skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be falling for something related to Cunningham's Law here but.. I believe the whole article is an effort of trying to answer this question.

Quoting some from the article:
"Data warehouses are used primarily by business analysts for interactive querying and for generating historical reports/dashboards on the business. Feature stores are used by both data scientists and by the online/batch applications, and they are fed data by feature pipelines, typically written in Python or Scala/Java.
Also, Data warehouses mostly stores data in relational tables, whereas a Feature Store stores it as numerical and categorical features and outputs tensors and/or vectors for training or serving.
Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord
Vitamin D Deficiency – Is There a Pandemic?
SAG-AFTRA and DGA have members in that range. I'm guessing Equity has some as well.

The AMA isn't technically a union, but performs similar functions.
Pros: it is easy to make changes across multiple parts of a system

Cons: it is easy to make changes across multiple parts of a system
Bitwise Table Lookup
You can think of it that way, but we never know, in practice, what level of actual immunity exists in a population.

In any case, it's not relevant to my point: R0 is a contextual number, always defined by empirical data. It's not a fixed feature of the virus.
I used to make sites like this as a full time job; yeah until technology advances enough to make the jank disappear completely it's just a vanity project, it actually detracts from the substance of the article
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=user+agen...
I'm very skeptical of this concept because of how difficult it is to build and maintain a massive vacuum chamber that will experience that level of stress over its lifespan. As far as I know, the largest vacuum chamber in the world by volume is the SPF at NASA [1], which is only 37x30m in size. Building such a vessel hundreds of kilometres in length that would have bullet trains going through it multiple times a day seems dangerous and impractical. A single leak anywhere in the tube could potentially cause explosive pressurization [2].

Maybe the Hyperloop is this century's Monorail...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Power_Facility

[2] https://youtu.be/0N17tEW_WEU?t=168
Yes quite low compared to London but London has been actively adding cameras for 20 years. And Serbia doesnt have the checks and balances at the government level to control the usage and rollouts. As the article states, there isnt even any laws in place that determine how the footage can be used. Pair that with the fact that the current regime has a stranglehold on the country controlling the narrative at every corner, and you can see why there is such a great concern.
I have friends who recently moved from Serbia and they say the overall situation has been getting progressively worse in the last 5-10 years. People are generally more frustrated and tense in everyday life.
This is great news, thanks for your work. Can you elaborate on what's better about RMI4?

Also you said Trackpoint/Thinkpad. Did you mean Trackpoint/Trackpad?
When I think of WV, the main thing I think of is opioid addiction. Other than that and coal mining I don't really know anything else about WV. So, why WV?
They make knives from different steels; they used to label the steel used and offered dinner models with different steels.

I had an S30V leek I got from CK& T and carried for many years that I eventually lost to airport severity.

I wouldn't call S30V easy to sharpen though.
0-1 knapsack is not known to be solvable in polynomial time.
My experience with this comes mainly from Uruguay, Argentinian and specifically Chilean pine and eucalyptus forests used to make wood pulp, which are causing quite serious issues with water management, less so in Uruguay as it is a wetter country, but south of Chile has seen quite the protests over this issue as some of these specific type of trees (Eucalyptus) simply drain the land too much as they evolved for a different environment
Do people big monorepo's always clone the whole thing? Our CI/CD (TeamCity) always seems to check out the whole repo even if you want just one sub directory.
There's some tradeoff there though. I'm doing most of my dev in C++ and run all the time with ASAN / LeakSanitizer. I have a leak-causing mistake, what, twice a year maybe ? Definitely not something worth loosing sleep over.

The much bigger problems imho are not really tractable. e.g. consider something that does:

struct server {
std::vector<requests> m_requests_to_process;
boo m_running{true};

void on_web_request(request req) {
m_requests_to_process.push_back(req);
}

void process_pending_requests() {
while(m_running) {
for(auto req : m_requests_to_process) {
do_stuff(req);
}
// oops, forgot to clear
}
}
};

there's no "leak" in the OS sense as everything will be reclaimed upon server::~server... but your memory usage will be strictly increasing. Can Rust detect those cases ? As in my experience this is the most common leak pattern (of course not in a simple example like this, but when your "server" architecture starts being split across multiple threads and source files...
Country roads was a nice song.
Perhaps compared to Python, Ruby, and vanilla ES6; there is a class of epsilon-from-typo bugs that modern statically typed languages catch and that force rigorous Python and Ruby shops to waste time writing vast batteries of tests for the most banal functionality in their codebase ("does this setter set?").

Moving from one of those languages to a modern statically typed language can come with a feeling that your programs tend to run successfully as soon as they compile --- certainly they do more often than they would in Ruby. Because the compiler is doing some of that testing work for you. It's a good feeling.

