skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whatever happened to trusting your own instincts?

n.b., these instincts are absent in humans in general. what you refer to as instincts are what you were inculcated with through your prior life. Not everything you were inculcated with is de facto healthy. Case in point: one elderly gentleman I spoke with said that his instinct for proper child training is to take a stick and hit a child when they disobey, until the child obeys. He regrets the current society disallowing it.
> The machine will be used to simulate nuclear reactions to ensure safe management of the US nuclear stockpile as it ages.

I've heard about this for 25 years, when I first read about a supercomputer in some computer magazine, and then in about every other supercomputer blurb. So, how much computing power do they need? Considering that current smartphones are of comparable speed to that early supercomputers, how much longer before they are sure how that stockpile will age?
This kind of security is more like a suggestion. It only works without an adversary.

X and the libraries used on it are not suitable for setuid programs.
sorry that isn't what I meant. I was trying to refer to the systemic biases typically found in this algorithms (correctly identifying lighter skinned people over darker skinned people, algorithms learning to use race as a factor in decision a king, etc.)
Looks like it could make it easier to get around DRM also?
Scum of the earth: x-ray vendors
Won't you just get similar cost in the form of bureaucracy?
Microsoft looks to give Yammer a new lease of life; can it?
I think this is simply not true for modern processes. Can you show me any example of such key being extracted this way from a modern sub 50 nm CPU? I haven't heard of anyone actually succeeding.
1000 users, almost 0 request per second / 10000 euro a month to deploy a very simple software on GKE in 3 continents and have some development instances.

Why? Because Docker and "scalability" it offered looked much better on the investor slides...

How? Instead of actually hiring someone that at least has experience with docker he decided it was very easy thing to learn so he did it him self and we ended up with thing like running two application in a same container, having database on containers that disappear (container restarts when ram is full is the best way to run a database) etc...

And after all that started talking about mirco-services and how cool are they for code decoupling... Of all the things... I don't work there anymore...

And if challenged on these reasons some people give (that supposedly have more experience) blanket statements like: "Docker is more safe by default thus we should use it..."

Maybe when you go thought these situations you get to write articles like this.

Of course containers, docker, k8 etc have their place, but in reality you can find all kinds of stunning non-sense.
Now this would be actual capital S Socialism. I'm surprised to see this advocated here

Tangentially related: Bernie Sanders should stop calling himself a socialist, partly because he's never actually advocated for nationalizing industries (redistributing the means of production to the "peoples state"), and partly because it's so damn unpopular with the electorate to call yourself one.
How is this any helpful? Are they supposed to implement everything in terraform or similar, is that your suggestion? Why don't you completely remove the editable UI then, if whoever is using it is doing it wrong. What a typical arrogant and out of touch with customers Google response.
Encryption is a form of free speech [1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
> If you're just renting payroll, purchasing, etc software for that price it'd be far cheaper to roll your own, or pay a few people to work on OSS full time.

This is the kind of hubris I come to this site for.
I did similar work at a neurosciences lab, my work was usually building experiments at large (think html5, android games that were actual experiments), building infrastructure, connecting some kind of sensor to a computer and saving the data, guiding bachelors students with their final project that required some kind of programming, not very different from my usual work but with a lot of emphasis in reproducibility and log about every single metric that you can track that may be of the interest of the scientist.
We need more Dr Salks.

Could you patent the sun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHXKP386Nk
In Bash ≥ 4.4, you can also use parameter transformations:

function quote() {
echo "${@@Q}"
}

(In both cases, the generated output is understood bash, but not necessarily by other POSIX-compliant shells.)
TheEconomist had an article a few years back on software in construction. It was at the time an obvious void but hard to fill. Found it ! https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/08/17/the-constructio... It was actually more about the general lack of productivity.

Having had renovated my 1970s flat, I can confirm it's not a productive industry and I doubt residential sector will suddenly get very productive for the reason you gave : small custom tasks
If everyone who could afford to handle their own lives and responsibilities did, the role of government could actually be to prop up the bottom x% and keep things stable. If 90% of people make no preparations, there's no possible way to respond in a way that you can save everyone from a serious disaster.

Sadly, whether you think it's 70% or 90% that could get themselves organized and take responsibility for their own security makes little difference in the real world because almost nobody actually does. The world went from victory gardens to big brother and people seem to prefer it this way.
How to setup a VPN server using WireGuard (with NAT and IPv6)
Is it

http://whattimeisitrightnow.com/
I wonder how important this function is with physical posture during sleep. Does this affect people who fly coach often and do their sleep prone?
I think it’s more unfair to say SQL “tricks” people into making mistakes than to lightheartedly see such a query and think whoever wrote it might not know about COALESCE. I see that query and the lack of COALESCE—in the context given where it is known the column we care about has NULLs—and assume there’s an opportunity to introduce someone to COALESCE: “Hey, check this out—it’s made for this situation!”

