skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. Yes you are right. I was directly referencing the idea of purposful backdoors becoming the norm.
Applying other people's rules (advice) to situations tends not to work out well. Using other people's advice to create your own framework and using that to live seems to work better.
Correction: Virus Outbreak – Mississippi Ivermectin Story
There was barely a second between the first indication of a primary computer fault and the call for reversers to deploy. Once you select reverse thrust, you cannot go around under any circumstances.
PostGreSQL provides JSON functions if your data have more of a document feel to them.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/functions-json.html
>Does ZeroTier require a central coordination server for authentication and to distribute public keys?

You can run your own network controller, although that option isn't very well documented. If you did, that network controller would be the only thing that had the private keys that sign changes to the network configuration. The basic network controller is bundled with the zerotier builds, but there's no web UI or anything like that.

>I see there are “moons” and you can install your own moon. How much is the effort for self hosted version?

It's easy to set up a moon. By default every zerotier install can also work as a moon. The challenge is more in configuring all the other nodes to use that moon. Some platforms, like android/iphone, I don't believe can be currently set up to use custom moons. There's currently no way to remove the default zerotier moons, as they're hard-coded.

I think the only thing you really get out of a custom moon is that it can act as a relay server, and can work in an environment where there's no internet at all. I wish that it was easier to push moon config to other nodes, as right now the feature is kind of useless.

>Another question: How does ZeroTier bypass NAT if the connections are peer to peer? Is it similar to Tailscale (UPnP and STUN, followed by relaying)?

Yep.
I'm convinced that most of the people complaining about build times are using docker for some incomprehensible reason and are blowing away the dependency cache with every build.
> accumulated rubber from those landings

Rubber accumulation on runways is a normal and expected situation. Part of runway maintenance at airports serving larger aircraft includes regular removal of the rubber using high pressure water or chemicals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_rubber_removal
Comments like

x = 4 # Sets x to 4

Are of course silly and I'd laugh at them too, but comments when used correctly are hugely valuable.

Even a stale comment can be helpful in giving you a sense of what people were trying to do.

Do you not use commit messages either? Do you have any documentation at all?
> Then the term "tramp stamp" caught on like wildfire and the practice came to an abrupt stop.

In Germany, the same happened, but via the term "Arschgeweih" ["ass antler"].

For the readers who understand German: there also existed a song "Bye Bye Arschgeweih" by Ina Müller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIY1SZ_boEQ

(the song title is of course a pun on the refrain line "Bye-bye, Miss American Pie" of the song American Pie by Don McLean)
Thousand times this. The biggest mistake my parents made, was giving up on their mother tongue to help me learn a language they were not fluent in. I did not learn the new language from them, I learned it from school, reading books, movies and all sort of others things which were present everywhere. Their decision only made socialising with other cousins and family members difficult for me, made unnecessary overhead for our inter-family communication, made me in fact segregated.
If you have kids, let your kid master their parents mother tongues and flourish.
> Does your data model change often? PostgreSQL and MySQL well be very difficult to make fundamental changes.

I hear this argument a lot and I struggle with it.

It is an argument that, at least for me, falls into the same category as "you should design your schema in a portable manner".

The "portable schema" argument is easy to disprove because if you don't design your schema in accordance with the features available in your database then you are setting yourself up for a big performance fail (e.g. for those of you familiar with the work of Tom Kyte of Oracle, a party trick of his was detailed evidence-based demonstrations of why you should use Oracle features in your schema design vs generic schemas ... but the same applies in the open-source world, e.g. Postgres[1]).

The problem I have with the "use noSQL because your data model changes often" is that you then become heavily reliant on your upstream devs who are coding the app layer to behave themselves because you are no longer in a position to enforce or validate their actions at database layer. It also potentially puts you at risk of loosing the database's position as "source of truth" - because if upstream can change your data model at a whim, it means you could easily loose visibility of data elements overnight.

To me, relational databases will always have a place in the world and I don't think people should blindly follow alternative models just because its the bandwagon of the day. ACID compliance is, AFAIK, not available anywhere else other than an RDBMS setting.

NoSQL, graph databases etc. also have a place in the world of course, but only if you understand the limitations and tradeoffs you are accepting. It is quite possible that many people would be better off with RDBMS.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
Try ureq instead, like in this article: https://datacrayon.com/posts/programming/rust-notebooks/type...
Most open source crypto code just does what NIST and DJB say to do. There's no magic imparted by it being FOSS.
Its unfortunate they don’t calculate how big a difference it made. They’d calculated a 170ft margin and stopped with 30ft margin and I’m curious what their braking delta was for that 700ft of deterioration.

