skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something kind of like that was done for x86 with NCR's SCSI host adapters. NCR provided a traditional driver for each supported OS (DOS, Windows, OS/2, Novell Netware, SCO Unix) but that driver didn't know anything about the actual SCSI host adapter hardware. I'll call this the "generic driver".

The host adapter ROM contained a driver for the specific hardware on that card, written in a way that did not make any assumptions about the operating system. (Actually, there were two drivers in the ROM. A 16-bit driver for DOS and Windows 3.x and a 32-bit driver for the others). I'll call the drivers from ROM the "hardware drivers".

The generic driver would find the ROM. The ROM had a header that contained information about the hardware driver. That included pointers to various entry points in the hardware driver, including an init routine. The generic driver would call the init routine, and one of the things it gave the init routine was a table of entry points in the generic driver that the hardware driver could use to do things like allocate and free memory, register interrupt handlers, set up DMA operations, and things like that.

My recollection is that the 16-bit hardware drivers were position-independent code that could be run out of the ROM directly, or copied to RAM where it might run faster. The 32-bit code was not position independent, so the generic driver had to copy it to memory and the fix it up, which it could do because the 32-bit driver in ROM was essentially the .o output of the C compiler used to build it so had everything needed in order to move it around.

Once the hardware driver was initialized and running, the interface between it and the generic driver for actually doing SCSI commands was based on a draft version of the SCSI CAM specification. We [1] were on the CAM committee, and proposed including our ROM-based hardware driver approach as part of the standard, but most other committee members didn't think being able to swap host adapters without having to change OS drivers was useful enough.

[1] "We" == the consulting company that designed and implemented the aforementioned stuff for NCR. I was the lead architect and lead programmer for the project.
> so it doesn't matter much how MP negotiates the price, since they don't get much of that anyway

But it does matter. Because there's always the potential for the theater to go from barely getting any ticket revenue to actively losing money for every ticket sold. Concession sales then start subsidizing box office revenue to pay distributors, eating away at your one profit center.

Take two scenarios for how distributors, the ones that take most of the ticket revenue, make money:

Scenario A, the status quo: 1000 tickets a day x $10/each x 95% of ticket revenue = $9,500/day going to the distributor

Scenario B, assuming MP is a raging success, has captured the majority of the movie-going market, and is able to muscle the theater to give it a 50% discount on ticket rates: (200 non-MP tickets x $10/each + 800 tickets x $5/each) * 95% of ticket revenue = $5,700/day in revenue going to the distributor

Even though the distributor still keeps the majority of box office revenue by percentage, that's a substantial discount to what they're used to and they're not going to just let the theater pass that loss off to them completely. So now, instead of just 95% of box office sales, they want 95% with a minimum guarantee, or want concession added into the percentage distribution, which could work out to paying substantially out of concession profit if your ticket sales don't hit that minimum (basically moving the risk back onto the theater, which is exactly what theaters so enthusiastically tried to avoid by moving from fixed-fee distribution to percentage-based distribution).

While MP would also theoretically increase foot traffic to the theater, and thereby making up the loss in revenue per ticket by a higher quantity of lower revenue tickets being sold, there's only so much unused capacity during peak time already that there's a physical limit to how much additional volume an existing theater can absorb. If MP increased viewership during off-peak times when the theater's are mostly empty (like midday, midweek showings), then it might be beneficial to both the distributor and theater owner. But otherwise, one of those parties tends to come out of it worse than before MP.
Especially the dirty UI patterns that Amazon uses to trick one into Prime membership is really off putting. No I don't want a Prime, in fact this permanent nagging made sure I decided to never ever want your Prime membership!

Now they even randomly disallow one to buy random items and label them as Prime-only (just for your account, based on recommender engine most like buying habit). Someone should investigate if this is legal.
If the government seized funds of Coinbase with how entrenched it is even now, there would be massive legal challenges. Ultimately that might be a good thing in terms of forfeiture reform. Coinbase (US company) is orders of magnitude different than btc-e or mtgox etc.
> I worked hard to get out of farming and never want to go back.

I saw a documentary on Youtube about Italian dairy farmers, their kids wanted to get out so the farms started importing people from Punjab(India) who were already skilled in dairy handling.
Anecdotally, a lot of window products have built in films, coatings, or dopants that reduce UV exposure and possibly other portions of the spectrum.

I would /guess/ that pure (greenhouse?) glass, maybe not even visibly transparent, would be effective.

