skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oldest thing I found on google (by setting a custom date range Between January 1st 1985 and January 1st 2001) even remotely mentioning glowing wounds is this http://www.maria-rosa-mystica.de/en/newpage14 which appears to be from May 1, 1998 and while it mentions glowing wounds has nothing to do with the civil war and everything to do with Christianity.

I looked for queries such as "glowing wounds" - "Angel's Glow" - "Angel's glow" "civil war" - "angel's glow" "war of aggression" - "bio-luminescent wounds" etc and as you noticed, nothing prior to the 'science experiment' that I suspect was done entirely by the mother given what this page says http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/angels-glow-shiloh.html

>The kids were 17 year old William Martin and 18 year old Jonathan Curtis. Granted, they got some assistance from Martin's microbiologist mother, but she insists that the idea was theirs and that they performed the experiments themselves

SciShow even references that SHE was working with bio-luminescent bacteria at some point. https://nerdfighteria.info/v/7IpWJGlSSlg/

> his mother's research on glowing bacteria for the US Department of Agriculture. Phyllis Martin was studying a type if bioluminescent bacteria known as Photorhabdus luminescens, which is found in soil and glows a pale blue.

It looks like she's been retired since 2013 but she was a research microbiologist from 1981-2013 at USDA-ARS. Seems a bit lacking on evidence and just some "hey mom has this glowing thing, let's make a plausible story about how soldiers wounds glowed!"

They even try to explain the fact that they wouldn't have been able to survive on a human body (due to temperature) by claiming it's because the wounded soldiers were laying out in cold weather.
There’s a lot about the Civil War that can only be found in books or newspapers that aren’t searchable online. Many of the newspapers of the time are long gone with no searachle archive.
Chainiac: Software-Update Transparency via Skipchains and Verified Builds [pdf]
>To me, the American version reminds me of everything I hate about drunk people in a bar - overly loud, boisterous people trying to play up their drunken state thinking it is cool to do - while telling me a story. Badly.

> The British version reminds me of someone telling me a story. They know about the story, but don't remember the details, and the drunkeness is getting in the way. The basic description is correct: no host. To me, it is more intimate and less "sober person making fun of the drunk in the room" because of the setup.

Huh, I didn't even know there was a British version, but having just checked out a random few (ARTHUR Conan Doyle, Napoleon), it seems like they ham up the drunken silliness a LOT more than the American ones I've seen.
> It looks like the Apple authorized service program may be dead, or at least on it's last legs.

The writing was on the wall when Apple stores started opening up. In my city there was a decades-old independent Apple-focused computer store/repair shop. They were one of those places where you could buy a Mac or get it fixed, even when Apple was at the very bottom of its popularity. It didn't last long after Apple opened a store down the street.
Take "The Yellow Arrow" by Victor Pelevin with you and read it after a few days on the train – it will be a really immersive experience.
I don't think it's so much about features, but I do think there's a huge difference between having a nano and a normal sized one, especially on a laptop.

Being able to leave it in instead of having to take it out of your wallet and plug it in every time makes a big difference in usability, which in turn makes it much more likely that you'll want to use it everywhere.
Assume $5k in monthly expenses? The typical Google or Facebook engineer lives in the Bay area where rent goes for $5k. Tax is not 25%.
California and Fed tax is more like 45%. Stop this rubbish. If you are going to answer this at least make it realistic.
Jennifer Fowlow - Gender Studies

Ben Cowie - isotope geochemistry(basically a specialize
geologist)

Cory Jansson - Political Science

Anne Hartman - Anthropology

Gee I wonder why they had no job prospects with their PHD study.
That's what I'm trying to figure out I guess. I have some skill sets which may be fall under "Cloud Developer" skills like: building microservices in Java, building containers, know how to write serverless apps.

But is that it? I mean with a "Front-End Developer" you can at least ask the framework they build in.

What I'm trying to find (and may not be able to) is what it would mean to be a "Cloud Developer". Something as simple as throwing an API on an AWS instance doesn't seem like it would qualify but hosting a number of containers in AWS does?
Probably not far from the truth (see comment above; URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594196).
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To my understanding, string theory/M-Theory is quite coherent mathematically, the issue that prevents a good lay description, other than the theory being a somewhat moving target as more of the math gets solved, is a "naming an abstraction" problem just as one has all the time in programming. The mathematicians have a good idea of the abstractions in terms of the math itself and its own internally consistent/coherent jargon, but haven't made a solid, coherent leap together to what those systems mean in a way they can sell to lay people.

