skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gVisor is pretty bad perf-wise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924036

https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/performance/

However, it does directly deal with container security issues. If you absolutely must use containers you probably should be using something like that as containers inherently weaken security architecturally.
Bitcoin broke all time high a few weeks ago. :)

Rats leaving the sinking ship that is the US dollar and all fiat currency seems to be happening very quickly. I hear almost everyone talking about it now, it isn't the loonies anymore. Money that isn't tied to whatever stupid policies your government has implemented will always be attractive. No one asked me if I wanted to prop up the stock market by printing ~25% of all US dollars that have ever been printed, in 2020.

https://digitalik.net/btc/
Thank you for the honest reply I understand
I was talking about the initial subpoena, not discovery. (Discovery occurs during the lawsuit, which happened later on.) The initial subpoena has not been quashed afaik, and would be pretty obvious grounds to stop issuance if it had yielded info about a hole in the balance sheet.
It's both. Both a dwindling number of folks with no personal connection to the virus, and the political stuff going on.
So how do you schedule them now they are VM threads contending for cores? This doesn't change that problem at all. The gains are in security (reducing complexity and attack surface) and packaging. However, it uses coarse isolation with a single process model, so you would be compelled to isolate via many vm processes, which pushes the security/isolation management up to the container level and can incur a performance penalty.
Without a very strong (and therefore expensive) social security net, “Letting people work for whatever wage they can achieve” is slavery. See 19th century Britain

Germany still has a strong industrial base, without a race to the bottom and with strong unions. So it is possible :)
Because there is no physical, 3dimensional limit.
For goods, it's more like money represents a debt of human labor. You can use that labor to drill for oil, design a robot, or sew a garment.
Relevant recent(ish) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042827
It doesn’t matter if people can tell the difference in taste. They are different products competing for different customers. You might as well argue that shops should stop selling carrots because people can easily tell the difference to sausages.

And what’s with the rant about people learning to cook? It’s not like all non-vegans are cooking every single meal. Having more options also available for people who don’t eat meat is great and it doesn’t hurt you in any way. Why should vegans be forced to cook everything from scratch simply because they don’t eat meat?
So we’re told Trump was trying to take over the Supreme Court yet oddly all his appointments dismissed the fraud case. Odd how these monsters seem to have acted completely sanely. It’s almost like they’re judges and liberals are liable to catastrophizing like any human.
> For example, 'women and children' means of course 'if X is a woman OR X is a child'.

Well, no, “women and children” alone doesn't mean that, “if X is a member of women and children” means “if X is in women OR X is in children”.

But that's consistent with AND and OR as boolean operators in programming (it's inconsistent with the way &-and-| symbols are used as set operators in some programming languages, though; ∪ and ∩ would be better, but aren't in ASCII.)
I am curious, is it possible to implement a headerless allocator? Basically keep an index of free blocks and an index of used blocks using a B-tree or a skip list, and allocate and free them by simply moving from one index to the other. Presumably this would make it more cache friendly.

Toying with allocators is one of my favorite programming pastimes for some reason.
One of my favorite books. Ex-WinFS dev, so it’s fitting. :)
> the majority of people in prison are for minor crimes

If you're talking about prison as in convicted and sentenced, I disagree. Prisons are overcrowded as it is. Minor/nonviolent criminals are not the ones serving time.

If you're talking about jail as in people who are charged and awaiting trial, yes you will find more nonviolent offenders there and they may not be able to afford bail so they are stuck there. Even then in most places space is limited and first-time offenders and those seen as low risk are not held.
There was a recent youtube of a Chinese professor discussing how china has gotten along so well with the US while the great migration of manufacturing occurred. It boiled down to wall street being fine with moving manufacturing abroad, as they don't identify with, and in fact despise, the American working class.

Pretty depressing.
If so, assets such as global equities, quality residential real estate, precious metals, industrial commodities, and alternatives such as Bitcoin, are likely to do well.

Do you plan on shifting your investment strategy?
damn, this is really disappointing. I use Goodreads, Letterboxd, and GG pretty frequently and wanted to use the three APIs to just have all these sites' functionalities in one place.

Guess it won't be happening now...
I really hope the irony of this comment isn’t lost on you
Default is another option. Inflation hurts everybody. Cutting spending is the only way to start repairing the economy for the long term. Government consumes 31% of the fruit of our labor. Money that could be left in the hands of people to drive the economy.
I hate to break it to you but the people saying things like "eat the rich" lump Bezos/Zuckerberg and the programmers/IT folks working for them into roughly the same bucket.
They did the same thing with IMDb a few years ago. Their data dumps now are absolutely useless and they don’t generate any of the information themselves.
>compete

Have as your "goal" less the desire to "win" the global competition for corporate profits & corporate headquartering of multinationals in your nation simply on grounds of labor/profit competitiveness, and take a more nationalist view of, where necessary, having state run enterprises or "free market" competition within your borders but not complete free trade in a global sense.

