skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's possible they are still using it, but that's just saying McDonald's used it in 2004.

For example, even this current page http://www.sco.com/5reasons/ has a claim that McDonald's is using it. But the quote is from John Doty, who last worked at McDonalds in 2001.

Edit: Googling around a bit, it seems like they switched to something called "New-POS", which runs on Windows. It was originally from a company called Savista, later re-named Torex. The software was purchased outright with source code and is now maintained in-house, and called "NP6". So it seems unlikely McDonald's has any real amount of SCO left. Apparently McDonald's was their largest client, so that's notable.
I really don't get why mhtml has been discontinued by browsers??
> Is it a case of you probably want to rebuild machines that have default usernames/passwords?

I mean, regardless, most probably, the answer to this is yes.
Evacuations expand as Manatee phosphate plant collapse ‘imminent’
The data is missing some people like former Facebook executive Jay Parikh. One possibility: they never put in a phone number into their Facebook account.
Yes, but the company will almost certainly be structured in a way to limit liability. Most likely, each building will be owned by a separate LLC.
We've been in a population decline for a while.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-29/global....

Quick edit: That article is just to backup my comment about population decline, I don't really agree with the article's opinion to ramp up births.
Against Hickelism
Ukelele is one of those amazing apps that you love more the less you use it. I've been using this keyboard as my daily driver since 2007:

https://github.com/2grep/ScienceNotes
Maybe we should change the incentive structure.
It's reductive to suggest that the top 100 represents "general culture" (whatever that ambiguous term means). There aren't solely niche musicians outside of the top 100. Theres plenty of musicians with millions of listens/views on streaming media that don't enter billboard lists that have extremely prodigious careers that have complex lyrics, use a wide assortment of instruments/equipments, evolve genres, etc.

Your data might be objective, but it's still a narrow slice of a much broader ecosystem.
This version of Easter kinda sucks.
Adobe makes it harder and harder to use their PDF reader. I live in Canada, and somehow I'm given forms I legally have to use, that I can only print out in adobe reader v10. I need to go through hassle of installing and uninstalling their terrible product couple times a year.
What we’re expecting from Google’s custom “Whitechapel” SoC in the Pixel 6
I have no idea what your point is.

You could make the same point for just about everything. Starting a restaurant doesn't help anyone because you're just buying food ingredients, labor and real estate and turning that input into food and anyone can do that so you're not increasing the supply of food. Investing money in the stock market certainly doesn't help anyone since you're just buying existing securities that were already issued. The economy as a whole is full of things that aren't that important independently that you could make a convoluted argument against, even those things often add up to a functioning economy with a robust system for price discovery.
Damn, that's pretty depressing.

I really wouldn't like to migrate away but I can't say all the info that's been coming back has been making me want to have them as a part of my network infrastructure.
Well, removing audio and images, leaving only text, would make it safer.

I, and probably many others, wouldn’t have stumbled upon some of the things I have. They thankfully are now only blurry memories to me, even though merely evoking them still is nauseating.

It would also dramatically reduce the impact of much of the bullshit content out there, since words appear to have much less emotional impact than images (and appear to be much less appealing), and thus be safer to society as a whole.

A text-only interface would also be much less useful and much more annoying to use.
PHP 8.1 Feature Work Includes Adding Enums, Fsync Function
Feds say hackers are likely exploiting critical Fortinet VPN vulnerabilities
Revisionparty banned by twitch during streaming
revisionparty demoparty banned by twitch during streaming - maybe because of stupid nipple content ... now online with help of c3voc :-)
I don't accept it as a given that the only way to address tracking is to slow some kids down.

Like what if we tripled the number of teachers?
Thanks for the tl;dr, it really wasn't obvious from the essay itself.

So, I guess the author has never heard of sqlite? Power users today can easily and freely create offline-first apps.
AZ is not suspended in all of Europe. Most countries continue to use it, some of them -- France and Germany among then -- limiting the vaccine to people beyond a certain age (France: 55, Germany: 60), who are at a greater risk from Covid and who are also the next large group to be vaccinated.
Being faster and smaller than Angular isn't much of a feat...
The desktop app scene is so different today with more and more apps moving to SaaS. In the 90s, they were so many interesting and well-made desktop apps that were full of interesting ideas. Lotus Improv was certainly one of them. ( A 1990 video demonstration can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYsZmhnXR4 )

Lotus Word Pro also took a refreshingly different UI approach to MS Word. Long before Microsoft introduced the Office 'ribbon', Lotus Word Pro essentially had the same idea with their floated tabbed property box. The low resolution of screens at the time meant the design of the property box was a bit cramped. But it was still much better designed and organised than the Office 'ribbon' that would come later. See the Lotus Word Pro example below:

https://youtu.be/svijgsb2iLs?t=463
In the end, everything is subjective, even morality. There's no objective physical law that says killing is bad. Animals do it all the time and could not care less about it.

