skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With that, came a sharing of culture, artistic style, literature, and so on. Elements of this shared culture can be seen from the Black Sea all the way to Ireland.

Absolutely! But remember that the process was generally slow, non-uniform, and perilous. People did travel the world, but with nothing close to the ease of modern life. I really wanted to drive the contrast home. On average, the medieval world was local.

>Actually, the opposite is closer to the truth: the king was not held sacred and was almost continually under attack from the lower nobles.

Just one counterpoint: the King's Evil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculous_cervical_lymphaden...

The status of kings... varied.

>This would depend in large part on where you were. In Ireland or Scotland, this was certainly not true. In England, customs taxes didn't come about until the second half of the Middle Ages.

Again, 100% correct, but it's a 2000 word post for a blog about pretending to be an elf! Some bits are going to get left out.
Perhaps the komodo dragon was the only megafauna to turn the tables on the new humans.
Yeah, a laptop screen in your lap has nearly the same apparent size as a TV most of a room length away.
Multitasking: the myths, the science, and the solutions
Thanks for the tips. Completely agree that healthcare can be a very limiting industry to work in, but it's also the reason why I'm attracted to it too
Linux ate my RAM (2009)
Woah. Friends on FB messenger sounds like lost friends. :( Sorry to hear.
Here is a HN thread from 2015 with 131 comments for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802088
I have no idea how it's legal, but it sure is useful.
Getting good terms from an ILEC that you're directly competing with will be difficult. We advocate building your own last mile infrastructure where possible to get around that. Here in SF, we're using fixed wireless to do that.
He was giving a YC startup talk and asked for emails in his presentation. I did and he answered. He seems to genuinely enjoy talking to anyone that cares. He's answered pretty much all the ridiculous things I've asked him on HN.
From October 28 to Jan 4, Q was a MILINT insider very close to the President. He provided ironclad proofs of this:

- he predicted the President's Twitter going down.

- he predicted the upheavals in Saudi Arabia.

- he predicted the Pope would want to change the Lord's Prayer.

- he predicted a bombing attempt by a Bangladeshi national in NYC.

- he posted original photos taken from AF1 that matched the President's Far East itinerary.

- he used phrases the President would tweet a few minutes later.

- the President once pasted an anon's comment into his Twitter showing he was watching live.

He leaked on 4chan for a month, then moved to 8chan /cbts/ - my board. I ran this board for just over a month and he made 200+ posts on it. From Jan 5 to the present, it's been an imposter who cracked his tripcode password, and it's worthless nonsense: cold reading, vague terminology and the like.
I'm not sure why you were confused. I just showed you a simple and common usecase where Linux deployment is not "trivial" as you boldly claimed.

>Ironically, this is a non-issue with docker since you can base your image off of whatever distro you need.

Maybe docker would help, but I do think suggesting docker in the comment thread of an article detailing how broken docker is is doubly ironical :^)
CenoCipher – Easy-To-Use, End-To-End Crypto-Communication Tool
Lost friends? I don't understand what you're referring to.
Slightly OT, but I can't resist mentioning a blog post of mine: http://scottlburson2.blogspot.com/2016/01/lcd-backlights-and...

Anyone with a correction of more than 3 or 4 diopters in either direction, who uses a wide-gamut monitor, might want to take note of this. This includes anyone with a 2016 or newer MacBook Pro.
What a neat story. I read the whole article, thanks for sharing.
Machine Learning and AI at Microsoft Build 2018
It's something though, and the rest of the world is following the US in many ways. As electric dryers increase with the population and development in places like Asia and Africa, the numbers will increase.
Predicting code bug risk with Git metadata – Open Data Science
Ok...

