skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all surprising. Mac keyboards have been coming down in quality, and Thinkpads through the x20 series have absolutely incredible keyboards.

If your primary use is typing (coding), you'll probably prefer the machine that's better to type on.
That's sick. What you just described is someone who is unhealthy, not a person who needs a full time job to further indulge in something deviant.
>Costs are out of control. Until we find a way to control costs we will still pay way too much.

But aren't the provider side actors (hospitals, insurance networks, etc) the best placed to figure out how to control costs? It seems like a significant reason therefore for high costs may be because they simply do not feel any significant pressure to reduce them, in part precisely because of abusive behavior like this. If the spigots of inflowing coerced money are tightened, wouldn't that itself be motivation to try to find savings? It is in other industries at least. Same thing with more information and transparency, if providers are required by law to have all the costs laid out upfront and that is all they are ever allowed to collect that itself seems like a reasonable first step towards at the least motivating them to get their own internal systems in order.
The lack of a trackpad has to deal with not compromising space for the keyboard.
More precisely they didn't have a stack, and honestly most 8 bit comptuers didn't have the memory or hardware support for a stack.
Probably a lot faster, in terms of cpu and ability to render resource intensive webpages inside firefox v65. But this was also $40 four years ago.

Having a normal xubuntu environment does give an advantage of being able to install a much wider variety of software compared to the chromebook OS, unless we're talking about replacing the chromebook OS with debian + xorg + your choice of desktop environment.
Superposition of Many Models into One
It's worth noting that despite not providing Vitamin D, there's still a fair bit of value in getting sunlight through glass:

1. Seasonal Affective Disorder is treated using just the visible light spectrum entering the retinas of the eyes [1], and there are a ton of studies showing its effectiveness (in fact, most SAD lamps explicitly filter out ultraviolet light).

2. Some infrared passes through some glass and seems to be good for a thousand different things. [2] [3]

3. UVA passes through glass and has beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system. [4]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0273230092...

[2] https://valtsus.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-therapeutic-effects...

[3] https://www.quora.com/Can-infrared-light-pass-through-glass

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...
This article is completely wrong. It's already been proven that unless you have the reconstruction penalty, capsules naturally don't capture orientation and work similar to bag of words models.
And the designer was fired and got a new job at Apple.
Just watch an old movie from about the 90s and you will be surprised how politically incorrect some of those movies were. They are just a reflection of what was acceptable in those days.
Raspberry Pi running IchigoJam BASIC? Or the IchigoJam board itself?

https://ichigojam.github.io/RPi/
> So, the usual clusterf*k of opinions instead of a clear spec. People should be speaking SQL.

Because that would be an improvement, or not much of a change?
Thank you, it seems like everyone is interpreting it like humanity should stop existing.

The point is to slow down the population growth, by not having kids, and improve a bit the predicted future for those who do end up having kids.
Remember that Reddit quarantines /watchpeopledie

These mods may randomly see gang videos (go look for them if you want to see how tough you are) on any day.

Viewing them would make many people I know retch, worse than if they saw a gory horror movie.

And then some ideas, if presented without an antidote (creationism, flat earth, conspiracies) will subvert the people watching it.

And then comes the worst part - the damage to society itself.

If violent images are removed, depending on what people in Facebook and their friends, consider safe- then they are also deciding what is newsworthy.

And Facebook mods are not in a position to decide if an image of burning child, will stop a war or awaken the conscience of a people.

All they know is that it breaks “rule 4- death: graphic wounding, no gore.”
Heh, there are quite a few people on /r/thinkpad who thinks "something about this machine that causes me to favor it" -- aye, there is, quite a lot in fact. And yes, even the X61 is usable today and the Sandy Bridge based X220/T420/T420s being the last factory machines with the classic keyboard have something of a cult following. As I mentioned many a times before here, from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake IPC have only grown 20% and while power efficiency has grown significantly it's been negated by switching to 15W CPUs instead of 35W so it's no wonder the performance is vaguely similar. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-2520M-vs... Edit: and as a comment below notes, since ThinkPads are typically bought in fleets, any ThinkPad older than three years is typically very cheap on eBay. Buying cheap old ThinkPads instead of similarly priced new laptops at retail outlets is one of those "lifehacks" I suppose. Their ease of maintenance and parts availability combined with the stalled CPU speed growth makes this a very viable strategy.

