skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like the job and the teams, then you’re just trying to prove a point that doesn’t need proving because there’s no point there to prove and nobody to prove it to. This is the way business works from mom and pop to Fortune Fifty. People who do business together know each other and look out for their friends.

It’s as simple as “hey, do you know nrotherasus?” And there’s no malintent. Just the obvious fact that there’s one of you and both companies can’t hire you at the same time.

To put it another way, if the second company had not been interested at all would you be rejecting the first one?
Not possible. Modern drives require precision external equipment to write the servo markers, you can't "low level format" a modern drive and haven't been able to for about two decades. Changing from SMR to PMR would require rewriting the servo tracks for the different density.
This. Before I had kids I was always just living in the moment, looking for ways to entertain myself. Not concerned with the climate, retirement, and other long-term ideas at all. Now, with three kids, I’ve really started thinking about the environment and making the world a better place for them to grow up in. I buy sustainable house supplies. I save more in my 401k.

The net impact of having three kids has been a net positive for the environment and society, I believe.
This is a v2.

For the first version, I made this for people to share wfh desks. After 1 week and around 70 visits, not a single person shared their desk picture.

Now pivoting to sharing recipes / what people cooked during shelter at home. Idea is to keep pivoting until I find something that sticks.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated!
If your donations were only covering ongoing expenses with nothing left for a reserve fund, then losing a third of your funding and laying off a third of your workforce doesn't seem unreasonable.
Impressive prescience over 27 years ago:

"""Precocious associate editor and columnist for the Daily Telegraph, 32-year-old [Boris] Johnson has been called the "rising star of the write, not right". After indulging his taste for politics and intrigue as president of the Oxford Union, Boris exercised his "belief in freedom" as a journalist, Eurobashing and penning paeans to British "ordinariness". Not shy in clashing with party lines, Boris would "renegotiate EU membership so Britain stands to Europe as Canada, not Texas, stands to the USA". Pericles, state-builder and negotiator of Athenian autonomy, is his hero."""[1] (February 1997)

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-cabinet...
But wouldn't China actively work to prevent that from happening?
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"Ahead" isn't quite the right word. Making a large die area high performance ARM isn't hard. Its just very expensive, and only Apple has both the volume and margins to justify it.
Each company gets to decide for itself what qualifies as a disengagement and each event’s severity, and the formula used is a VERY closely guarded secret.
Please explain to me why you think it is.

The clause says:

“If the value being stored in an object is read from another object that overlaps in any way the storage of the first object, then the overlap shall be exact and the two objects shall have qualified or unqualified versions of a compatible type; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.”

Under “6.5.16.1 Simple assignment”, so this describes a rule about assignment.

Which assignment in the program are you claiming stores in an object a value read from another object that overlaps in any way the storage of the first object?
Why is this flagged? The interview is intellectually interesting. Prof. Johan Giesecke literally wrote the book on infectious disease epidemiology, and works as a senior advisor to the WHO and Swedish government.
Yes, people normally publish their crates to crates.io and call it a day, see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat or https://github.com/ogham/exa
Interesting. Revolvers would be good for a spy as they don't eject shell casings, however they are quite loud, which led me to ponder: are there suppressors for revolvers?

I did a quick search, and the first result was very interesting!

https://www.guns.com/news/2019/08/08/gun-question-can-you-pu...

Edit: more interesting pictures https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/06/15/why-cant-revo...
> People with no children will have higher time preference -- they prefer today's consumption over investment in the future.

On the other hand, people with children have less resources to invest and are generally forced economically to prefer today's consumption (eg. feeding, clothing, transporting, schooling their kids today instead of buying solar panel stocks for tomorrow).
Ask HN: How to sync server and app deploys?
Hello,

I maintain an app that runs on iOS/Android and communicates to a WebSocket server.

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I am using build servers, for both the server and the apps.

The server deploys are instant (after docker build) because I own and control my VPS.

On the other hand, App store/Play store deploys can sometimes cost days, if not hours.

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So how do I make sure that the new server code doesn't get deployed before the App is available to the public? (Especially when I have made a backward-incompatible change to the API)

I do have a mechanism in-place that neatly "depreates" build numbers past a certain point, and forces users to upgrade, but that doesn't help with the time of uncertainty where a new version is deployed on the server, but the apps aren't published yet.

Having router in front of the server(s), that routes to a server instance supporting a particular app version could work, but would become dangerously unmaintainable because then I would have to maintain multiple copies of my DB whenever I do a database schema change.

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This is meant to be a general question, but FWIW, I use [caprover][1] on the server and [codemagic][2] for building the apps.

