skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this! I'm giving it a try, and I already have a feature request: can you increase the limit on display name and username?
I've got Little Snitch configured to block Youtube (and most Google services) when my browsers request them, but if there's a YouTube video that's interesting enough to warrant the extra effort, I just switch to my terminal and use youtube-dl to grab it and play it back locally.
It seems doubtful that Microsoft would jump through such ridiculous hoops to ensure Windows ran on DR-DOS. They did the exact opposite, and added code to detect DR-DOS and disable Windows.

And in any case, it would be up to DR-DOS to emulate whatever MS-DOS was doing.
> You do not have indy's gun

You're awfully confident.

> this is not a bumbling swordsman.

"Bumbling"? The swordsman in the Raiders clip seemed to be quite skilled; unfortunately for him and his mission, his skills — and more importantly, his assessment of his situation — were badly mismatched to the reality. Putting it another way: As my late father used to say, you can be the world's most-skilled rain dancer, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to make it rain. Supply-siders urge tax cuts and more tax cuts because that will supposedly "make it rain" due to innovators doing more innovating and entrepreneurs doing more enterprising; they also scold anyone who suggests raising the top marginal tax rate. There's more than a little reason to wonder whether the supply-siders are like rain dancers.

If I understand supply-side economics correctly, the underlying model of human motivation assumes that innovators and entrepreneurs will change their behavior in response to almost any increase or decrease in marginal tax rates. While that's likely somewhat true when the marginal rates are at confiscatory levels, there's ample reason to doubt that it's true in the general case, because:

1. Optimizing after-tax revenue is not the only thing that motivates innovators and entrepreneurs. Many other things play roles as well, in varying degrees for different people: A quest for status; a sense of solidarity with "the tribe"; personal satisfaction from the work; and altruism, to name just a few factors.

2. We're nowhere near confiscatory marginal tax rates and haven't been for many years. The Reagan tax cuts were followed by his tax increases [0]. The tax hikes of the early 1990s, under Bush the Elder and Clinton, were followed by a major economic boom (yes, I know, correlation ≠ causation).

Most economists who have studied the matter have estimated that the optimum maximum tax rate for generating tax revenue is around 70%. [1] Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman (in whom I have considerable confidence because of his epistemological modesty and his track record) endorses this view [2]. The Cato Institute recently published an opposing view [3], but I don't find it persuasive, for socio-political reasons that I don't have time to go into.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2010/09/08/news/economy/reagan_years_t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve#Empirical_data

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/alexandria-ocasio...

[3] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-economists-d...
Why are you so worried about competition?
Turing School in Denver

HackReactor in SF

That deal sounds bad imho
This is Scott Wadsworth’s latest video. It’s not narcissism, it wouldn’t be better as a blog post, it doesn’t drag on to run more ads, and it isn’t low brow or toxic.

There are billions of hours of content on YouTube. You haven’t seen a representative sample.

https://youtu.be/cv6BdwMe560
Was hoping this would mention his pedophile side...
Unfortunately these have strong privacy implications as they all phone home an awful lot.
Windows and MSDOS teams were very close, no issue there.

The real reason someone might need to do this hack is that there were in fact many versions of "DOS" not made by Microsoft. These included Zenith, Compaq, Digital Research and IBM. Each of these each had their own subversions.
> where I grew up eating under-cooked meat was a serious health hazard.

This is a not-so-obvious fact I only learned about in my 20s :
that everyday food can be dangerous.
I grew up in a very rural area and never thought our food couldn't be safe (except the milk, we had to boil it once back back from the farmer next door). I liked to eat bits of raw meat while my mother cooked and always thought we rinsed the vegetables only because they taste and look better without the dirt and small bugs.

Maybe I was lucky to live in a "safe food zone" (Europe, France).
Is there any data on the prevalence of food pathogens?
Also, is there any correlation between gut problems and being raised in rural vs. urban areas?
VSCode usually requires downloading the officially supported language bindings, which takes 2 minutes to figure out and is very intuitive/easy.
There are doctors in my extended family. . . the way their referral networks work and the way they can restrict who can practice in the same town/area is straight up mafia.
> I'd be willing to take a bus if it got me there quicker for less money.

It won't get you there quicker. A hypothetical non-stop direct bus route from most places in Manhattan to JFK would take around an hour under ideal conditions, about the same as the train already does. And in non-ideal conditions (around rush hour) and with multiple stops along the route, you would be looking at something like 2 hours, and worse on bad days.
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result? (2011)
Welp, this win the award for the ugliest hack of the week, and I'm not sure which part of the post to award it to. Windows scanning memory for strings, or the part where you make a batch file just to make that check pass.
I agree with you on the insanity of the current system, but I have two problems that prevent me from believing that single payer is the simple answer to our health care cost problem:

1) "Europe" is not single payer, England is while the two largest EU countries, Germany and France, are not.

