skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This video is pretty funny! I’ve used mongodb extensively over the years. It’s pretty solid and enjoyable to use, but yeah the js community tends to have a higher percentage of “fake it until you make it” type people and it seems like a lot of them use mongo too...
However the biggest productivity software provider doesn't need to get bigger either. The reality is that most technology is controlled by a tiny group of companies now and we need more competition at all levels of the stack.
Microsoft is a public company. You too can own some of those profits.
I would compare art to reinforcement learning rather than social capital. The artists may or may not strive for social capital, but the branching happens because of reward and reward comes from consumers who crave and appreciate something different from the trite, old saturated, predictable forms on the market. Hollywood of today with its predictable repeatable plot lines is ripe for this kind of disruption. Creativity and art stands out when it calls out a truth nobody has noticed before. When it engages your mind far more than predecessors because it poses more questions than it answers, but it still makes sense (Game of Thrones was unpredictable, as was Breaking Bad). In marketing it’s Seth Godwin’s Purple Cow. The craving of a bored/ignored audience is the spark, but just like fashion, the only guarantee is that the audience will get bored of you again in time as you may no longer help them stand out as unique for their early adoption skills, and they need a new flag to stand out from the crowd in their own pursuit of social status.
I got annoyed when they misused “begs the question” immediately followed by “inspector generals” instead of inspectors general. Not sure who is writing Amazon’s press releases, but I expect more from a trillion dollar company.
Personally I really enjoy his writings on all kinds of subjects (coding, political, parenthood, startups, etc.) He's the main reason I did a startup and joined YC. I'm still a bit sad I didn't get to talk to him while I was at YC.
Not available in my region lmao nothing is solved. Region locking is deeper than just what a single service can do.
Thanks. As always, context is everything and this is certainly more than was implied by the blurb. Hopefully
we can rest it here.

The fundamental chase of bandwidth-per-pin hasn't stopped. Two recent examples: Eton RPC DRAM manages to essentially run the whole protocol over the data wires using just 22 pins for a 16-bit DDR bus. Another: GDDR6X finally introduced PAM4 (four voltage levels per pin = double the bandwidth). Now we just need to combine these ideas ...
I'm not seeing the problem. The feds got a search warrant to find searches for the term "guccifer" from before the term existed, and got a direct hit on the actual culprit. Not some kind of dragnet at all.
Here’s the scary part to me. They say they identified searches from certain networks and make it sound like those were the ONLY searches for those terms. However, it seems obvious they took his IP address, went through his search history, picked relevant terms, and presented it like they started by finding out who searched for specific terms.

I call bullshit. There’s no way he’s the only one that searched for those terms in that time period, right?
TBH, I think this is the wrong situation to trot out "Don't be evil."

Law enforcement has always been able to subpoena this type of information. From phone companies, credit card companies, ISPs, etc. If Google wants to legally operate in the United States then they don't have any choice but to comply.

The bigger issue, IMO, is that nobody has any idea who else has access to this information. Google can share this information with anybody. It's entirely on good faith that people trust them not to.
We handled it by spinning up everything via terraform and forcing dependency on those modules & resource bundles. Separate sets for each cloud provider and it all gets code reviewed by one team.

Essentially we built a platform on top of each cloud.

The difficulty there is groking the differences in network topology and access control and building something functionally equivalent everywhere.
I guess you don't have a 401k.
I would have agreed with you a few months ago but pirating is moving towards the easier path again. Google had done a pretty good job of letting you know what service something was on, but now something on, say, Amazon Prime Video but require a sub-subscription to whatever this IMDB nonsense is.
Just what you said. I ignore it because I know the other option is living offline and maybe off grid.
Get rid of the calendly calendar. It’s a massive pain it the ass on mobile.
Yup. I understand that Al Capone ran soup kitchens in Chicago.
Hopefully my reply to xupybd above should share light on calibration. The device doesn't have onboard memory, so you use the software to get calibration data, then save it to either your program file, or save/load to a file, memory, db etc depending on your setup.

I don't have a specific recommendation, but have been using this myself. More expensive than ideal: https://www.amazon.com/Biopharm-Calibration-Solution-Standar.... The packets are cheaper, but require you to have distilled water.
Thanks for the suggestion. The wording is something I've struggled a lot with; I've found it hard to find something accurate but also short and accessible for non-technical people. Clearly it's not quite there, if that was your reaction.

A bit more context for readers: the full text at present is

> We split up your donation intelligently with a randomized algorithm, so candidates in closer races get a bigger share. Races are weighted according to the estimated impact of each dollar.

