skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good execs understand that security is risk management. I've found that this is better understood outside startups trying to hockey-stick. Finance in particular is a place where reasoning about risk often comes naturally to leaders.
Yes I read it and I don't agree with the posted downsides for most of them, since the tool itself seems to share the downsides with the posted pro-cons of other solutions and doesn't seem to solve any problem it promises to do.

Is visibility into what's being created a problem?

The listed problems like "everytime the template changes, author has to rezip and reupload the folder" don't seem to be solved with stamp to me, it seems like the problem is now shifted to controlling a version of this new format and still distributing it somehow (probably through git) at which point you ask yourself why can't the git repo already have the structure? If somebody wants to rename something they do this really easily, no need for var substitution.

If there was a migration mechanism that would move files from an old template to a new one I would see value added.
It's less controversial and more flat out wrong.

I am very surprised people that frequenting HN are still this misinformed about BTC.

Where are you reading that BTC is focused in US? Where are you reading that BTC is supposed to be used for fast transactions?
Frontex is being criticized for using shady methods but I don’t see any criticism towards illegal immigrants who aren’t respecting the immigration laws in the first place. Double standards as usual.
I would really like to get an idea of (current thinking) total population numbers for the last, say 1 million years, but struggling to find anything.
Nope, e-sim only and only with select providers
> Gun ownership is becoming a narrower subculture, and within families within that subculture gun ownership is becoming more universal.

Completely false:

‘There are 5 million new gun owners, and many are minorities, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

The group said that its surveys of gun stores found that 58% of the firearm purchases were by black men and women, “the largest increase of any demographic group.”

What’s more, said the group, “women comprised 40% of first-time gun purchasers.”’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/boom-f...
> they've shown the satellites can move and de-orbit on command

Are there cost weight savings if they can remove the fuel or equipment needed to force a deoribit? So if a sat dies on day one they can just shrug and say it will burn up in 5 years.

Or can they induce drag without extra equipment?
If you just graph the launches that looks like R&D + production ramp-up.
While that may be, some of the largest banks that exist are helping give the industry a bad name: Wells Fargo, Deutsche bank, and hsbc for example all have made bad news.

And then there’s the whole corporate raiding thing from hedge funds.
I'm an SRE/blue teamer trying to move into the AppSec side (email me if you are looking for someone :D). My impression is that there is a large demand for AppSec people with development skills. Jobs pay well and seem incredibly interesting to me, too.
> Thanks to the author for an enlightening article.

Thanks, I'm glad it was useful!
Regardless of these quarrels among competitors, Starlink is doing impressive things. From the website[1]:

Starlink is now delivering initial beta service both domestically
and internationally, and will continue expansion to near global coverage
of the populated world in 2021.

They're also going to minimize their contribution to space junk:

At end of life, the satellites will utilize their on-board propulsion system to
deorbit over the course of a few months. In the unlikely event the propulsion system
becomes inoperable, the satellites will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere within 1-5
years, significantly less than the hundreds or thousands of years required at higher
altitudes.

Also interesting is that they're using "ion thrusters powered by krypton" and claim this is the first spacecraft to use this propulsion method.

If they can boost data transfer speed from 40-60Mb/s currently to N gigabits/second, perhaps will provide stiff competition to conventional cell carriers.

These are exciting times.

1. https://www.starlink.com/
[Feb 2020] Forbes: Coronavirus: There Are Better Things to Do Than Panic
Oh, this looks similar to my "motllo" project, [1] (and so many other projects, mine wasn't the first either). I have variable substitution, but no additional logic. For me the point was having a "readable" representation of the template.

[1]: https://github.com/rberenguel/motllo
Secondary comment: SpaceX's behavior in this instance is not unlike every other ISP in America engaging in anti-competitive behavior to keep newcomers out. Remember when Google Fiber was rolling out and tried to use fiber/utility poles in a way that allowed ISPs to share public utility poles? But then ATT pitched a fit [1, 2] saying "actually we don't want Google Fiber to do that because it could possibly harm our business in some unspecified and vague way", basically killing the expansion of Fiber [3]? And who suffered? All of us unlucky Americans who are now stuck with exorbitant prices for ridiculous internet plans from ATT because we don't have any other options.

We already have an absolutely terrible oligopoly of wired ISPs, do we really want to start down this path of allowing the same to happen for space-based internet, too?

1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160923/06590635601/att-s...

2: https://www.slashgear.com/att-files-lawsuit-to-hinder-google...

3: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leav...
I know that SpaceX has historically had a abnormally high development and deployment cadence, but I think that your second point about behind-the-scenes development is probably closest to the mark.

