skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad's PhD thesis is stored on a magnetic tape formatted for a PDP-11. He'd like to copy it off, but it's difficult to find a computer that can read it! Back in 2006 we went from Geneva to Lausanne to visit Musée Bolo, but their PDP-11 had a problem with its Winchester drive (hard disk) and wouldn't boot. After a few hours, we gave up. Please get in touch if you have the tools - I know he'd like his digital copy back!

Even more modern formats are difficult to copy forwards. I'm currently tidying out my old computer collection, copying off data from SCSI disks, 5.25" floppies, DD floppies, HD floppies, and CDs. My USB floppy drive can't read DD floppies.

The SCSI path requires copying to a PowerBook G3, removing the internal hard drive, putting it into a USB-PATA controller, and copying it to my laptop. I'll need to do the same for all the 2GB JAZ cartridges. I don't even have a ZIP disc reader, so I gave those two discs away to another collector so he can read them for me. The 5.25" floppies are the hardest - they don't mount even on old Macs, so I'll need to figure out how to set up ADTPro to copy them over serial from an Apple IIgs.

If you're in the area and want some old hardware/software/magazines/user manuals, please let me know!

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/99223h/peters...

The lesson? If you want to keep the data, also keep the computer that can read it. And make backups.
White-colloar sweatshops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japanese_term)
Is there a repo/service/one-stop-shop for plain CSS framework agnostic elements?
I find myself regularly wanting to use certain elements from Bootstrap, Bulma, Material Design or any of the hundred other CSS frameworks out there.

The problem with using any of these is that you are very stuck in a certain design philosophy. Your choice also impacts what buttons, form elements etc look like. Also, don't get me started on things like jQuery dependencies. Mixing different elements from these frameworks really doesn’t work because your layout will be ruined. Why should wanting to use the bootstrap grid system also automatically decide what danger color a button has in your application? In the end, you spend a lot of time customizing these frameworks.

In my opinion what you really need is a grid system for easy responsive spacing, and then on top, you should be able to download elements in plain CSS code (or SASS, LESS, Stylus, whatever floats your boat) to not re-invent the wheel on every element. Also, there should be zero dependencies. It could be a community where people upload there programmed CSS elements and other people can download their code and upvote etc. Is there such a repo/UI search engine/product available that anyone knows of? Obviously, I know how google works, but haven't been able to locate what I have in mind.
Yeah, Amazon. It's their Snowball product
Agreed. There is always a point where it's the developer's responsibility to write good code, even in languages where it's very difficult to shoot yourself in the foot.
If you named anything specific about the RISC-V ISA that you think is retarded, you might contribute something to the conversation.
there are no blocks and therefore calling it an blockchain is pure clickbait. what we have here is a chain of hashes
You get better results from Wikipedia and SO with Qwant FYI.
Not only girls. They were thought as "unmanly" for a while. Men were supposed to read technical and historical books, not "girly" novels. There's even a quip from Napoleon about it.
I was sad to see intrade.com close. predictit.org still offers political prediction markets.

BTW, Robin Hanson's blog is a good read: http://www.overcomingbias.com/. He explores in-depth the topic of "Ems" (people emulated on computers in a world where AGI doesn't exist).
parabolic wok-fi
There's Framenet, a computational collection of frames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrameNet

https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/
> Rolling release will make running big frameworks like KDE tricky, as things will change often.

On the contrary, you get new releases (with bugfixes) much sooner.
Fair enough, I didn't know about that feature. However, people were using Fortran successfully for writing huge numeric libraries waaaaayyy before that.
I have a vague memory of reading an article by him shortly after he got the investment from Jeff Bezos when he spoke in terms of being "retired" (sadly ungoogleable now because "david heinmeyer hansson retired" just gives lots of hits for motor-racing). Of course things change, and he is definitely working now, although his working life seems to consist of very well paid, powerful, interesting and part-time positions, so I think the point stands :)
I see a "normal" biker about only 1 out of 10 or so. The rest are wearing spandex racing outfits.
Please don’t spread dangerous misinformation, even as a joke.