But saying SQL is tricking people into making mistakes? Nah. The real issue seems to be writing a query without a proper understanding of NULL, not being tricked by the language.
I think some people imagine that people like me calling for 32 hour work weeks are part of some slippery slope to everyone working an hour a day.

I trust the research that suggests that humans may only be built for ~30 hours of detail oriented work per week. That's also a nice number where I have time to work on other things, rather than just loafing about. If my boss offered me 30hrs/w plus insurance, I'd spend an extra 5+ hours a week working on my side projects and volunteer work.
This was a roller coaster ride for me. At first, it's hilarious. Then maddening. But now I'm just sad that quality software and good support can be so irrelevant to commercial success. Where are the niches where that's not true?
Why is a reduction in labor supply bad at present for low / unskilled labor? We're moving in that direction anyway using automation and software anyway, correct?

Also I see no mention at all of frictional unemployment as part of Mr. Stucchio's conclusions and if I suddenly had the ability to look for new jobs I would certainly take advantage.

The 10% number is created because people would now have actual OPTIONS, which is exactly what you want to create with this program. It's one of the goals. I don't see the disincentive being an issue except that it might increase wages in a tight economy which, is an actual thing people also want to do with these kinds of programs.

As for the personal opinion: obviously you're entitled to it, however I'd recommend a deeper look. Are you drawing this conclusion from personal experience? Do you know people whose parents never worked and are you really saying they're at a disadvantage because their family never worked, or is the real cause of the disadvantage of the "entrenchments of poverty" the lack of money?

The issue seems to be less "look at this poor role model - they never worked, so neither will their kids" but rather "we didn't have any money to actually consider a life that would allow me to focus on the things that make one successful, but rather food was difficult, and we were one broken arm away from bankruptcy". There seems to be a bias in your opinion. Please go speak with or listen to some actual human stories. I don't know anyone who would be less likely to be successful as a result of UBI. (Nor am I sold that it's a magic bullet either - it would be very costly)
We wanted to build our own payroll system, but engineering is too busy milking the cows to restock the fridge to learn the tax code for multiple countries.
The US FedGov + state and local authorities have the ability to issue quarantines using local police or other forces. No different than the police enforcing a curfew or other regulations. These have been used several times; my grandmother told me stories about being quarantined in Philadelphia during the 1930s.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

There are links at the bottom to specific legislation.
The article not about 80's economics. He was just making a point, of course he knows the concepts he mentions with more depth than discussed in the post.
This is great feedback - thank you. We've tried giving parents the choice, and us doing the matching (if you want us to match just text 1650 398 4285 and we'll get you set up!) IF we stick with parents' picking, I think finding a way to help the decision making process is really important and we can definitely do a better job of that. Thanks so much for nudging us on this.

On the evaluation - we offer a 30-day no questions asked money-back guarantee. Do you think a 'free intro call' or similar would feel better?
It might be a self-reinforcing cycle? To get funding researchers write grant proposals to target the most trendy research topics, which when funded lead to more research papers and momentum around those topics. Speculative research is thereby forced to survive more as side projects than the primary research areas of successful labs.
I hated running dogshit insecure Java 1.6 applications for the-marketing-thing that don't benefit me in any way but sure suck up my time and attention.

With SaaS I can give the keys to the department that wants the thing AND make them pay for it out of their P&L.
How is everyone surveilling everyone different from East European (former) model of everyone telling on everyone?
No. First, it is unethical, and the antithesis of this countries founding principal concerning freedom and free market forces. Remove the barriers to entry and competition that government created, they have enabled the monopolies that drive up drug cost. Holding the politicians and special interest that lobbied for them responsible would be great as well.
Microsoft for certain is nowhere near solving this.
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Not if they are located somewhere like Russia or China where the authorities don't care
It’s bonkers that the DMCA has people labeling hardware crackers as criminals. What about the farmers and their tractors?
Even that's far better than status quo USA policy which is to simply not negotiate on drug prices and pay 80% of whatever the bill is.

There's a reason why medicare is so bloody expensive...
True, there is a nontrivial amount of very useful software which could be written for universities across the science and engineering fields, but very little money to pay for it.
Generally, grant money cannot be spent on software so investment in tools is negligible.
1. It would have been physically impossible for me to do so since I was already working 10-12 hour days pretty often and without sleep I'd be worthless.

