skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not so sure developers would want the alternative of malware-plagued PCs.

We would never even be at the level we're at if there weren't those malware-plagued PCs and their open marketplace of software and operating systems competing with each other.

> Previous consumer OSes had major usability and security drawbacks for the average consumer.

You mean Windows did, because A) it was the OS of the vast majority of desktop systems and B) they had a culture and practice of not taking security very seriously, or at least prioritizing so many things over it that the outcome was the same.

Apple's operating systems traditionally faced less scrutiny (but now there are more security problems since they are more popular). Windows has gotten much better and Microsoft appears to be much more serious about security (since it because a large enough problem to actually threaten their OS market dominance).

> Through no fault of their own, their computers would gradually get slower and corrupted by 3rd parties.

Not really my experience over the last 6-7 years. Prior to that, depending on OS, sure.

> This is similar to the shift to cloud computing. It’s more valuable to have a service take care of me than to have the freedom of licensed software .

To you, sure, but for the average person or company, it's variable and based on many things (capability, scale, etc).

> It’s also worth noting that software always has been considered a service in some sectors - enterprise software dating back to the 1970s for example required 21-25% of your purchase price in annual service & support fees with penalties if you terminate.

The enterprise doesn't really scale to the individual level we're talking about at all. An enterprise buying a specific computer with certain hardware with a custom OS delivered as a service is like a person buying some Tamagotchi toy and looking at it for 5 minutes a day for a week. Enterprises run anywhere from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of desktops and/or servers and any software as a service they pay for in that ecosystem is minuscule compared to the whole. Apple controls a non-negligible portion of most iPhone users compute time in one way or another (or multiple ways).
The scientific article summarised in this piece is clear about this. The effect size is quantified. It’s not fake science to look at small effects.

> It should be noted that the magnitude of the effects is generally quite small and the overall explanatory power of the models is modest. However, complex psychological phenomena, such as personality, are likely to be influenced by hundreds, if not thousands, of factors, so small effects are to be expected especially when examined in the uncontrolled context of real-world settings ... our research shows that an increase of one standard deviation in mountainousness is associated with a change of approximately 1% in personality, which may seem insignificant. However, when scaled to hundreds of thousands of people, such an increase would translate into substantial changes ...
Ha ha, now we're back to secret incantations like when AdBlock first came out! You'd tell your friends and family, "Oh, you gotta get it!" for something whose "discoverability" is very, very low.
>partial failure scenario, with a fully functional client-server connection but failed server-server replication connection, seems rare

You're more likely to see it when you are running services across multiple datacenters/availability zones/regions/whatever. It still happens frequently enough that it's a scenario worth keeping in mind. You probably have your application servers local to your database servers in that other datacenter, so if your public facing network falls over in a datacenter, there's probably still some amount of work happening that modifies things in the database - what happens when that connectivity is restored?

Being able to gracefully handle network partitions is hugely important in distributed computing.
> We already have government schools that are closed by the edict issued by teachers’ union. How having government childcare would help?

The government gives you money each month for each child you have, and forces your employer to allow you to work part-time.

> the edict issued by teachers’ union

This is greatly misinformed. Schools in the US are underfunded and have scarce resources to deal with the healthcare nightmare that is COVID. The unions simply are the medium through which some school organizations had to be convinced of this rather obvious problem.
Don't forget forced sterilization: https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c The attitude of someone who reacts to this with "what about the antebellum south!" is beyond my understanding.
The problem is that they are underestimating how hard can be the botany. For many people trees are just geometric figures in an architect plan.

1-Is well known that trees have symbiotic fungus. Sometimes the fungus is not present locally, sometimes there are more than one fungus species. Same tree, three types of grow.

2-The same tree can grow different in different soils also

3-The same tree can be perennial or semi-decicuous in dry spells or different years (Totally different color in satellite photos)

4-Some trees (Liriodendron for example) behave very differently just by genetic variation. Each seedling grows at their own pace. Therefore, you can't compare two trees.

5-Some trees are hybrid, their grow can be stunted or increased by hybrid vigor. Is difficult even for trained botanists armed with microscopes to distinguish hybrid oaks or willows (and they hybridize all the time).

6-Is known that sometimes a bigger tree nurtures a smaller tree by mean of a root bridge. Sometimes is the same tree, other a genetically different specimen. So if a sapling suddenly starts to growing faster and greener than the other, maybe it just has connected to rooternet.

7-Or one of its roots managed to enter in a water pipe or reached a very low phreatic level

8-Or is genetically resistant to a common plague that affects 90% of the other trees.

