skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this really does enable breaking the root of trust on the last 5 years of hardware then it is a terrible thing regardless of IME.
Often, but not to the point of more than 3 months back. To me, it's more so I can delete obsolete code instead of commenting it out, without worrying that it'll be irreversible. Or sometimes if a feature is suddenly broken we can trace if any changes were made at the time.
That would be nice, except it must rely on heuristics to get around the shenanigans that websites pull and it doesn't always get it right.
We switched from SVN to Git about a year and a half ago. I often use the "annotate" feature in my editor to see the history of lines of code (to figure out who to talk to when I have questions), and I routinely run into the "initial commit" wall from when everything was squashed.

I wish that when the team had migrated from SVN to git, they had used a tool that would have preserved the history. It's very easy to do! I don't know why they didn't. They did it right before I joined the company so I never had an opportunity to show them how.
I generally agree, but a self-sustaining moon colony is far more practical, assuming water can be found there:

1. plenty of solar power

2. close to earth

3. easy to launch out of its gravity well

4. lunar base technology can be iterated far more rapidly
The issue is a lot of women like to redact to consent after the fact. If this becomes the status quo, what is the point in having a relationship? Or a sexual one for that matter?
Covid-19 leaked slides: Prepare for 10x flu hospitalizations
The ad doesn't mention the range or the mileage. The mileage (kilometerstand) is 138 505 km, see https://www.vegvesen.no/kjoretoy/kjop%2Bog%2Bsalg/kj%C3%B8re...

This Wikipedia article gives the original range as 121 km (EPA rating): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf#2013

Anecdotal evidence on the web suggests that batteries don't lose capacity as fast as people feared.

Here is an article about a Leaf used as a taxi in Cornwall: https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/environment/2017/05/19/no-r...

Highlights:

"The car was 7kw fast-charged 3,800 times and 3.3kw trickle-charged 7,000 times during its working life at the company’s business in St Austell, Cornwall.

Mark Richards, C&C transport manager, was impressed that the Leaf retained 70% of its battery capacity after 174,000 miles and said that other than the maximum range, the performance of the vehicle is just as good as the day it was bought.

...

Wizzy had no breakdowns during its high-mileage four-year working life. Outside of scheduled annual services, the Leaf went through three sets of wipers, two sets of brake pads for the front and rear and one damper, as well as tyre replacements when necessary."

This suggests that the Leaf in the ad has most of its original range as it will not have been charged nearly so often.
You could've argued that same with IE back in the day. Didn't stop it being a breach of antitrust law
Regardless where you put your colony to, if you keep up a transportation system to that colony and back, you end up enabling spread of the disease. Coronavirus only spread so quickly because of airplane travel. Had we cancelled all airplane, train and ship traffic to and from China early enough, the virus wouldn't have spread as quickly. If in the future we have an intergalactic society with FTL travel, and one colony discovers an ancient virus that kills everyone, the virus will spread with speeds faster than light, because that's our underlying travel method.

To meet threats like coronavirus, you don't need a different planet. Any remote island would do, like easter island, as long as you shut down traffic soon enough.
Could you provide an example situation to illustrate your point?
Should point to the maintained fork at https://github.com/it-projects-llc/hound instead.
Etsy doesn't do updates, and the original maintainer moved on.
Note Firecracker does not work on AWS cloud instances, apart from bare metal instances.
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The Led Zeppelin of the 80s? IDK, any of Guns and Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, RHCP, etc...
You don’t think 12 years from now we’ll be laughing about how lame Lambda is?

Coding practices change like the seasons. Every year is a little different, maybe a little better than the last, some things feel brand new, but the general patterns hold.
I don't know why the submitter editorialized the title, but "10x flu hospitalizations" is bogus.
Different things could be considered "ugly". Will Intel find itself in serious financial trouble? Almost certainly not. But we are already seeing some deterioration in margins due to more competitive server pricing.
Like what?

I've written in-depth about why "don't click untrusted links" is unhelpful: see https://xmppwocky.net/blog.py?page=22
> The MCAS failure didn't appear as a runaway stabilizer problem to the pilots.

The LA and EA pilots countered the stab trim movement repeatedly with the electric trim switches. They knew the stab was running out of control. There is no other definition of runaway trim and there is No Such Thing as "classic" runaway trim.

There is no mistaking the 737 stab trim running. Two large wheels, painted black and white so spinning can be easily seen, bracket the center console. They are directly connected with a cable to the stab trim jackscrew. They also make a loud clacking sound when they spin. There is no possible way the pilots could not know it was running with the direct effect of pushing the nose down. Indeed they did know, because they countered it.