In other words, do no necessarily pursue as your goal to structure economy either to have most profitable companies that reduce costs by moving labor around the world to find cheapest workers, or those which try to export the most. Have as your goal at least to produce domestically as much as possible to satisfy domestic consumption demands, as well as having some minimal threshold of employed domestic workers.

As it stands, US has a massive trade deficit, and a decades long decline in working age male population, especially in "flyover" US regions where manufacturing has declined the most while not being replaced by equivalent jobs. These regions also have declining population, rising suicide & opiate death rates, declining family formation / birthrates.

The "telos" of our society should not put as its "end" an economy, especially one which pursues profit above all.

The economy should be a tool in service to outcomes we actually desire.

Like software built to do a job, not simply designed for the production of specific features.

This is where global financial capitalism (as the US has a giant capital surplus which balances its trade deficit) needs to be called into question.

Internal free markets is one thing. But not having a national industrial policy which prioritizes the well being of domestic workers and their families over well being of multinational corporations and banks makes our system quite degenerate over time.

People should really take a few minutes and watch these 2 videos explaining the current account[0] and capital account[1] relationship, and understand that how we operate now is a political choice, which has massive consequences on who benefits of this system accrue to, and who pays the costs of this system.

This system is maintained by having the reserve currency and the state using strong efforts over many years to not only maintain this GRC but strengthen it, not allowing the natural devaluation of the $ that would close these 2 imbalances and more closely balance capital and labor.

Also, it is not a requirement to have a well developed economy and run massive trade deficits or not have a thriving industrial sector. Germany and Japan are 2 examples that do not run giant trade deficits like the US [3]

https://youtu.be/dirBYVjDk7A [0]

https://youtu.be/AimYG1jYD0A [1]

https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-germany-shock-the-... [3]
Oh I totally agree the Finnish way makes far more sense in terms of accountability and process.

Just was wondering that, if you were the sort of person who habitually broke the limit and didn’t much care for the dangers, wearing PPE might have already become part of every drive, regardless of the pandemic situation.
Looks like it's going to be a while before I can download the dataset. Seems to be pretty slow even when downloading on EC2 with a 10Gpbs connection.

ol_dump_latest.txt.gz 0%[ ] 28.73M 115KB/s eta 21h 54m
Cities Could Push Back on Pickups and SUVs
i put this up FWIW .

pirating a drone and stealing the package, maybe the drone as well is just the surface.

suppose someone is not very popular, they order a package, the drone is intercepted by a hostile someone, weaponized, then allowed to continue on its way to the destination.

so beyond refraining from drone delivery how could a delivery drone interception attack be thwarted?

im just bouncing a ball here, and of course it seems we only have a vague shadow about what the delivery system will look like when its complete and deployed.
> It's 2020.

And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. That's small b for bit, not big B for bytes, btw.

I've been on the list for Starlink beta but they don't seem to be rolling it out for the region yet.

Web page bloat bothers me quite a bit. 100 mb? There are smaller Linux distros.

Edit: definitely will be going back to using the Lynx text mode browser in the near future, I had no idea it had regained functinality for casual browsing.
Not to mention these factories would pollute the environment again
This is the correct answer. Password security is not an absolute thing, it's rather the case that a password is secure or insecure relative to an attackers ability to guess it. Interestingly enough, it's also the motivation for zxcvbn, the open source library chrome uses to evaluate password strength!

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
Notably, specifically look at the phase 1 demographics. It was 100% white.

I’m not saying anything for or against this, but I bet it was in the first phase where the concerns for equity were brought up.

Edit: the difficulty becomes the argument between recruiting equitably vs recruiting quickly, both are going to have downsides. Ideally you would do both at once, the question becomes why is this so hard in the US, and there are lots of reasons.
We can look at a timeline of the account history for paulsb.

Last comment on the account: 2012

Last post on the account: 2013

7 years of inactivity

This post

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If it were them coming back to their old account, given how regularly paulsb commented while still active, you would think there'd be at least a few recent comments showing some kind of ramp up in re-usage of the site.
You've got it backwards. Containers strenghen security. Container mgmt runtimes executing as root causes security problems, like the setuid programs of old.
China buy bonds because they have a lot dollars and they have a lot of dollars because the trade deficit. What would you do with that money, buy a bond with interest or keep the cash under the mattress?