9-Or it has a raptor nest, so it has a lot of nitrogen and zero resident squirrels.

10-Or an alellopathic neighbour has being struck by a lightning and died, stopping to poison the soil.

In brief, they just didn't meditate enough before to jump to this pool. Should have asked a botanist about the project. I'm sad to inform them that the task that they are trying is a titanic effort.
That is not a successful acquisition. It's definitely a means of burying the lede. If anything, it's to draw attention to the PE firm.
Code syntax is helpful when spaces are important, they read more obviously in fixed-width (start line with 4 spaces)

C:\> Wd55_ben.exe - d
Interesting concept but digging a big hole sounds expensive and prone to flooding. I can see how this would have better efficiency than pumped-storage hydro but I wonder if you couldn't raise and lower weight near cliffs rather than drilling wells.

If it does work, I would imagine the Boring company would be all over this.
You stated that American blacks had to deal with the legacy of slavery that happened more than a century ago. The epicenter of modern day slavery is Africa, with Africans enslaving other Africans. In 2018, about 62% of the African population endured some from of slavery.

If immigrants from Africa do better than native blacks, it isn't due to the legacy of slavery. Jamaicans, Dominicans, and Haitians have endured the legacy of slavery too, yet these immigrants do better economically as well. If systematic racism was real, it would hold back all blacks.
I guess I'm out of the loop but I didn't realize that parents actually felt like they're doing society and the human race a favor by having several kids.

I always viewed it as the opposite. We're at no risk of extinction and companies should not subsidize people for having kids, at least not more than 1. Many people love taking advantage of that sweet sweet 16+ week parental leave.
> Had we invested in more sustainable development earlier, I think we would have been able to move faster to take advantage of new opportunities, diversify our revenue streams earlier (adding to them now is hamstrung in large part because of tech debt), and head off competitors faster.

While that's probably true, it's a difficult balance to know when exactly you should start moving back towards the better development practices. Too soon and you die, too late and you can no longer move because you're too inefficient.
Massachusetts suspends Covid-19 testing at lab after 383 false positive tests
I was curious what you were trying to say. I assumed you meant that Down's Syndrome is down due to testing and abortion. But I found this:

The vast majority of screen-positive results are false, yet encourage invasive diagnostic procedures that pose additional risks to unborn babies. As a direct consequence many babies who do not have Down syndrome are lost. We estimate that current screening practice in England and Wales reduces annual live births of babies with Down syndrome by around 660 and leads to the losses of 400 babies without Down syndrome. Although prenatal diagnoses are becoming more frequent, more babies with Down syndrome are being born (up 25% over 15 years).

https://library.down-syndrome.org/en-us/research-practice/12...

Families with known risk of genetic disorders often take the issue very seriously and it's a complicated topic.
Thanks for the kind words, and the feedback!

The idea here is that DataSpeeder enables the power user doing the db work to provide a simple web GUI for "non-admin" users who need to see some subset of the data in an easy way.

It's been my experience on projects over the years that there comes along a requirement to provide a simple view into a complex system.

All of those little custom web utilities were the inspiration for this product.

Rather than building a custom web app utility from scratch (because we're already too busy with day-to-day tasks and deadlines), DataSpeeder gives you a simple and easy end-user web GUI to the MySQL data that you can get up and running immediately.

Perhaps a scaled-down PhpMyAdmin deployment might get you there with some work and user-training, but DataSpeeder gets you something simple online very quickly ... Take a look at the "Create An Application" tutorial videos to see how fast it can be done: https://www.dataspeeder.com/support

Thanks again for the feedback!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK2FBEpmlUo

If you'd like to have a better idea of what the rally itself was like and its attendees, All Gas No Brakes did a bit on it.
When folks bring up China of today, other folks like to deflect by bringing up US of 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, or 200 years ago. And use the same social and moral context from those era to judge.
> Someone has to provide the goods and services you'll consume when you're old. Those people are today's kids...

Or immigrant labour. I'm not a parent-hater or a child-hater (One Billion Americans Go Go Go!) but you can import a lot of people. Heck I'd boost the economy by sustained long term importation of labour to bolster birth so that we can target long term of a billion Americans.
Now we know for certain that their voting system in untrustworthy.
Not disputing your other points, but:

> we already subsidise child-rearing through taxation. Single, childless people are taxed at a higher rate

In the US, being married is a tax advantage only if one partner earns much more than the other. Otherwise it's a wash.

In the US, the child tax credit is $2K per child per year. In most cases, this does not come close to covering the costs of raising a child.

