skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've seen these resume-driven, anti-vendor-locking, everything-is-a-nail-for-kubernetes-hummer decisions :)
Navigating the wealth of misinformation Covid-19 edition
Query hints are one reason. I'm not a fan of Oracle as a company, but for certain usage patterns you need query hints and Postgres doesn't support them.
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Watch out.

Last time I tried it, it was vulnerable to a bunch of issues similar to XSS.

I suggest you test it with https://www.emailprivacytester.com/ and see if it still finds anything.
There will always be a lot of use for large databases. PostgreSQL does provide some under-the-hood features for doing distributed db's (such as the PREPARE TRANSACTION extension) but the actual implementation work is left to the user - there's no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution in this domain.
OpenShift's web interface lets you do a lot (other alternatives are of course available). And it's quite nice being able to edit the YAML of everything via the web interface as well!
How to fix Sectigo's expired root certificates
> Jason Fried of Basecamp ... who'd somehow found a way to make millions of dollars building SaaS apps without raising any funding.

It's a common misconception to think that Basecamp never took any investment but in fact they did from Jeff Bezos.

https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...

That said, it helps prove the OP point that's it's possible to raise funds and remain independent.
Doesn't need to be points, just feedback. In fact the GP didn't mention points. I have no idea how much water I spend in a shower. 5l? 10l? 50l? I can look up estimates, but that's it. This would be valuable feedback for many people, even without the gamification part.
Oodle and UE4 Loading Time
Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
Take a look on Travis script.[0]

Year ago I was be able to produce AppImage[1] in my fork repo.

[0] https://github.com/edeforas/Astree/blob/master/.travis.yml

[1] https://github.com/Symbian9/Astree/releases/tag/continuous
Tap water quality is generally terrible for carbonation and it would result in a poor product
Tiger King exposed for-profit zoos, but people have not gotten the message
People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features
Have they deployed a demo? It's hard to talk about something that no one can see.
I stopped using Mac Mail quite recently, because of a bug that meant not all my IMAP folders were displayed.

Remember Mozilla Thunderbird? It's great. Also has an RSS reader built in.
How does this interact with the Hawking radiation? ie I throw something into the black hole, how much time do I wait before the Hawking radiation from that matter to manifest itself?
Yeah agree. Like any engineering decision there are pros and cons. Evaluate them and get on with it.
Well if a bot wanted to mimic normal user behaviour, the first step would be tweeting the same amount
> Bugreporter is just a front end for Radar.

It’s “Feedback Assistant” now and at least one level removed from Radar now. Can’t give third party developers a direct line to engineers!

> And I can assure that when I was working at Apple bugs were triaged and acknowledged by a PM.

They used to, maybe? Not anymore. I think I got two responses in June 2019 and then nobody has looked at my bugs since.
It has been argued that one saves people from going down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories not by giving them the right facts, but by ensuring that they do not feel alone and isolated in society. Speaking with Flat Earthers can reveal that they accepted Flat Earthism simply because it gave them some feeling of community with other people on the internet, and the belief in a flat Earth itself isn’t actually the point.
You lose a lot of the benefits, but you can still take advantage of time range partition elimination just as long as your data is still physically partitioned by the timestamp column. That's the most important thing when processing time series data--never read from disk any of the data that's outside the time range you actually need for your query.
Very likely they need nanosecond precision, https://www.thetradenews.com/fintech-firms-reduce-trading-ti...
I was using these when the real sugar dr pepper was a thing, and they never seemed accurate.

At the time, anyway, it felt like they were flagging the whole regional grocery chain as carrying it, when only select stores ever actually had it. I'd go and there would be no stock, and no place on the shelf for it either.
Mac Mail is a great app IMO. It's full featured and performant, I'm very happy with it. This is pretty much the only issue, and it's only with Gmail.
Why would it cost 75% premium?
Sounds like another example of Amazon wanting to look like a marketplace (for regulatory reasons?) but not necessarily act like one.
> Oh, you simply use Oracle syntax and wildcards in the title search!

TIL
It's far more scalable than the arbitration process itself. Arbitration will never win such an arms race.
Exactly, so, what use cases is Oracle best suited for, situations where Postgres cannot be a good fit?
If they decide to litigate, they might learn what a Streisand effect[0] is.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Who knows, the situation is highly volatile and picking back up after a Wuhan-virus-induced lull. The CCP keeps escalating and people aren't taking it kindly. I don't see any de-escalation in the near future.
Were the energy calculations in the article done under the assumption of “all humans” living in single-family homes with their own water boilers? Because hot water has economies of scale (oddly enough, in pretty much the same ways that cloud-compute does.) If most of the world lives in apartments (or even just townhouses served by large shared central boilers with well-insulated underground hot-water plumbing), I suspect the energy calculation works out a lot differently.
Good test data for building your applications.
Some systems are simply random. No amount of simulation will tell you exactly when an unstable atom will decay.

