skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://brandur.org has lots of interesting posts about databases, especially Postgres. Also posts about interesting technical problems and their solutions. One of my favorites is this one about implementing an idempotent API:

https://brandur.org/http-transactions
This is an app I happily deleted years ago and life has been so good ever since
I second that. I have M.2 SSD on laptop and SATA SSD on desktop. There's no perceived difference on disk operations for me outside of corner cases like copying huge file. But there's very noticeable difference between prices.
So even infra are getting paid that much? For a mid-level with about 5-6 years exp?
How does this thing work?
I had pretty much the exact same experience as parent comment. There is no apologizing for software that can quickly and easily accept your credit card number, but drag its feet and require non-existent humans to intervene to stop taking your money. Extremely bad look
Hah, this was my jam in the day. I wrote mods and utilities, custom map generators, custom ship types, fixed a lot of bugs that cheaters would use. Stepped through the code in an assembly language debugger and reverse engineered all the data files.

One of my favorite memories was fixing a cheater's bug that was triggered by entering a negative number into a certain dialog. There were no legitimate features in the game that required negative numbers, so I figured if I could prevent the entry of all negative numbers, it would fix this bug plus any similar undiscovered ones. I was very much an assembly language novice, but I knew that somewhere in that executable had to be the routine that parsed ASCII strings to convert them to integers, and it most likely had the minus sign (ASCII value 45) encoded as a constant. I stubbornly changed each byte value 45 to 255 until I found the right one. Since it wasn't possible to enter ASCII 255 in the dialogs... bug fixed!

When Gary Martin finally released a new version (2112?), the executables and data files were all encrypted, so we couldn't make custom ships anymore. I wasn't able to crack the encryption but I wrote a "TSR" (=terminate and stay resident -- DOS's approximation of multi-tasking) that would wait for the Trade Wars program to unpack itself and then write patches directly into the RAM. Good times.
While I get the logic behind this, the problem is there's no real motivation to run and maintain a server without the intention of also being part of its community.
Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
>they don't actually need "likes" for their data-collection purposes.

Is that what's happening? My understanding is that you can hide the displaying of the likes, but still allow people to like them. In that case, the metrics are still being collected.
This is extremely spot on, Cerner goes to far as to tie almost everything to a billing encounter (FIN). Yet the documents still come over as PDFs that clinicians have to parse through.
Given that these tests don't evaluate critical thinking and knowledge of statistics it's quite ironic but coherent for the company using these tests.
> Rushdie fears that writers no longer trust their imaginations, and that the classroom imperative to “write what you know” has led to dullness, angst and dead ends: cold and bony literary mumblecore.

Sounds like advice from someone who lives in a bubble.

There is an enormous number of aspiring anythings who are too afraid to start doing a thing. If you ask them to just "do what they know," these people would respond that what they know cannot possibly be worth doing.

The next obvious step is to get them to do that thing. Complaining about this obviously useful step is like criticizing Bobby Fischer for encouraging so many kids to use boring chess openings of moving a pawn. It's unwitting comedy.
Is there any modern compiled language with native compilers for 32-bit MS-DOS?
Hi.

I heard a lot about NIM, V-LANG, ZIG, GO, RUST and other "small, simple and portable - as C" languages, which seems perfect fit for port to some old and resource starved systems.

Most of those languages leverage some GCC or LLVM/Clang heavily - which is "cheating", as they can't provide small, portable, standalone compiler for 32-BIT DOS systems.

Which modern language have some native 16/32bit MS-DOS compiler that can under MS-DOS environment with 2MB of RAM?

Except FreePascal and DJGPP.
For some there might be moral blockers.

Especially for women.
pjc50 says: "...it was first a disaster for China..."

Was it a disaster for China? A virus that primarily killed elderly and immune-compromised persons? The virus leaves China with a younger, healthier and more productive population. China's economic situation is better today than it was before the pandemic b/c they now have a reduced dependent population.

Mao Tse-tung said he did not fear nuclear holocaust b/c their huge population protected China from being wiped out. In contrast, other nations would be annihilated. That is an idea CCP members are familiar with:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mao%27s+comments+on+nuclear+war+po...
If you're interested in the Commodore era: https://techtinkering.com/
You can only post to the end of a topic, but you can link to a previous post that you’re replying to using the post number in angle brackets. For example: <123>
For 100 USD a year, You could buy about 10 - 15 courses on Udemy.com

And compliment it with free resources on the web.