So, no, for most people being discussed in the article (generally, dual earners in HCOL US areas), child-rearing is not significantly subsidized through taxation (at least not at the income tax level as you implied).
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

- Hanlon's Razor
Whenever I bring this up, I get a list of complicated platform-specific workarounds. My point here is that unit file behavior, as outlined, should be the default. You should never have an incomplete unit file around and readable.
The amount of sheer stupidity and science denial that emanates from the No Agenda podcast is mind blowing and terrifying as the podcast has a huge cult following. The amount of societal damage from media of this kind is real. Yes it's a niche market still but collectively the mongers of bullshit are overrunning the airwaves.

As someone here put it aptly, these days journalism is paywalled while bullshit is free.
I do not really understand the need/want/wish for something like this. There is no real textmode on contemporary hardware anymore. That is all emulated to get the legacy during startup going, until some graphical environment takes over. Keyword is framebuffer here.
Fevers are very common in vaccines, normally. It is an indication that the immune system developing an immune response. It is not an indication of complication.
It would be great if one of the "classic" word processors (WP, MS Word, WordStar) would get open sourced, so it could be updated and made useful in the 21st century.
At best, that means they should have switched when SSD's happened.

Given what this article is about, I don't know why you're giving HD manufacturers the benefit of the doubt.
Middle America (probably more accurate to say rural) non elites wish to exert just as much, if not more power over others via restricting individual’s choices of what they can consume or do with their body.
Or they enjoy dissecting games as they play through, and the author is over here shouting no, you’re enjoying it wrong!
I don't know about that. If there are 5000 local news outlets and there are 50 national, then it's impossible that the national have correctly taken the cream and left the dregs. There are likely a greater number of local journalists just as good as the national journos --they just don't get the recognition and prestige or have the same vanity.

If national journos wrote stories anonymously, I doubt they would have the same inflated perception of themselves.
I wonder if it's even just as easy to just run some of that on VirtualBox / some hypervisor running Windows 95, that way they have access to modern replacement hardware.
> Those are the same states so I'm not sure what you mean.

I mean that if you decompose along a different basis than experiencing x/experiencing y, you just get an ensemble of states each of which is a superposition of experiencing x and experiencing y. So you end up with the same thing.

It's like looking at an entangled state (because that's exactly what it is) - if we have a two-particle state like 1/sqrt(2)(|x>|x> + |y>|y>), that behaves like the first particle being in |x> and experiencing the other particle being in |x>, or being in |y> and experiencing the other particle being in |y>, and it might look like that's an artifact of this particular basis decomposition, but it actually isn't - the structure of the wavefunction is that it divides cleanly into those two branches, and that's true in any basis.

> You can't just retreat into "well this is the only basis I can experience" because the human sensory apparatus would be able to select out a range of bases in a full unitary account

A system that's freely interacting will become entangled; whatever we consider ourself is constantly interacting with the rest of ourself, almost by definition.

> also the ambiguity of basis decomposition means you can't perform conditioning which we do all the time in experiments.

Of course you can, and it works exactly the way you'd expect - we already do experiments where some isolated apparatus inside the experiment does something if it detects one thing and something else if it detects something else. Choice of basis is a tool for understanding the wavefunction, not a physically real thing.
Childcare, although helpful for those parents who cannot WFH, would seem to present a choice to those who can: either put your children into a riskier environment, or accept that you will be less productive than your colleagues who are willing to take that risk. That's a terrible choice for a parent to make. The safest method would be to permanently assign one child care professional to a family, to limit any transmission, but I doubt there are enough child care professionals to do that.
Isn't this the exact same concept as a dam which pumps water back up when you have excess power? Also how heavy does that weight have to be to be able to store enough energy worth digging a hole that large? Can you even get a weight heavy enough to store a significant amount of energy?
It's just a funny way to say. You're killing the humor here.
Say what now?

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Assuming your comment is in good faith, one reason a lot of this is coming from intelligence related sources is, media access is extremely restricted in Xinjiang and Tibet. Intelligence agencies have a better chance at getting in, because of their covert ops mandate and training.

Also, wire feeds and media publications like AP, Guardian etc have their independent reporting on it as well like.[1]

Facts might be getting exaggerated but it is not helped by reluctance of CCP to come clean on issues like Covid-19 origins, beligerence towards anyone who says/does something they dislike and comical claims like nine dash line which they are forcing on others like a bully. These at least are open for everyone to see.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minorit...
Website Development process explained in 5 minutes
It’s that time again when we need to swing from fat clients to thin clients, and think about what went wrong. It swings back every 20 years or so, so don’t worry.
The co-authors Gosling and Potter have U.S. affiliations (you can click their names in the above paywalled URL).
I just pay a CPA. It's worth the cost, they're legally liable if they make a mistake, and they'll keep your records for a minimum of 5 years (you should also be keeping your own records).