- 4 x Samba4 DCs on various LANs (file server, ldap, krb, dns, ntp)

- Interconnected at VPN hub in London on Linode over wireguard

- "Road-warrior" VPN via ocserv, shadowsocks and strongswan

- Plex

- Nextcloud + OnlyOffice

- 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2

- Postfix/Dovecot/Horde for mail on a Samba DC for fast LDAP

- Private internal family blog

- Simplesamlphp and mod_auth_mellon for SSO, authenticates via kerberos, if not then SSL (my family use smartcards) and finally username, password and TOTP, all verified against AD

- Transmission

- Xen Orchestra (for managing xcp-ng)

- Rockstor (OS for my NAS using BTRFS RAID10)

- django-ca (for PKI for smartcards and internel certs)

- Used to run Citrix XenApp but now aiming for all desktops to be Linux, so looking at deploying ThinLinc

- Asterisk (all our family have FXO adapters on their phone lines, and all phones have FXS adapters, saves on our international phone calls, and all routed over our VPNs)

I'm a student of languages at uni, but I dunno maybe I should do sysadmin or something
FAT16 IDE to Host Adapter
Is there an up to date wiki/guide of a subset of features and implementations that go well together for modern xmpp?

As in these mobile clients for ios and Android, these for desktop and these for cli. With these servers - Together give you in-band registration, ssl-only client/server and server/server, maybe audio/video, file-sharing, server-side history - e2e encryption (I'd settle for otr) - and sane defaults for each client and server to make it difficult to accidentally disable encryption or certificate validation?

Honest question - last time I looked I couldn't find a simple&secure, recommend setup for xmpp.
How were the Angolans coping? Did you encounter them in the archives?
Do you know if that phone will work on sprint? I'm having a great deal of difficulty finding a good phone. I don't want to buy directly from the carrier to do the high volume of bloatware sprint seems to love to install.
Show IH: Chrome extension that adds a hide post feature to Indie Hackers' forum
As the Indie Hackers community has grown, I've unfortunately found myself not visiting the forum that often because the discussions are usually not very relevant to where I'm at, and when relevant discussions do crop up, they're incredibly hard to find and even harder to keep track of to follow the conversation. (Not the fault of IH -- the community is just growing fast.)

I created this extension to allow myself to filter out the things that don't interest me so that I could get more value out of the community.

The 'hide' button works the same as it does on HN and Reddit.

The extension internals consist of hacks upon hacks, hooking into Ember's model and component lifecycle to filter out certain records. The filtered IDs are saved in local storage. Might be a better way, but it works for its intended purpose. (PRs are welcome, of course.)

Thought others might be interested since IH is popular around here.
Imagine if, instead of spending your childhood, teenage years and early adulthood in schools, you just spent it learning to hunt, then continued to learn and practice hunting for the rest of your life. Imagine if everyone in your family, and everyone else you knew had also spent their entire lives learning to hunt and hunting. Imagine if every genius born into every generation devoted their entire intelligence to the problem of hunting, from their first moment to their last. Imagine if this had been going on for generation after generation, with knowledge and expertise refine and passed down through mentorship and oral tradition.

Collectively, it's a level of intellectual effort that humanity has likely never brought to bear on any other problem besides, perhaps, farming. As such, it's perhaps no surprise that early humans were spectacularly successful at hunting so many of even the largest and most fearsome animals to extinction.
> An appeal to patriotic feelings to justify nationalist actions.

Attacking foreign countries who are not a threat is Nationalism? Is there any even remotely authoritative source that would agree with this?

Maybe I haven't been clear, but this magical redefining of words is part of the issue I'm having. If I was to say Liberalism (just for example) was synonymous with <some repugnant crime>, people would give me a "HN timeout" within 5 minutes, but it seems like you can throw whatever you want under the Nationalism banter and it's all good. Does anyone have any integrity anymore, or is it fake news all the way down?