Both could be worth studying if someone hasn't already.
> then imagine trying to prove that it has that geometric interpretation

Exactly. We leaned heavily on determinants in my freshman linear algebra class but I went at least an additional year before I even heard the interpretation, much less could prove it from the standard terrible definition.
Interesting, in US do white-collar criminals have separate prisons, or do they sit with murderers, rapists, mobsters, etc..?
For Vitamin D 1IU is 0.025mcg.
8000IU = 200mcg
My box of vitamin shows a Vitamin D3 content on 5mcg/pill (noted as 100% of recommended daily intake). Time to change pill I guess...
This article seems to be a low quality review of other research with a clickbatey title (full text here: https://www.jpmph.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.3961/jpmph.16....).

Pubmed is sort of like arxiv.org and the fact this has an nih.gov base url should not be taken as an endorsement of it by the NIH.

That said I do actually believe that more then the recommended amount of vitamin D can be beneficial and the recommendations are in need of reevaluation.
I think all conspiracy theories are made up by the government, to keep us distracted from what they are doing. /s
You can lie to an exchange that supports it. Sign the paperwork making promises about things that aren't true.
How many hacks does it take for cryptocurrencies fads to think their money is secure despite the dozen+ that have happened so far...
That sounds more like you’ve never been on the receiving end of a bug bounty program :)
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I'm a little wary of inferring anything from browser stats taken from a website which exclusively serves developers - I'd probably expect a higher proportion of firefox users in that demographic.

I'd love to see something like an industry standard for this kind of thing, one that might focus on producing statistics for more "typical" users (whatever that means). Could anyone enlighten me?

Very curious to see if this potential inflection point is reflected elsewhere, never sure whose survey is most credible.
I've been tracking my depression for a few years now, and I'm amazed at the number of things that can trigger a depressive episode. I used to think I had a disease called depression, but it now appears that I had arrived at a collection of various life circumstances that made experiencing depression on any given day more likely for me.

Some of the main triggers have been:

- Attempting to proceed without a plan

- Pushing for more productivity when less is called for (New year's resolutions were a great example personally)

- Bad sleep (I now use the calculator at sleepyti.me and have had great results)

- Too much exercise without rest days

- Too much exposure to social experience

- Too few dopamine-injecting experiences (e.g. not enough achievement, not nibbling away at my problems and watching leverage build up)

Strikingly to me, some of these seem tied to my psychology and I would hesitate to tell others "hey not having a plan is bad for you" when I know some people for whom planning is a mental health liability. Personalized medicine can't get good enough, fast enough.
I have seen lot of comments on reddit about Europeans complaining that vegies from Dutch greenhouses don't taste good. I always wonder if then can differentiate if they did a blind taste.
One point of caution:

Anyone who takes Vitamin D supplement, make sure you take 25-Hydroxy (Calcifediol) and not the active form - 1,25 dihydroxy (Calcitriol).

Active form has severe side effects and is not supposed to be used for supplementation unless in you have kidney problem which prevent metabolizing 25-Hydroxy.
Depends on a lot of things as you mentioned, but also especially on your pigmentation/levels of sunburn. I'm very dark skinned, so I need a lot longer for UV rays to penetrate.
No idea and I'm certainly not claiming that. The reasons for the dramatic increase in costs in the US is not well understood by academics.
I'm not very familiar with how crypto currencies work but when such an incident happens, how hopeful can the company be that they will get their BTC's back?
I have made the comment before that there is nothing superhuman about such systems. Nothing at all. The system in question is running at GHz, is focussed only on one subject and has no sensory interruptions to deal with when compared to a human. We don't run at MHz let alone GHz (not even at kHz). We are continually processing huge amounts of sensory information in parallel to any thinking about playing such a game and we are usually focussed on more things than just the game.

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I've got a nice doctor. I was also incredibly low (getting muscle twitches) and he put me on 15000 IU a day. Did wonders. :)
The Slovenian media is reporting that the majority owner of NiceHash is the father of the programmer who created the Butterfly bot (Mariposa botnet) and got busted by the FBI.

I heard he taught as an assistant at the CS school I went to some time ago.
It helps prevent ultraviolet rays from sunlight.https://www.hotmailsigninguide.com
Coinbase is getting away with murder charging outrageous fees, cashing in the bitcoin frenzy. Kinda like the shady brokerages in the 80s.
Not really, for many optimization algorithms an IR like SSA is required, ASTs are not that good for that.