For example, the difference between working in Haskell and knowing the Monad abstraction, versus using the descendants of that work such as async/await in a language like JS, C#, or Python and no longer needing to know/worry about the Monad abstraction because that's now a compiler/interpreter concern. (An interesting edge to that analogy too is that reminder that Haskell's use of the abstraction provides more opportunity, as do-notation works with all Monads, but for now async/await is specialized to just one Monad. This is useful to the string theory/M-Theory question as well, as some users of string theory/M-Theory seems interested in mathematically exploring all possible worlds under the theory, not just necessarily the practical ones that align with the world we live in, in case the overall abstraction or do-notation equivalent is useful in other situations.)
How did you learn Russian so fluently? Did you grow up speaking it?
I have a simpler explanation. Apple would prefer people buy new phones than repairing old phones because they make more money that way. One way to accomplish that is to make the phone harder/riskier to fix.

That said, I think Apples success is mostly inertia at this point: demand in the secondary market keeps resale prices high which quickens the new device cycle. As long as it costs less to sell the broken one and buy a new one, that will be the path people take when there is an issue.
I agree that some of the problems are too hard to be realistic. I made sure to not count those when I was analyzing my performance. As I said in the comment I'm linking to below, a few months ago I couldn't even do Fibonacci recursively. I just couldn't figure out how to structure the code, when to call the function, how to pass the results of each call up the stack etc. This is just one example. The other day I tried to do the brute force implementation of finding the median of 2 sorted arrays. Brute force as in have two pointers at the start of each array incrementing until you reach the median. It was too hard for me to code successfully and I spent 2-3 hours on it.

I wrote a comment that I realize should have been part of the original post on hindsight. It may give you more content if you choose to respond.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594084
> I don't agree that schools are any more 'clearly environmentally contingent' than intelligence,

Clearly I can change all the rules governing schools without changing the genetics of any of the students. So you are claiming that it is possible that if intelligence could be as environmentally contingent like school system, then one would need to show that this type of study can produce interesting results in the first place.

> That's a remarkable assertion,

I read the sentence as a general qualifier for this kind of studies. But the objection is, that these genes would produce a clear signal in this kind of studies without any of the causality taking place inside of a brain. (And unlike 'intelligence,' I can actually define what I mean by 'black skin' 'school funding' and 'average neighborhood income.' )

So for the study to have any kind of explainative effect, it needs to show that the effect is created by anything that can be reasonably called intelligence, instead of something that takes place completely outside of the brain.
Not necessarily refunds. It could be about bills they didn’t pay yet, for example because they had to be paid within 30 or 60 days, and that period hasn’t passed yet.

Asking “do you want 95% now or see whether we can pay back 100% in 20 days, when we have to pay you?” is fairly standard practice for companies that are running low on cash.

If all parties involved think there’s a >5% chance they won’t be able to eventually pay back, the rational thing to do is to accept that offer. Also, the first to accept the offer is more likely to get the money.

(But _if_ the end result is bankruptcy, the trustee appointed might order you to pay back that money, so that debtors who have more rights to be repaid can be paid back with it)
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>I find articles such as this one to be absolutely fascinating. It seems that people like those in this article appear to be trying to gentrify what is mostly unskilled labour, adding some sort of intellectual doublethink that they pulled off from the chip on their shoulder which comes from not fulfilling their path to become a certified academic intellectual. Based on the title of 'owner' of these ventures I am quite curious how they financed these businesses.

You might be projecting too much of your own biases. At least in my country (in Europe) I know lots of people with academic degrees which turned into "mostly unskilled labor".

In fact it was even quite fashionable in the 70s to early 80s, and it's alluring again with the new generation.

And, at least back then, when the economy was booming and degrees where still scarce, it wasn't for lack of opportunities to become a "certified academic intellectual".
What are the mobile prospects here? Sound like the main motivation is that phone numbers are not secure second factors. But the result is a solution that only works on desktops (is that correct?) and requires a physical key that can be easily lost.

Modern phones now have secure coprocessors and biometric authentication. Why not use that method for the second factor? It doesn’t rely on a phone number and it would handle both mobile and desktop.
Are you speaking from experience or what you heard?
Looks like Mozilla's last word on it is that they won't add
it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111277

> Thomas Daede [:TD-Linux]

> Comment 13 • 3 years ago

> The licensing costs for HEVC makes implementing BPG in Firefox impractical.

> In addition, supporting a patent encumbered image format is not in line with Mozilla's goals of promoting the free and open web.

> BPG's technical performance is impressive, but a successor to JPEG needs to not regress on the freedom of usage that JPEG offers.
Indeed, speaking of many other OS this could be a real problem. The PDF containing the Xv6 source code, on the other hand, is about 100 pages long.
Perhaps allow a major Western military power to come and establish a huge permanent base, and pray for some natural resources to be found might shorten the long road to independence.

That and paying huge wads of cash to celebrity-turned-activists ($$$ not Somaliland cash bricks!!) to come and create heartbleed documentaries could potentially help their cause.

