skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lets be honest many (most?) of the "recent" (~3years) security bugs sqlite had would most likely not have been prevented by using rust, go or similar.

Using SQLite's CVE list from 2020[1], we see 12 vulnerabilities:

* Two NULL pointer dereferences; it's impossible to produce a NULL reference in safe Rust.

* Two integer overflows; Rust makes these harder, but not impossible.

* Three UAFs; these are impossible in safe Rust.

* One uncategorized segfault; there are impossible in safe Rust barring environmental constraints (like a stack overflow from unchecked recursion).

* One segmentation fault from incorrect object initialization; this is impossible in safe Rust.

* 3 SQL and table-level bugs; Rust is unlikely to have helped with these.

By my count, that's 6/12 bugs are would be impossible in plain old safe Rust, and another 3/12 that would likely be prevented by normal best practices in Rust. I still don't think this necessarily means that we should drop everything and rewrite SQLite in Rust, but the raw numbers don't back up the claim that doing so wouldn't eliminate the actual security bugs that SQLite is seeing.

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-9237...
Bruce Riedel: September 11 in the White House
Totally, and if I said anything to imply I didn't consider the second topic to be worth discussing then I'd like to correct the record: I do think it's an important (albeit separate) topic.

> How do we have the second conversation without it being shut down as an attempt to shut down the first conversation?

The best answer I can give you is that it's subjective. I'm happy to have a good-faith conversation even (or especially!) with people I disagree with, but dropping "google Chicago shootings" into a drive-by comment isn't what I would consider to be making a good-faith argument.
Not all Europe. Some countries governments are stubbornly against this and only accept a positive PCR test taken during the actual sickness.
> Surprising that Obsidian doesn’t support native pencil option.

The app was only just released. I hope that it is coming.
Your solution is worse than the problem.
It wouldn't be state based. The federal government would pass a law that you can't charge more than Medicare +20%. This fixes some major rent-seeking costs in the current system. It gets rid of the need for brokers (which typically charge 5%) because there is no need to negotiate prices. It also gets rid of everything out of network, you know what the max is. You can't have anesthesiologist that are your only option in the hospital but they are not in network even though the hospital is. It would also push a lot of places to take a standard discount for cash at time of service, just pay Medicare rates. They take less but get it now. It does mean that health "insurance" companies would need to start differentiating on price, wellness plans and customer service instead of exploitative pricing deals.
DARPA is explicitly designed to be the antithesis of political control.

Program managers, selected from industry and academia, given open remits for 3-5 years, strictly capped when the deadline is reached.
The mistake you're making is "omission bias" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias)

You're refusing the "beta" (installed by billions of users) version of something that can save your life because you (mistakenly) believe the choice is between that, and staying as you were before.

It's not. That's no longer true with the Delta variant.
Now it's really a choice between "carefully designed, just officially declared stable" vaccine with billions of users vs getting the "totally unstable, totally doesn't care about your health, completely unknown long term effects" SARS-CoV-2 virus forcefully installed on you.

You will get antibodies one way or another, and there is orders of magnitude more risk and uncertainty associated with getting them through infection rather than controlled vaccination.

Furthermore, there has never been in history any vaccine side effect that occurred later than a few weeks after administration at most.

There is just no theoretical basis for why anything wrong would happen here.

Are you demanding 100% certainty ? Sure, you won't get it here but you also didn't get it with anything else you ever did in medicine and you can live with that.

With Delta, ICUs (and even more so long covid clinics) are full of unvaccinated "healthy non obese non smoking relatively young" guys like you.

If you're not afraid of Covid, rationally you should be even less afraid of getting a vaccine.

To put things in perspective, here are the odds in young males for the most talked about vaccine side effect (myocarditis, which usually resolves in a few days), vs the odds of getting severe Covid at your age :

https://imgur.com/a/uW52E51
In California non-competes are [edit: unenforceable] (it's arguably one of the reasons for Silicon Valley's success).

It varies by state though, so not sure about Washington and elsewhere.
> Hopefully the police get a fine

The police don't get fined - the taxpayer does.
It's because they make it super easy for the customer, but use dark patterns for the sellers. Amazon can afford to lose sellers since more are popping up everyday and willing to sell items for a loss to gain market share.

The parent also didn't mention that Amazon has a policy of not allowing sellers to sell their products for a lower price on their own website. If only customers knew how much Amazon is screwing over sellers, they would be wary. Many sellers I know themselves don't shop on Amazon themselves due to this.
Full time programmers are decreasing faster than ever before
The GP suggested that wages are lower in Europe because of higher taxes. So to be clear, I am only arguing about the former thing and what the taxes are used for is basically irrelevant to me.

