skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the model Ballmer implemented. When Satyer Nadeller took over they removed this insane and destructive system.
I was going to pick seven as well.

Personal guess for why it’s a favorite...
1. I want to signal that I’m creative. If you say “random, between 1-10” picking 5 feels amateur.
2. You said “between 1-10”, which is inclusive of 1 and 10, but you positioned me to not choose the poles with the word “between.”

3. It feels random to iterate through options and settle on one. I iterate by counting up. Since 5 is out, that leaves 6,7,8,9 in my big pile’o’random.

From there, for whatever reason 7 tends to stand out.

Crazy how predictable we are.
That doesn't make sense - if it constrains your job prospects, why would you sign it?

If some interns are stupid or careless, that's another problem but you can't say that non-competes are the problem. You don't have to sign it.
For small tech companies it is a nuclear option. Unless everyone hates the employee it will only go badly.

For instance: a tech company I used to work for, a well liked employee left to go work for a company he used to consult for. The owner threatened hard to sue. It made the papers, the lawsuit alone would have ended us, but now local companies didn’t want to sign either because our reputation tanked, and many of the employees threatened to quit.
Google Design Blog: Principles for Designing Charts
Do not use string, index cards, and multiple CS PhD students holding the cards to illustrate how garbage collectors work, particularly if most (all?) of the people in the groups haven't written a garbage collector. Trust me on this.
There is lot of room between “slave like conditions” and the modern American trend of decadent children and adolescents that live in a state of extended infancy well into their 20s. From 1948 to 2000, the teenage labor force participation rate was 45-55%. Since 2000 it has dropped dramatically, to just 35% last year.
So stop using Android or switch to WhatsApp. Simple.
Show HN: Etlas, an elegant and Pythonic port scanner
Or iMessages. Or Signal.
This Meme Doesn't Exist
This is my first major project, please feel free to critique and offer suggestions for new/better features. Thank you!
There was nothing under the law that limited it to 2 years. There is nothing under the law that defines specific timeframes for warranties in Australia.
Think of a vegetable. I predict you think of a carrot.
That's a pretty nice idea for the net paths issue. I'll borrow it, thanks.

I'd guess all significant Windows developer tools will add support for the wsl paths over time. VS Code obviously leads the pack with its remote extensions. I hope Jetbrains will do something similar with IntelliJ Idea - the piecemeal approach doesn't work as well IMO.

I'll be interested to see what Microsoft can do about the speed of access to the windows file system. It's painfully slow right now.
Sometimes but probably less than the majority of incidents for a fixed static camera system feels appropriate. Not to mention deterrent effects.
How do you use Signal without a phone number?

I mean:

> Requirements

> Signal uses your existing phone number.

> The number must be able to receive an SMS or phone call.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318691-Re...

You can't use one of those shared SMS services. So what, lease a SIM from some SIM farm in wherever, and hope that they're honest?

No privacy-conscious system would require phone numbers.
Certainly neural models do!
You sort of missed the LIVING MICROBES part of the article. Which is where the uh, PROTEIN comes from ... smh ...
We see 7 all the time, though, in a week.
Curious if this resonates with others. That is hard to believe but I wasn’t around to have an opinion.
No. There was never any intention to keep non-msdos systems working. Quite the contrary. But many, many users had add-on memory extenders to move things out of the memory ms-dos knew about, to leave more room for programs, or to speed up switching beween them.

The CON hack was just business as usual, and hacks to keep the hacks working, like this, were stock-in-trade for people obliged to work in it the environment. Microsoft was directly responsible for a two-decade regression of progress in software system design. They did not just displace better systems; they got everyone convinced that their stuff was normal.
“TeXmacs-1.99.10” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer." Why not become an identified developer?
Shameless Plug (a summary of current NoSQL/NewSQL market and each's prominent features) - https://medium.com/open-factory/nosql-newsql-a-smorgasboard-...
McDonald's fries are a special case, because, as some vegetarians discovered after years of being misled by their "cooked in 100% vegetable oil" claims, they're already flavored with beef tallow.
Every person who buys an iPhone or wears Nikes is immoral and a bad person to a degree, as these products are essentially built upon slave labor.
I'd be interested in a reference for this "crash" definition you're describing. It was common parlance in the late 80's in the DOS-era PC circles I ran in to use the word "crash" to mean a physical fault with a hard disk drive (probably in reference to a head crash) and I've seen it picked-up by the novice community over time. I've never seen any Microsoft-provided reference that forwarded such a definition.