We've spent the last century arguing about what this means for physics, and we still have no idea - even though quantum events can have macroscopic consequences. (To give a contrived example - a decaying atom may damage some human DNA and cause cancer in a historically important individual who dies decades earlier than they would have otherwise, changing the course of history.)

It's more accurate to say that we can model a small selection of mathematically 'pure" system types that are neither random nor emergent, on timescales that are comprehensible to us.
At what point does all this surveillance capitalism tech become “unauthorized access?”

Port scanning with no user consent seems borderline malicious to me. Since the late 1990s I’ve seen language in ISP acceptable use policies banning port scanning hosts without consent. If this is widely considered malicious by industry norms for decades then how can this be considered ethical for a random website to do against a user’s machine?
Indeed, but it’s not license compatibility - in Open Source world that problem can only happen with GPL.
Even "doing nothing" is cheaper for the time being if you can't get a job.
The fact that something is unenforceable is a poor way of stopping rich lawyer-based companies, such as Oracle, from attempting to enforce it nonetheless.
Intel Hires Another AMD Veteran to Work on Discrete GPUs
You may be in a position where using a verbose framework or libraries save you way more effort than the small pain they bring.
Cell Phone Technology Should Have Been Available After WWII
I've had a residential condominium door that wouldn't open even if you removed the hinges completely. The door itself had bars on the hinge side, those bars went into holes in the frame when the door closed.
I think that's the main use case but I guess it could help when NPCs for a world or a book.
How it’s not a CLI? There is a command line, you type in commands.
When I was a kid, we were taught in school that before you initialize, you spell it out, and then put the initialism in parantheses afterward.
I always like this quote:

What I can't create I don't understand -Richard Feynman
I don't think defining the radius with data makes for good charts, because we tend to perceive the area as size, not radius, and area of course scales with the square of the radius.

So if you have 2 circles depicting files, and one of the files is 3x the size of the other, its circle will have 9x the area and appear 9x larger.
> Mind you, a program with “hidden” windows open takes up more CPU/memory than a program without any windows open

I can’t speak to Mail, but in general a Mac app with no visible windows may actually take zero CPU, because (if it’s written to allow for it) the OS may kill the process entirely.
Books tend to use proportional fonts which can tolerate greater average line lengths (measured in in characters) than monospaced fonts of similar size (same em), and in any case won't have a constant length in characters line-to-line, but instead vary based on the specific test to be similar in total width.
The writing style is dense. I suspect a voice fresh out of academia.

The post about salary reads much better so might just be an experience thing.

https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM
The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet)
Yep. I have yet to hear a coherent argument against tabs.

It’s such a tiresome squabble.
Guide on Setting Up Mac for Software Development
> You can’t see other people’s bug reports because they often contain screenshots or telemetry data which is confidential.

You know what would be great? If I could mark my bug as “please let everyone be able to find this”. But Apple refusing to add this feature shoes that they still do not fundamentally understand and/or care about how external feedback works.
What's amazing is that Apple gets away with claiming their computers are "secure by design." https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/AAW_Platform_Securi...

There's nothing inherent in their design that guarantees security.
This is horrific. The surveillance state has infiltrated ACLU. How is such a brazenly anti-liberty person tolerated at the ACLU?

Even if you take his perspective, why is child porn OK in the enterprise?! Especially after Jeffrey Epstein?!
He did not run a "program benchmark test". Terms are meant to be specific
Fun website. We need more fun maths websites to play around with.
> In this post I haven’t really provided any references, but hopefully in future I’ll do short posts explaining where these ideas came from.

One such reference might be "Strong and Weak Emergence" by David Chalmers [0], given the fact that "weak" emergence was introduced but "strong" emergence was not even mentioned (though indirectly implied).

[0] http://www.consc.net/papers/emergence.pdf
When I eat Jello I press my tongue against the roof of my mouth and squeeze the Jello through my teeth and imagine I am a whale filtering krill against my baleen.
This quote from the CMU article lines up with the headline on this HN discussion thread (200M, 62%, bots, COVID-19):

> CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots, they found. Of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% are bots.

Fascinating article. Thank you for taking the time to find it.
I hate that! I’ve been looking for ways to turn it off or rebind it to another keyboard shortcut but it never sticks…
Those are fixed per-plant overhead costs, though.

If you need twice as much power, then rather than building twice as many nuclear plants, you can just build one plant far less than twice as big, to output twice as much energy. (I believe it scales logarithmically, actually.)

Spreading nuclear energy is costly (insofar as you eventually need to build more plants, because no power grid is 100% lossless over long distances); but scaling nuclear power in response to densification of urban areas is cheap (as long as you do it in advance.)