AST are better suitable for the frontend, and even then, they only became a thing after we started having tons of RAM available.
My first shell was ksh on a DEC Unix many years ago. That was the first scripting I ever did.
> So, if it can’t be used as a currency to buy anything, and when you “invest” in it you’re not having any ownership in a company, what is it truly worth? What is a fake coin in your electronic wallet truly worth?

What is SeekingAlpha.com truly worth? What is a fake newspaper on your electronic screen truly worth? What is the software you used to write the article worth?

The value of digital assets lies in their usefulness, and how many people use them. The usefulness of the software "Bitcoin" is that it allows people to store a record of value -- like the numbers in your bank account -- in a reliable, secure, trust-worthy, fungible way that is practically immune to corruption, control, and seizure, and can be transferred to anyone else anywhere in the world almost instantly, for practically free.

But that's just Bitcoin, the very first of its kind. The thriving technology ecosystem that Bitcoin birthed is boiling over with potential.
> The point to a bug bounty is to make it worthwhile for smart hackers to report their findings to the company in a ethical way, which broadly means that it should be comparable to the kind of money they can make for their labor on the open market.

To a first approximation, no bug bounty for web application or mobile application software competes with any black market. In fact there is no black market for those vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities exist in a centralized system, and therefore have virtually no half-life, which means little to no value. They’re not salable.

Much to the chagrin of people who speculate one way or another about bug bounty payouts on message boards like this one, bug bounty programs do not calibrate their program payouts to compete with a real or perceived black market.
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There is no compliance rule put out by the SEC that requires (or even suggests) source code review.
Someone still needs to turn that IR into actual machine code, and learning how it works is quite valuable.

Besides, IR has always been around, it is a requirement for many optimization algorithms.
Leave some mushrooms out in the sun, gills up, and enjoy ;). Though you may want to calculate it out first. This research survey at least makes me more confident in taking larger doses of vitamin D.
I'm not very familiar with how crypto currencies work but when such an incident happens, how hopeful can the company be that they will get their BTC's back?

I ask because they're saying on their reddit thread that they are working towards "solving this issue". What does that mean here?
If BTC isn't valuable as a currency, then it is in fact a speculative bubble that will suffer a dramatic collapse, just like the tulip mania in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Yes it does block [1]. Coincidentally I was discussing this with a co-worker last week.

[1]: http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/can-you-absorb-vitamin-d-thro...
They don't accept passport as a valid government issued proof. It might be automated. Contacting support takes days.
Except that the Uber app works in every city and has lots of drivers in every city. Most People aren’t going to download the app for some local company to test if they have drivers. They know Uber works and that it will work when they travel. Brand matters and Ubers works.
Yes, but Mint used a similar approach.

Not sure if this is what they use now, but Mint used a similar (but older) service to Plaid called Yodlee [0] as their backend for accessing bank accounts.

[0] https://www.yodlee.com/

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube/
I agree. There seems to be two interpretations of "simple" - simple in being concise like that of a beautiful mathematical equation, or simple in being easy to follow and understand. I assume the latter is preferable when factoring in having other pairs of eyes reading/maintaining your code, especially since the latter does not always imply less efficient code
Bloodwork is a core utility of naturopaths so one would probably know the best place to visit. You don't have to be incredibly lucky for your preventative plan to cover the visit.
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5-hr energy drinks have 8333% the recommended dosage!! When I saw this I threw mine away, that’s a scary amount, considering the cancer link as you said.
> I have yet to see "safe" defined in some probabilistic way

https://www.moodys.com/sites/products/DefaultResearch/200710...

Of course, when you start defining "safe" in a probabilistic way, you end up very quickly estimating the degree of safety instead of binary safe/not safe.
Would depend on how dark your skin is.
In August 2015, Rockefeller staffers tossed the oversize Rolodex machine
...
custom-built Rolodex machine that stored about 200,000 3-by-5-inch cards
...
They [cards] now nearly fill a wall of filing cabinet

Any photos of that monster Rolodex machine?
As someone with fair skin, I’d be harming myself if I tried to get vitamin D from the sun. And very badly.
Oh, that would be pretty easy. MIDI's not a difficult format to parse, and I'm sure there are libraries already written that would just dump out lists of note events, or something.
This is just bananas. I always thought the routing/acct would just authorize deposits. I assumed this, because every time I need this info, I look at my checks. (When people wire money to me).

When you write a check, the signature is the authorization to withdraw funds, and the amount and recipient is specified.

