skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a place now that uses USS Starship names for projects.

Really brings home the old adage about the hardest parts of computer science being naming things when the decision comes down to a discussion of the philosophical implications of a TV episode from 1994.
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> Owning a gun just for self-defence isn't generally allowed or needed, and would of course be counterproductive anyway as using lethal force would likely land you in much deeper trouble than the looter would face. I'd end with "rightfully so" but I do realize there are deep cultural differences regarding this point.

Not in certain US states (look up "stand-your-ground" laws).
I noticed this too, and the authors snide comments around it don't add to the main message.

I envy the judge and others who can pull this feat off.
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Unfortunately, the design doesn't allow for new full nodes:

"Now the new user asks an existing user for the UTXO set for
the ledger up to level `−e. The user can verify the correctness of this set by comparing it with the UTXO set commitment stored in the leader block at level `"

That's not verifying that there's a valid history leading to this UTXO set, that's just trusting other nodes when they testify to that.
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> Everyone keeps saying that, but what does it mean?

It's not rocket science. Take what you eat in a day and multiply it by 14. Go for non perishable things of course (pasta, rice, lentils, canned fruits etc.)

I mean, realistically speaking you could probably go two weeks with <1k cal a day without much trouble.
It would be great if Hacker news could add tags to these posts letting us know when there is a paywall.
Backups come to mind. For me, I schedule them at night.
Jacketed Hollow Point bullets

Essentially they create a shockwave in a soft target, causing a lot more damage than a Full Metal Jacket round (FMJ).
New concepts to me coming from outside the field. Kolmogorov complexity was discussed just recently on Lex Fridman's podcast with Marcus Hutter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1AxVXt2Gv4&t=905

I don't know enough to say how accurate Hutter's explanation is but it made sense to me.
I think it's smarter to try to get infected as late as possible. Chances are treatments are better.
I get this on Chrome/Mac so maybe it's an OSX thing.
> If the system is so opaque, what mechanism exists to protect against a judge who does whatever they want?

Usually a higher court or the court of appeal, the latter of which you can appear before an unlimited number of times if you have grounds. Both have mechanisms for urgent hearings.

Judges can also be struck off for misconduct, which happens from time to time

Just to add though, this is not a judge, this is a magistrate, who take legal advice but are not legally qualified like a judge is.
The problem is more with browsers, than the language itself. Need for transpilation comes from the fact that you don’t control your env and browsers lag behind/are inconsistent. Need for splitting and bundling because we can only specify file resources to be loaded.
Anyone wonder if k8s is about to enter its trough of disillusionment phase?
Relevant blog post: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/03/pure-ten-poi...
I like unconventional solutions and hacks as much as the next guy, but a good hack should be better than the conventional solution in at least some way (like simplicity or tweakability). If the hack is worse in every way - the CSS is both longer and harder to write than the equivalent SVG - it's not as interesting to me.
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> Also I was not able to find a price. Hoping for the best. Buying Gen8 for $300 with cheap iLO key was a great purchase

UK Pricing direct from HPE - expect sticker shock

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/product-catalog/servers/proliant-s...

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus E-2224 S100i 4LFF-NHP 180W External PS Server P16006-421 £ 839 * inc VAT

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus E-2224 S100i 4LFF-NHP 1TB 180W External PS Server P18584-421 £ 922 * inc VAT

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus G5420 8GB-U S100i 4LFF-NHP 180W External PS Server P16005-421 £ 629 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced 1-server License with 1yr Support on iLO Licensed Features 512485-B21 £ 394 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced Flexible Quantity License with 1yr Support on iLO Licensed Features 512486-B21 £ 394 * inc VAT

HPE iLO Advanced Flexible Quantity License with 3yr Support on iLO Licensed Features BD506A £ 444 * inc VAT

HPE 16GB (1x16GB) Dual Rank x8 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Unbuffered Standard Memory Kit 879507-B21 £ 236 * inc VAT

HPE 8GB (1x8GB) Single Rank x8 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Unbuffered Standard Memory Kit 879505-B21 £ 174 * inc VAT

HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Gen10 Option 864279-B21 £ 66 * inc VAT

HPE MicroServer Gen10 SFF NHP SATA Converter Kit 870213-B21 £ 11 * inc VAT

HPE 1TB SATA 6G Entry 7.2K LFF (3.5in) RW 1yr Wty HDD 843266-B21 £ 96 * inc VAT

HPE 4TB SATA 6G Midline 7.2K LFF (3.5in) RW 1yr Wty HDD 801888-B21 £ 419 * inc VAT

HPE Mobile USB DVD-RW Optical Drive 701498-B21 £ 119 * inc VAT
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I find your language extremely troubling. If I'm honest I'm struggling to take you seriously and it seems you are on a particularly self appointed mission. Which is fine. But things like

> but logic suggests at the very least they were sounded out before retiring.