Plus, if something wonky does happen, they know what the hell to do.
This and the other tools on the site are fantastic! I think it would be useful to fuse a couple of the tools you have into one. For example, in the nutritional deficiency tool, I am told that I am lacking niacin. I have to leave the context of that tool to look up which foods contain niacin. However, you already made another tool that does just this. How about displaying a list of the top foods containing the deficiencies, with a link to the full results?
I’ll be interested to hear who you decide to send a portion of your paycheck to every month.
I find the access to local news clips on YouTube pretty interesting. They're usually much bolder at covering controversial or off narrative topics or featuring pretty colorful individuals.
You are right that local news orgs are being bought up around the country, and funding for local journalism is drying up.
This is just insane.. yet I completely believe you..
Ask HN: Let's crowdfund employee-friendly stock terms?
There have been previous discussions about employees getting left with nothing after a company IPOs:

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19587478

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358531

(2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218949

(2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049153

Why don't we crowdfund a lawyer to write up an employee-friendly stock agreement?

For example:

1. No funding will be taken with a liquidity preference above 1x.

2. Founders will not get golden parachutes while the employees don't get anything.

3. Employees will be able to sell some percent of their stock back to the company during or after each round.

4. What else should be included? I'm sure many things.

As an additional idea, would there be a way to have a 1 page "fixer" contract that doesn't require an existing company to change all their existing agreements, but applies appropriate protections to an employee that presents that 1 page contract as a condition of accepting an offer?
> How did you gather so much information from a shipping label?

Google. The name was pretty unique, and I found his wedding website (IIRC). Street view showed the address was pretty clearly a (large) apartment building.

Now that I think about it, it's possible that the name was another stolen identity, but somehow I doubt it.
I had that version of WordPerfect on my 286! I remember how you could install the Trident video drivers and get some pretty high console resolutions. F11/Reveal Codes was super helpful too. I wish modern word processors had something similar. It basically shows you the equivalent of formatting tags.

I have the Win3.1 version of WP from that era in a DosBox. I've been meaning to compare it's grammar check to modern word processors. It was way ahead of its time.

I know Corel bough it, but it looks like it spun off again. I wonder if the current release still has any of the old source code, or if it was just rewritten and has the name for the brand: https://www.wordperfect.com/en/
Yep. They are listed as having taken money from Insight Partners, a growth PE firm. You know they negotiated some preferred terms.
To be honest, Django Admin seems much more evolved that the product showcased here.

With DA, you can fully customize the UI, have fine grained access control, create any kind of custom action, etc.

Requires you to use Django ORM to manage your DB schema though. But I would rather have an ORM/migration tool anyway.
> and prone to flooding.

and prone to Earth quakes, I would assume.
YES.

I gave up on cars 20 years ago. Very fortunate that our two year stay in Florida was right along the Pinellas Trail, but I had to scramble to get the kids into the elementary school right across the street, rather than the one four miles away.

They had a big "BIKE TO SCHOOL" event, where they literally required all of the kids to be dropped off at the shopping center a mile away from us. Think about how insane that is: We were required to drive the kids and bicycles to a parking lot, so pickup truck, SUV, or mini(!) van, there's this huge line of idling engines, as all of the kids and bikes are unpacked, chaperones were needed to keep the cars from plowing into the kids as they get together in the parking lot, then they troop on over to the school, then everyone drives over there to pick up the bikes because there was no provision for storing five hundred bicycles.

Georgia is like that, too.

We could talk about banks that only have drive-through service, and don't allow bicycles or pedestrians. Lots of businesses like that now because of pandemic, but it's just awful in Georgia, Florida, you are in danger unless you are in a car, and it's your fault for impeding traffic if you get hit.

People think I'm crazy. They destroyed forests and wetlands for parking lots and big box stores, when the shopping malls were no longer fashionable, and when the business failed - or worse, was successful - they suffered no consequences. Didn't have to put the trees back.

There are few things that cause me to feel utter contempt, but this deranged car thing is pretty much at the top of that short list.

Pinellas Trail:
http://www.pinellastrail.us/

The Pinellas Trail is really nice.
Hackers shutdown first day of Toledo Public Schools’ online classes
I feel like companies could easily afford to just give everyone the same time off even if that's the amount of time off these parents allegedly get. Shouldn't be an issue if not for our toxic culture of overworking. They get by fine with far more vacation on average in Europe etc.