I don't see the attraction of what Mozilla is providing.

Perhaps companies can have bulk subscriptions or they have some sort of revenue sharing deals with authors.
I figured it was something like that :) but that does nicely illustrate the problem of C: despite the fact that the ports are all the same, there's reliable way to know if a cable will work for the purpose I'm going to use it for.

Sure, basically any cable can _charge_ a device at some speed, which is absolutely my common application, but for shoveling bits around it's much more complicated.
> Vimscript will most likely die with Vim

Which is just fine! Vimscript was created to create simple vim scripts, not to build full programs.

And if you need to do more than Vimscript can do, Vim already provides this: it has native bindings to Lua, among other languages. If Lua was such in demand to write vim scripts, at this point it should have taken over VimScript as the main extension language, but it hasn't, and I guess that unless something huge happens in the community, it won't.
It depends on the laws, yes. I do recall someone getting burned by using Estonian 0% CIT while living in another country because it was ruled that they are running a controlled foreign corporation, with effective CIT rate of 0%, and they have to retroactively pay off the difference for the last few years, along with high interest.
It's surely amazing when you account for the fact that she's poking at a frickin' touchscreen with no visual closed-loop feedback. But as a UX mode it sucks. Why not just pair a physical Bluetooth gamepad with actual buttons?
Biden Budget Assuming Capital-Gains Tax Rate Increase Started in Late April
My wife had a couple of complicating factors, so we had doctors involved from the get-go. Fun fact for the unaware: if you're predisposed for diabetes or just unlucky, you get gestational diabetes because pregnancy does WILD things to hormones.

But we've had instant skin to skin (after a quite o2 check, but within minutes) for both pregnancies, even the "urgent" c-section (not quite "emergency", but better safe than sorry, story for another time).
Can confirm. It's basically what https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ suggest and actually provides entertaining content/rants.
I would disagree. I’ve never heard of any company doing this, nor any former or current colleague that had to do one.
Have you heard about hotels? They bill me for a full day, and barely even communicate with me all night long?
Its the same in the UK but the company and union will work together - not sure what your point is.

I have worked on a successful UK recognition campaign BTW
I'm building an invisible college in Berkeley and Hawaii, and happen to own the domain name: https://invisible.college.

If anyone's interested in putting this domain to better use, please reach out!
They have a forum but now discuss the switch to GitHub Discussions[1]. The issue about oxidizing everything is here[2]. If you want to help the project there is a number of issues[3] that can be done, in particular syncronization with the Tectonic mainline and XeTeX code update[4]

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/766

[2] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459

[3] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues

[4] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues/299
a new and better willow garage?? =D
I think there are a few different modes that people use it in (and I'm sure the folks at Instagram have this down to a more precise science):

* Consumer-only: simply following artists/whatever and not contributing anything

* Family and friends: Sharing pictures of your holiday/kid/cat/food with people you know

* Influencers and wannabe influencers: Actively seeking to grow an audience

I don't think between 1 & 2 anyone can say one is better than the other, they're two quite different modes of using the app. Number 2 obviously can lead to people wondering why their 15th funny picture of their cat didn't get as many likes, and it's for this group that I think turning off likes altogether can help the most.

I would expect, though, that if everyone in a family-and-friends circle were turning off their likes, comments would become a proxy for likes, and there would be an expectation to add "nice!", "beautiful!" "how funny!" to posts, and then a similar feeling when posts don't get any response.
This argument is threading thin on the edge of "plausible deniability" but the problem is that no one (as of yet) is claiming he was there as a "medic". The claim being raised is that he's been there as a "journalist". Surely journalists don't have to take part in the military training of the combatants they are covering as a part of their job?

The issue with this is, in the court of public opinion, once it's proven that your "alibi" doesn't hold water, you aren't allowed to come with an alternative "alibi", but rather perceived as a liar; otherwise you would tell the truth from the beginning.
Depends on the scope of the API of course, but it's a good rule of thumb for any API with private auth
If the age bracket is filed in a database, it is actual age discrimination regardless of promises and codes of conduct.
It's not hard to learn if you've got some spare time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
Your response is great. Thanks for sharing information about the literature and way more context.

