skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill's mother also paid for the computer time at the high school Bill went to with his other friends who formed Microsoft with him. Since this was before the Microcomputer, time sharing on a minicomputer or mainframe was very expensive. So Bill and his friends had knowledge of programming a computer before anyone else did.

IBM claimed DRI charged too much for CP/M, and since Microsoft made BASIC IBM thought they could get a better deal on a DOS from Microsoft.

86-DOS became PC-DOS/MS-DOS and the DOS interrupts emulated the CP/M interrupts or API as it was later called. Back then, it was legal to reverse engineer stuff and make a copy of it using new source code. But the claim of Paterson and others was that they didn't pirate/steal CP/M they made an API in DOS that could run CP/M programs and then had a program that could convert a program to DOS from CP/M because the executable file format was different in DOS.

Microsoft did undercut CP/M in OS price, which was a big factor in getting paid by IBM and other OEMS for their DOS.

Microsoft Windows came out in 1985 and over the years it took more and more features from the Apple Macintosh. It did not have the source code of a Mac, but it was designed to use some of the look and feel from a Mac. Enough for trade dress lawsuits. Microsoft and Apple settled their differences out of court in the late 1990's.

CP/M was a good operating system, my father bought me and my siblings a Commodore 128 after the Commodore 64 died. By that time the Z80 coprocessor on the 128 ran CP/M80 for cheap, but it was too late, DOS had killed CP/M.
"Git 'em!" FTFY.
They should invest in some PR to let people know it's a platform, not a monolithic community. Although some people identify as "Redditors" which kind of undermines that point...
Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
Better search for JIRA
the bigger issue is that once cash is gone your purchasing history is available to government and nothing there is protected from prying eyes. plus a cashless society is far easier to control as purchases can be blocked at anytime as a goods or services can be declared illegal.

so while Visa is the threat in the forefront we need to be very wary about any attempt to push towards a cash less society until privacy is guaranteed from even government agencies
Some differences between the airplane analogy and the nuclear plant analogy:

1) When a plane fails catastrophically, the impact is limited to a smaller geographical area.

2) Pollution from the failure of a plane doesn't involve what is estimated to be a century-long endeavor to cleanup.

3) The toxicity from plane failures do not invade nearly every facet of life, making entire areas unlivable.

I am not a proponent of nuclear energy because we do not have a way to handle the full lifecycle, including failures. We will have this someday, but the idea of "well throw this waste into a rock formation somewhere and hope it doesn't cause a problem because it takes hundreds of years to handle" is just not reasonable. Even today, the Hanford site in Washington is leaking radioactive shit into the Columbia River and there is no estimated date to complete this cleanup.
Congrats, I really like Reddit as a user! It's already been around for a while though so it is hardly a startup now. Can a website redesign really triple or quadruple 200M dollar investment? I am interesting what those investors are thinking and how they are calculating this.
This is a much broader trend in contemporary media. The line between news and editorial has been all but erased.
RC car controlled by text chat (Twitch) [Raspberry Pi]
Oh man that would be so heavy haha. But I won't rule it out!
I have done very similar things in code rather in SQL.
just a bit of curious, I understood it is not possible many to many connections, but why don't you allow from cancel->started again?
The business logic is always tend to be changed. I think this is a bad example using FSM here.
IMHO, I will only want to apply stable, constant and (code)internal FSM to pgSQL.
(Thought about a joke how to kill a programmer just needs change the requirements three times. lol)
Good article anyway.
If you're interested in a hard copy, these guys did a beautiful print run of it:

https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...
How many people died in all of those? Now compare to the particulate pollution coal releases, which would force evacuation of neighborhoods if we treated them as nuclear plants.

The US Navy has operated hundreds of reactors for decades 24/7.
Tesla doesn't benefit financially from the tax credits, they mostly benefit other automakers.

SpaceX doesn't have subsidies, it has contracts.

Elon Musk isn't any more reliant on subsidies than anyone else. How do you feel about the Koch brothers? They receive far more government assistance than Musk. Look anywhere else in the energy industry and you'll find more government assistance than what Elon receives.
I am calm, but the fact that science fiction entertainment and smart people in real life think AI is a threat is a sign we may have gotten a little carried away in taking notes from entertainment.

If someone would like to provide some evidence of some form of computer intelligence acting maliciously, this would be a different discussion, but the fact is that sort of thing has no basis in reality and so should have no influence on the way we behave and debate in reality.
That's Magi thinking, not warrior thinking.

If you are applying for a job at a company, there is no chance you are going to change their entire compensation strategy as a precondition to getting the job. So it's either engage Warrior mode and negotiate, or move on and interview somewhere else.

