skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that you left out the next couple of sentences in that quote: "I’m not saying they made Aaron kill himself. Aaron might have done this anyway."

But either way, what do you think the response from the legal system should be in this situation? Should "my client is a suicide risk" be a path to reduced sentencing? I think that is a huge can of worms. Authorities should certainly work to protect people in their custody to prevent suicide, but I have a hard time agreeing with the idea that they have a responsibility to be more lenient against potentially suicidal defendants.
'DeBoer is skeptical of "equality of opportunity". Even if you solve racism, sexism, poverty, and many other things that DeBoer repeatedly reminds us have not been solved, you'll just get people succeeding or failing based on natural talent. DeBoer agrees conservatives can be satisfied with this, but thinks leftists shouldn't be. Natural talent is just as unearned as class, race, or any other unfair advantage.'

Ok, but it's better for social progress if the naturally talented keep most of their earnings and can afford to have large families, so that their talents are passed on. IQ, athletic and musical ability, looks, etc. all have substantial genetic components.
I dabbled with Atari 2600 game programming. I can appreciate how the frugality of the VCS design put really tight constraints on game devs and in hindsight the VCS could’ve been worlds better if a bit more was invested in hardware. As a game dev on VCS, the kernel of your game loop is essentially drawing each horizontal scanline (on a CRT screen) in realtime, so you have a budget of about 20 assembly instructions (during the hblank at the start of each scan line) to describe what gets drawn on that line as it’s being drawn, including players and missles, and playfield. Then between each frame (during the vblank and overscan) you have a budget of about 30 assembly op codes to detect collisions, change the playfield graphics, adjust the sound, check paddle/joystick inputs, etc. It’s a crazy tight clock cycle budget to work with. I honestly struggled with writing a simple game that could use so few machine op codes per frame, I couldn’t stay in budget so my frames were a mess. I wonder what could’ve been if Atari invested a bit more in giving developers a little bit more to work with. Nintendo NES came out soon after and seemed to learn from Ataris mistakes with the VCS.
In my experience, a higher portion of Azure customers are larger enterprise customers that engage professional services from Microsoft to architect things, etc.

AWS is far more popular in general, but especially with smaller teams that are more self-directed, start with prototypes and iterate from there. It wouldn't surprise my if the latter often only built in redundancy after learning lessons the hard way, even though AWS provides the ability to do so from the get go.

Purely conjecture, but that skew in the customer type is definitely there.
If I had to guess on something external to MS, I'd blame the same storm system that caused a us-west-2 outage today.
>No it isn't. The whole notion of "defense-in-depth" generally does more harm than good IME, as it creates confusion about where the actual security boundaries are.

The security departments of multiple FAANGs, not to mention security experts, completely disagree with you.

>log4j2 was widely disliked and rarely used, IME.

Tell that to the tens of thousands of FAANG engineers who worked all weekend remediating the hundreds of thousands (not exaggeration) instances in their companies where it is in use.
The US Postal Service tested a blockchain mobile voting system
There's at least one AZ in East-1 that doesn't support nitro, and that's been around for 4ish years now...

I agree in principle, but clearly something is hobbling them because of (probably) legacy stuff
Seems most users don't know about https://hnreplies.com/
Code law? You must be kidding. It is OK to chat about "Code Law" among like minded individuals always on the lookout to crack open the pirate's chest.
It is a different story to explain to a judge: "sir, the bank had left the vault open during the fire alarm. I just helped myself with few $M. It is the bank's fault".
Good luck.
Come again? It's already happened:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/business/china-cryptocurr...
Sure, if you limit “traffic violations” to “driving without a license,” and every car made you present a valid license before it would start.

EDIT: The difference being, Apple says YES / NO to every app, and every app always goes through the process, unlike policing traffic violations. If Apple is not being inconsistent, they need to say why.
Also recently switched to Lichess from Chess.com. The biggest benefit so far is the community. I don't know if Lichess just has better mods or if the two sites just attract vastly different crowds.

