skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AA may be the most effective of the options studied but that doesn't mean it is a successful program. It just means it is the most effective of what are generally non-successful programs.
No contradiction there. You can have both systems at the same time.
MySql is the original No sql database
They also have been seated at the table with Sun since the early days of Java.
How much of this is fixable with generating the right CSR and choosing the right CAs? Does "will need to at least choose their own random serial number, fill out their own Issuer name and key" absolutely wreck it?
If you could control both ends, yes. But sometimes you need to consume data produced by entities which you could not control.
Examples? Crypto currency exchanges, for example.
All of them use ugly, often terrible, JSON-based protocols, and some of them have non-trivial amount of trading to see JSON parsers as hot spots.
How to hide your messy room during a Zoom video conference
a lot of government money goes into vaccine creation.

EDIT: socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive
>During review, an interesting point was discussed: out of distribution generalization, or how performance depends on the random problem generator we used. This is now measured and discussed at the end of the appendix.

Your appendix E poses a really interesting question that I hope future research addresses. The distribution of integrals that appear on math tests are likely to closely match FWD, BWD and IBP because that's how professors write problems for students. However the distribution of integrals that arise in physics and engineering is quite different and includes a lot of ones that aren't solvable in closed form. I wonder what the performance of the system would be on the "engineering distribution." I also wonder what you would have to do to find out what the engineering distribution was...
I'm intrigued by what's going on in the "Internet K-Hole"
The lottocracy – Choosing leaders by lottery
No, not really. Under Chinese rules, eventually it will reach a clean, objectively scored state. Of course, human players will agree on the score before this point.
Isn't this a superset of providing your ratings/reviews for books you've read? Like Goodreads?
> Lyft, on the other hand, disappointed me

Lyft has put out some fantastic blog posts around their work on Envoy. Check out the posts by Matt Klein: https://medium.com/@mattklein123
Tavis Ormandy has been dismantling AV software, one after another, for some time now.
The Due Diligence Hierarchy of Pain
Just from what you present in the comment, maybe you're stating your opinions in a way that comes off too black-and-white?

There's times where microservices work and can be a beneficial move, there's people who have been burned by cloud computing costs or lack of customer service in the past.

Maybe you could write down your strongest opinions and find a way to put them in a way that reflects you're open to circumstance or being convinced.

Not 100% microservices negative, but strongly microservices cautious. Not 100% gung ho about cloud computing, but excited about cloud computing as a way to accomplish x y z.
I dream about day when all cryptoexchanges get this message. Not today :-(
Amazon's “Just Walk Out” will solve clicks to bricks tracking
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. The site guidelines particularly ask you not to be snarky here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How to Protect Your PostgreSQL Databases from Cyberattacks with SQL Firewall
The problem, from a non-medical expert layman, is that the "sensible" measures only appear so in hindsight.

It would have been sensible to close our borders and halt international travel 8-12 weeks ago, and begin widespread screening of suspect individuals. But at the time everyone said that was nuts, you want to tank our economy over some virus that's barely even outside Wuhan!?

Right now we could still contain it with radical isolation measures like Italy is doing. Nobody leaves their house without a good reason, everything comes to a halt, we perform mass testing on everybody and if you're infected you get an even stronger quarantine. But you want to shut down our economy over just a few hundred "isolated cases"!?

By the time people are dying en masse and hospitals are overwhelmed, it's too late. There's nothing you can really do at that point.

The basic problem is that people don't understand quadratic or exponential curves. If you have a pond that starts with one lily pad and they double in number each day, and it takes one month to fill the pond completely, then when is the pond 50% full? The answer is the day before. And the lesson is - exponential growth requires extrapolating from "who cares, it's just a few cases" to what could happen if it's allowed to grow unchecked. Which humans are incredibly bad at doing.

http://jonathanbecher.com/2016/01/31/lily-pads-and-exponenti...
Does Weathering With You and Your Name share the same universe?
Since everybody feels like getting all pedantic on me, let me clarify what I was trying to say. Most of the integers you encounter in real life will be 53 bits or less, and can be held in an IEEE-754 64-bit float without introducing any error. It is not worth introducing a separate integer type for the exceptions, particularly when the language used as the basis of the format (Javascript) does not have an integer type.
Yeah it definitely needs work. I primarily use it as a backup. Google photos is my primary because of their unlimited drive data. Although now that photos don’t show up in google drive I’m going to have to figure something else out.
We Asked People Buying Loads of Toilet Paper ‘Why?’
That's not at all what I wrote though.

You can very well write something without really knowing it. In fact it's more than obvious that the majority of code written these days falls under that category.