Note to non-UK-residents: The described gesture is, in fact, a very rude insulting gesture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#As_an_insult
Google will also show you results targeted only for you. In comparison different IP address/accounts using the same search string in DDG will always get the same result. This can lead to a bias which might not be optimal.

Also they have advertisements, but unlike Google they are not targeted to you, hence making them less competitive for advertisers. Hopefully, this will not prevent them from growing in the future.
Sure, I'm not denying that generics are useful sometimes. It's just that people sometimes exaggerate how big of a problem it is not to have them.
What does the tape drive cost for it?
What is Miirket?

Miirket is an open source highly gifted socket. It creates a secure tunnel to let you access your Raspberry Pi and other linux devices over SSH without the need of IP address and port forwarding.

Why Do I Need Miirket?

You may have distributed linux devices. You may be using devices like Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi for various IOT applications. Miirket enables you to have SSH access to these devices and simplify your management in an easy way. Moreover, you do not have to deal with static IP and port forwarding for this purpose.
> Managers follow incentives too.

As long as we're all just following orders it's fine then eh?
If you think this is important, donate to MAPS! Yes they accept crypto.

https://store.maps.org/np/clients/maps/donation.jsp?campaign...
Magento Google Invisible ReCAPTCHA
History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?
Ballerina: A Programming Language for Cloud Native Computing – The New Stack
The two issues are disjointed - Facebook didn't foresee a situation where, after a feature was blocked, the disgruntled app developers would completely pull their integrations - or at least no developer the size of Twitter. Had they not reacted like that, the new blocks alone wouldn't have deleted anything.
Don’t forget about the rain suit which basically gave you the option to arrive at school wet from your own sweat accumulating inside of it instead of the rain.
I stopped developing Facebook apps a few years ago, but when we wound down our games, we did not delete the apps fearing precisely this problem, or related future problems like app name impersonation, squatting, etc. It just seemed too easy to imagine scenarios where deleting the apps could cause trouble, and the docs were useless for this.

We simply turned the apps off (don't remember exact wording). Last I checked my dev email, I was still getting emails from Facebook warning of API changes and informing of our games' metrics and activity (!), so it is true that deleting an app is cleaner.
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study
I agree, but where to draw the line? I don't use Facebook, but I use Messenger Lite. Am I a user of social media?
Instagram’s verification system is useful, fair, and Twitter should copy it
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What's the critical difference between BEAM bytecode and Ruby bytecode? It's IMHO not a very important distinction if the compilation happens ahead of time or when the program is started, but maybe that's not what you're talking about? I'm not really familiar with the internals of these two.
"Move Fast and Break Things"

This is a great example of big tech companies not thinking about the consequences of their actions.
> There was absolutely no interest at all in "Who" was looking at the page. It seems to me there is still a tremendous amount of money that could be made with only that use case.

I hope that is true, but I have my doubts. Google must have given some thoughts to that issue and decided to switch their targeting to the "who" for a reason, if the previous model was more profitable they simply would have stuck with it I suppose.
Nebulet: A Rust Microkernel Running WebAssembly in Ring 0 – Phoronix
Acer’s absurd Predator Thronos gaming chair is fit for a king – The Verge
"what societal as well as productivity improvements"

In my experience it is likely to give some sort of decrease.

I have worked in places with very flexible working hours and my team leader was always in later than me (officially we were supposed to be in by 10 am, but 11 am was more normal for him. I on the other hand got woken up by my girlfriend for her job, so i started at 9 like most other people).

Basically if I had something to ask him in those two hours I had to wait, which ended up being a bit of a pain in the arse overall.
yup im older than dirt too...
does cult of the dead cow or temple of the screaming electron sound familiar? };=-
It's a reflection of the worst attitudes rather than the best.

