, with a lot more bikes and scooters out. I was hoping to find the numbers from the bike traffic counters they have on the street, but I didn’t see them. My unscientific guess, then, is 30-50% more bikes.

It’s a nice change. I just wish they’d extend it deeper into the city, and specifically create a firm connection to Golden Gate Park. As-is, “the wiggle” gets you there, but the stretch from Haight to the Panhandle feels dangerous to me.

I’d love to see Page St. pedestrianized, caveat somehow allowing residents car access to their block only. It’s a perfect connector except for a couple really steep blocks. Perhaps a rope tow to help the less athletic (me) get up the hill? :)
For the impatient: “The etcd key-value store is a distributed database based on the Raft consensus algorithm. In our 2014 analysis, we found that etcd 0.4.1 exhibited stale reads by default. We returned to etcd, now at version 3.4.3, to investigate its safety properties in detail. We found that key-value operations appear to be strict serializable, and that watches deliver every change to a key in order. However, etcd locks are fundamentally unsafe, and those risks were exacerbated by a bug which failed to check lease validity after waiting for a lock.”
This comments thread literally starts with someone who discovered their bank's app wasn't validating the certificate, though.
Yeah, this is probably the main reason. I know two friends who use Plex exclusively on their PS4.

I'm also not the only one in my group maintaining a Plex server, so they'd incur a transitioning cost as well.
Webpage is also centralized. The whole point in creating PoW is to create a task that would be more expensive on the network than on the market. ie some of it would be "wasteful" - used only to secure decentralized network (see my other post)
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This is dated 2015. I hadn't heard of Docker in 2015.
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I learned about it in the Ruby world.

Also, interestingly, it was available from Javascript 1.2 to 1.4: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I think it's a useful name for a useful concept, not sure why they'd take it out, "Function.prototype.length" is a much poorer replacement semantically (but hey, Javascript isn't known for its correctness or well-thought-out design...)
The F-35 has been highly successful at it's goal of funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into the military industrial complex.
It's real work in the sense of it involves real effort (work here used as in the phrase "hard work").

But "Real work" for the purposes of this thread is work that is representative of what most people do / realistic for people to have -- and statistically speaking, being a rock star is neither common, not representative of the kind of job most people do.

To recap the argument made:

A: People can't do real work on the iPad because it lacks X.
B: Really? And what about the people that are Y, they don't need X feature.
A: Well, Y is not real work.

What the person A says is not that (a) Y doesn't exist, (b) nobody has Y as their role, (c) nobody makes money by doing Y (and it is thus, their work).

The charitable interpretation, which is obvious since we're talking about e.g. "fighting aliens" (which indeed, is not a "real work" in any sense of the term), is that A means Y is not really representative of the work most people do, and that the percentage of people doing Y is small to not count for the purposes of how useful an iPad is for real work.
I think this was just a transparently corrupt handout. I have trouble getting too worked up about it though: a car-free Market St is a dream come true incremental step.
>Specifically, when given a very well defined problem-set

Agree. My most successful implementation of TDD was for a project where a front end was developed by a third party and I developed the API that the front end would consume. As part of the project, I had to define the API behaviors and data structures anyway. It was the easiest integration I've ever worked on.
Fantastic!!! Will definitely go back to Dropbox when this feature is available.

Recently I switched to OneDrive, also no ignore that I can find, but I'm only making extra copies of stuff in there that I want backed up to the cloud.
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I think I answered that in my comment... my biggest concern is that I want as little data about me as possible in databases.

There's also the question of autonomy. I actively resent data collection without my informed consent. Companies that do this are, in my opinion, being abusive and infringing on my right to autonomy and, to a degree, to have control over aspects of my existence that matter to me.
what I specifically said (with emphasis)

> Companies like these are probably better off throwing money at the problem and putting it in the cloud. __THE SKILL LEVEL REQUIRED__ to successfully run something in the cloud __AND NOT COMPLETELY LOSE EVERYTHING__ is much lower. That's not to say there isn't skill involved, but you don't have to hire someone who may or may not decide to run your software that's involved in a multi-million dollar contract in a closet in your building.
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The project was doomed to this fate from the moment the requirements document was handed down, much like the Space Shuttle's last minute redesign. The F35 is 3 different planes crammed into one airframe.
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There is placard abuse, and also little risk of of penalty for parking illegally?
But that is the conundrum. If the "work" is not really worth anything to other people, then the work isn't useful. If it is useful, it makes attacking the blockchain free. The security is because the work can't be used for anything except securing the network.
Did you miss the bit about tarsnap?
Literally the first thing I did was Settings|Keyboard|Touch Bar Shows Function keys and Fn key shows control strip.