My complaint is that the argument about tax just isn’t good at explaining the difference. Eg, choosing basically at random from a quick search[1], one might pay $100k in employee taxes on $265k gross (37%) in the Bay Area. I don’t have a good idea of the employer payroll taxes but if I guess about 8% that’s another $20k the employer needs to pay. Then they pay health insurance (rough guess at $20k per year, but not sure about this average numbers were like this including employee contributions so I’m assuming that plans are good but maybe employees are healthier than average and have smaller families bringing down the costs).

So that comes out to $305k from the employer and $165k to the employee.

Suppose a company spends the same amount in Berlin. That’s €260k. Let’s say there’s 20% or so of employer payroll taxes[2], and we’ll bump it up to 25% for extra private health insurance (no idea if that is reasonable; the 20% includes some compulsory insurance) giving a salary of €208k. And then at 50% effective tax rate[3] that comes to €104k = $120k net, which isn’t really so different from the Sam Francisco example. But you don’t (I think) see many salaries like that in Germany. They would look more like €100k gross[4], so where is all that other money going? I don’t believe there are 160% employer payroll taxes, and businesses generally pay taxes on profits not revenue. So there must be some increase in other costs for the business but I don’t understand what could explain such a big difference

I think the actual argument must be about competition and demand for labour. But I don’t really have a strong argument. Salaries are higher not far away in Switzerland. There is some theory that salaries are high (at some companies) in the US outside of coastal cities because one could believably threaten to move to one, but Europeans can’t typically make such a threat. But many Germans could surely threaten to move to Switzerland, and many do commute across the border. So I don’t see how it works.

Edit: I realise I picked Germany instead of the Netherlands. But I think tax rates are higher in Germany?

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-tax-does-an-average-software-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payroll_tax

[3] made this number up. I suspect it is actually hard even with a relatively high income to pay such a high effective tax rate. I tried pulling out an online tax calculator but there are a lot of options and I didn’t know what was reasonable. 50% feels like a reasonable overestimate to me.

[4] this is mostly coming from HN. Maybe the Germans earning €200k don’t write comments complaining about salary differences between the US and Europe.
If only production and recycling of tires caused such fervor too...
My wife has 'skeeter syndrome' and the bites vary from normal mosquito bites to 3-4" wide, weeping bumps depending on where we were at when she got bit. Hawaii was the worst. WA state wasn't too bad.
Debugging is fun (at least for me). We should replace programming tests with debugging tests in interviews.
But that is not what happened. Not everyone has had the jab. And those that were vaccinated did not all receive the same vaccine.

Anyway none of your comments actually address the science involved. A few factoids without any context is not useful.
Yeah, the value of "most educated populations of all time" depends on the outcome you value: "everybody has a minimum accreditation"? "Everyone is capable of robust reflection that presumes change over time"?
Japan's government sometimes promote their project as an research/development for new generation product, I've never heared any of such projects established a new global standard, though:

- According to JGSDF their latest Type 10 MBT[1] is world's first 4th gen tank, in spite of that its spec except software feature (like C4I capability) is virtually equivalent to modern 3rd gen tanks
- Back in 80s MITI had invested over 50 billion yen into a parallel Prolog machine, labeled as a "5th gen computer"[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_10

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
I've only seen one person venture into this battlefield, and it was a comedian doing a bit.

The guy is a very funny Aussie. It's Jim Jeffries. His bit went my girl comes to bed with oily skin from those pricy creams.

I tell her look at my face. Not a wrinkle, and I just use soap.

Anyway, when I saw a dermatologist in high school, for years it seemed? He would only recommend glycerin soap, and Certaphil if you have very dry skin. Benzoyl peroxide, erythromycin roll on lotion, and I was on erythromycin pills for bad acne. Think most pores blocked up. He detested dermatologists who sold out, and developed their own phony beauty creams.

This was when some doctors had integrity--80's? And it was starting to change.
Little, because devices that have strong magnets do a good job of disclosing the fact.
Pfizer is performing well under delta:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
Native JavaScript Routing?
Or one of Steve Jackson's Ogres. Although both Bolos and Ogres were unmanned AI-controlled vehicles.
It’s worth pointing out that “real crime” is a social construct. Petty crime is a prosecuted, despite being dwarfed by wage theft. Shooting someone is a crime, obviously, but purposefully starving thousands of infants to boost Nestle stock values is not.

What you or I think of being the “real crime” that cops should focus on may or may not be what the laws define as real crime, which itself probably doesn’t map to what cops spend all their time doing
Frankly, from the tone of these comments, it appears we don’t know anything for sure.
> anti-vax site summation of the report?

New York Magazine is an “anti-vax site?”
You're right. They wouldn't report your death as suffocation because that'd be a symptom, not the underlying cause. Just because a cause is more fatal because of something else, that doesn't mean that something else killed them.

Using your own analogy, you're arguing that the speed of the car killed them because it made the accident more effective in killing them.

