skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My semi-conspiracy theory: "safe" languages also make it harder for things like jailbreaks and other defeats of user-hostile "protections", allowing Big Tech to maintain control, so making them popular is very much in their interest. It's like how every utopian vision for society turns into a dystopian one.

"Insecurity is freedom."
We do know that. We know how much phased array costs, and many experts in that area have said so. Shotwell and musk both have said getting the terminal cost down is their biggest challenge. They wouldn't say that if it was $500.
Telcos in Germany also use some shady tactics (just one of many examples, my in-laws were paying 5€/month for an otherwise free AOL email subscription). The one thing that really works over there is threatening to bring in a lawyer, they usually can’t get their in-house counsel to look at some small subscription where they are probably at fault anyway.
Great question, and we've seen this happening actually, when some payments-based features used in scoring, data leakage.
We are not doing "hard" constraints on this, but there are 2 ways for the user to identify this:
first one is feature importance built automatically, so the user will see these features immediately
second one is the process of building inference. The same data prep/transformation pipeline assumed to be used as API or for batch processing before model application, and at this point they will definitely realise that they just don't have these features yet for new customers!
Sure, but the internet shouldn't be too upset when a fork happens with a version that has feature parity and is memory safe.
It's true! The Reedy Creek Improvement District is something totally unique within the US. I think they got away with it because it was Walt and his business and social acumen were already known, even his environmentalism (trash control, buried power lines, PeopleMover, etc.). Disney showed Orange and Osceola counties that they could actually run a city better than the "real" governments.

A drive through that area today will confirm they were right! Everything changes when you get inside the Disney property, even many miles from the parks and resorts. The landscape, signage, safety stuff, zoning, parking, all kinds facilities (electrical, sewer, water) are handled much better than in the neighboring cities run by traditional governments.

In practice, the "city" of Disney World and its surrounding hotels has a permanent (though rotating) population bigger than many real cities and the Company runs everything that one would find a regular city.
The Death of the Cool
Commenting on the aspect of "Governments will tighten money supply when things get better". It seems, the governments around the world are also raising debt at a levels never seen before. There are pros and cons for this - Pros being if the growth rate is higher than the interest rate, by all means, get debt. The con is that the _rate_ of debt accumulation will make it worse for the future payouts, even of growth is higher.

An article that I found useful is:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/02/13/s...

Archived:
https://archive.is/wip/0q0fz
That requires the Tether to exist or be worth anything. As I understand it it's a protocol on top of Bitcoin that allows the issuer to arbitrarily destroy it. [1] Even if it wasn't destroyed, the value could fall over a million fold if they were discovered to be totally irredeemable and without backing. Unlike the Papiermark, you can't even burn them.

[1] https://medium.com/wolverineblockchain/whats-the-situation-w...
>C is not the primary reason for our past vulnerabilities

As much as I respect Daniel for his work on curl, this claim is simply bullshit.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s...

> ~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues

If you don't trust Microsoft or think their developers are incompetent, similar figures can be found in other studies.
We’re talking like $20. Considering the situation the OP is currently in, I’d consider that money well spent to aid in getting that first job and assisting in leapfrogging to the much better one soon after.
Serious question: why? It's a buzzword for sure, but there are billions of dollars being invested in real companies with real customers solving real problems that all would identify as cloud native.

All it means is 'we existed after the cloud started to gain traction. We won't have an on-prem option, we're much more likely to integrate with things like Docker and Kubernetes, and our licensing model will accommodate now-normal things like autoscaling and containerisation'.

EDIT: I wrote this before reading the article or many other comments. The fact that my description is basically right (other than missing that this is an open source project, so licensing terms aren't relevant) further proves my point that 'cloud native' isn't a buzzword, and has concrete meaning.
(Unofficial) CVS Vaccine Availability Notification Tool
It depends, i.e. I would not be so definitive on the "no such thing" part, for sure. I witnessed (and enjoyed) such a startup experience, myself, a few years back, when Arity came into existence, from "under and within" Allstate. Spending even one single day working in Northbrook (Allstate HQ), and another one @ the Mart, in Chicago (Arity office), and you could immediately tell the two worlds apart.
Yep, it would definitely be difficult to justify running it in production. Accuracy would need to be higher as you said or it would need to be applicable to more tasks such that you can take other models out of production.

This kind of model could be used as the teacher in a distillation setup too though. Then faster training of the teacher is actually a huge benefit since it speeds up model development iteration cycles.

But even if it weren't practical to use in production in any sense, I'd argue there's value in doing the basic research of exploring design space of architectures in this way. This came out of a research team at Google. It may inspire and inform smaller, more practical architectures.
> Tether hired Friedman LLP to audit them in ~2017/2018. Friedman literally walked out of the audit [1] because, and I assume this is true, it was just too squeaky clean to bother finishing.