Some players on Chess.com were downright rude (win or lose) and even had a racial slur tossed at me.

So far so good on Lichess.
A human sized target at those distances make the rifle and scope practically irrelevant. People can reliably do longer distance shots at targets that size with a hand handgun.

It takes some skill, but nowhere near what would qualify as a serious marksmen. According to the US army the average soldier can hit a man sized target at 900 feet about 10% of while at 300 feet it’s closer to 50/50 which is roughly where 2 out of 3 shots puts him. People talk about the car being a moving target but people where beside the car, it was barely moving.
I don't have the source, but I remember read the lichess didn't want to implement other board games in their interface.

For XiangQi, I know that you can play it on playok.com (I know the rules and played a few games last time just to get the feeling, but I am more into chess and shogi...).
That is a frankly bigoted statement and one I'm use to seeing more on Reddit than HN. It is designed to be used voluntarily, or as parental controls for children. This is not $evilTechCompany coming to suck up all of your data.
I said I would pay for it, never said anything about viability and not offering an opinion there. There are choices not built around extraneous ad networks.

When Google places ads for its own products in better places than their customers that are paying for ad space we call that anti-competitive. When Brave blocks web ads and then offers their own ads instead you cheer it on, this is the same kind of anti-competitive practice.

Not everything needs to be free in exchange for ads/tracking/marketing.
The only thing that’s down is Azure Active Directory. If you’re not using that product, everything is working fine.

This is more like Amazon’s IAM product being down than AWS as a whole.
Stan Lee is very sad... that he's not alive to shamelessly shill Marvel NFTs himself. If there's anyone in comics for whom NFTs would be more on brand, I can't think of them.
Maybe I'm kinda leaning beyond the practical/relevance limits of "old code still interesting", but could you open-source the implementation you came up with given the passage of time? Lots of people are stuck on low-bandwidth links so a codebase optimized for slower connections would absolutely fly (and consistently so, for everyone, under lots of conditions), and everyone always wants to use less bandwidth anyway.

From an implementational perspective it's also always good to have explicitly bespoke designs out there to contrast against the bog-standardness of WebRTC with its standard "can't be helped" set of limitations and flaws.

I also find it very fascinating to hear that OSS was the cause of (headdesk-inducing) myopia and blindsiding. My (naive, distant, apparently out of date) impression was that open-source was incorrectly perceived as the inferior option in the stereotypical case. I guess the entropy pool really can go in all the directions...
I think would work only if the user wasn't at the keys. Plus if the adversary has full access to the hardware then what are they doing under my library table!
did they have full rails 7 upgrade/migration guide? like how to remove ujs and turbolinks, how to remove the webpack and setup the js and css bundler for rails pre 7?
The Horizon computer system and the British Post Office scandal
I use Rails as a portable, light, zero-conf frontend for data exploration. Just create the minimum viable rails app (--api), fill in the database connection, and you get a powerful REPL for exploring + rake to run transformations.
Cool! Looks pretty lightweight. Skimming the code, I see some uses of strtok that look unsafe...I think a URL consisting of entirely `?` will crash.

Yep:

Server listening at http://0.0.0.0:5000
Parse error: HPE_INVALID_URL Unexpected start char in url
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
[1] 70550 IOT instruction (core dumped)

(Opened an issue on github)
Average home prices in SF is 1.3M, so a household of two teachers would give them a P/E ratio of 5. The P/E ratio for the average US home is 4.4.

Are teachers overpaid, or are people in SF underpaid relative to the value of a house?
I noticed that too. Even weirder, this is the case when saving from Firefox (which displays HELLO WORLD) and when saving from Safari.
Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2 – Covid-19
Xnm is pure marketing at this point.

