skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with this setup, Vault will create a new database user based on the configuration you set (read-only for some services, for example), and will attach a time-to-live to those credentials; as long as the application is using them, it will renew the TTL. When an application is killed, or scaling happens, etc, and the application instance isn't using those specific credentials, Vault will clean up and remove the unused account cleanly

Can do all sorts of great things with this; for example TLS (ssl) certificate renewals, etc, as the certificate expiry IS the TTL; when a certificate needs to be renewed it can happen automatically and your application can receive any signal you choose (SIGHUP, for example)
True, but your two statements in this comment aren’t really representative of anything being discussed here.

The statements we were talking about upthread don’t reduce to these ones.
You really need to look up the definition of words.
I wonder if Oracle winning would reinvigorate software developement - by which I mean, maybe the resulting fragmentation would leave a lot of room for new ideas to be developed.

e.g.: if this court case was decided before Google made Android, then Google would have had to use something other than Java to do it and they wouldn't have been able to attract such a large developer base to make apps. Maybe they would have come up with a new language, or reused whatever else was viable at the time. But, maybe their OS wouldn't have been so overwhelming in its popularity and other OSes, like PalmOS and the windows phone OS, could have remained alive today. I think there's a lot of people, maybe the majority, who would agree that Android's UI was inferior to one or both of those alternatives.

e.g. #2: looking to the future, the resulting fragmentation could mean that even new OSes will have to be developed (edit - since even kernel APIs could be covered by copyright). That could be pretty bad for open source and hacking in general - except that as another poster has pointed out, closed-down software might turn out to be pretty useless compared to open-source. Maybe Oracle winning could be a really good thing for reinvigorating the development of new paradigms in software.
I haven't seen the details here, but I've been laid off twice in the last two years, in both cases when "the employer provided COBRA" they meant they are paying my COBRA premiums. This showed up as a cheque, on top of my severance pay, for the expected cost of COBRA premiums plus an appropriate amount to pay for the taxes on that payout.
200k dead, infection fatality rate estimates seem to vary between 0.1 and 1%, so there should be at least 20m infections.
Quite possible this could blacklist you from many other companies.
> If BLM was just that, most people, even on the political right, would have no problems with it.

Let's get real. People on the political right have been yelling about kneeling in the NFL since that particular form of protest began. And it has few/none of the associations you describe.

> I'm a fan of racial equality, and by that I mean completely eliminating racism quotas, making hiring based purely on merit and not melanin.

Sounds great in theory. Now try to ascertain if someone made a hiring/promotion decision based on merit or on melanin without some kind of Star Trek era brain scan.
This has been discussed extensively in the previous threads on Coinbase, but banning the discussion of certain topics in the workplace is itself a political stance. Very much so.
From a financial exchange and price setting perspective, they are absolutely key to how the current cryptocurrency market works.

if Binance, Kraken, Bitfinex, Coinbase et al shut down tomorrow, what do you think would happen to the price of BTC and the rest...
"Apolitical" is the default. It's another way of saying, "The way things are is fine".

The problem is that this is, in itself, a political stance.

An example could be climate change. If Coinbase is doing nothing to make energy more green (even if that's just writing amicus briefs or blog posts), then they are effectively saying, "The way things are is fine."
I'll try one more time. Let's imagine there are two worlds, A and B.

In A, Monty Hall behaves like you think: always opens a goat door, always gives the option to switch.

In B, he behaves like I described: opens a goat door and gives the option to switch, but only when the player has chosen the car door. Otherwise he does not let you switch.

And then we find ourselves in this situation:

> Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to pick door No. 2?” Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

At this point, how do you know you are in world A and not B (or some other world)? What in this problem as given here allows you to determine that?
I have never seen the word "hypergrowth" before this week, now I have seen it three or four times in just a few days.

Is this the newest jargon from the California swindler class?
Hmm... a large contingent of people on HN claim blockchain is 100% worthless and no better than a centralized database. Then why is the Department of Justice saying:

> At the outset, it bears emphasizing that distributed ledger technology, upon which all cryptocurrencies build, raises breathtaking possibilities for human flourishing. These possibilities are rightly being explored around the globe, from within academia and industry, and from within government — including our own.

So what is it - our government is full of confused people, or HN is?
This is really an important distinction. Social issues like gay marriage and things like this are completely orthogonal. The Democratic Party as a whole is very much neoliberal or liberal as opposed to left. Liberal judges are much the same.
Fine, thin margins. So grow your market share and revenue, which is exactly what they did.