But to the degree that we have a culture, though, we also have a non-100%-exact but nonetheless existing hierarchy of artistic works. There might be disagreements, even strong ones, but there's also some general agreement, that not everything is a fuzzy blob of equal value, left for the individual taste to sort or not, and this just for itself.

Is the idea that the Beatles are better than The Monkeys or Oasis, that Aphex Twin is better than Skrillex, that Dua Lipa is better than Justin Bieber, that Michael Jackson is better than Milli Vanilly, in some non-measurable but tangible way really that difficult?

That this, once a common and well accepted idea (related to the idea of the "canon"), appears like beyond the pale for the 21st century solipsistic individual, where only the subjective taste matters, is not really the fault of the idea itself.
Indeed. My 4th grader is in remote public schooling this year. He crushes the day's work in 30-45 minutes; if anything it's highlighting just how terribly inefficient the scholastics part of elementary school is. (It's also not the primary purpose of K-5, but to the extent that a sliver of it is present, it is indeed glacially slow.)
Depends what you mean.

Temporary interruptions yes. But then the location is kept.

Interruptions for a very long time ? I might have to reread the whole chapter anyway...
Interesting choice of only using light skinned actors, and hiding working class neighborhoods. Sounds like they're taking tips from the best in the game, good ol' USA.
So, if something is taking longer because you're identifying previously unanticipated subtasks, does doing the yak-shaving count toward your count of tasks, or not?
Reasoning about Leverage in Engineering Organisations – Bill de hÓra
I think OneDrive had its origins in Groove back in the day.
Does OpenBSD with PF have a nice web interface to administrate the firewall, DHCP server, WLANs, etc from?
Bill de hÓra discuss the terms Leverage and Lift as a way for engineers to suggest technical decisions, framing it to the potential impact on the organization. Lift can be: time saved, cost reduction, employees' happiness (e.g. eliminate tedious or error-prone work,) etc. - all worth guesstimating when offering your idea, and measure as you promote the initiative to validate the actual impact. As Senior ICs, speaking that language and presenting a strong case for Leverage and potential Lift can drastically increase the ratio of approved ideas from suggested ideas.
The Achilles heel pf PDF's are they don't have responsive layouts. It's so bad the Adobe team created an AI to resize layouts, yes an AI in the cloud, available only on the Adobe app. How insanely bad is your file format that you need an AI to resize layouts in 2021? If anyone has had to handle layouts programmatically I'd think they would agree that PDF's are the most outdated ass backwards file format in existence.
>If a Cloudflare customer has configured their origin server to respond only to Cloudflare IPs, then they MUST also verify that the "Host" header on any request actually matches their domain name. If they do not verify the Host header, then anyone can sign up for Cloudflare and simply configure their DNS to point to the victim's origin IP address, and requests will be routed there -- but will have the attacker's domain in the Host header.

What exactly could such a misconfiguration enable? Just that the attacker could configure lower levels of Cloudflare security settings for their domain, to bypass the origin's intended Cloudflare security settings? Would this also bypass I'm Under Attack Mode?
Feynman enjoyed holding forth about philosopy of science, demarcation and so on but there doesn't seem to be much evidence that he had unusually good judgement on those issues: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508180 . But then Michael Jordan and Cristiano Ronaldo aren't particular authorities when it comes to questions of good sportsmanship.

> Independent of his admitted naiveté and the job crisis in American physics, it is interesting to record how some leading physicists reacted to the physics he was doing. Clauser (2002a, p.71) reports that while he "was actually performing the first experimental test of the CHSH-Bell predictions as a postdoc at UC-Berkeley, [... he] made an appointment with Prof. Richard Feynman to discuss these same questions. Feynman was very impatient with [him]." Feynman's stance was: "Well, when you have found an error in quantum-theory's experimental predictions, come back then, and we can discuss your problem with it. " 82

> At this seminar, Aspect finished his talk by quoting a certain paper whose author derived results similar to Bell's inequalities and went on to discuss whether it was "a real problem." According to Aspect, this author gave an answer so unclear that he "had found it amusing to quote it as a kind of joke to conclude this presentation." Only at this point, did Aspect reveal the name of the author, Richard Feynman. According to Aspect, nobody in the audience laughed until Feynman laughed. Feynman checked the quotation and wrote to Aspect conceding he was right. 93

> [note 93]: [...] Feynman's quotation, in Feynman (1982, p. 471), is: "It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. So that's why I like to investigate things."
She disappeared off the internet after the NSA revelations came out.
Does this require everyone to get it?
Note that where we live, kindergartners are aged 5-6, and 1st graders are aged 6-7.

Kids are also memorization machines. Letters are pure memorization. But kids also forget things fast. Our oldest learned the letters by 2, forgot them, then re-learned them at 4.

