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If you cannot write safe C and you need memory-safety, why not just use Ada.

Restricting who can write C is another "extreme" idea in line with "no one can write secure C". I will not call it hyperbole but I think its absurd.

What we can do is be more cognizant of who is writing the software we use. (For example, I use software written in C by Robert Dewar, co-founder of AdaCore, called spitbol. A big part of why I use it is because of who wrote it, the code itself and its history.)

Not caring how much space something occupies is not something to which I can relate. I always care. I do not have unconstrained computers. Each has a finite amount of resources and I try to use them in a controlled and efficient manner. That means avoiding lots of large, amorphous software programmers use without question. For me, this works quite well.

Intentionally ignoring who writes the software I use does not make sense to me either. I think in a previous comment you mentioned Heartbleed. It seems that countless people using OpenSSL were relying on it heavily without ever bothering to investigate anything about its source. That to me was strange. We read comments from people who were "shocked" to find out who was managing the project. Total lack of curiosity. They never bothered to look. Not a great recipe for learning.
Check out “Euphemism Treadmill”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmil...
And Canada, UK
which just brings up the question of why the telecom's cant identify where there own customers are. They obviously know otherwise they could delver service so why cant they pass that information on accurately. why is it even possible to fake the location.
I think criminalising what you do to with your own property is slippery slope to no property ownership.
Ask HN: Any Experience with Online Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering?
I'm looking into getting my Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering and I'd like to do it online. I've heard a lot about GA Tech's OMSCS and it seems well regarded. GA Tech also has an OMS in ECE - does anyone have any experience with this program or another online MS in ECE? Thank you!
You can’t and you shouldn’t. Pressing isn’t how you get more or better software engineering work done.

What can change the game is spending as lavishly as possible on the factors which make a project take extra days. Bad interfaces. Missing documentation. Sharp edges. De-prioritized bugs. Deferred refactors. Commit the greatest number of the most expensive people to work which is not connected to customers, deadlines, or business metrics, but to mitigating their own frustrations and sensibilities. Of course that is anathema to business culture so it’s rarely done.
I bet that's why SJ is so focused on AI ethics. They want to abuse the amplifier effect of AI to win battles in the social wars.
Thanks.
I guess that considering the shortsighted analysis, it’s ok to not waste money on that!
He also indicated that the man in question was Indian which is very curious given his mindset.
AI Drone Faster Than Humans? Time-Optimal Planning for Quadrotor Waypoint Flight
Aah.

And how do they specify which access is authorised/unauthorised in their HTTP responses? How can we determine programmatically which use is unauthorised?
Thanks for the recommendations. Yes, they've been officially acquired.
How many doses worldwide, how many reported incidents. It's that simple. If you think some at-scale public disaster is impending, Can you explain what you think it is, beyond skepticism it might exist and we're not adequately cautious?
pdf: http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ScienceRobotics21_Foehn.pdf
Ah. Thanks! I didn't understand that. But nothing on Sputnik or the ?three? chinese vax or the Cuban one.
Everyone on this page spends a lotta words saying Facebook is evil while ignoring that 40,000 employees work hard every day to make it that evil.

Facebook doesn’t exist in its current form without their tireless efforts.
So.. that would include the vaccines I mentioned, not listed here.
Moore's Law depends on continued demand growth for integrated circuits. So calling it a constrained resource is backwards, even if it can behave that way in the short term.
Wow, pretty disgusting stuff. I suppose it isn't hugely surprising how sexist gaming companies are considering how sexist a large portion of many online games player bases are.
Podcast episode on Software Engineering, Microservices, and tech career
Add to cart button on the index. Better, bigger, more standardized images. Standardized size of the product box. The fancy animations when the product is loaded are unneeded, although fun to implement. When loading the product page you should bootstrap the data for the product into the page itself, rather than make an additional API call. Potentially invest in an ecommerce bootstrap theme.

This might be a good reference: https://popchart.co/collections/prints

It's a good starting point for a side project if you want to learn about how the platform runs.

I do have to say that if you are looking to make money from sales, rather than just practice your coding, I would strongly advise to use an existing platform such as Shopify or WooComm. Building an ecommerce platform gets quite complex quite fast, that it's not worth doing it unless the platform is your business.
So billionaires are upvoting people IRL now
ATAGI held off saying they approved of this AFAIK. If this is true, I wish it was widespread and recommended because I am due my second AZ in 5 weeks time and I would LOVE pfizer, but I suspect in Qld I will be told "nope"
So the freight cost to send someone a laptop is under $25? That seems reasonable if of course the person is living in Kathmandu...

The government tax on electronics is not good though. I'd have to paypal them extra money to cover it, if paypal is even a thing for them.
> A distributed OS that follows the Perlis-Thompson Principle would have fewer concepts.