Programming is hard and it takes years if not decades to "know" how to do it to an extent that's not harmful. This also applies to learning the tools. Some tools are easier to learn than others. C++ is notoriously difficult to learn.
Head of Engineering of a not-so-big e-commerce company, I try to do as little as possible so unless there are some scheduled meetings my standard meeting schedule looks like this.

Once per week with CTO and once per month with every developer + QA + DevOps.
> any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality of the AGPL license

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the AGPL was that its virality only applied to changes to the software, or software that was directly linked to it. So if a product A used an AGPL licensed service over the network, that would not require that A also be licensed as AGPL.
How Reader’s Digest went from life support to modern, digital brand
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Can you define sooner than some are predicting?

There's almost zero chance you see peak virus before end of March in the US. From what I hear, most people are predicting peaks in Europe in late April / early May and peaks in the US a week or two after.

I'm not sure how much faster you think we'll see peak than that.

Maybe you mean the tail will be shorter? Most people I see are predicting Coronavirus will impact consumer behavior until end of year. I don't have the first clue how likely that is.
The rise of non-copyleft has us covered.
Sure. I don't feel you've been successful in describing what that audience is in a way that makes sense to anyone else, or in describing what about this project you think makes it interesting or novel.

It's basically just a list of links you personally find interesting then? That can be said more clearly. I'm not totally sure what would make it novel as a project, lots of people have assembled public lists of links interesting to them before, yes?
Anecdotally, self-help is an effective approach not mentioned in the article.
How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding
Two-thirds of Germans may get coronavirus, Merkel says
Exactly. Indeed - I found the link I was thinking of - Bob Jenkins wrote about that in his famous 1997 article on hashes in Dr Dobbs. Having learned in college that hash table sizes are ideally prime, reading this article was shocking at the time. Ironically, I learned that hash table sizes should be prime in college after 1997, and didn’t find this article until later. I guess best practice knowledge takes time to percolate.

“The best hash table sizes are powers of 2. There is no need to do mod a prime (mod is sooo slow!). If you need less than 32 bits, use a bitmask. For example, if you need only 10 bits, do h = (h & hashmask(10));”

https://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html
BitWarden. It is open source and you can self-host the solution too! I manage my own self hosted solution for my family on Digital Ocean. Minimal maintenance and I can see it easily scaling to meet full organizational needs.
With the recent virus concerns, I saw a number of posts about: "Hey don't forget there are online AA meetings".
I'm curious why we can't do echo/feedback cancellation. I know the signal processing algorithms exist, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Your post said nothing about the patent itself, and simply stated that this open source project should be paying you. It's not exactly the best approach on a site like this.

How about outlining the specific patent claims you feel are being violated here, along with links to the patents in question? That approach would feel a lot more helpful and a lot less like a shakedown.

If you've somehow managed to get a patent on sending GPS coords over LoRa I think a lot of people in this space are going to be interested in that. Nearly every LoRa application in the field is going to find themselves in violation.
Physical storage density per server is driving this. You can fit upward of a petabyte of physical storage in a server and there are many applications where this makes sense. RAM is still on the order of a terabyte, and expensive. Everything else follows from trying to use all of this physical storage effectively. Needless to say, when working with this much storage you aren't installing a filesystem on it.

When working with storage this dense, write performance matters immensely if you can't wait (literally) a year to index your data model. Scaling write throughput on indexing structures has a problem of write sparsity: given a fixed amount of cache, there is a scaling point where virtually every single insert requires at least one page fault. Indexing structures like B+Trees that consume large amounts of space will not only push the data pages out of cache, the index itself may no longer fit into cache at high densities. Every database exhibits this characteristic write cliff with indexing structures but the cache:data ratio where this occurs varies with indexing algorithm design. (This also impacts query performance but we'll ignore that for now.)

Succinct indexing structures can eliminate the competition with data pages for cache space. Write sparsity is intrinsic though, so this only lets you maintain write performance for maybe another 1-2 orders of magnitude. Eventually the set of actively written data pages will exceed the size of the cache and write throughput will drop precipitously before leveling off.

Being able to index tens of terabytes of data at wire speed is much better than typical but at least an order of magnitude short of what is desirable for a petabyte of storage in a single server. Ideally, you'd want the flat write throughput to extend out to the end of your storage, which means extending the write cliff at least another order of magnitude. There is not an obvious way of doing this without adversely impacting performance in other unacceptable ways.

I started researching this problem a few years ago from a very different direction that does not require directly improving cache efficiency per se, since that is essentially tapped out as a strategy. Most software engineers don't understand the nature of caches as abstract mathematical objects but there are some interesting NP-Hard problems surrounding the behavior of caches that we essentially ignore for database architecture purposes because (1) NP-Hard and (2) exploitable efficient approximations are incompatible with many common database architectures in any case. I've worked through a couple new algorithm prototypes that attack these properties to significantly extend the performance party for even higher storage densities. I'm just starting to design kernels that are purpose-built to take advantage of this research but the heavy lifting is done in the schedulers.