Since ~2005 they have ~5x'ed their revenue. Which is pretty significant if you consider one of IBM's big problems has been declining revenue. Proving the problem with the business wasn't the business itself but IBM management.
What would be the 2 good die release? They've already announced the line-topping AM4 part that uses all the cores from the two dies. Isn't the next step up a four die part in a Threadripper packaging on a different socket with some cores disabled?
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Out of all the business lines GE has sold off over the years (computers, appliances, financial services, lighthing, television, etc.), why trains?
I've noticed the same thing on EC2 instances, compiling, e.g. Alacritty, there wasn't a lot of difference between 8 vs 16 vCPUs since the last step took a significant portion of time and was single-threaded. It's fun watching 16 (or 32) CPUs maxed out though.
try nx by nrwl for typescript projects
it can be used for other languages too!
Breakdown of a recent smart contract hack where user lost $140K in their sleep
Unfortunately, GSuite seems to be the way for it. I already have my company mail at GSuite so I've got lots of storage but well I think I should start looking into other options as well. Maybe Zoho Mail for emails and Mega.nz for cloud storage. But guess we'll see about that given Google does provide extensive support for GSuite so it shouldn't be as big of a problem as it is for the normal accounts. Most of all, for my personal account which is the one normally signed in everywhere, I'm switching it totally to iCloud with some parts still on Google however none of them being the ones I'm too reliant on.
> who have absurdly overly bureaucratic hiring pipelines that weed out free thinkers in favor of academic elites who are strong conformists

That’s just anecdotal but the people I know at google are the less conforming and the most “weird” (not in a pejorative sense) people I know. They also have no connection to academia and in fact all of them failed their studies for years because they were spending their time doing other crazy things.
I don’t think survival is at stake. AMD powers both XBox and PlayStation for the second generation in a row and that ought to help keeping them alive. It’s more a matter of whether they can capture enough of the market so they’re not merely “surviving”.
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What part of gaming?

Loading times are entirely based on hard drive/SSD times.

Visual takes the majority of processing and is done on the video card.

So what exactly is improved?
A. That is the actual name of the case.

B. "Faceoff", "versus", and " debate" pander to the competitive culture of American business and politics.
I'm not an expert, but that sounds right (matches what I've read in papers).

This page has interesting info.
https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.ht...

It seems likely 3 factors were important in creating "real" Damascus steel. The key one being the mixture of elements in the raw ore that specifically came from the mines in a specific region of southern India, and once that ore ran out the "secret was lost".
There's also the knowledge of the forging process - namely the temperatures, heat treatment processes used, and what organics (aka carbon) got mixed in.
Even the most technical CEOs like Bill Gates stopped writing code pretty early in their careers
I agree with this thinking. I think Google retaining non-anonymized data for the long term poses enormous privacy risks.
You are right regarding international politics and state level sanctions. Of course Iran would still be officially sanctioned.

It's just that individuals within the countries wouldn't care much because Bitcoin or Monero transactions always go through and are never reversed.
It's not cynicism, it's Goodhart's law applied to actual law enforcement.

There are good police units who have it in their culture of not bringing a suspect to trial unless they have substantial evidence, and presuming innocence until guilt is proven. There are also bad ones who will take a person to court because it fits a description and allows them to close a case. Whichever path they choose, police won't be held accountable for taking shortcuts except in egregious, high profile cases.
Generally speaking, dead weight know they're dead weight / have an easy gig, and are the last people you would see taking such a deal because they usually prefer to keep coasting.

By definition most of them do not have strong principles (they're okay with mediocre work representing them), so i don't picture them leaving on principles
That seems to describe about 40% of Twitter users, so...it’s not implausible.
2560x1440 is often called "2k"
Well that's what I had to do. Got my spare phone while my primary phone was still out for repair.
Why we're still years away from having self-driving cars
My only question is what are employees proposing CoinBase takes a stance over? If you want something like cryptocurrencies to thrive you can't be overly policing them, that's not your job as a company.

Your job is not a political platform unless you work with politicians on their campaigns or are a politician / other form of politically affiliated / influenced company.