[1]: https://caprover.com/
[2]: https://codemagic.io/

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P.S. I've asked this question on Reddit and StackOverflow, but due to no response, I'm forced to come to the conclusion that this is just an absurdly hard problem. Someone, please convince me otherwise!
The fact they listed text books as one of the objects would seemingly rule out that interpretation of the question since literally faxing a text book was possible decades before the prediction was made.
The core problem is too much regulation and the associated bureaucracy and legal percussions that come with it.

Regulation is always presented as a tool to 'protect the public' but usually just serves to protect the wealth of the leading players.

Anything that is regulated moves into a state of deadlock and now most industries and our society as a whole are in this state. Most don't dare to do anything entrepreneurial, because there are legal percussions waiting for almost any meaningful economic activity you could initiate.

A highly mobile free market capitalistic system is a threat to those in power. They don't want more bold entrepreneurs who could compete and potentially endanger them. They want people who do their jobs 9-5 and then go home and watch TV.

If we want to move out of this society-wide paralysis, we need grassroots political movements who systemically disassemble the regulatory walls that have been built over decades and centuries.

People need to wake up to the fact that regulation isn't meant to serve them but is intended to keep them at the bottom. Because when the current market leaders of an industry rose to power, there was no regulation yet, which made their success possible in the first place.

If you argue that this is how things should be, namely that industries should only be unregulated in the beginning and then become regulated once you have a few dominant market players, it creates a big problem: It means that we carry a long tail of highly inefficient industries with us, because regulation makes new competition so much harder in these 'older industries'.

I think we can see that today with industries like mobile carriers for example. Basically an oligopoly which dictates prices and creates huge shareholder profits year after year.

Each industry is a pillar of society and we need to break open these 'older industries' which were heavily regulated and have them catch up to the status quo through new competition. That means going head to head against a lot of people who have a lot of capital at their disposal to prevent that from happening.
It's hardware-level passthrough with zero performance or compatibility hit. The catch is that the guest needs exclusive access to the device, i.e. you need two GPUs, one for the host and any other guests and one dedicated entirely to the passthrough VM. There's a few applications like Chromium that incorrectly detect the GPU configuration and need manual overrides.

Also, it helps to use a recent AMD card and the in-tree amdgpu driver instead of the out-of-tree nvidia driver.

Overall, you trade software problems for hardware problems (UEFI firmware versions can break the setup), but if you get it working it works great.
So obviously the only way to avoid this is to give total control to Apple and Apple alone?

Not, say, disable flashing if the passcode protected lock screen is up?

I had a much more snarky answer before this one about how realistic this scenario is for most people, but I will keep it to myself.
I think for Clarity I need some explaining. I dont have any hard data or fact, and I doubt anyone would have because of the sensitive nature.

But it is just some Numbers from Facts and Data put into to it and guess work.

If we look into the list of patents from HEVC from three patents pool, along with those missing such as Technicolor, the list from Apple is comparatively very tiny. As a matter of fact I would be surprised if they even get 2% from it given hundreds of companies are in the license pool.

Lets assume Velos Media is in good faith ( FRAND ) and charges similar to MPEG-LA and HEVC Advance, the total is estimated to be capped at roughly $100M per Enterprise annually. Despite a huge market increase in volume since H.264 era, the amount of Consumer Electronics companies ( Enterprise ) is actually not growing. While we are shipping ~1.2B Smartphone every year, ( A market that doesn't even exist during H.264 invention ) Huawei, Apple, Samsung represent over 50% of the Smartphone unit volume already. Top 10 vendor represent close to 90%. Once you factor in Tablet, PC, are in similar situation and many overlap ( since they are by the same Enterprise and count towards the cap ). The total addressable market from HEVC patents is at best $3B from large volume vendor ( $100M Cap x 30 Enterprise ) . You tie in the loose end from other electronics, Blu Ray disc at $2B per year. You are looking at a Total of ~$5B.

Ignoring the 2% Apple exempt from their own products and they actually paid 100M annually. $100M is exactly within the 2% they received from ~5B pool.

Generally Speaking in Reality Apple has many cross licensing agreement with like Samsung, Qualcomm and LG etc they are highly unlikely to be paying anywhere close to the Cap as they will all be exempt from it. And Apple would also not be getting anywhere close to 2% mark, but the argument is still the same.
How the Impact of Covid-19 Has Driven Airfreight to Historic Levels
What is a real world use case where CSPRNGs are too slow on modern hardware?
You'll want to study the Baseline Requirements and join the various forums such as MozDevSecurityPolicy (MDSP). Do you have a business plan for this month, year, next year, 2 years out? Are you ready to not sleep and hate yourself for an undetermined time as you get this thing bootstrapped?
You’re right about mortality rate, but the percent of the population that has been exposed is critical for policy, because it tells us how big any upcoming surge could be. And it’s looking more and more like we got that one badly wrong, so we’re going to end up with thousands of outdated ventilators, a boatload of new national debt, and an even more jaded culture that totally ignores policy folks. Could be worse.
The fact that this article completely flattens "the western world" into a single entity and denies the obvious political realities of that same western world by pretending that there is not an obvious political faction that is staunchly committed to maintaining the status quo as a matter of principle undermines the whole article right off the bat.