Kubernetes is a relatively simple system with few concepts. You have manifests stored in etcd, behind the API server, and various controllers that act on these manifests. Some controllers (Deployment, StatefulSet, etc.) come standard out of the box, some are custom and added later. The basic unit of computation is a Pod, and DNS is provided with Services. Cluster administrators need to worry about the networking and storage layers, not cluster users. Honestly, that's pretty much it! Really not so complicated.

Now, does that help you write a manifest for the Deployment controller? No, and neither does it help you autoscale the Deployment via writing a manifest for the HorizontalPodAutoscaler controller, or setting up a load balancer by writing a manifest for the Ingress controller. But I wouldn't call the UNIX model complex because Linux distributions and package managers add complexity.
Start ups are (ideally) based on ideas for solving existing problems. Programming languages are just a tool to solve a problem, not the solution in and of itself.
> control its altitude

They're tethered.
This is beautiful, I visited Besaid Island again from FFX and a flood of memories came back to me. :D
Sure. I'm certain that is a front for Apples bugdoor monetization scheme.
> "To avoid race conditions", indeed!

Ha! True enough, "a good pun is its reword" ;).
It absolutely does not. Unless you can claim to have some evidence of what I was thinking. And if you did make that claim, I know for a fact that you would be wrong.

You are being a fucking asshole. Good job.
Very expensive research tool places like large law firms would use.
Serious question: Is going straight to a vaccine the typical route for new infectious diseases? Are treatments the equivalent of a Z Pack or Tamiflu more challenging to develop?
That's just it: we are not adequately cautious. Who knows what the long-term side effects of the vaccines will be?

The fact that those concerns are hand-waved away makes me more concerned. I mean, I don't trust Big Pharma, but at the very least, the FDA stood in their way. This time, the FDA gave them a pass called "Emergency Use Authorization," and that worries me.
Indeed. When we did a cloud migration we first moved all our apps to a (hosted) k8s first, and then to a cloud k8s cluster. This made the migration so much easier.
> The Swedish device, which is called the EDOR and is manufactured by a company called Emotra

Pick up EDOR in the self-serve warehouse: isle 19, bin 5. SKU 700.593.23.

Don't forget the ALKALISK AAA batteries at the checkout.
What is the sorting algorithm behind ORDER BY query in MySQL?
I don’t import-star in the console or notebooks (PyCharm, specifically) because autocomplete works better with the module to scope the search. So I end up doing a lot of aliased imports like “import numpy as np”
Is the reporting of incidents to VAERS truly simple?

More generally, there's an entire field devoted to such matters: epistemology.
Slightly off-topic and throwaway for legal reasons.

While reverse engineering the network protocol for Genshin Impact, I found at least a couple ways to cause memory access violations. It's really a pity most PC games aren't well sandboxed.
If employing someone is like charity, don't make them beg for it. Maybe this kid could have learned verification after a few years just like the author did, but I stead he intended to break his spirit.
It most certainly is censorship done arbitrarily-- the voting system is there to reflect the attitudes and desires of the users.

But let's go further and just delete articles on gorillas and the dangers of mindfulness meditation as well? They have nothing to do with tech, anyways...
I could get Radio Havana’s English language service on my shortwave during the early aughts. I was quite deep into the central US.
The vaccine is now a political issue just like mask wearing and lockdowns or any other aspect of this pandemic. Rational discussions that deviate from the accepted narrative are attacked and suppressed even on HN. Apparently experimental mRNA vaccines, censorship, violation of civil liberties, and other transgressions are fair game during a “pandemic”.
I think it's a reference to LexisNexis which still exists today in a similar capacity. Back in the day (1990s), it was an online service to search for and read virtually any legal or news article among many other things. It was very expense, but was usually access thru a corporate or educational institution's license.
Like who? Of the people who can feel normal emotions like happiness without some great interference, and have reasonably functional bodies, (and aren't like a prisoner of war) what does a candidate for rationally wanting to die look like?
Yeah Lt. Col is fairly easy to reach if you "do your time". Colonel is much more difficult and requires a bit of luck and General is impossible unless you have General friends (seriously, you'll never make general unless another general grooms you and vouches for you)
Much of that cost is offset by the design of Hacker News being biased towards flagging and downvoting.

Plenty of threads get flagged into oblivion because a couple of people objected to them, and several people have noticed every comment in their history getting voted down from time to time. Upranking posts by manipulation is difficult, downranking them is almost child's play.

What really offsets that isn't the karma cost for upvotes but the moderators' own manual tweaking of the knobs, sometimes correcting improper flags and changing the rankings, which can't really be gamed around.
I also loved the sample shown of the 'Scunthorpe problem' on Wikipedia itself!
Lol, it wasn't God, it was Jews trying to confuse Christians.
How many books have you read that were written by people who read books published in the 1800s?
What are your concerns about fitting in?
Interesting and timely article about those crappy plastic toys...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/07/21/israel...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_optical_t...
Covid has long term effects too, seemingly much more than vaccines. Were this not the case then yes the calculus for younger people would be very different. But it seems that everybody benefits.
Does anyone know how the number of times you are exposed to the Covid 19 virus affects the efficacy statistics?
> The only thing K8s does for you is allow the developers' operation of the system to be the same after it's migrated.