Politics can make people feel extremely uncomfortable especially if they feel suppressed and as a minority are bullied by other employees.
I'm still shocked by the support over this policy. Having no stance on a topic is taking a stance on a topic. I'm surprised they didn't have more people leave. It's looks like from the article they have lost 5% so far and haven't finished talks with all employees.
The army of recruiters they have in their inboxes would turn them away now that they are available?
> ...your work, which occupies a large portion of your life, should not be divisive.

I get that desire, I really do, but I think it's so important to recognize that your work is not apolitical. It doesn't matter what you're building. What you build does not exist in a vacuum, and the decisions you make around politics at work are themselves political decisions.
The difference with watercooling for CPUs seems to mostly come down to lower noise, and only marginally better thermals.
same. I don't even think the severance is necessary.

Just ask people who are interested in politics in the workplace to leave.
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Or just "the board and CEO will decide what political activism is relevant to the core business of the company, and the political positions the company should take". Which seems exactly within the remit of the board and CEO.
I've found SPAs to be less work. Instead of having two templating systems (server-side and client-side) there's just one on the client side. Now I don't have to share code between client and server, but more than that, the two are logically separated. The client can just be a client, rather than a strange half-extension, half-app of the server. Secondly, if you also want to expose an API, do you put it in the server that does the rendering, or do you have a third component that the server talks to? With an SPA, there's only the app and only the API and the two are separated out by their respective duties quite cleanly.

Once I started building out SPAs for data-driven applications, I never looked back to the old model of generating HTML server-side. It seems barbaric to me. The only hesitation I would have is if the SPA needs to be SEO optimized, in which case you can go either isomorphic (again, not a fan) or scrape pages via a headless browser as .html into a directory that your webserver serves up.
How? Maybe a short list of fintech or cryptotech companies but outside of that?
2K has no official designation and is sometimes used to describe 1440p.
Taibbi is good. Leftists probably seriously dislike him now. He would have been cancelled for this if he worked for a centrist or left-leaning media...

QAnon groups have been moving to Gab. Good for Gab, good for them and good for everyone else in the US who wants to be able to exercise their constitutional rights.
I hope so. I enjoy talking about politics and social issues and think the discussion is important, but not at work. It's a distraction and it is alienating to employees who do not share the majority opinion.
> trace transactions

Right now, the business of transaction tracing is booming.
And not even “don’t discuss it at work” (although that would also be a fine rule). More just that the company itself isn’t going to be in the business of lobbying for any particular politics.
Yep, selling Hollerith card equipment to Germany in the 30's and 40's.
Why should it be this way though? Under GDPR, citizens have certain rights over their own data, which is meant to protect their privacy. Shouldn't we have something similar here?
Vertical integration is a hot term, but unless you have long term monopoly in the market, it’s more likely to be a losing strategy. If you bet on wrong direction, you’re in much deeper troubles, as you cannot switch to other vendor that went other direction (switching vendors is also hard, but much easier than rebuilding and catching up on your internal R&D).

And you lose power of market and economy of scale. Vendors can focus on developing their tech to be better, for everyone, as they get bigger R&D budgets, and you can just focus on improving things that are your true market advantage, not fighting in commodities market.

Note, that doesn’t mean that IBM is doing right thing. But vertical integration is extremely overhyped.
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I took an off campus programming course when I was in High School in the early 1980's. There was only a single terminal that was CRT based in the lab the rest were TTY's. Slow, noisy and a huge waste of paper. We all tried to get in early to get on the single VT100 monitor!
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This is incredibly naive. Companies hire lobbyists, make political donations, give seats on the board to former politicians, setup fake grass-roots campaign groups, play states off against each other for tax-breaks. It happens all the time.

I'm guessing now they're apolitical Coinbase wont be doing any of that.
I think an optimal time within a project in between 3 to 5 years, and the reason is to get deeper understanding of problems rather than surface. My YoY compensation growth is between 20% and 30% compounded.
And so the sorting into apolitical and leftist companies can begin!