> Otherwise, what you're actually saying is, "I'm skeptical of results that pop magazines and press releases have only surfaced to my attention once" - which is a shoddy mechanism for curating your knowledge.

At the risk of nitpicking, this seems like a good principle to follow? Like, assuming skeptical means "I won't instantly buy into this being as great as the pop magazine claims" rather than "I will strongly presuppose that this is untrue because it was in a pop magazine".
Walker Percy's News from Across the Sea
They did that?

Although, I guess Google does IQ tests too in effect? But it's called "solve this puzzle" and "here's a riddle".
My favourite ones (mainly tech or bio related):

- https://www.gwern.net/index

- https://guzey.com/

- https://nintil.com/

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

- https://waitbutwhy.com/
Yeah, I like to imagine programmer monks hidden away working on assembly language for thousands of years.

Reminds me of the book Anathem (great book, tons of Catholic imagery)
As some of the comments in the article point out, some of the commonalities may because the legends may be referencing older Indo-European legends which both European and Persian cultures have in common.

In addition, especially after 300 BC, with the conquests of Alexander the Great, Greek culture spread throughout much of the region. The Parthians were actually very much fans of Greek culture.
Shudder. Haha. XSLT was actually conceptually a good idea. Just quite hard to read once written in lines and lines of XML.
In the 2000s I wrote a web site in mod_perl/Axkit that used XSLT to translate pure XML files into readable XHTML 1.0 for web browsers and WAP (!) for phones.
Man. I used to play the heck out of Tradewars back in the day on local BBSes.

I distinctly remember logging in one day on a certain BBS I played on only to realize one of my corporation partners had robbed the corporation blind and left us all floating in space.

But getting betrayed and then becoming a fugitive from your former partner, and then plotting your comeback, was all part of the game ...and ultimately fun in it's own right I suppose. :) Good times.
The US spends all of it's money that should be going to infrastructure and services on killing people overseas. We use migrant labor to produce crops below minimum wage, so large corporations can send Europe cheap produce.
Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September
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Yep.

tl;dr :

EHR are mostly about charts.

EMR are mostly about billing.

The risks of unfettered access to EMR is that conditions can be inferred and future profitabilit of patients predicted so that they can be steered to different types and qualities of care (for good or for evil).

For-profit healthcare will overall optimize for profits before patient outcomes. It's as certain as gravity. FPH should be illegal.
The US is a money and capitalism first culture. This is before things like privacy. I'm not suggesting what is right or should be but rather an observation of what is the case.
Of course ... but it's incredibly sad to read how it is even a part of the thought process of childbirth in some countries.
You're thinking of the Mozilla Foundation, which is not-for-profit. The Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation, which is "for-profit" and develops Firefox and MDN.

Money flows from the Corporation to the Foundation every year.
My last startup does this as well, but in our experience deidentification is not nearly as robust as the companies using it claim it is.
50k in euro's is pretty ok for European developers, no?
Ask HN: Is there a case for small / medium data
A lot of innovation happens in the big data (data that needs distributed compute - spark etc.) like ability to blend data across sources, schemaless / schema on the fly, deploy analytical models to production etc. Is there a case for similar innovations in the small to medium data (working with ~10M dataset) blended across data sources, simple analytical models and such ? What percentage of usecases are in the bigdata realm vs. small/medium data.
The ad revenue model requires a lot of SEO friendly pages to be in search indexes. I don't mind ads or that model in general.

A lot of the answers on pages are outdated but they have no incentive to cleanup old content if its going to affect their bottom line because they will have less indexed pages.

This means I get much more noise when trying to find something so I go elsewhere.
They still allow users to like. However, you might be right that they don't really need it. They have engagement metrics based on your scrolling behavior.
I 100% agree- I'd rather see a small company with various security policies than see a company like Google with the data.
The amount of torque you can handle with the drill horizontal and close to the body is rather different than vertical and leaning over an engine bay.
> I don't think there's a recorded case of that ever happening with databases.
> and there are other seams in your code which are much more likely to break.

One such thing is the abuse of layers and layers of abstractions. For example, many people (unfortunately, in my view) love to use ORMs and query builds, and things like these are much more easier to happen when things are too generic.

