skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic Bone Tumor Differential Diagnosis program that Apple published for the Apple ][ in the original Apple Software Bank Volume 1 from 1978 sounds legit. But beware: it requires 32K of RAM, bigger than any other program in that volume! (Available on both cassette and 5-1/4" floppy disk for free from your local Apple dealer.)

https://archive.org/stream/Apple_Software_Bank_Vol_1-2/Apple...

https://archive.org/details/a2_Biology_19xx_

https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...

Program Name: BONE TUMOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

Software Bank Number: 001 1 4

Submitted By: Jeffrey Dach, M.D.

Program Language: APPLESOFT II BASIC

Minimum Memory Size: 32K Bytes

This program is intended for use by qualified medical practitioners. While
the specific data are of interest only to those familiar with bone pathologies,
the programming techniques may well interest a wide range of computer
users.

INSTRUCTIONS

LOAD the program into APPLESOFT II BASIC, and type RUN. Follow the
instructions displayed on the screen. The program asks a series of questions
concerning radiographic and clinical details of the bone tumor in question.
For each question, type the number of the appropriate answer and press the
RETURN key. Finally, the program uses Baye's rule and a predetermined
probability matrix from Lodwick (1963) to calculate the relative probabilities of
9 different diagnoses.

Some knowledge of descriptive terms for bone tumors is needed to answer
the questions. Only a qualified physician should attempt to use this program
as a diagnostic tool.
Learn blind typing with 10 fingers, if you were not doing that yet.

Not only will it be a timesaver for the rest of your life, but it allows you to get into flow much easier, where your thoughts stream effortlessly to the screen.
That runner was my brother; we used to run the island very frequently, but now no more. Rare as bison may be, they are incredibly dangerous when too close to people.
Using a built-in FIDO authenticator on latest-generation Chromebooks
Many of the most useful knots are very easy to learn, there's no need to be afrayed!
Interesting to see this. We've taken a similar view for the initial phase of the micro network. Locality is going to matter more and more as we move into the future. Although Cloud still has its place and we don't ignore that either.

https://github.com/micro/micro
https://micro.mu/docs/network.html
How, and why, to invest in a simple portfolio of index funds. Split between equity and fixed income based on your risk tolerance, and diversify equities globally. This will give you a low-cost, set-and-forget investment portfolio that you can add to over time without ever having to worry about what you should buy or what the market might do. Just add to it regularly over time, and end up with solid retirement savings. The market and your portfolio will certainly fluctuate, but there is no need to react to these fluctuations—simply rebalance based on your investment plan (say, annually).

Here's a good primer from the Bogleheads forum: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investing_s...
I'm curious if what is current / high level work in midwest is different to what you are exposed to at least in SF -> there is a risk in some quieter areas that you just are not current and plugged in with the meetups, the hackathons, exposure to strong other talent.

When I was in my late 20's someone gave me a real kick in the butt to go the distance -> which paid off in hindsight big time.
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> But, there are these "small" hacks: It joins Z with the ctrl key. Z has to be hit twice to type Z. Sounds like the end of the world, right?

I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly, but you do know that you can change the layout, right?

https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/oryx
And if you thinking about re-learning how to type anyway, try doing it on an optimised but common layout like Colemak or Dvorak. Basically no extra cost, but even greater savings!
The people he really hurt are rank-and-file employees - salespeople, janitors, receptionists, engineers - who are now getting laid off while he made billions.
I have one. It's too heavy and bulky for a mouse, and too flat & unergonomic for a keyboard. There are lots of pinky keys I find very difficult or impossible to reach when the hand is resting in the natural position on the device. And you don't want to move the hand too much around or you end up moving the mouse... Honestly the tiny little mouse buttons suck too.
Jose Valim responded to me saying its a fast, simpler, stateless and scalable solution compared to stateful solutions. For an example of stateful Java/ .Net app, I use a site that randomly logs me out, logs me out after inactivity, opening stuff in tabs are hit and miss (older ones let tabs mirror each other in background), normal UI actions has unexplainable pauses.