Reading the source you linked it looks like tether's main criticism of Friedman is that they were 'too detailed'.

God forbid that an auditor actually wants to get into the detail rather than just taking Tether's word for everything.
This is really interesting to think about. On Venus it’s the opposite. Any kind of wind speed will have a huge impact.
Is the problem really that Facebook et al are American, though, if the term even applies to multinationals?

Say a company based in the UK had the exact same basic business plan of collecting your data and selling it to micro-targeting ad agencies and political campaigns. Would it not have the same prime metric of "engagement" and stimulate the same rage bait and limbic system responses? Would people not end up in ideological rabbit holes? Would it then not be equally problematic? What if said company had a monopoly?

Now that you guys have left the EU, is the UK regulatory framework anywhere close to the GDPR? Are there other factors that would prevent it happening in your back yard?

In other, tongue in cheek words: what are you on about, mate?
The response below mine goes into great deal, but yes, it's going to be fpgas, or an FPGA with a management cpu core in there. They had many reqs open for fpga developers early on.
The book series it is based on (Saxon Chronicles) does an even better job. It is fiction but Bernard Cornwell does his research. He has his characters talking about Englaland sooner than OP would suggest though; in the novels this was a term Alfred was using as he neared the end of his reign. The novels are told from the perspective of a colorful fictional character but are really the story of Alfred, his defense of Wessex and the making of England by he and his children.
Does this have a name? Something like "a race to ridiculousness?" It's so bizarre that it matters that someone places an order a few ms before someone else. And it's probably ns now. No time to stop and think,... just be faster than someone else.
Belarusian here, actually we don't need this NPP too!

In our non-democratic country all decisions are made by single person and you know his name. The idea of selling electricity to Baltics was imposed by Russia to him. Russia gives loan and builds NPP, and Belarus makes money. Who'd say no to this, right?

Now, when Lithuania makes everything it can to ban transferring electricity from Belarusian NPP into EU, our government has a painful headache. They really don't know how to use this electricity inside Belarus. They also need to build new reserve capacity for NPP.

P.S. 1-st NPP in Belarus/BSSSR were being constructed ~ in 35km (22 miles) from Minsk (capital). But it was cancelled after Chernobyl explosion and converted into gas-fired power plant.

P.P.S Less than mont ago our minister of energy were talking about 2nd and 3rd NPP.
>Anyone who’s tried to deploy their own complex Maven project knows that it’s a true nightmare.

Maven != Cargo

> C++, on the other hand, has a variety of choices for build systems.

None of which even remotely approach the ease of use and maintainability of the Cargo build system.

> once you need to build something that the default build system doesn’t support, you’re in big trouble.

Cargo can build arbitrary dependencies using the build.rs build mechanism.
I guess this blows out of the water the argument the UK signed three months before the EU.

>But the UK's official contract is actually dated August 28, one day after the EU's contract.
> This ends in hyperinflation.

The system is structured to prevent even the slightest bit of inflation by raising rates. The Fed has not forgotten that, and the politics of mass unemployment are readily manageable. Years of conservativism has seen to that. Call me back when inflation exceeds 4%. It's currently below the 2% target.

Look, interest rates are the market price of money. Money - investment - is not scarce. That's where the asset bubbles are coming from, after all. And it's not just a question of money creation, it's wealth creation and concentration that's driven this. Everything from Apple's cash pile to the unaccountable wealth of Saudi and Russian fossil fuel extractors to all the capital flight from China that's been bloating Western real estate markets.

The world is awash with money looking for a return which it simply can't find any more. Maybe my most controversial opinion is that if we don't get wealth taxes we'll end up having to have negative interest rates anyway. Something has to pay for the preservation of society around the pile of wealth. Switzerland has been doing good business charging people for stability with negative rates: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/23/investing/switzerland-cas...

Let's not forget the pension funds. Something like a third of a Western society is basically forced to be bond investors - they need low-volatility investments and annuities.

> Retirees have an incentive to keep them low, feeding 401K bubbles that they need to live on.