If you found a company, or in a position in your current company that upper management will listen to you, that's a better opportunity to switch to Magi mode and discuss how to change the entire compensation policy to something better for everyone involved.
Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel
Well, yes to a TV with a cheap USB-C -> HDMI 2.0 dongle.
There's natural amounts of radiation that people are exposed to. Taking a commercial airline flight or handling a banana are good comparable measures - if it's less than those, it's not really worth worrying about.
I'd be surprised if the biggest source of injury from solar wasn't from installers falling off roofs.

You can't count all of those injuries against solar itself, though, as roofing injuries will happen regardless, and putting up solar panels greatly extends the life of a roof, so the amortized total injury to installers doesn't go up as much.
Quantum tunneling takes time, new study shows
They seemed to be suffering some external attacks / DDoS but I never saw a post-mortem from them on it, hopefully one is forthcoming (or maybe is out but I missed it)
My guess is their sales pitch would be for you to run your own instance of Github Enterprise or doing something fancy with Web Hooks. At work we did the former for a while before switching to Gitlab. We had less downtime than Github (not that they have much) but since the ops is on you in that situation, YMMV.
> Especially when safety can be engineered to arbitrary standards with enough money.

There is not 'enough money'. If a reactor shows cracks in the steel in critical places, preventing this upfront might not be technologically possible and afterwards repairing might also be so expensive, that it economically makes no sense.

The big problem: if there is a technical problem, it is politically a very tough decision to close it, because of the costs involved (loss of profits from selling electricity, costs of decommissioning, costs of replacement, ...). Thus a more or less clear need to shutdown the reactor because of technical unfitness will conflict with financial interests and the scale of the money involved makes it worse.
Doesn't it address this in the intro paragraph?

"The production of energy can be attributed to both mortality (deaths) and morbidity (severe illness) cases as a consequence of each stage of the energy production process: this includes accidents in the mining of the raw material, the processing and production phases, and pollution-related impacts."
Don't forget things like Small Modular Reactors:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small...

http://www.nuscalepower.com/
I still remember Digg. Great community, but once they changed the UX and some features, everything went downhill.
Comparison is incomplete without taking into consideration BDBA (beyond design basis accidents). Probability of an accident worse than Chernobyl is low, but not zero. Multiply it by economic loss from large densely populated area becoming uninhabitable, and it can easily flip the conclusion.
Incompetence is ousting the CEO that grew a company to $70B with no succession plan. FWIW, the only two boardmembers involved in the ousting were Benchmark and TPG. Let this be a warning to anyone ever considering either for a board seat.
What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development.

I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.
Agreed on all points. They (MySQL and PostgreSQL) were written and optimized to run on constrained hardware. When you remove those constraints (which is where the configuration pain comes in), they really are capable of absurd volume.

> running large databases on virtualized hardware like AWS really brings the pain.

The pain, I've found, mostly stems from the fact that it is a VM, and the performance costs associated with that. When you assume that your disk is local, and it's actually a network volume with shared network bandwidth, you'll get kicked right in the assumption. Or you assume that you have a static amount of memory, but the balloon drivers punt you into swap, or that you will get reliable interrupts from the OS...

It's gotten better over the years, but it's still a mess.

Oh, and I've said it before, so I'll say it again. If you're running MySQL in RDS, go in and turn up the 'innodb_log_file_size' setting to a bare minimum of 2GB, 15GB if you have the disk space. Go, do it now!
Fission power's bad rep is bad for fusion power, the latter being way more safe in any respect.

Anyway, although it is a serious issue, to this day no cities had to be evacuated permanently because of air pollution.

Regretfully, nuclear energy has an aura of doom, and investment in nuclear power plants wrongfully reek of hubris.

Even if it isn't a renewable source, fission power is one of our best allies in tackling CO2 emissions. At least it may buy us some time before fusion power and the dissemination of renewables.
That's because Google always inflates result numbers, until you get to the last page... for me, that last page is 5 and there is 46 results.
It's recommended to access AAD through the Microsoft Graph API (as opposed to the AAD Graph API) unless it is one of the few scenarios not yet supported on Microsoft Graph. There is a lot of investment in adding new functionality to Microsoft Graph (such as the ability to extend AAD entities with custom, persisted properties on the /beta/ endpoint) and tooling. You can try/prototype out a bunch of your AAD requests in the Graph Explorer without writing code/needing to authenticate for most calls:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer
It's the absolute opposite of skewed. It's fair and representative. If a country needs XX TWh/year, this is exactly how many deaths will be caused by the various production methods.

You car analogy is on the other hand completely wrong: the death/HP is a meaningless indicator. How about deaths per mile travelled? Check out the values at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort which has a section for traveling (named Additional)
I was so close to doing this when I was making my new blog, then I found out that the CSS element responsible for making the code block scollable isn't supported on mobile.
"Completely eliminates the possibility" sounds like something a supervillain would say.