The technical details are on a separate page, which at present you need to scroll to discover.
The American left isn’t currently trying to turn the country into a single party state ruled by an autocrat. I don’t care if they’re idiots or not, but the right have abandoned respect and decency for their fellow citizens. I don’t want any of them dead, I just want free and fair elections in the country I love. It’s their media sources arguing for armed vigilantes to take to the streets to defend their beliefs.
That’s exactly my point: it’s entirely naive and insufficient for Google alone to promote “Don’t be evil” if, at any time, known-racist and known-politicized “law enforcement” in the US can do whatever evil they wish with the data they’ve collected. When PRISM came along, they had no choice but to comply or suffer the same fate as Joseph Nacchio.

One would have to be a total fool to think that an internal prohibition on evil would be at all meaningful, even if somehow it were strictly adhered to. Literally nobody at Google is willing to be imprisoned to defy the orders of the nation in which its situated.

(Before you point out that it requires judicial oversight: please read a dozen federal search warrants. The standard for search warrants is hilaribad, and feds suffer no consequences whatsoever for putting whatever fantasies they want into their applications for same.)
the EU is the white dwarf of human societies
I don't understand your reasoning. What does prevent you from having hidden state within a first-class module? It's simply encapsulation at module level.
One can also use the techniques demonstrated your reversing the ALU article. :)

https://www.righto.com/2020/08/reverse-engineering-8086s.htm...
So many cans of worms
I remember getting excited learning that I could do Xamarin Form in plain function calls in F#. Android is going similar journey simplify UI programming with Jetpack Compose. Jsx is backward and purely stylistic.
It's just a personality thing; your perspective mystifies me, and I suspect mine mystifies you. Playing bridge is the best you can think of? What about going to a top university to study and research something interesting with the potential to contribute to humanity? That would be so much more useful and less boring than running Facebook. The only one of these people that makes even a little bit of sense to me is Elon Musk; at least his vanity companies are ambitious.
I buy the file, the file gets downloaded to my computer. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, furthermore (db) admin login should preferable be done over a different SQL user so that a normal usages SQL injection can never be used to update anyone to have any admin rights.

But then just giving the default user admin rights can make many (not so good but widely used) deployment tools and methodologies and similar much easier to use so you see it quite often.

I have seen it a few times. Default db user being a db admin because the ad-hoc written deployment script during initial development was never updated and security didn't matter back during per-release bootstrapping. ;=(
The stigma on homophobia and transphobia are there for good reason.
Evolution in space and time as demonstrated by Bacteria
I probably would, yeah.
MongoDB Inc. is still in the business of lying to its users through its teeth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23499658

And that's just a publicly available example. I have a client who paid for a MongoDB Inc. to send an "expert" down to assess the viability of a project, who flat out said the project can't be done and left it there; a week later the official MongoDB Inc. report says "We can definitely get it done. Why don't you move to our managed MongoDB Atlas service? That'll be $10K." For the record, my professional assessment was also that it'd be impossible to do it on a data model like Mongo's.

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> Of course, there are those databases that are “perfect” from the start and never made any mistakes but is anyone talking about them today? Even Postgres gets it wrong sometimes.

1. The snark isn't helping your cause.

2. Then there are databases that claim to be "perfect" from the start, having always put up a facade without every admitting any of their own flaws. Like MongoDB.

The thing MongoDB does best — though not something a DBMS can be judged by — is marketing. Not just the marketing they push themselves — "MongoDB is web scale!", "90% of RDBMS use can be replaced by MongoDB!" — but also the marketing it can get its fans to push.
This isn't correct. Option prices are quoted as the price for one share, but you have to pay 100x.

The leverage you get from options is the difference between the price of the option and the price of the stock. The total value of the stocks you have the right to buy or sell is called the notational value.

Your multiply by a 100 thing isn't at all how this works.
I think the best way to neutralize bogus patent claims would be to sue the patent office, and the involved examiners themselves, once a patent is found to be invalid (it shouldn’t have been granted in the first place).

Why? Because it shouldn’t be someone else’s burden (time, cost) to have to clean up the mess they created (not to mention the waste in public money with court proceedings).

But, as usual, government employees/agencies have “sovereign immunity”, which means they can get away with doing a bad job any other type of private employee would get fired for, without repercussions.
>If he sold all his stock Facebook would plummet into oblivion

No, it wouldn't.
Err, yes, good point. And if I had read the article first, I would have had the proper context of technical specificity loaded before commenting.

Nevertheless, most encryption algorithms are deterministic. :)
The most likely explanation here is that Google was conducting its own investigation into Russian disinformation and discovered the suspicious search queries. They then turned the anonymous query records over to the FBI with the understanding that they would then generate the necessary court order to request Google de-anonymize them. That is why the second sentence explicitly says "records from Google."