It's probably for the best.
Yes, this is, has always been, and always will be the case.
Very good article, but on the meta side the scroll-jacking was unbearable.
I think the opposite. The employees who stay are the kind who agree with the mission and want to focus on it. The kind who leave were focused on something other than advancing the company's goals. The company will be more effective at achieving its goals with a workforce that is all pointed in the same direction with less distraction. And the CEO mentioned that the people who left were not disproportionately underrepresented, so they are not losing diversity, just increasing focus.
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My strong stance stems from two decades of being on the pointy end of that regulation. The government audits I was involved with were all by extremely capable people; top-notch investigators.
The HN discussion around Waymo is always overwhelmingly negative because Waymo doesn't fit into the HN cosmology of innovation. Self-driving will come to pass when we force an AI to watch us play Pole Position for a million years, is the HN timeline. HN is comfortable with this Tesla narrative. Less comfortable is the idea that self-driving will be brought to market by lots of control theory PhDs and a really large number of unit tests.
I own a Tesla model 3 with the V3 hardware and FSD package.

They are not even close to being able to do what Waymo does.
> there's nothing for Go to be "strict about"

Regarding memory management, sure, but Rust's strictness also handles things that Go doesn't. Two examples are error handling --- Result<T,E> in Rust ensures that you check for errors before using a result --- and thread safety --- the borrow checker prevents many synchronization errors that Go doesn't catch.
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IANAL, but it's surprising that the original intent, or the manner in which a product was sold, would not matter. That means a company can trick people into an ecosystem by lying about their licensing terms, then suddenly pull the rug out?
Of course, anyone who were about to quit for any reason would take the offer.
This comment is a perfect example of why banning political speech in the workplace is a very good idea. Every workplace that I've worked in that tolerated political speech ended up with a highly vocal segment of people making statements that parallel this comment: proclaiming that only a certain stance on controversial issues is acceptable, and implying (or stating outright) that divergence from this orthodoxy amounts to an affront to human dignity. This kind of rhetoric creates a hostile and toxic work environment, and companies are right in putting a stop to it.
I would very much like to believe that GP was trying to picture a post-covid scenario and providing a rather personal recommendation to fellow travel enthusiasts.

Let’s try to at least imagine a world where we can get back to some sense of normality :-)
Optix 7 is based on CUDA (with its C++17 support).

What you are looking for is basically CUDA's model, and what Khronos is trying to catch up with SYSCL.
I think it's intended as an attack, but even if it's not it's just a terribly unfair characterization. If you host a meeting to review a design document, and I start talking about the Syrian Civil War in the middle, are you really supporting the status quo when you ask me to stay on topic?
So these people you don't like (sjas) are both disruptive and conformist?
I think that issue of people in this discussion is that they treat relationships with peers solely as competition. If that is your only framework for thinking about people, of course you will have few friends. Among other things, you quite clearly are not interested in them and project own insecurities on them.

Plenty of social and popular people have and interests as nerds and have them because they like them. But self identified nerds, who by own words never really interact with them more are interested to, do seem to imagine that such thing is not possible.
Imagine bending one of those pins as you're putting it in.
It's sufficiently a term of art in Silicon Valley that HN had threads about it 13 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042 Note comment from Drew Houston, who had just launched Dropbox here a month before.

You can use HN search to pull up a few thousand other instances.
They said biggest audience, not the only one.
I think there are definitely people who don’t want her to exist but there are also ones like me, who get called Nazis for it, but whose perspective is largely 1) OK 2) please pay for your own costs related to your choices and 3) I’m not being an asshole to you because you’re a black trans woman, I’m being an asshole to you because I am an asshole and my white male friends say “oh Xxx is such as asshole.” So don’t take it personally
Yeah. Mainframes are arguably the most vertically integrated products there are and yet they’re a dying breed in a rent-maximizing at best industry than a growing one.
Generally, i'd agree with you except my current experience...

I borrowed a 2019 Tesla 3 last summer from a friend while he was out of the country. Really fun, and I overall really enjoyed the electronics on it.

Afterward I had my finger over the buy button to order a Tesla, but after finding out that in my state, the insurance for someone with an entirely clean driving record in their 30's was still around $400/month, making the total cost including loan nearly $1000/month. I just didn't need that type of expense in my life right now, given I work from home (I made this decision Oct 2019, and in retrospect, wow how right I was).

This spring, I bought a 2005 Porsche Boxster instead for $15k. What a car! It's not as fast as the Tesla, but is way more fun to drive, turns more heads, and has held up significantly better than I can imagine a Tesla holding up. It doesn't have auto driving, but even on a 13 hours road trip you want to drive it the entire time. More comfortable in every regard, with a much better suspension too!
When someone is identified with an institution, any criticism of the institution is taken as a direct attack on their identity and so they must defend with the same righteous indignance that they would from someone assassinating their character.