You can spend them, I suppose. The article mention they doing it now with the Belt and Road program.

You are right about the Euro. It's not the reason of the existence but it's the result.
My guess is meteors. Some can be very bright, and over the course of 8 years it's quite likely to have captured at least a few bright ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project

> Since 1995, the team's member, Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, has independently developed programming, graphics, writing, and music for the series, self-publishing 22 main titles as of August 2019.
Yup, it grated on me to read that at the beginning.

Though: else as a conjunction isn't quite archaic today. But, it is one of those usages that when I encounter it, I begin to suspect that the document I'm reading is rather old.
I'm sorry. that's awful. if you plan to start a new one, let me know I'd love to check it out.

i was just planning on making one, but that dream is dead now
Yeah, this is very meaningful. I agree with you.

Usually, when you exercise careful judgement and have a broad culture you don't jump from one belief system to it's complete opposite. Usually you slowly evolve it along time.
On linux it works fine, on windows it sucks but there are some workarounds to make it usable : https://wiki.freepascal.org/Debugger_Setup
What would the next Y Combinator look like?
> One thing's certain: the successful raise and the increased size point to tremendous interest in Bitcoin from investors of all sizes.

No it doesnt. It points to the fact that the market will buy USD debt paying out interest in USD. A US 5 year treasury note pays out a little under 0.4%, so this note paying 0.75% is a way to get a little more yield by taking on some credit risk.
ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark
Running Linux on desktop today has never been better. I dont even know what setup you have, but I've run linux (mainly Mint) on countless laptops/stationary pcs the last 10+ years and never had any network problems. Coming from win XP/7, swiching to linux was a breeze. Driver problems? Try XP/7, nothing works out of the box. To be fair, yes, now and then there are some issues that needs to be resolved. Just duck it and there's usually many links to ppl who's solved the problems. Also good foruma to get good help. I would never recommend Mac today. "Everything works on Mac" is a straight out lie
> To compete, you really do have to cut minimum wage. You have to loosen regulations, and importantly, you have to do massive tariffs / sanctions on China for the next decade.

Part of the problem here is that the existence of some kind of universal "more regulations / less regulations" slider is an illusion. It allows the problem to be cast in partisan terms when that isn't the problem at all, because the problem isn't more or less lines of regulatory code but rather higher or lower regulatory efficiency.

Some regulations save a thousand lives at a 0.02% increase in costs. Repealing those is bad. Enacting them is good. Some regulations save two lives at a 5000% increase in cost, which could equally be saved by some less expensive regulation. Enacting those is bad. Repealing them is good.

The real problem is that politicians lack the qualifications and incentives to do this well. If good rules don't exist, then someone gets hurt and there is a call for "more rules" rather than "better rules". Politicians who don't know what they're doing pass bad rules. The bad rules cause costs to exceed what they are in China, so manufacturing moves to China. Then the local lobby for improving the rules evaporates because there are no longer local manufacturers to propose or lobby for more efficient rules, and the continued existence of those rules on the books causes no more to form.

We clearly need to throw away the existing rules -- they're not working -- the question is, how do we actually get better ones?
Of course not. The irony is intentional.

Unlike what most people do in social networks I am not preaching or doing advocacy for a belief. I am just expressing my confusion and contradiction.
How will cutting the minimum wage help in the long run? People earning the current minimum wage already struggle to afford rent and food. Can you really expect to get quality work from someone who has to work 4 jobs to be able to pay rent and is sleeping 4 hours a night?

You're not going to defeat China by cutting wages unless you address the societal issues that cause US wages to be high. We already haven't raised the federal minimum wage in decades.
> True, but he said he said that simply because Bernie did, and it played well against Hillary in the primaries.

To be fair, Trump has been saying that since the 80s... Of course that didn't stop him from manufacturing in china himself. The guy talks the talk but rarely walks the walk.

> He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.

And that's why he lost. But boy did he make israel safe. How many arab states did he force into recognizing israel? 4 or 5?

Trump's achievements were making israel great again and forcing mexico to extend intellectual property rights by a few years so that he can selling his "Trump" name in mexico for a few more years? Not that things are going to get any better with biden.

But then again, it's naive to think the president hold any true power. The power are held by those behind the scenes. Politicians nowadays are entertainers to keep the populace distracted. Presidents come and go, but the powerful remain.
German lockdown: Merkel announces tough new Covid curbs
We're pretty product-focused. We started with Beaker Browser, then recently have been working on CLI tools for private file sharing [1] and now we're working toward an app with the same goal [2]

1. https://www.patreon.com/posts/hyp-command-line-44923749
2. https://www.patreon.com/posts/paul-reveals-is-44665610
Simple answer: Lennart Poettering

He wrote systemd, NetworkManager, and pulseaudio.

Of course, he wouldn't have the available time to do that if not for Red Hat paying his salary. Somebody in management at Red Hat approves of breaking things.
You're responding with IFR, which deals with infections (including many asymptomatic) and mortality, when your parent comment is discussing cases and severe morbidity.

That is, you're comparing apples and oranges.

IFR is almost always significantly lower than CFR for infectious diseases. That's particularly the case with Covid.
> Taking on the responsibility of pushing back hard on poorly conceived new features is one of the important hidden skills of being an effective software developer.

example from my current project: 1. Inherit half finished large software with lots of features. 2. It contains bugs and is impossible to effectively maintain/develop for the allocated manpower. 3. Management still wants all features. 4. Be brave and don't work on anything except essentials until they're sorted out. Lie to management if you have to e.g. that you found serious bugs that must be fixed (which is kind of true but they wouldn't understand)
I did a BSc in Computing at the OU, completing it around 2010. I was also very happy with the quality of the courses - I don't recall any module being sub-par.

While I didn't personally feel like I needed support, there were others in my tutor groups that did, and it was apparent that the level of input from tutors varied wildly - I recall one that offered weekly 1-on-1s for anyone that wanted, and another that took days or even weeks to respond to any query whatsoever.

My wife is now studying at the OU, and her more contemporary opinion echos everything I said above.
2020 election offers hope for preserving the Sacramento River Delta
You need to be looking at the lipid ingredients that the mRNA is delivered in. Polyethylene glycol causes allergic and other reactions. The 1,2 Distearoyl... is associated with immune suppression due to destruction of lymphocyte membranes within 8 hrs of administration. Still researching the 4-hydroxybutyl....
I’ve seen this repeatedly over my career. At the large organizations I’ve worked at (.edu, .gov), unless you have a large general tools budget it’s surprisingly hard to beat the open-source tools - simply running a procurement takes months and might require arguments with non-technical staff who don’t understand why certain options are not truly equivalent even if the salesperson swears they are. This is how you end up spending 7+ figures on enterprise tools while the technical staff are all using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK because they actually work and are available to the entire group.

On the “clearly crazy to invest in building your own” front I think it’s useful to add the nuance about how much of that time is purely related to the product and how much is the tuning, integration, understanding the data, etc. which every product requires. I think we’re prone to underestimate the latter and have something like Splunk save less time and cost more than expected because the commodity part it optimized for wasn’t as much of the whole as anticipated.
ONS did a survey for cases in the first 6 weeks (Sep and first half Oct). Found that:

0.38 per cent of secondary and sixth form teachers tested positive during that time frame, compared to 0.23 per cent of primary teachers.

Meanwhile, the "other key worker" category was shown to have a positivity rate of 0.4 per cent.
How do third party GUI components work? Are they custom drawn? And how does that work with the various supported toolkit backends of Lazarus?
What Orwell was doing with Newspeak was, I believe, less a direct spoof of existing schemes than an illustration of how common habits of language might be consciously harnessed and directed by a totalitarian regime to further its own intellectual and political designs. In his own words[1],

When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning.

Along these lines, the basic idea behind Newspeak was to create a language where "the existing dialect" would "do the job for" the Party, by making the expression of desirable thoughts not merely the natural result of lazily-chosen expression, but the automatic result of any admissible expression, by simplifying, not only the language itself, but the underlying body of ideas it was capable of expressing.

[1] https://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
Ask HN: A thought experiment about human cloning (warning: a tad macabre)
This HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406054 about ‘How A Dead Millionaire Convinced Dozens Of Women To Have As Many Babies As Possible’

The wool gathering led me to several thought trains. Robert Heinlein and his Howard Families. About how in poor countries, people had more children because it meant more hands to work in the field. Sometimes because infants died due to illnesses and having more was the only way to ensure you had even more.

And then I remember reading at some point about parents having a child to be a donor for a health compromised older child.

Which got me thinking something macabre. One of the ways to create longer lifespans would be to have an extra set of organs/stem cells/blood. If I were to write science fiction, I would create clones and remove consciousness. Maybe this would mean a body within a head. The clone would exist just to harvest organs.

Theoretically speaking, one would need a non ageing clone. Because what’s the point of bodies and organs that continue to age.

So perhaps now we are looking at skin sacs and transferable consciousness.

Assuming this is possible, why stop with one non ageing skin sac? Why not have different avatars and different ages? It’s like we time travel for our bodies.

If such a tech were available, how many here would sign up for it to download consciousness and to obtain multiple skin sacs.