Logic had little to do with it I fear. Secondly the UK tabloidesque vilification of public servants who leverage their expertise when their career is over is tiresome. That is not evidence of "corruption".
There's no evidence of this, in large part because the African empires for the most part were wiped out under colonial rule, not just subjugated.

Often with extreme prejudice, such as when the British destroyed and burned Benin City to the ground, destroyed large parts of its walls, which were once a single fortification threading through the city measuring four times the length of the Great Wall of China, looted it's art, which then for a long time was "explained away" because the bronze sculptures were a lot more advanced than Europeans liked to think Africans were capable of, ignoring the descriptions of Benin City from those who'd been there.

The result was that for a long time the idea of what pre-colonial Africa was like was based on ignoring the things the colonial powers had stolen (the Benin Bronzes were sometimes assumed to have been brought by Portuguese traders, for example; a more comfortable idea than Africans making bronze statues), and looking at the aftermath of colonial destruction as evidence of lack of large structures and cities.
Coronavirus threat looms large for low-income cities
You need to delay the infection beyond the peak.
From memory a couple of hours for each character
lot of pages not working already indicates why google is taking advantage right? First make stuff that don't work on firefox and later people complain its firefox issue. Yea brave is good choice for developers :)
I'm thinking on doing exactly this. Now that this happened I updated all the scripts and is really easy to rebuild it if something happen again. But I need to backup the data
Many non-EU nationals working in the UK, and from those I've spoken with, it will become a bit easier and fairer for them and with that, all non-uk nationals as a whole.

Sure, won't be able to underpay people so easily as they have done with EU nationals and that is a good thing.

But I appreciate that cheap staff is always a boon for any company in whatever industry, but that's not fair on the people though really.

As for the scare tech founders off aspect, the article seems to slant it's focus upon European ones and that may well be true, more so as the UK will not be part of the EU.

Which in effect means that the playing field is fairer for all non-UK nationals as it removes that EU national privilege.

But let us see how it pans, and would be great to tag an article for review a year or two later on in which clarity and actualities can replace speculation.
TDP is such a meaningless stat to criticize. People still caring about TDP is a huge pet peeve of mine. The TDP is a nearly entirely fictional number your modern CPU will never operate at.

Especially in a home server, the CPU will be maxed out 0.001% of its life, if that. The only stat that matters is idle power, which it will be at for the majority of its life.
I don't think "less bloated/fragmented/slow Webpack and co" is what sebmck intends its USP to be. It sounds more like he expects there to be some advantages to arise specifically from a single tool doing everything related to processing source code, e.g. the linter being able to catch bugs by also being aware of how code will end up after bundling.

It would be interesting to see examples of specific such advantages that could be gained, because I'm having a hard time thinking of any.
Does excel version control come anywhere near sheets history feature?
I just built the characters up using simple shapes that you can draw in CSS (e.g squares, circles) and layer them on top of each other.

I guess an illustrator would do a similar thing.
I tend to prefer PostgREST's[1] syntax over GraphQL for when I need flexible client-side queries. It's way more intuitive for me.

[1]http://postgrest.org/
A simpler explanation is that firefighters - who spend their lives dealing with people who've had horrific burns - think that prevention of fire is important, and are not persuaded that fire retardant chemicals are unsafe, especially compared to the fire injuries they routinely see.
And they don’t factor the harm caused to restaurant margins when these apps take 30%.

But the convenience os hard to beat when you don’t want to take a long break.
This is very interesting, I've also found about Red Lang [1] a couple of months ago, it offers a syntax very similar to Rebol and it is great if you want to create some apps with a simple GUI.

[1] http://www.red-lang.org/
> The problem is that the default C++ string class is so utterly godawfully stupid. No garbage collection? Check. No refcounting? Check.

the irony is that in 2010, many std::string implementations were in fact reference counted (including libstdc++). This was generally considered a major mistake (because it doesn't work well with threads and when it does is a major performance pitfall) and prohibited in C++11.
Yea I was hoping this would talk about scarecrows and those little huts you can get later than can automatically harvest crops up to 15 squares away. You'd want to optimize for all three (with the huts, you can even plant vine plants right new to each other; the little creatures can get to them even though you can't).

Would the optimal placement for iridium sprinkers just be in the center of their coverage area? Seems like this script would always have waste areas too.
Overfitting shouldn't be an issue for approximation of a known function, where you can generate an arbitrary amount of "training data". Of course you may not have the resources to do so, but that's a whole different tradeoff.
Interesting comment, so I went looking for his "conspiracy theories" and that's the only one. Technically I guess that qualifies for the title.