Source: I worked on the design of the 757 stab trim system for 3 years.
Remarkably few companies die of innovation. People have subscribed to Netflix. It solves the problem of having something to do when lazy. People won't really switch to watch Game of Thrones or Simpsons if they can still marathon Friends for years. I've been marathoning Adventure Time with my kids since last year, and even though it's the only thing I watch on Netflix, it's still a better deal than buying whole 10 seasons.

It'll probably be the WhatsApp effect - everyone knows it's inferior and play with changing but it's just too much effort to. Netflix has some lock in because people share their accounts with family members or even "family" they just met online, and people are hesitant to unsubscribe.
Good, but I don't think the change from running the sandbox in a VM (in Qubes case even Xen, not kvm) to docker is an improvement. Escaping docker is much easier than Xen.
I and another have been doing exactly this for our respective startups for the pst two months. It’s been very helpful to keep in touch with people and get support.
Without looking into details of your soluton, what's the difference between your solution and Cloudwatch anomaly detection? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
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Yes, plus you often get updates nowadays, which, depending on the domain of the book, can be pretty important.
Yes, turning data into a bunch of (ideally) random bits using encryption is an effective way of annonimizing.
https://www.evergreenhealth.com/coronavirus

From the doc above, CDC estimates 5% Nationwide will require ICU care. That's 18.5 million people. We have 100k beds. The US medical establishment does not have the surge capacity for an epidemic of this scale. All of our manufacturing is in China too - and medicine and semiconductors and just about everything else.

Only a monumental Civic movement will make containment possible and, as the article suggests, the pandemic will expose the rot that has gutted this country over the last few decades, as the system shuts down in an attempt to contain the pandemic, when the hospitals are quickly overwhelmed.

This is undoubtedly a historic event. Based on the other countries this has happened in, we are 1-6 weeks, most likely 1-3, away from full outbreak and the start of widespread business closures and possible food scarcity in some regions. Stores and truckers may be hard to keep open if no one wants to risk getting sick.
I think this depends very much on what exactly you mean by "highest performance software". Some frameworks have upstreamed support for ROCm. A few of my colleagues have been doing some testing and mentioned to me they were reasonably impressed with performance on newer hardware.
The joke is that way prediction involves reading one way of a cache, not from the way jar, but from a set. Caches are divided into sets and ways in CPUs.
From what I learned (no personal experiences) the MDMA wouldn't be suitable for any kind of therapy? It makes for few hours of energetic ecstasy followed by few hours of lethargic depression. Without psychedelic effect on patient what is there to work with?
> I remember her saying, “AI is an algorithm that allows machines to make autonomous decisions...” Her explanation was one of the best I came across.

That’s enough for me
Why Don't We Have Pay Toilets in America? (2014)
Download Dangerzone

So instead of opening a PDF from the internet on my machine, I now run code from the internet on my machine?
The apt trust model is overly simplistic but it is so hard to come up with a safe model that I don't see how it matters. And if a repository added for a specific package might be compromised then there might be a malicious version of that package already in the repo. Once you have to verify the versions and hashes by hand you may as well download the debs directly & use dpkg.
New transportation keeps reducing the time delays for trips, but if you’re talking other planets, how fast do you think we can get? I expect a lull.

Of course if panspermia turns out to be true, we could discover some new branch of life that medicine or mammalian immune systems struggle to identify, but which likes to chew on bones or collagen, turning us all into jello.
>For viruses, meat agriculture, forest destruction and urban sprawl are contributory factors leading to faster mutations and jumping species eventually into us.

At this point you have to acknowledge that cultural factors are responsible for the majority of modern outbreaks. We know about the meat markets in China. They are as endemic as the viruses to the various animals they eat. No other country on Earth has originated this many animal to human outbreaks.

This is not an environmental issue.
I felt slight nausea and unexplainable deep irritation at reading this.

Scala is a disgusting mess compared to Rust in just about every way I can think of. Please for the love of everything good, consider at least Kotlin.
I have a Ford from about that time, and the key broke in a way that caused it to fall off my keychain.

Instead of paying $100’s to rekey the car, I stuck the broken key into a machine at Home Depot. It cracked the encryption in a few minutes and produced a duplicate key. The brand on the replacement is “Ilco”. It’s bulkier than the OEM key, but it works great.

Anyway, I’m not at all surprised to hear the car uses an obsolete encryption protocol.
Shutting down any conversation of "I'd like to be able to do this with my iPhone" with a condescending "don't buy it, duh" disregards any of the reasons why people might want to buy iPhones (some of which were mentioned in this very thread) and is, IMO, a lazy argument.
In 2010, my home of Christchurch has a serious earthquake.

In 2011, it suffered another far more serious earthquake.

