skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NeXT failed on the hardware cost side because they wanted to be a personal computer and not a workstation. They were priced for neither market.

I looked very seriously at Unix machines around the time NeXT came out, having been converted to that religion in college. NeXT started at around US$6500, and that was with the optical disk only. The equivalent-ish Sun box (Sun 3/80) started at around US$15k with disk as I recall and went up in price really fast if you wanted more memory/disk/etc. About the cost of a new Honda Accord at the time. And the Sparcstations were out at much higher performance (and price...I seem to recall around US$22k for a usable config).

On the other hand, you could get a nicely decked out 386/33 for maybe half the cost of the NeXT, or a 486 for a grand or so more. And it ran tons of software, even if it was garbage. Even Unix.
Yes, of course. Reasoning for not using that is as follows: if conservative estimates yield a yes, you don't need to assume more.

I know salary (2 years out of date). I don't know oppo cost.
As a doctor, people ask me if it’s safe to take a new Covid vaccine
International Space Science Institute Game Changers Seminars
How Missions Change(d) our View of the Solar System and the Universe

https://www.issibern.ch/index.php/spotlight/online-seminars-game-changers/

Recorded seminars available at https://www.issibern.ch/index.php/spotlight/recorded-game-changers-seminars/
I certainly agree that language rankings don’t really matter. In very broad strokes, “used everywhere,” “used many places,” “used some places,” “pretty niche,” “academic only,” these kinds of things are more useful than arguing which is 5 vs 6.
I think the accurate answer at this point is we don't know for sure. It depends on how plausible you think it is that Tether has received ~$14b inflow in the past 6 months.
Top level executives very often lean to psychopthic tendencies than your average worker bees at corporations. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-... . You have to be a cold person to do a lot of what they do or at the very least have a very strong conviction that what you're doing is for some greater good (good chance it's yourself). I also suspect that ratio increases the larger the corporation.
Some of the absolute BEST women to date (Personality, Character, Career, Family, Attractiveness) that I know, always typically prefer dating through social circles. Almost all of the women I know, especially women that are extremely attractive, with average or below average attractive partners, are through social circles. A friend of a friend. These are men that typically receive near zero likes on online dating platforms, yet, in the real world, can do extremely well with women because of their character (Charming, Funny) etc. This I know Anecdotally of course.
Persuasion is often a side effect of engagement. Well written facts, even without persuasive language, can still give the impression that the listed facts are more important than other ones.

Two facts from March 2020:

We have a shortage of masks.
Masks keep you from spreading disease.

If you read an engaging article about fact 2, you'll likely ignore fact 1.
France has no obligation to give free room and board for anyone that shows up. If any country disagrees they are free to pay for transportation and lodgement themselves.

> It was ONE teacher

And the ones that were stabbed in front of the Charlie Hebdo office "by mistake" this year. And the other attacks this year. And the previous attacks on CH and/or for other Cartoons

So no it's not just "one teacher" (as if it was fine being just one)
> Unix operating system instead of Windows or Mac

macOS is a BSD, just buried under layers of proprietary UI, tracking, and DRM
> Apple taught people that apps should only cost $1 and have free updates for lift.

Taking a quick glance at my iPad’s Home Screen, I see PCalc, Omnifocus, IA Writer, Overcast, Drafts, Carrot Weather, Soulver, and some more. A mixture of subscription and non-subscription apps. All very high quality and all of which I pay considerably more than one dollar for.
Ultimately what I'm saying is that computer games are wasting an opportunity to be good what they do best: interaction and simulation. No one condemns basketball, soccer or chess for having poor story. They are however good at generating stories people tell to each other later. Computer games do that even better.
Thanks! Why is it worth it, in your opinion?
Adding to your points, CO2 is also consumed by biological and geological processes (plants, algae, absorption in water etc.).

Expanding on this, we could support the natural CO2 reducing mechanisms by for example stopping deforestation and supporting local tree planting initiatives.

I'm not sure it is helpful to support the narrative we're all lost already - we won't ever put all our produced CO2 back into earth. We should give a positive spin on the potential ways out from my point of view. At least I didn't ever hear someone object against planting trees :)

I know this wouldn't be enough to keep up with CO2 emissions, but it definitely wouldn't hurt and it could give momentum to environmental protection initiatives.
FreeBSD has the handbook. Avoid google random answers, they are dangerous as often are really outdated with misleading info.

Also, FreeBSD has a channel in Freenode, they'll help you a lot. But first:

- Check man pages

- Read the handbook

If you coudn't solve it, ask in the IRC channel.
Great to see a browser integrating feed reader at a time when popular websites are removing support for RSS/Atom feeds. Hope others will follow suit.
Maybe uncharitable of me, but it seems like you are just trying to throw in some snark to the discussion rather than contribute anything useful about your perspective.