The claim that socially media don't select and filter is nonsense. Of course they do. They're a huge part of a social feedback loop that selects and reinforces the most average "popular" behaviours, while filtering out more challenging high-effort social edge cases.

IMO the edge cases are where all the interesting things happen, so keeping them out of the public eye is a form of censorship itself.
> Flagging what children can see/can do is a necessary part of education

Yes, but that's a choice ought to be made by the parents. Not the government or some other party. It's the parents who choose how to raise their kids.
Depending on your jurisdiction all this effort can also include legal fees, visits from the police and saying good bye to all electronic equipment for a couple of months while it's being investigated.
Given the actual content of the update, the "temporarily" sounds more hopeful than factual.
And here I was talking about precision warfare... :) Guess an accumulated error in the Kilometers range shouldn't be an issue.

Military drones have already been hijacked using GPS spoofing so I'll be skeptic regarding the guidance system being bullet proof thanks to INS.
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It would have been great if they had search box or some sort of filter (like in DataTables js plugin).
This varies a lot from country to country as we noticed working with a very international group of friends in Spain.

My friend basically sent out an invite to her party with staggered start times based on nationality. Spanish Greeks were asked to come two or three hours before the real start time, French one hour and Brits and Germans were given the actual time.
To be fair, we had macros and they covered many of the uses of generics people are arguing with.
>Cipro robbed me of my career, my identity, and my 20s. I've never quite fully recovered or found a job I loved as much/was as good at as playing guitar.

That's horrible, I'm sorry.

Have a similar story to yours but early adolescence. More severe, but full physiological recovery after years. The life knock-on effects however remain, and those can hurt more than any physical pain.

Having your life ruined by a rare side effect—especially one that's not outwardly visible—is like being run over by an invisible bus. You're road kill, and yet nobody gives a shit, just another statistic. Worse yet is when you're met with incredulity by the bus driver (in this case medical professionals) as to whether you were actually run over in the first place.

Without going into too much detail, I had a physician refer me to a pediatric psychiatrist on the basis that I was somehow imagining my symptoms, only to later to be completely vindicated by hard diagnostics proving severe, life-threatening illness. It disturbs me to think of kids that weren't as lucky.
Future literacy: read, write, code?
gotta keep them getting allergies to feed pharma lobby, so it's better if they are just holding tablets in sterile environment
Changa is much more intense but t less a strain on the body. Changa is smoked and doesn’t work the same way although benefits are similar to ayahuasca but no you do not risk cheese syndrome from the Maoi in the same way as ingested. The literature is not big on the subject yet but dig and you will find. My advice is uppersit stay away from most doctors or atleast research what they are trying to do to you. Seen a lot of life’s ruined by them sadly. And yes Changa is so strong you probably won’t feel the need for any cravings a while alcohol sugar coffe weed and whatever doesn’t mean much on top of this experience which you can probably live on the next 40 years. I don’t get my ideas from only reading but first hand experience. Myself quit 15 years of daily weed abuse from one day to the other. I don’t feel a need for any substances anymore. Lots of people did similar after one and only one trip of 1 hour. Worked with alcohol and weed and stress and being an idiot from my experience. It’s easy to go back to bad habbits but with this it’s also easy not to. It’s about the mindset you ned in not the body’s reaction which will ofcourse be there a while. And cook your own Changa the one you buy don’t have enough active alkaloids and is made for profit.
Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
I have a very simple rule. Traffic laws and enforcement of said laws should be proportional to the accident rate.

If the average car driver has 2x, 10x, 100x or anything like higher accident rate than cyclists, and car traffic is several time larger than bike traffic, then it make logical sense that most traffic law and enforcement is put on addressing car traffic and drivers. The only consideration is when funding for such enforcement and laws don't follow strict scaling, in which you have to find the point where putting more funding in bike traffic laws actually produce lower accidents.
Based on P/E ratios, it's not the economy either.
How do you find the branch associated with a specific point in time? Didn't see that in the docs.