Yes, I do this kind of thing for fun.
Pandemic flu planning guidance for England
And still have money left over. If you work in tech there is a strong developer community and you can get away with not speaking the language as 5-bedroom penthouse suites are located in neighborhoods where almost everyone is bilingual, from waiters to C-level execs.
https://archive.md/Mbiy0
CEO Kim Gjerstad: How MailPoet Became the Email Leader for WordPress
Worth noting that the UK pretty much got the NHS because of WW2.
I think you're exploring an important space here. Good luck!

Also, the video essay you made about this (https://youtu.be/zgA4GzRsldI for anyone interested) is incredibly well-produced. I was expecting it to be someone mumbling over a screencast, but it's the total opposite.
Yeah that's right. up to ~700 Euros per month for the public health care system. If you earn ~60k or more, you can opt out and get a private plan for less money with other perks. But, overall German's pay ca. 7% (you) +7% (employer) into health care.
I can confirm that it’s difficult to read on mobile.

I do have a laptop, of course, but I’m not always near it. Mobile web is not a niche use case in 2020.
The Technologies and Methodologies at Ultra
> it seems ... that China is already reaching an inflection point. The number of new cases has dropped heavily

After draconian measures. Unless there are huge lockdowns, that same point won't be reached so soon elsewhere.
Shots fired. Jesus, we're about to go for a very bad ride.
Excuse my ignorance but I’ve never considered buying a surface up until now (they looked like "powerpoint toys" to me, hopefully I am wrong).

My two most important criteria are not listed on their product page:

- do they usually sell matte screen?

- how is the hardware support for linux at launch?
During a subsequent visit, however, Chang told him that there were other books published up to about the middle of 1930 which would doubtless be added to the shelves eventually; they had already arrived at the lamasery. “We keep ourselves fairly up-to-date, you see,” he commented. “There are people who would hardly agree with you,” replied Conway with a smile. “Quite a lot of things have happened in the world since last year, you know.” “Nothing of importance, my dear sir, that could not have been foreseen in 1920, or that will not be better understood in 1940.

— James Hilton, Lost Horizon
Buy or sell? Investors navigate coronavirus data fog
Has anyone experienced with blogs written purely for internal consumption(intranet)? How have it worked out?
> that doesn't mean it is a successful program

Chronic Alcoholics had limbs (hands) cut off during early history. It wasn't very successful comparatively or maybe it wasn't "the best". The best known behavioral solution is the best behavioral solution qualitatively (which is a mix of programs, statistically). But calling such a program (as AA) something non-successful means you've using different criterion than the bar of sustained sobriety and reduced frequency of relapse. It's not clear what differentiates successful from non-successful in your estimation?
In case of this pandemia exaggeration can have positive influence because people have natural tendency to underestimate how easily common cold and flu spreads.
The "rope memory" used on Apollo seems like such a crazy and cool idea. The article has one dead link, and the reference only has a snippet more information. I'm about to go down a google-hole on it, but can anyone point me to their favorite rope-memory resource?
"someone leaping to cataclysmic conclusions based on early figures is no more substantive than another person dismissing the whole thing as nothing major"

The potential downsides for "dismissing the whole thing as nothing major" are a lot higher than "leaping to cataclysmic conclusions". Better safe than sorry. Better to be prepared than unprepared.
Unfortunately foolishness like this is what contributed to the virus taking hold in many countries in the first place.
That graph is sure sobering, and alarming to think of the slow rate of testing and quarantine so far. Here's to hoping that they get "over the hill" during this month or April..
Time to cover it with a nanosilver gel mask then. Should somewhat disinfect your hands too. ;)

(I'm half serious there, if the mask was fabric or plastic, it'd be safe, otherwise nope.)
The Biased Ways We Praise “Smart Kids”
I hope it could be extended to retrieve tags and titles from IPCT/Exif. To rename files to photo titles is not very viable and scalable solution, IMHO.
This is AI-generated, right?
We have that at Cloudflare. It's great.
I've always found https://www.bankrate.com/ useful.
> Contrast this with tailor-made, slim and well tested C++ code.

Avast is (was) running untrusted code in their system, by design. If your intention is to say that they shouldn't run untrusted code, then just say that. Don't waste time talking about whether memory safety matters for untrusted code -- just avoid untrusted code.

A lean C++ solution to the design problem of "how do we run untrusted code" is no better than an interpreted solution. You're focusing on the implementation, not the core design, and it is the core design that's flawed.