> I'd guess you're using different definitions of the terms

It seems I am, the ones found in the dictionary for decades. But this seems to conflict with some other definition that everyone else seems to know, but won't say out loud. It's a rather interesting phenomenon to observe from someone on the outside.
None of this discussed the 'why' traditional TV is in trouble, it just said that younger viewers aren't there. The actual WHY is that it is a terrible product which is being successfully outcompeted by a much better product. Television networks got large because they solved a very valuable problem - distribution. With the Internet, distribution is worthless. A clever 12 year old can do global media distribution on their free time as a hobby. It's not something to build an empire on. And it's certainly not something people are going to pay you $100+/mo just so you can lace it with ads and fill it with garbage content that exists not because an audience is wanting it but because some programming director wanted to make a name for themselves by going in a 'bold new direction'.

Public response to creative works is random. Truly random. Maximum entropy. There are no patterns to discern. So humans do what they always do when they face randomness.. they invent myths and replace reason with bullshit. If you control distribution, you can still force a win by leaning hard on your successes and kicking out your losses as fast as possible. But once the audience has extremely broad choice... you are screwed.

The future for media distributors is death. The future for media production companies is probably either working for Netflix, Amazon, or similar services or being supported by viewers who want their content directly via Patreon or a similar avenue. The creatives will be fine. The suits will be jumping off ledges.
Signal-desktop HTML tag injection
Density, cost, complexity.
There's always the risk that it'll turn out that you don't like your heroes when you meet them in person.
There's a service called Blendle that does this. I used them a little over a year ago.
I don't think he meant low density, he meant that even though there are a bunch of people the incumbent telcos don't actually offer service there. The Bay Area's internet is surprisingly fragmented. We couldn't get fixed broadband at the old office when I know for a fact we were less than 100ft from municipal 10 gig fiber.
Counter-Counterpoint: In my almost-never quiet open space office, if people want to chat, they do it at their desks. Right next to my desk. I don't like this. However, with enough people complaining, it has slowly been getting better...
I used to respect Carmack, then he joined Facebook.
Wine and wildfires: how West Coast winemakers are adapting to climate change
There seems to be a lot of health tech in the Denver Metro area. I don't know if it's a 'hub,' but I've heard of several companies and startups in the space.
I checked. Indeed, pressing the power-off button shifts my 2014 Prius into park while also powering off.
You are my hero :-)

Sorry, not very productive, but you made me smile
Is there any way to quickly compute 32-bit hash code of the string using SIMD? If yes, then we get a very fast perfect hash map: https://github.com/tatumizer/pigeon_map. Hash code in question is not supposed to be of crypto quality, just "good enough" will be good enough :)
Just a small fix required in the Attribution section of the Terms of Service page. The GitHub link is https://github.com/Just%20Comments/legalmattic I assume it should be 'JustComments' instead? Once the URL is fixed, the link leads to a non-existing project.

Another thing is the 'Contact' link has HTML inside the HREF tag.

Not being nit-picky, just something I picked up! :)
success is irrelevant :P
You think consent is being asked for on the non-trial version? This is the service LEOs use to track down fugitives dumb enough to carry their phone. They aren't going to ask for any consent.
> I believe punitive justice is observably and obviously flawed and I will not support it simply because you say so.

> more rehabilitation we can offer, the less brutal our punishments need to be

Do you have anything to back your main position on this matter. I am curious to learn and open to changing my position.
Totally incorrect, the Knights Templar were an elite group with a code of fighting to the death. They were often found in the middle of battle, making suicidal charges and fighting against superior numbers. Unlike other soldiers they were often executed by Arab commanders if captured.
What I mean is, for those people (like me) who don't have a "department head" (or a university at all) to take care of journal subscriptions, and who might be willing to subscri be individually - it doesn't scale beyond a journal to two.

At most, in years past, I subscribed to maybe a total of 10 journals, but that's when I was maintaining an IEEE membership and a lot of their journals are actually not very expensive, in terms of the marginal cost once you are already a dues paying member.