Also, are there guarantees that no two branches can be created at the exact same point in time?

Thanks for the excellent work! I can actually see some use cases for this in one of my side project. :-)
Yeah. A free society will always have a percentage of the population who do dumb and potentially lethal things, and a percentage of those will get injured or killed because of their own stupidity.

Bu that doesn't mean the answer is to ban everything potentially dangerous. All kinds of activities nowadays (from everyday things like driving to extreme sports) carry a large degree of risk. The answer is simply to accept that freedom to make your own choices means freedom to screw up, and accept that if you're not hurting someone else, then it's your responsibility to stay safe and society won't stop you.
> Where do you appeal of the judge decides not to even offer you bail, for that matter?

To a higher court, as with any other judicial order? This is how things work in normal common law countries like the UK, Canada and Australia.
A stage inbetween Frames in Lisp and RDF/OWL was KIF [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Interchange_Format
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(I usually avoid ranting, but just couldn't resist it this time around. Go on, bring on your downvotes, you still know deep inside this is the truth.)

Oblig. generic laughter [1]

Are Go's problems over, then? I have read the error handling draft so far, and girl, was I in for a big surprise. Imagine a few nested try-catch blocks, where all the try{} and catch{} are written... imperatively, one after the other, with both try{} bodies and catch{} blocks interspersed in the same scope. E.g., line 1: "catch" block, lines 2-10: "call IO" statements, line 11: another "catch" block, etc. The errors are always passed to the previous "catch" block, then the one before that, etc, until the error has been handled.

Haven't we seen something like this before? Ah yes, the goto statements!

This was designed by a person with a severe case of scope-o-phobia. If that person has designed the rest of Go (and I think she has), the language might be unsalvageable. Just start from scratch, and do it right this time around. Oh wait, no need - we already have Kotlin.

/rant

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVO5bUFww0
That would solve elegantly how I do my pricing!
> serialized fiction that was popular in the Victorian Age

A little earlier than that (Balzac in the 1830s, Eugène Sue and George Sand in the 1840s) the same thing had happened in France. Other than that I totally agree with you, the TV series (Netflix especially) are the new Balzac and Tolstoy.
Serverless integration of ServiceNow and grafana – lesson learned
I'll just repeat myself, maybe the finer points were missed: If you set up a secure network with IDS and firewalls, you control all aspects of that network. Saying that you'll put some IoT smart bulb crap on that network is just like saying you have an airgapped network that's connected to the internet.

It doesn't make sense to build a secure network and then connect insecure crap to it or to allow anyone else to do it.
Schooling is a subset of education.
As a public school teacher, the voucher program would be absolutely awful. Good schools would get better and poor ones would get worse, as the only parents who could necessarily afford to switch schools are already those who are better off. This would just create a huge inequality between the school systems.
Can anyone elaborate a use case for something like this? I’m guessing there’s some blockchain connection but it’s not immediately obvious
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Using Prolog + OWL[1][2][3] would be more modern alternative.

[1] http://www.swi-prolog.org/web/

[2] http://www.swi-prolog.org/web/Triple20.html

[3] http://vangelisv.github.io/thea/
Sleep.

Specifically, going to bed early enough regularly.

Feels like my day has 24.5 hours, so each day shifts back by 30 minutes
I came from a small country in Europe and schools followed a more strict policy. We were not allowed to change classrooms from 1-12 grade, the teachers switched classrooms. Because of that process, we created a bond with the classmates and kind of became like a family and protected one another. There was bullying, but it was minimal because the non-supervision time window was small during our 20 min lunch break. I promise, if the western schools follow the same policy all that pushing and shoving of kids during class transition will not happen. Just my 2 cents.
Show HN: Automated spreadsheet reports to eliminate interruptions for developers
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Learning About Space Exploration by Playing with F# and FP: Setup
out of max doesnt apply to balance bills since it is not insurance's responsibility.
See reply above. Did it ever happen to you to come home and find a random fridge in the living room? Then why would you expect that anyone building a secure network would allow anything to be connected to it without any controls?