2. Double income isn't necessarily that much income, if you're making 35k giving up sleeping to get 70k seems like a pretty poor trade.

Also, no, never. I would never work twice as many hours (assuming we're taking a base number of hours between 6 and 8) for twice the pay. You effectively earn less money (due to graduated taxes) and you have to give up all the creature comforts of life. Going from working 8 hours a day to 16 hours a day would drastically lower the enjoyment I got from life and probably end up killing me from stress.
It's only dead insofar as most blogs don't have a decent RSS feed to begin with. I've scoured the web looking for high quality RSS feeds that are updated regularly, and have even shared an OPML file with close friends who happen to really like RSS too. The amount of effort was astonishing gathering those RSS feeds, but it was worth it.
Median salary for a software engineer in the US is not $50k...

And the productivity increase using certain SaaS tools is not 10%, it can be an order of magnitude in certain instances.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/software-engineer-salary-...

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/S...

https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries
I'm going on my recent experiences in the City (i.e. the financial district).
I personally went from 4 servers to 5, self hosting ELK and it works great.
Seems like it would be more clear and fair all around to have flat tax + UBI so we aren't mixing solutions to different problems.

Rich and poor probably utilize public services around the same amount (roads, police, hospitals, fire departments, etc.). (I'm sure there are counter arguments to this, but if public services we're good enough, can we assume this?). So a flat tax would be fair. It potentially disincentives better public services in more wealthy regions if everyone pays the same (again, sure there are some counter arguments, but it would be better right?).

Then adding UBI is clearly for the purpose of distributing some of the wealth that our society has allowed to be created back to the people in a non-prejudiced way. UBI would have to keep pace with inflation of course. A fixed "thank you for making our rich country work and for buying crap even if don't need it" that everyone gets doesn't seem too controversial.

Other than accountants, tax lawyers, and offshore havens, who gets hurt?
Yeah, but it includes governments and other big adversaries.
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This is kind of a baffling response to me... how many parents are involved enough to download an app or pay for problems with their kids? Really? People download apps for everything, but you think they'd be too lazy to do it for their children? And spending money - you think parents wouldn't pay to help their kids behave better or to solve problems? They already do this - they pay for all kinds of toys/books/devices to keep their kids occupied and out of trouble, they pay for pediatrician visits, they pay for babysitting, and the list goes on.

As for how much better the advice is than what's on Google... getting specific advice on your specific child from someone who is professionally trained and with whom your have a relationship is obviously going to be infinitely better with Google. I can't even understand why that question would be asked.

Love the idea, and I think it's really valuable.
What guarantees do we have that some for-profit pharma corporation will not take the information discovered by this, patent it and profit at our expense?
As it is, the public already funds most of the early research into drugs and yet almost all the resulting IP ends up owned by big-pharma.
Ask HN: Is there a map of all Covid-19 cases shown as points?
I'm unable to find any global map of all cases of Covid-19 cases displayed as point features. Most maps show distribution by countries, which is pretty useless when making travel plans. Thanks!
Managed FOSS is the way to do it
> that kind of rapid wealth acquisition isn't skill based.

This is just nonsense and reflects a desire to dismiss the capabilities and accomplishments of others because they don't reflect your self-pitying worldview.

Chances are that the above poster did something you're unable or unwilling to do -- and the difference in outcomes is reflective of that.
If the regulations are unnecessary, then why not dispense with them and let the free market work.
Surely you don't think government is more efficient than the market.
Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020
I still maintain applications that were started in Swift 1.x. But it looks a lot more like my old Objective-C code, it really took a while before my approaches changed.
This is just the style of modern story writing. Words, a lot of words. Just too many of them. I have tried to read such stories and most of the time there are just words and not much substance.
But it's only using as many mappings in total as the memory would be if it had not been compacted.
This subthread was originally a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22494497.
Thanks for the detailed response! It all makes sense, and it sounds like y'all are getting good advice.

My gut take on docker vs. config management came from the trend of IaaS providers moving higher up the chain in the services they offer (it ain't just compute anymore). So spinning up an ephemeral environment that also, for example, had its own SQS instance, or an Aurora DB, or (across clouds) had a Firebase DB or Cloud Scheduler configuration, seems like a very common use-case.

Gotta start somewhere though, and docker's probably a good place to do so.