I for one would be interested to hear what you mean by your original comment, but it so far doesn't seem like you are that interested in explaining yourself.
NextDNS in combination with AdGuard Mobile Ads filter will do just that and it will encrypt your DNS traffic too.
Trezor – recovery seed and master binary seed creation
Have you started on the Reactocalypse effort yet?
As long as you’re asking the right questions and accepting the right answers, maybe. But if you question the dominant narrative you get cancelled.
Yeah, this was a big stumbling block for a project we wanted to work on. So completely bizarre that you essentially need to pay a toll to them to do public projects with medical billing data that uses standard codes. One of the more egregious examples of rent seeking I’ve seen recently.
I wish Ruby became what JavaScript is now. It's such a good language to write stuff in.
that's got to be one of the happiest things i've seen online in quite a while
that is probably fair, I suppose comparing to the python world the financial folk soak up a lot of talent, but the open source ecosystem is stronger and better than ever.
I can see why someone would characterize RenTech that way but it's not really fair to do so. There is a lot of mythos about how Simons hired computer scientists, mathematicians, signal processing and NLP experts, etc. When Mercer came over from IBM, he definitely contributed a significant amount of analytical expertise that was probably nonexistent in financial trading at the time (with the possible exception of the Ed Thorp diaspora). The astrophysicists RenTech hires every year bring new insights in ways to model and understand vast amounts of data with absurd dimensionality.

But all of this has to be utilized in the context of the data. The reality is that you're not going to develop a sophisticated options trading strategy without a strong understanding of what an option (and more generally, a derivative) is. You can't develop a viable statistical arbitrage strategy just by treating market microstructure as a blackbox signal to be solved with e.g. Fourier analysis. You can certainly find an edge in using fundamentally superior methods of analysis, but you still need to know what that data represents in the context of the market.

Don't be fooled: people working at firms like RenTech have a strong understanding of the underlying finance. It's just that they learned it on the job, because the ethos at these firms is that learning fundamental theory in math and statistics is harder than learning fundamental theory in finance. You don't have to take my word for it though. Read about one of the few strategies of RenTech's which has been publicized: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-07-22/senate.... Deutsche and RenTech didn't team up on this strategy (to fantastic success) by treating basket options as some kind of blackbox abstraction devoid of delta, gamma, theta and vega.
This got me to wondering what an interview about "the actual practice of writing software" would look like, and having a look at Glassdoor's mechanical engineering interview questions [1] for comparison, it doesn't seem these kinds of questions would elicit much better quality candidates.

I'm increasingly convinced that the apprenticeship program approach would yield far better, deeper results than how we're going about recruiting these days, but most business leadership is fiscally addicted to short-term hire-fire cycles instead of looking for ways to exert more control over their destinies. I suspect that recruiting model is an ingredient to systematized innovation (the "deeper" part I mentioned, which I use to denote internalized concepts, procedures, mental models, etc. necessary to fluent application and craft that I believe are absolute table stakes in innovation).

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/mechanical-engineer-inte...
Sam Altman on the Takeoff
PAM is an authn core in any modern mainstream Linux distro. If you build and/or tweak Linux boxes, PAM was almost always here right with you. The only question is do you know what exacly PAM do?
I'm still in the same boat as well to be honest, but I recently came across https://refactoringui.com/ on HN, which looks like it could be a really helpful resource for people like us. Still trying to get it expensed on my employer's learning budget, so haven't read the whole thing, but the excerpts I've seen so far have me looking forward to it.
So please explain..
I agree - I meant fix in the "here's how to selfishly make this work for you" sense, rather than the "actually fix this for everyone long term" sense.
Holiday Torture – VCard/vcf to CSV Converter for Address Labels
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I'm happy to report that user #1 (my partner) can use Label LIVE to manage our holiday card mailing!

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If they try to pin this on you, let them know the material reality of why it's probably not a good idea (these are bad measures) in a very polite email to a few of the leaders - and the resign. Of course, only if you can. But I would definitely leave a company that wanted to use these metrics.
Weird price /performance comparison with hetzner, their cheapest is 2.89€ scaleway is 1.8€, hetzner offers double ram and storage and 1+gbit internet (in my experience usually 2.5gbit)
What's good for you is not the same as what's good for Youtube. Youtube wants to maximize watch time at all costs. Their algorithms is probably very good at that.
Nice price for a small vm... If.my math are correct, €1.86 per month (744hours). Not bad...
By the time everyone can tell conspiracy theories from conspiracy practices it's already too late.

It's all based on three words: 'already', 'will', and 'we'.
'We are already being tracked by our smartphones - So we will be wearing implanted radio chips soon".

Reject 'we' by not using one and you're not being 'aready' tracked, and hence 'will' not accept whatever coming after this.