Again and again I am left to ask myself, if these are our leaders what is left but to despair?
Assuming you have recent hardware and a compatible UEFI firmware, yes. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
>> if the hypothesis turns out to be true that it was an accidental release

But, but, but... Facebook has already "fact-checked" this and determined it to be False. By an American who worked at that Wuhan lab. "Strict control and containment measures." Lol.

https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blogs/jeff-katz/facebook-cor...
Possibly, but it could be leaked in a way to alternative sources to vet and verify.

All I'm saying is that I agree, Long Bet #9 should definitely not be dismissed. It's way too early.
> Hell, we're building grassroots infrastructure in my radio group because our capitalist-driven infrastructure is so antiquated we can't even do a software update to existing hardware without it taking 3 years and taking an entire flood warning system offline.

Can you talk about this a bit? 73 de W9NLS

edit: It's AREDN. Awesome!
Jonathan Tepper wrote a great book about this, the Myth of Capitalism
The slide says, "Injects itself into the corporate scene, then subverts from within."
Great article and passionate tone!

But why doesn’t it also say that $X billion of a16z money will he allocated for such investments in the next 3 years?
As I've gotten older I've realised that sometimes us trying to "build our way out of things" is often just "digging the hole deeper". Technology doesn't have all the answers unfortunately; I used to think so but as I've seen more I realise I was wrong. Someone's progress is someone else's nightmare quite often; especially in a system where capital (and therefore technological control) is concentrated in the hands of the few rich.

Anything you built has inputs, outputs and waste (this is the bad stuff that makes our lives worse and is subject to the problem of the commons) - it isn't an efficient process. Often benefit accrues to the person with money, and the waste goes to everyone else. Sure there are some nice solutions out there but on the whole we probably need less building than done today; and what we do build being much more targeted to society's benefit.

As an example I look at China and think - they build a lot of stuff but I wouldn't want to live there personally with the smog, pollution, bad environment, etc. I live in a nice part of the world but can see "progress" coming close to my door. Maybe I'm just getting cynical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.

The quote you know dates to 1919 and was a metaphor used to justify suppression of political speech during WWI.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/249us47

It's pretty fucking shameful.

https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/28/make-no-law-episode-seven... for a great podcast about it.
Is Pericles even a good guy? Plutarch found him duplicitious.
And Kotlin as well?
Coronavirus: China outbreak city Wuhan raises death toll by 50%
While I risk starting a pointless argument my readings about React have been that it's only javascript functions.

But in reality it's a DSL.

I have never read anyone bragging about DSLs in javascript. So react's marketing seems dodgy.

Also is Babel a transpiler or compiler for JSX? And is React useful without JSX?
Thanks for the post! Why be entrepreneurial if you can just put your money in the SP500 and watch it go to the moon thanks to unlimited QE? The current paradigm is being kept alive by the Gov with all tools it has at its disposal (QE, bailouts), while the right move would be to let it go bust and push the restart button. Making space for a new generation of entrepreneurs to pick up the pieces.
Handle redirect after login in Laravel 6 and 7
It would have been nice if they'd included the original letter and not just the first paragraph of it.
I am more worried about what we will do when we run out of 64 bit seconds for unix time.

500 billion years is barely half way through the star forming age of the universe.
Considering all of the, uh, interesting goings-on that have happened in the CA world over the past few years, the first thing you need is trust and transparency. Buckets of it. Preferably your own personal waterfall.

I get the impression you may not be aware of the fairly unbounded levels of paranoia and suspicion that make up the bulk of public (personal and corporate) opinion about CA trustworthiness.

You very obviously have a motivation and agenda to post here, and for the sake of simplicity I trust that this is benign. But not actually documenting that rationale, let alone adding some reassuring arguments, kind of comes across to me as Step #1 in How To Successfully Not Succeed At Being A CA.
It's nowhere near that small. That's like a 4-6 person 501cX. Their 2019 revenue was 309 Million

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-annual-report-2019
I mean, sure, if you want a toothless world government with no power that wouldn't be able to keep countries in line. In which case I'm happy to report we already have this: its called the UN.

For anything else you would call an actual government, the highest body has the power and physical force to keep those under them inline. Even in the USA, where states rights are a thing, the federal government could easily force them to do basically whatever they want.
You'd need a filesystem that was pretty careful to write a very large chunk extremely sequeuntially. That's easiest with Host-aware SMR (to have some idea the size of the zones) or a linear LogFS.
Yeah, but by going out into the wild and collecting bat coronavirus samples to bring back to the lab, they certainly opened Pandora's box. Catch-22? Are we put at greater risk by studying and experimenting with viruses like this?
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I appreciate what you are saying here, and I used to think that way, too.