... they tend to be the main complainers about low rates since they live more off interest rates than asset prices and don't have mortgages.
The article basically TLDRs as "Anglo-Saxon" is appropriate, is my take on it: "In an informed view, it is hard to see ‘Anglo-Saxon’ as inappropriate to the contexts to which it has been attached"
What's the core difference between something like this and remote.com?
You can get 10-year fixed rates in Canada:

* https://www.ratespy.com/best-mortgage-rates/10-year/fixed

* https://www.ratehub.ca/best-mortgage-rates/10-year/fixed
(2017)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966241
Yep, after initial frustration 1/2 weeks adaptation exercises I am amazed how this thing is invisible when used. The option for modifying keys and macros is very handy, and saving all mods on the board is making it portable. The only thing that I have against is the low quality of the case. But in the context of comfort and health this is minor gripe to have:)
Speaking as somebody who submitted a couple of Forth links (but not this one) - I saw there were two Forth related links on the front-page at one point yesterday, was reminded of the famous "Erlang Day" incident in HN history and thought "wouldn't it be cool if HN were flooded with Forth links for a little while?" and submitted a couple. Can't speak for anybody else, but I'm guessing other people had a similar reaction.
>One is trying to make sure that customers have a positive experience

...and the other is the Netflix Specials department.

EDIT: Addendum so not to be too shitposty.

I think Netflix came to Denmark around 2013 or so, and the content at the time was pretty good. Now you have to wade through a swamp of third rate trash and maybe you're lucky to find something that isn't absolute garbage. My account will remain canceled.
State of Remote Work
That's sad, but entirely within the current zeitgeist. Unnecessary waste is probably the hallmark of bitcoin age. :-/
Lol the framing is ridiculous - Apple had nothing against ripping off gambling kids as long as they were getting their 30% cut so please cut the fanboy crap.

Apple is using it's market position and it's leading to inefficient pricing. I guarantee you if Apple was forced to allow other payment methods on their store that their % cut would go down because the convenience they offer is not worth 30%.

And App Store can be as curated as they want if they provide the hooks to allow third party stores and app deployments.

I generally agree that you have the device choice - but considering the size of this market and Apple market position this is a right place for regulators to step in and fix the market inefficiency - just like the Windows/IE thing. And while they are at it they should probably look at digital store policies in general to prevent this kind of thing, Google isn't much better than Apple and they keep bundling stuff with the phone as well.
In last summer's heatwave I was walking home along the old roman routes in Anglia after having a problem with my bike, and with the full-on scorch we'd had all manner of encampments become visible in fields. I found the whole experience of walking in the shadows of people gone for thousands of years quite calming somehow, despite realising I was having to ration fluids and food given any shops you might have found were closed for lockdown.

Just south of Cambridge is the intersection between Icknield Way¹ and Ermine Street², and you hardly seem to be able to stick a trowel in the ground without finding a coin hoard in these parts. You can still walk large parts of it on footpaths and bridleways. Not as pretty as Wales, but nice nonetheless.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icknield_Way

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine_Street
Satellites are interference limited and power limited. Dbv is not just for broadcasting, despite its name. It's used for pretty much all non-proprietary satellite waveforms.
Variety of choices for C++ end up causing fragmentation, and all choices are flawed in some way. If you choose Cmake, someone will tell you how much it sucks, and you should have used Meson. You choose Meson, people will complain that it needs Python, or Bazel needs Java, or why bother with any of them if Makefile is good enough, and so on in circles forever.

OTOH Cargo is the only option for Rust projects. There's nothing to bikeshed about. Everyone has it and knows how to use it.

Apart from that the project is about memory safety. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla already have huge C++ codebases, top engineers with lots of C++ experience, spent tons of effort on making it safe, and still weren't happy with the results.
IMO, the bigger issue is that many people don't know what a startup is. Yet, as a culture we glorify a "startup." Everyone wants to work for one, even though they don't really know the clear line between a startup and an exit.

I remember seeing billboards in Silicon Valley. They were from AOL, trying to recruit. They said, "You're the startup, we're the VC." At the time, AOL had no defining characteristic that made it appear like a startup, even for people who don't fully understand what a startup is.

Another time, I was in a post-acquisition "startup." I recognized the situation and focused on the area with clear product-market fit. The "CEO" tried to continue to find new product-market fits and blew through our R&D budget. (The R&D budget was supposed to improve the existing product, not find new ones.) When the situation came to a head, only people who worked on the clear product-market fit area remained. (Everyone who behaved like we were a "startup" was let go.)
I think he was talking in the context of curl.
No, it's not going to land anywhere near Opportunity.

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24729/map-of-nasas-mars-land...
> Ctrl-q "parks" the command

What is the zsh functionality behind this? I couldn't test it because my terminal eats Ctrl-q and a search for "zsh ctrl-q" didn't turn up anything useful.
Again, OP was talking about speeds, not latency. Nobody is going to refute geo has higher latency than Leo.
One of the biggest benefits of libraries like this is that they tend to explicitly state the test author's intent.

To take your example from up top: If I'm coming to the code later, and I notice that it's not asserting for the absence of anything, it may be very difficult for me to tell whether that behavior is your intent, or just a brain fart.

It's just another layer of confusion in the many layers of confusion that lead to test rot.
Knew most of those, not much interested in "shell plugins".