https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-liveview-is-now-live/20889...
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Do those bison ever do anything? They seem uncharacteristically docile compared to other herds.
You don't have to invent entire new paradigms such as CRDT for this. Unix is all about site autonomy, no-BS tooling, simplicity, and portability. So for your next project, consider Unix/Linux as deployment target during development, and only then deploy it to a cloud-hosted Unix cluster, with a local-first but cloud-hosted DB such as PostgreSQL and standardized middleware such as AMQP/RabbitMQ/qpid rather than provider-specific solutions, or at least use de-facto standard protocols such as s3 and MongoDB (if needed) and supported by multiple clouds. Many people are prematurely committing to k8s and "microservices" but in my experience, even though k8s as such isn't intended as a lock-in strategy, it has the effect of absorbing so much energy in projects (with devs more than happy to spend their time setting up auth, load balancing, and automating things rather than on business functionality), and then still ending up with a non-portable, incomprehensible mess of configs and deploy scripts that it just isn't worth it.
It definitely took me longer than an hour to learn IPA, but aside from that, definitely. I have an amateur interest in linguistics so I picked it up through reading Wikipedia articles on obscure languages, I would say I use it at least once a week.

Very helpful when learning languages that have sounds that aren't in a language you already speak, because your brain tends to map those sounds to similar sounds you already know.

Like how English speakers can't distinguish between French [u] and [ou] (/y/ and /u/ in IPA). Even if you can't hear it you can read about how to articulate it.
I'm trying to document everything we teach here: c0d3.com/book
> Someone who can get pop-culture’s attention needs to do a fucking Ted Talk and explain why this is usually a bad idea.

Tom Scott made a good attempt recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
110v or 240v will kill you dead where you stand. But it's not really about the voltage. The higher the voltage, the easier it is for the electricity to ground out through you. But it only takes a few milli-amps across the heart to kill you. A household line can deliver 10-20 amps.

Luckily, human skin is not highly conductive and neither are rubber soled shoes.

So if you are taking proper precautions and not kneeling on a wet floor while using all metal tools on bare wires when someone flips a breaker back on, then your risk is rather minimal.
The author is using "cringe" as something of a euphemism here. "Cringe" in this case is anything that a person could say that would cause other people to think badly of them, including highly offensive things, so long as the person saying it doesn't fully understand why. It doesn't have to be universally cringey, like watching someone do really bad karaoke. It might only be cringey within a small subculture.

Say you're used to discussing programming languages. You and your fellows have developed a well-understood notion of why static typing is better than dynamic typing. Then along comes some fool who has watched too many Rich Hickey videos who wants to tell you that types are just guard rails and nobody would navigate by bouncing off the guard rails when they could just drive to their destination. This is cringey because you've heard this argument before, the interloper ought to know that you've heard this before and taken it into account, and it's clear that they're just repeating some argument that they've heard somewhere else.

One could have a "stupid things dynamic typers say" bingo-card, with the guard rail argument on it. One could regard the dynamic typer as a kind of NPC bot, popping up to spout the scripted phrases of his kind of person. And it's cringey to watch someone do that.

This phenomenon is what the OP is trying to describe, except that on Twitter the subject matter is unlikely to be static vs. dynamic types, but something political which covers much larger categories of people.

The fact that so many commenters here are baffled by this suggests that the phenomenon, or at least this intuitive understanding of it, is not quite as widespread as the OP (and I!) might assume, though.
Jack Bogle did not advocate for adding international equities to a portfolio as a means of diversification. [1]

[1] https://www.morningstar.com/articles/885739/why-jack-bogle-d...
>Caesar's Latin is Vulgate's Latin, which is Newton's Latin, which is the Pope's Latin

Not really. There are significant differences between classical and medieval latin, since during the medieval period Latin was a living language in use by the clergy and educated. The differences wouldn't have been nearly enough to render classical and medieval latin unintelligble to one another of course, but Virgil probably would have scratched his head at some of Thomas Aquinas' grammar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Latin#Changes_in_voca...
Some mail systems can tell you if a user is valid or not during the initial connection while some forward to another mail system or delivery process and therefore cannot tell your MX during their conversation that the recipient is invalid.