2) Medicare is already an enormous single payer system, covering the demographic that consumes the most health care services, and does not have costs anywhere in line with Europe.

So, I think copying Europe would be reasonable, but that maybe it would be better to draw inspiration from one of the non-single-payer systems instead. The results don't seem to be any worse and it seems a bit safer to have more choices.
Soylent Green is people!
I Want to Show Affection
Is our culture simply Puritanical to no end, or is it possible for a kiss to simply be a kiss? I'm interested in creating a tribe that has affection as a cornerstone, and I wonder if this is so against the grain that it will just rile people up instead of bringing them together. Can someone help me sort this out?
Wow. I am now imagining a black market where I invite pregnant mothers and families to come stay with me. I could literally house you and entertain you and provide all your needs for 2 months prior to birth at which point you would roll into any hospital and have the child. In Canada the estimated cost for a regular birth is $5000-$8000 or $10000-12000 for a c-section. THAT IS CANADIAN DOLLARS! You spent 80k usd. Again wow. If I only had half of what you paid I could offer a lavish stay with everything taken care of. Plus world class doctors. How come more people are not traveling to have babies? Baby number 2 in the works yet?;)
First AI universe sim is fast and accurate – its creators don't know how
Fauna is a CP system, correct?
I honestly don’t see America surviving the next century. There is no simple way to describe the inefficiencies, but one thrust follows the fact that it is in essence a ‘bad thing’ that our politicians are held in such contempt.

I see our brightest minds instead going into finance to work to enrich themselves with no clear moral framework. Our best problem solvers in science and engineering fields, who we need in positions of government at this moment, are horrified at the prospect of how they would be treated by our media and shy away.
Don't forget the HMOs and Big Pharma. Healthcare in the US is massively one big racket.
In 1963? No. The first minicomputer, the PDP-8, didn't launch until 1964. Those birds were driven by audio tones on magnetic tape driving a reed receiver.[1] Reed receivers were used in early radio controlled aircraft.[2] They probably needed a big machine room for all the control gear, and it might have looked like a computer because of all the magnetic tape gear, but it wasn't.

The Lincoln system used a multichannel analog instrumentation recorder. Those could record signals down to DC, because they had FM modulators and demodulators. (You can't record DC on magnetic tape directly.) I saw a copy of the original system running in an art gallery in SF in the late 1980s, set up by some retired Disney employee.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney%27s_Enchanted_Tiki...
[2] http://www.rchalloffame.org/WhoFirst/First01/files/BIGrelayl...
“i OS” also works, and they may process their thoughts in their own bodies instead of receiving them remotely.
Your comment assumes I have free will ;)
...What does any of this have to do with ECMAscript?
I'm in QC/Canada and I signed a non-compete for my 4 (paid) internships. This is pretty normal here.
Hosted by Microsoft, suggests blocking Microsoft, too.
You can use the Decentraleyes add-on to deal with jQuery on a CDN
>Granted, there some interesting materials but all of them you can ALREADY find online or in startup/scaleup books that we are all reading and recommending.

What books are these? The lean startup being one I assume?
You can always use YouTube through an alternate resource. Try invidio.us
Timing publication is really normal. NYT does it. They also suppress stories that may have harmed G.W.Bush's re-election. Not revealing sources is Wikileaks Raison d'etre. All completely orthogonal to this story about "get caught, evidence published, blame the media"
Well, there are no such restrictions anywhere in Europe AFAIK.
I hit the back button
And that extra ticket costs what, €3.50? The Airport Express can get you from Alexanderplatz to Schönefeld in 20 mins, it takes almost twice that to get to Tegel.
How does this deal with recaptcha? That thing is the bane of my web browsing experience, but at least with my current umatrix setup I can toggle it back on in 30 seconds if I need to pass the challenge; if I need to remote into the DNS everytime I hit a challenge it is a no go for me
> The easy thing to do is to ask someone “Hey, pick a random number from 1 to 10!”. The person replies “7!”.

Seven factorial is way bigger than 10. Just kidding, sorry.

But what I was actually going to say was, when I read the title of the post, before clicking through, I decided to think of a number myself and I chose the number seven. So it was fun to see that same number in the article.

10% chance in theory and in reality it’s about 25% likely for someone to pick the specific number I did. If only the odds in the lottery were this good.