I’m shocked that banks would permit a withdrawal without some kind of “anolog” to this authorization pattern.

It makes all these worries about passwords and online credentials seem quaint. These numbers are all over the place, online and off. Why aren’t halfway clever hackers draining accounts right now?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just a list of professors who have sent book suggestions to Dorado List.

Nobody is saying that these are top professors, only that they suggested some books to the curators of this project.
weren't they pretty transparent by definition? if you are listing X offers of Y hashrates, all this data is public... or was public anyway until they put up that placeholder.
I thought all D2 and D3 supplements would be ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol, respectively, while calcitriol is what gets tested to assess blood levels. Do any supplements actually contain calcitriol?
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Armstrong was right about Bitcoin's 1 MB limit leading to massive fee increases and retail unusability, and he was right about Ethereum becoming massively adopted.

Your characterization of Armstrong's position as being pro-centralization is typical of the total disconnect between the 1-MB-Bitcoin crowd and reality.

According to your logic, Satoshi Nakamoto was pro centralization when he described a future with GB blocks and thousands of transactions on-chain per second.
not to mention apparent connection to autism. Best example - Somali immigrant populations concentrated in Sweden and Minnesota have unnaturally high child autism rates and extremely low vitamin D levels (very dark skin, weak Sun, a lot of clothes covering almost the whole body most of the year due to the cold climate). Another Swedish study found, though much smaller effect, uptick in autism rates among children whose 3rd trimester, when the brain develops the fastest, fell onto the winter.
All of them benefited from cheating exactly the same way they would be "punished" now.

If we don't punish institution itself, companies are motivated to hire and promote the people ok with small risk of jail in exchange of money and status. Which is exactly what is happening.
> but imagine I buy an apple from Whole Foods and pay with Bitcoin. Now I know what account they use

An application like this would use a new address for every transaction, and never use it again. There are desktop software wallets that do this, in the interests of privacy.
Speaking from experience, decentralization is not a feature. There are very few situations where decentralization provides free features and advantages over centralization.

Contrastingly, decentralization is an extremely complicated way of achieving your goal, and anyone who is building an application should be 100% honest with themselves about whether it truly needs to be decentralized.

Especially when that decentralization is both technological and political, both of which have their own unique difficulties.
You should increase the bet with every interval, for a better outcome :)
How do you feel about brazenly breaking all of those principles to make money on the Chinese market. Do you with think iPhones sold in China protect Chinese citizens from surveillance?

I think their principled stand in the US is somewhat diminished because they take no risks from it, it comes mostly with free marketing differentiation. But when the rubber hits the road and they face a choice between selling a compromised product based on government demands or deciding to refuse, they bow down.

What does that say about what would happen if one day they develop a multibillion dollar revenue stream for profiling say, app installs and store behavior. Would they be able to resist that if their stock is otherwise sagging because the market demands the new revenue stream?

To me, Tim Cooks statements on commitment to privacy are hypocritical and contradicted by legitimizing and even failing to criticize openly the actions of Beijing.

Some people will say "but he has to follow local laws". IMHO, "just following orders" is too often an excuse for enabling evil behavior. If you are stately that you are strongly principled about issue X, and then decide you're going to go to Region Y where it is well known they don't respect X and with high probability will compel you to act against X, then you don't get to make the excuse you have no choice but to jettison your principled stand on X while in Region Y. You could also just decide not to sell in Region Y so as not to be subject to compulsion against your principles.

This whole episode makes their stance look like a marketing campaign. It's easy to say "I don't do X" if not doing X doesn't cause you to lose any money from your existing business. Hey, my work doesn't make weapons that bomb people. We're taking a principled stand and pledge not to include any feature that could be used for bombs. Very brave. But then one day, a government contract forces you to sell something to a bomb maker, and suddenly you're like "I have no choice. They won't buy my coffee makers unless I sell them this timer that can be used to make bomb triggers."
It's not described in the docs, but elswhere [1] in their github repository you can find the note about rga, which is Replicated Growable Array CRDT, that can be used for building indexed linear sequences - shortly speaking arrays of elements with insert/remove semantics.

[1](https://github.com/SyncFree/antidote/blob/842874ca5ecffe947e...)
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Pretty sure it's not. Go ahead and prove it with a link.
Maybe Apple should hire a few more of those mythical C developers that never make mistakes.

3 x out of bounds errors

6 x memory corruption issues
It may be worth it in some areas, though in others during off-peak times the normal adult price is $5.
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