skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's apples and oranges.

Counting published vulnerabilities in open source systems vs closed source systems says nothing about the relative true ratio of vulnerabilities.
Yeah, people are quick to point out extreme cases, but ignore the kids who come out of schools with socialization issues. Bad parenting is bad parenting. There are also just as many if not more students who come out of public schools undereducated, and struggle in life. It's weird how even though test scores are better with home school students, and its even seen as superior by Ivy leagues because it often produces the kind of qualities they seek.

https://www.businessinsider.com/homeschooling-is-the-new-pat...

https://ideapod.com/born-creative-geniuses-education-system-...

In a home school, you can dress as Batman if you want.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/new-research-finds-th...

People post here all the time interesting new studies about child brain development, they put kids all in the same grade but studies show the brain develops vastly in 3-6 months at a young age and surprise, the kids that are born at the right time so they're the oldest in their class perform better on average. There are studies about the need for more sleep in adolescents, etc. Has schools adjusted to this new knowledge, assigning less homework, no, they run the same schedule they did 100 years ago.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/social-jetlag/

Instead of socializing in a Lord of the Flies environment, they're mostly socialized by and with adults. They've also become authoritarian environments closer to prisons.

https://reason.com/2020/09/07/zoom-nerf-gun-school-cops-kid-...

https://nypost.com/2018/01/30/teen-suspended-for-inciting-vi...

https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919951&bcid=25919951&r...
Middle school was probably the only really violent time in my life. Several occasions I got the shit beaten thoroughly out of me and I was too scared to tell anyone about it because the fuckers threatened to just show up at my house or bus stop and beat me up even harder. I believed it. I often fantasized about bringing a gun to school and blowing them away, but knew I could never do it. It was fun to think about though as a kid.

Don't know whatever happened to those kids, but I hope they're in prison or dead, or just living shitty lives. I doubt they ever got better.
> I also feel he is not the genius the media makes him to be.

In his defense, he did win a Nobel prize in Economics.
Yeah that's chill but we should also recognize that our relative comfort today is borrowed from tomorrow, and deflecting any criticism of this with "things were much worse before" kind of misses the point.

Industrial literacy is understanding

* Synthetic fertilizers are hugely beneficial, but they are in part necessitated by, and directly enable (in a cycle, see), crop monocultures that don't allow the soil to replenish its fertility.

* Housework was a full time job, and now it's not. We have different full time jobs that aren't that much more fun, but they've unlocked record levels of profits. We don't have time or energy to maintain our bodies anymore. Wages haven't gone up in decades.

* Plastic is an incredibly useful technology, and has saved the lives of those tortoises whose shells we once carved products from. These days, plastic particles drift across every mile of the ocean, and kills those tortoises a different way.

* Automobiles are a lifeline for people in rural and suburban areas, but it is a lifeline in the same way an abusive lover is a lifeline -- the centrality of the car made us build our communities and cities around the car. The car created a need and then filled it, and now we think ourselves lucky to have them.

Don't take this as a call to return back to the age of riding horses and burning dung. It's too late to go back, and in any case, we wouldn't want to. I'm grateful to be alive during this period and to live among the small percentage of the population that gets to enjoy it. But recognize that everything contains the seeds of its own destruction.
I couldn't afford to fund development of it myself. It was a small team, and we were careful with the capital. We raised $750k. Making the phone calls was also a cost that scaled up (Twilio, etc)
> I think they should definitely offer the ability for you to signal/flag that you're not interested in participating as a repository.

not good enough. it needs to be opt-in. why is a random private company generating even more work for open source maintainers?
Indeed. I'm all for more literacy, but that shouldn't be just blind appreciation of the status quo. Imagine if we still depended on tetraethyl lead to keep society rolling.

Instead, it should be the level of detailed understanding that is a prerequisite for figuring out how to do better. That's not quite as easy as the article suggests though, I think.
MediaWiki, the software that Wikipedia uses is open source and Wikibase, the software that WikiData uses is also open source
We got hit with someone that blindly updated a file path in a mirror only repo.

He threw a fit though in response about us "not building a community" in the mirror repo. Heh. Get fucked buddy.
That sweet bread would be speciality bread, one wouldn't eat it every day and use it for regular sandwiches.
I did a gig for a statewide public school cafeteria purchasing portal and all of the wheat bread they bought was 51%. I think there was some mandate around supplying “wheat” and this met the threshold.
If you offered to help me do something for an hour for whatever internal motivation you might have, and afterwards I offer you $5 for your time, you would likely be demotivated.