I've done this dance before. It is the cleanest way to turn over evidence of a crime that is discovered in a private investigation.
I think that would be less about overwriting a master, and more about confusing some other disk for the master and sending it to the copier instead.
I don't think any would argue that python is the fastest language. The more pertinent/practical point for most though is not to needlessly overbuild whether it be in dev time or servers.

Realistically, the author could probably serve 10x-100x more users (your million users) and still stay on the cheapest droplet with python. As you can't go smaller than the smallest, changing language can't be justified on a cost basis.

Finally, the performance differences between a well written python app and a poorly written c# app are probably not that large. The developer probably started with python, because that's what they know, and wouldn't be able to match the code quality in c# without significant effort.
I am not saying this is how DoD contract went, but many enterprise cloud accounts were won by Microsoft by throwing the weight of the Office behind it. Basically Microsoft is saying: you are using Excel and Word and Exchange/Outlook already, now we are going to host it all in the cloud. As a company you look at AWS and think - sure startup do their Unixy things in AWS, but what is Amazon’s Exchange? What is Amazon’s Excel? Will they PaaS my MSSQL instanceS? Who knows..
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Netflix, Hollywood and the Future of Streaming
Big companies can because they are woefully inefficient. Small companies don’t usually have the same slack.
If you read a little further down in that thread, Eben Upton says that it is to prevent other camera vendors from just using the ISP tuning they developed for their official camera. You can still use some other camera with a CSI-compatible interface.
Why take liberties with the original title? The new title doesn't tell the reader what the linked article is about. Aside from that, given the polarization of our current time, it isn't clear whether "prime example" is sarcastic or sincere.
Database schemas only validate the data type and whether it's null or not.

It's next to useless for ensuring data integrity and why every app you see will have data validation inside the code itself. Whether it's checking that an email has a valid structure or that a payment is not negative.

Majority of the logic will be the code so it makes no sense to me other than if you have multiple clients accessing that database why it must be enforced at the database level as well.
> There’s no way he’s the only one that searched for those terms

Why not? Why would anyone search for both dcleaks and guccifer months before dcleaks was a web site or guccifer was a persona?
The purpose of (properly) salting is to prevent against rainbow table attacks when your users table with password hashes is leaked, right?

That's why OWASP advises that salts be at least 16 characters long. This requires an attacker to generate a (currently) unfeasible number of rainbow tables.

However, if every web developer out there followed your advice, then the number of rainbow tables ever needed is reduced to the number of emails; assuming everyone uses the same hashing function. Sure there are a lot of email addresses, but maybe the attacker only wants to target users at @bigco.com. So now only 100 rainbow tables are required to cover the C-levels and VPs there.
They're both important if you are in a large corp.

They both need to praise and recommend you in order for you to be promoted (your manager has more to do on that). A bad word from either will kill any prospect of promotion instantly.

They both need to carry their weight for the team and the department respectively. They put a ceiling on what your team and your department can do and can get (work, budget, opportunities). In a bad case there's simply no slot for promotion so you can't be promoted. In the worst case your team/department might get gutted.
Read any daily newspaper :-) and then compare to CDC statistics of what people actually die from.
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> It's a pattern of repeatedly buying equities and options by one large party in a way which allows for potential manipulation.

Please explain how SoftBank was potentially manipulating markets illegally by buying shares and calls, I’m curious.
Right up through "corrupted", I think part of my brain thought this might be a Star Wars reference, referring to a corrupt empire.
Urban liberals from the city of CHAZ want you to know that the orange man is bad and responsible for all problems. News at 11.
Careful in speaking for 'everybody' - because I would imagine in many cases, 'most people' (though probably not 'most HN-ers') are fine with the rules in places so long as they are civic and actually followed, i.e. oversight, Judicial warrants, proportionality etc..

There are absolutely issues of legitimate natural security for many things, then it becomes a matter of how we balance privacy vs. the functional needs of the community.

If the FBI legitimately discovers some crazies trying to make a nuclear bomb, I can imagine a Judge authorizing some kinds of searches which would not otherwise be allowed, and that 'most people' would find that justified.

Of course, widespread surveillance, especially of the arbitrary kind (i.e. catch-alls) and information gathering relegated to local-yocal Police Forces, probably are going to be problematic in the view of 'most people'.

And of course, there is the big hypocritical fact that bothers me a lot about this: that Google, who has absolutely no interest other that 'profit' seems to get a free pass on a lot of things while a national security apparatus, who's objectives are entirely in the realm of 'public service' - even when we don't always agree what those objectives are - are somehow more cynically scrutinized.

So the question is: how much of a threat is Guccifer, and what are reasonable means that we can use to go after him? Which will probably always be a hard question to answer.
The problem is if that users which don't understand the difference and worse don't know there is a difference crate regulations and laws...
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Oh yeah, that I agree with.