# of transistors / area is the closest metric to compare different processes against, which this should be a step up from the status quo.
Turns out that clouds are chaotic and difficult to control.
Our production infrastructure is on Azure and we're seeing basically no impact from this event. I'm not sure what constitutes a major outage but we've had a few others this year that were much worse than this in terms of business impact.
Fantastic! Was the orbit of Mercury early in the 20th centruy the first confirmation?
Heh, I recall that it’s in an early chapter of the original coding interview prep book.
Computers, actually.
This is where I learned it, and it's why I'm much more forgiving of leaders than most people I know.

Which isn't to say they should be unaccountable. But these are people who make impossible choices all the time
They have to find some way to make money. It sure isn't coming from magazines.
I would guess the user is asking what are down detector's dependencies... E.g. can their website function I'd us-east-2 goes down? Or a GCP equivalent? Or are they on a self-hosted server ? What would cause the metrics to be "off"
Disney did it first with Aladin
Just set up two identical projects, one with the last version and one with the current, then run diff?

That being said, rails does have an upgrade task now. I have a lot of faith in it, but absolutely zero trust.
https://github.com/google/wuffs
The Metaverse via Oculus Is Awkward If You're a Woman. and Beware of Griefers
I wonder why this comment is getting down-voted. I am talking about my own experience, and I also acknowledge that it could have gone wrong. What exactly is down-vote worthy here?
Well, you can rotate any wallet, if you're willing to pay: just create a new wallet, pay the transaction fee and transfer your money over to the new address.

It's kinda like with full disk encryption, you can change the key-encrypting-key in seconds, but to rotate master key would require a long time to re-encrypt everything.
I doubt that, the project name is FastWSGI, not FastASGI.
They kinda need to. It'd be too embarrassing to have an outage that nobody notices.
What the world can learn from Japan
Well, one thing that does work for decoding regular old PNGs is separating the entropy decoding (in PNG, DEFLATE) from the prediction (what PNG calls filtering). You can create a pipeline where one thread is working on the entropy coding and handing off completed rows to a thread that performs the prediction decode. This doesn't get a 2x speedup because usually DEFLATE is slower than the prediction step, so it ends up bottlenecked on zlib, but it helps a good bit. (I implemented this in Rust at one point with the intention to ship in Firefox, but it never did.)

Of course, this only scales to 2 CPUs. Beyond that you will need to do some sort of splitting of the input to achieve wins (since no matter how much you optimize the filtering, you're still bottlenecked on DEFLATE, which is inherently serial).
Archive link here.

http://web.archive.org/web/20211215154303/https://www.econom...
There's an article like this once a week because everyone is trying to stake their claim to "I predicted it" so that in 10-15 years they can retire on the conference circuit (ala yann lecun and bengio and all those others).

Here's the truth: the future of AI is commitment completely unknown and not even at all certain - plenty of revolutionary technologies have fallen to wayside over the years.

So to my fairly-educated-in-this-area mind I think we should stop listening to wannabe thought leaders (and even minted thought leaders) and just keep focused on our small parts.
Honestly, I think it was a form given to them as part of a deal that they just overlooked. They told people to hold off signing it pretty quickly after people pointed out the clause. I’m going to assume good intentions here since they changed tack so quickly.
If this is the level of sophistication just going after an iPhone by a private company, it’s laughable to think our critical infrastructure isn’t able to be completely turned off on demand.

An invisible nuke that destroys access to clean water overnight across the nation, that’s the future!
> I guess you're abandoning that claim now? If so, maybe do it honestly.

This is unnecessarily aggressive. Also, it’s not fun reading a thread dominated by one or more people who are combative.
non-immunized people are more likely to end up in the hospital or have longer hospital stays. full hospitals result in deaths of immunized people. long hospital stays of non-immunized people drive up medical costs for everyone. etc.

we live in a society. basically all choices impact others.
"The reason is space complexity. You can't store every node in a set".