None of this is to say that MS-DOS and Win3.x isn't a bizarre maze of assembly-language hacks. It was unreliable as hell, though the entire PC software ecosystem and playing fast-and-loose with tricks like directly accessing hardware was as much to blame as anything.
Is the use of the word severe sarcastic? Because I don’t see any punishments at all
One of my schools was naive in believing that Windows Firewall would suffice to prevent kids from playing multiplayer games so long as student accounts had restricted rights preventing them from toggling the firewall. What they didn't know was that a simple Batch script I wrote could easily switch off the firewall, so I distributed it to all my friends so the games continued. We played Halo, Counter Strike, Doom, and Unreal Tournament all year.

I have another story related to yours. Myself and 3 friends were taking a programming class in high school, and one of them discovered that the screen casting software that teachers used(which also functioned as surveillance software) could be "reversed" without admin access. Not only did he figure out how to spy on everyone's screens, but during class he managed to cast his screen to everyone in the school, including teachers who were using their projectors to do lectures. It was pretty funny, and I don't remember how he did it. This was in New Zealand, so while the school officials were extremely pissed, he didn't get expelled since what he did was fairly harmless and it exposed a serious flaw in the system. I imagine if this was happened in the United States, he'd have at least been expelled and possibly charged with a crime.
No, you have it backwards. Dunning-Kruger describes incompetent people thinking their work is high quality, or overestimating their level of competence. Impostor syndrome is when people feel inadequate despite producing acceptable work.
Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems
My high school didn't block https traffic. The work around, literally, was to append an 's' after http. (Of course, that only worked for sites that implemented SSL, but a good number did at the time).
> While a company is hot and innovative, growth comes from value creation. Then innovation slows, but the executives need to give shareholders growth, so it's extracted in any way possible such as making employees work more hours no increase in income, or buying out smaller innovative emerging competitors and either shelving their innovations or destroying them through staff attrition when integrating after acquisition (like being assimilated by the borg).

What actually causes this is the tax code. Shareholders want to make money and in general are pretty agnostic as to whether it comes from dividends or increases in share price, outside of the taxes.

But the US income tax creates a major preference for share price increases. If a corporation pays a dividend, it first pays corporate income tax on the money it earned, then the shareholder pays personal income tax on the dividend. But if the corporation instead uses the same money for "growth" it doesn't get taxed at all -- many forms of expansion are tax deductions.

Switch from income tax to, say, VAT and that no longer happens. (The immediate objection would be that VAT is less progressive, but that can be solved by combining it with a UBI.)
NOAA Is Livestreaming a Deep Sea Expedition
Yet another FIRE article...
But realizing this about the mural would require being able to see past the immediate thing that is depicted, or, God forbid, doing some research. Neither is something the radical fringe (left or right) feeding on outrage is either interested in or, quite likely, capable of.

I wouldn't be too surprised though if SF turns out to be the first place to burn books this century.
Can someone explain how banks can survive if there is no demand for loans?

Let's say an economy is fully saturated and content and doesn't desire more loans, do banks collapse in such a case?
I can't speak about RE2, but whether the graphs are created when the program is compiled is an implementation issue. It's certainly true that NFA's generally aren't - probably because O(n) where n is the size of regexp so it's very cheap. But since DFA could be O(2^n) they often are created at compile time. For example LEX does that, IIRC a Rust RE library does, and DFA's created by LR parsers are invariably do.

Secondly I specifically said "compile time (of the regular expression)". It is true that may not happen when the program is complied. But there always is a compile time, the outcome of the compile depends only one source and not any time input inputs, and it is completely deterministic. If PHP re's were compiled to DFA's for instance and you did hit the rare exponential space case, you would find out the first time the program attempted to use the regexp, rather than some random user finding it by having the program fail some arbitrary time later.
I think most would know the first 5 because it's pretty accurate making 3.14159 into 3.1416 and you forget what's after the 9
More colloquially/informally, a "500 year event" is something which has historically once every 500 years.
Wow, that is quite the KCF. This is the core problem:

> The [SKS] software is unmaintained. Due to the above, there is literally no one in the keyserver community who feels qualified to do a serious overhaul on the [OCaml] codebase.

The solution is simple: don't use the SKS keyserver network.

> High-risk users should stop using the keyserver network immediately.

I used to use it, but mainly I just send people signed messages, and ask them to send me their public keys. I point them to my Keybase page, in case they prefer to encrypted key.

But that isn't generally practical. So about the mitigation.

> Users who are confident editing their GnuPG configuration files should follow the following process:

> Open gpg.conf in a text editor. Ensure there is no line starting with keyserver. If there is, remove it.

This part makes sense.

> Open dirmngr.conf in a text editor. Add the line keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org to the end of it.

