skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBOL, and other PLs of that day, were heavily integrated with the ISAM file structure. ISAM a precursor of SQL, and was basically a hash table implemented very efficiently in a file. If you have hash tables, you can do pretty much anything. (Actually, it was better than a hash table. Once you had indexed (I) into the file, you could sequentially read forward (S). The AM is Access Method.)
I think it was more like 1.5B more, but still, a nice little boost.
> vaping is (from what we know so far) legitimately a far, far healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes

> given what we know right now

You are making assumptions and drawing conclusions based on what you don't know. That's exactly what doctors used to do when they smoked in hospitals and what vocalists did when they claimed that smoking gave their voice a rich, deep sound.
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Define small, you still need a rocket with some sort of liquid fuel engine with some sort of throttle control and I'm not sure how small can you actually scale those to be.

You might be able to do it with a hybrid rocket engine where the oxidizer is liquid or gaseous but the fuel is solid but I'm not sure.

As for the weight if you make it small but heavy then you are likely to lose aerodynamic control since it essentially will be a free falling brick.

You need something that is massive enough to resist the wind but have a large enough surface area to be aerodynamically stable and controllable, I'm not saying it's not possible I'm just saying that the time and money that you'll have to invest in it is going to be quite likely astronomical and while I don't doubt that there might be individuals that might be able to do it on their own this likely would require a pretty large team of dedicated people to solve.

If you are capable of building a rocket engine I would actually focus on simply building a hovering rocket rather than trying to land it, or at least you better off trying to build a hobbyist grasshopper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket) than a Falcon 9.

But realistically even for something like this you should be better prepared to spend the better part of a decade building it and likely at least a few $100K's in funding since none of this is going to be cheap to produce.
Speaking of Domain, I am still waiting for .Web. What happen to it?
There's also a lot of jobs that don't really need degrees, either. One of the main ones I'm thinking of is teachers. Anyone can learn to teach, and an apprenticeship program might be better at actually getting good teachers (plus, it would let them see a few years in the classroom, meaning that they can decide if it's for them early on, and then leave before they start, hopefully decreasing teacher turnover rate). Then you could add specialization at all levels for subject area, and so they do their apprenticeship in the area they want to teach. Oh, and stop elementary school teachers from being generalists while we're at it; that's where a lot of the problem with basic math ability lies, from my experience as a high school math teacher. These teachers honestly have to take the state-mandated tests multiple times because of basic high school level math, yet we expect them to teach kids well...
If you don't live in a dusty area like a desert, put a bowl of water on your roof for 24 hours. Come back and take a magnet to it, and put that under a microscope. Easiest method to collect micrometeorites.
True. The art world, or at least the modern art world, would prefer to be embarrassing us!
I was astonished at how this was handled on the issue tracker. It was closed as "works as designed" even though the design was the problem.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=432236

(I'm obviously a bit biased on the matter because it affected me and cost me a silly amount of time to track down.)
How would FB know what my friends have purchased? I've experienced the "ad that's way too specific to a conversation held just moments ago to be mere coincidence" phenomenon several times. Each incident has involved the kind of product neither of us owned, none of our other friends would ever buy, and dull/boring enough that no one would have a reason to post/chat about it on Facebook.
Respiratory diseases under the umbrella term COPD (which includes emphysema) are another large category represented in that table. And alas, in my family.
True. Also, the new TLDs have gotten out of hand to the point that ICANN launching a new TLD has become noise. Their restraint has been so lacking that I'm expecting punycode emoji TLDs in the next few years. If you thought .sucks was bad, just wait for the poo emoji.
This older quiz from the same source, covering the US, came up in a comment here the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz...

The questions are quite different (presumably chosen based on what will segment readers suitably) and I don't recall anything about running bodies of water. So we don't get to compare, and it isn't sufficient to answer what you want - but it's interesting if you haven't seen it already.
> Then, technically, isn't all of Silicon Valley violating the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s? For example, let's say black males statistically swipe phones a certain length and certain time... doesn't this mean ads targeting them can be engaging in disparate impact?

Yes, and lawyers have had, and will continue to have, a field day in every instance that they can prove this is true.
Why I hate the weekends (2017)
"t the goal is to self-select for a certain type of desirable intern"

It's more often than not a money issue.

People don't want to pay if they don't have to.
I vaped for 6+ months as a "nootropics" stimulant to augment caffeine intake.

Could I code/work one more hour per day? Yes, usually.

But the trade-offs were insomnia, irritability, and anxiety.

It wasn't until I quit cold turkey that the effects of nicotine withdrawal really kicked in. I felt like crap for days.

