skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was still working at Arecibo Observatory, there was definitely a couple systems running Win95 that were considered data critical. And they were still running on ~486 hardware IIRC.

They hadn't been replaced as they were running some custom ISA interface boards developed by a research group in the 90s, and the community was still using the data output by the machine. And since it had been trucking along for ~20 years, convincing them they needed to develop a replacement was hard.

When I left, it was still there, chugging along. And once a day, a tech would wander in with a floppy and copy some data off and wander back to the control room where a USB floppy drive was attached to a workstation specifically to read this floppy and let the tech copy the data files off to a network location.
> I gotta say though... the world would have far less race problems had that odd little quirk of photosynthesis of a key nutrient not existed.

Not really, Europeans alone are capable of the same level of mess, before and after slavery.
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And the innovation team will have stellar resumes while the people who fix things will look like outdated dinosaurs.
> If it's not worth that, then I just keep a bookmark.

I've made a habit of saving every page I bookmark to the WayBackMachine. To my mind, this is the best of both worlds: you'll see any edits, additions, etc. to the source material and if something you remember has been changed or gone missing, you have a static reference. I just wish there was an simple way to diff the two.

I keep meaning to write browser extensions to do both of these things on my behalf ...
Would it be possible to replace it with ReactOS if you really need it?
1. Data science, mostly visualization, sometimes as fiction.

2. Only a handful of times, over the past year. The time needed to write and edit can be long. I'm also trying to write a novel.

3. Medium. I'm a writer for a publication called Nightingale.

4. https://medium.com/@PhilHawkinsDC, my top article is this one: https://medium.com/nightingale/draw-the-rest-of-the-chart-88...
There's another scam involving mystery parcels:

The scammer will order a product, to be delivered to your address. Crucially, they use delayed payment.

After delivery, the scammer will come to your door to get the package, claiming a shipping or ordering mistake. As you didn't order it yourself, you'll probably give them the package.

A while later, the store will send you the bill, and they'll harass you until you pay them.
The article isn’t arguing against requirements existing, it’s arguing against being bound to de facto requirements because you allowed a client you don’t own to depend on behavior you didn’t specify. (See Hyrum’s Law: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#hyrums-law-the-law-of...). By limiting the scope of unspecified behaviors, you also limit the scope of what makes for a de facto breaking change.
While I get your reasoning, I would argue that that is simply a new "genre" of software applications called "fantasy consoles".

The other reason I wouldn't call it a clone is because historically speaking (as I understand it at least) "clones" in the context of computers and consoles are referring to hardware that is compatible with the platform that they are cloning. A Mac clone could run Mac software, and IBM PC clone could run IBM PC software, etc.

Since that is not true here (all these fantasy consoles are incompatible), they wouldn't fit that part of the (historical) definition of clones in a computer context - which I would consider the most appropriate one for something that is supposed to be an impressionist idea of a console platform.
If I understand the scam correctly, the hypothetical seller "Kleinman candles" is the one performing the scam, in order to create fake reviews. Unless the purpose of the scam is to make the reviewer themself seem more credible.

I just have to wonder ... money has to change hands. Isn't there a cost to doing this, large enough to make it somewhat prohibitive? Even for really cheap items?
Probably running some point of sale, ATM or industrial machines where it isn't cost effective to upgrade. However, they are likely running super-customized versions of it. End users are likely running it in a VM.
Those are very small sample sizes to make any assumptions from. 11 clicks for their test, and only 256 clicks for the larger referenced test. The larger test then makes a huge assumption in user behavior:

"So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing"

Uh, no. Just because the ad brought them to your site, doesn't mean the user wants to interact with your video. You got them there, you have to work to keep them.
It’s not risky because it would require someone to use their brain to discover it. The types of people rejecting a link aggregator app for showing COVID posts is not using their brain; they’re trying to review as many updates as quickly as possible.

“Wow I saw the word covid, into the garbage bin.”
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Do you mean the police in Belarus are acting way more civilized?

Aside from property damage I've seen over 1000:1 ratio of police brutality content to protestor violence content in the US over the last several months. Presumably the ratio is somewhat lower than that, but I imagine it still leans this direction.

As a specific illustration, in just a month police shot like 7 protestors' eyeballs out. The cost of these alone is incalculable.
Are you sure you’re specifically interested in Raft/Paxos/consensus algorithms? Distributed systems is more general than that. A lot of software engineers working on cloud services are basically doing distributed systems, if they are building multiple interconnected services. Where I work, our team has 10-15 services that communicate with each other, with databases, caches, and with other dependencies/consumers. This could also be considered distributed systems.
The story is clearly more complicated than, "supplement Vitamin D, improve everything that low-Vitamin-D is correlated with". Getting real sun, & doing the whole stack of things associated with that – being active, seeing nature, joint activities with friends outside the home, etc – is more likely to help with the correlated conditions.