The best ThinkPad of course is the 25th Anniversary Edition having 2017 hardware with the classic keyboard. That's what I am typing on right now. The next best is a hackfest: take a T430s with an i7 iGPU, for some demented reason Lenovo put a Thunderbolt 1 controller in those (also the S430 and then the next ThinkPad with Thunderbolt is the P50 w/ TB3 four years later). Now comes the hacking: add the classic keyboard and also the high quality full HD screen from the T440s using a Chinese converter kit -- the 30 series used LVDS, the panel uses eDP so you need a converter. I have a T420s with that hack. Thunderbolt 1 is obviously slower than Thunderbolt 3 but still, any TB3 eGPU enclosure will work. As the T430s can have two 2.5" SSDs and an mSATA SSD, you can add quite an amount of solid storage to this -- much more than the TP25, the TP25 maxes out at 2.5TB currently, while the T430s can do 9TB. The NVMe disks are of course faster in the TP25 (even though one is x2 the other is x1) but the feeling in everyday tasks is not going to be vastly different -- the big jump is in HDD to SSD. You are also limited to 16GB RAM vs the 32GB RAM in the TP25. And the CPUs are even closer: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-3520M-vs... Your battery life won't be awesome, alas.
Our Coreboot support right now is very experimental, and doesn't currently support things like UEFI, but we are progressing on it rapidly. We've gotten lots of help from both Coreboot and Intel in getting everything to work.

One major downside is that right now the supported models are Intel-only laptops, but in the future it's highly likely that we'll be able to fully support all of our systems.
I will echo the point that someone else made elsewhere in the thread. Due to the laws in my country of residence, I know for a fact that my ISP is 100% spying on me. So if there is a nonzero chance that my VPN provider isn't selling me out, I'm already better off. Furthermore, my VPN has no incentive to do that. I already pay them 10$ a month, why would they want to risk it all for pennies more? They aren't in a police state jurisdiction like the UK or Australia, so they don't have by law to turn in stuff to the police at their will.

PS: By "interesting" I did not mean "paid shill", like you seemed to assume.
> What happened is that _software_ stopped bloating and inflating like a balloon, as was the norm through the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

Is that true though?

Windows might have gotten more efficient but I think overall most software has gotten worse from a performance perspective. With the prevalence of Electron everywhere, performance doesn't even seem to be a priority anymore. And "native" apps using WPF, etc. aren't as optimized as old school WinForms, MFC style apps (though there are other benefits to be had).
With large companies, I find what works well is "this is going to take 5 years, what should we do in a month?" From 0 to working in a month usually gets the check writers to open up.
Where do you think I found it? ;)
I am an admitted retro addict - I have every computer I've ever owned since 1983. So, to me there is just one answer to why BASIC still matters: Old computers never die - their users do!

Every computer out there is still capable of delivering value to someone, out there. I really think its a shame we have allowed the consumer cult viewpoint to prevail, and that we consider 'old computers' to be "useless" - when this is really not what's happened.

We changed, not the physical hardware.

By way of anecdote: My 11 year old kid is learning as much about programming computers - and most importantly, how computers really work - from hacking code on one of my 8-bit machines, as he would by trying to crank up Xcode, were that at all feasible ..
The system performing the backup and the system storing the backups can (and often should) be in different locations.

What (I believe) klodolph is describing is that you can self-sign an encrypted backup and give it to an untrusted third party. When you later retrieve the backup you know that it had not been tampered by the untrusted third party.

In this case you have direct access to all private keys involved, so no web of trust is needed. In this scenario you trust a key only if you have created it yourself.
Anyone got a link to the repo?
I don't doubt that sun exposure is a contributing factor to skin cancer, but it just does not make sense that skin cancer rates have shot up over the past 100 years, while at the same time people spend less and less time outside.

IMO, there's probably some other causal factor(s), and reducing sunlight exposure is not the solution.

Sunlight exposure is important for health, not just for Vitamin D (which others have pointed out, may just be a proxy for some other factor of sun exposure). It's important for regulating circadian rhythm, as well as preventing myopia in childhood.
For what's worth, I get <1GB mem usage with Cinnamon as well.
Early DOS stuff was written in straight assembler, so to search for *.FOO you can just:

Read a chunk of directory entries into a buffer.

Set ptr to start of the buffer.

Check the extension at ptr[8].

If extension matches, do a thing.

Set ptr to ptr + 32 and loop.
Strangely enough, dash cams are actually illegal in many countries (namely the EU).
>Requires two different kinds of matter (conscious and not)

This is just smuggling in the conclusion. We observe conscious matter and non-conscious matter. The simplest explanation (as in requires the fewest entities in our ontology) is that there is just one kind of matter and that physical processes that we already allow into our ontology for external reasons are sufficient to explain why some matter is conscious.
My kid started on BASIC a year or two ago, and is now requesting that we have sessions to learn Unity and C++.

Never forget that operational causality over computers is gained one step at a time.
They are not. The article mentions before that sentence that the spaces are used for padding. In DOS, filenames are fixed 8+3 structures, and unused trailing positions are padded out using spaces. You cannot, for example, have a space at the beginning of the extension, nor is the space at the end considered part of the extension at a higher level.