"Don't be evil," was always a gimmick, IMO.

Not sure there's any real solution, though. As long as there's a government, there's going to be somebody who thinks it's evil.
The affidavit does not say these were the only Google records, and the rest of the thread in the link talks about how this information was already public knowledge at the time.
I think his point was that no average user is going to do that -- whereas any Windows user can just double-click the .EXE and it works.
Either I have a severe case of deja vu, or isn't this specific type of attack on this particular wallet old news? I guess people are still using outdated software?
Dogsheep
Well yeah, what kind of garbage MP3 playing software wouldn't have a built in app store, social integrations, a pro version that removes ads, and its own mail client?
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There isn’t. I am not sure there really should be. For all the claims of capitalism, the industries that the Government relies on tend to have similar characteristics regardless of who ends up owning them, regardless of country.
No idea about Page, but I do remember walking by Sergey Brin in a microkitchen about two years ago when I was at Google. He was evidently playing around with Tensorflow in Colab. I actually didn't know it was him when I walked by, someone told me who it was after I left the room.
> What would Bill Gates have to do to finally shed his reputation as a business man?

I don't think he has to shed his reputation as a business man, if "being a business man" means maximising profits. He was great at that, and his activities were lawful, at least up to the point when he was judged to have acted in violation of anti-trust laws in trying to parlay one monopoly into another.

What he'd have to do to stem my disappointment in him as a leading fellow of the software development community of his day, is to acknowledge that after already earning his first 10 billion from DOS, Office and Windows, he actively worked to impede the progress of the internet, and hold back a generation of young non-millionaire developers, by "cutting off Netscape's air supply".
A free market requires protection of individual rights - life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and hence requires a government to enforce those rights.

No liberty equals no free markets.

Another way to say it is a free market transaction is one that does not include force or fraud. Slavery is force.

You can disagree if you like, but you'll be making up your own definition of free markets.
Bookchin–Öcalan Correspondence
I'm not sure Common Lisp has evolved very far in the last 20 years, honestly -- that seems to be part of the value proposition, though I don't quite understand it.

I do recommend On Lisp for people who want to understand and get a feel for lispy ways to solve problems... but, fair warning: I did already have a very solid grasp of programming in general via C, C++, Python, O'Caml, a little bit of Haskell (at the time) when I read it. So... YMMV.

If you want a good book on paradigms in general, I'd recommend something else.
Layer 2 will solve this.
You could make the minimum password length longer than the longest SecList password. Then users can’t reuse any of those insecure passwords! Plus it’s also a fast O(1) check. :)
Today, sure. Tomorrow, it may be what OP said.
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They managed to pick the one mobile GPU vendor that has zero open-source drivers for their chips and a reputation for horribly messy and unstable proprietary code.

Another board for the landfill, forever doomed to some 80s throwback Unix timeshare shell application.
I started feeling the same way. The only thing that made me feel better was caring less about my performance at my current job. Once I accepted getting one rating or so lower than I wanted, it was very easy for me to stop thinking about work or working after 5PM. This might be hard since you just started your first job after college and, if you’re like me and most new graduates I’ve run into, are eager to please and succeed.

But it helps to take a step back from work emotionally sometimes. A typical career is 40 years and as long as you aren’t extremely lazy (which is like working 10hr/week, not just 40 or even 35) or rude you’ll do fine in your first job. Your real life isn’t waiting to start, it’s ticking along right now.
> the code density that RISC-V allows is disappointing considering the designers had an opportunity to start from scratch.

IIRC the code density beats ARMv8 and x86_64 in most situations.
And please, can we agree that this our collective project and that we want to pool money so all of us have backup if/when needed?
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100% agree with this.

For the amount of dollars at stake the government should have focused on creating a hybrid cloud solution than just going all in with any one provider
At the time the terms likely did not have statistically significant search volume. I'm not going to say he was the only one, but the other three might have been people who then corrected their search from "dcleaks" to "dc voltage leak" or something.

If you search for "[government agency] mailing address" three days before they receive anthrax in the mail, it isn't a slam dunk case. But if it was also mailed from your zip code, you had placed 6 phone calls to that agency in the prior month, etc. it makes you a pretty damn good candidate.
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Elon Would Need 300 'Ready to Die' Persons a Day as 1k Starship Launched
It also helps that the creator of the default storage engine (WiredTiger) are Keith Bostic of BerkeleyDB fame [0] and Michael Cahill, whose PhD thesis on serializable snapshot isolation [1] formed the basis of Postgres concurrency control [2]. Notably, both of them still work for MongoDB.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Bostic

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376690

[2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI