skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you containerize every part of your application stack, you can simplify support/deployment to a single model, and you get the advantages of everything that containerization has to offer - dynamic scaling, robust recovery, trivial application migration, etc... without having to build in special rules/processes for one-off elements. The database then become yet one more component in your environment that isn't treated any differently than any other component - with the possible exception of requesting that it be scheduled less ephemerally than other components.

I've seen it work in production for 3+ years - And I don't recall there ever being an issue with the databases being in a container - it's hard to imagine them being anywhere else.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

- John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's Chief Domestic Advisor
, it or but how the hell does that make more usable likeable? Interesting

(For your convenience I've sorted that question by len(word))
I don't recall which wifi router I used, but also I setup fonera for about a week. I also don't believe I ever saw one in the wild. I thought it was an interesting idea.
In Sweden a significant portion of tech workers are unionized. It doesn't work well for creating leverage in term of wages though.

If anything, the impression I got at my last job where I was in the union was that the union negotiations mostly created an excuse for not increasing individual pay. "Sure, you perform really great and all, but if we give you more we'll have to reduce pay for someone else based on the agreed upon average increase."

For high-in-demand jobs such as SWE, the leverage of "if you don't maintain competitive pay I'll probably start look around for other work" is much more effective than union negotiations when no one is paid bad enough that they'd be willing to go on strike to get better terms.

Education is good and free enough that the supply of qualified labor would be hard to keep down without governmental intervention.
Macros and symbols (even though he technically has Symbols) come to mind as indispensable aspects of elisp which cannot be replicated in JavaScript. Ignoring the fact that Emacs predates JavaScript significantly of course.
FISA orders are the warrantless ones.
Great read but I've learned nothing. The only think I took away from this is that I want to go to the maccas but it's closed so thanks for making me hungry I guess.
The work-life balance of software engineers in North America is terrible compared to that in the UK.

40 hours is the normal maximum here. Weekends are clear. At least 4 weeks paid holiday that you must take (I get 6).

I've only just recently broken 6 figures in the UK and though I would have been there years ago in the US, there is no way I would trade in my free time for that extra cash.
Intel's downfall in recent times has been "Only the paranoid survive". They strayed far too away from customers and focused on competition (and their customer feedback was a redirect from what competition was up to). I doubt there will be cultural changes.
Not really at data centre scale. Heat directly in the CPU is a limiting factor on how fast an individual chip can go, and at the board level is an issue of getting heat away from the CPU somehow.

But that heat has to go somewhere. When you have rooms full of them the power and cooling issues become key in a way that doesn't matter when it's just a PC in your room.
This is the most votes in favor of an impeachment of a president, by members of the president's own party.

If he is removed before noon January 20th, he will not be considered a former president, will get no pension, no lifetime Secret Service, no annual travel or post-presidency budget.

If he's removed after January 20th, the trial can still proceed in the senate with the sole remedy of conviction being banned from holding office again. Conviction requires a 2/3rd vote of those present.

I think he doesn't care about this at all as it relates to history or the country. I think he only cares about what affect it will have on his brand.
The owner of the netblock.
If you compare cpu power usage with ram power usage, you'll see ram is already quite efficient, so even if traditional ram connected to the said microprocessor cannot be brought under the magic of this method, it might work.

(Haven't read the article, or have any expertise in this field, so I might be wrong)
I just fired it up and connected to an endpoint in my city, I have a 600mps download pipe and hit 150mbps with default settings and about 275mbps with wireguard selected in the mullvad app. Switching to TCP in the mullvad app didn't change my result enough to notice.

I didn't try other servers/cities to get more information.
[I work at Tailscale] I only mean scalable for our very specific and weird access patterns, which involves frequently read-iterating through a large section of the keyspace to calculate and distribute network+firewall updates.

Our database has very small amounts of data but a very, very large number of parallel readers. etcd explicitly disclaims any ability to scale to large data sizes, and probably rightly so :)
Glad to see that hitching my ride to the Vue.js bandwagon seems to be paying off
> I onboarded a python dev onto elixir and he complained that elixir docs don't look like python docs, so it must be to some degree a matter of taste.

As someone who also came from Python I can't say I'm a fan of Elixir's docs either.

I often find myself having to externally search for Elixir / Phoenix resources and when you compare Python vs Elixir in that regard it's no contest. Almost every web dev problem you could think of is solved in Python with tons of examples, practical applications, blog posts, YouTube videos and the raw docs themselves. You'll almost certainly find high quality code you can at least work off of.

Where as with Elixir I find myself hitting dead ends in a lot of places and the docs often don't have enough details or context to understand something unless you're already an expert in which case you wouldn't need the docs. There's often 1 liners that expect you to have an understanding of the language that rivals its creator.