I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what’s required to happen, and it’s a good thing because only your system engineers need to do most of the legwork. If you have a team of system engineers, you probably have a much bigger cohort of application engineers.
The title prompted me to look into the history of matlab a bit [1]. My main takeaways:

- It was given away for free for years. During that time people wrote _reliable_ numerical packages that other people glommed onto.

- matlab users aren’t programmers, they are [engineers/mathematicians/etc.] who need to write some code to do their job. One aspect of this fact is that they generally aren’t on the hunt for a new “framework” to do this stuff. They also aren’t thinking much about long-term maintainability: they ran it once and got the answers they needed.

- Academics (and students who can use university licenses) are price insensitive.

- Engineering disciplines where errors can’t happen (civil, aerospace, etc.) come to rely on aforementioned reliable numerical packages, which eventually required proprietary licenses.

[1] http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/MolerBio.pdf
I got pericarditis, I'm expected to make a full recovery and the gas lightning is probably the worst part of it. Lost a couple of friends to it, "maybe it's just anxiety".

EDIT: I've been diagnosed, all my doctors agree, still: "maybe it's just anxiety".
Beoplay H9 gen 3. Good ANC, good sound quality, good multi device pairing, very durable, I wear them 5-9 hours a day and I find them extremely comfortable. I lugged the first gen around on planes and traveling for nearly 3 years and hundreds of flights without a case and just looped over my laptop bags handle, they are built to last and are sound great with anc on and off, I just wish they hadn't gotten rid of the replaceable battery. I know a lot of people like the sony and bose anc headphones but I personally found the fit for both to not be as comfortable for my head shape/size.

Use the equalizer app to lower bass just slightly, they upped default bass from gen 1 and ear fatigue is real if you leave it at the default.
Do AVs still respond to the EICAR test file?
Uk population is around 67 million (3 doses would be 210m) does anyone know why is the order 517 million vaccine in total?

Are those orders by UK or orders to company producing vaccines?
Yeah I imagine it could be the new swatting. Don't like your neighbors (as in, your actual neighbors, who aren't running an illegal hotel)? Anonymously report that there's an AirBnB in their property, and watch as the cops show up and tell your neighbors to pack their bags and find a real hotel.
It became a political issue.

People seem to have a problem with overcompensating for issues they align with positively.

This happens with vaccines, masks, racial, gender, identity, environmental, etc. basically any issue that brings up strong feelings in people tends to go into a religious fanaticism (chips all in, this is absolutely right with no question, anyone not in on the groupthink is the enemy)
The Mothers Digging for the Disappeared
For future reference, that comment seems to be at https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/oof29b/windows_de...
Well, keeping things private certainly rests on the security of devices and protocols. That being said, Apple investing heavily in making security unobtrusive isn't in itself a sign of weak security. A lot of it is just well engineered and thus unseen. But documented in parts for everyone to see: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
Tried it. Windows Defender thinks it's "Trojan:Win32/Orsam!rfn" on my PC, which is different from "Glupteba!ml". It does let me override and keep it.
No. What we need is something that is amazingly simple:

* you, a programmer who coded something that caused company X to lose Y dollars because of a "mistake", have to be on a hook for Y dollars.

* you, a manager who managed a project that caused a company X to lose Y dollars because of a "mistake" by your programmer, have to be on a hook for Y dollars.

* you, a product owner who accepted the what the manager of ta project that caused a company X to lose Y dollars because of a "mistake" by your programmer, have to be on a hook for Y dollars.

* you, the CEO of the company that had a product owner who accepted the what the manager of ta project that caused a company X to lose Y dollars because of a "mistake" by your programmer, have to be on a hook for Y dollars.

Yes, I understand that the cost of a mistake is now higher than the loss suffered by X. That's the incentive to ensure that it does not happen because the wives or husbands or partners of the people who would now have to pay are going to ensure that they do not do take that whose wacky ideas and implement them -- wacky ideas are abstract but the loss of nice housing, nice organic food, nice daycare for the kids and nice scholarship fun is real.
I don't think "use posix threads from C or C++" is a good example, because posix threads are natively available to c and c++. whereas webassembly threads are not. the code has to be compiled into wasm first. That's why I asked if the word "from" was "compiled from or executed from".

Yes, wasm is a platform, but c++ runtime can also be a platform. You could build a c++ runtime/compiler into wasm to compile and run c code. Or you could embed a wasm runtime into a c++ program (i.e. the github project I mentioned.) you can run linux vm inside a windows host, or you can run a windows vm inside a linux host, which one is the platform?