« With three FCPCs inoperative, actual remaining runway distance (30 feet margin) of the occurrence flight was shorter than the calculated value (172 feet margin), possibly due to tailwinds, runway conditions, and manual braking as these factors might increase the braking distance. »

I get sucked into how all the little things that are not right make such a big difference in these kind of scenarios.
You aren't going to fill openings for bad jobs if workers are determined not to settle for anything less than their rightful due.

General Strike on October 15, y'all. Take some PTO and lie flat in solidarity with your fellow workers.
Calling ivermectin a “horse dewormer” is the lowest form of intellectual discourse - political meme warfare using pejorative labels. It says more about those who repeat the phrase blindly. Ivermectin is a Nobel prize winning drug that has had incredibly surprising applications. I haven’t looked into it much, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone determined it had some application with COVID. Even if it isn’t very effective, it might provide an imperfect benefit with limited downside, which is all we get from the various vaccines out there anyways. But really what is wrong with people speculating about drugs, discussing them, and making choices on their own about their health and what risks they are comfortable with?

Ultimately the ivermectin controversy is less about ivermectin itself and more about other problems in modern western society that have been laid bare by the pandemic. It’s about uncivil discourse (“horse dewormer”). Its about bad reporting and a failing journalism industry that veered too far into manufacturing narratives. It’s about blindly trusting authorities. It’s about whether speculation and free thought is allowed. It’s about collectivism versus individualism. It’s about groupthink and tribalism. It’s about censorship, for example YouTube censoring videos of the Nobel prize winner discussing ivermectin (https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-censors-dr-satoshi-omura-i...).

We have seen other similar situations throughout the pandemic, like with early speculation about COVID’s existence, whether it could transmit between humans (WHO said it can’t in late Jan 2020!), about masks, about the lab leak theory, and now this.

PS: many left-leaning pharmacists are openly discussing on social media how they can arbitrarily deny doctors’ prescriptions for ivermectin and other drugs that have become politically charged (example: https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/p8zq68/what_are_y...). That may be why some patients are seeking out veterinary doses, which may then be leading to ODs.
I think automatically maintaining materialized views isn’t well supported for a lot of reasons. But I also don’t think that it’s impossible for something like Postgres to support it more in the future.
Wood floor turn footsteps into electricity from the triboelectric effect
"Witchhunt? Only we do that."
At least speaking for Postgres, it _is_ modern in that it’s very actively developed with all kinds of innovations layered on top of the core system. It can be a timeseries db, a real-time db, horizontally sharded, a self-contained REST/graphql API server, a graph db, an interface to many APIs via foreign data wrappers, and much more. In itself it has many analytics functions, and most cloud OLAP dbs use its syntax over a columnar storage scheme. I’m afraid most would-be database projects would be cloned by a Postgres extension before they could make a dent in its share.
Nola has the most shipping tonnage of any port in the hemisphere.

There's many billions of dollars of port and plant infrastructure there.

Its way cheaper and easier just to rebuild the city every few years and pay to buffer it against disaster than to relocate all of that.

Just like it's easier to keep a legacy code base that's working and making money than fully rebuild it.

Nola's not going anywhere anytime soon.
> It would be interesting to see a display of “cost” in projects

cargo-bloat is kind of along these lines, although it only measures the absolute size of each dependency (as opposed to "dead weight") and has some platform limitations.

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-bloat/
AIUI the lack of checked division is that integer division always produces an equal or smaller number, and therefore can't overflow.
That sounds like a great war story if you’re open to telling it :)
>waste your download/upload/CPU/RAM/disk

Those are present here but not the largest threat. This service apparently makes you download ~300MB you have no idea what is and SHARES it in the background. What if it is child abuse content? This isn't even a "think of the children" argument, it can have very real consequences to anyone cluelessly browsing the web unlike your usual p2p network.

WebRTC has additional insecurities and deanonymization potential like VPN leaks. I'm fairly certain the only reason so many people have it enabled is a certain large browser distributor happens to own some services that use WebRTC to reduce server bandwidth costs, and they want to make it's usage seamless without displaying even a small warning about the risks. Perhaps they also consider deanonymization a feature.
New Zealand banned foreign buyers a couple years ago and house prices are up 20-50% nationwide since then.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/119636052/foreign-buy...

The problem is that people chronically overestimate the number of foreign buyers in the market. I can't find data for the Netherlands online, but for other western nations, it is around four or five percent of demand. Removing that will have essentially no noticable impact on housing prices as NZ has learned.