At the end of the day it's not really about the literal documentation. It's how fast you can go from being stuck to unstuck and walking away with understanding how you got from stuck to unstuck.
> Did you read the tweets that were mentioned in the article? Can you please explain why this is "not an issue"?

Did you read the HN guidelines?

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

That tweet was in June, nothing happened, he most likely forgot about it, the other people in there are all irrelevant, probably less interesting to the public.

Trump on the other hand is more dangerous as he spews and invents lies for everyone to see and we all know it.

EDIT: The article is now flagged, proving my point. discussion over.
America's Newest National Park Is Also the First in West Virginia
A sense of agency, justfied or false, seems to be a major factor in person's sense of control, autonomy, and self.

Agency is the opposite of stressors. Agency is the capacity to act with effect on one's environment. Sstress is the inability, whether through mental or physsical ability, excessive or nonsensical information, inability to manipulate or maneuver, or nonresponsiveness on the part of the environment, whether inanimate, animate, or sentient.

When faced with domains of no comtrol, individuals often seek domains of some control. This may be career, hobby, volunteering, sport, art, intellectual activities --- positive adaptations. Or "kick the dog" (or spouse, children, neighbour, scapegoat...) responses.
The more ways there are to access a device, the less secure it is, period.
Ask HN: Cybersecurity Career and Foreign Languages
For an English speaker seeking to broaden horizons in a cybersecurity career and considering that learning a foreign language would strongly contribute to that, what would be the recommended language to learn and why?
Thanks. Is the Hadoop SDK part of the official Hadoop project? I wasn't able to find any information about it.
Antibody tests only give us estimates of the number of people who have had COVID-19. Some patients, especially the asymptomatic ones, either never produce detectible levels of antibodies or have them fade away quickly. We can get somewhat more accurate numbers by also checking immune system memory cells, but that's a more complex assay and difficult to do in large studies.
So, I agree we should all be charitable, but we also shouldn't settle for "well, that's just how I am" because communication can be a practiced skill.

As one example, a direct-personality coworker of mine learned to compensate by asking others for feedback before sending emails (or at least important ones to others outside the team).

As another example, I've seen people with http://three.sentenc.es/ in their email signatures, and this makes it clear that the brevity comes from valuing the time of the reader.
I like it, but the fact is that not many people use it and the ecosystem is small. That makes it hard to convince more people to use it due to difficulty hiring, staffing, getting answers on forums, etc.
My stock response to that is that we don't know that I can't make a time machine out of some chewing gum wrappers, a rubber band, three transistors, six pipe cleaners, a AAA battery, and it only works while I wear a red hat.

We also don't know that I can't use that device to go back in time to the start of the universe and change all of the physical laws so that the previous contraption cannot work.

But what are the odds? What would you bet on?
I was hoping for some insightful analysis, but unfortunately this article can be summed up with one sentence: "Social media creates like-minded filter bubbles which can cause trouble relating to people in real life". The only solution offered is to stop using social media, which does work, but is not helpful if it's your friends/relatives who are are the ones ensconced in a filter bubble.
Not to me. (I'm running Firefox on Windows.)
According to Ivan on their forums (so take this with a grain of salt as it's from the horses mouth rather than an external assessment) they were apparently supposed to be levelling-up in the summer of 2020.

They have at least secured a decent patent portfolio, particularly on the belt.
> I thought of this because recently, at a family gathering, one of my siblings brought up some social media ideas.

In this sentence the words "social media ideas" link to another article: https://howtoliveameaningfullife.com/stop-being-so-nice/

I'm left feeling really confused as to how that article is relevant to the text it is linked under. What am I missing?
While not directly about data storage, I loved this tweet [1] from Edward Snowdon this week:

> do we really trust signal? cause i see zero reason to.

Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet.

[1] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1347217810368442368?s=20
The certificate authority that signs the routes. So yeah, this will centralize control of routing and expose it to things like government censorship and corporation exploitation. Sometimes the wild west is better than an authoritarian government.

Like DNSSEC this is only good for megacorps and nationstates. If anything it will expose human people to more abuse and exploitation.
Trump's been impeached again. What's next?
An alternative interpretation might be that a company that just makes one thing may not survive as a publicly traded entity considering the scrutiny and industry comparisons that entails.

GSuite and Office 365 do not trade as standalone companies, but even if they did, they'd be far ahead of Dropbox, as they integrate cloud storage with an entire suite of office products.
> that was after a moderate amount of effort to get WSL2 working to begin with, which was partially complicated by my past efforts of getting WSL1 to do similar behavior.

Could you explain more?