But it hasn't been my experience that the extra rigor in Rust's model produces the same boost from Java or Go; in fact, my first-run experience with Rust is generally less reliable than Go; there are a few more things that can go wrong with a Rust program and slip by the compiler.

Which is what you'd expect; Rust isn't garbage collected, so the programmer has to do the garbage collection, and every program is responsible in some sense for designing and implementing that part of its own runtime. There are things you can get wrong there that GC'd languages don't make you bother trying to get right. And, of course, if you take the time to get your per-program runtime really right, there's a performance gain to be had from doing so. It's all tradeoffs.
Congrats on the launch!

This space is definitely evolving with how many environment configs and creds teams have to maintain for all their environments and services.

I’m only familiar with Secrets Manager and Parameter Store and will check this out. Unfortunately, our customers are not going to be early adopters of this service but if it does the job well, this is something I can try and recommend them in future.
this is a clear case where using a VPN goes a long way towards protecting someone from surveillance and law enforcement overreach
I can see why you might think that at first glance, but I'd encourage you to try out Doppler. No secrets manager offers the flexibility and incredible ease of use that we do. I'm not going to dive into a feature list, because a lot of that is table stakes, but what really sets us apart is our philosophy. We have the explicit goal of making our customers not only more secure but also more productive. Find me a Vault customer that would describe their install as helping them move faster!
Sounds interesting, but could you explain to me why I should use this over something like Azure KeyVault?
Less than you'd think. Circa 2020, some mainstream positions in a west coast city that is politically 85% leftwing:

* Cannabis already legalized. Driving kids to school past huge "Amazing Cannabis" posters all over the city.

* De facto policy to not interfere with the ever growing mass of homeless addicts in the streets.

Next steps:

* Legalize all drugs.

* State sponsored "safe" injection sites.

* Abolish the police.

The only stretch is "in schools". There is a palpable sense of a loss of any and all moral barriers. Worse, erst shunned behaviors must be promoted, if only to spite the other side. In the wake of sexual liberation we got free condom dispensers in schools. Not much of a stretch to imagine that drug liberation, the next Chesterton fence to tear down, will bring free drug dispensers. Teach abstinence? Pshaw, that'll never work. Addiction therapy? That's evil, man.
We are breaking our monorepo into 3 kind-of mono repos based on release cadence. A repo for each of two large applications plus a third repo for shared library code. We import the share library code onto the app repos using a git sub module. Has anyone else used git sub-repos to import common code?
(People scribble on cigarette packages? Aren't those waxed cardboard or something? I wouldn't expect a pen to work well on those.)
> People don't want to share their data

Where did you get that notion? Just take a look at the internet this last decade.

What people crave now is a semantic web that is connected to a community of computers able to very quickly verify and distinguish what’s real and what’s disconnected from the truth.
This is, actually, an anti-feature for some people.

People don't like things they don't like to be effective, because they'd like to be able to argue on that basis as well.

"We shouldn't torture people because it is cruel and a violation of their human rights" is a purely moral argument; "We shouldn't torture people because it is cruel and a violation of their human rights, and it isn't even effective at extracting useful information or true confessions, study after study has shown blah blah blah" is a moral argument with an effectiveness chaser thrown in. Even if you don't share the same moral framework as me, I can still possibly persuade you to act in a way I see as moral because acting immorally doesn't gain you anything but wanton cruelty.

People love to do this for all sorts of arguments, from taxes to environmental or fiscal policies to their monopoly house rules.

Granted, most of the time people also just pull their effectiveness claims out of their ass, but it is a very effective rhetorical technique.
These documents are making me begin the switch to ddg today. Google should never allow this mass disclosure of data. I don't trust it anymore and won't with my email either.
Show HN: I made an app for designing Embedded Systems and code generation
A few years ago, I was working as a consultant for a leading Automotive supplier which specialised in Embedded electronics and worked with leading Auto manufacturers.

They used State Machine design regressively for business logic implementation across all their products. Embedded system code is meant for deploying on Microcontrollers and usually written in a low level language like C. The dependency on state machine was excessive to a point that they made a tool for designing state machines which perfectly made business sense.

As a engineer, I liked the uselfulness and lightweight nature of the tool but it crashed often and was not maintained. After sometime they discontiued the tool and purchased Enterprise Architect which helps in designing state machines but originally meant for doing other things. Unlike the previous tool, the code generated by Enterprise Architect was not clean enough and not used.

I researched and picked up the core idea of the tool created a better version of it with FsmPro. I made sure it is cross-platform so that it could reach most users. It is available as a free download and comes with all the features to support development and codification of state machines.