The only result of bringing JS up in a conversation like this is going to be to make people doing equally unsafe things in/with other languages feel better about themselves.
This. Reminds me of Jurgen Klopp being asked about coronavirus and he had the best response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBCzWDxaLiw
I too am curious what quirk of the HN algorithm resulted in this on the front page.
Fun dark pattern on site : declining consent for tracking causes consent dialog to reappear infinitely on scroll. On top of a gdpr article. Oh the irony.

https://twitter.com/jpegautorotate/status/123776747110658048...
Very cool project and basically a modern RSS feed reader for a modern web where not everything has a standardized feed to digest. Which is a little sad... Something like this is really useful for what it does but I'm afraid of how much upkeep might be required if it's scraping pages (which would be required for some platform so it's unavoidable).
Can Algorithms Help Us Unlearn Workplace Biases?
Pepys actually complains about this in the diary at some point, too.
You missed my point completely. The comment I responded to cherry-picked a large list of items that didn't apply to electric cars, so I cherry-picked an example that didn't apply to ICE cars. Neither example is really relevant to the point I started with, which is that Tesla in particular is locking you into their repair centers in a way that is new to the car industry.
> Back when I worked for a Fortune 500 company they did exactly the same thing.

No, it is not the same thing. Kazakhstan is not your employer intercepting your work computer's traffic while you're at work, it's a country intercepting all of your communications toward state goals. You can't just "quit" Kazakhstan.
Thanks, I posted this story because NYtimes is a paper of record.

In times like these I won’t be checking news about Coronavirus on FXstreet and businessinsider, or any business related sites.

I’ll be checking newspapers of record.
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My Norwegian Grandfather was born in Minnesota and migrated as a child to a Norwegian community in Alberta. In the 80s I went with my grandparents to an annual Lutefisk dinner, and they didn't eat the Lutefisk, nor would they let me try it. Too disgusting, they said. I've never actually tasted it.

Lefse however is the most popular traditional Norwegian dish that we make at Christmas (Lefse is basically a tortilla shell made with potatoes instead of corn or flour). While we regard lefse to be some kind of sacrosanct traditional Norwegian cuisine, in Norway they sell hotdogs wrapped in lefse.
> APIs aren't designed in vacuum, they are the outcome of the work of a group of people that put in the effort and endless hours of work to design them.

You could say the same about the design of an electrical plug or a radio signaling protocol. That doesn't make the functional aspects of the design subject to copyright.
Yeah, the original study is clearly so methodological unsound that it's conclusions shouldn't be repeated.

But fankly most of the posts here are people almost calling the original authors heretical for even trying to data mine commit messages.
FAA fines Boeing for unapproved sensors on almost 800 737s
At least one person
The silent majority of sober people are those who quit drinking using self-help. Those people don't talk about their program.
There is! HeySummit is really nice.
Eventual exposure of something like 60-70% of the world's population is plausible (whereas it certainly never was for polio). That's a _lot_ of deaths.
Then just say that there should be no interpreter. Don't confuse the issue by talking about memory safety or act like there are better/worse ways to do this.

> but the scale of a JS interpreter + the fact that it's meant for executing arbitrary code

"the fact that it's meant for executing arbitrary code" is the only part of that statement you need. Avoid executing arbitrary code in unsandboxed/unisolated environments, even in a normal C++ app, even if the code is compiled. The scale doesn't matter.
How to disable the kill command on Linux
https://archive.md/8ZfFu
Doing it virtually makes it hard to retain the "anonymous" part of AA.
You certainly raise a good point. But sadly in those examples they asked me how I would recommend designing a giving system. And then didn’t like the answer.
I dig it, definitely some commands mentioned here I found useful, and the --word-diff is so nice. Thanks for sharing.
Nope, if they become free-running vectors of disease (550k of them), it is an outcry for US govt. to pay attention. If they were already ignored for so long, the gov. will not be able to anymore - because a housing problem will now become a national health emergency problem. Fear is a huge motivator - just look at stocks.
InnoDB (MySQL) uses aio where available.
Ask HN: Where can I find good writing not about programming?
All of the RSS feeds I subscribe to are about programming. I'd like to read other kinds of nonfiction on the internet but I'm not sure where to start. I'd prefer bloggers to publications (e.g. Slate Star Codex to The New York Review of Books), but am open to anything.
This is some nice heresy
Zero Trust Information
"do we have to accept deception as a necessary part of sales?" I would like to think "no", but as someone who's worked building a technical product, which is then turned around and sold, it's hard not to feel like portraying your work in the best possible light, combined with moderately effective sales techniques, leaves the buyer with a strictly inaccurate impression of what the products capabilities are.

I'm not okay with saying these situations are unavoidable, but I think they arise pretty naturally out of situations where people are paid to make a sale, and people hear what they want to hear.
"Derailing" maybe implies more intensity of effect than I intended.

I meant simply that changing the topic is a mild "derailment" so to speak simply by redirecting the attention of the readers away from the topic at hand.
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