On the other hand if you offered to buy them a beer or a coffee it would probably be very motivating. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe cash just feels lazy and impersonal, so the amount being offered has to be big enough to counter that feeling.
Chromecast Gen 1 never supported 1080p@60 and was advertised upto 1080p@30 or 720p@60. So I don't know how is it okay to expect a device that continues to function after 7 years(I have 2 still functioning) to support something it was never intended to in the first place.
The whole point of those articles is to compare and contrast.
In my experience the CFLs weren't bright enough, at least not instantly, were more expensive and failed faster. Without exception none made it to 6 months of use. My incandescents lasted several years. Maybe it depends on the quality of the power company and/or the internal cabling?

Regarding the environmental disaster, why would you think that, given that the same technology was in use in much larger volumes since the 70ies or even earlier in commercial settings, offices and even homes? Lacking only the compactness, requiring external "ballast" and starters.

When I was young we had a large ring, maybe 40 to 50cm diameter under the ceiling in the kitchen, and I disliked it even then for looking "fugly" somehow. Oh, and the ring never lasted more than about half a year also :)
It just wouldn’t be peak corporatism without outsourcing the core elements of a business to those least qualified. I think it’s a natural thing, companies get senile, makes room for hungry upstarts.
Subway also got those toasters because Quizno's had 'em, but Subway didn't really alter the sandwich recipes and what you end up with is some hot, dried-out bread that cuts your mouth.
For every $1 of revenue Snowflake received from their customers a year ago, that same pool of customers are now paying $1.58. That means Snowflake could acquire no new customers, and they would still be doubling revenue every 18 months.

No. That would require customers to grow their spend 58% every year. Might happen early on, especially as projects like this are usually staged in phases so the initial go-live usage is lower than when you get to full production. But projecting long term revenue growth on the basis of average annual 58% increases in per-customer revenue is simply ridiculous.
I like this kind of perspective because without it we just forget what we take for granted. In case of a nuclear holocaust knowledge would be lost in everything electronic and most libraries and homes would be burned.

I've always wondered if there were project to print in micro formats the knowledge necessary to reboot modern civilization other than having a copy of Wikipedia on CD. I know GitHub did that with all its source code on micro films but without electronics this is totally useless.
You’re not even wrong. A digital signal processor does computations, therefore it’s a computer... right?

In general, these days, people, especially technical, usually equate “computer” to “programmable computer”. This is as evidenced by the continual confusion as to what a D-Wave machine does and how they’re inequivalent to universal gate-based architectures.

A lot of folks these days call the kind of ‘computer’ that D-Wave is an “accelerator”.
Jaffa Cakes are most certainly biscuits. Jaffa Cake biscuits.
> Musk describes these as looking like a "little UFO on a stick."

Other CEOs do not talk like this. :)
Very well put.

> Synthetic fertilizers are hugely beneficial, but they are in part necessitated by, and directly enable (in a cycle, see), crop monocultures that don't allow the soil to replenish its fertility.

Yes. The article gives the impression that modern organic and permaculture farms are basically using medieval techniques, when that's far from the case. I hope the author does know better.
The thing to keep in mind is that leadership in data management lasts about 5 years, definitely less than 10. An (incomplete but representative) timeline:

- late 90s: Early DWs like Redbrick

- early 2000s: Oracle, Teradata

- late 2000s: Shared-nothing Data Warehouses (Vertica, Aster Data, Greenplum) - bought up by Teradata, EMC, HP

- early 2010s: Hadoop and Hive

- late 2010s: Redshift and cloud DBs

- early 2020s: Snowflake

- late 2020s: probably something else...

All these technologies felt they were here to stay at the time, but they didn't. Will Snowflake be the exception? Maybe, but the odds are not nearly as great as their valuation implies.
Federated/decentralized identity is on the roadmap and being worked on - while yes, Matrix conversations and discovery are fully decentralized and federated, each account is still tied to a single homeserver through the domain (e.g. user@matrix.org still depends on the matrix.org homeserver to use their identity)

Arguably none of the alternatives have this quality either but I find it worth pointing out as a requirement for next-generation IM.
"Public schools are literal prisons for children and the only time many people will ever encounter physical violence in their lives."

~Michael Malice
They never specified the ordering was sorted.
I really don't like how all the media seems to be focused on case counts, they started rising significantly a couple of weeks ago in Ontario, and yet hospitalization are still only ~15% what they were at the peak. Hospitalizations are definitely going up, and probably will continue to do so, but I see headlines talking about how we are breaking the record number of cases, without acknowledging that comparing case counts between now and a few months ago is useless.