Just sayin...
I just link to the project tags page, since the only tags we have are releases, this works great.
Yes.

Around Red Square in Moscow you will probably get along with English. In the rest of Moscow‘s city center: doubtful, but possible.

Elsewhere? Forget about it.

Except for St. Petersberg. Only one person I tried to talk to did not speak some English, a ticket inspector in the tram. Fortunately, just about every Russian around was immediately trying to help and translate. :-)

Oh, and learn by heart how „Выход в город“ looks like. I learned it after I spent about half an hour trying to emerge from the metro station to the surface, and only getting to yet another train line.
Is that supposed to be a dealbreaker? I imagine 4 letter acronyms, especially ones that are also words, are in short supply these days.
I have a masters in Mechanical Engineering and I always wanted to get a PhD. But it's unfortunate that it makes no financial sense. I make a meager (relative compared to full wage) 25K to 30K for about 5 years (and this is on the high side!). When I finish school and decide not to go the academic route, I make maybe a little more than my counter parts that have been working for 5 years...Also, I find anecdotally that people with a MSc has a higher probability of management roles compared to PhD.
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I was excited at first, and then realized this is a kernel patch and not a userland tool. Boooo. FB says "PSI tracks three major system resources — CPU, memory, and I/O — and provides a canonical view into how the usage of these resources changes over time." It should have been possible to do this in userland and make this (somewhat) kernel version-independent.

I'm sure I'll use this once there's OSes running a stable kernel with these patches, but I don't run non-vendor kernels in production [unless I'm forced to], and depending on kernel features makes it hard to support legacy systems.
> You live off a meager stipend for about a decade

Keep in mind that this is not necessarily true for schools in countries outside of the US. At my school, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as a PhD student you are considered an employee of the school and you are paid a living wage with full benefits. The current salary starts at 28600 SEK/month and can reach up to 33500 SEK/month [1] which is definitely a living wage in Stockholm, especially considering that you can live in affordable student accommodation (as long as you have been on the waiting list for at least a year or so for a student dorm). Sure, you can definitely make more money working in the industry, but at least you will not be living in poverty while pursuing your PhD degree.

As far as I know the public schools in Norway and Denmark operate very similarly to this, but I am not sure about other schools in Europe.

[1] https://www.kth.se/en/studies/phd/student/employment-1.52704...
I think drcongo's point is that if an operative meets someone at the pub and swaps out a similar looking fob on his keychain for one that contains a virus. It doesn't matter if you only "pwned" a single device, you're in the network and it is time to start exploring.
I lived in big cities for all my life with short trips to the country in summer, from my experience is that those who live in the city men would shake hands and/or nod, rarely hug. The ones that live in smaller towns/villages tend to hug a lot more.

With women it is if you are an acquaintance then a nod, a friend usually a hug, can be a kiss on the cheek sometimes. With women from smaller towns they might hug and kiss strangers probably out of habit.

Since US is quite rural that would explain more hug prone culture.
Engineering and Computer Science are a different ballgame because the industry aggressively siphons off the pipeline, but for most other fields it's a drought.
Not sure how much this overlaps, but I also have this bookmarked:

http://overapi.com/ "collecting all cheat sheets," repo at https://github.com/overthecs/overthecs.github.io but I don't see a lot of changes in the past few years.
I was referring to the use for GTO-GSO orbit raising, where it's less mass efficient than both hydrazine and ion engine propulsion.

But the Isp might be so low only because of scaling issues on a device that has to fit in a microsatellite.

If they do meet their target of 900 second specific impulse on the larger models, then it might indeed be very useful.
> If a phisher convinces me to try to login to google.com-super-secure-phishing.net using my google account I'm going to notice something is wrong when my password manager refuses to fill in the login form.

You say that, but the overwhelming body of evidence from real-life phishing attacks and red-team exercises demonstrates that even very technologically-literate engineers will not consistently notice.
usb boot in next version or next versions.
Much of the finance industry in the US. Do a few years at Goldman (or any other well-known employer on Wall St), get an MBA, and work wherever you want for the next 30 years. I know quite a few who have followed this plan.

Every industry has companies like this. Apple and Google in software, PWC in accounting, BoozAllen in consulting, etc.
Indie filmmakers could/would pirate actors' likenesses, the same way electronic musicians currently make bootleg remixes.
Why would you want to store your propellant water separately as O2 and H rather than as water? You'd have to react it to turn it into water, water is pretty inert, there's no mass advantage (more of a problem than volume). What am I missing?
I have been to SPb (or Peter as locals call it) 4 times in the past year. It's become one of my favorite cities. Peter, has its own vibe, it's still relatively under-appreciated, it has an interesting street music flavor, the hermitage museum is excellent and once you become friends with locals, Russian hospitality is wonderful.

You really want to visit Peter between May till September. End of June to early July during the White Nights is quiet fun.