Using your logic, it could be an indefinite number of causes. If someone died of encephalitis from zoster, you could say that their brain killed them with as much equivalence as the chemotherapy or cancer. In other words, it could be anything.

If you died tomorrow, someone could say that this comment caused it because it influenced the chain of events that lead to your death. It would be just as absurd.

> Speak for yourself. I would consider them killed by the chemo/cancer.

Thank god you're not the FDA. Otherwise, we wouldn't have any type of medical procedures or medications. There'd be no difference between going to a doctor or your pastor for that brain tumor.
> 20 years building infrastructure, railroads, highways, mining operations, schools to train engineers, managers, and professionals

20 years? Zahir Shah tried this for 40 years. Amanullah Khan also tried, as did several others. Numerous would-be reformers have thought as you do and tried to impose change on Afghanistan, and all their efforts have culminated in the situation we have now. It's been approached from a number of ideological/political directions. Some were monarchs, others proponents of republics. The PDPA/Soviets tried it from a Marxist/Leninist angle with lots of bloodshed, while Zahir Shah tried to create a constitutional monarchy and refrained from murdering his political opponents. Neither succeeded in the end.

What would you bring to the table that hasn't been tried before?
"Tunnel approaching. You have 5 seconds to take control until connection can be reestablished."
These people are psychotic. Literally, not hyperbolically.

Society is going through a mass psychosis event and people need to seriously prepare to see (or be a victim of) the next major genocide in world history.

Recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Affirming-Psychosis-Appeal-Adolf-Hitl...
> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.

Something tells me that this is just history repeating. The difference here is the same as your metaphor; the world is a village and now its much easier to see that one conspiracy nut every village has that gets outcasted.

The problem of course is that now those nuts can band together in the thousands thanks to worldwide communication and argue against the (still vast majority) of the village now.
It helps when you have guys that are so convinced that they have found the lance that pierced the side of Christ that they are willing to walk through fire to prove it.
Short-term convenience wins every time.
I found this article from 2018

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/8102547-video-peel-police...

Nearby Peel ON has a drone unit and probably flies similar equipment to York
I used to have a start-up that built a streaming data backend for Excel. You can see an animated gif of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ddmui/rea... the IP was acquired, but I reckon there's still ideas to be iterated on here.
Aren't manufacturers (and branders) normally able to set the minimum advertised prices of their products, in addition to making suggestions (backed by "if you break the rules, we won't sell this to you any more") about how and where retailers can sell and advertise the product?
Frankly I would be much more concerned about the false positive rate of this particular digital dragnet than about that of Apple’s CSAM.
Black people have their own idiosyncratic reasons for vaccine skepticism, unrelated to partisan politics. But anyway, Trump support is still a stronger correlation: https://mobile.twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/14207453318...
It's not about the technical complexity of the change. It's about the public blowback from such a change. The U.S. government compelling Apple to install some all-access backdoor would be a big story.

The U.S. government compelling Apple to make some small process change to this new system wouldn't be a big story by comparison.

Example: A year from now the U.S. government tells Apple they are no longer allowed to review the flagged CSAM imagery themselves but must rather report it directly to law enforcement.

A change most people wouldn't think twice about ("why does Apple need to be the ones reviewing this obscene illegal material anyway") yet would introduce a massive vulnerability into the surveillance process.
Not to mention the effects on children who struggle with their hearing and need to lip-read, from a disability rights point of view I don't think it's quite as simple as "masking kids is great, end of story".
I'm no expert, but I'm fairly sure power there is fragmented, hierarchical, and transactional. Popular support does not figure in. According to Wikipedia, "As estimated by the CIA World Factbook, 26% of the population was urbanized as of 2020. This is one of the lowest figures in the world."

It's probably a fair bet that the urbanized population does not support the Taliban, but they can't stand alone. The warlords and Taliban want control over the largest city, and Kabul depends on the countryside. Think about the urban-rural cultural divide in the US, but imagine that rural people vastly outnumbered urban and that there was no central monopoly on violent force.

Another interesting question is why should the Taliban be stronger than any other potential leadership group? I suspect this comes down to their past success, their connections to Pakistan, and their appeal to international fighters.
Yeah, GP has a couple of interesting ideas mixed in there (NY lockdown policy and building hospital capacity) but the rest are bog standard anti-mask, anti-vax talking points. Masks help, vaccines help -- it's all about pushing R below 1, and a measure doesn't have to be 100% effective (or anywhere near that) to push.

Lockdowns do flatten the curve, and while we might have built new hospitals in a parallel universe, in this one we really don't want to saturate the beds (again). I was pleasantly surprised by the "flatten the curve" narrative -- usually the telephone game ensures that this kind of nuance gets buried under simpler, incorrect versions like "if we just lock down for two weeks, this will be over," but this time around I was pleased to see "flatten the curve" start strong and keep its legs.