I'm not saying that this passive safety system won't work, or is a bad idea. It sounds great from the brief description. BUT. There's a terrible, terrible tendency of the pro-nuclear side to use bombastic language, and then sneer at those with doubts as ignorant and emotional rather than logical.

Pricing promises are another problem. "Power too cheap to meter" has been promised since the 1950s. It hasn't happened yet.

Be careful with your language.
I find this line of reasoning a little misleading. Looking at nuclear's safety record isn't entirely the correct measure, its that the potential consequences are so extreme.

Consider Fukushima. In some ways Japan got lucky, it was entirely possible that an additional reactor on the site could have melted down and the holding pond could have breached. Because of this they were having to consider evacuating areas on the outskirts of Tokyo. Obviously, if that had happened we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

I don't claim that we have considered the risks appropriately, have a sensible nuclear policy, or are considering nuclear correctly wrt climate change. But to claim nuclear is the safest because direct deaths to date are lower is not the full story.
Fair enough. With nearly 2,000 American children a year dying of child abuse, I'm confident that it qualifies as "a lot."
Yeah, I really appreciate the spartan quality to the UI. IT simply lists the topics, be they link submissions or text-posts, with a score and a comment count.

I also really like the Reddit forum / discussion UI. It makes it very easy to see who is replying to what, and let's you easily hide or collapse away whole uninteresting side-conversations.

I fear any "Facebook-style" visual embellishments will actually make it harder to discover the underlying conversations...
AFAICT, interest rates are too low (near zero) for banks to make a profit on interest margins alone.

You could have a non-profit do the interchange, like the Interac network in Canada, but that would be difficult to coordinate without consolidating all the banks. (Canada has, like, only half a dozen.)
Ask HN: What is your GitHub Failover?
This is not what they are offering, look at the premium offerings: https://premium.linkedin.com/ do you know the ROI of using LinkedIn Premium (e.g. InMail) to just contact people using a zillion of methods available, and then adding them to your LinkedIn...
Printing with improved PMC (which is what this sounds like) doesn't seem that revolutionary to me... I know there was a Kickstarter a while back for metal-based PMC-like filament to use in regular 3-D printers (for kiln firing later), and I think somebody already makes a device to print using PMC itself. While doing so precisely, strongly, and cleanly enough for mechanical applications, and with a much broader spectrum of metals, is great, the prices seem rather far from the headline hype. (Not that the current options I mentioned don't leave much to be desired.)
Whether or not you're joking, I think the real problem with using Terminator as an example is that it's overly optimistic. The story is roughly:

1) US military builds up arsenal of autonomous killing machines and nuclear missiles

2) US military connects all of these to the Internet

3) US military creates a powerful AI which takes control of this arsenal (whether it was put in charge or hacks in seems to vary across the movies)

4) AI "becomes self-aware"

5) AI tries to wipe out humanity

Almost all of the discussion around this focuses on step 4, either by asking if/when an AI will "become self aware", or by trying to explain why that's meaningless and/or unlikely.

Meanwhile I think the real dangers are steps 1 and 2, which seem to be proceeding without much public outcry.

Yes, there are rogue AGI scenarios which end badly for everyone; but there are also issues of hacking (state-sponsored or otherwise), and/or terrorism (homegrown or otherwise).

It may have made political sense to build up ever-larger nuclear arsenals during the cold war, but these days it seems like that's just increasing the risk of accident or misuse.
You'll get an invite as soon as you sign up.
Thank goodness for Wikipedia as this story is like the 640Kb quote that was only ever said because people say so, not because they actually heard it.

I was of the opinion that it was the IBM board, not some non profit, I am sure I would have noticed the difference. Somewhere out there is a well written version of the story with this detail wrong.
I wonder if you're using the term as a poetic device, but as far as I know that's not what Tragedy of the Commons means.

Commons are properties without private owners. The tragedy is that because no one individual owns it, the people that use it use it without care to its maintenance believing that it is not their responsibility.
"They have been playing with catastrophes of a magnitude we can't really comprehend"

Did you even read the article? Statistics show you that nuclear is safer. Coal/oil/etc actually kill about 1000× more people than nuclear per TWh generated.
I always wondered how Skynet acquired the goal of preventing John Connor's birth, because that involved inventing time travel in order to have such a goal.
briefly unsafe

What crack are you smoking?
How about you move to Chernobyl and check in with the local population.
Oh, that's right. No one can live there anymore....
For reference, on Windows the Chrome extensions are stored in a path ~similar~ to this one I have:

C:\Users\<login.name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\lkmofgnohbedopheiphabfhfjgkhfcgf\2.0_0

"lkmofgnohbedopheiphabfhfjgkhfcgf" is the identifier for the user-agent extension I've been using for a while, and looking at the code, it's very straightforward and not spying on anything. It has not been updated since 2013 (and the website listed for the dev, www.toolshack.com, is not online), so I'm guessing a lot of users just go with other extensions that have received updates.