Now the touch bar acts just like the setup I had on my 2015 MBP - but I do miss the physical buttons ( debugging in Eclipse burns F6 & F8 into your brain ).

If someone has found a legitimate use case where this silly widget is an enhancement to usability I'd love to hear it.
Yes, that was my first thought when I opened the article. dbt is amazing and basically converts your SELECT statements to CREATE TABLE statements.

I guess they target both EL from the ELT, while dbt relies on data being in your data warehouse.
I think the tax base is the leading factor in this as well. The state would care if the people had more money. I agree that correct tax rates would help in this situation, but I also feel that the towns that are contributing more in taxes will see the improvements over towns that have less money.

Its a hard problem because I also don't know how a private company would be able to fund these projects.
Right, I understand that. I'm saying from the point of view of the task submitters, the PoW approach is unnecessary and adds time and cost overhead to what is ostensibly the main goal of their participation: getting an ML model trained.
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Aggregated communal waste and corruption makes DoD grifters look like amateurs.
That's an interesting take. And maybe we don't disagree and it's just wording, but I think it's more of a "program to funnel money into the military complex in as many politician's states as could get involved"

If you want a jobs program, fix bridges and roads. If you want a "stealth" jobs program, declare it a national security threat and use the military budget too.
First of all: Both companies beat estimates.

Second of all: FB has been profitable for years and is still growing its earnings at very high percentages, while TSLA is still incurring net losses. One could actually say that they didn't beat earnings-estimates but rather loss-estimates.

Add to that: TSLA's market cap is now higher than that of Ford, GM or VW. Sometimes a multiple of it. While still not making a profit.

Thus the question: Where do after-hours traders get the confidence for a 12% rise?
The point is to give incentives to people to use public transport, and discurage owning a vehicle that takes up space and resources.

Why should the city build public transport, if mothers with children won't use it?
NoSQL in some cases trades off consistency for scalability (generally by sharding data, so propagating data across shards introduces eventual consistency).

As you can imagine, data that reside in a single shard don’t need to be propagated, so you can get strong consistency easily (e.g. fetching a single document). It’s when you start doing queries, joins, aggregations, etc. that you start encountering eventual consistency.
Bike, bus, or train. The ability for outsiders can exist without cars.
There’s no cure for a mysterious type of food poisoning known as ciguatera
It's using ansible to setup and configure a bunch of open source applications for common "cloud" apps like email, files, rss, etc.
The DA has said no such thing. The new DA did run of a platform of not convicting when it doesn't do any good to - an evidence based legal philosophy that was made very clear on his website, sources included.

But he is pretty easy to pin a Communist red letter on and is the favorite punching bag of conservatives. He's a sort of "mascot of all that is wrong with Bad Communist San Francisco." "First they're a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, then they're a sanctuary for BURGLARS and BAD GUYS!!!"

The police union and conservative media often oversimplify his platform, I don't know why. The union could only stand to benefit from increased officer safety from policies that evidently reduce crime, but I think they want to believe the only solution to crime is throwing people in jail. As for conservative media I have no idea why we're the chosen target but whatever.
Even if every function is curried by default (and "currying" is yet another concept that may be alien to users of some languages), it is probably still useful to know with what number of arguments a function can evaluate to a value that is not just another function
NextCloud was started as a fork of OwnCloud by a bunch of OwnCloud devs that were unhappy with the direction the product was taking.

You can think of it in much the same way as OpenOffice vs LibreOffice: devs fork to make a new product, the "original" product stagnates and is mostly used for rent-seeking.

The downside of both is that, to my ears, both "OpenOffice" and "OwnCloud" better signify to outsiders what the product accomplishes, while "LibreOffice" and "NextCloud" really don't, unless you're already familiar with the product or product history.
> It's about statistics - the longer you smoke and the more you smoke, the more likely you will be to get cancer.

Exactly, a simple metric used is the "pack year"[0] which is a way to represent overall exposure.

My mother died of lung cancer which sent me down many a rabbit hole, and I don't really understand what is surprising in the linked article. It's been known that risk of cancer decreases after one stops smoking, even if it never recedes to baseline (while asymptotically approaching it, basically). You have damaged cells which might become carcinogenic, or they might not, but those cells can also just die and be replaced by healthy cells.

The more you've smoked, though, the more damaged cells you've caused, so the more land mines you've got floating around your body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack-year
3. Not allow any cars on Market, including taxis

This seems like the obvious solution to me.
I'll definitely start hitting reply, thank you!

That's a really interesting, but sensible, conclusion to come to. It seems to follow that generalists would make great business/personal coaches, as they're good at pointing people in the right direction. I'd be curious to look at great coaches and see if they had a ton of different interests.

I'm stoked for the next email :)