skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lotus Notes was based around a document database, long before document databases were cool.

Patents concerned many things, but the most valuable of which was that the system could merge changes to the documents made by different users and even had a system for manual exception handling when the automated algorithm didn't work.

Notes was oriented towards workflows where several users might need to contribute actions towards completing a ticket. In 2021 some of parts of the workflow might be completed by an A.I. or might involve an IoT system that takes measurements or physical actions.

With websockets and similar tech, the UI ought to update automatically when the state of the system changes. You might not even notice that steps in a workflow happened if they happened quickly enough.

One feature of Lotus Notes that nobody would try today (email software is mostly about resilience to cyberattacks today) was that Lotus Notes had an integrated email client. That would be helpful if the application is "an email gets sent to the company and several people coordinate in replying to it",

The core concept I want to push is that the real area where applications get in trouble is with the back end database. If you made a bad decision five years ago you might be living with it for the next twenty years or if you are lucky your product will EOL soon because of it.

To take one example, in one month I worked on two legacy systems that had database tables with twelve or so datetime fields to keep track of important events in the history of a student (from pre-application to alumni) or a shipping pallet. Turned out that some of these objects didn't take straight line trajectories through the system (data was wrong and corrupted) and it's a bear to write queries to ask things like "where was Pallet X on April 9, 2004?"

A single database structure (object id, state, start_time, end_time) works to keep track of a changing state. If you ask developers to reinvent the wheel they'll probably do it wrong. A true "low code" system would have schemas built in that represent things like this the right way... So the easy way, the default way, is the right way.
For whatever reason I’m unable to respond to the response to this, so I’ll put this here:

> Bankers generally put out analyses like this to convince would-be clients that their firm can make them money by making smart predictions about the future.

This is starting to sound like something from a fever dream. I pointed out that this man is advocating for increased homelessness and preventable death on the premise that increased homelessness and death will create more profits for existing and would-be customers of JP Morgan.

So far, the responses have been:
1. No he isn’t advocating for death and homelessness at all
2. He just thinks it’d be profitable and is sharing his objective opinion in such a way that should not be construed as advice for existing or possible investment banking clients.

And now…
3. He’s not advocating for increased homelessness and death, but if he were to come off that way it’s because -while he’s NOT giving advice- he’s written a form of advertisement that looks like advice to institutional investors in order to attract clients that would take his advice, which is entirely different from what’s been written in the article.

It’s not an article advocating for homelessness! It’s an ad for a service that may or may not advocate for homelessness after you pay them! It’s entirely plausible that the author tells his clients to reduce foreclosures!

The facts that he’s stated his opinion, is in a position to be taken seriously and is published by one of the biggest corporations on the planet are all coincidental and any criticism of his position should not be taken seriously due to the fact that he could be… what? Lying?

Again, this is some slapstick nonsense. The sheer amount of words people come up with to avoid saying “I literally don’t care who lives or dies, or human dignity so long as my portfolio performs well “ is astonishing.

Treating these sort of prescriptions (which is what this is, full stop) as some sort of magically objective, academic collection of facts is a form of mental gymnastics to create some distance between yourself and what happens to people in the name of your 401k.

“It’s just an objective forecast!” is a binky to soothe a guilty conscience.
Same here, it's very useful for waterfall scenarios but I've never used it for agile planning and I'm not sure it would have a place in that kind of workflow.

Also, for medium-sized projects and up I've found its planning heuristics some times produce pretty bad plans (in terms of deadlines and resource utilization), and you have to guide it towards a better solution, by adding artificial constraints.

But having a project plan that I can express in the form of tasks and constraints, and that I can fully track using git, makes up for any of TaskJuggler's shortcomings.
They're literally Microsoft. They've used up their lifetime supply of goodwill in the 90s.
I think this would be against the law in the U.S. (although probably hard to prosecute). After looking through a few of these, however, it looks like most of them are in other countries, so different laws apply.
I think we are saying the same thing- we can shed way more heat than just about any other land mammal. This results in more endurance, because other animals have to take a break to cool down. I imagine that cunning and endurance would go a long way towards a primitive hunter catching their dinner.

Interestingly, dogs and probably other animals have evolved strategies to keep the brain cooler than the rest of the body. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/836587/

Now I'm thinking about other animals that travel long distances. Butterflies and birds sometimes travel ridiculous distances. Do they have to deal with heat dissipation issues? Maybe having smaller brains help here, since cooking the brain seems to be the main issue.

from https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=217044

> The team discovered that the insects use their wings to sense the direction and intensity of sunlight—the main source of warmth or overheating—and to respond with specialized behaviors to prevent overheating or overcooling of their wings. For example, all species studied exhibited a relatively constant “trigger” temperature of approximately 40oC (104oF), turning within a few seconds to avoid overheating of wings from a small light spot shone upon them.