Please try and let me know what you think.
> I would argue the issue here is that such a warrant was granted in the first place.

I agree that the warrant itself is a huge problem, but I think there's another significant issue here. Google may have just been complying with the law, but that doesn't meant they had to be quiet about it. Unless they had a gag order, they should have publicly stated that the US government was compelling them to hand over search records.

From the article:

> Google declined to disclose how many keyword warrants it's received in the last three years.

They did not say anything about a gag order and, given Google's track record on privacy, I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt here.
This is great! I tried to use Vault and it just was a nightmare to get started (they seem to have improved now, in their defense). The more impressive thing here is that it democratizes access to safe env var/secret management by not requiring a devops background to understand how this works (Vault docs have a whole ton of newly coined terms which you must understand in order to use this, which was just too much for me—a self-taught web developer)

Kudos to the team for the launch! this is a beautiful product that solves a real problem in an elegant way!
For node.js projects, I have successfully used lerna. It manages the npm dependencies and releases very well.
Rust does not attempt to stop leaks. It does make it less likely to happen, but completely preventing them is not even on the table.

This particular case might be because you would probably consume the vector in the loop, which would free, but you could absolutely write the exact same code in Rust with the same end result.
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and MND in brains of young people exposed to pollution
This is why I think the future is actually in smaller action-based forums. Like, if you want to achieve something, you would join a group based on that goal, and it would not be structured around posts/news, it would instead be structured in a way that would break down the goal into finer and finer chunks, that people could collaborate on and actually submit/assign/judge tasks to perform.

All this karma circlejerking is getting boring. Nothing gets done.
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West Virginia has cheap land, lots of undeveloped areas, and republican government. Way less bs and regulation. More freedom.
Pros: some tooling features just don't work across repos (e.g. npm dependency resolution). A monorepo works around these limitations.

Cons: un-separation of concerns.
If I understand correctly, Google’s model is to basically roll their own authentication frontend to any service they run. Now, this is likely better than what some off-the-shelf open source library might be using (which might actually have been fine if you had configured it correctly) and I have nothing against running further authentication before giving access to your things, but calling this the “only safe way” to do something is not really true at all. There’s a number of companies that run without this model that do fairly well, and Google endpoints are occasionally are hit by researchers. So it’s good on Google that they have a policy up for this and it mostly seems to work for them, but it’s not the only solution like you’re suggesting.
Exactly. OP is simply wrong about this.
Firefox now has HTTPS requirement as an option in settings.
In the article he says they invested "a few hundred hours"... I take that to be around 350 hours - $147/hr... still not a lot for speculative research
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A classic false comparison: the four experienced security researchers working for multiple months covers 55 issues, not "that one issue".

If we're cherry picking a single one, the associated involvement and timeframe drops dramatically, to something much closer to one or two people, tops, over the course of just a few days, tops.

That's something a pentesting team can absolutely achieve for far less than $500,000 over the course of a few days, too.
One way to overcome politics is to make something sound so cool that the public is generally on board with it.
They don’t, they just got in early.
> Then add on how many people show symptoms but its not severe enough to get tested.

Earlier this week we took my son in because:

1. Our neighbors have recently recovered from Coronavirus

2. Our son had a cold / fever around the same time lasting several days

3. He had several days of diarrhea after the cold symptoms subsided

I talked to my coworker whose wife is a doctor and he relayed the symptoms to her and she said it very well could be a mild coronavirus infection.

We weren't concerned for his health because he's handled it just fine, but we figured it would be good to know in terms of avoiding spreading it to other people.

So we called and set up an appointment. They got us in like an hour and half after we called.

Got there and the doctor said, "Nope, no need for a test."

At this point I'm extremely skeptical that the number counts are in any way accurate. Also I've lost faith in the "we're not doing enough testing" argument since we went and tried to get tested and they turned us away.
To clarify, as I read this situation, it would be more analogous to you host a party, someone at your party tells someone else that I killed a person, it is a factually untrue statement, it ends up having real world ramifications for me. I go to you and ask who it was and you say I am not going to tell you, so I go to the government and petition my right to not be slandered and then you say well my party is protected by this first amendment law, I will not tell you or the government who it was. In this case my being slandered trumps and terminates (civilly) your and your guests free speech rights. I should get the persons name and I walk away going what a hypocrite (to be clear not real you personally, but imaginary you at our imaginary party). Which is what I was expressing in my first post, I think they are being hypocritical in using the law as a shield. They don't want a law that restrains government applied to them, but they want to use a law applied against the government to block a private party from seeking redress from harm.
I'd say a majority of people are fascinated by crime.