I've been largely supportive of Ontario's lockdowns so far, lets not overreact just because our testing capacity has increased. And whatever happened to flattening the curve to ensure hospitalizations stay below capacity? I still haven't heard what the new plan is, obviously in many places we are locking down much longer than is required to just keep hospitals below capacity.
Airbyte: Open-Source Alternative to Fivetran
I wish more companies would take this approach
Canadian Man Arrested for Not Being a Terrorist
Are your people (and yourself) more concerned with human lives than children getting an education and not falling behind? If so, how long should children suffer? As long as it takes?
It was developed by Cinematronics. These guys then had a deal with Microsoft to include Pinball (it was called as 'Space Cadet') for exposure. Later Cinematronics acquired by Maxis.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20190108095105/https://blogs.msd...

> Cinematronics was founded by David Stafford, Mike Sandige and I in 1994, and Space Cadet was our first published game

> The deal David did with Microsoft was non-exclusive. As Danny noted, we were more interested in the exposure and didn't see much revenue from it. However, it did lead to our relationship and eventual acquisition by Maxis.
Or get involved with drugs.
They're cakes! Biscuits get soft when they're stale. Cakes get hard when they're stale.
No, it's 10% of the weight of the flour in the dough. There's more to the dough than flour and sugar.
> Why not? On UI layer I can always do:

var response = bl.sendMessage("account.validate", accountData);
if( response && response.valid) ...
else if( response && !response.valid )

Like I said, you're no longer encapsulating the validation in the component, where it logically belongs from a business point of view. You're being forced to distort your architecture for these operational concerns. And it gets worse as your structures and UI get more complicated - e.g. if I want to validate several fields within a single database transaction, that's the sort of thing that Rust's ownership system is ideal for - each datastructure can know how to validate itself given a borrowed connection handle.

> Again, we are doing the messaging for years now, AJAX/REST are messaging protocols ...

Yes, and the overhead of having to serialise everything is the biggest problem with web UI. If you're going to separate the UI from the business logic like that then why even bother making a native UI at all?
I'm guessing you never saw a kid get his head smashed on the ground during lunch.
If they can't afford to self-isolate on their own, they also can't afford to self-isolate under government orders. Locking everyone else down doesn't help those who are at risk afford isolation, it actually makes it much more difficult because the government has less money to work with to support those who are at risk.
For me it was late middle, and first two years of high school. I actually had a guy wait in the hallways for me to pass by to terrorize me for one particular class. Another one I had to deal with on the bus when it got to be too much and I guess the bus driver observed enough of the constant abuse by this other kid that when the fight was over (I won), they didn't turn me in.

But I saw fights that were much worse, fights that ended in bleeding, cracked ribs and concussions, thankfully there was hospital across the road. This was in a rural region high school, in the 90s, I can only imagine what its like in places with actual gangs, today, etc.

The worse part about it is, you tell the teachers, they do nothing substantial, then you're a snitch. If you do the one thing likely to solve the problem, which is fight back, you're punished, and now the cops are called and you're likely arrested. Some kids eventually snap, and parents wonder why school shootings are a thing.
And then some people (myself included) factor in externalities and realize more deaths have occurred because of the lockdowns (depression, lack of medical care, malnutrition, homelessness). Some of us are even more concerned with human lives than looking at the small picture of only the benefits of lockdown.
What numerical value would you place on saving 100 lives? Virtually all of them over 80.

$500m? $1b? $100b?

Just for comparison about 80 young Australians died from suicide this week alone.
Really? I mean, I can certainly understand not liking the bread, but my experience has been the exact opposite - the bread has been "industrial quality control" consistent whenever I've been to a Subway, meaning it always tastes exactly the same.

In line with the article, I also think it's too sweet for sandwich bread, but I've never had it soggy or burnt.
You’re absolutely right. Unemployment benefits should absolutely be available to anyone who can’t do their job as a consequence of choosing to shelter-in-place.

Countries can much better afford to offer unemployment benefits to the “at-risk sheltering” population than they can to offer the same benefits across their entire working population. Most working age people are not at high risk.

Provided you’re not paying people more to not work than they would earn working, you can let the market decide.
Those are already signed up for Iridium and Inmarsat. They've already got equipment and SpaceX might not be so economical in short term.

SpaceX would be great for recreational sailors, cruisers and liveaboards. That's market of less than a million clients (if that), compared to billions in rural population. It's not even clear current gen antenna would work on small craft.
I like processing through Newark, New Jersey the best. They seem to have the least propensity for wasting your (their) time, or else a very good nose on who the actual problems are in the crowd and focusing their attention on them. [edit: and these use beagles to check luggage! How cute is that.]
There's also the chicken/soy kerfuffle [0], where _Canadian_ versions of the product showed their chicken to only be about half chicken.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(restaurant)#Soy_protei...
you're surprised motivated people, who lack privilege and dont know any better, resort to what they know and have been taught to do? who live on much less than you do and therefore can live off much lower value economic activity?

is it fair to place the blame squarely on them or is it better to recognize that the global system we are complicit in has created this tremendous waste of human potential?
The Matrix is all around us, in the food we eat, on the television, inside this very room...
Read up on the Reign of Terror during the French revolution.