My favorite thing is to roam the city on bikes. Peter is a large city and having a bike gives you a great freedom to take it all in.

Peter has many restaurants. Armenian (Erevan or Yerevan named after the capital of Armenia is very good but a bit on the pricey side), Georgian, canteen (soviet style buffet). Many places on or around the Nevsky Street open late or never close.

SIM card is cheap, Megaphone and MTC is your best choice, but you can't buy Megahpone at the airport, but there are many locations in the center of the city. I think I paid like $8-9 for 10-12 Gigs of internet.

Russian language knowledge is very helpful. Though a lot more people speak English in Peter than rest of Russia, but if you plan to wonder off, Google Translate (download the Russian language to your phone to be safe) is your friend.

If you want to learn Russian, learn the polite way of saying hello (Здравствуйте) it's hard to pronounce at first, but I find it very disarming and helpful.

Uber has now become Yandex taxi. But you can still use your Uber app which is what I recommend once you arrive into the airport and want to get to city upon arrival.

IMPORTANT - If you stay at AirBNB, the host may not register you. So either ask them to register you or ask them where you can register. Registration is free, but people doing it will charge you some money. There were agencies that would do it last year, but with the world cup rules changed a bit.

If you like street music and you want to fit in, be sure to listen to the music of KINO (with the front man Victor Tsoi) they're a legend in Peter and you'll hear their music always played in the street.
Is "vandal" really politically incorrect these days? As far as I can tell from Wikipedia the Vandal people have died out and there is no one left to take offence from having their ethnic name associated with property damage.
Such a waste of potential. It could be the most amazing time of your life, a chance to ask and answer the most interesting questions you can think of. Instead it ends up being a very negative experience for many.
I'm fine with others doing it so I can have a better picture of the competition in the personal finance sector that I'm developing an app for.
I often find myself telling founders "you're the boss, you decide." This is a core operating principle for how we think about advice to startups at YC.
Leaving a well-paid job to pursue a different lifestyle?
Has anyone here left their well-paid salary to pursue a different lifestyle?

My goal is to live off the least amount of income but still maintain a healthy, active, and productive life. Instead of thinking in terms of how much I make, I want to instead show how little income I need to live that way.

I've been slowly working towards leaving my current employment to pursue this different lifestyle and don't have any friends or colleagues in my circle that have done this before. So, I'm wondering if any of you here in the HN community have done this. If so, would you be willing to share with me your insights, observations, lessons, rewards, or any other information that you think would be useful?
People do a lot of quantitatively-irrational things for love.

Today, as an academic, I get to spend some of my time experimentally asking the universe how gravity works, some of my time working to detect hints of radioactivity in the atmosphere, and a bunch of my time working to help students learn how to make sense of, and thrive in, the world.

P.S. Being Dr. So-and-so isn't worth it as a goal. The title means zero in my daily life (nor should it, almost all the time, IMHO). The skills and experience learned in the process of getting there, however, remain perpetually important. Those don't always come with a degree.
Interesting approach. I'm curious to try it out.

After playing around with vm.overcommit_ratio, different swap sizes, earlyoom[1], and a few other variables, I still haven't found a happy medium between high memory utilization and low risk of swapping to death. vm.overcommit_ratio=0 is safe, but on systems where occasional swapping is tolerable and memory is limited (e.g. my laptop), I'd rather allow some overcommit.

The risk is that if many cold or unallocated pages get touched while the system is under high memory pressure, the system can become totally unresponsive. At the moment I use "Magic SysRq"+f to manually start the oom_killer, when possible. Obviously it's not a great solution. Is there some kernel tunable to keep the system responsive that I'm unaware of? What do you guys do for desktop/laptop systems?

1. https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
It's not layering. It's depth. The depth buffer will work for cases where two objects cross in Z. Unlike the painter's algorithm.
It seems to me it's the mere fact that humanity's rise was borne on the back of its ruthless drive and selfish greed, and the same things that made us the best hunters also influence society in myriad ways.

In my eyes, greed, hierarchy, and limited compassion / an inability to share are the filter, and all society's diseases are the symptoms.
The 3D touch calibration video made me realize just how complicated it is to get the functionality. It's got to be about the worst cost to utilization ration of any feature on the iPhone. Based on my extensive research asking friends and reading various forums.

When the video get taken down, it showed a large device resembling a 3d printer where the phone is precisely mounted while a probe carefully presses on the glass in multiple places to calibrate touch sensitivity. This works in conjunction with a special app running on the attached iMac. The process takes 15 minutes if it works the first time--the instructions indicate that it might fail the first time.
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I'm not OP, but looking at the source cade this seems to be on purpose. The font is Wingdings :)
Is it time for a newbie-hacker mentor for PostgreSQL.Org?