Sure, e-Cigarettes are a far better alternative than their counterpart. But the addictive quality, and recurring financial investment are very real.
I believe the statement is most charitably interpreted as the channel must be secure against modifications so that when you are attempting to put the public key in the file that some other contents aren't inserted instead.
I feel like so many of the incentives in modern society are rigged to approach the "problem" of what to do with your people from the wrong end.

You put them through public school to... train them to work in factories. Because that is the original and persistent intent of what a high school education leaves you capable of.

You then siphon them into university then because... they need the means to live, and the only way to get it is with specialized skills.

Like with many things the original functions of what these programs were meant to achieve (creating a capable working class for regimented jobs of the era) have been totally lent to obsolescence but the systems remain as if nothing changed.

Not even STEM justifies the cost of university. We could be collectively saving absurd amounts of time and money if 14 year olds were electing to pursue a STEM career and simply shadowed professionals for 4-8 years and learned through first hand experience while reading books and doing online regimented lecture learning about the subjects on their own or in collaborative groups of their peers. You wouldn't need extravagant institutions costing absurd amounts of upkeep to maintain just to fail to produce capable scientists and mathematicians because they graduate with often only a rote understanding of ten+ year outdated domain knowledge and no experience practically applying any of it.
I wouldn't say exactly because over-staffing does not entail destruction like window smashing does. Overstaffing entails significant training and break time while on duty. Time to train, break and help other departments is considered a premium quality of creative working environments. Factory style production environments that are goal focused are a special case of keeping workers running, best when its to finish early.
I totally agree that almost all of these job licensing regimes should be weaker, including doctors. But I'm not sure they should be non-existent. The world in which you have to spend half an hour googling which taxi companies aren't death-traps before you can leave the airport is really less efficient.

Re workplace rules, I don't mean literal payouts to widows, I mean rules about this kind of machine needing that kind of guard, and this inspection schedule, and safety gear that withstands this much impact... there are millions of highly detailed rules, and they are all adapted to the trade-offs and costs we face today.

Any one of these rules you could say "of course it's a good thing that guys on scaffold must have safety clips". But the sum of all of them encodes, implicitly, that a nanomort is worth X dollars. And imposing all of them in 1900 would have made any factory completely impossible.
You mean culinary science !
The graph of percentage of people in serious delinquency over the past 20 years doesn't seem to support the doom and gloom throughout the article. In fact it looks like there might even be a bit of a percentage-wise decline, even though the absolute total is increasing linearly.
What if the data is used to find whistleblowers? Or predict them? I'm sure there's plenty of corporations and governments that will be willing to pay for such services.

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-team-of-pre...
> there's a complicated bidding process to even attempt to sell them to the school!

Did he mean complicated process for the school to buy them, or was he making them and selling them to the school himself?
Almost all trades have certifications.

Everything from air conditioner repairmen to physical therapists.
> Hi. I'm trying to read your website but it's broken in one of the dominant web browsers in the world.

Don't we all hate reports like this one. "Yeah I know what information you need but my high horse told me to write this crap instead."
Blockchain, where code creates trust. (Bitcoin)
Yeah, a 20 pack is now well over a tenner. It’s great. I do not smoke at all in the uk now, where I currently predominantly live, as the cost is just nuts. £4000 a year or so if you’re on a pack a day, which is where most active smokers sit. I now vape, spend about £200 a year on it.

I will confess that I do still smoke if I find myself in a country where vaping is illegal and the cigarettes are 50p a pack, as I am still a nicotine addict, but I would much rather vape. Cigarettes make my lungs hurt. Vaping doesn’t.

So, unless it turns out that vaping is somehow worse than smoking, this is a resounding public health policy success. My behaviour and the scarcity of smoking you note underscores this.
These sorts of books can be interesting as a sort of 'history of science', but I find they are very misleading, and can't help but end up as exaggerated dramatizations of a handful of the personalities involved with virtually no scientific or mathematical content. I understand that this is probably the best the authors can do, since actual content would require years of academic preparation and near full time study on the audience's part to be able to start to approach most of these topics, but that should be a huge clue that the essence can't really be boiled down.

If any of the core ideas of these subjects were accessible in any significant way via just reading a book with no real prerequisites or preparation, people wouldn't have to spend 4 years of full time study just to get to the point that some of them are considered to be prepared to start to study them in a serious way.

There may be some value to science in that these popularizations increase support for science funding by creating 'fans of science', the people that read them are no better off or more educated than if they had just read a romance novel or a western.

