skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some code from the 1970s MIT Lisp/PDP-10 culture: https://github.com/dhess/rabbit-scheme/blob/master/rabbit.ls...

The indentation and all-caps are not modern, and the MACLISP primitive names like TERPRI are unchanged from the 60s. Otherwise, the coding and commenting style would not really raise any eyebrows today.

I first learned of literate programming from this culture instead of Knuth, e.g. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41983 ("The fourth section presents a completely annotated interpreter for AMORD").

I'm just saying yeah, expectations have definitely evolved, but it's not the case that PDP-10 hackers back then had not yet discovered or valued readability.
If you booked via credit card, protest. you have a 90-day window. You should get your cash back. Doesn't matter what the airline says. This is part of the agreement between Merchants - Banks - Visa/MC.

You'll get that $ back, granted, you still have to buy a more expensive ticket. Still, it's something
Christ ... that brings back memories ...
Of course they gave us the aqueduct. That goes without saying!
I think it is in terms of promoting in terms of publicity rather than advancement. I'd like a better word, but it seems to be in contrast to micro-aggressions.

I like the concept but the homophone makes it confusing. (Giving positive feedback in public regularly and in front of peers and management seems to be a good thing.)
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
Hi HN,

Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?

I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.

Thanks!

Note: this is was previously on HN here[1], but it's been few years, and I'm sure a lot of one person startups are thriving than before.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009
Fair enough, but I'd just say that I don't mind an extra half inch if the device weighed the same. IMHO, 10 year old 13 inch laptops were plenty small, but I do appreciate the lower weights
Looking at the context, I don't buy this explanation. It's ingenious but a bit too subtle to be true.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Passages_from_the_Life_o...
No it's not. Some form of prejudice, certainly, but not racism.
The government didn’t do those things for us. The government used violence to force us to pay for those things, regardless of whether we wanted to or not, among many other things we were also forced to pay for.
> whatever that phrase may mean on Instagram, where a great work of art will always get less likes than a booblisp

This is not particular to Instagram. It seems to have been the preference even before the internet was created.
What does this have to do with the Zfs Intent Log?!? :-)
Obviously not, since since if "components of pirate defense can be provided more inexpensively with today’s technology", then the same technology is available to the pirates...
Quick rant, downvote away but I thought I'd share something that's really going to be important to the future of tech: Obsolescence in technology is a completely broken mental model. As a communications tool it mainly serves the purpose of justifying new development and economic growth. The obsolescence model is based on a breadth-first estimation of technology (what's out there, what's going on, how have things changed out in the tech world, what else is available) rather than a depth-first estimation (what's in here, what can this baby do, wow what a miracle in this way or that one).

By using the word "obsolete," the communicator is being--intentionally or unintentionally--intellectually shallow. Even if the word serves their purpose, they are also wrong in a big way.

The fact is, this machine still does what it started out to do, technically speaking. If you look up the dictionary definition of obsolescence though, you'll find some really terrible news: "no longer useful." An Atari 800 is no longer useful? That's arguable, to say the very least.

The best way to communicate obsolescence with accuracy, precision, and rationality is with a reference point, like a market: "This tool no longer serves its original target market with the efficacy that it once did." This is much more precise. However, it opens the door to another depth question: Which markets or sub-markets might it _still_ serve, and even speak to rather loudly?

IMO the discourse of obsolescence is a curse on modern civilization. We are missing out on some huge _qualitative growth_ lessons until we learn to think in a more nuanced way about how technology serves us all.
In other words: If there's only an ever-shifting relative spectrum, plain conservatives were the fascists du jour at the opposing end, most of the time. This is certainly not what you want. It may be worth treating political opinions fairly for what they are.

Notably, this was about "left-leaning" as a qualifier for hate speech, which may be subject to prosecution (compare the original comment).
So you're fine as long as racism is only directed towards races other than your own?
Is this somehow related to feeling uneasy from skydiving once parachute is deployed as well? I sometimes feel like I am going to pass out. I had a scary situation while practicing multiple tailspins and free-falls on a sailplane and almost blacked out after the last one (basically couldn't feel anything and landed just by vision and mechanical yoke movements I couldn't feel at all.
Ask HN: Book recommendations on architecture of network applications
I‘m looking for books on how to architect apps, like multiplayer games, cooperative document editing, that handle how to resolve conflicts, design a data model and synchronize state (including clients/peers that join at a later time).
"Why not" doing it yourself, then?
What is dead may never die.
Thats a pretty inclusive view on what racism is.
I really don't think racist is the term to describe this discrimiation, since you could hardly say Swiss and French are from a different race.