Nature is mind-blowing!
It doesn't have to be so dystopian.

It could be used as a way to detect when your audience loses attention and needs a break.
I like MediaWiki. It's simple to deploy, everyone already knows how to use it since Wikipedia runs it, and it's 100% FOSS.
FWIW, after getting exactly the same output from `delv` locally, I noted that

$ dig +short slack.com @4.2.2.1
15.206.34.128

and I take this to mean that, despite failing DNSSEC, Level 3 is yielding an A record - and that the major players have basically monkey-patched this into working again, and it just needs to propagate through all the caches now?
The details html tag works fine on GitHub; or did you mean you’d like a new syntax that’s more markdownesque?

EDIT: Definite +1 for the stable headers id suggestion. I implemented something similar in a proof of concept app a while back, but it was a suffix rather than a prefix, in brackets, like so:

# About this project { #about }

It worked really well, and the syntax allowed for additional properties like css like class syntax. Thouh we referred to them as tags because they were used to tag sections, paragraphs etc., so we could do some interesting aggregation later on.
"Delidding" is the process of removing the lid--the shiny exterior metal integrated heat spreader (IHS)--and replacing the thermal interface material (TIM) between the CPU die and the spreader. This is done in hopes to reduce operating temperatures and increase overclocking potential. This is similar to the process of scraping off the stock TIM on a retail heatsink. This procedure can be difficult to perform; Silicon Lottery provided a premium service for interested customers.

Silicon Lottery also provided "bin" identification services [1] via frequency tests and sold desirable highest quality/lowest defect chips (hence the company name, I presume). Processor "binning", overly simplified, is a process of testing and sorting processors into various bins (e.g. best performance, lowest defects vs. decent performance, some defects, etc). That explanation doesn't do the process justice but should give you an idea.

[1] https://siliconlottery.com/pages/statistics
> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1442706542839701510

And Tesla is rolling out FSD beta to cars based on drivers' safety score.
This is why it's foolish to purchase a German luxury car, either new or used. The electronics aren't designed to last any longer than the warranty. If you really want to drive one then lease, don't buy.
I'm really tempted to write a blog post about "fake functional".

The thing is, I really like functional. I really like Haskell. But most of the things that I like about Haskell aren't present when you rip things out of it willy-nilly and drop it into a language not designed for those idioms. The thing I like about functional programming is the fluid composition of all those ideas, and just dropping "map" or "option" doesn't mean you've got the fluid composition. Jamming functional paradigms into languages where they don't compose like they do in Haskell is just fake functional.

I'd much rather work with a language in the space where it does provide fluid composition of its concepts then jam a foreign idiom into it and enter into a constant low-level war, where I'm likely going to have to roll out the Inner Platform gun to try to wrangle the language into being a bad imitation of another language. And that's a gun I want to be firing as a last resort, not using as my primary weapon.
The Sex Education Pamphlet That Sparked a Landmark Censorship Case
Why is this flagged? Censorship by large tech platforms is an important issue here in the U.S. and abroad.
It's only a matter of time before the "engaging" arguments are promoted to the top of a twitter feed. Maybe for extremely low traffic posts, but what I see from the top is a snarky comment from Nicolai which essentially is relaying through "yet another" segue of <insert relatable quote> along the lines of "this is stupid, they're stupid, why is this still a stupid problem to have". To his own post.

The following comment about Gasper talks about how it was the approach that was incorrect, not that it shouldn't be fixed. The following response is just defending that "things must be done if asked otherwise who will do the asking" concern trolling.

Below that is unrelated tweets. I'm not about to go and click through a bunch of responses and more replies searching for the discussion. Hence why I think Twitter is a terrible platform to link to.

Twitter is just an engagement platform which feeds off arguments and bickering between people using snarky comments so people feel clever. Getting hearts/likes so that you know x number of people on the internet approve of your message.
They are absolutely enforceable.

A court might not enforce them, because, depending on your state, they may be of questionable validity.

But people who don't know that will believe they are enforced.

People who aren't willing to risk going to court will have to act as if they are enforced.

People who can't afford to go to court will have to act like they are enforced.

*Additionally, I have seen these contracts enforced outside the court system as well.*

I had a friend who was fired from a job he went to, because his former employer called his future employer, and threatened a lawsuit / threatened to drop mutual business because the future employer helped the employee break the non-compete agreement.