TLDR; you aren't learning anything when you read these books, other than a exaggerated biography (with largely invented stories of conflict and drama) of some of the scientists.
boycott.dev
No it doesn't, there are lots of people 5,10 or longer years on a zero carb diet, has nothing to do with JP. Lots of anecdotes as well ( amber ohearn, kelly hogan, shawn baker, zeroing in on health FB group etc)
The only thing missing from the museum are the people behind Storage Pod. Other than that it's always really cool to see the evolution and history of the product
That requires centralisation because either trolls will affect the filter or the list won't be updated.
Only things in our economy with no skin in the game get more expensive

medical and student loans cannot be bankrupted
houses are mostly gov't supported and when they crash the gov't bails them out.

If you don't want high prices, tell the gov't to stop inflating the prices.
Maybe. If such a swipe gesture discrepancy existed, ML could pick up on it as a proxy for race, despite having no concept of race and despite no human directing it to do so. One example I've heard of is lending software learning to use zip codes as a proxy for race, then systematically denying loans to minorities.

Much more egregious than this though is for years facebook was apparently allowing realtors to target only certain ethnicities. This was a case of deliberate human-driven discrimination, and as far as I know nobody has been held accountable for it. So far the tech industry has proven itself pretty good at getting around the law.
Narrowed me down to Yorkshire as well - wrongly, because I come from the north-east. My mother grew up in Derbyshire, so perhaps it split the difference.
There are around 281 Gopher servers active on the Internet at the moment:

https://www.shodan.io/report/jhkXWTvL

Will be interesting to see whether that number shifts in the near future.
I have no proof but I have a hunch that although fewer people read blogs in comparison with Facebook and Twitter relatively speaking. More people read blogs than in the late 90’s and the 00’s in absolute numbers.

I don’t think that social media has “stolen” many blog readers, rather the number of people on the web increased by helluvalot.
For those looking in the comments for places to explore in gopherspace, I would recommend starting here (use lynx):

gopher://sdf.org # large community
gopher://floodgap.com # a venerable gopher presence
gopher://bitreich.org # small but very active community
gopher://gopher.black/1/moku-pona # my phlog listing aggregator
The earth should not be that small.
Uber’s 2018 Results Still Show Huge Losses and Slowing Growth as IPO Approaches
or Dr. Sbaitso for that matter.
So big companies with big money won't have to shell out cash because there's a TM period for them but smaller one got to buck out 10,000 bucks to prevent cyber squatting ?
I don’t regret going to a public college at all. College is more than just a job factory. You make some of your strongest friendships, connections, potentially future partner in school. You learn a lot about yourself.

Private edu costs are out of control, but if we can figure out how to cut costs then I don’t think the institution of college/higher ed should go away.

You have the rest of your life to work...as a working adult I don’t particularly wish I had skipped college and taken a 6-month online class instead so I could start working earlier.
Those are what we call Jaca in Brazil. You're right: they don't have a bad smell.
If the private key cannot be read by anyone and the user must authenticate to get the device to sign the authentication request, then it could be considered 2 factor by some interpretations.
They think this Florida boy wasn't raised in Britain or Ireland.
If vaping is ever removed, I would think cigarettes would go with them.
As a vegan, I enjoy jackfruit occasionally but it's a a long ways removed from the taste and texture of the new generation of plant based meats.

If I'm eating healthy I'd rather go for other more accessible fruit, veggies and legumes and if eating for meat taste instead would prefer Impossible, Beyond, Gardein and Hungry Planet etc.
Agree. This is an option today if you home school your child.
In California, community college is $46/unit. Typical full time enrollment is 12-15 units. And low income individuals get that fully covered. They are in the process of making the first year of community college fully subsidized for all residents.
The fact that many universities have tenured masters of their domain still having to, even with as many grad students as can fill a lecture hall, oversee 100 level courses that would fit in better at middle school than university is ridiculous.

Good professors are an extremely expensive thing to have, and students of merit deserve time with such masters that maximizes knowledge transfer. That almost always means not having regimented, graded curriculum taught by lecture from one singular book, but that is how almost all university courses operate.

Any time a professor repeats themself or is forced to do something mechanical or routine is a failure of the system to take advantage of their ability.
Student loans don't go away in bankruptcy, even private ones. There is no risk even if you loan a poor student $150k to go to art school since you have the rest of their life to garnish wages from them.
Considering the amount of space debris out there, is a single harpoon the most practical way to get rid of it all?
"Germany is not currently fascist, so clearly it is within the power of humans to reverse it."