I know installing and switching to WSL2 isn't as straightforward on windows stable. Is that what you are referring to?

If so, on insider - you can run wsl --install and it will work.

If not running wsl2 by default, wsl --set-default-version 2

I think they could make it easy to onboard users by setting better defaults and decreasing friction.
I finally finished reading the three relevant papers. This is absolutely brilliant. This isn't my area of expertise, but to me this looks like the future of OS design. I would love to use this as my base OS, if/when it can be brought to the point of being able to run virtualized linux applications.

The concept of state spill also explains why OOP code bases are often a nightmare of complexity, despite pervasive modularization and encapsulation.
> The American Bill of Rights was written at the time of the printing press, a machine that anyone could buy, the street corner, on which anyone could sell a paper, a system of public roads and walks for distribution, and thousands of small businesses that comprised the “market,” any one of which, absolutely, could refuse to sell a paper, but no one or two (or five in obvious collusion) were capable of censoring a single voice out of public existence. Today, the internet is the gateway through which almost our entire democracy is conducted.

I can't figure out if I missed a /s somewhere in this section. Is the author seriously arguing that it was easier to distribute information in the late 1700s and early 1800s than it is now if you're off of the internet?

Is he also arguing that FB/Twitter/Apple/Google/Amazon have a monopoly on the ability to communicate on the internet? HN isn't hosted on any of these and I'm writing this just fine.

> the printing press, a machine that anyone could buy

I can't find the number, but I'm honestly curious. How much did a printing press cost in 1796? How much was the paper for it?
I don't really recognise the first concern you raise, but that might also be due to the fact that viewing all European countries as the same in this regard might be overgeneralising.
Cloudflare Steps into the Distributed Web with Ethereum Name Service
If anything, I've seen union doing exactly the opposite, at least in Germany for senior level jobs. Coming to work for a big company the only chance of getting a higher salary is to be above the union negotiated margin. The companies generally don't really want you to get there and it can be really tough to negotiate this. You are really well protected and basically unfirable in union but there is a top margin to your salary. If outside the margin of union salaries you're on your own with your own responsibilities. I really did not like working on a company that had a union as I've seen lots of people with zero motivation and nothing that a company could do about it.
Maybe there are parts which are not superconducting? Like impurities in the material. So even though the generated heat is like 0.01% of the original, some heat is still generated.
Posted one day ago? Sorry Adam, I imagine that you're witnessing the refined etiquette of the Parler refugee influx.
Doesn’t sound like smart thing to do and sounds more like a js dev/student discovering step by step why sql databases are so popular..

Probably not so, bc tailscale is a decent product, but this post did not change my view in a good way
> Even tiny sensitivity would be better than nothing

Not if you imagine that one case on a plane = potential super-spreading event, the plane touches down and then newly infected people go in every direction.

Your hypothetical test with tiny sensitivity is pointless, in this regard: it has a (less than) tiny chance of preventing each risky passenger. In my view, any kind of low-sensitivity testing before departure is theatre: it won't make any difference in preventing new infection from breaking out.

The government of the country that I am in agrees, and requires a negative PCR test.
What's wrong with attaching said microchip to a piece of copper for increased size? Genuinely curious.

To be useful in a data center you could cool a slab of copper the size of a fridge and surface mount thousands of chips on it.
I'd doubt that.
This is a free audiobook of Moby Dick I listen to in the car when NPR is too gloomy. I have listened to it a lot lately.
https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/
Detection of Anomalous brain energy in old age during a Stroop task
I’m currently organizing a roadmap for improving my full-stack skills. I work in JS with Node and React.

Does anyone have any opinion on whether I should spend time learning Deno and Typescript instead of digging deeper into what I already know? I find it hard to tell if Deno will start showing up in job descriptions in a few years, or if Node is so entrenched that it would only distract me from building on my current skills.
I'm so tired of "content marketing", in its driest and ugliest form. As it is in this case.

The author of the blog post is also the author of a book on "how to live a meaningful life". And the first thing that you hit on that webpage is a sad "ad" to check out the rest of the website, "BEFORE YOU GO, CHECK THIS OUT!".

But I thought... Well, it's #2 on Hacker News, perhaps the content is good...

After reading the article, my impression didn't change: an empty article, cliches all over the place, including stock photos every now and then.

I hate this part of the Internet.
Could this kind of problem be solved well using smart contracts? (Not for Bitcoin, obviously, but on some more sophisticated blockchain system).

Like, have a thing where if your wallet is inactive for a period of greater than one year then all the money inside gets transfered to your spouse/mother/financial-trust so that you can recover it?
Do you have opinions about

1. holding the damn until the vaccine gets deployed
2. What are your concerns if any about the long term illnesses and organ damage in younger covid afflicted patients.