But it requires some bravery, which is known to be eradicated in people these days.
The AMA killed the single payer option in the ACA under Obama, and they'll do their damndest to keep it dead under Biden:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/physicians/ama-maintains-it...
Fountain drinks are produced on-site using tap water and concentrated syrup. Transport and shipping cost is low since the syrup doesn't take up much space. A typical fast food soda (any size) costs about 15-20 cents for the cup and soda, and is sold for $1 on the low end. Larger chains can optimize the price down to 5-10 cents on the most popular sodas. Labor costs are insignificant if the customer self-serves from the fountain.
All I see is blue with a header and footer, probably because my ad blocker blocks google tag manager.
Visualizing program structure characteristics for 12M lines of code
Why do you think this competition will result in a model superior to what Jane Street is running?
FYI: Nowhere in the linked page is the word "Performant" used by Microsoft.

Definition: Performant

adjective. COMPUTING.

Word used by idiots desperately trying to appear smarter than they actually are.

"Me write performant software! ME SMART!"
Why is it that you think emojis 'clearly show emotion'? Do they have well-defined meaning? Where does one look up the emotional context that a specific emoji adds?
Is it not per of the cpu?
Everything needs to be rewritten in phoenix live view now.
I see, I had misunderstood the extent to which they wanted to remain privacy-focused. Definitely can be a lot more work then when you can't outsource that stuff.
I'd love to see this as well.

From a compiler perspective, Rusoto takes a long time to compile. Some of that is just the sheer volume of code, but also, it wouldn't surprise me if it's hitting bottlenecks in the compiler (e.g. a recently fixed issue in the performance of #[derive(...)] on a huge number of structs). Getting appropriate bits of Rusoto put into the compiler's performance testsuite could help, and profiling the compiler on it would likely turn up some areas for improvement.

I would also love to see support for using Rusoto on non-Tokio runtimes. Given the amount of code generation used for Rusoto, abstracting over the remainder (such as the choice of async traits) based on a feature flag would hopefully be feasible.
> And the sister of the brother who died there is asking for people to delete the post and to please not go there.

That's an unreasonable request without an explanation.
> P.P.S. We're offsetting by 3x every bit of CO2 this creates via Cool Effect.

Is this really how this carbon offset thing works?

You release a bunch of greenhouse gases - but it's "OK" because you pay money to some organization that might eventually plant some trees (or use your money to buy/rent fossil-fuel-burning machinery to orchestrate the planting of trees)?

Seems like guilt-avoidance to me.
There's a big difference in how they are being presented and to who the numbers are presented to.
It's not a fault at all. If you're going to spend more time watching videos if you're recommended stuff Youtube knows you already like, that's what it's going to do. Youtube just wants you to watch more videos. They don't care whether you are exposed to a variety of content.
The original series of Macbook Airs seemed to be inspired be Netbooks as well.

It's a pity the small (10 and 11 inch) Macbooks seem to have gone.
"Use this one trick to save the US economy"
very great for the environment
Yup. Nearly 20 years ago one of my friends was paid to create profiles on a dating site, and then even to respond a couple of times before ghosting people.
Twitter to Accept Blue Check Mark Requests in 2021 Following 3-Year Hiatus
Also: hardcore.
I don't know if it's true or not, but of all the text I've seen on the internet, this comment has to be the most likely to make the people who read it reply with "tell me more!!!"

well done
Where was this, a competitor like Nokia?
It's likely an exaggeration, but if so it's not much of one, and I can't rule it out actually being true at some point.

https://revealnews.org/article/want-to-carry-a-concealed-gun... is an article saying there were 2 in SF in 2014, and that they basically never issue them. (They apparently last for two years before being renewed). It was apparently still the case in 2019, according to the hover-map on https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article232198382.html .

I have been unable to find many other county-level statistics, short of making an FOIA request.
Way to go, Dumpster Fire Operator Guy. Nothing gives me more anxiety than waiting for an inevitable printer jam or mechanical failure to occur.
The two categories are pretty different. A 501(c)6 exists for the benefit of its members. That doesn't mean it's bad or can't have a positive mission but it's a trade association at the end of the day. A 501(c)3, as you know, at least ostensibly has some sort of charitable/educational/etc. mission.
Ask HN: What gadgetry are you buying in the Holiday Sales?
Holiday sales should be coming up around the world, and the US would be having Black Friday / Cyber Monday soon.

I'm idly wondering what gadgetry or otherwise interesting things people are thinking of buying
where/how can I disable this?
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The AMA chooses who can be a doctor, who can train doctors, who can practice any kind of medicine, has extremely strong pricing power over the entire healthcare system via the RUC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_Society_Relative_Val...), advocates on behalf of doctors whether or not you agree, and much more, all under a guise of "non-profit advocacy for public health." They are a racket -- we would do well to have a rogue upstart competing licensing body.
I've checked a couple with Soundhound and they seem to be on "Healin' in the City Night, Vol 3" now

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqWGydjKlLOvGr...