Probably helpful to mention he was a former overseas Ambassador for the UK too? Surely that carries some weight in the world of online conspiracy discourse we are having here?
Those almost certainly come from people using GitHub's web editor - the default commit message is 'Update {filename}'. I despise it, I don't know why they encourage such useless commit messages, there should be no default message because there can be no useful default.
This blog claims that that doesn't happen ever and the HR drones are way over committing to risk mitigation. It was on HN a few days back.

http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-comp...
If you knew the cost of the car you wouldn't need to estimate it.
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I'm not totally sure I'm not a Laravel expert I just use it as a backend api so I believe I exposing the entire Laravel folder instead just the public. And yes is embarrassing haha.
Do you have more details?
>Sure, won't be able to underpay people so easily as they have done with EU nationals and that is a good thing.

What makes you say EU expats were easier target to underpay in contrast to non-EU ones?

IMHO from my experience they just try to underpay everyone but have more success with non-EU expats as they have less freedom of movement than the EU one and their visa is tied to an employer in the beginning so their options are much more limited than the EU expats who can work for any company in any EU country.
Why the downvotes? It's a legitimate question: ME/AMT can be neutralized or disabled.

Bios can be replaced with coreboot.

Some buyers and some vendors actually care about security.
There is no way to escape this. By advancing IoT we also advance IoS, it is as simple as that.

The way to fight IoS is not by restricting advancement of technology. Even if we wanted, it is already way past it. We can assume governments are years if not decades ahead.
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I really like the privacy-first products Metomic is creating, but from this perspective imho the Contextual page should have something like the Metomic footer allowing to navigate to the privacy policy (at https://metomic.io/privacy-policy )
This IS the web file, no? (and if not, where are the web files?)
Especially for threads, how well does this mesh with libraries? I'd assume that most of these are either meant to run in a single-threaded manner or async.
It is incredible, but you also need to remember to be able to transmit the device needs more, sensors, processing power, etc.
> Lots of people still in fission and fusion are assuming trouble with renewables related to intermittency, land use, grid integration, EROI, raw materials

That's whistling past the graveyard, I think. Land use is demonstrably not a problem. Grid integration has long history of naysayers drawing a line in the sand and renewables blowing past it. EROI is just fine and getting better. Raw materials are also not a problem (lies that solar uses rare earths notwithstanding).

Intermittency remains an issue, but it looks easier to solve than making fission (or, to an even greater extent, fusion) practical. Combinations of storage, transmission and dispatch technologies are likely to get us to 100% renewable at a cost fission will have trouble matching, especially if industrial users of thermal energy (which is highly storable) can be brought on board.
The entire concept of version control is something that whooshes by them 50,00ft

I was talking about having documents in source control vitally important when you may have ,multiple teams in several countries
So are gold and stocks, yet they both went down on Tuesday. The market is very strange nowadays.
I don't understand anyone is surprised. This is a US court after all, even if it is located in the UK.
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That's exactly what makes Lua and JS directly comparable - they're both barebones, when it comes to stdlib.

But as far as the language itself goes, Lua is far superior, with a lot more consistency all around, and fewer traps.
2 entrenched parties, first past the post, gerrymandering, etc...
idk there's plenty between the US and Switzerland
I went to a university where the authentication servers were named after nuclear accidents.

tokaimura.doc.ic.ac.uk
chalk-river.doc.ic.ac.uk
three-mile-island.doc.ic.ac.uk

An older server was sellafield, but it had been decommissioned.
Still, the problem with IoT devices is distributing the power to them. It is cheap to have some central device in your home that can have relatively powerful transmitter and sensitive receiver if you can drop a bunch of backscattering devices powered off battery.
Huh, wow, those are some pretty massive holes in the "official" narrative.

I'm not sure I'd call him a conspiracy theorist for this, isn't it normal that the public aren't told the true progression of events for "Spy" stuff?
How would you reach such a gain though? Most physics-based simulations are really efficient already. For example, cloth simulations usually work using a grid of points (finite element approach) that are evolved using a differential equation and a constraint solver (not an expert in this particular area but I wrote e.g. electrodynamic simulations). Each point is usually only connected to its immediate neighbors, so the update algorithm only needs to do some simple arithmetic operations for each point. Often there's another step afterwards that ensures the constraints are met. All this can be executed really efficiently on a GPU already. Here's an example of an electrodynamics simulation I wrote: https://github.com/adewes/fdtd-ml

To achieve a 300-500 speedup of this seems impossible because for a single grid point we only do a few numerical operations to update it, so it's hard to see how one could reduce that much further as even an ML-based model will need to update each grid point to maintain the level of detail.

I think there are definitely other areas where ML can speed up things, but IMO cloth simulation is just a really bad example because it's a problem that can be solved using a nearest-neighbors approach with rather simple equations. Problems where you have non-local interactions or more complex dynamics might profit more from ML, but most physics problems can be solved faster with much simpler approaches, I think.
It seems reasonable for the author not to put a license on what's clearly someone else's trademarks and copyright.
I missed the power draw measurements if they did some, but normally AMD list their TDP as a maximum while Intel can push over their rated TDP.