The problem is that, in places where it’d make a lot of sense to just plop down a nuclear plant, there’s either heavy existing investment into e.g. coal; or the nearby area is as yet too small to “pay back” the costs of nuclear investment.

Really, what nuclear power fits hand-in-glove with, is centralized urban regional planning (i.e. planning a large global city 50 years in advance.) But hardly anyone does that. Even the USSR didn’t do that.

There’s one region that is doing top-down regional planning right now: Dubai. But, ah, they don’t need the energy.

(Though that raises an interesting point: a large uranium deposit could be exploited on the global market in a very similar way to a large oil deposit, if a country so desired. Harvest the electricity locally with nuclear plants; create some fuel out of it [hydrogen? ethanol?]; and sell+ship the resulting fuel globally. There could totally be a “nuclear Dubai” built on the resulting resource-extraction economy.)
Panic Buttons and Norm Wizards
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How 'Cognitive' Tech Can Prevent a Food Crisis
Here is my version of FakeID API:
https://fakeid.now.sh/

All data from https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
2010 - still losing roughly 4,000 whales every year to whaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baleines.png
But for some reason I have never had to remove malware from my parents’ iOS or macOS devices.
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I was thinking the answer to 'why are programmers paid more than other white-collar professions that are similarly profitable' is: because programmers control the means of production.

I might be a great telecomm tech, a genius even, but once I'm out of a job, I can't build my own telecomm system - that would cost billions. I have to go back to some other telecomm system to start making money again.

But, at a startup, a kicked-out senior engineer can actually pretty much exactly recreate the company; they can do the equivalent of a laid-off telecomm employee starting a new, almost-as-good (except for branding) telecomm company.

No billions in infrastructure required: within a month or two, the cloned company could be near-indistinguishable from the original.

So companies have to pay employees more like partners, instead of employees, because either they pay them as equals or they'll be forced to compete against them, as equal rivals.
Nope. That is not what an event is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_(relativity)
`rig` (random identity generator) on Linux is another useful tool for this
TIL: Hyperbolic paraboloid is the saddle point.
SpaceX attempts their first astronaut mission
Same. I’ve had this issue for a while now.
This software security issue in Sign In With Apple was unrelated to the security of Apple's hardware platform.
Ugh! It’s most annoying when you’re in a full screen app and presenting. Suddenly, Mail.app decides to take half the screen and spurts all my inbox for everyone to see. You can’t watch full time videos either due to this annoyance.
I think if you use the term southerners you'd be good. We've consistently opposed civil rights and affirmative action. And we were more Democratic in the 60s and more Republican today.
I just assume 45%-60% of tweets in general come from bots.
Thanks, I wasn't familiar with the "Teach Yourself" series, that's going to help me on my path learning math/stats/probability theory.
They were already profitable at the time they took Bezos' money. DHH has stated previously that it was simply to take some money off the table.
Fun Dip was basically exactly this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Dip
It's interesting to compare and contrast e.g. a F1 racer driver vs a pit stop mechanic in this model (or an airplane pilot/mechanic/aeronautic engineer).
Interestingly, I have the opposite problem: when I boot up my computer Mail shows now windows until I click on it, even though every other app restores its windows. Very strange.
Thanks a lot! I haven’t been bugged yet, but hope it works!! Would be a life saver when I need to watch full screen videos on VLC
This is always the argument against tabs, but it makes no sense. So what?

If you don’t like your tab width, CHANGE IT. That’s a huge win over spaces, where indentation is hard-coded.
> Rollback of DDLs

Oracle can't roll back these (create table/drop index etc)? That really surprises me. Pretty certain MSSQL can, because I've used it. Amazed, actually, that oracle can't.
> I doubt they care about the optics.

I’ve never dealt with Oracle myself, yet even I’ve known about their reputation since before I joined the software industry.
I was trying to convey that "Maxwell's equations" can name not just the equations that describe electromagnetism, which has a U(1) gauge group, but can name an entire category of gauge theory equations---one for each gauge group. If the gauge group isn't abelian Maxwell's equations are _not_ linear.
i dont understand why it would have to jump through a bunch of animals first. cant it go from bat to human?

fauci was conducting coronavirus gain of function experiments in wuhan in 2019 trying to go from bat to human, so at least some scientists didn't consider the evolutionary distance to be so great

UPDATE: newsweek article on fauci https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
People try to “debunk” conspiracy theories rationally, when really it’s the emotional content that matters.

It’s like talking to someone believing their cheating spouse did X, Y, Z crazy thing. If you responded to that person trying to debunk X, Y, and Z rationally you’d just anger them further. What matters is really the underlying anger that they’re feeling. Not litigating actual facts. In fact such litigating can feel like an attack or invalidation of the underlying emotion.

Same is true with feeling threatened by the appearance of “gracias” signs at a restaurant. Or a blue collar person losing status in an increasingly knowledge economy.