I agree with your points except for those two key considerations.

Because of this, I am for continuing lockdowns and distancing until the vaccine and refuse to potentially subject myself to life long debilitation when waiting 3 more months would offer significantly more protection.
For me, back when I used to have coworkers that I would see and eat with, we would have the default be tacobell, which was the closest lunchtime option, but terrible. It forced us to travel the town to other options, although I've also eaten too much taco bell!
Apple is the one who wants the code signed so they should pay.
See also https://isbgpsafeyet.com/ and https://blog.cloudflare.com/is-bgp-safe-yet-rpki-routing-sec...
I dunno. I feel dropbox has been getting less and less usable as their UI tries to get further away from the very light wrapper around windows explorer(or whatever file explorer your OS of choice uses).

I really just wanted it to be a folder that exists on all my computers. That's it. Now when I ask it to open the dropbox folder it stays within it's own application window and attempts to recreate windows explorer, but without all the features of windows explorer and tons of gunk I don't want.

This seems to be a problem of both the "lets push our userbase into patterns that work for us rather than them" and "Hey I'm a UI designer so I have design me some UIs, and I'll never stop, even though the UI is correct, I'll keep changing it forever!"
yyyep that's definitely something I'm gonna be using a lot of from now on. Searched for something like this a year or so back but didn't find anything that was good enough. Would really like a firefox version of the extension. Nice work OP
“But even when taking this cooling overhead into account,” says Ayala, “The AQFP is still about 80 times more energy-efficient when compared to the state-of-the-art semiconductor electronic device, [such as] 7-nm FinFET, available today.”
Unsubstantiated?

Maybe you should open your eyes.

https://bit.ly/3i9NknT

This is the stuff which made it to the courtroom.

Parler knew exactly what their platform was for. They don't delete this shit because it's their competitive advantage. If they don't post threats and violent plots, there is no reason for them to exist.

Their executive team knows this and leaves it up for exactly that reason.
Pythohanna
Why is testing Postgres/MySQL difficult? You can easily run a server locally (or on CI) and create new databases for test runs, etc.
I agree that the healthcare system isn't a dream from what I hear. The main thing I see with the parent's comment though is that in the US you might be making $100k, but paying $15-20k in insurance costs. Whereas you might only be making $80k in the EU but you don't have that same insurance costs. I see this as being the same cost (ignoring the other factors per the OPs request) but just hiding the cost from the employee. Same sort of thing can be seen in the US if you compare the taxes a regular employee pays and a self employed person pays.
After a while, being wrong and refusing to acknowledge the damage is indistinguishable from malice, and refusing to confront evidence which would contradict that starts to look "crazy".
Oh, 'cstross is still writing Laundry Files? Awesome! I've read up to book 4 or 5, then dropped for reasons I don't remember. Time to read it all from the beginning then; thanks for reminding me.

My favorite little bit of the series so far was how humans eventually figured out what makes Basilisks tick, managed to replicate it on an FPGA, and turned CCTV cameras into defense turrets.
You'd have to extend it to taxis, Uber / Lyft, and any other form of provided transportation.

Should the subway train skip that stop?
I think they were making a moral and practical argument, not a legal one...
Should there be a limit? Probably. What should that limit be? Well that's where I'm afraid nobody can provide you the definitive answer you are looking for. Not least me, I've enough on my plate at the moment and it deserves more time than I can give to it.

As for the second point - you can surely see how your original comment could be interpreted how it was. Nobody replying wanted to shut down a discussion on the nuances of whether tech giants should restrict expression or activities on their platforms. However your comment was (inadvertently it seems) similar in flavour to an argument many of us have seen over and over from the far-right - holding up a very uncontroversial everyday thing and a very divisive hot-button issue and demanding to know how they are different. In that circumstance - and I am speaking from experience here - normally nothing good comes from engaging.
/ time. Time is immutable cost.
tldr -- Author is inexplicably surprised how slow retrieving a directory listing of 70,000 files is over ssh. He installs a fast version of UNIX `find` on remote machine, and writes an elisp wrapper around an rpc to it.

"Rabbit holes" suggest a circuitous journey towards a deceptively simple goal fraught with red herrings and wrong turns. Author appears to be under illusion that reading a play-by-play of that laborious process is somehow entertaining or rewarding.
Interesting. How long until you launch?
I'd argue you're not commenting on any specific language at all here, but rather the sheer size of the community/user base for a given language.
House Impeaches Trump a 2nd Time
I think Slack is having the same problem with Microsoft Teams.
Via a tor hidden service iirc. This would seriously limit how many users they can have