Germany as a whole is not ruled by fascists, but there are a significant number of neo-nazis, fascists, fascist sympathizers, bigots and racists in it. They've even done surprisingly well in some elections and control parts of the government. It's not inconceivable that some day there may be a Fourth Reich.
I think this is the strongest argument against student debt relief. I would certainly not pay for someone else to do this:

"You make some of your strongest friendships, connections, potentially future partner in school. You learn a lot about yourself."
Hmmmm this I guess.

http://puffycarrot.com/are-green-tomatoes-poisonous/

>There are tomatoes that are green in nature and stays green even if it reaches its maturity stage. These tomatoes grow in areas with lower temperature and are edible. On the other hand, young tomatoes before turning red are usually green, hard, and tough to digest. The compound in these immature tomatoes is at a higher concentration of toxicity level than in ripe ones.

>While green tomatoes are proven safe to consume, whether it be cooked or eaten raw, there are still people out there that are sensitive to the alkaloids found in green tomatoes which may cause a negative reaction if ingested. It may also be gut irritants to sensitive individuals. That is why it is mostly eaten cooked or fried.

Personally I find tomatoes in general give me indigestion, whether cooked, raw or made into a sauce. Though i've always assumed it was due to the acidity. That being said, i'm usually pretty good with most other acidic foods.
UK Startup Shows Off World’s Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine
From a European perspective I can only shake my head at this.

It doesn't seem like a good idea at all to indebt a significant part of the young population (which I presume creates a lot of avoidable stress) while the rich gain in wealth and power year after year. But I guess longer-term thinking has been thrown overboard in economic decision/policy making anyway, because that would make the numbers not grow fast enough.

Recently I'm under the impression that American society has been tearing itself apart more than is healthy, damaging social cohesion to a great deal. Good luck building an advanced society on distrust and inequality though...
That's the thing: Twitter and Facebook are nothing but least-effort blogs. Twitter in particular was touted as a "micro-blogging" platform.
> I bet I could make those accordion sections work in all browsers going back to IE5 without much effort, and use nothing near 120KB of JS to do it.

<summary>/<details> tags with JS polyfill is all you'd need.

https://caniuse.com/#search=summary
I don't really understand the worry here though. Aren't you always trusting your registrar when you buy a domain name? Google at least has a pretty solid track recordin wrt security.
It is almost as though there is a race on to see who will go into history as the next country to be embarrassed for decades. I'm surprised to see Germany in that list to begin with and it is a pity that there are still plenty of people who refuse to learn from history.
What do you dislike about Discord?

Curious because I actually haven't seen anyone that disliked it beyond the loading screen's silliness.
The entire credit system for education ends up combining government spending and market forces in the worst ways possible. The Federal Reserve Bank of NY drew some conclusions a few years ago to this extent.[0]

The Federal government provides an enormous amount of free/"free" credit, the schools get cash and the students take on the risk. Coupled with the role of academic institutions as gatekeepers of a shot at a better future, and we get the system we have. Hyperbolically, t only outcomes schools are incentivized to care about are applications (lower acceptance rates raise prestige) and attendance (money is transferred to the school only while the student is attending).

[0] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
The author, Arnold Trembley, tells me (reposted with permission):

I have a link on my website:

https://www.arnoldtrembley.com

for an executable download for Eliza in GnuCOBOL that runs on Windows 7 and higher.

I also have GnuCOBOL compilers available for download at:

https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm
You seem to have issues with reading what people actually write instead of projecting the position you want to argue against on them.

> You said "big companies don't care about small savings".

I did not say that. I said that the savings are relatively small enough that you can't just assume they are the primary goal without evidence.

> You claimed that there's some massive legal risk associated with this.

I did not characterize the level of legal risk. There most certainly is some legal risk and college credit alone is not enough to absolve you of that liability.
https://www.unpaidinternslawsuit.com/
Stop with the strawmen, please. It is getting silly.
All those fruits you mentioned are sorta common here in Brazil under the names jaca, goiaba and graviola. You can find them int he supermarket but they're present in many backyards too. They're even used to make flavored beverages like licors and beers and that's before any vegan food trend I can think of.
If existing theory covers all practical experiments, maybe we don't need a new theory? Sometimes you just gotta declare victory and move on to some other field.
> STEM career and simply shadowed professionals for 4-8 years and learned through first hand experience

I believe that's called a PhD :)

But I totally agree that much of the system we've invented is a mistake, basically from having the causality backwards. People who went to university did well, made more than those who worked in factories. So we decided that (after closing the factories) we should send the entire population there, so they can all do well! But it doesn't work like that...
Ideally, this would be the case, but information such as product recalls and safety information would be impossible.