To me, it seems more plausible that they were taking a solid-not-polished design that's been mostly worked through for a few years, doing some team re-org and removing people who aren't working out, and then finished tweaking the design and got ready for scaling to higher production over the next few months than it does they were scraping by on the skin of their teeth for almost four years and suddenly managed to catch up on everything (and have it work!) in those same last few months.

It's absolutely possible I'm wrong, but if the Starklink team truly managed a timeline of 6 months from "vaporware" to functionally the world's first mega-constellation, I'd be absolutely floored.
Great way to put it, basically preparing for the neuralink now.
Essentially from quantum error correction.
Baseball's Lost “NBA Jam”; Revealed – Video Game History Foundation
Judging from the Github issues it seems like it's very slow, doesn't run on RPi 4 and hasn't really gotten any attention for 16 months.

It's an interesting idea though; running a bare metal x86 emulator on e.g. a Raspberry Pi 400.
Sure, so let’s stop counting those people as though they are against gun ownership.
I have named my machines after Doctor Who planets for the last 18 ish years. All new machines start as Gallifrey (workstation) or TARDIS (laptop).

Then as they stop being my primary devices they get other planet / ship names. The torrenting machine was suitably called Skaro. :p

Two exceptions are my PiHole and OctoPi. The old PiHole used to be called TimeLock but when I upgraded I didn't keep the name
Some interesting points. My first thought is that he is incorrect about the dinners and fundraisers ... these are political contributions, and the money here has restrictions on it and can only be spent for the campaign. I would love to see publicly-funded elections, but until the supreme court is changed we must live in this world of fundraisers.
However, the speaking fees are an interesting point to say the least. They do seem crazy high, and I had no idea Janet Yellen had made so much money from them. Generally they all do it, but typically not until they are out of office ... raking in millions from the Finance industry seems completely corrupt.
Off topic but do female body builders also use testosterone injections for muscle building?
> ...I never got the appeal of overly nested directories in web dev and other fields...

This is often a side effect of many competing interests trying to cram their incentives into a single ontology and then taxonomy. No strong consensus (or a lack of highly opinionated direction) to shape a single concise ontology and taxonomic implementation, so Design By Committee creeps into the decision-making, and creates enough branching to satisfy the "gotta catch them all"-itis to capture all the requirements.

That in turn is usually a side effect of the business not knowing its domain sufficiently well to articulate to a granular-enough detail the implementation priorities, and improperly punting that decision to the development organization. "We need this requirement for sure that will as a result prioritize the domain under this ontology. No, wait, we need that. No, wait, we need both even though they are overlapping but mostly disjoint ontologies, and in some places contradictory...."

Which finally, is usually in turn a side effect of people leaders managing by KPI's instead of leading teams, to produce results that happen to affect KPI's as a happy side effect. Which is probably where the "leadership that comes up through the ranks is best leadership" comes from, because we often do not find leaders who embody that "lead the teams not the KPI's" characteristic without the deeply-internalized knowledge of the domain acquired by such arduous, time-consuming work over years and often decades within the domain.

It's a tough abstraction stack to deal with for everyone involved. There are good solutions, just not quick and cheap ones of course.
The bottles no longer exist.

The nodes that used to build High Sierra bottles have been re-commissioned to build Big Sur bottles.
Facebook May Have Once Used Coldfusion
Although Facebook is commonly identified as a PHP site there exists an archived version of Facebook's home page built with Coldfusion: https://web.archive.org/web/20120620044923/http://www.facebook.com/index.cfm . Ph.D researcher and Coldfusion consultant Karl Simanonok also remembers seeing index.cfm in the address bar when analysing an early version of Facebook around late 2004/early 2005 and recognised use of the Fusebox framework which he had used in his consulting work.
Two key phrases:

"But the difference only emerges when the children are teenagers"
"in both America and the Netherlands"

A third, unstated assumption: Data is post-1960s and reflects the feminist revolution.

Since contradicting feminist orthodoxy is heresy against the West's religion of Progressivism, no Hacker News reader is allowed to state the obvious reason for this phenomenon. I find this amusing, living in China, where I suspect the average person on the street could work it out from stereotypes in a matter of seconds, and would certainly have no qualms about baldly stating it.

Perhaps the US thalassocracy will be the first empire to successfully dispense with the need for female chastity ensuring paternal certainty as an incentive for men to invest in future generations. In which case, there is no reason the same speech code cannot remain in effect in the Anglosphere indefinitely. It is certainly not the case that its adherents are unprincipled self-interested self-deceiving conformists!
I am not hiding. Now if you have a problem with me, I'd be happy to resolve that different in person.
Yes, thinking long term, handicapping spacex in the short term is bad for the advancement of technology in the long term.
Yes, it’s triggering but keep reading. The author explains their phrasing.

The author feels there is a double standard where the “white” US perpetually demonizes black and brown countries corruption while excusing their own corruption under the guise of “lobbying”, “speaking fees” and “dinners.”