That said, the more I have learned about psychology and behavioral economics/finance, the more I have come to understand that humans are fundamentally irrational (at least on a surface level). The more I use that as my operating assumption when modeling customer behavior, the more accurate my models have seemed to be.

On the surface, that seems to be a depressing assumption to make about humanity. What I have come to understand/believe is that the surface level irrationality of most customers is actually fairly rational once the whole person is taken into account — especially their psychological make up.

Using the 100-220-500 example, some people will rarely or never take the highest priced option of something. They use this as a (useful, imho) quick and dirty heuristic to avoid being or being seen as a spendthrift. You seem to be assuming that everyone has the heuristic of “what's in their own best interest given accurate information”, and my data over the decades is that this stance is relatively rare (<10% of a diverse group of people). To be fair, it is a more common amongst the pure/hardcore hyper-logical engineering crowd that are probably much more common in places like HN, but that is a very small percentage of most markets.

Note that “not being a spendthrift” is just one common heuristic. Another is “not being or being seen as cheap”. Another is “not being seen as different or rocking the boat” (this is why “most popular” works as a label on an option). Another is “being seen as rich” (some folks will just go in and buy the most expensive option as the default) or “being seen as significant” (patio11 has an example of his Japanese manager not being willing to take a smaller SAAS option because he didn’t want to present the label “freelancer” on an expense request).

The list goes on, and these are all very real heuristics that people use to make decisions — and they use these heuristics much more often than a holistic analysis of what is best for them or their organization.

Given the above, are these techniques “tricking people”? Maybe. I personally consider them to be tools that can be used responsibly or irresponsibly. An organization with rock solid ethics can use these techniques to hack their users brains to get them to more accurately do what is in the purchaser’s best interest. At least that is my opinion and my approach. YMMV.
Yup, absorbed into https://expeditedsecurity.com/certsimple/
And I like storing the time the prompt was printed so that I can keep track of how long a command took. When I care to keep track of when a command started, I just hit enter once or twice to get a “fresh” timestamp, then I have both an accurate start time and an accurate stop time. This is very handy if you run long jobs in a tmux session, for example.

If I rewrote the prompt each time I ran a command, I’d lose that record. (I suppose I could do the same trick in reverse and if I care to know how long a command will take, I could run it and hit enter a few times to queue up an empty command to create the same timestamp effect after the fact).
No, it's like putting your personal appointments on the calendar, with or without details...which everyone does, right? I mean, if I'm going to be out next Monday morning to go to the dentist, it makes sense to put it on my work calendar and probably share it with my department, so they know where I am. In a union workplace, meetings would be one of the things that you put on your schedule. I mean, how would a union even work if it was treated differently from normal activities?
>Want more R&D? Pay "smart" people more, instead of forcing them to try and do the startup.

... having found that I can attack problems which are 10x harder in academia, as a lowly PhD student, than I was ever allowed to come close to touching in industry, because I didn't have both a PhD and my own company...

Yeah. I would never claim I've done particularly great or world-changing research so far (all my conference papers get rejected, after all), but nonetheless, I definitely think I make more contribution to society overall working on, say, applying Bayesian deep learning to study individual differences in neuroimaging than, say, doing web apps for sports teams or embedded firmware for a product that gets canceled (my previous two jobs).

And I definitely contribute more to society working on the derp larnin' for neuro-imaging than I did when I was unemployed and getting turned down for ML engineer jobs because I hadn't done enough ML before and the stars didn't align my way.

Arrange the money so that it pays to throw smart people at hard, useful problems.
I fully support this once we reach the year 9000. Then they'll have 1000 years to fix all the Y10K errors that will surely crop up by year 9999.
You mentioned Milo downthread, but I'll give another counterexample: the ACLU sued the city of Charlottesville when they said they'd only permit Unite the Right to happen at the larger McIntire Park on safety grounds. As a result of the lawsuit, the rally happened at the much smaller and busier Lee Park.

(Personally, that's why I no longer support the ACLU - this wasn't analogous to the Illinois Nazis case, and as everyone expected, violence happened and someone died. I felt like the ACLU had let their focus on civil rights absolutism drive them to defending someone whose civil rights weren't actually under threat instead of spending their resources on actual ongoing threats to civil rights.)
> CPU is also still virtualized

IOMMU also grants the guest hardware access to the CPU, although it does have to be shared between the host and guests.
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And now I see from the fresh links that bats don't have the same kind of immune system as humans. Antibodies are not made by bats.