Why, by the way, is it that seven is so popular?
Even something like loading a file into a text editor containing the appropriate pattern would be sufficient; but what's more interesting to consider, is what happens if you happen to have that pattern in memory before starting Windows, but it's the incorrect size of SFT for the version of DOS --- I could imagine some pretty odd things happening... as well as KB article getting published if some important customer ran into it:

"Windows becomes unstable when started after you work with files containing 3 or more occurrences of 'CON' spaced between 16 and 256 bytes apart."
There's no need to solve the distribution balancing problem with linear programming. You can just use a greedy algorithm where you repeatedly give probability mass from numbers with more than 10% to numbers with less.
"and fed with carbon dioxide and hydrogen bubbles"

This is nonsense. Protein needs nitrogen. Maybe they get it from air, but I suspect this isn't real.
Wonder how this production mechanism pencils out as a way to feed everyone for years without sun, i.e., relative to other options explored in https://www.appropedia.org/Feeding_Everyone_No_Matter_What
Bitcoin feels to me like something people want to believe in... thinking about this back in 2012 I would fantasize a future where 1 coin could be a million dollars. Outside of an investment mindset, I think there’s this romantic notion of a digital currency reigning supreme. Bitcoin seems to be too inefficient to survive in the long haul, but something else is bound to reign supreme
I can, but getting my whole house to use it including the iPhones may be a bit tough (this is a Pi-hole add on so it needs to work without device changes)
This can be generalized to having any distribution, simulating a die:

http://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311235
There is so much political outrage-porn on YouTube, it's created an alternate reality.
It says at the bottom that you might want to whilelist recaptcha
> This has the property that if even a single person answers uniformly at random

Has any human ever proven they're capable of this? Generating truly random sequences is more or less impossible for humans AFAIK. (E.g., see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336754 which challenges you to do just that. Spoiler: you will probably fail miserably.)

It's an interesting idea, but in practice I think relying on the assumption that "even" one person is truly answering randomly (let alone uniformly at random) is a non-starter. But perhaps if there are enough people, the resulting sequence blends enough entropy together to get something that looks almost like a uniform random variable anyway? It would be interesting to test empirically.
The intent seems to be to create a safe space for employees to share opinions about the status of the team. Is that not what a manager should do?
The trees won't all die at once.
The other day I bought 2 TB for $189 (Intel 660P). Actually I bought 5 of them, because they're so cheap in Taiwan right now. I was really pleased to discover that they fit my spare MacBook Air using an adaptor, and 10.14 Mojave supports TRIM.
And how much carbon does the forestry and digging equipment to do all that generate? That's one of the problems. Yes, growing trees and 'discarding' the wood is a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but we have to do it in an efficient way, and we're not there yet.
To be clear I (we) do have insurance so I'm not paying 80k out of my pocket. Just wanted to provide anecdotal evidence to the claim that hospital stay is outrageous.

And that was baby No.3 that part of my life is done :D
Because we rarely have the choice. I'd wager it's a conservative estimate to say 90% of published content is under drm restrictions. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like 99%.

And what of students with textbooks? Zero choice for alternatives there, and increasingly even the physical versions all come with required drmed additional single-use content making resale value of the book worhtless when once it was a source of a bit of extra money after spending hundreds on them at the start of the semester.
I'm not quibbling about "outside". But nothing like "grow*" appears there. Spores aren't actually growing. Just waiting for suitable growth conditions.
In the west, Riichi Mahjong seems to be the most well-known form of Mahjong. After living in China, I started to notice that the most popular form of Mahjong here is called "Sichuan Bloody Rules". It is completely different from other forms of Mahjong:

1. The game doesn't end after the first person finishes

2. Many tiles like flowers and wind directions are removed from the game

3. At the start of the game you have to decide one color which you ban from your hand. Your final hand isn't allowed to have a tile of this color inside.

4. You are not allowed to 吃 chi from players

5. There is a pretty complex scoring system

I have the impression that this form of Mahjong is the most unique one. The rules are very different than most other forms of Mahjong, including Riichi Mahjong, and make for really interesting games. So if you're interested in Mahjong feel free to try it out.
> but other than that, you should trust the API contract

As someone who's been working in corporate integration for the past 6 years..

Never trust a contract. Be in WSDL, OpenAPI spec, Word documents or otherwise. I've worked with large tech vendors, I've worked with finance, I've worked with large consultancies. The only people that seem to get it right, is the people you don't want to work with because it's soul-crushing - think HL7 et al.
I was wondering why harmless harvest tastes so much better than other coconut water. It’s way too expensive for me to regularly buy but the flavor is so much better.
My $3.3M Mistake (2009)
Sadly, I don't have a reference handy, but I recall reading a while back that there was this toxic culture at Microsoft in the past where one of the easiest or least frictive ways to climb the ladder professionally was to undermine others due to the way performance was evaluated. Basically, something of a “cull the lowest performing members” model.

Not sure if this is related or even reality, my memory wasn't so great even when I was young.
Your HDMI argument falls a bit flat, since even the brand spanking new USB-C in the latest macbook pros don't support HDMI-2.0 in alt-mode. Instead you need to run them in Displayport and actually run a converter, which is hot and bulky, or you can't get 4k60.

Besides, I'm not fundamentally against dongles, if you REALLY need one because tech has changed or whatever then sure, but let's not require 5 just to operate your computer normally straight out the box.