They were very secular and extremely violent and even evil (making shows out of drowning believers etc).

As much as the Catholic Church has something to answer for with the witch processes around here etc, they are small guys compared to the secular/atheists of the French Revolution.

Same goes to some degree for USSR and to a large degree for Khmer Rouge.
NSW isn't locked down and we managed to sit at around 15 cases per day for a good while without it spiralling out of control and have dragged it right down to 0's some days and close to it on others.

So if you assume that Victoria can contact trace almost as well as NSW, I think its fair to say it's worked because they've got to a number where contact tracing is effective.
> The problem with every this kind of points of view like this one is that it never considers that the population are consumers too and are motivated to work and "extract capital" from themselves for themselves.

Unless you are working for yourself, you're not really "extracting capital" from yourself. There was an article I recently read here on HN about negotiating salary as an engineer. I have been leaving a lot of money on the table. Depending on who you work for, the corporate organizations don't really care who you are. If you are able to frame your work in terms of how much revenue you can generate for them, you can negotiate terms that are much more favorable to you.

> Once those who promote those ideas move from opposition to those who occupied it they are confronted to the exact same problems to solve but without the "evil" solutions.

I have written elsewhere about a different way of viewing it. There are people who see "Value Extraction" and go on to "Do Less Harm" or "Do More Good", but those do not fundamentally address the problems with "Value Extraction".

One of the things that shift it completely out of value extraction is to invert it. Rather than being a consumer of value and regulated by extrinsic motivation, you as an individual find your intrinsic motivation to contribute meaningful value to the world.
I read an article that suggested he was tortured:

https://www.voanews.com/usa/court-papers-hint-warmbiers-trea...
Windows 10 on ARM to get 64bit x86 emulation
I feel like you’re asking whether the model T can be fitted or at least compared with a car with a turbo. From the Dwave machine I’ve read about, its more the algorithm must be appropriate (analogous to) in a fundamental way to the quantum system annealed for the computation.
You needed a bunch of Ph.Ds to operate early digital computers too. You didn’t just unbox one of those and start doing stuff.

This is probably the 1930s of quantum computing.
Except that Roku is playing games and you can't get an HBO Max app now.
What PCR testing "cycle threshold" value is being used by Ontario labs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...

> In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found ... One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37 ... Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said. Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said. A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less.
How many native applications are written in electron? It’s a lot. VS Code is electron and replaced my usage of actual visual studio. I still have it installed, I just don’t use it anymore.
I think "doesn't help anyone" is a bit of a stretch, since many tech workers actually did quite well during the lockdown, since they were forced to spend less due to a lack of options.

I'm in Ontario so what is being discussed does have an affect on me and I really don't know if a lockdown is the answer. What I do know is our Premier (Doug Ford) is a fuck up. We should be much more prepared by now and this lock-down talk is him panicking because we have no way better way to manage outbreaks.
What? There is no Tech arms race going on here...

Can't believe HN, the smart crowd votes up this dumb shit.

You are on hold, because there are more requests than what can be processed by the system. A problem probably 500 years old.

So, you have to wait your turn...and this is a technology that turns a function call to a callback method
I guess we'll see what happens.
And so does the environment when you throw it in the trash after 7 months.
Wouldn't it be better if we had more cheap dense housing near high paying jobs? Seems like it would make us progress faster, no?
I believe the wifi hotspot radiation would be dwarfed by the sun.

sun radiation is 1kw/m^2 wifi is like 20mw

so: 1000 watts vs .020 watts

or sun = 1,000,000 milliwatts, wifi hotspot is 20 milliwatts

if you're talking about the signal from the satellite, that is probably a lot smaller.

For comparison a gps satellite has a 50 watt transmitter and is 12000 miles away.
Every political term has at least 3 layers of meaning.

1. The literal meaning of the term or its original definition.

2. The core ideas proposed by the group or by whoever defined the term.

3. The real actions of people who feel identified by a group or people who use the term.

Many times we have misunderstandings because we are thinking about different layers. Also, these differences in meaning are often astutely used to manipulate and tergiverse things.

Examples of terms with different effective meanings depending on the layer: blm, antifa, alt-right, feminism, neoliberalism, capitalism, communism.
I see this idea posted with some frequency and the responses are almost always "clang and gcc have compiler intrinsics for this". I'm not a regular C programmer, so this begs the question: why is it that nobody seems to know or use them?