To the author, it appears to be racism when in fact it may just be hypocrisy (ie. Russia).
Europe deciding on both parts of trade agreements is literally colonialism.

If africans don't like current trade agreements they are free to exit them and negotiate with chinese instead.
Calls for nuance are missing the point. Nuance is exactly what we need less of, nuance is the trees that hide the forest.

Does Yellen have some professional ethics that guard against her acting in a way that overly favors businesses that have her millions of dollars? I think she does. Are those ethics effective as a guard against corruption in the same way that, well, not taking millions of dollars would be? I doubt it. Money talks.

Maybe even more importantly, it severely hurts the legitimacy of government. How are you supposed to convince people you're on their side if you're making millions from the other side? If your lawyer was getting paid more than you could ever pay to share his wisdom with the other side over a fancy lunch, and then you lost the case, you would have every right to doubt their integrity--even if they had done nothing wrong.

The US would have would have a lot less problems with conservative populism if the centrist technocratic impulse wasn't so often so tone deaf.
> Okay so how do you come to the EU when you from Africa?

Go to an EU country ambassy and ask a visa like anyone. If rejected, get the hint and don’t come.
We just started using these at my job. I like how the approach takes the conversation out of a slack thread and generates some documentation to boot. The tooling ecosystem is also excellent (adr-tools is awesome) and you can easily integrate stuff like confluence document generation as part of your ci pipeline.

We've taken the approach of submitting adrs as a pull request on the repo they affect (we have a dedicated repo for higher level adrs) and submit the link to a dedicated slack channel so folks can have a look and submit any comments they might have on the proposed decision. Once everything has been hashed out, we either merge the PR and get busy implementing the idea or close out the PR and move on.
If anything, it seems to work out for him at SpaceX.

Speed and latency measured with the Starlink beta/GA are unparalleled at the moment, yet to see if they worsen with an increase of userbase.
I'm curious about exploring this myself, would you mind explaining in more detail what is lacking after forking the main net with ganache?

Is it that you need a high powered server to fork it continuously, and that smart contracts tend to cost a lot to execute, or is there more to it than that? I don't understand what contracts and variables that you're targeting won't be included with the solution we're discussing
Streisand effect: Louisiana AG sues journalist to block public records request
Hehe never run out. Like we never ran out of IPv4 addresses or crude oil... I think any solution needs to be cyclic.
I really like the idea of following specific subsystems of the Linux kernel forward from 1.0! That's a cool "basics-up" approach.
There is no hardware 3D acceleration at all, but most GPUs supported by FreeBSD and Linux work fine for everyday use. Sleep and suspend are still a work in progress. WiFi and Ethernet support is heavily dependent on FreeBSD drivers, as such not every card is supported but there are a good number of supported devices. In general, a well-supported Linux/BSD machine will likely work well under Haiku (Thinkpads in particular).

For me personally, the biggest thing holding it back from becoming a daily use computer is the lack of a really good web browser. WebPositive has made great strides as the native browser, but it still has a long way to go. There are ports of other mainstream browsers but most are incomplete or unstable.

I sorely miss the era around 2000-2001 where I used BeOS successfully as a daily machine, able to browse the Web, access email, do document management and creation (word processing and spreadsheets), photo editing, music production, and video editing all with native-to-BeOS software. It transformed my Windows 98 machine from a slow, clunky, stuttering mess into a computer that felt like it was from the future. Nothing since has come close to that level of technological Nirvana.
As a heavy reader, for fun and for work, I need to be able to track what I've read just to be able to figure out the name of the author of those books I really liked a couple of years ago. The one feature that I've yet to find in something like Goodreads is notifications of when new books from an author you like are coming out. For me, that would be a killer feature.
The energy consumption of BTC is minuscule when compared to total electric consumption and its physical/economic effect on power networks is similarly minuscule. Yes, it consumes and contributes to CO2. So do other electric energy consumers, like big companies like Amazon, Google. So do, orders of magnitude more than BTC, consumers of fossil fuels. BTC is just an easy inconsequential scapegoat.
> we don't know how many doctors are relying on these types of recommendations and acting on them

I can answer that: close to zero. Clinicians don't want stuff that makes recommendations, as good as they may be. They want a bycicle for the mind: something that helps them visualize, understand the big picture and anticipate better. And also ensure that trivial stuff to do is not forgotten (now that's the place a recommender engine could fit in). That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what a clinician's job is that is unfortunately very common.

What do you ask of your software tooling? Do you want something that just tells you what to write? No, you want a flexible debugger. A compiler with precise error messages. You want a profiler with a zillion detailed charts allowing you to understand how everything fits together and why such and such is not the way you anticipated. Same thing for medicine until the day machines will actually do better than humans, which is not tomorrow nor the day after.
The contacts I have that are successful professionals in security work as gun-for-hire consultants. They are contrarian, enjoy pointing out shortcomings, and, being consultants, don't have to stay after their report is delivered.
>1) Why does any of this matter? Perspective?