I really don't see any disadvantage to having an HDMI port, a Type-A USB port and an SD card reader around for making the transition period to USB-C easier. Considering the compromises made to the keyboard, I don't buy that the ports were the thickness limit, either.
You are being reminded that Microsoft code was always batshit insane, and only ever just barely worked.

In the W95/98 era, they succeeded in redefining "crash" to mean, not that the program or OS stopped, requiring a restart, but rather that restarting wouldn't work, and you would have to re-install the OS.

I still recall my shock at learning of this re-definition. I had said that Linux (of the day) would hardly ever crash, and the person said he often went weeks without need to re-install his OS. Crashing, in the old sense, was a several- or many-times-a-day event, and hardly deserved mention. People berated themselves for not having saved their work recently enough. Sometimes they complained of bluescreens while saving, and would alternate saving to two different files, so one might survive.
It's large and prime, so it feels less "round".
I think 7s feel more random because they are so uncommon in normal life. We want to avoid multiplying or dividing by 7 whenever possible. Imagine if "a dozen" were 7 instead of 12.
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> People in the discussion below aren't giving the kids enough credit to stand up for themselves.

People anywhere don't give children enough credit for how clever they can be at getting around stuffy rules.

I really hope parents take up this battle though. This is your job as a parent.
I did the exact same thing! I somehow managed to combine PHProxy with Wordpress and a plugin that would let me charge users through PayPal. If my domain got blocked, I'd just buy a new .info domain and email it to all my users. I even had a teacher who paid me for an account. My proxy was especially popular because it worked for YouTube and MySpace, and it was hard to find web proxies that consistently supported the both of those.
how so? if you ask me for a number from 1-10 and I use my watch, how do you have any predictive information? Even if you looked at your watch there is no reason it should have the same seconds value as mine.

Obviously this is not really something you could automate and if you were to use a clock on an ongoing basis you might be able to predict likely numbers, but that was not in the original scenario.
Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
"Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires," says my new "Declaration of Digital Independence" (https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-indep...), which you can sign. So I'm calling a massive social media strike (https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/social-media-strike/) for July 4-5 to raise awareness of the possibility of decentralizing social media, which in my experience is wildly popular whenever proposed.

Read the FAQ (https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/faq-about-the-project-to-dec...) and use some collected resources (https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/socialmediastrike-resources/) to learn and spread the word far and wide. Look for lots of news about this soon. And get ready! Maybe we can make a long-held geek dream finally come true.
Shit article and clickbait link
Only if they know the time.

For binary selection, keep the watch and tell them to make an indication (say something) in a few seconds. Note down whether the seconds were even or odd, then hand them the clock and swap roles. Keep the watch hidden until the moment you need to inspect it; record the time as soon as you can see the watch. Merge the two notepads to get the final stream of randoms.

For last digit of seconds, wait a few minutes between each query (making sure they can't see the clock during the rest period). "A few minutes" is imprecisely measured by you, who does not have access to a clock. They delay would foil any attempts at them keeping track of the time in their head. Bonus for distracting them to help with that. And instead of asking them for the last digit, have them flip the watch and then record the time that you [both] first saw.
Nonviolent Communication and Corporations with Marshall Rosenberg (2006)
Medicare sets reimbursement rates at around 80% of what insurance companies pay. The government couldn’t go lower because Medicare patients are elderly. Doctors simply would not take Medicare patients if they got significantly less than 80% per procedure (on average) because they take more time and resources than the average patient. If the pool included younger and healthier patients (most of the rest of America) its cost basis would be lower than Medicare.

Additionally, I’m aware that there are different gradations of government healthcare in Europe. All of them would be better than the current system, though I’m a fan of single-payer. I was just simplifying.
You are correct, this is U.S.

No idea how insurance affects prices. But here's another anecdotal evidence: When we were poor (minimum wage level), my wife was on Medicaid or Medicare; think we did not pay anything for it. I'd remember having to pay anything over $1,000 back then. Don't have the receipt to actually say how much hospital charged and how much Medicare payed for it. In that case we'd have 2 points to compare.
I feel like you could probably 'fix' it by the following protocol:

1. Ask your participant to write down a random number.
2. After they've written that number down, inform them you will guess at their number, and give them a dollar if you guess wrong.
3. Ask if they'd like to change their random number.
4. Allow them to write down their new number.

The before/after would probably change the distribution, and pretty much demonstrate that people can be more random when motivated.
Germany’s axe and block executions in the early 20th century
> They did the exact opposite, and added code to detect DR-DOS and disable Windows.

In 3.1. Before that Windows ran fine on other vendor's versions of DOS.
I think everyone on this sub thread is on the same page about this.
That AI uses multiple layers and feedback loops to gain an understanding of it's input environment in order to predict changes in the environment.
Ref: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...