CDC's initial mask take was wrong, but evidence changed their minds, and that's a good sign. GP, if you want to harp on this, tell me: if I were to dig through your post history would I find a bunch of poorly aged posts about a silent first wave?
The rule on not using the passive voice in journalism is suspended the moment it’s about cops misbehaving.
First to join gets ops is just a convention. You could certainly write a IRC server that requires strong authentication (client certificate maybe?) and enforces whatever policy you like.

Maybe #dragontamer isn't joinable unless you are in it, and of course you would get ops when you join.
The Taliban are power-hungry and ruthless, while their external (Pakistan/ISI & China) supporters don't mind it.

In an battle between kindness and ruthlessness, (especially where the former is less committed than the latter,) the ruthless will always win. Put another way, if you had one side giving you aid (food/medicine) in exchange for support, and the other (credibly) threatening to kill you for disloyalty, what would you do? You'd probably feign support for the former, and never betray the latter.
It's complicated, because there are legal requirements across many different jurisdiction. The product was built to explicitly solve for the liability issues platforms are facing.

I like your solution. Up until it works for you, that's great.
In real life every other website for the next week would have ads for "how-I-experience-web-today.com", Instagram and Facebook would have ads for other "experiences" as well
Unvaccinated people strain the hospital system; the restrictions and lockdowns are a response to that. Sure we could just not do anything and start triaging (deciding who gets to go to the hospital and who gets to die), but it’s not correct to put zero blame on the voluntarily unvaccinated in either case.
The retail customers who end up buying the stuff are lavishly treated.
The small businesses which sell their products on Amazon are not really 'customers' and are treated like 5th class citizens.
Proof and burden rests on these suppliers shoulders.
“reasonable” and “justified” are arbitrary standards created randomly across every jurisdiction

getting the “perfect case” is not really possible when the “rulings” simply match your pre existing appeal to authority or not

people are therefore pushing as many cases as possible into the national spotlight to make it more obvious that uniform accountability standards republic-wide are necessary. if you feel some other killings need more attention then do that
My household has had zero cases per capita. Population count and relative isolation make a huge difference.

You can't directly compare NZ with places like Germany or the US.
Depends what you take hiking with you...but I imagine at the minimum you have a fire method(matches? lighted? flint? etc) and metal object(pocket knife? belt knife? eating utensil?). Those will work well in a pinch, just don't heat it too much and have an impromptu branding session...
Well, see, that's the thing. Those devices and those rules have existed for decades. Where is the ruthless exploitation?
As a customer why should I care about the seller experience. As a customer I’ve only ever cared about the customer buying experience
If they were actually doing that, great! Unfortunately, as TFA clearly demonstrates, they are doing a crappy job of this sort of negotiations, because their profits are generally a % of total medical spend: more medical spend, more gross profit! So why would you want to limit it?

Hence the fact that, as the article documents, people routinely are getting charged more with insurance than the cash price they would be charged with no insurance. (If you tried to pay the cash price then it doesn't count against your deductible, so it would be rare to do that.)

There was a serious effort by health insurance to restrain medical spending with the HMO/limited medical network era of the early to mid-1990's, which led to a massive pushback from people who hated having to change doctors all the time. In large part because they were so widely hated that no one has tried to revive them (modern HMO's are not nearly as limited in networks) they also were the one period in the last 40 years when medical cost growth was held down.
Thanks—I didn't know about fs/promises
Delta has won this particular battle but not the war.

The existing mRNA vaccines were pretty close to having a sterilizing effect (unexpected and very good surprise) on the previous variants.

There is still hope that the Delta-specific updates (Moderna is already testing theirs) will restore that level of efficacy, and there's also ongoing research on intranasal vaccines which should work even better for that.
Nit: They are unenforcable, but not illegal in themselves: https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...
Right, but the CDC guidance recommends masking elementary-age children (2+). We’d be having a different conversation if the CDC guidance was 12+ like several European countries.
Define "make". Often companies are doing specifications and blueprints, but outsource the actual manufacturing to other companies. I think this would also apply to PNW, since their products (like the seatpost) are afaik not known to be just relabeled versions of other products.
As a French interested in our history, this is the first time I hear that theory.

We do not even really shrug the shoulder, just move it up and then the real message comes from the head and the face you are making.
Do you have uBlock Origin enabled by any chance?
We could do it today if we wanted to. The only thing stoping it is tribalism and irrational fear.
One of the creators works for Coinbase, and the other is at Github.
When he started the company in 2015, presumably he wasn't competing with Amazon (by selling products on their platform that they don't have their own brand of). By now, I'd assume any non-compete that might cover "don't sell products that compete with us" have expired.