Because the world is not white, and its not American.
For most conventional satellites (and let's not forget second stages), the cost of deorbiting it if it fails is immense because it essentially requires launching a "tug" which didn't even exist until recently. Because it was so exepensive, people were allowed to ignore it. We'll probably eventually look back on this attitude the same way we view 1970s cars that didn't use known safety features.

SpaceX is being forced to innovate in this area because everybody realized the YOLO attitude towards space junk doesn't scale to thousands of satellites.
I wonder if this is confusion on the part of the translator or the original writer. The Latin word for tin stannum (hence Sn on the periodic table) originally referred to an alloy of lead and silver before the meaning shifted to refer to tin. Mistaking one element for another seems quite plausible without access to modern chemistry.
Hint: I remastered the original six book series in three revised omnibus editions circa 2011. (There's then a subsequent trilogy, of which "Invisible Sun" is the climax.) Anyway, start with "The Bloodline Feud" rather than the slim original marketed-as-fantasy six-pack. I learned a lot in the decade between writing the first books and re-doing them, and the omnibus versions read more cleanly.
I started using something like these a little while back and they're phenomenal. Nothing like being able to answer "what the hell was I thinking 6 months ago?", or a stakeholder's "why are we doing it this way?". Also great for getting a new contributor up to speed. My preferred format is a simple Excel table: ID, Date, Area, Decision, Reason, People Involved.
https://github.com/backstage/backstage

Makes it easy to understand the reasoning behind a lot of decisions.
FWIW, I think the UK would’ve been better off if it had joined the Schengen Agreement.

But you are absolutely right that Brexit people are treating the exact things they dismissed as Project Fear as if it was a punishment. I’d personally witnessed this happening even before the referendum, in a conversation which went:

Him: “Brexit will be fine because the EU will give us a good deal”

Me: “No”

Him, shouting: “That proves we should leave!”

I almost wish I’d had a camera running at the time. I am well aware how mad it sounds.
You honestly thought that people who raise their eyebrows at the phrase 'consequences to speech' advocate preventing boycotts or forcing people to continue buying products?

How about the real world consequences people could potentially be referring to: harassment, doxxing, job losses and violence. I've met plenty of 'punch a Nazi in the face' people to know that many people believe that as a consequence.
You can make maximum yields part of your agreements. Of note though, the US during the Obama years improved the accuracy of submarine launched missiles which greatly improved the damage potential while staying in the agreed ranges. This was because fewer nukes would be needed per a target so overall damage could be increased.

For an example of this type of thing, see slide 11 (which refers to air dropped munitions rather than SLBMs): https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Brief2017_Italy2....
I think the reasoning becomes apparent when considering the environment and situation that TDF was created in. Refer to the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Document_Foundation#Histor...

In a delicate situation like that, don't you think it would have been rather brazen to go for a Mozilla Corporation type of model?
Well... it's complicated.

First, "size only" optimization isn't really a thing. The instruction cache is a finite resource, so using less of it allows more code to fit, which increases performance (this is less true in the post-SNB world where the first level of instruction caching is the uOp cache and not an image of memory).

Also, there do remain special purpose registers which are involved in compiler-generated code. Multiplication still clobbers RAX and RDX for example, so if you have hand-generated assembly that wants to touch those it will force nearby compiler-generated multiplies to issue extra instructions to arrange things. Likewise RSI/RDI are still the preferred loop counters for memcpy on most toolchains, so if you're mucking with them needlessly (e.g. where Rnn registers would do) you're making more work for the compiler.

It's true that lots of hardware work over time has acted to normalize the instruction set, so none of these optimizations are particularly large. But the details are still real and worth knowing.
Fractal Fantasy
> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country.

This is a very misleading statement.

The only thing that is popular is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals - which has support across the board.

That translates into general support for background checks.

Almost no specific proposals other than improving background checks have broad support, and support goes down as more detail is provided.

It is not true to say that there is some kind of general support for restricting gun ownership amongst anyone other than already convicted criminals (who don’t generally buy guns from stores anyway).
Its not about whether you are corrupt or not.

Its about whether you have the balls to call it corruption, up front, or brand it something else with some sort of milquetoast explanation for why its okay to accept 'bribes' if they are called 'campaign donations'.

I would wager in Eastern-Europe, you have the balls to call a bribe a bribe.
What is the liquidity of ETH lending market? 100M short term loan easy to get, what would be the interest?

Last time I checked defi usdt lending rates seemed to hover around 8-9%. Not that exciting when you consider insane gas fees and all the hassle managing the contracts.
I believe Pi-hole is DNS only