edit: clarification
I really miss keyboard like that
Stanford ML Releases MRNet Knee MRI Dataset
Torvalds is so kind and generous, just a great human being:

"I don’t necessarily think these researchers were knowingly dishonest. Perhaps they were simply stupid. Or deluded."
It's not a dig at you or anything like that. HN likes to try to remove any kind of editorializing of the article titles regardless of who did it. Though they usually side on caution with the actual title of the article like you used.
In my late teens, in the late 90s I attended university in the United Kingdom. In my first year, the Japanese Emperor visited the Queen. And was met by British WW2 soldiers on the Mall, who in photos in the papers, were respectable old men, wearing their regimental berets and ties, and stood with their backs to the royal procession, Japanese flags burning. They were protesting Japanese atrocity, still without apology.

My great uncles had fought against the Japanese during the war, and I grew up listening to stories of their time in Burma. In fact we had a number of war souvenirs at home, including samurai swords pulled from the bodies of soldiers who had committed suicide rather than surrender.

Airbrushed from history is the fact that the battles against the Japanese were won by soldiers from around the world: Kings African Rifles, Rhodesian African Rifles, Karen militia who fought the Japanese whilst living in trees.

I don’t know why we don’t tell these stories more often.

Here is a rarity, an Al Jazeera documentary about a Nigerian boy soldier, left for dead and nursed back to health by locals. It’s an excellent documentary for anyone interested.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BREOezfAJSU
All of the gravity shield things turn out to be bogus AFAIK. Like the people didn't account for the outgassing from their cyrogenic fluids and other such sloppiness. Or it was announced from a guy who refused to show his apparatus to anybody until they funded his work for a million bucks because he was "afraid they would steal it".

The biggest clue it didn't pan out is that if it were real we would be using it now.
Living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health
The act of making a measurement/observation is nothing more than an interaction where the system is exchanging information or this this case quantum states which is described by quantum mechanics. I don't get where this "special/outside" observer coming from.
Corporations Working on Autonomous Vehicles
Dewey Defeats Truman

hncynic 1 minute ago

It's a shame that the results don't reflect the outcome of their entire campaign. This guy should be able to predict the outcome.
It's the "only winning a race is worth it" argument that people have been saying about the Truman show since forever.

hncynic 1 minute ago

I think this title needs the following: "Dewey wins against" (because he's a non-American who lives in the US)
In my mind, Dewey won because he has no reason to believe anything in it.
The best thing I ever did for myself recently was getting a Swiss ball as a seating implement. It fixed my posture and every so often I can just bounce "locally" to unwind and get blood going. Good thing nobody can see me acting weird at home.

Plus as the ability to slouch is gone, I've got no incentive to stay seated and get up more often.
I'm sorry but what are you talking about? Fastly has about 60 PoPs (physical locations). No one is talking about hundreds of thousands of sites. Even akamai, who made it one of their primary marketing metrics, only ever got into the thousands.
>Four of the five NIH letters to MD Anderson contain very specific allegations of what NIH terms “serious” rule violations. One letter, for instance, asserts that a researcher had violated peer-review confidentiality by emailing to a scientist in China an NIH grant application marked as containing “proprietary/privileged information.” A different letter alleges that a researcher had shared “detailed information on as many as 8 NIH applications” with a daughter. NIH asserts several researchers had “active and well-supported research programs in China,” or financial ties to foreign firms, that they did not disclose. Three of the letters specifically mention a researcher’s potential involvement in China’s Thousand Talents Program, an effort started in 2008 to establish ties with Chinese or Chinese American scientists working outside of China by offering funding, salary, and other research support.

This sounds like really boring stuff that the scientists may not even have known that they weren't allowed to do.
42 years old here and I think so far my best years were in my mid 30s when I was old enough to put things into perspective, financially more relaxed, autonomous, still healthy and willing to change or contribute positively to this world, still wanting to explore.

But for me, health issues started to appear in my late 30s and also I felt reaching 40 years old that my energy is depleted. Also I am actually less relaxed especially working in IT because I am starting to feel like a dinosaur (I still do software development). It might sound pessimistic but I think my best years are behind me.
Midi30Quatre
You might be genetically susceptible to distractions. Some people are just better at focusing than others. It's perhaps not where your power is.

The best solution is to simply delete all your social media accounts that you don't use professionally (strategically).
Can you elaborate on this?

Enterprise customers are generally able to get their SE to set whatever cache key they like, and if that is insufficient they can use the worker cache API: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/cache-ap...

As I understand it a charity may get the former thing for free through https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/ , but the latter probably still has usage-based billing.

Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare.
Chinese is a nationality or citizenship status. If the focus were reporting han chinese then it would enter the territory of racism.
The thesis is intriguing, but I wonder how urban dwellers
and television scheduling contributes to the sleep times.
The Good and the Bad of Google Cloud Run
Sometimes remote calls with multiple participants feel awkward, and there’s this mild detachment and lowered engagement (not sure about the cause and effect relationship there). Laugh track, used sparingly with good timing, sounds like a golden idea or at least something hilarious to try.
So, blocking Firefox on iOS, for example?
One day we'll eventually run out of ancient drives that can read their floppies, but the media could be still readable using other means. I would love to see a plain scanner like device that reads magnetic fields instead of light reflections, that is, something that slowly scans the entire surface of the media [1] just like a scanner then builds a pattern of tracks and sectors keeping track (pun unintended) of its position, then proceeds to map them into data thanks to a database describing how data structure is arranged by different brands/disk formats/filesystems/etc.
We wouldn't need either speed or realtime reading; being able to read and decypher an ancient disk in 3 days of multiple passes to correct errors, would still make it a success. A (very) small rotating head would likely work here. Did anyone ever attempt to do something similar?

[1] The magnetic media should be removed from the disk body, that is, the disk would stand still in the "scanner" while the head(s) would slowly do multiple passes to map the remnants of its magnetic data.
This would eliminate the requirement for custom readers for very rare floppies, say like those 2" ones I can't even remember where I saw them (possibly a musical instrument from the 80s).
I love the quality of the keyboards in these old machines. Is there anyone out there building all-in-one keyboard computers w/ Model M-quality keyboards?
For what it's worth, my last pair of digital aids were purchased circa 2011 as well, and the pair I recently (last few months) got aren't just better, they're astonishingly better. I ended up going with Phonak Audeo M's over the Starkey Livio AI's but it was a close decision. My two cents is that if you've got the inclination/resources, it might be worthwhile to pay a visit to an audiologist you trust to see what the state of the art is like.
Every donation is significant. It's just uncommon in science to mention donations in the first sentence at all. As a reader, this suggests something exceptional. My point is only that this number isn't.
The T series still has the removable batteries, and the newer model years (T460 and up) have weights equivalent to the older X240 and below.

My T460 is within 0.5lbs (~0.25kg) of my work-issued 2015 MBP 13in, and from my quick searches, that seems to be generally consistent up to the modern T490 & 2018 MBP 13s.

I don't have a modern Thinkpad or MBP to compare, but my T460 still gets ~4-5hrs of normal usage, or 2-3hrs of heavy usage (strategy gaming like FTL or Rimworld, running VMs and python dev work, etc). My 2015 MBP 13 gets fairly similar times.
My take is that it's many small, public acts of appreciation. That would go a long way for me, at least!
It was a matter of nationality (family bounds, schools you attended, school/univeristy friends, friends, etc), not race. A Swiss being black could have been hired.

Switzerland is a small village, so if you break the law, everybody will know it. So locals tend to respect the law (social pressure).

Today a company would be bbqed in the news paper for such a heavy policy.
[0] - http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/child-poverty-ra...

[1] - https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/parenting-in-amer...

I am not sure what you think I mean. But what I mean is poorer families have less support, and parents spend less time with their children. This can have cognitive and emotional impact on them impacting academic success and overall emotional maturity.
By your logic, people from all nations should be able to get top secret government security clearances. Let me know how that works out.
It’s probably the right call from an optics perspective so soon after the 737 MAX fiasco.

It’s more expensive than a workbench fix, but cheaper than bad publicity and a loss of faith in FAA governance. It’s a shame the cost is being foisted on GA owners though, owning a private plane is expensive enough already.
Ask HN: Which new laptop optimizes (1) keyboard and (2) display?
In the market for a new laptop. I care most about (1) the keyboard and (2) the display. What laptop in today’s crop of new machines optimizes these two together? i.e. this is an AND not an OR
You're right but the vast majority of the time the difference between the AI and the AOA is close to zero (plus whatever the angle of the wing is relative to the fuselage which is fixed and should be pretty small anyway). The times when the difference between the AOA and the AI is very different than zero in a bad way the little stall switch on the wing and some sort of chime/buzzer will be more than happy to let the pilot know.

My point is that the AI combined with the little stall switch on the wing seem to be good enough for the overwhelming majority of cases. Add in airspeed and you're more than covered.