So it’s really just an internal representation detail. You might argue that padding with 0 would be better (if you go for fixed size at all), and nowadays that’s what you’d probably use, but it’s kind of arbitrary anyway, and since spaces were illegal in file names, they just used that. Today, 0 has the useful property of also acting as the terminator for zero terminated strings, which became popular through C. Back then, that mattered less.

Contrast this with modern file systems, where spaces in extensions are allowed (just like anywhere else in the file name, as the distinction usually does not exist on the fs level anymore).
I typed in stuff from Compute! magazine. They had a neat helper program to show a simple checksum of each line in the margin, so you could catch typos more easily. To make things even more fun I didn't have a tape drive so I got really good at typing in my games each time I felt like playing :)
ASUS was founded by Acer employees, so they probably were aware of Acer :D
Our copywriter was force-switched to a new Darter for several days (he was previously a Mac user too) and said he really loves the trackpad on it, so that's definitely work looking at. He cited things like the finger tracking and the smoothness of the surface as top reasons. That, combined with the 6-7 hour working battery life make that a really compelling machine.
Ah yea, I did have a T series. Thanks for the info.
The pay is poor, and the population willign to do this may not be in the same region as the jobs, may have better jobs and so on.

The workload is massive. There’s not enough people, and the firms don’t want to pay as much as they need to.
I try to specialize in American authors--but If you want a random selection of my favorites to recommend in order to understand this modern era of America, I present these three:

J.R. - William Gaddis (1975)

(A very nice blog post on it here: https://biblioklept.org/2012/02/09/i-riff-again-on-william-g...)

J R, ambitious sixth-grader in torn sneakers, bred on the challenge of "free enterprise" and fired up by heady mail-order promises of "success." His teachers would rather be elsewhere, his principal doubles as a bank president, his Long Island classroom mirrors the world he sees around him -- a world of public relations and private betrayals where everything (and everyone) wears a price tag, a world of "deals" where honesty is no substitute for experience, and the letter of the law flouts its spirit at every turn.

Operating from the remote anonymity of phone booths and the local post office, with beachheads in a seedy New York cafeteria and a catastrophic, carton-crammed tenement on East 96th Street, J R parlays a deal for thousands of surplus Navy picnic forks through penny stock flyers and a distant textile-mill bankruptcy into a nationwide, hydra-headed "family of companies."

Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon (2013)

It deals with government paranoia, conspiracy theories for 9/11, It uses Computer and ‘deepweb’ Internet as the framing device for the novel—which is why I bring it up in this context. It somehow fits fairly nicely into the political thriller genre, while addressing modern concerns.

Don Delillo - White Noise (1985)

While Jack Gladney is an intellectual academic, an expert in the unlikely field of “Hitler studies” (and something of a fraud, to boot), he’s also a pretty normal dad. Casual reviewers of White Noise tend to overlook the sublime banality of domesticity represented in DeLillo’s signature novel: Gladney is an excellent father to his many kids and step-kids, and DeLillo draws their relationships with a realism that belies–and perhaps helps to create–the novel’s satirical bent.
> program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it.

... then it grows even faster.
I spent a night once in the ER for observation. I never got anything but Tylenol, though I think the concern that led to the overnight stay was reasonable. The bill was $16,000.

This was certainly a defensive, risk-averse treatment, but I think it was a reasonable decision. I think my insurance paid about 8,000. The magic words on the bill were "Patient is nor responsible for the difference between the amount paid by insurance and amount billed". This is because I went to an in-network hospital with a contract.

I talked about this with some of my physician friends, and they told me this is typical. In fact, the original bill doesn't represent what they expect to be paid. It represents an extreme position taken to start negotiations with an HMO or other insurance company.

Here's the trap: if you don't have insurance, you are not just hit with the high bill that represents what the hospital would pay an HMO, you're hit with he wildly inflated bill they send to an HMO in anticipation of being paid much less.

So if you don't have insurance in the US, you're doubly hosed. I know I'm supposed to hate my HMO and all, but to me, this is a bit like belonging to a union. As part of a powerful group, I have someone not just paying the bill but knocking it down for me. I may not like being part of a group plan, but on my own, I'm toast.

Unfortunately, this story shows that you can still end up on the wrong side of this billing practice even if you do have insurance, because some hospitals remain out of network for all insurance, and if you're incapacitated or simply don't have the plan in front of you and a couple hours to research the billing practices of various hospitals as your head is bleeding and you're being taken to the ER, you can end up in a similar situation to an uninsured person.

It turns out that it may in fact be impossible to insure yourself against ruinous bills. Nicely done, there.
Hypercard has a modern implementation called LiveCode[1] that might be a good starting spot, but is definitely not as accessible as the default installed Hypercard on a System 6/7 machine.

[1] https://livecode.com/
After reading the "Big Vitamin D Mistake" article on HN in 2017 I also started experimenting with larger doses of Vitamin D and can attest to life-changing effects.