Jokes on you, I've got 128 gigs of heap.
Yes, I'd take work at Apple and work with her. Why wouldn't I? Oh, right, because I'd be fearful of being accused of sexual harassment, right? I have no such fear because I haven't ever experienced those kinds of "misunderstandings," I am not a predator, and I am mature enough to control myself while at work. I'm also not needy, so I don't need to use the workplace to find romance. I respect my colleagues, even the ones I really don't care for, and I show them I respect them with my respectful behavior and by never objectifying them. Other people are ends in themselves, even the very attractive ones, not a means to my solving loneliness or getting off. If a colleague has a grievance, I listen to them and show them I understand rather than dismissing, avoiding, demeaning or attacking them.
Tl;dr

Private School
I wouldn't be surprised if he coined it.

Admittedly, I'm a Buffet fan, so I think he can do anything.

But he is pretty famously a bit of a wordsmith
The science news that shaped 2021
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561885
Sonic.net is using bind9, where this "qname-optimization" is a default setting for protecting user privacy.

https://www.isc.org/blogs/qname-minimization-and-privacy/

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html (look for qname)

(I work at Sonic)
discussion ended up happening later here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561885
Yamaha RA-100 Rotating Speaker Organ Amp
I've essentially developed my own boiler plate as I've built my last few projects. I could clone a project and strip it down in about a day.
https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf

I made https://github.com/linkdd/ooduck based on this book a few years ago.
Hmm...

> In 2019-2020, public school enrollment dropped by 3 percent nationwide

Later

> The National Association of Independent Schools comprises private, non-parochial schools. They report a net enrollment growth of 1.7% over the two pandemic years.
> To scale to thousands (is this even useful?)

Think of a citizens' forum, or people watching a sporting event together.
I haven't found an agg that fits the bill, but this is a problem of agency.

If I don't have the tools to curate the swaths of metadata, then results will only ever be mostly correct.
I thought a lot about the comments here today, it's not often you see so much anger about just the mere insinuation that a company may possibly release what essentially seems like an IoT product.
I had trouble thinking of why the possibility of this being true would enrage so many, when you have no obligation to even buy it if it does become real.

The best reason I can think of is that a lot of people were genuinely excited at Google glass or daydream when it was still budding, and want to see cool/impressive tech exist but are jaded by the previous emotional investments that didn't pay off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561325
With these requirements, probably a day, with a few breaks. The UI wouldn't be pretty since it's not really my speciality, but it would work.

I would use an Elixir/Phoenix stack and get 75% of the reqs from generated code.
So don't buy macs.

Either way, in this case they blocked a developer that was making what sure as hell looks like spyware to me, I'm not convinced this is a bad thing.

Also, you absolutely do need a license to operate a car. Probably not a good metaphor for your case.
…we should celebrate the fact that Rogan's show is as popular as it is. Where else would you hear from both Bernie Sanders and Ben Shapiro. From Michael Pollan and Michael Shellenberger. From Jewel and Snoop Dog.
rqlite author here, happy to answer any questions about it. It seems some folks have questions about its design, and the design of systems that combine SQLite and Raft in general. Checking out the rqlite design docs might be helpful:

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/DESIGN.md
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/ciks=0001713445&entityNam...
> running in an unsafe language kind of crazy?

It sounds like their first step in remediation was to move the GIF copy operation into the BlastDoor sandbox, which is written in Swift.
I think when you are providing such a valuable service, there is almost zero chance they just stop.
Has anyone used AudioKit in a playground? I’ve had some ideas kicking around for ages about what I want from a live looper. Since I’d run it on an iPad it seems like a good place to try building it, if it has enough access to the microphone/file system.
Computers are the children of humans which arguably are a mistake too... So really, blame the universe!
That's the temp fix that Tableau pushed.
cool!thx.
It would be great if author could elaborate on performance bottlenecks of existing SFU implementations and posted some benchmarks or even better some profiling graphs. Given that reference webrtc is written in C++ I wonder what percentage of performance gains was attributed to rust ?
Time to write code that indebts the user to you forever, then get FAMAGMA to use it.