We keep trying to add systems to cover whatever remaining edge cases we find but those systems have failure modes too so we take three steps forward and two steps back. These systems pick up the slack when the pilot might be inattentive but the increased complexity and cognitive load poses other risks.
How are Indians not considered “Asians in practice” when they are considered as such by the Census, the authoritative organization that sets the categorization standard?
I am struggling to phrase this comment in a non-abrasive way. Please read on charitably.

I, similarly to the author, was hired into a position without necessarily having a huge amount of skills. The reason I was hired was due to me showing an aptitude for being able to be dropped into a new situation and find my own way out of it. My hiring experience was baptism by fire. There was no onboarding, just JIRA tickets and some architecture diagrams.

My team races at a million miles per hour, and frankly doesn't have the time to hand-hold a juniour as they learn the ropes. I was put on pagerduty and started putting out production fires within 3 weeks of being hired. With no prior experience.

That is not to say that my team didn't help _at all_. However, I distinctly recall trying to limit my questioning to daily stand-up, and only asking further questions if I was very stuck on some proprietary technology (because Google searches can't help you with in-house tech.) My manager during performance reviews would heap praise on me for being so green and yet so low-maintenance.

Now at this point I'm programming, doing "infrastructure as code" in the cloud, and working on baremetal hardware. Coming from basically nothing. Allow me to brag a little bit. I'm proud of myself.

It is stressful, there are long hours involved, but the experience hardens one for sure.

Maybe I'm just experiencing a sort of Stockholm syndrome. Maybe I was put into a terrible situation and just accepted it as normal, even good. Experience is subjective like that.
“emachines – This computer is never obsolete”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndX0YNA70s
Do you speak any other languages / have you learned a 2nd language as an adult?

Pretty interesting how simply viewing the world through an ever so slightly different verbal lens can have interesting impacts on perspective. albeit mostly only little things. But as you alluded to, it's mostly only the little things that might catch you off guard anymore.
George Lucas was heavily inspired by "7 Samurai" by Akira Kurosawa. Its a must watch if you like samurai movies.
Ok so who are the real, non-mainstream mathematicians who would do better?
If you are a funding peer reviewer you know you are not allowed to send grant applications to anyone unauthorized. It's not boring; a big deal is made out of this repeatedly and it is a serious lapse.

Of course this is something that is rarely punished because in most cases there's no way for the authorities to know. Too bad for these folks that they seemed to be under investigation.
> Unless the design of the sensor would make it inaccurate after being reassembled (I'm skeptical of this, it wouldn't make sense for a few reasons) this is kind of a dick move to the aircraft owners that they're probably doing in the name of "look how careful we're being"

I think your cynicism is uncalled for. FAA found an issue that is life threatening to pilots and passengers, just because pilot/mechanics are aware about how careful they are with their planes, does not mean that you invalidate the actual manufacturing issue that is found with these AOA sensors.

"We are aware, we are not stupid, don't tell us what to do." - this is a wrong attitude especially from an Aviation mechanic, unless I am missing something, otherwise please elaborate.
As someone who is not from the Bay Area, lives currently in the Bay Area, is not wealthy, and from a family that is not wealthy: I spend a lot of time ( too much time ) trying to figure out how everyone around me is wealthy. There are a lot of paths to wealth. The most common elements are previous family wealth, hard work, frugality, but also really good long-term decision making ( keep the first house you buy forever ) and skills that can't be taught (sheer will and ambition).
The United States Government has official racial categories for individuals, of which "Asian" is one.

Employers and academic institutions are required by law to categorize employees/researchers/students into these racial categories.
The lack of self awareness in this article is cringeworthy.

Just read the headline, that's as good as it gets.
I believe you are spreading misinformation here.

The Census Bureau determines ethnicity and race within America for legal purposes (including employment)

Asians are people from 'the far east' 'southeast asia' and 'india'

https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/pdf/race-ethnicity-o...

BY NO MEANS am I defending this, I believe much of our race 'stuff' is indefensibly stupid and unscientific from biological, historical, and sociological perspectives, and the American idea of "Asian" is one of the worst concepts of all.
Funny that, I've heard it that it's barbaric to use uninvolved family as blackmail for an individual's liabilities. Guess not when it's suggested by "non-Barbaric" peoples!
How to Prioritize Self-Driving Car Security
Its just the view the English language has consensed on at the ground level. It's not decided intentionally.
> body's not like it used to be

I'm 32 and my body is already sore all the time. already i miss my body at 21.

not my mind, I'm a lot more mentally stable now. but body deteriorating is a big stressor to me...
I'm not endorsing the use of the terminology, nor do I use it, but that has been my experience with others who use it in the US and UK. I know the US Census lumps Indians and Chinese together in one as Asian, but colloquially, I never hear anyone in the US refer to Indians as Asians.