I feel like to make progress as a society we have to speak to the underlying “emotional truth” and not come across as pedants over facts.
> This bug could have resulted in a full account takeover of user accounts on that third party application irrespective of a victim having a valid Apple ID or not.

The headline makes me think the entire problem lies with Apple, when that’s not the case.
Where I work we don’t allow Apple Mail to run on corporate computers.

IT rolled out mandatory endpoint protection once, and they started getting reports of malware living in the Mail storage folder. Apparently when employees synced their corporate Gmail to Apple Mail, Apple Mail was pulling down the malicious/suspicious attachments from the Google spam folder. So I figure that’s a good reason why physical mail clients need to die. There’s no real need for them anymore.
In Java you would use packages to group together class definitions

same as with C++, C# where you would use namespaces to do that

aka define the scope of classes

in AS3, the packages are used the same, group collection of definitions, not only classes and interfaces but also variables, constants.

The namespaces in AS3 are used to define the visibility of definitions at the class level, a bit like being able to define your own "public" attribute.

In ActionScript 3, by default the AS3 namespace is open, for example with a builtin like Array instead of using the push() method defined in the prototype, it uses the push() method defined in the AS3 namespace.

See https://github.com/adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/Array.as#L...

But you also have mode to compile with -ES to not open that AS3 namespace by default.

In ES4, namespaces could do more advanced stuff like namespace shadowing (only a proposal at the time), see https://web.archive.org/web/20070629024201/http://developer....

For AS3, see 1.9 Namespaces / 12 Namespaces / etc. https://github.com/as3lang/ActionScript3/wiki/Specification
Well, if you took a little bar magnet and shot it through it'd go around one time.
The Construction and Use of C++ Algorithms – Ben Deane, MUC++ 2020
Holy crap. I didn't know that part

And something like 95% of phytoplankton live in the surface 3 feet of water on the ocean. I.E.,the part of the ocean that gets hit hardest by chemical pollutants. (Especially petrochemicals.)
Twitter taking on Trump's lies? About time too
You says all what I want to say.
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And yet people generalize the action of a few to the whole protest.
If you look at the probability book I mentioned it uses an algebraic boolean logic notation and basic set theory to build a formal theory of inference. The first chapter is an condensed introduction to the formal logic and notation used - which is what I was struggling with following some of the more complex equations.

Having read half a book on logic and subsequently learned basic set theory has already helped read the first portion of the probability book. But then I also got really into formal logic, I found it really fascinating as a programmer and I think every person should learn it (with plenty of applications to regular life), so I decided to take a deep dive into it. The venn diagrams visualizations are what helped me the most.

I think one of things that held me back initially was my background as a programmer, it made reading the logic set notation challenging, ie the plus signs meaning disjunctions and primes negation conjunctions.
Not all countries allow the "sue to bankruptcy" litigation model. I'd truly love to see this unfold in Germany, for example. They typically award costs to the winner too.
This seems very much like Apple’s bug, to the extent that they paid out a $100k bug bounty?
This is irresponsible journalism.

>You can spot hallmarks of fake theories, such as internal contradictions in the “evidence” and contentions based on shaky assumptions, psychologists say.

Just look at the many legitimate sources of conflicting information regarding COVID. Hell, many of our medical practices are based on "shaky assumptions" and shoddy survey data, especially in psychology.

Conspiracies happen, speculation is valid and arguably necessary for a healthy society. But this? This is just some kind of weird appeal to authority - recognizing the possibility of conspiracies and attempting to piece them together is not pathological and a society which believes it is it placing itself firmly under an unyielding authoritarian boot.
Tachyons' job. It had been taken to frontpage to get enough votes to appear on the frontpage. If you can see that from the out-of-time perspective, it makes sense.

Edit: Sphere here.
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At this point Prometheus is pretty close to becoming the boring technology. The latest versions have finally brought in the plumbing and tuning knobs to protect against [most] overly expensive queries. So you can't easily take it down anymore.

The single-binary approach is still a problem, though. In my mind any serious telemetry collection stack should separate the query engine and ingestion path from each other - Prometheus has both the query interface and the ingestion/writing subsystem in the same process.[ß]

As for the parent poster: you certainly want to push telemetry out on every event, but the mechanism has to be VERY lightweight. With prometheus the solution is to have a telemetry collection/aggregation agent on the host, feed it with the event data and have prometheus scrape the agent. Statsd with the KV extension is a great protocol for shoveling the telemetry out from the process and into the agent.

ß: you can get around this with Thanos + Trickster to take care of the read path only, but it's quite a bit more complex than plain Prometheus.
A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere
I will agree it's a bit of a stretch and I pattern matched to other arguments I have seen but "massive-scale abuse" and "real and actual harm" is language that presupposes a negative moral judgement about what is happening.