These days though, I find it hard to justify. I find myself wondering if the publishers would do a better job of providing a model that works for individuals, if they might not actually make more money in the end.
Like Conversations?
>2Ghz, and a couple cores. Don't really care about RAM, anything >= 0.5GB a CPU is enough
if it needs to be safe, use python.

please don't down vote me
I worked with long (>> 24 hours, some times up to a week) complex workflows on big (thousands of nodes) clusters. We used custom software layered on top of a job scheduler like PBS Pro or HTCondor. The nice thing about this setup is that it supports re-running failed jobs, has pretty good monitoring, does an OK job at resource selection and allocation and is language agnostic. The last point is good if your workflows have parts written in different languages. There are a handful of conferences a year on these topics by the way. My favorite is HTCondor Week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Talks are online [1]

[1]: http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/HTCondorWeek2017/
Can't agree, this weekend my mom asked me about how to cut cable and if she can get a TIVO to record the things from Amazon and Netflix... So one step forward at least! Had to explain the whole point of streaming is you don't need to record it.

If my mom is moving towards cable cutting, TV is in trouble now.
I have been saying I've "reached the end of the internet" for awhile now. I am 44 and have been working on the web since mid 90s. I remember so much cool stuff from then. Trying to get a 56k modem to work, dealing with the fact that you couldn't always get online or if you did you could get kicked off at any time. I remember streaming the Tibetan Freedom Concert with realplayer back in '98. The first mp3 i got, napster, rotten.com, the excitement of ordering from amazon, searching for cracked passwords for photoshop and dreamweaver... in general just figuring shit out. The internet was a mess back then and even though it was frustrating as hell, it was exciting.

Now it just seems like every website online is trying to steal and sell your data. I feel like I have to have a heightened sense of awareness around anything I do. The internet used to be just barely within reach and now it's just crammed down your throat all day long. Nothing seems to work and all for the wrong reasons. Nothing worked back then but that was part of the experience.... now it's just... blah.

I have fallen into a terrible habit of looking at reddit since I don't use any social media. I read crap on r/politics before bed and end up being so frustrated that I have a hard time falling asleep.

Recently I decided to check out a book from the library (House of Leaves, very interesting so far!) and have been reading before bed and not looking at my phone at all. I have been able to fall asleep much easier and I actually have crazy dreams and wake up refreshed. For the first time in years I look forward to going to bed.

Not sure what to make of all of it. Fortunately I have found lately that I'm desiring more analog activities (reading, woodworking, hiking) than I have in a long time. It is nice to be able to use the internet as more of a tool to augment my activities rather than being THE activity.
It's become slightly boorish to correct grammar and spelling. It signals pedantry, and sets a tedious tone for the rest of your comment.
By midcentury there will be no more ice in the Arctic Ocean in summer
in the optimistic scenario, I guess. i have doubts that things work out so well in practice.
Bleach will fade color clothes, though, won't it? I have a lot of black clothes and don't want them fading or having white spots from the bleach.

I've been trying to just use vinegar. Hope it helps.
It's tricky because it's at the start of a sentence, but I was trying to go for capital "R" "Rationalism." Not "every medieval peasant had no idea how the world worked and planted grain in December half the time because he was afraid the devil might steal his socks." There were profoundly irrational acts, but I'm not trying to say that there was a total lack of a societal framework or a total absence of logic or reasoning.

>I take issue with how equality is supposed to be a modern given.

I think it's fair to say that equality is supposed to be a modern ideal, in contrast to the medieval world. I don't think I said "everyone is equal these days", and I'm having difficulty finding where you read that into the text.

>and that what he describes isn't modernity but the entitled and pampered life of a suburban white American male who has never, and will never, have any real hardship in his life.*

I'm not entirely sure how to respond to this. I think you may be bringing outside baggage into the discussion, and it's informing your view of who the author supposedly is.
Who does the grinding? How many people in third world countries have access to trained and equipped lensmakers?

I’m sad about all your hate. I thought posters to HN were more insightful that this.
There is also this book - "Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas" which seemed to be popular a few years ago. It's unclear how reliable the narrator is but I remember it had a jarring effect on me:
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Sociopath-Spent-Hiding-Pl...
Then you certainly know more about religious iconography than I do. Nevertheless, if you're going to make a claim as extreme as saying that iconography doesn't (in the majority of cases, to a large extent) require prior understanding, you'd do better to make some sort of argument or cite some sort of evidence rather than merely asserting authority.