And signing the entire database row and validating it, and so on, might be unjustified for most people, especially if you already count with correction from a TLS layer, and you can just have the trade-off of adding a simple conditional to check if the data you receive is sane.

This is not something essential for everything, but that is nice to have, especially the further you're out of control.

For example, if you retrieve data from an external API you should not trust it blindly, but rely on your internal references (security concerns aside, I'm talking about other kind of erratic behavior or bad data).
I can't read the article, but naively to me this sounds like it requires the app-owner to be able to access the messages when requested, and so whatever thresholds they say they're adhering to (courts, etc), as an end-user I can't know if they might change their minds at some point and read all my messages.
Do you know if a single button press can be mapped to "end call"? It's not clear from the pages.

I wish Apple would have a mode which allowed you to do this with voice during a call...
> Write about a young Mexican woman working in a restaurant and can't speak English

Sounds like a great way to get cancelled for cultural appropriation.
It’s not unsurprising reading about western doctor’s historical skepticism of this practice.

Reading about the history of child birth in the U.S. over the last century is messed up. No wonder we have such high mortality rates still.

I remember having to change hospitals in Boston because they were proud of the fact that 50% of the births were c-sections…
> Imagine if a user of Word could access a plugin that let her type \sum_{i=0}...

MS Word in Office 360 provides direct support for the LaTeX syntax in formulas.
You're free to show me data that substantiate your claim. If you read my comment as "white men are not homophobic at all and minorities are all homophobic", that's not what I meant. What I meant is that on average minorities are more homophobic than whites. I also gave data to support my claim.

For example, in France, the difference of homophobia between catholics and muslims is really really big. That's not a "trope". That's something that I live daily.

Edit: I'll add to that that examples of overt racism that I've seen are extremly rare compared to examples of overt homophobia. I'm honestly fed up that people like you give a free pass to minorities to not work on themselves because "they're oppressed too". Since they have the right to be homophobes since they're racial minorities, do I have to be racist because I'm gay? Is that how you think? That's not how I think at all. We both have to work on ourselves to respect others more.
Bruce Sterling still shows up once a year for an annual “state of the world” discussion in January.
I was less interested in a debate as to what meaning you assign those terms. The way you use them seems like empty buz words.
Exactly. This particular iteration is going to fail miserably, but the world will be better because people are at least thinking like this. I hope that this idea happens, somehow.
> why don't you head on home for the day and I'll call you there?

As non-native English speaker this expression really puzzles me.
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It requires a very high amount of naiveness to think this could solve the issue. Only thing that will help is education of children, so that they understand their place in the world, to accept themselves, that the aesthetic standards provided in social networks are very high (but yet, as a central European my sensibility is a bit different than the one in other places -- I would suggest that this must be a stimulus to avoid gaining weight, to train, and so forth), that random appreciation in terms of "likes" is not a sensible measure of how much a person is worth, and so forth.
Emotion AI creator Affectiva acquires Smart Eye for $73.5M
The two places I would look are:

1. Oberon. It certainly qualifies as a modern language, it was designed for doing systems work, there is an MS-DOS compiler from ETHZ, and the language is single pass and designed by one of the masters to be easily and quickly compiled.

2. Forth. Something like Pygmy Forth can be a great development environment for constrained systems.
You're welcome! This is very exciting research, it amazes me how quickly we're able to test hypotheses when we put our mind to it.

Note that this is a preprint awaiting actual publication in a journal... but surely itll pass review.
There is also Patoline[1][2], but it looks abandoned now.

[1] https://patoline.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/patoline/patoline
A lifetime ago I was writing code for airline data processing. The specs are very clear about what the valid representation of every field was (less so about what they meant, but...).

So we generated our parser to fail if field ORG/1457 (made up) was not numeric max 8 digits. Or missing where mandatory.

Even if we never touched the data in that field.

Turns out that no-one else used the spec that way. No two were the same, so we had to basically implement two layers of parsing. One to put the data in a common parse tree, and the other to per-sending-mainframe interpret the data as how the sender had implemented.

We assumed that the mainframe would never send illformed data, and indeed that-could-never-happen. But they differed in what they thought was well formed.