But I can also think of reasons why these RCTs don't quite close-the-book on Vitamin-D as much as this author suggests. Looking more-closely at the 'VALID' 25,000-subject RCT that's highlighted:

* the dose of 2000IU is still small compared to the recommendation of other groups, such as the UCSD/Creighton group that highlighted a massive calculation error in the original RDA determination, that suggests the RDA should be 7000IU (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150317122458.h...)

* by only enrolling people over 50yo/55yo, the possibility that Vitamin D levels earlier-in-life are important isn't tested

* by eliminating people with any history of cancer/cardiovascular disease, the potential that Vitamin D helps specifically among people whose risk is so high these diseases turn up by their 40s can't be detected. (I'm assuming the 'history' screened for was just the patient themself; if they also screened out family history, that'd be an even bigger limitation.)

* a ~5y followup can't detect effects at 10y or beyond

* Vitamin D's effects are somewhat like, & linked-to, hormones - and indeed there's some indication it should be taken in the AM, rather than before bed, to avoid mild sleep disruption. I don't see any indication as to when the VITAL study participants were coached to take their calendar-packs. Similarly, natural Vitamin D levels vary seasonally. What if unnatural timing (within the day or the year) changes the mix of effects that more natural pulsing would achieve?

Also, the VITAL study did observe "a possible vitamin D–associated benefit with regard to the incidence of cancer among black participants".

So: a great study, in many respects, but still leaves untested lots of plausible ways Vitamin-D supplementation could theoretically help - in higher doses, the younger, the already-sick, during a respiratory pandemic, etc.
Car windshields are a good example. It works because you're already looking through the windshield.

I believe tablet apps may be cool. I don't think I believe they're especially successful.
The only reason they push for their apps is showing hard to remove ads and harvesting more data. I stick to Firefox, ublock and adaway root.
He still writes them, they're just not from a real bank anymore.
> government, intrinsically, is inefficient and bad at everything it does

And yet, we need it to work well if we want things like property rights, functioning markets, public safety, law and order and so on. So why not focus on how it could become better, instead of giving up on it?
I'm an expat living in France, and I always tell my French friends they don't know how lucky they are to be living in such a wonderful country. Really when you come to other countries I lived in, there's no comparison.
It's interesting that you mention Vitamin C! Do you know many people who take Vitamin C supplements? Did you know that Vitamin C had its own supplementation hype cycle in the 70s and 80s? It's out of fashion now, mostly because people understand now that it's not a miracle drug. I suspect the same thing will happen with Vitamin D.

TFA isn't saying that you don't need vitamin D, or that it can't be used to treat Ricketts or osteomalacia (which, like scurvy, are relatively rare conditions). It's simply saying that widespread supplementation on people who have normal levels or minor deficiencies isn't supported by the evidence.
In the location settings - did you choose "are in location" or "are in location or are searching for location"

Not defending google but the latter is on by default, switching to the former can massively help here.
The differences are obvious and numerous.

* James Hodgkinson wasn't motivated by a politician's platform or speeches. This is the material difference that makes me wonder if you're asking this in good faith or not. No mainstream politicians suggested violence against standing Republican congressmen. None of Trump's opponents are saying they are going to ignore the results of any election.
* The politicians Hodgkinson supported immediately condemned his actions in no uncertain terms. There were no half measures. No "both sides" talk.
* This is one unprompted (see point 1 above) incident compared to dozens of cases of violence or threats motivated directly by Trump & his speeches [0]. Trump supporters specifically have this history of violence.
* Among right-wingers, this history of violence is not specific to Trump [1], [2].

0 - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-case...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_right-wing_terrorist_a...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#United_St...
most of the well known people among those guys have security clearances to be able to work with US gov. which means they are under obligation to report on a regular basis about the people they meet. which means we can say they are part of the "intelligence community" (or if we are less charitable we can call them snitches)
This sounds like a precedent that's bad to establish because it cuts both ways.
> if you're directly speaking to a person, you can explain your unusual name situation.

Sort of. I'm more thinking about situations where the person makes interpretive assumptions on their own without opportunity for discussion. You don't normally see what people are actually filling out in the application when you're talking to a customer service representative. Nor would 90%+ of western CS reps have any clue what you're even talking about if you brought up even a very common exception.