The 1st one provided a full dress rehearsal for the 2nd one.

I wonder of the same will be said for pandemics?

Coronavirus is by no means a dystopian apocalypse.

But it could be an opportunity to help us learn to prevent one.

My concern is around the cost benefit analysis from the perspective of elected leadership.

Prevention doesn’t pay politically.
With a fairly annoying set of limitations if you don't have a paid account or won't use a jailbreak.
The rule is under review for temporary suspension following a nudge from the EU and/or IATA. People are not always totally stupid, but bureaucracies work slowly.
> A central problem was Israel’s refusal to provide the US military with Iron Dome’s source code, hampering the Americans’ ability to integrate the system into their air defenses.

This is a great example of the pot calling the kettle black.

The US routinely denies access to the source code of military hardware that is sells to its allies.
Same it says something went wrong while submitting the form.
apt has supported zstd since 1.6 already.
I agree it is difficult moment in history. However, remember that those 18+ Mio won’t need the beds at the same time. Still a bad situation.
There is a cost in terms of energy required to replicate the genome. The cost is relatively small though and grows slowly within the population so it is subject to fairly weak selection. On the other hand deleting DNA is always quite a risky proposition.
And ability to supply the market. AMD can't go from 5% share to 50% without vastly more wafers.
I’d like to see some defense budget diverted to create a bigger surplus of availability of other resources, like medical infrastructure. Give hospitals a double tax write off for empty beds, or some other clever incentive to ensure that they don’t try to run at exactly capacity all the time.
So one thing to note is that the “population” referred in the doc you linked is talking about people that are infected, not the general population. Of course, that doesn’t make the outlook that much better: if history is any guidance, H1N1 likely infected 15% of the world’s population[0], and interpolating that makes the required number of beds ~3 million. That’s still a lot of beds, but a lot more manageable. With techniques to delay the arrival as much as possible (e.g. at least wait out the flu season), and to avoid spikes, we’ll make it through this.

It’s still undoubtedly a monumental event in history, but we will make it through.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
> What can a porn app do that a website can’t do?

Oh, come on, you know very well why you'd want a native app: it's the exact same reason why you'd download a native app for anything else; they can be more polished, use platform APIs, download files…

> On top of that, how many mainstream platforms and physical stores allow porn to be prominent? The most popular video site - Youtube - doesn’t allow porn.

Because the ad platform it uses doesn't like it?
It may not be too late. you could rewrite the history (but good luck syncing it to everyone)
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Fluff piece offering nothing of substance, tied in with learning app which hasn't launched yet.
It does. Money spent on the military is spent domestically with only a small fraction of them leaving the country, the rest being spent inside and boosting the economy; the money spent buying all foreign oil is all just going away... so even if we are to spend somewhat more than $1 for the military to reduce oil spending by $1 that will make perfect sense, net result for the economy overall will be positive.
I think you've misinterpreted two items there (although they're ambiguously phrased and it would be helpful to have a source with clearer phrasing).

First, I think the 5% refers to 5% of persons infected with the virus, not to 5% of the entire population of the U.S., although this is the least clear part.

Second, the "critical care" part refers to "being admitted as an inpatient" (not being admitted to an ICU), as distinct from an outpatient office or ER visit.

I don't think the authors meant to suggest that the CDC believes that 5% of the U.S. population will require ICU care during this epidemic.
> Learning is straightforward. You look for the best sources, schedule a time, take notes, and practice till you perfect.

I know this is just throw-away sentence to kick off the article, but I disagree.

Learning is straightforward if you have a kind learning environment where the outputs match up perfectly with the inputs and you can see exactly what you're doing correctly and where you're going wrong. But if the learning environment is wicked, and it's no longer easy to tell where you're going wrong -- or worse, you're misled to believe you're doing things correctly when you aren't -- then learning isn't straightforward at all. It's why some people practice for years and don't get any better.
Frequently. Just this evening I was looking in the HN repository for the last version of the code that pg wrote, to remind myself how he used to do something.

One of my favorite tricks is to make a file out of all the changes in the history:

git log -p > bigass

and then grep through the file (edit: which I like to do in Emacs—hence the file) to see every appearance of some construct. There's a lot of knowledge in there. It's particularly useful when you remember that you did something, but forget how you did it.

In fact, I use git proactively this way, to store things in the version history that I might want to remember later. For example, if I write exploratory code to test out a feature or throwaway code to do some analysis—anything I might want to use again, but don't want to commit to the codebase—I'll add it as a commit and then immediately revert the commit (i.e. make a new commit that deletes what I just added). The codebase remains unchanged, but what I just did is now there forever for future me to recover.