The downstream MX could be configured to then send an NDR email itself but this lands you on spam lists as "backscattering" will then send spam back to whoever owns the email address the spammer is spoofing so it's generally not done.
Yeah, but with a cover and the "nicer" stylus, you are around $700. :-(
I have to say, I was skeptical of this whole thread based on the title—what could you really learn in an hour of any true value? Well, it turns out a lot of things. I even added one to the list. Now I know how to properly wrap cables and tie my shoes. Thank you for posting this.
Classical Latin didn't have a phonetical alphabet, though. Long and short vowels were not distinguished, letter "u" didn't exist, and Greek borrowings were written non-phonetically (e.g. the "ph").
Might have something to do with the fact that McNucle is a freaking terrible name.
In my case I do really enjoy typing with the 40%, I like the size and the feel of the keys. I only use it at home though, I'm not interested showing off or looking trendy. My hand movement is very minimal and it's a million times better than my macbook keyboard.
I'm sorry, but there is a fine line between dealing with stuff and smoking weed, one of which involves dealing with stuff, and the other postponing dealing with stuff.
Exactly this.

LOTS of grads do not make it to the $500K land. The FAANG companies have also been around a bit, so now google / facebook etc just have a fair number of more senior folks who are making good money. So pay is out of control but these companies make so much gross revenue (check out apple / google financials) that they can afford it.

Totally annoying if you are not in tech! And sometime you are like, do you really need to be spending x billion on comp to run y website?
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>It should be fast. We don’t want to make round-trips to a server to interact with the application.

The cloud apps are not slow only because of moving data, but there is also a problem that an average server is fast(16cores CPU + 64GB RAM), but If it's used by let's say 100users, It means one user has only 0.16core + 0.64GB memory. So an average laptop(4cores/4GB) or phone(4cores/1GB) is way faster. Basically people buy billions of transistors to use them only as a terminal to the cloud. Not to mention privacy risks.

A week ago, I did showHN for skyalt.com. It's a local accessible database(+ analytics, which is coming soon). I'm still blown away how fast it is, that you can put tens of millions of rows to single table with many columns on consumer hardware and you don't pay for scale or attachments.
If you re-arrange the keyboard into a shape according to human hand ergonomics, you can easily fit a number row that is easy to reach without making typos. See kinesis advantage. It's hard to imagine how requiring me to press two different keys for the same effect would increase speed and reduce typos. I suspect the effect is completely opposite. (Shift is painful enough and I hate typing camelcase code)

Number keys are also indispensable for games where you need to switch items while moving. A finger or two are already going to be busy with the motion keys, adding two more fingers that don't overlap with the motions is going for some octopus keyhandling.
Indeed, about 29% of English vocabulary came from French; yet another 29% are directly from Latin[0].

Take your comment as example: excluding the Anglo-Saxon words, 5 are directly from Latin and 2 from French:

Latin words:
Latin, Latinus
vocabulary, vocabulum
directly, directus
via, via
erudite, eruditus

French words:
French
useful

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in...
Self-hypnosis. You can learn the basics in less than an hour and it can be an amplifier for most other things.
A winning strategy to crack a hackathon – Its like taking a piece of cake
Was it a glamour than deep thought which lead Son to disastrous Neumann?
Good job. Certainly see some potential. Our company used Clara in the past. I actually wrote my own in xls if you can believe it but it was highly vertical and tight topic so it was relatively easy. Where are you physically located?
Unless all are wrong in the same way, which doesn't seem too impossible.
I'm a non-believer and I'm fine with the term "evil". There is no magicking here. Some people are unfit for society. We can cast them out, lock them up, exterminate them, or (in rare cases) force them to behave. Funding is not unlimited, no matter how high we raise taxes.

There is brutality in allowing a crazy evil kid to deny better people their education. We can't run society that way because an uneducated society is simply unable to sustain modern life.

The cause of anti-social behavior is mostly irrelevant to the issue of what schools can or should do about it. It's not the school's job to fix youthful versions of Ted Bundy, Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Yang Xinhai, or Luis Garavito. The school can't do that. The school is supposed to teach children so that we can have an educated society. The good kids deserve to learn, and this is only possible if we focus our funding (staff, materials, rooms, etc.) on them while excluding those who would disrupt.

I do not assume that vengeful retribution is misplaced, and I do not agree that retribution can only make things worse. Humans evolved the desire for retribution because it often works. Sometimes an actively bad person will shape up as a result, and many other people will be encouraged to continue resisting the urge to misbehave.

Never mind vengeful retribution though. The value of isolating crazy evil kids should be obvious even if we have zero desire for vengeful retribution. By removing lost causes, we make education of other kids possible. The good kids deserve an education.
The problem with ansible-pull is that you can no longer use it coordinate changes across machines, which is very useful for deployments for example.
I will look into this. Bonus would be that I could use the iPad for other things, too.
For many people the hope is not that big cities become more affordable, but that you can get more freedom to live whenever you want.

Currently too many people would want to live in a smaller city but are forced to live in megalopolis because that's where the jobs are.
I think applications of AI to creating 3d modeling assets for videogames. Gaming is a >100 billion dollar industry and art can be as much as half of costs for AAA games. It seems to me like it's the lowest hanging fruit of AI in terms of difficulty vs potential revenue.
The problem is that the numpad is at the wrong side. I have seen a "left-handed" keyboard before with the numpad on the left. I think it's actually more ergonomic for a right-handed person.
Off-topic:

Since you left 'valuable' intentionally vague, I asked myself what the value of a piece of knowledge would be.

So I quickly came up with a simple model. Just take the integral of the value you get from this piece of knowledge over time, I thought. This helps you measure if a one-time payoff of knowledge A is better than the repeated payoff of knowledge B. Then I realized gauging value is more nuanced. How to model the value of things that are less tangible like insurance? The Heimlich maneuver may have a really high value in the case that my friend chokes, but very low value otherwise.

But this kind of knowledge is harder to focus on when we measure our knowledge by some simple value model. Surely you didn't expect an answer to "the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour" to be about what the best kind of insurance you should get?
> For all Facebook knows about me they've always been exceptionally bad at advertising to me

Because it's not Facebook really, it's the advertisers who choose targeting criteria. You as an advertiser have a myriad of options. For example if you've built a competitor to X, you can target users who've visited X recently, aged N-M, residing in countries A, B and C, and so on. There are options with broader interests too. Poorly targeted ad means poorly selected criteria by the advertiser (or sometimes just advertiser experimenting) and consequently money wasted. Facebook doesn't care though.

Then there is retargeting/remarketing (target bounced traffic) already mentioned here is probably the stupidest looking invention that actually works.
Is Instacart the worst of the food delivery apps?
I learned this back in the early 2000's because I moved to a new city, didn't have a cellphone, and was waiting for my landline and internet to be hooked up. So I literally knew no one and had no contact with the outside world. Then, seriously, I happened to find a set of juggling balls in the back of the closet of the room I was renting—the previous tenant must have forgotten them there.

With literally nothing else to do, I taught myself to juggle. Took me longer than an hour, but not all that much longer. (Started with one ball tossing back and forth, then two, before moving to three.)
Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 Is Now a W3C Recommendation
I love this idea. Especially the end-to-end encryption for data that passes through a server to enable the ease of cloud computing without relinquishing data ownership.

It also depends on _who_ owns the data. In an enterprise environment the company usually has a vital interest in the data and on-premise deployments are a good way of retaining cloud computing without giving up data ownership. I'm surprised that more SAAS products don't offer on-premise given the privacy and ownership benefits. The tricky part there is making software that is easy to deploy and maintain, which might be the reason that it isn't done more often.

A product like Grammarly that allowed on-premise deployment would side-step a lot of the issues with sending all that data to a third party. I can't imagine a law firm ever being able to (legally) sign up for that.
AWS Infrastructure Without Jump Hosts
Double entry bookkeeping.
Those 7 points remind me of the Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com app which ticked most of them. Using an encryption app and Dropbox will let you do the same thing, too.
This was really nicely done and a really good initiative. I got in to software development by teaching myself Python (badly) and PHP (badly), and it's probably quicker to list the things I do know than the cavernous gaps in my knowledge.

For most software development jobs you can get by without knowing this stuff but it's great there are things like this to clearly explain fundamentals that are either assumed knowledge or communicated in (to an outsider) gatekeeping levels of dense terminology.
Some years ago, I learned how to tie my shoes from this video https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes. I believe those 3 minutes were among the best time investments I've ever made.
you're both in the right realm insofar as thinking of 1980s Roland gear, but this is very much a modernized tribute to the SH-101 to the point that it more or less shares not only the functional side but also the control layout and aesthetic of the SH-101.

It seems like this could be a very nice unit, although far from the first modern thing to recreate the SH-101 (for a very recent example, see Behringer's attempt)

That being said I find it a bit odd to make such a fuss about rechargeable batteries as the original Roland unit already had battery power (as did the TB-303 and TR-606). You can simply put rechargeable batteries in them.

Worth noting that you can still buy the original Roland SH-101 for less than even the "early bee" price on kickstarter.
Apple was all over that in 1979.

https://i.imgur.com/ssFqU3i.jpg
If Equifax or even Ashley Madison leaks didn't cause any shift in the software culture, I'm having doubts a breach of Salesforce or G Suite would.
Short USB-cable and swap the two primary and secondary button designation of course.
The fact that the Bogleheads forum is a useful source of information doesn't imply that Jack Bogle was right about everything.
I don't know about Chinese, but I thought that one argument about languages getting simplified involved lots of 2nd-language speakers. Different rules of evolution would apply to the language of an empire (like new-world Spanish, or Urdu) compared to a closed group.
I've seen companies, definitely top-tier, with a SF office but who decide to limit hires in SF and boost hires in other offices. Still in tech hubs, but less expensive/hard to retain than SF.
Oh, I thought this would be some kind of snappy "almost-on" just like a Kindle feels. Don't want to have a "long" bootcycle for my paper, yeah. :-)
The underlying idea is differential fuzzing. It's useful and can often be surprisingly effective, but is pretty obvious in application. It's disappointing to see the author bury it under such obtuse language.
Thanks, yeah, I've been thinking about it. A bookmarklet is the next task now.
What are the benefits of having local dev experience on a remote box vs coding locally and sending the code to the remote machine to run it there (e.g. Pycharm remote deployment)?
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Do we now have a potential VPN criminal conglomerate?
Most of Amager isn’t part of Copenhagen. Dragør, Kastrup, etc, are their own municipalities.
> I guess that is the end of the naysaying really

The whole “naysaying” (as you so insultingly put it) was never against encryption.

It was always about putting the user, the OS and network-operator in control of their own infrastructure, something the DoH-crowd dismissed entirely as a valid concern.

So now that Microsoft has just provided that control, sure we’re happy.

But don’t act like the complaints made by the “naysayers” weren’t 100% valid. The DoH-crowd was short-sighted, enclosed in their own echo-chamber and didn’t listen to feedback or criticism.

This probably hurt DoH long term more than anything else.

Now it’s by default “tainted” technology and people have already created and deployed firewalling solutions to block it. Those solutions are probably going to stay in place.
Why I quit micro-dosing?