I'm not sure whether that's necessary. For Debian users, adding keyring.debian.org makes sense. But otherwise, isn't it best to get keys from first-party sources?
It's in SPF format, but it's also everything. See e.g. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/

Another method is using GeoIP's ASN database, but they also run many ASNs so it would require a little effort to ensure you have them all
I was around and this doesn’t ring a bell.
AP or CP?
Am I missing something, or is this a textbook case of overfitting? It's a neat project, but at the bottom he prescribes what to do if the person says 1-3, or if they say 4 or 5, etc. Therefore, it's completely overfit to the Reddit data at the top.
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How about 1 person labels 10 people 1 thru 10 and another person not knowing how they're labeled chooses 1 of those people

edit: the first person labels the 10 in a jumbled up way, then the 10 people not knowing how they are labeled then jumble themselves up
You're entirely right, I misremembered the control gear as computers. As a disfan, I feel extreme shame.
Back in the day, this was not even considered odd, in the Microsoft ecosystem. People collected lore like this because you had to know a great deal of it to get anything to work. Writing the code to do the actual work was 10% of the job. Compensating for stuff like this was the rest.
E-A-V is basically a JSON/BSON document store, perhaps with typing. Anything that distinguishes it from those datastores?
But one's thumb doesn't rotate like that. If one needs to make one's thumb rotate to use a trackpad with a thumb and another finger, that trackpad must be the size of a sheet of paper.

I'm probably misunderstanding. I think I'd need a video to understand what you mean.
I agree that good people avoid politics because of the media exposure, but that happens everywhere.

I disagree that the brightest minds go into finance. That may have been true in the 80s and 90s but since the dot com era the brightest minds have gone into tech (as distinct from science and industry).
I've never heard of home paseurizing farm milk, is that common?
It's a high school in frigging San Francisco. Leaving around anything that might make kids actually think for themselves rather than toeing the party line is quite obviously unacceptable and must be destroyed at all costs.
How can I live a nomad life (everything from remote work to travel)?
Buried in the article is that no arrests were made and that warrants for wiretapping requests were down 25% overall in 2018.

However, warentless wiretapping was up 25%:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/nsa-surveillance-spike/
Windows OS quality has varied quite a bit, and I think it is unfair to call the majority of Windows "batshit insane." It isn't a knowledgeable opinion and it isn't necessarily fair, either.

There ARE plenty of mistakes in the history of Windows, don't get me wrong.

Microsoft has gone well out of their way to keep backwards compatibility from release to release, even if it means other features won't be added. Every few years they break this trend and they give everyone multiple years of notice.

There are often very good reasons for some of the things that appear to be insane, as any regular reader of Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing" blog will testify.

Arguably, if anyone I know of would have a valid opinion of Windows' level of insanity, it would be Raymond Chen, as he's had his hands in the Windows source code for 2-3 decades at this point. He continues to work as a developer at Microsoft, so I'm quite confident that the level of "batshit insanity" in Windows is quite low and getting lower by the day.
> ...or just add up the answers mod 10.

This is how my board game groups pick the first player.
it is a draft work in progress.
its really great that there are people willing to take the time following breadcrumbs and compiling them into a reference such as this.
Regardless of what the article posits, the movie was based on actual secret societies. I'm pretty sure Kubrick was trying to tell us something.

Anthony Frewin (assistant to Stanley Kubrick):

I had a friend who lived in the south of France, G. Legman. He supplied us with a lot of information about secret societies and sexual mores in Vienna at the time of Schnitzler. He also sent over a lot of illustrations of secret-society rituals and the Black Mass, mainly from the 19th century. We had a lot of illustrations, contemporary and even much older, of some ceremonies.
If I had to generate a random number I would do this:

As I ask each person I cycle a secret number through 0-9 in my head. (I increment mod 10 after I ask each person)

When I ask I get their answer, I secretly add my secret number modulo 10 (and consider 0 === 10) and record this in secret.

Then record a tally for each number, the one with the most wins.

This assumes the asked people will not know or guess my internal number. So I seed based on the first person's number (OK they know!) but everyone else wont.

Edit: someone came up with a simpler solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315835
Well, it’s the same for puny things. Insurance spike hurts way more than an over speeding fine.
Recently, @mgubi gave a presentation on the Guile Scheme in TeXmacs:

https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/...

And he has a workable guile 2/3 branch on github at
1. https://github.com/mgubi/texmacs/tree/guile2
2. https://github.com/mgubi/texmacs/tree/guile3

We have planed to upgrade to guile 2/3 after the release of TeXmacs 2.1 .

TeXmacs 2.1 will be released in the next few months.
A federation like Germany, which was historically made of small principalities, fits your description. However France is famously centralized, and the UK while less so is also more centralized than the US.
Well, how many non-white people do you see in Congress and important seat positions. The bias is very real.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

Philosophically, no it is not possible, though neither can any natural phenomenon for which we reasonably rely on for randomness.