That said, everyone develops in different areas at different rates. I definitely think parents tend to push their kids more than they need to. Lots of this stuff is just when the kid is physiologically ready to do it. Pushing them when they aren't ready just adds pointless stress.
I signed up before Facebook ever required phone numbers.

I never gave Facebook my phone number.

I never had a Facebook app on any Android device, ever.

When I use Facebook, it's in a sandboxed browser that I never log into any other site with.

Facebook, for a time, started autofilling a prompt with my phone number, asking me to complete my account setup.

When Facebook has an app and all the people you know send their contacts to it, they don't need you to give them your phone number for them to have it.
Right it was very powerful. We can do something similar with frames or other embedding strategies on the web.
> limiting the vaccine to people beyond a certain age (France: 55

Wait - I thought France said AztraZeneca wasn't effective for people over 65? Are they just giving it to people 55-65 therefore? And shouldn't those people have already been vaccinated by now anyway?
Which specific parts of those reviews are false or otherwise biased?
Quote: "It is not an operating system but provides many of the same services as an OS, things like memory management, networking, filesystems and threading plus much more."

Well, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck. Let's not beat the bush here, it is an operating system.

Also this misses a "2016" in title, since that was the last time the GitHub repository was touched by developer.
I wish it would support HiDPI displays better. Right now it's impossible for me to read.
OK, so say that in the argument above, because I think you were misunderstanding the other party.

I think it varies a lot by school system. There are places-- mostly lower income, disadvantaged places-- where joining a higher track again is very hard.

> The teacher proposed that I be held back a grade because of all that I missed. My mom put her foot down and said no way.

This kind of advocacy is often missing, too.

> The 4th grade class simply had not perceptibly advanced in 3 months.

Good curriculum has looping, where you hit the same kind of topic from different angles separated in time. I'm teaching bright kids in middle school, and I'm finding that you need to hit something about 3 times before even the bright kids will retain and be able to minimally apply it. (With the exception that every now and then something will be interesting enough that a few students will go and figure out everything about it on their own).

Looping means that if kids miss a bit it'll generally be OK (there won't be huge perceptible gaps in knowledge/ability).
The problem with any of the old 'killer applications' like spreadsheets is that the network effect now dominates the productivity market.[1] So you'd spend most of your energy on trying to maintain compatibility and feature parity with an application that users are very resistant to moving away from. It's a pretty bad risk/reward unless you have a use case with a 10x (or more) value proposition.

[1] Back when businesses were mainly concerned with internal document sharing it wasn't as much of an issue. But as that expanded to marking up documents with outside lawyers, accountants etc that changed quickly. When the Internet happened for the masses in the late 90's it was game over for most of the competition.
I meant vaccinating the person who already has the infection. Their own immune system will remove the virus particles before they can travel.
The space shuttle was a bad system for a number of political reasons. Its per launch cost was comparable to developing new heavy lifts or developing new missions to the outer planets.

Effectively nasa was spending their RnD money on opex and not getting any political capital back for it. Tragically the program had been set up with the promise of a space truck, if nasa admitted they didn’t deliver a space truck Congress would have been unlikely to fund a new program. Had the budget been allocated entirely to either technological development or novel explorations America’s willingness to fund nasa could have been substantially different.
Sorry if I was unclear. 5 kWh/day of idle. That’s how much it uses when we’re literally not home and all I’ve left on is the networking gear, appliances on standby, etc.

My average actual occupied usage is closer to 20-25 kWh/day, varying mainly by AC load.
Why is there a lot of anti-Islamic sentiment on HNN? The article doesn't even mention it but people are grasping at straws to attack it.
Yeah, I do feel like there should be more visible encouragement to use "Full (Strict)" when someone adds a new domain for the first time. Especially now that it's so easy to provision free SSL certificates via Let's Encrypt etc.
You can use an add-on like HTTPZ[1] to load HTTPS versions of sites automatically.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/httpz/
There have absolutely been cases where well-meaning people on the internet have caused harm by latching on to a pseudo-scientific explanation for an unexplained illness. I’m thinking of anti-vaxxers, chronic lyme disease, etc.

I think it’s commendable that the author is trying to quantify her health issues, but I also don’t think she makes a very strong case that the cause is toxic waste in the ground as opposed to some other issue.

It is irresponsible in my opinion for her to write an article titled “I thought I was dying: My apartment was built on toxic waste” without more concrete evidence. If she is wrong, this could cause undue panic and suffering for other residents in the area, as well as monetary damages to the building’s owner.