However, it may just be a misunderstanding. The quote that you said was "absolutely not true" had two statements:

> No icon anywhere is intuitive. They're all learned.

I'm not saying that symbols, found in religious icons or elsewhere, can't be "intuitive", in the sense that there's some underlying logic or they're otherwise easier to understand than a set of symbols picked at random. (That said, many of them, like the aforementioned Eastern Orthodox clothing colors, do seem fully arbitrary.) I'm just saying that they're also "learned", i.e. you can't (fully) make sense of them without prior understanding.

By the way, your mention of radioactivity reminds me of the US government's attempt to design markers for nuclear waste sites which can be understood many thousands of years into the future, without a common language – e.g. as described in this article:

https://www.ft.com/content/db87c16c-4947-11e6-b387-64ab0a670...

This is an interesting problem precisely because it is hard to unambiguously convey abstract concepts using iconography without context – even a concept as simple as "this place is dangerous". Thus, the proposals end up being rather complex.
> it says: Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh

It also recommends a script: "Installation time script to install correct POSIX shell pathname".

But I wonder how they execute this script. So this is all crap. They should remove that and instead put in something like "you have to test your script on the platform where you deploy.".

The article is missing the one big problem I encountered at most: bin/sh instead of bin/bash or the wrong version of sh|bash.
How much gratuitous packaging do they use?
This may be related to having an older machine that doesn't support EFI boot.

To solve the problem:
1) Create a partition that is of type bios boot (I believe it needs to be 2K)
2) Create a regular boot partition /boot (I recommend ext4 or 3)
3) Create your other partitions per normal.
I think I raise a very good point. What good is a chat server if it's censored?
This doesn't involve location services. The more interesting question is if it works on dual SIM phones for both SIMs.
Better than being bought by Oracle, at least!
Am I reading this right that this is the algorithmic fix, but it still needs a concrete implementation - and then the main server should be back down to "vertically scalable"?

Without going and reading the doc(yet); does this relate to:?

https://jneem.github.io/merging/

It would seem that a simpler, deterministic merge algo would be possible to parallelize - but I'm not sure if it's easy to match matrix idea of merges with what's discussed in that post/paper?
I wrote this post to keep track of all the AI/ML content that came out of the Build conference last week. Hope somebody else finds it useful!
Compressed-air rockets. Or H2O2 with a platinum catalyst; "decomposition ... into steam and oxygen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide#Propellant

We're spit-balling hero-bots, not nasty kill-bots, riiiight?
Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think
Well then, let's try "relatively stable" rather than "stable".

These are scientists who probably have some idea of how to measure variance. You're some rando on the internet shooting from the hip. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here's the paper, go wild: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43601643
It's an interesting tidbit about Malware-bytes training QA staff via Udemy. Consumer Software QA is tedious, repetitive, and soul crashing task for many a entry level tech workers. A novel idea to actually encourage staff to "upskill" in position instead of having a vendor provide yet another product to replace company talent. I almost skipped this read because I thought it was another FUD article about technology being disruptive because the title is awful and not accurate.
RNA Moves a Memory from One Snail to Another (research paper link in comments)
One major undocumented problem that I did not see in the patch notes involves openldap.

Specifically there is some error in generating a PID file in the system-d service call.

I solved the problem by removing/commenting out the run PID line in /usr/lib/systemd/system/slapd.service
Why isn’t your product free?
"Detergent is a surfactant, designed to lift dirt, food and other stains from your clothing to be rinsed away with the water. It does absolutely nothing in terms of bacteria or germs beyond this."

But it should wash away the bacteria, right?

That's why hospitals advise doctors and patients to wash their hands with soap, isn't it? It's not like they're under any illusion that soap will kill the bacteria/viruses, but just that it should wash them off.