The advantage of a foreign ban is political in nature. Foreigners can't vote in local elections, so politicians lose very little, and the actual electorate is satisfied that government is 'doing something' about the problem.

It's a no lose situation for the politician, but at best it does nothing to reign in the issue of housing costs, and at worst it fans the flames of xenophobia.
I have been following this topic closely and am in that community.
No I have not read the book, but if it mirrors your short summary, I stand by my assertion.
Thank for the book recommend, I’ll take a gander.
PipelineDB!
High volume data ingestion and tunable consistency because Most sites start out with these two databases but eventually end of porting significant sections of their database to Cassandra.
The intentional weakening of ECC has been an open secret for decades, and it's suspicious that this wasn't known by Juniper.

I wonder if they were coerced into including it?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...
> "Just-in-time" means "no buffer". We have, for decades, been doing as much as possible to make all our economic systems as efficient as possible, which is to say with no extra capacity.

This is true, but I don't see an antidote. The government couldn't just tell businesses to "be inefficient"!
2/2

Some years ago there was no reason to think that the dust was diluting away with any driver other than some single impulse in the distant past. An initial acceleration, followed by an eternity of inertial motion. More recently evidence has tended to disfavour purely inertial motion, driving the study of possible mechanisms for (and expressions of) ongoing acceleration.

A strong enough violation of the cosmological principle -- that there is something unexpected and atypical about the local neighbourhood our galaxy cluster is in -- might drive us back to a purely inertial expansion, if that atypicality is causing us to mistake a local gravitational acceleration for a cosmological one. This is the topic of the Hossenfelder blog entry.

However, one possible result is that there is something unexpected about the gravitation in the local neighbourhood, but that it applies in other local neighbourhoods too, including those containing extremely bright sources like quasars, returning us to the problem of accelerated expansion. Real proposals that are under investigation include the dynamical outflow of gas and stars from galaxy clusters, driven by the internals of these clusters and the gravitational influence of neighbouring overdensities (our "local hole" is adjacent to several including the Shapley Supercluster, about 231 Mpc distant). Such processes over cosmological timescales may serve to drive galaxy clusters towards typicality.

There are also many open questions about the intermediate regime between the cosmological scale and the galactic scale each of which can be studied with a much more easy to work with approximation of the full theory of General Relativity. z ~ 0.04-0.55 - ~ 100-250 Mpc is right in that intermediate regime. The growth of our theoretical toolbox may resolve some blurry problem at the length scales that are at the root of the arguments in several of the papers Hossenfelder's blog post refers to. The result might be that the allegedly unexpected local phenomenon ("the local hole") should have been expected after all. See https://astrobites.org/2021/09/01/gravity-on-all-scales/ for some details.
> Contemporary research on intelligence has repeatedly disproven claims of multiple intelligences.

Citation?
Personally as a free software zealot, I'm actually pretty happy with zerotier's licensing. The BSL license they've chosen reverts to MIT after 5 years, so there's very little risk of vendor lock in. As near as I can tell everything except their web interface has the source available, so there's nothing that makes you dependent on their infrastructure.

It means that you need to negotiate with them if you want to build a product on top of their work (unless it's older than 5 years) but other than that minor compromise it keeps in spirit with free software.
HN's core audience migrated from reddit after it became victim to the eternal September effect after it went mainstream. Reddit's core culture is the same as HN's - which is to say liberal, atheist, materialist and STEM-fetishising, and drawn to geek culture/media. Demographics-wise, white males from the US, predominantly urban/city-oriented. The main difference is that HN is more technical, and probably older because of said migration.

My experience with people being toxic or negative or whatever has been mainly people being passive-aggressive or hostile, regardless of politics. Most reactionary content here just gets flagged into oblivion regardless of how it's presented, of course. So the unpleasantness that actually sticks around tends to be either apolitical or liberal/progressive (I find neoliberals are too busy trying to make money to engage in petty arguments!).
http://trimread.org/articles/1154
It is unethical to paywall knowledge, especially when the ones doing the paywalling have done absolutely nothing to actually help in the discovery of that knowledge.

FWIW, I am an academic computer scientist too, have published in top-tier venues, and fully support pirating papers.
CDC is build-in via binlog; it’s the basis of most replication schemes but can be consumed by anything.
> Having extra inventory, no matter how well-implemented, is actually an anti-pattern in lean manufacturing

Arguably lean manufacturing is an anti-pattern.
I can't argue against that iff the team has this capability.