Of course there is also the possibility that she is right, too. But given the severity of her symptoms, and the number of residents in the complex, I would expect to see more people showing up at local hospitals with similar issues. I think the correct course of action for a person in this situation would basically be to report the issue to local health authorities and the building’s management, and move out as soon as possible.
As I understand, this integration might happen but would be meaningless because viruses ejected from infected cells will subsequently be intercepted.
Some sellers in markets in the region will get offended if you don’t try and haggle, even it means they’ll make 10x the profit that they’d settle for.
Undeniably the product failed commercially. By the time we decided to sell the company, the product was doing ~20M+ of revenue but on a low growth rate, after having gone through ~140M of capital with (not unreasonable) investor expectations of unicorn-like returns.

That said, I absolutely loved Groove the product and Groove the team. It was a dapp with a wonderfully-usable interface, built on a pure P2P blockchain-like infrastructure that achieved distributed consensus for generalized transactions.

It had an extremely loyal following in the NGO and GOV space. They "got it" as to the unique benefits of a secure end-to-end encrypted system for small team collaboration.

But the enterprise and consumers chose centralization as the winning architecture, and the rest is history.
I don't think school funding is a significant driver of this. If a group of kids (in loose alliance with their parents) are more focused early on scholastic achievement, those kids will tend to continue to focus more on it (and believe they’re good at it) whether you have 30:2 or 30:6 student:teacher ratios. There's a lot more influence on students and their outcomes coming from outside of school employees than inside it.

The kids are self-tracking at least as much as the school is formalizing it. You could have pretended there wasn’t an advanced math group, just like you can not officially keep score in soccer. The kids still know.
yeah this is just a good as just saying it "has the hallmarks of a state-level attack", pointing at Russia and calling it a day

everyone believes it
Veritasium has a great video on the helicopter. Early on in the video they explain that Mars’ atmosphere is equivalent in density to Earth’s atmosphere at 100,000 feet, and the record altitude for helicopters on earth is 40,000 feet.
https://youtu.be/GhsZUZmJvaM
>Codementor is relatively new and high paying compared to other platforms. You can charge a task 50$ what clients usually pay 10$ for the same task on other platforms.

Eventually it'll be a race-to-zero like the other platforms
You may have scaling in your tools, but under the hood the transformation pipeline treats the result as a translation. Scales cause physics and dynamics issues, which are linked to too many related systems. That's why tools that scale have a "bake" operation afterwards, that baking is transforming scales into translations so runtime and scene logic can use a uniform coordinate space.
This can be done with a proper capability system.
Who's curriculum are you talking about?

In the US, we've never been good at teaching truths about slavery. I'm sure this is true the world wide.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/28/teaching... has an interesting read about this in the US. Here's a paragraph quote...

> It is why, just four years ago, textbooks told students “workers” were brought from Africa to America, not men, women and children in chains. It is why, last year, a teacher asked students to list “positive” aspects of slavery. It is why, even in 2019, there are teachers in schools who still think holding mock auctions is a good way for students to learn about slavery. Misinformation and flawed teaching about America’s “original sin” fills our classrooms from an early age.
I want to fire Ubiquiti, but where can I go to get my router, wireless access points and switches in one management interface? There are plenty of poorly performing consumer grade options out there which hide all complexity, but they break in fun ways (eg: Google WiFi creating loops in the network when users try to do wired backhaul) and only tackle part of the stack.

I really just want to manage an OpenWRT based network with one central web interface and not have to deal with corporate/state entities deciding to push fun changes out in the management interfaces that power these systems.
Elementary school is pretty much 95% playtime. I had a good time playing with my friends at school.

College was a total shock, I had to work hard.
The leverage doesn't have to be high - the only reasonable conclusion you could make is that the owner doesn't have a lot of cash savings outside of his properties and likely doesn't make that much money from his job (in relation to the losses incurred). Alternatively, he may just be cheap and also trying to make a point. Even if he owns his properties outright, tax and maintenance aren't free and not everyone can afford to lose money from their income-yielding properties.
You’d think, but I know of one POS system (in both senses of the term) that managed to do it accidentally. [Edit: on Windows 7, which you’d think would be able to handle stuff like this.] If you scanned a UPC into the quantity field it would lock up the entire OS, to the point that even Ctrl+Alt+Del was ignored and you had to hard-reboot the system. After years of this they finally gave us a patch that still froze the computer, but C+A+D would at least interrupt it. I never did work out how they managed to bungle things that badly.
How to Discover Your Unknown Knowns
Alon Kiriati's "Practical Ways of Revealing Your Unknown Knowns" is excellent, as it will get you thinking which to try out that is more suitable for your style. I'm still a big fan of "Write More" as a method to practice your thinking, collecting feedback, and iterating on your mental models.
Testing. Gotta use a giant vacuum chamber to test to see if it will fly. Gotta test to make sure the release mechanism that drops it works perfectly no matter what happens to the system. Gotta make sure it can’t get itself stuck and damage the parent robot. Gotta make sure every last detail is perfect cause you only get one chance and there’s no repair crews.
If it doesn't create a new attack surface by rendering HTML unprompted, it can't be that bad.