Example:

Form: [first name] and [last name]

CS Rep: what's your name?

Customer: "Kim Jong Un"

Resulting record: {firstname: 'Kim', lastname:'Un'}

And even if your developer was smart and made those fields "given name" and "surname", your CS rep might still jam the values in the wrong fields because they're a kid in Nebraska making $12/hr who barely understands the difference between Korea and China.
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CreditKarma lets you file capital gains and so on for free.
Publishing on your own website is more akin to putting up a signboard on your front lawn than writing a book for publication.

People are free to view it and take pictures for their own records, but I could still take it down and put something else up.
Are you from America? Those numbers look pretty reasonable for US healthcare bills.
I don't even have a twitter account any more, I think. Made one and never used it, and at some point i saw that they're purging inactive accounts so it must be gone.

I'm sure I can live without thread anyway :)
If people don't believe the UN report that "Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman"[0] then they should at least be aware of this:

"He was also credited with serving 112 days of his sentence after Judge Lind ruled that he was improperly treated during his detainment at a facility in Quantico, Virginia."[1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-mannin...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/21/senten...
It depends on the price they paid for stock or the exercise price for stock options. If you were an early employee and your received options when the company was only worth $10m or something low, you could make money.

The risk is that one of the later investors had a ratchet or something that would allow them to claim more of the proceeds in a sale. You can't just take $220M cash, subtract $105M in funding and pass that to the founders and employees. The preferred shares were probably "participating" meaning they get a portion of the common.

Here's an example of a ratchet: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/07/unicorn-s...
Funny you should say that, I just blacklisted hotjar this morning in noscript!
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Not to knock this product; it's really impressive, and I like it, but it makes me wonder: does nobody just use phpmyadmin (or some phpmyadmin-like) for this kind of thing?

I have, and it's worked for me; even if it's a little daunting at first.
Once a month is too infrequent, but it'll work fine. 1x/week is better. 1x/day is best. Some benefits are missing versus daily dosing, but the main things are still in play.
If it's the best offer is it a raw deal?
> There is solid empirical evidence that every human was created out of basic physical materials (e.g. DNA, proteins)

Correct.

> If this is the case, and you believe that every human is conscious

At the very least, I know I am conscious, but let's continue.

> then clearly the 'soul' must be derived from these physical materials

Too far a stretch.

Mind / Thought / Consciousness is a unique problem. It is the unique problem, one that was carefully separated out at the beginning of the age of enlightenment when scientists carefully defined "qualitative" from "quantitative." Before that, heat was the feeling of heat and nothing else. Now, we can describe the "quantitative" properties of heat, that is, how certain temperatures cause certain materials to react, how biological entities react to heat, etc. That isn't the same thing as saying what it is to experience heat. Even though we can put someone in an MRI and touch a hot poker to their arm and watch the entire neurobiological system react and cause the arm to jolt, we still can't quantify the "experience of feeling heat." It's entirely separate, in fact it's separate in our language and scientific systems by design, because the "experience of feeling heat" is qualitative, it is immeasurable.

This is the split between materialism and dualism. Dualists believe the qualitative and quantitative will never shown to be the same thing, that even if quantitative can affect qualitative (heat causes certain thoughts), and qualitative can affect quantitative (thoughts can manifest real-world actions and consequences), they are fundamentally separate, "made of different stuff" (if consciousness is made of anything at all).

The materialist instinct is strong. As an atheist, I feel it too. Dualism implies magic, doesn't it? And magic isn't real. Perhaps, but not necessarily. Quantum physics can at times feel magic, too.

The long and short of it is you can't assume materialism is correct until the problem is more solved. Despite all these technological advancements in brain imaging technology, the fundamental problem of what is Thought remains. Acknowledging this isn't the same thing as acknowledging the validity of religion, or the possibility of the existence of souls - for example, panpsychism is a dualist hypothesis that states that the core nature of all things is consciousness, and that the more complicated things get, the more "conscious" they get. Considering the human brain is the most complicated thing we're aware of, that is a fairly straightforward and, in my opinion, believable concept. Far more believable than the existence of ghosts.
Looks like a 3D crossover between the Apple logo and the date of the event. (Click on the graphics on an iPhone or iPad, you‘ll be greeted by an augmented reality view of the logo you can move around.)
Thanks for citing that widely available and incredibly reliable data set of "things that you've seen and now try to remember from the past few months."
Masks are NOT a fool proof solution. Why do people think mask wearing removes all risk? Masks are just one component. Packed crowds in 90 degree heat with yelling and plenty of physical contact are just as worthy of scrutiny.