It has been like a permanent +5 to constitution; I am now almost through my second winter without getting sick, something inconceivable for me as a kid growing up with asthma and a whole range of puffers, and always prone to debilitating sinus infections that told hold in January and never really let up sometime around April.
I used to be far more optimistic about this issue and our ability to discuss it. Seeing the explosion of online fascist and racist rhetoric since 2015 or so, the mass conversion of huge numbers of my peers (the "hacker" community) into these belief systems, and things like the Charlottesville rally with men carrying tiki torches chanting "Jews will not replace us" has changed my mind completely.

I do believe that differences between groups of people and genders exist. The science is quite strong, though obviously there is quite a lot of debate possible around just how strong these effects are and how malleable these characteristics can be.

Unfortunately I have also come to believe (based on observing trends like those I listed above) that our society is absolutely not ready to discuss this openly. Not even close. Research in this area should be borderline encrypted in dense absolutely clinical and neutral rhetoric, should be discussed in private scientist-only forums, and should never be given a "pop science" treatment. (Most pop science gets everything wrong anyway regardless of the subject.) Any repeatable study reliably showing evidence for some systematic group difference among humans that has any strong social, political, or economic implication should be treated the way we treat exact buildable plans for a hydrogen bomb. Such things are classified for a reason. The destructive yield could be similar.

As I said I was once more optimistic. Recent trends (and not just in the United States) have changed my mind. Some individual people can face these things and discuss them rationally, but society as a whole is not ready and exposing everyone to this discussion is tantamount to posting a simple recipe for a biological WMD to Facebook. That too would be just fine if we as a human race were much saner, wiser, and more mature.

I think the ultimate reason this issue is so hard is that inequality is in my opinion the darkest aspect of the human condition. Inequality is worse than death. Death is something we all face and it only happens once, but the inequality is by definition unequal and those cursed by a bad hand from the genetic lottery die every day. The placement of sentient consciousness by nature into unequal vessels is such a horror that it triggers us all and inspires every kind of defensive emotional reaction, including of course a desire to hate and discriminate against those that might seem less fit than ourselves to hide from ourselves knowledge of the bad cards in our own genetic poker hand. The majority of the human race can face death, but it seems that the majority of the human race is not emotionally ready to face the greater horror of inequality.
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption 3 Years After
The struggle here is that it's not always clear what behavior, buggy or not, is intended behavior. Especially as the complexity of an API endpoint or method increases, for example with large input models or mutable system state at the time of request.
My fondest memories of programming are all the days of BASIC. I felt it was super simple, easy to keep in your head, and made no mistakes about flow. I don't honestly know if this was just because I was young and excited, or if the simplicity of BASIC has a lot of merits that are missing in today's popular languages.
The Anti-Mentor
That happens all the time. Please check https://labdoor.com/ before buying any unregulated drug.
And I'm with Dennett, that this is not really a problem but just a failure of imagination. That a description of a thing is not the thing itself is not a novel concept. I think the belief that there is a hard problem is just a new form of Vitalism.
> It should be illegal to charge two different people different prices for the same procedure at the same hospital

I think you're close to a solution with minimal regulatory intervention (Which so far has only made things even more expensive: ACA for example).

I'm curious how this would be reconciled with insurer networks though. A cost savings to insurers IS to have networks and discounts.
Here's an archive for those getting Oath'd

http://archive.is/aVhiM
Does any of them support signature verification at all? Last time I checked there was pdfsig and that was it.
This is a commonly-held misunderstanding! Natural selection doesn't stop acting once you've reproduced.

Characteristics ("traits") which are potentially not helpful for direct reproductive success but have an impact on the success of the group of people you're a part of are conserved through evolution. However, the exact formulation of this idea (known as kin selection or group selection) is still quite controversial [1] among evolutionary biologists.

[1]: https://blog.oup.com/2015/01/kin-group-selection-controversy...
> it's about whether we should have fewer children to lighten the cost.

Most of the West has had sub-replacement-level fertility for several decades, so we already have fewer children.
Functions can describe pretty much anything. If you don't see how they can describe something, then you're just using the wrong functions.
This might be slightly off-topic but I wonder why, in the context of Global Warming, solutions like this [1] aren't more widespread.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...
What Gives You an Edge as an Entrepreneur?
What skills, knowledge, or combination of skills have been most valuable in your career? How have you gained an edge over your competition?
As a 22-year-old starting out career in tech, I would appreciate if you could give some advice.
Thanks!
SPF authenticates the envelope-from domain, while DKIM authenticates the header-from domain. They're both useful, specially coupled with DMARC.

DMARC authorizes recipient servers to outright refuse email from your domain if it does not contain a valid DKIM signature, and/or comes from a non-authorized IP.

In short, SPF+DKIM+DMARC prevent email spoofing from your domain, protecting you from backscatter and reputation degradation.