And what if we say "use posix threads from rust"? I would interpret it as a rust program calling a posix threads, perhaps implemented in c. or a rust program calling a rust crate wrapping posix thread.
heh, did anyone else have a flashback to Mary Ann Davidson, the CSO at Oracle, railing against customers who independently audit the security of products they purchase? Fun times.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.ora...
> In general, the desktop antivirus space in 2021 is a mess. Because of the sheer number of malware, and some obfuscation techniques used by some of it, antivirus software has to use very broad regular expressions for describing the malware, counterbalanced by huge whitelists of known mainstream software.

Why do they have to use regular expressions?
that is a small loan
Worse than that, much more humiliating:

Unable to disengage a lock on his back fence, Herring was instructed to somehow climb over the fence with his hands up.

“He was starting to get more upset,” Billings recalled. “He said, ‘I’m a 60-year-old fat man and I can’t do that.'”

Billings said Mr. Herring then offered to crawl under a gap in the fence, but when he did so and stood up, he collapsed of a heart attack. Herring died at a nearby hospital soon after.

Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/serial-swatter-who-cause...
Apple also cuts scope and delays committing to a release until they know they can deliver...
I've slowly been realizing that it's best to let someone else defend a position, but only comment to clear up mis-understandings.

Of course, you have to be tracking the threads to do that.
I was wondering how they did this. Apparently poorly. Self reliance is an admirable goal, but you need the experience. I have not seen the hardware being shipped either. Most of that is going to auto/server/laptops.
Makes no sense to me. Given you'd have the capabilities to have bases there, you'd also have the capabilities to fix stuff floating in space effortlessly. Btw. ground can shake or vibrate, which is no benefit at all.

edit: also electrostatically charged, abrasive dust particles.
You could write that article, make the argument. The ability to do so does not imply equivalence, a balance of "completely right or completely wrong," in which no morally superior position is available.

This piece makes the key point against this view:

"Conspiracy has replaced ideology [in Russia], and for the most part that serves the Kremlin very nicely. You can argue back against an ideology through its own logic: Communist leaders could, at least in theory, be accused of failing to create the ideal society they promised. Conspiracy negates all criticism by accusing the critic of being a front."

Even if one notices the hypocrisy of Western history in view of liberal ideology, one is still supposing that the latter exists to guide the former. This is true even if a conspiracy towards oligarchy exists! The earnest and shared belief in a consistent vision of just society creates the political consciousness prerequisite for revolution or reform.

In contrast, to suppose that all actors' motivations are conspiratorial, all espoused values a sham for self-interest and power that cannot be acted upon, is to foreclose the possibility of reform - it is a false consciousness.

The kleptomaniac & self-contradictory 'Russian values' quoted here from Russia's new strategy paper expect such conspiratorial thinking from Russian citizens. The text's internal hypocrisy - and its hypocrisy in view of Russian history - do not matter. The response to such criticism is singular, and you have said it: "[all ideologies] are retroactive justification for [oppression]." None have any meaning or application.

Pomerantsev enlightens us by showing how this particular nonsense of 'Russian values' exists specifically to justify 'Information Sovereignty,' a euphemism for preventing Russians from hearing foreign ideas - an ancient tactic of oppression by enforced ignorance, dressed here in the finery of 'National Security.'
I always thought the most plausible explanation is one developed Terry Pratchett in "Strata":

If you are going to create a planet (or universe) from scratch to be the home of an intelligent species, including a realistic history is critical to give that species sufficient historical context to learn about how things work.

Understanding evolution and biology is a lot harder if you have no fossil record. Understanding plate tectonics is a lot harder if you don't have a consitent geologix record. Understanding physics is a lot harder if you don't have a light coming in from events that predates the creation of the universe.

Thus if you grant that the universe was created 7000 years ago with a huge, detailed and consistent history, the clear implication to me is that we are intended to study that history to understand the universe in which we exist.
I hope you're wrong. Video and pictures coupled with text are a goldmine for me. I would've loved to see a 'vlog' from the 1800s honestly. What was it like for a perfectly normal person, not a career writer? I don't think we have a lot of that, or if we do, it's from a singular viewpoint, and we're subject to their view and biases.

I found a archive of videos in my city from 1970, a street-view like recording of select roads. I pored over it for a couple hours, noting the buildings that were still there, the completely empty hills now filled with houses, etc. That kind of stuff is really cool.
Just curious, what is your use case? I had to do some stuff like this for a school project a while ago, wrangled with ffmpeg whilst cursing under my breathe. Curious what other people do this for
We tried using intel python in one of my previous data science jobs, and ultimately gave up because compatibility with some packages from pip was a nightmare. Alas I can’t quite remember exactly what went wrong.