Such an approach only works if your system is small, but I like to work on small systems and prevent them from becoming large systems. There's a beneficial feedback loop here: as you get comfortable working with history, it gives you more confidence to delete things, helping to keep the system small.

I've also found this technique useful for solving the chronic problem with documentation: that it inevitably fails to get updated. When I write something about the code, I commit it and, as above, immediately revert the commit. Now it's permanently glued to the state of the code when I wrote it. When I read it in the future, I can do so alongside a diff of the code from then to now. This makes it easy to see what has changed in the meantime, in which case I can update the document and commit/revert it again.
I specifically said "preferably" for this reason, and there always will be more than one way to do it, so obvious is implied.

This change explicitly creates a situation where you have two equivalent obvious ways to do one thing, dict.update() and dict.|=, and is the latest in a string of such changes.

I personally _like_ this change, but python used to be much more conservative.
Terraform and Ansible are not nonos! I use them for my small product and they are reliably good! Kubernetes has much more complexity and a steeper learning curve compared to those tools! But it has its own benefits. Apply what is necessary than what is fancy!
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Sometimes it is pretty easy (Chase). I did a charge back on my card with the click of a button 'Dispute Charge'. I received a refund almost immediately and the dispute was sustained
There is a real question here about whether we can sustain the sort of sprawling, interconnected, JIT supply chain that has been set up in the last 20 years and also whether our international travel patterns are sustainable.

The speed with which COVID-19 got to pretty much everywhere is stunning. If the death rate was more in line with, eg, the Black Death it would be interesting to see what happened to food & other supplies in the major cities.

Hopefully there is some principle that a virus can't jump between species that is both infectious, deadly and slow to show symptoms after becoming infectious.
This is a typical retort, but the difference is eye-watering and it more than makes up for that.

A representative software engineer salary in the US is 5-10x higher than in Spain, and I doubt they are 5-10x more efficient.

Kudos to American computer scientists and software engineers for reaching the compensation and status that the profession(s) deserve.
Yeah, if you have at least 5 Gbps of Netflix traffic on your network...

No small or startup ISP is going to qualify for a Netflix appliance. Also to cut your Netflix bandwidth by 80+%, you need more than 6 Gbps of Netflix traffic, as Netflix requires 1.2 Gbps of inbound bandwidth just to fill the cache.

Netflix share of Internet traffic is about 15-20%, so in practice Netflix appliances are used by ISPs with 25-35 Gbps of bandwidth and up. This means ISPs with tens of thousands of subscribers or more.
I have worked for almost 15 years in SV at multiple tech companies (FANG and non-FANG) and at all the places, I have seen health insurance, at least 15 vacation days per year, 9-10 holidays and generous salary to pay off the student debt.

So your comment just reads like a somewhat inaccurate meme.
> you can't incentivize good faith.

Thank you. I have been looking for a pithy way to articulate this idea. There is literally no metric or combination of metrics that can perfectly incentivize a person who is... morally challenged.
Afaik chromium uses the same pdf renderer as foxit (pdfium)
> What can a porn app do that a website can’t do?

How well do AR/VR/3D applications run in Safari?
> You cannot spin up 100K native > threads to handle 100K requests that are IO bound (which is very common in a microservice architecture, since requests will very quickly block on requests to other services)

The Varnish server does that all the time and it is not a problem.

Modern OS handle a large number of threads much better than 10 years ago.

In case of python however, you can not do that due to the GIL and the fact python handle native threading terribly.
> Public areas would take your name and phone number before allowing you to enter

Then that wouldn't really be a public area, would it?

Many people, especially older ones who may use feature phones, don't have devices which handle QR codes.

Ditto for children, who may be allowed to go to public areas on their own, but don't have a QR-enabled phone.

A few years ago I left my phone in the taxi on the way to the airport. I didn't have a phone for a couple of weeks. Or, what if your phone or battery died while you were out?

Some people don't like the tracking already done and available. This takes it to the next level by making location tracking mandatory.

What benefit is there to participate? Wouldn't the majority of those people prefer to enable location tracking on their phone instead of manual QR checks?
I'm inclined to take the word of a famous pilot and safety expert who replicated the accidents in a simulator over that of an engineer who probably didn't.

My guess is that the failure of one of the AOA sensors triggered all kinds of alarms and conflicting instrument readings, while MCAS behaved a lot like other systems that occasionally rotate the trim wheels. The Boeing checklist gives as a condition for runaway stabilizer trim: Uncommanded stabilizer trim movement occurs continuously. It probably didn't help that at this point the pilots didn't even know about MCAS' existence.
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The stated source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6909e1.htm does not seem to have anything about 5% nationwide requiring ICU care although I've not checked the links within that. But it does seem a bit off.