Code is law.
The implementation discussed here sounds like it runs directly on the metal, or at least as close to the metal as IBM lets you get on those machines. IBM's mainframe OS (MVS then, z/OS now) also includes a different a UNIX implementation called USS (UNIX System Services) - this works in a similar way to the way WSL 1 did, and acts as an emulation layer that allows you to compile and run UNIX software on top of the mainframe OS, and do things like using a mainframe dataset as a mounted filesystem. It even includes an interactive shell implementation that runs on a 3270 terminal.

I briefly worked for a large mainframe software vendor on a port of OpenLDAP that used USS. There's some real funky things going on in the emulation layer; bytes received from TCP sockets are automatically re-encoded from ASCII to EBCDIC before your program sees them, and bytes you send are automatically re-encoded from EBCDIC to ASCII. That made working on network code lots of "fun" since there are a lot of folks that seem to like to hardcode the values for ASCII CR and LF instead of using "\r" and "\n".
I have certainly turned to Rails many times to write a bunch of ActiveRecord models to play around with data in the console without ever running the web server.
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My initial reaction is you’re a CTO not a developer. Perhaps you’re trying to play both - something got to give if that’s the case given the leadership overhead.

As others have mentioned- hire the best and empower them. If being a developer is your passion then perhaps you should consider giving up the CTO role.
Good choice for using llhttp, I was always wondering why everyone in the python world keeps ignoring llhttp since it's so much faster than any others. I hope to see some http client lib using llhttp.
Yeah, I need to get around to creating a Go sql.DB layer. Been too busy adding to the database itself. :-) Soon!
Well it's late December but this might be the coolest hack this year for me!
Part of Security is knowing your adversaries power. I think you might be on the right track. You can’t put a price on the security of an algorithm. However, Satoshi gave us a very good metric for calculating it.
We're probably just really, really far apart on potentially every point on which this conversation might want to turn. For example, I'm a capitalist and from your short response above it's likely that what I think is obvious is the exact opposite of everything you think is obvious, so I'm not sure there's hope of resolving much here.
The dark side of a cross-functional team
Considering that private/independent school population is much smaller, a 3% drop in a large population is not made up for in a 1.7% increase in a smaller one.

Homeschooling is also a factor, but there have been kids that have simply disappeared from school: I've seen it first hand, and have contacts that tell me it's systemic throughout my state.
It's very clever. But if you think Mao was some benevolent genius modernizing his people with a sly trick, you need to read more history.
I’m a teacher. I’ve seen similar numbers reported elsewhere.

Key take away appears to be that “many families simply opted out of remote learning in the non-compulsory grades of pre-K and kindergarten”.

The declines are real, but mostly because families are delaying their initial start rather than students unenrolling from the upper grades (though enrollments have shifted from public to private/charter).
Reddit files to go public
NuBank promoting the fact their average employees age is 26 just makes me feel old as I approach 28 lol...
Sure, but rqlite tries to give you the best of both worlds -- a distributed database that is also lightweight and super-easy to run.
Universe so so huge to judge, lets say blame atom.
Last I heard Bush approved the pill for purchase over the counter in the early 2000s for those over the age of 17 and in 2016 a judge declared the age restriction should be lifted. Not sure where the prescription requirement came in.
Accept that, like the vast majority of people, your job is meaningless. When you really think about it, what does your job bring to the world? Probably not much. Probably nothing more important than spending time with your family when they need you.
At my last company, there was an existing product (an auto ml product for business users) built on Flask with a ton of serialization occurring to populate various charts in the GUI.

After I had left that specific team, I came back and swapped out the json serializer with orjson. It was like 5 lines of code if I recall. The performance skyrocketed. The GUI was noticeably far more responsive in populating the various charts and plots. By "noticeable" I mean it was loading in less than a 1/3 the previous time. Definitely recommend it. It's written in Rust, and it inspired me to start learning the language.
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Doesn't pretty much everything depend on IAM to know what it's allowed to do? I suppose if you had stuff already running then it might be able to keep going on cached authorizations, but that still sounds likely to cause a lot of problems.