They also didn't address Intel CPU shortage which maybe hasn't affected their server segment, but is the main reason why OEM are turning away from them.
Trial and error with lots of time at hand
If I got one of those I could throw away the old screwdriver I currently use to turn on the PC that sits in a half-built (it has a chassis & base, no sides) case I never finished.
I often miss graphql features when working with rest APIs. But switching over seems very much not worth it when no one in the organisation knows graphql.

I feel like graphql would be much easier to adopt of it just sticked to rest conventions as much as possible. Like have the query language be pure JSON.

It should even be possible to design it so that you could make drop in replacements for most of existing rest APIs.
There is genuinely more snide comment, ridiculous conspiracy theory and stupid misrepresentation in these reports than actual information on what's happening with the trial.

In fact some of these comments are really quite disturbing. If I were responsible for being the judge at the extradition hearing of Julian Assange I wouldn't want my picture out in public either. Let's not pretend like there isn't a real threat that one of the loony conspiracy theorists that follow Assange wouldn't take matters in to their own hands.

> Being angry at the public at random must be very stressful for her. I suspect she shouts a lot on trains.

I know this guy thinks the legal case is going to be lost so wants to tarnish the reputation of the people he disagrees with, but could someone volunteer step forward and explain why this sort of bollocks makes them think lower of the judge rather than just thinking badly of the author?
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>the developers will at some point reach for the deprecated api

Agreed, however you can have organizational measures to prevent this (a build time check). And of course a change in the framework must be accompanied by decent conversion libraries (I don't think this is different in Haskell).
Yes, the aspect that you need to test things on many mobile networks does become easier when you can easily switch the SIM - that alone makes it kinda essential - unless you have multiple devices for each network and there are a lot - more so if you factor in roaming.

That and nobody ever advertises how many times you can swap a sim and the socket pins won't break.

Kinda makes you wonder how many times you can swap a sim before the socket suffers failure of some form, from wear and tear. I've certainly had a fair few break over my lifetime and that's from light usage.

Though getting full sized sim cards is becoming harder these days I have noticed - even the precut multi sim that you push out the sim for the size and the aspect that the last phone I saw that would take a full sized (credit card sized) sim form factor was two decades ago.
Similar idea: https://vwochnik.github.io/reveal-frame-component/
Ironically, Microsoft is in a position to gain rather than lose from web apps these days. The reason is that many apps are developed for mobile first, and getting them into the Windows app store is hard if developer has to spend a lot of time porting. But if the app is HTML/JS, that's a lot easier.

Conversely, Apple benefits the most from native apps, because their development stack is so different from everything else, and yet they are big enough in mobile that everybody has to target them anyway.
Indeed. I'm still holding off, in the hope it will go away (like Openstack), but it does seem like it has some more stamina as a project.
G4S provides the security for the court, so it's up to G4S to decide if it's appropriate and safe to waive the standard procedures for securing a potential dangerous criminal who is a flight risk. I don't know how you expect these things to be handled.
Good point! Have added a link to our privacy center at the bottom of the page
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Agreed, it seems what this article (along with most of the comments) is dancing around is the idea of a stronger type system. String != string, e.g. UserText vs SqlStatement. Using explicit conversion methods between those types helps clarify the actual “boundaries” of your system, or rather the independent parts and their individual boundaries. Joel Spolsky’s article illustrates the problem well.

The problem stems from our simplistic type systems, which reflect a value’s storage class (“array of bytes”) rather than its semantic type (“raw input from user”, “sql safe TEXT literal”). Once your type system can differentiate between those two, it can help you identify where conversion between the two (aka “escaping” or “encoding”) is necessary. Then the problem of “dangerous string” disappears, because there is no more string: if it’s a UserText, it can’t be concatenated with a SqlStatement without conversion. Just like an “int” for example, or an array.

Anyway I’m just rehashing Spolsky’s article, poorly. Don’t let my inaccurate summary reflect negatively on his point :p
This is such a farce...
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Would separate (v)LANs and super strict firewall rules not help somewhat?
With the addition of things like DoH it's going to be trickier to "secure", or rather, isolate IoT devices for sure, but _impossible_?
I'm not sure I believe everything he writes, but some of it certainly is interesting. EG he thinks Belingcat is a front for Western Intelligence services.
>What makes you say EU expats were easier target to underpay in contrast to non-EU ones?

Easy - EU nationals had the right to work so no visa requirements at all, which would entail having a certain level of salary - now that will apply to all - how can that not be fairer?

Though remote workers will always be a thing - especially in tech, so there are always ways around everything.