One thing that many people miss are parameter expansions. Those are in Posix, so pretty much any bare shell should be able to use that, too. So dash/bash/zsh/ksh…

echo Hello ${PLANET:-World}

to have a default if you're not sure a variable is set. Replace "-" with "=" to actually set it, not just use it for this statement.

Or removing suffixes:

filename=/tmp/foobar.tar.gz
echo ${filename%.*} # -> /tmp/foobar.tar
echo ${filename%%.*} # -> /tmp/foobar

Saves you some useless sed/awk.

I still wish the Linux shells (bash/zsh) would start to finally get some more features from friggin' ksh93.
Not a Fellini.
> The Austro-Hungarian Empire encompassed several other peoples who chafed under Austro-Hungarian rule, namely Serbs, Slovaks, Rusyns, and Transylvanian Romanians.

None of these were colonies though. And Serbia wasn't part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire.
> you wont be watching 4k

Netflix says you need 25 Mbps for "Ultra HD Quality"[1], so yes, you could watch a different 4K stream in every house simultaneously. And have 25 Mbps left over for other traffic.

Edit to add: Netflix is right.

If you can't get reliable 4K with a 25 Mbps connection, the most likely reasons are:

- First by a wide margin, is that you are using Wi-Fi to connect your display device. Don't do that. Use ethernet (at least until you have 802.11ax everywhere).

- Second, you have a flaky connection to your ISP. Misconfigured, marginal (e.g. DSL more than 2.5 kilometres from the cabinet) or in poor electrical condition.

- Third, you have neighbours regularly operating very large electric motors or electric arc welders.

- Fourth, your ISP doesn't know what it's doing, or is deliberately monkeying with your service to try to upsell you.

1. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
> would call C++ a memory safe language

LOL.
Empowering Constraints
Oh! I didn't know that. Looks like you give up the introductory offer, but the price is actually a bit better ($17/mo vs $17 every 4 weeks) and I'm perfectly fine with that.

Thanks for the tip!
Toward a disease sniffing device that rivals a dog's nose
Wikipedia has a list of who else has announced LEO constellations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Competition_and_marke...
To me, it just adds to the engineering anxiety about maintenance. The whole thing is already a bunch of spaghetti on the macro-level, repair is a major pain in the ass.
Or even better (since we're testing against an oracle value anyway):

assert sorted(result) == ['a', 'b']
I wasn't always a software engineer, and in my previous career (academic linguist) there were lots of gay men. This wasn't because linguistics departments were making a concerted effort to hire gay men. Nor are linguistics departments in the USA particularly diverse in other respects (e.g. race). In general, it's a mistake to conclude that any 'diverse' people you see around must have been hired according to some special diversity criterion. There are probably lots of contributing factors – tumblr's large LGBTQ user base being an obvious candidate.

It's not super helpful to LGBTQ folks to spread unfounded rumors that large numbers of us are just in our jobs because we're LGBTQ. Unless you've got some really strong evidence, I'd have to say that your remarks on that point were somewhat misjudged. I understand that you mostly wanted to tell a colorful story, but at the same time, it's annoying to see these ideas spread, even in a somewhat flippant context.
Now this I sprint away from as quickly as possible.
I work with an animal rescue. They're out in a somewhat rural part of TX, just beyond a major metro. Only available network is LTE or bad p2p microwave that's crazy expensive. This is 1/3 the price of the microwave and about the same as the LTE plan. I signed them up and I'll pay for it. The resident who lives on site has never had a decent network. Then I can finally setup the wireless perimeter cameras too.
Which is what makes it objective. Authors should be reporting facts, not advocating a "side".
I'm genuinely curious in what ways you feel Redwood is more in the spirit of Rails than Blitz? Maybe there's some things we can improve.
It happens to me with CocaCola. I have stopped drinking it, but when I waz i the process, the cravings it gave me were crazy. I NEEDED to have a coke.

Btw, in relation to the article, there was a Reddit user who ar some point wanted to "just try" this heroin thing and his message history depicts very amazingly hiw he spiraled to addiction.
> If you have never been in this position, you may not understand the emotional difficulties involved in watching such a place slowly burn to the ground.

I have been in that position before - that’s why I’m asking

I stayed 11 years at my previous job because it was fun and we were shielded us from a lot BS.
Could (2017) be added to the title? Since then, Daniel has since rethought this post and is now writing a Rust backend for curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...
Hmm... looks CA needs to amend the law. They should specify that customers should be able to cancel online without interacting with a human.
Not sure what your comment on the frequency range is implying. All signals are converted to baseband before processing. Nobody processes signals on the ground at Ku/Ka frequencies.
Thanks man! I was thinking about replacing my paper notebook, and that just might be exactly what I needed.