BTW, Google itself offers a similar extension at 120KB called "User-Agent Switcher for Chrome" (not "... for Google Chrome") here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...
Open salaries will bring down the salary of anyone willing to negotiate.
Go play Kerbal Space Program.
Do you have examples of things that don't fit the vanilla FromJSON ?
From the top of my head, there's lensed things (which can easily be done once with a LensJSON typeclass), and things which use a different serialization (e.g. no "tag" field, etc) for which there is little you can do, if each of your data types has its own standard. If they do, though, you could easily define a typeclass for each source (e.g. StackoverflowJSON, HackernewsJSON, etc).
>It was developed out of government driven military technology

That's not a justification. The internet was also developed out of DARPA. Most of silicon valley exists because of cold war electronics warfare research, etc.
Many of this reminds me of lack of self confidence. Being affected by other people's emotions when they are directed at you is also due to the (too) high importance you grant to their opinion of what you'll do or say or respond.
I went part-time many years ago. I gave the kind of answer you may be looking for a while back here on HN (though I now work about 20h/wk and feel a lot better. It's good to have a boulder to push up the proverbial hill).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337618
Private prisons have 7% state and 18% federal of the total population. Blaming private prisons for the problems of US corrections as a whole is disingenuous.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization...
tl;dr: if we assume deleterious effects from CO2-driven global warming and discount effects from long-term storage of high-level nuclear waste, nuclear is safer.
Thank you.

A little more detail.

Anyone working for the gov't, a gov't contractor, the defense industry or other industries requiring a clearance would do well to avoid this stuff. Being able to honestly answer "I've read the third party analysis but haven't seen more than quotes from the docs myself" makes life easier if the person administering your poly decides to ask about that sort of stuff.

Linking directly to wikileaks also means that nobody working in those environments will read your article while at work or using a work device. While you might not get asked about it depending on where you work it's just unprofessional. It's like visiting a link to a tech article published by Pornhub's blog.

By giving those groups a reason to avoid the topic you eliminate a lot of potential for transfer of useful information. Little tidbits like "the author says X but in my experience Y" add up to a large amount of knowledge transfer that we probably don't want to exclude from this site
>An early version of the new design, which we saw during our interview, looks similar to Facebook’s News Feed or Twitter’s Timeline: A never-ending feed of content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people into the conversations hidden underneath.

Not sure why this UX concept needs to be applied to every kind of interface nowadays.

I think Reddit's current interface could be updated visually without changing its simplicity.
Everyone calm down. GitHub is working just fine.
My question is... how is that supposed to work? How do they turn "person A's credit card account" and "person A's Google account" into something comparable. To say "X customers saw the ad and then purchased it", you've gotta be able to be able to confirm that the same person is on both sides of the dataset, which is a pretty hard problem even without it allegedly not sharing the info on one side with Google.

I guess this complaint from this article is asking the FTC to get more information on this process, or get Google to explain how it works, or something.

Upvote for the explanation.
I'm no fan of the A.I. hype of today, but I can comment that deep learning actually makes the "contentious decision" easier to detect. With the "old way", i.e. jam some features into an SVM, there was no accountability / confidence. At least I've never seen a reliable SVM-based confidence score.

But, for example, confidence scores are actually a byproduct of running a modern CNN for image classification. This is very useful for "finding mistakes" (assuming you have 100% accurate training data, and other prerequisites). It even helps fixing issues in the training data, we use it all the time.

That being said, the big dirty secret that nobody's pointing out is: there has been no real "theory-level" advancement in AI in the last 20 years that have borne fruit (at least in computer vision and neural nets). The models are just bigger (and much better) with some slight tweaks (dropout, etc). It's hardware that's made that possible. Academics have done a thorough and wonderful search of the model space and have some great finds. But I think we still need a few solid theoretical leaps before the singularity.
surprised the valuation is so low for a top 5 destination (per alexa).
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There were a few cryptocurrency start-ups in the Velocity program in the Bitcoin hay-day. What makes things different in the Ethereum era?

Also, who is sponsoring the hackathon, and what do they hope to get out of it?
It's running on EC2 and uses spot pricing which is much lower than $0.90/hour.
Yep, they are trying so hard to rollout Digg v4, it's ironic.
I hope this redesign does not turn into a LinkedIn style disaster. Sometimes I wonder if these redesigns happen not for some well-argued business purpose but for overinflated departments having to justify their existence (which I strongly suspected in the case of LinkedIn's redesign which made the site unusable for months).
For that price its more fun to buy a cheap 3d printer and use printed models as cast model. I even think you can use printed pla for 'lost-pla casting'.
> established players that proved the whole thing at least possible

Who landed an orbital booster before SpaceX?