Exactly. I’ve googled stuff after seeing it on CSI or NCIS. Or on the news, or in a movie, or whatever. You could definitely cherry-pick stuff out of my google search history to make out like I’m a big time terrorist criminal mastermind.
> can be thought of as the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection

Yeah, and that is contextual number, determined by population behavior and other factors.

Yes, population immunity should not be on that list, but the population behavior, weatcher and what not are still influencing it a lot.
AMD zen3 will be released at 1600 utc (30 min from now)
It usually begins as

let’s split our project into multiple libraries so it can be reused within the company or even better if we put it on GitHub everyone can use it.

After a few months you notice nobody within the company cares about your nicely versioned libraries and on GitHub you get more and more complaints that the libraries are very limited and need more features.

After that you merge everything back into your monorepo and try to forget all the time wasted on git bureaucracy, versioning, dependency handling and syncing changes between repos.
BUT if Russia (or just pick any foreign govt agency that is capable of this, pick your favorite enemy foreign or domestic) can do this to a HUGE number of people, this makes us all less private/safe/secure. I actually don't know what the best word is to use. Using these apps certainly impacts our privacy in ways we don't fully understand. It probably makes use less safe/secure as well? Also is ways we can't always know. These things don't impact a person very often, but when we're talking millions of people, the impact could be pretty huge.
It varies by area. Here's the guidelines for Portland [0]; it seems that "Home" "FOOD SCRAPS" bins may have pizza boxes in them, as long as wax paper and other inserts are removed. Incidentally, mentally traversing the pizzerias I go to, I think that the only inserts that any of them add are pizza savers [1].

[0] https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/compost-what-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_saver
Why isn't there a greater emphasis on filtering controlled by readers?

"Don't show me anything said by someone who joined after I did". "Show only <person, writing on topic> pairs with historical ratings above this threshold from raters in the weighted set generated by crawling thusly from this seed set." "Prioritize anything on topic X which multiple people from this set like." At 8am: "Don't show me anything this classifier thinks is a pun"; 8pm: "Show me puns, please". "Show me anything the author thinks is good, if their self-evaluation rating on the topic meets the following criteria." "Don't show me anything dang rates as not meeting criteria X".

Even USENET 30 years ago had people sharing kill files (don't show me comments whose headers match [patterns]). They weren't sufficient to check eternal September, but we can do better now. It seems like there's a rich design space available here that we've not been exploring. What am I missing?
Conservative people are much more likely to live in rural areas. Liberals in more urban areas. Viruses spread much more effectively in higher population densities.

So you'd really need to look at per capita infection rates and control for density, not absolute numbers.

For some anecdata, in my moderate county we have a mask mandate. The surrounding less populated and much more conservative areas don't. Since the mask mandate was put in place more than half of the cases in my county's hospitals have been from the surrounding counties. Despite that fact that they have an order of magnitude fewer people, and despite that fact that we have far more people living in poverty in absolute terms than they do.
Alternatives? I really have never heard of any serious alternatives if you actually need the speed and ubiquity of numpy. Maybe if you're willing to leave Python behind and go to C, but frankly within the Python ecosystem there just isn't a realistic alternative if you even remotely need efficient numerical processing.
Einride's Pod autonomous truck moves toward commercial availability
That makes sense. Thank You.

I thought they had something against Berkeley / BSD.
The next paragraph calls out that R0 is not a biological constant specific to a pathogen as it is affected by environment and behavior.
I use this one... https://hckrnews.com/
Immunity isn't a binary condition which lasts for a certain length of time and then stops. It exists on a spectrum. The best evidence we have indicates that most recovered patients will retain a significant level of immunity for at least several years.

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2020/09/03/jimmunol.2...
Stickiness in Mobile Games: Key Insights and Tips to Increase It
This article tells you all you need to know about stickiness.

Find out what it is, about industry benchmarks, and how to improve it.
The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer
great playlist, it was largely Satriani/Vai/Johnson who were responsible for my love of guitar wankery :)
Write about it! I’m sure somebody would appreciate reading it.
> But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.

That's exactly what I did. Taking the cost of my time for setting everything up and maintaining it, I estimate the net cost is about 1/10th of what it would be in the cloud.
The problem with this comparison is that readable syntax is a subjective notion, whereas type system is an objective thing that can be evaluated based on its strictly defined boundaries - it's either possible or impossible to encode all required software specification with a provided type system, and if something is not possible, we know exactly what are these things that don't fit into the type system, and therefore we cannot rely on the compiler to prove their correctness.
ah, rust...the quasimodo of programming languages.