Edit: Hm, seems to be some chillhop playlist. "Stan Forebee & Kyle McEvoy - Kensington" now.
I've just tried it. It works and it is really convenient!
A month is 365.25/12=30.4375 days on average, disregarding leap seconds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194796
This is, unfortunately, confirmed :\
I know. I'm sorry. I have a screenshot if push comes to shove but I'm being vague on purpose for the privacy of those in my community.
> "bad faith" labeling is not logical

Oh, but it is. It is easily defined in logical terms: an argument made not to be proven or negotiated, but to play on the emotions of listeners to manipulate discourse.

It's pure rhetoric masquerading as debate or truth-seeking. It leverages morality and ideology, but does not require such yo be defined.
Has cryptocurrency failed for the time being?
More than a decade on, bitcoin has numerous flaws. Fungibility, scalability, and stability being the main faults. There are coins that solve all of these problems (monero for fungibility, nano for scalability, and dai for stability) but none so far that solve all three.

Is it a failed experiment for the time being or is there still hope?
That’s not necessarily true.
Wayback Machine to the rescue yet again https://web.archive.org/web/20140327021232/http://blog.aggre...
Not necessarily dangerous.
Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen
It’s not an email client- it’s a gateway to a proprietary messaging service that happens to support email
PL/pgSQL says otherwise
Most of the self-promotion posts you see on reddit usually are titled "Look at the so-and-so my girlfriend/boyfriend/sister/mother/whatever made!" Even if its not the skirt the no-self-promotion rule I think they tend to do better in general.
Some providers use 720 (30 days) hours, some 744 (31days), I have even seen one doing 672 (28 days)...
Or just more understanding of different types of intelligence.
"At least for Firefox, this would likely be the same request with the same behavior."

Well, the form post returns the response, which opens up more csrf problems.

Edit: uh, nope. Not sure where my head was. See below.
Wouldn't just identifying the chips and drilling through them be more effective?
Unable to connect for me :(
The three things that helped me in order from most to least:

1) Getting 8h of sleep a night. Without 8h of sleep sitting in front of a computer for a few hours would give me a massive headache.

2) Moving my computer from in front of a window to a different location.

3) Using blue light filtering glasses.

Now I almost never get a headache, I think 1 and 2 were the biggest improvements. I've also started experimenting with having fake green plants around my monitors.
I would like to hear opinions on Chicago, both during COVID and Pre/Post COVID.

Figured I should ask, if Chicagoans are not replying, why not?
AFAIK, it's technically state licensing boards. Of course, licensing, the AMA, and other medical organizations are pretty intertwined in various ways.
There are four pigs at the trough of US healthcare:

1) drug/device companies
2) insurance companies
3) trial lawyers
4) doctors

When asked what's wrong, they point at one of the other three.

The AMA is guild that makes sure doctors stay rich, valued, and semi-scarce.
Google could have -- and probably would have -- failed if not for Google Ads. The great search results drove people to use their product, but it didn't actually earn them money directly.

You can have the best product on the market and fail, and you can have a terrible one, yet succeed. Google has as much business acumen as they do technical chops, and that's why they are such a success. Same with MS and Apple.
I guess it depends on why you want to find an alternative.

I used to use Insomnia, but switched to Postman and never looked back.

I gave Paw a try and it was pretty neat, but not as easy to use as Postman.
> Utah currently has a raging pandemic with a test positivity rate of 22%

That's awesome, because herd immunity is 40% - 60%.

So half way there.

> This doesn’t look like much to brag about.

You have no clue what you're talking about. Corona is a highly-contagious disease that is not preventable.

There's a mass delusion in the US regarding fixation on various corona statistics, illustrated by your ignorant comment.

We're all getting corona.
> If I wanted to generate a good driver for a course, I’d run a few thousand of these and pick the coefficients that complete the course in the shortest time.

I might be pedantic here, but wouldn't this then be a machine learning algorithm? Since the machine is learning the most appropriate coefficient based on some heuristic (best of X random).

Wouldn't it be better (and more honest) to say then that, simpler ML models and learning techniques can often yield good enough result that don't justify going to more advanced model and learning techniques?
As Joel Spolsky wrote, "[Garfield] jokes ... are about how much the cat likes lasagna (and those are the punchlines!)"

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n...
Big companies already use microservices to separate programs (and be sane with memory ownership), so the logical way to move to Rust is to write new microservices in Rust.
I'm not sure how meaningful that would be. Selectable runtimes make a huge amount of sense for interpreted languages or languages with a runtime. Rust is compiled to a binary. There are libraries that make it easy to set up a Lambda runtime, and guides for deploying that runtime; beyond that, a Lambda runtime is "run this program, leave it running, answer requests", and I don't know how standardized that could easily become with a compiled language that doesn't need a runtime or interpreter.