Looking forward to trying it out!
Yeah I think most people should either take all of their caffeine right upon waking up and then stop or not take it at all.
Has any of those gotten better at a slower speed than their closed source counterparts?
https://www.google.com/search?q=sem+lab+access
Sterio Types about Girls
Why are girls stereo typed? It doesn't make sense! Girls are the same as boys. The only difference is girl can give birth. And girls aren't all about make-up. I know a lot of girls who do sports. And are very intelligent. they don't care about make-up, boys, or the way others think of them.
Those are the words a company can use to make me instantly turn down a position. Are you reading directly from the noperonomicon?
The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI home, shuts down
You aren't missing anything, the comment you are responding to is confusing the per unit of fuel payload limit to be the total limit of the rocket. You can add more engines/ use bigger ones which would allow for more fuel and thus more payload( in theory at least).
It will lead to a new equilibrium for sure. Whether that equilibrium is more wealth than currently exists (due to the additional buying power in consumers' hands) or less wealth (due to increasing cost of labor), I don't claim to know. But in the latter case, this decrease in total wealth would be a result of a collective decision that we value our time more than unnecessary material shit. A leaner workforce would have the incentive of higher wages. So in either case (an increase or decrease in total wealth), I'd argue that we're better off for it.
Not the parent commenter, but I suspect it’s less the act than the motivation.

Criminals who anticipate finding a way to profit on the information would be far more likely to go through the trouble of bribing someone or investing in the resources to snag it.
I agree, it does seem like flimsy evidence against him. Was he dangerous in other ways? If the mayor of a town had something like that found around his farm where his dna was all around the farm, would he be given this sentence? Probably not. I think the us legal system is no better, by the way.
the problem is having access to these niche fields and knowing enough to be able to create something useful.
not crazy, i think

but my cards are hard to read by other parties, when I optimize for my own learning
Change the colour to red and we're getting close to the Umbrella Corp logo.
There's more than one "the real problem". Moderating one doesn't preclude moderating others.

Lashing out with phrases like "jacking off on nationalism" is flamebait and therefore against the site guidelines. You need to follow the rules regardless of how outnumbered you are, or how wrong others are or you feel they are. I know the experience and I know it's frustrating, but that's the way it is when you're representing a contrarian view. When someone possesses a truth that others don't, they need to hold themselves to a higher standard, because if you sink to a degraded level in presenting that truth, you end up discrediting it, which harms the minority cause you're trying to serve, and harms other people by driving them further from the truth.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others join forces with law enforcement
also a great make-shift Faraday cage for those pesky non-removable-battery phones
cbeams? Isn’t that a Blade Runner reference?
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The only way to (somewhat) prevent this is if you control the client, like games consoles and phones. Even then, with enough effort it can be broken, see the PlayStation hacks and iOS jailbreaks.

At the end of the day, if you're pushing data to a client they can save it, and if you provide the client but the user still has physical access to it they can still crack the restrictions enforced by the client and get the raw data stream.

DRM merely makes this more difficult (and sometimes causes problems for legitimate users) but can never make it impossible (until quantum cryptography becomes mainstream maybe?).
A common approach is people believing they can be their own bosses. Not so much about business opportunity or an itch to scratch.

Anyway, why speculate? It's easy to find online articles and research showing why people have started their businesses, or the reasons why people would want to start one but haven't yet. Truth is that it's all the above and more.
In Linux and UNIX you enable or disable use of ctrl+c (effectively setting the tty into a raw mode) via syscalls against the tty file descriptor - it is not handled by the terminal emulator at all (in fact if you read the man page for `stty` you'd see it's changing the your terminals fd and not the terminal emulator).

Sure, theoretically terminal emulators could capture and even rebind those keys via the APIs of whatever graphical toolkit they're built in....but if you wanted to rebind SIGINT to another key in the terminal emulator, that terminal emulator would still have to transmit ^c to the tty.

As for rebinding those keys in the kernel, Linux simply doesn't support doing that and nor does it support binding other keys to different signals. In fact I've tried to do this on a tool I was working on to emulate BSD's SIGINFO in Linux (turned out not to be possible) as as well part of the job control (SIGSTSP et al) support in my $SHELL (https://github.com/lmorg/murex).

This is also why you can throw signals over an SSH (or other remote shell) session when the terminal emulator itself would have no knowledge of the commands running on the remote host.
A Warning from a Scientist Who Saw the Coronavirus Coming
Any tool sufficient powerful to be used can also be misused. All tools need etiquette/agreed norms and conventions.
I worked as a contract software engineer

Did the domain knowledge come from the person paying you, or did you figure it out yourself?
I think I've witnessed that fraction go up when raises and promotions fail to meet expectations.
Another interesting read about effects of hypothermia is the Dyatlov pass incident:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident