skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BeOS had a POSIX-compliant layer, but under the hood it was totally different from a UNIX.

Also, let’s keep in mind that Windows95 (released that same year) featured preemptive multitasking on a desktop user OS (albeit not a strong memory protection model), and WindowsNT has been available for a couple of years by then (having first shipped in 1993, If memory serves) and was a fully ‘modern’ OS (indeed it serves as the basis for the latter Windows), albeit with a comparatively large footprint.

I was an avid BeOS user (and coincidentally a NeXT user too) and I was enthralled by its capabilities, but in terms of system architecture it was a dead end.
I’m sorry you were held down and forced to scream at someone two blocks away in public. Hopefully somebody some day will invent a kind of faster-than-foot travel you could use to catch up to someone instead.
yeah, which comment?
Kia Niro EV seems pretty legit to cover those factors. Also Rav4 and Subaru Crosstrek hybrids. Ford Escape and Rav4 PHEV is coming this year. (Rav4 Prime looks dope)

Another aspect of SUVs is just the feeling of sitting "high", it's hard to let go of after you've tasted it. And personally, I think sedans are harder on my back after long drives. Also I'd speculate that SUVs kinda replace the mini-vans of previous generations since now we're having less kids (and maybe they're being less social?).
I do too. It's in my toolbox of "things I rarely use, but when I need it, it's my favorite thing in the world".
Upcoming /s-

It would really suck if someone could watch my front door. Like, they might know when my package arrives?

Or what if someone checked my naked footage?

/S

I really don't care. Should I care?
Is the question just "How many of you are rolling your own auth?" Because, if that's simply the extent of the question....

Well, I use npm's bcrypt + postgres DB of users (on an expressjs server, where I use knexjs for easy DB connection & use of JS logic in DB work).

1. Simply salt their PW when they create their account (which is simply a record in the DB) and store the salted version in the DB.

2. When they log in, salt the pw they entered during login and compare it with the salted one in the DB.

It's not tough.

Is it insanely secure? Nah, I am sure I am missing pieces involved in server and app security. But insanely stringent security doesn't matter for my purposes and use cases.

Password salting... About 4 lines of code:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

Storing salted password in DB... another few more lines of code depending on what you use.

I'd say you can do this in under 10 lines of code.

However, that is of course excluding the underlying system and other logic which hosts this process of salting, storing, and then on login, comparing.

...However, if the question is really more like
"How many of you are rolling your own auth which works in a high traffic, highly exposed situation, where expert levels of security are necessary?" then you'll likely encounter a different pattern of answers.
I've heard even worse things about Portland, for instance. But I just heard that the wealthy in San Francisco have started employing private police forces to handle the homeless and sanitation issues in their neighborhoods. Some areas have mandatory taxes (somehow) for homeowners to finance them.

Maybe it's a good thing, not for me to say, but that does seem like a very clear indication of mismanagement.
Should index funds be illegal?
I used to work for Be in Menlo Park in a previous life and I can confirm that the code base quality would have made for a very bad outcome for Apple. Security was the least of the numerous serious issues. That said BeOS somewhat still exists in spirit as a lot of folks from Be went to build/contribute to Android.
I absolutely hate my iRobot vacuum. Constantly getting stuck and does a poor job of actually vacuuming. Not to mention the wireless beacons it requires cost ~1/3 the cost of the actual unit.
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I was another former Be "power user." And I think that was probably accurate -- if you weren't in the "BeOS lifestyle" during the admittedly short window that it was possible, it's hard to understand how much promise it looked like it had. When I tell people I ran it full-time for over a year, they wonder how I managed to get anything done, but...

- Pe was a great GUI text editor, competitive with BBEdit on the Mac

- GoBe Productive was comparable to AppleWorks, but maybe a little better at being compatible with Microsoft Office

- SoundPlay was a great MP3 player that could do crazy things that I still don't see anything doing 20 years later (it had speed control for files, including playing backwards, and could mix files that were queued up for playback; it didn't have any library management, but BeOS's file system let you expose arbitrary metadata -- like MP3 song/artist/etc. tags! -- right in file windows)

- Mail-It was the second-best email client I ever used, behind the now also sadly-defunct Mailsmith

- e-Picture was an object-based bitmapped graphics editor similar in spirit and functionality to Macromedia's Fireworks, and was something I genuinely missed for years after leaving BeOS

And there were other programs that were amazing, even though I didn't use them: Adamation's video editor (videoElements? something like that), their audio editor audioElements, Steinberg's Nuendo, objektSynth, and two programs which are incredibly still being sold today: Lost Marble's Moho animation program, now sold by Smith Micro for Mac and PC, and the radio automation package TuneTracker (incredibly now being sold as a turnkey bundle with Haiku). Also, for years, there was a professional-grade theatre light/audio control system, LCS CueStation, that ran on BeOS -- and it actually ran Broadway and Las Vegas productions. I remember seeing it running at the Cirque de Soleil permanent installation at Disney World in Orlando.

At the time Apple bought Next rather than Be, I thought they'd made a horrible mistake. Given Apple's trajectory afterward, of course, it's hard to say that looking back. It's very possible that if they'd bought Be, they'd have gone under, although I think that would have less to do with technology than with the management they'd have ended up with (or more accurately, stayed with). But it's still an interesting "what if."
Microsoft went out of their way to prohibit computer manufacturers, namely Dell, from bundling BeOS:

https://www.osnews.com/story/681/be-inc-files-suit-against-m...
If you think gauge invariance on Riemannian manifolds is an empty topic with no substance, you might not want to be working in machine learning.
My Samsung tizen based tv has gotten progressively slower over the years I've had it. Samsung's also forced an uninstallable tv plus app onto my tv.
"Sure, the open-code part is very valuable for all the reasons you mention. However, people writing code altruistically has also been extremely valuable for getting us where we are today."

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. My problem is with the many folks who automatically discount anything that is not "Free Beer". This attitude seems to be quite pervasive, unfortunately.
> I think those demographics, culture, and politics are largely the ones that were traditionally present under Judeo-christian hegemony.

And this is where we disagree. It is useful for branding purposes to put forward the notion that what you believe has always been the belief, but that by itself doesn't provide inherent justification for that belief. As the article[1] I posted elucidates, the construct of "Judeo-Christian" is a relatively recent political tool. This tool has been used to erase Judaism's unique cultural impact (which directly contradicts the presumption put forward by the thread starter[2]) and the abrahamic roots of Islam in order to exclude and justify violence.

For the purposes of defining what America is, the topic that began the thread, we must recognize the difference between handwavey rhetoric and what is grounded in the historical record. There's also much to be said about how relevant what America was should be to what America can be, which is why I tried to expand the scope by elucidating that what America is also includes how America has changed since its foundation from a marginal, slaveholding, collection of thirteen disparate colonies into a world power.

1. https://newrepublic.com/article/155735/rights-judeo-christia...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12309928
It depends on the error. It could be that older thermometers were systematically biased.
Let's consider a few use cases and see which one is more useful:

- Given two stations, is there a line between them, and what is it? Edge to Berman's, as it distinguishes service on the same corridor.

- Given a station on a line, what are the next few stops? Berman's wins, since the MTA map requires reading the lines that stop at each station.

- Weekday service. A push, shown by both maps.

- Weeknight service. Berman's wins, as the MTA map doesn't show it.

- Weekend service. Berman's wins, as the MTA map doesn't show it.

New Yorkers have gotten used to getting the information we need from the MTA map, but let's not confuse familiarity with functionality.
I didn't realize Snow Crash's chapter on Fedland (https://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html) would be taken as a manual. Ugh. I guess you can't say we weren't warned.
And posts like these make it hard to trust any of the "review" sites out there when all they do is rehash press releases.
NASA’s New Planet Tracker, NEID
Embracing the Courage to Be Disliked
At one point, I believe a GoDaddy VP was doing this as a personal side business. For many reasons, GoDaddy is the shadiest of them all.
That's a blow. There's not a lot of companies employing divers in the gig economy.
AGPL hasn’t really been tested in court so it’s not clear whether it would be enough to stop someone from running your software as a service.
/. was great... and then it wasn't. The troll population went way up, the "first post" thing was just noise, and eventually I just quit going there.

HN is also less than it used to be, but I think that the mods have kept it better than /. became - so far, at least.
Reading and writing memory are excluded from the guarantee, aside from the LR/SC instructions that bookend a transaction. Inside the transaction you're basically limited to register-register ALU and aborting branches.
Citation? If you are deficient in testosterone, replacing it is giving your body what it needs.
The temperature also varies during the day by about 0.5 deg.
You made their point. Accessing an unsecured file and accessing an encrypted secured file with a "lock pick" are two completely different offenses in the eye of the employee when deciding to commit the violation.
I have one of the random Roombas. The virtual walls are nice for keeping the robot out of areas where it will get stuck, but I rely on making small modifications to the environment to protect things from damage.

In the case of a computer, you could try putting it on a short platform (no more than an inch high is sufficient) or positioning it so cables are in spaces narrower than the robot can access. The latter is what I do. The back of the case is a few inches from a wall, and the cables are routed upwards into cable guides mounted under the desk. I mostly did that for aesthetics rather than the Roomba, though.
Off topic, but kind of funny the first thing you see when opening that is someone missing a finger. I’d think you would want to demonstrate off the bat your product means you keep all 10.
Show HN: nfq – a simple filter to sinkhole all DNS request containing punicode
Tinybird: How We Handle Service Disruptions
I like pyrets front page too for this https://www.pyret.org/ -- lots of examples and code-comparisons to other languages. Very neat.
That was a relevant passage indeed - hadn't heard of George before:

> George was in a position to discover this pattern [mere land possession harms the poor, and can be discouraged through a land tax], having experienced poverty himself, knowing many different societies from his travels, and living in California at a time of rapid growth [1870s]. In particular he had noticed that the construction of railroads in California was increasing land values and rents as fast as or faster than wages were rising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George#Political_and_eco...
Not even considering self hosting?
Bitcoin will not accept a settlement if the wallet no longer has funds.

Banks throwing away checks is not a problem. Bouncing checks are a fraud problem, which is why most everyone have moved on from using checks is many situations.

Lightning's solution is to just 'watch' everyone you do transactions with, which is a lazy, non-viable solution analagous to continuously watching an anonymous stranger's bank account when they write you a check.
Hugo, jekyll or any static gen?

You could host them using zeit, render or netlify
> He said that projection is based in part on improvements to Lime scooters' longevity, which in 2019 went from from six months to about 14 months.

That still seems like an incredibly short amount of time.
The problem with cheap hosting is they want to use backups as an upsell, but you should still have backups to cover the companies ass even if the customer doesn’t get to use them.
123 Reg lost a load of customers VPS’s a year or two ago also thanks to a faulty script.
And Jobs was celebrated for cracking 10% market share. It’s hindsight now for sure but it turns out you can do pretty well without a majority stake.

The problem I think was that Microsoft competed hardest in the enterprise space, which was supposed to be IBM’s roost. Apple went after creatives. It’s not clear what was left for a hypothetical third place contender.
Regulators Seek to Loosen U.S. Exchanges’ Control over Stock Data
You should see what Amazon does to sellers on its marketplace.

They may not touch AWS, but the stink from their Amazon related actions definitely affects big companies making decisions AWS.
omg wow! when will people start being held accountable for the BS they put on twitter?!!
Cowgirls and cowboys! Yeehaw!
Interesting. Would you be of the opinion that sending mail from my personal @gmail.com address would then have much higher chances of being successfully delivered to other people (most of which will inevitably be at another @gmail.com address) than those sent from my "portable" @custom.domain address?
It was ok. Back when I ran BeOS as my primary OS (2001 or so) I built half a C++ web application on BeOS, the other half on a HP-UX server logged in through an X terminal using ftp to sync between the two. Not much support in the wider *nix ecosystem though, so anything big would often fail to build.

I regretted having to move away from BeOS, it was by far the most pleasant OS I’ve used, but the lack of hardware and software support killed it.
It's so troubling to see a statistic misused like this. The vacancy rate includes all 'frictional' vacancies, such as the period between someone moving out of an apartment and the owner finding a new tenant, or the period between a new unit being built and a tenant moving in. Because of this, though the vacancy rate can be stable, it's not the same units that are vacant from month to month, and in fact, San Francisco's vacancy rate is extremely low compared to less problematic housing markets.
>If all this time adds up for these moderators, then why not for a CEO?

There are different sets of rules for members of different castes.
1. He says he has made regular backups, but now needs to restore all VPSs

2. The website says "Snapshots allow you to create a backup copy."

3. He says "No they do not allow snapshots download."
The Emotional Journey of a Bootstrapped Founder: Fear of Slippery Slope
If they have %10-%20 of their time to keep a log, that's a deadweight imposed cost on their performance, which will only be a function of the %80 remainder.

You can get data on mean time between burgers from the point of sale system or add a sensor to the burger storage unit, just like you can get data on feature cadence from Jira.

Beyond a certain point, management is parasitic to capital. That point is very low.
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> if you are a really, really skinny person (like myself), you would be looking at a statistically shorter lifespan, unless somehow your normal body temp is lower than average or you spot some other sign of decreased basal metabolic rate. Huh!

I think you are making the error of combining the "folk" understanding of high metabolism - that you are skinny, with the scientific understanding of high metabolism, which means you expend a lot of calories every day. It's more likely that you have calorically restricted yourself throughout your life to become skinny, which has longevity benefits, and it's also likely that very fat people burn a lot of calories every day - high metabolism, worse for longevity.
Humans are less active and probably have a reduced basal metabolic rate, which is where the heat comes from.

That seems the obvious explanation, moreso that disease-related inflammation.
I found plenty of sources for that claim very easily using something called Google. Come on.
Ahah no worries ;)
Ask HN: How to tackle hedonic adaptation effect at work?
Hi HN, I was wondering about the effect of "hedonic adaptation" [1] (the fact that we humans tend to stay at a stable happiness level, regardless of the level of comfort/discomfort) at work.

I see most companies give raises and other employee benefits, which obviously make employees happy for a while. But after a while people tend to forget about them. Only a new raise or benefit makes them happier again... for another while. Even benefits that increase at a constant pace (eg. if your salary is reviewed every year) end up being "expected", so if for some reason the benefits stop increasing, we feel unhappy (eg. your salary was increased for several years but this year is not).

How do you guys handle this? Do you actively do something about it? After all, we all want to be happy by ourselves, instead of depending on those "carrots" to achieve happiness.

I'm definitely interested on your perspective, regardless if you're an employee, employer or contractor!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
The free market should separate good from bad apps like it does with everything else.
Could be.

But surely we have some which survived, or can manufacture using methods of the time to check.

Also, physics was in a pretty good state at the time, at least regarding temperature/length measurement. Surely the scientists of the time measured the bias.
Here's the BeFS book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309686
Besides that, it is also very likely that Apple would have remained stagnant (or worse) if Steve Jobs had not been brought into the fold. I am not into persona worshipping, but Jobs brought some well-needed focus to a sea of overpriced beige boxes.
You didn't address the concern. A given atom cannot absorb any photon. They can only absorb photons of certain energy levels/wavelengths. Electrons can occupy only certain energy levels. So they can only absorb photons that match the difference if two energy levels.
Doom didnt use polygons but it very much was 3D in any practical sense of the term.
Is this because you can't make money off short-term scooter rentals (Because the cost of providing this service is > what customers are willing to pay), or because other startups ate their lunch?

My wife is seriously considering a scooter (Even a non-electrified one) for her commute (2-3 days a week, 5 miles) - and I can't see a world where we'd rent one on the daily, as opposed to owning.

My uninformed guess is:

A problem with the rental model is the colossal inefficiency of having to pay people with cars and vans to drive around, and collect + charge scooters at the end of the day. This is a huge waste of resources and human time. Even with VCs p------ a firehose of money into the market, most of it ends up going to drivers, rather than customers.
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Exactly. They should embrace stuff like this.
Only slightly increased risk in the first two years

https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20190723/testostero...
14 months for the abuse these things take? I'm impressed they last more than 90 days to be honest.
I would interpret it more as a sort of dialectical relationship. The two ultimately ended up adopting a lot of each other, and modern UNIX and UNIX-like systems tend to contain a synthesis of features and ideas from both camps. Most of them mix use of /usr/bin & /usr/sbin with /bin, most have adopted init systems similar to Solaris's SMF over either SysV or BSD style init, etc. I think this has especially been the case post-fragmentation: with no central authority the best of both worlds can rise to the top more easily.
Gemini Lake is really good in the $250 to $350 segment. They have great hardware video decoding/encoding and the general CPU performance is between Core2 and Nehalem level, while offering Chromebook level battery life.

There are Chinese laptops like the Chuwui Lapbook Pro that get you a 1080p IPS screen, a quad-core Gemini Lake, and 8G of RAM for $320. I'd rather do that and be able to run standard x86 software at semi-reasonable speed than to mess with a chromebook. (I can see the draw for a momputer that you don't want to mess with though)

I'd love something in the 7nm or 10nm class, of course. If Dali was on Zen2 on 7nm it would be fantastic. It's just not possible yet in this price range. AMD is still launching 14nm in this segment, not even Zen+. Next-gen Atom (Skyhawk Lake) is going to be on Intel 14nm as well.

I'm curious how Dali/Barred Kestrel does on the extreme battery life/chromebook thing though. Raven Ridge (and the Zen+ successor, Picasso) did not have great idle power and this hurt it there. If they could get the idle power down, it would be a good alternative to Gemini Lake.
This is a large part of what the USDA and The Department of Energy do in the US.

It's sad we live in a world where people would rather not know risks than know them -- think it's worthless to find studies that determine these types of risks that most people wouldn't think of, or know how to calculate, or what would be intelligent things to do to prepare for them...

I guess if all you care about is the market going up, you're better off if people know about less risks.
Real pre-emptive multitasking? I seem to recall that was one of the huge differentiating factors of it against Mac / Windows.
Yes, but this was the 2008 Rudd (Labor) government. The current Liberal government has spent most of its time reversing all the previous Labor policies it didn't like (like the carbon tax we briefly had) - which is business as usual in Australia after a change of government.

I really want to do an analysis of the money Australia would have made from that repealed carbon tax up to now, vs the total amount of all the recent donations to the RFS (currently at like A$48 million [0]).

It really is shameful that a nation with one of the highest GDPs per capita is getting donations to deal with a situation that was foreseen, and not just ignored but had (potential) solutions that were actively removed.

[0] - https://www.facebook.com/donate/1010958179269977/
But fit people live longer, and high intensity exercise seems to increase DNA repair and antioxidants (the high oxidation of exercise seems to be managed by antioxidant processes kicking into gear, which overcompensate for oxidation versus a sessile person from what I've read... casually)