A smart light bulb usually needs some additional "infrastructure": the bridge that has to be connected somehow. Even if you made the mistake of not physically securing the ports of your secure network, and also don't authenticate any device that connects, and you somehow allow random devices to be connected to a secure [0] network, you'll still be able to catch any device that gets connected. And if your bulb somehow goes straight to WiFi why would you allow random devices on that network?

[0] Did I mention secure enough times? I just have the feeling that this is the crux of the discussion because you consider setting up firewalls and IDS that block any exfiltration as normal but somehow a smartbulb on the network doesn't raise any flags.
There's a difference between a pedestrian moving at 3 to 6 mph and a cyclist going 10 to 20 mph. This is why crossing intersections as a pedestrian at cyclist speeds is much more hazardous to cyclists (compared to pedestrians moving at typical pedestrian speeds) because drivers don't expect someone moving that fast when they're making a turn across a crosswalk.
It is a hash of a block, but not a chain.

For this to be a chain, it would have to be published multiple times, each time containing references to previous blocks under the published hash.

Other than that I am pretty sure we can find many more examples. Hashing and publishing the hash is pretty popular way to prove timestamp of a secret without revealing the secret, yet. I did it myself a couple of times when I wanted to be able to prove later that I had a particular information before some specific time.
So they'd have to do something like publish the hashes in a major newspaper?
Normal riding, once was on a flat road on an ordinary city bike (saddle ~same height as handlebars, not full tuck like a racer), the other was downhill on a mountain bike (on asphalt). In both cases I flipped over the front, because the front wheel turned perpendicular to the direction of travel.

I average around 20-22kph on my 8km commute riding my current bike. It's nothing particularly special, just an 8-speed city bike, and I certainly don't go all-out, I ride at what feels like a comfortable speed for the bike.

Biking in Copenhagen, I definitely see a fair share of people on granny bikes dawdling along, they're much more likely to crash due to sudden mechanical failure, or due to inattention from staring at their damn phones.

But either way, we're only talking about solo accidents. You can certainly also hit your head against the hood of a car, for instance.

Besides, I like wearing the helmet. It concentrates airflow across the top of my head, and it gives me more area to put stickers on.
From what I've seen it's used in water heater heat pumps, not space heating and cooling. Perhaps with tighter regulations on HFCs CO2 will be more widely used.
Every time something like this gets posted, everyone on HN comes out of the woodwork and explains how they barely use social media.

Snapchat makes it really easy for me to share what I'm doing, my location, and to quickly meet up with people. Messenger is great for group chats that I talk about garbage with mates all day. Instagram is good for sharing and talking about art and design. And Facebook is filled to the brim of fantastic memes, general shitposting and lovely private groups for specific interests. I'm constantly seeing events that my friends are attending on Facebook, and it makes it really easy to organise groups to attend them.

What's not to love? Honestly, I read these threads and just think y'all just using social media wrong; no wonder why you're all having such a miserable time.
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You could argue an analogy to infection can be useful: it is not only, or not so much the number of viruses / books produced, but also the contagion probability. Factors that harm infection, such as distance to the target (which, with more offer and tastes, increases); or competing hobbies (which harm time for reading and writing / virus life); or competing conversation topics (habitat competitors,vaccines, eliminated contagion vectors through hygiene)... They all can harm literature even with more viruses.
If you know this stuff you also know the taste and looks of the crystal and why eg it got the color it does. There is no easy way of knowing what is inside a tablet but the “pure” crystallized products are easy to recognize mdma especially. And it would have to be a damn big tablet to contain too much mdma... by bet is on what else is inside.