Practically I suppose your goal is just to generate numbers such that the next number cannot be predicted given only the previous numbers but also without considering any outside knowledge. Potentially possible. Potentially impossible to test. If you can beat the test, it probably just means your method beats that specific test
Ahh fun times! My principal specifically said that it was a good thing I was a minor. Oof.
> Also consider that dragging down the rich doesn't uplift the lower and middle classes.

You're pretty confident about your view of human motivation.

1. There's a certain motivational boost that comes from feeling that "we're all in the same boat." There's a reason that highly-paid NFL quarterbacks make a point of buying watches for their linemen, hosting banquets for them, etc. It's the same reason that military officers are taught never to ask your troops to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself if necessary — along with principles such as officers should only eat after they've made sure the troops are being fed, and they should sleep only when they've made sure the troops are getting sack time.*

* In reality, of course, there are circumstances when that won't be the case, e.g., when standing watch in a 24-hour rotation.

2. On the other hand, resentment, triggered by a feeling of being ignored and abandoned, is "a thing," whether we like it or not (probably programmed by natural selection). Moreover, people tend to view their well-being in comparison with that of their neighbors [0]; failing to keep up with the Joneses can be a real demotivator. That's especially true if you've come to believe that what you see the Joneses have, and you don't, is not a luxury but a necessity. For good or ill, most of us have that tendency, to one degree or another — ask any parent who has heard, But Dad, I NEEEEED a [whatever]!

3. The rich didn't get that way entirely on their own merits (and sometimes not even principally that way). If you haven't seen or read Elizabeth Warren's famous remarks, here they are: <QUOTE> "There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." </QUOTE> This is spot on.

[0] https://users.nber.org/~luttmer/relative.pdf

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/439207-there-is-nobody-in-t... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fQCDqXfq0
You are talking about installing and opening GNU TeXmacs on macOS?

We may improve it later. For now, just trust it and be a happy TeXmacs user.
> This tired argument again. Given that pharmaceutical companies spend more on just marketing than they do on R&D [1], isn't it more accurate to say that the US is subsidizing drug ads? How high would drug prices have to get, and how small the R&D budget, before you'd stop claiming the US is 'subsidizing' R&D.

Annual drug R&D spending isn’t “small.” In 2014-2017, pharmaceutical R&D was about the same size as total VC investment nationwide. (There is some overlap between the two numbers.)

Additionally, the “marketing expenditure” angle is an ignorant trope. The pharmaceutical industry is as efficient as other high tech industries in concerting revenue to R&D. In 2017 US pharma companies spent 20% of revenues on R&D. That’s at the top of the range compared to companies like Intel, Facebook, Apple, and Google. https://www.theatlas.com/charts/N1Gs8E4v. Few would deny that Google is a highly innovative, R&D-heavy company, but it's at 15%.
Cross out the terms you disagree with, initial the changes, and then sign.
Sorry, this is my title:

GNU TeXmacs v1.99.10 is released!

But for some reason, the title was cut.
Why would someone remake a game using the same engine?
A much more detailed description can be found on the related opinion piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/electr...

The process involves using microbes seeded with a bunch of minerals in addition to the air, water, and electricity, so this headline oversimplifies things quite a bit.

Meanwhile the opinion piece also makes the case for why anyone should care: in short, figuring out ways to grow food in radically less space - and in particular, using barren land (the article says sunny deserts would be ideal for this method) - is key to reversing significant environmental harm done by industrial agriculture.

^ that’s a summary of the opinion piece, I don’t have a lot of knowledge or opinion in this area.
I think most people (or at least those who choose 7, which I definitely used to do) associate 'randomness' with 'uniqueness', and since lots people would consider 7 to be the most 'unique' number between 1 and 10 (When considering things such as divisors and how often they are used), they pick that number as it feels the most 'random'.
Fast and Furious Supercharged is a terrible ride (and according to a friend of ours who works at Universal Orlando, the employees agree.) King Kong, also at Islands of Adventure, is the same ride type, and even uses the same vehicle, but is a vastly superior ride. I think a lot of it it comes down to the "story" the ride is trying to tell, and how well it tells it. Spiderman and Harry Potter Forbidden Journey are also excellent.

I know it's a different ride type than we're talking about, but I'm looking forward to heading down to Universal Orlando this fall and for the new Harry Potter ride. Hopefully we won't have to wait 10 hours in line, like the folks who rode it opening day. Just my opinion, but with the exception of the Avatar ride as DisneyWorld, I find the rides at Universal to be much more entertaining and engaging.
I'd highly recommend you checkout https://techexplorations.com/ . They (Peter Dalmaris[1]) has by far the best content for starting from scratch. He also runs a bootcamp if you really need a helping hand.

Chris Gammell from Contextual Electronics and "The Amp Hour" podcast also has good content https://contextualelectronics.com/ .

[1]Disclosure: I often co-host an unrelated STEM podcast w/ Peter, so I'm little biased.