Unfortunately, I saw too many teams that end up implementing an informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of PostgreSQL.
Verio censored John Gilmore's email (2001)
I'm just one voice (and I'm probably not someone who uses your specific library), but this does sound like a good idea. I'd appreciate it (though I understand that this takes effort and maintenance, so I understand if you don't want to!)

Your 20 second library is not too bad when it's used on its own, but add 5 or 6 libraries that all "only" take a few seconds and you're waiting a solid five minutes compiling other people's code and their dependencies.

Even simple Rust programs quickly end up compiling several versions of several libraries because of the dependency tree, some of which can include large libraries like Tokio and Serde. I love libraries that make use of feature flags, they massively cut down on my compile time.

This isn't really any library developers' fault, it's a problem with the entire ecosystem. Cargo is not dissimilar from NPM where you can quickly end up with an exploded dependency chain of hundreds of megabytes in supporting code before you even realize.
I’m an amateur electrical engineer and I’ve taken time to read research papers about robotics and electronics. I learn all kinds of stuff.

I think there’s a problem in the world (at least in engineering) where research is being done two or more times because of lack of information dissemination. Once by the university researcher, once by the corporate researcher, and many times by the layman who is moving through conclusions on his own work.
> do consider it unforgiveable that the question is not asked as a matter of course.

This is just ridiculous. Should the florist ask if the recipient has allergies? Why not ask if there are other pets, why are you calling out cats only? Flowers can also be toxic to dogs as well.

I think you are looking to blame someone for something that happened, and assing the blame to the wrong person. My thoughts are no less valid than yours wanting to blame a florist.
Oh my god, this explains so much. Thank you
IQ is largely genetic.
Studies have shown this for decades.

If you find our current understanding of reality offensive, that sounds like wonderful motivation to do a study of your own.

It must be sad to have so little sense of humor you get offended at the movie that features president commacho
That's what security researchers and cryptographers had been warning about all along. Security for thee but not for me doesn't work.
I used to be a street skater in the mid nineties in a small German town. Was pretty cool, doing all the street skating stuff. And we made sure to not be associated with "Rollerbladers", the guys and girls (obviously girls were different so) using the stoppers to brake. It stopped being cool so, no idea why exactly. Hell, we even had people with home made half and quarter pipes in their backyards back then...
US metropolitan areas by median population density
Not if you're using the Debian version.

They could at least package rustup, I have no idea why they don't.
See previous thread "Browsers eating RAM" regarding these tests:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179817
1. Automatic backups to an S3 compatible storage, out of the box.

2. Progressive automatic scalability. As load increases or storage runs out, the DB should be able to automatically. NewSQL databases do this already.

3. Tiered storage.

4. Support streaming, stream processing, in memory data structures, etc. I feel like this is one of those weird things but I keep wishing this were possible when I work on side projects or startups. I don't want to have to spin up mysql/postgres, kafka/pulsar, flink/whatever/stream processing, redis, etc separately because that would be prohibitively expense when you're just getting off the ground unless you have VC money. So I find myself wishing I could deploy something that would do all of those things, that could also scale somewhat until the need to break everything into their own infrastructure, and if it was wire compatible with popular projects then that would be perfect. Will it happen? I doubt it, but it would be lovely assuming it worked well.
The irony of needing to use sci-hub to read an article about sci-hub.
Looking forward to see this approved, given that Google isn't doing this even for Pixels.
> It has broad PGSQL language compatibility

Depends how you define broad. :)

Many key features are missing, including but not limited to:

- UDFs and sprocs.
- Useful datatypes such as TSTZRANGE
- More limited constraints

I was recently looking at Cockroach as a PGSQL replacement because of its distributed nature. But the equivalence featureset is still lagging badly, unfortunatley.
What if an insider helped the foreign adversary gain access?
Even in the "people at home" category, all the good channels I can think of have very high quality. They just happen to be about a person talking on or off-camera. AvE and This Old Tony come to mind.
How to make stories predictable, part 12. Every time I read these rules, I get closer to understanding why professional storytelling is so often boring and predictable these days.
Not going to lie, I never thought this was a thing that'd need doing, but on further reflection it seems so obvious I'm kinda mad it never occurred to me in retrospect.
Can't do this indefinitely in some countries :/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law)
I have both a M1 MacBook Air and 12.9in iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard.... the iPad Pro is only used as an external monitor (sidecar) because of the M1 monitor limitations, and besides that, it collects dust...

Unfortunately, I always find it easier to just pick up a laptop to get anything done. Even if it's just browsing from the sofa, where I'd be too worried about the iPad tipping backwards!