Now for my generally useless tidbit, In my city it was very hot and humid during the early summer protests. Mask compliance was probably about 50/50, with most of the folks not complying were wearing them incorrectly or taking them on and off repeatedly. Demonstrators used the time as an opportunity to socialize and share meals, with lots of incidental physical contact.
That's intentional. Links will contain the redirecting address on our domain so that when we move off of GH (some day; nothing lasts forever), links will continue to work.
At this point, the choice is not whether the web should have apps, but whether they should use multiple frameworks that invent the missing pieces on top, or whether some of that should be standardized. For me personally, knowing HTML is small will be cold comfort if we are all using react-router or whatever in the future.
Is your argument that freedom and cooperation cannot be objectively defined and measured, therefore we should stop trying to have more of them?
The government (IRS) gets most of the data and can make a reasonable tax estimate. They should send us a bill. This find the loophole game is really counter productive and time consuming.
Sounds like it's time for a PWA?
> JAVA 6

Why do you capitalise it like this? It's not an abbreviation.
https://archivebox.io/ is another interesting web archive tool.
> A change like the loss of melanin requires selective pressure

It does? What about genetic drift, random mutations, and artificial selection, where humans select based on qualities not necessarily conducive to survival?

There is also some evidence that this change in skin color was only widespread as recently as 8,000 years ago [1].

> which in this case was likely furnished by less vitamin D

How likely?

> The pressure must have been significant since being white carries a big downside: : higher vulnerability to sunburn and skin cancer.

Unless you are trying to hide from predators or your prey in snow? As far as skin cancer, as long as it doesn't kill you before you breed, it's not going to have a big impact on natural selection, right?

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-european...
"Sorry, I don't understand."

If you don't yet, you will someday.
Insert my endless rant that most native apps are just interactive documents, that XML tree structures are a fine way to represent application state, and that native platforms like Linux would probably be a lot better if all of their apps rendered to some kind of DOM-like primitive instead of pixel buffers.

XML/DOM representations of graphical state are a lot closer to the Unix ideal that we have in the command line. A big reason why the command line is often more powerful than a graphical interface is because the command line allows users to easily wrap around, extend, pipe, scrape, script, and translate interfaces.

HTML is the evolution of that ideal -- a statement that graphical interfaces should be as flexible and as manipulable as a command line interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21347067

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21498349
What country are you seeing this in?
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Sorta the latter but not really. It was an econ student (Adrien Fabre) as part of a fiscal simulation project (OpenFisca).
Microsoft is building a new midrange Surface clamshell PC with a 12.5“ display
K2 and magnesium above the RDA aren't needed with smaller (less than or equal to 5,000 IU/day) amounts of D3.

They do work much better when all are taken together.
It is a separate event with much more in door crowds and much less mask wearing. Reality is not a negotiation where two different agendas agree on what they will pretend is the truth.
CBP doesn’t consistently notify air travelers about facial recognition tech use
What Is GistTree?
I posted an article I wrote on HN a few minutes ago and immediately got a notification that someone commented on it. It was a website I've never heard of called GistTree (no link to prevent good SEO coming their way). They seem to have copied the entire content of my article, changed a few words using a thesaurus, and posted it complete with <img> tags pointing to my website. They are pretending like they wrote it.

Has this happened to anyone else here?
That probably depends on the team and the level of resources. I'm on my local SAR team and we can generally have the first hasty team at the trailhead in less than an hour assuming good coordinates and details on the situation. But I think wilderness SAR in general is assumed to be a long process of getting to the ambulance at the trailhead.
That's where you need buy-in from management. One of my past employers had a presentation series like that above, and if you were scheduled next, it _was_ considered work that you were responsible for, and counted towards more or less a half-day.

I haven't been at my current employer long, but from what I've heard about our frequent engineering meetings and their presentations, they do the same thing.
> It's not set by the employee, rather the employer looks at expected income for the year and withholds accordingly. At the end of the financial year, the Tax dept. does a final calculation and if the amount was too high/low, they send you a notice.

That's my question, how does an employer or taxing authority know what that amount is? My employer doesn't know my withholding status until I tell them via a W-4, and that doesn't take into account how the appropriate amount to withhold may change due to my spouse's income. Is the taxation scheme just different in most European jurisdictions?

Edit: corrected a brain fart (see below)
Not to forget how easy it is to edit and annotate the screenshots using Preview in macOS.