The past employer may not have had any case (except for the lost business), but the future employer didn't want to deal with legal trouble, and it was easier to just find a reason to fire the employee.

How sure are you that you won't be fired at your new job, because a conversation like that took place behind closed doors?

How sure are you that McDonalds would be willing to foot a legal bill to defend their new minimum wage employee, if Burger King threatened legal action?

Non-compete abuse needs legal reform.
If Zillow wants to make me an offer for my home, sight unseen, I don't see how that's a bad thing. I can always refuse.

As a buyer I guess they're competing with me but they're likely to move quicker on selling the home. I've been screwed over when buying a home where the selling broker is dishonest and gives preferential treatment to his clients since he earns double commission if he's both buying and selling agent.

Not to mention the bizarre practice of blind bidding. I made 6 offers on homes, all at ask price only to be told others bid and I have a few days to up my offer. By how much? Anyone's guess...
Did YouTube tell you that was the content that they flagged?
How many more species would be classified as extinct if not for zoos?
Valorant doesn't have a Linux port, so whatever you're playing is unofficial.
> Cruise in March submitted the applications for driverless operations, whereas Waymo in January applied for autonomous vehicle deployment with safety drivers behind the wheel.

Wow, driverless actually means no driver here. But how does that work? What if it makes a mistake? Is there some fallback pilot somewhere that can take over and control it remotely?
If those fabs where still around probably profitability would be even lower and there wouldn't be so massive profits. Irony is that we haven't been paying some more, to keep slack in supply.
You mean, in a single duck...

I definitely agree with you about "both directions" - especially when those "supercomputers in our pockets" aren't really under our control.
Barring the repeal of Section 230 and some law declaring all social media platforms to be public property, it's true regardless of what the state of California says about shopping centers.
In theory, species should be going extinct all the time as the climate changes, from ecological changes, invasive species, new species forming, etc. The real question, is the rate of species going extinct increasing? (I believe the answer to that is yes). But the mere headline “species goes extinct” should make us react “yeah, that’s how evolution works”.
Learn about personalities and how to connect
You'd have to go work a retail job instead of fast food but McD's would still be on the hook for your original pay.
RIP. It was a great service and really well run.
They could just buy Vultr for that. I've been very happy there for 4 years.
Well, and free housing and food. Possibly clothes. And some modicum of entertainment. Then we don't need UBI.
What crowded indoor restrooms?
Gave that buy signal years ago since they released their S-1. [0] A train ride that is 500% up from the IPO price.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707306
Luc van Donkersgoed wrote a blog post about inconsistent AWS APIs just a week ago [1]. Funny coincidence.

[1]: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/how-aws-dumps-the-mental-...
It's almost my situation.
For 1039 Euro/y I can access all public transport in Lombardy, Italy.
Train is my 'office': warm heated place, bathroom, wi-fi, 220V for my old PC :)
that's one way to both increase and decrease the homeless population
Still only 84.6% of adults are fully vaccinated. [1]

[1] https://www.fhi.no/en/id/vaccines/coronavirus-immunisation-p...
Ask HN: What’s Wrong with Wired?
I remember in my youth being excited to read a new issue of WIRED and seeing what was up — recently though I’ve seen some comments here and elsewhere saying they’ve gone down the drain or are otherwise bad…

Are they no longer (or were never) what they once were? Or are they fine?
They most certainly have a profit motive, they're a for profit business. It's not their only motive, but it's their primary one, and all other decisions they make are judged against their impact on the bottom line, this decision included. They may take risks that they know could negatively impact that profit if (keyword, if) it goes south, but there is still a very clear consideration for cost and profit there.
Is a typical new car buyer currently driving a 15-year-old car?

You could say that's plausible. In a way it even makes sense, that people buy cars and then drive them for as long as they reasonably last. But if you had to, would you guess that this is how the market operates?
No, it's not. This is a fault that appears to be from removing DNSKEY and DNS records at the exact same time.

Let's Encrypt doesn't have anything to do with that even if somebody uses it. Slack uses DigiCert.
Tens of thousands of naturalists (e.g. birders) have been looking for evidence for decades. It's a pretty wide net, particularly with citizen science platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird.

As for whether it's possible, I would say yes. Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling can be used to see if a particular species is present even if you don't visually or audibly observe the species:

> eDNA is increasingly being used for biosurveillance, species occupancy studies, and the detection of endangered and invasive species, particularly in aquatic ecosystems [0]

There's a very recent paper that has demonstrated that animal DNA can be obtained from the air and used to identify animals present in a given space. [0]

> Clare set up vacuum pumps with filters in 20 locations in Hamerton Zoo Park and let each run for 30 minutes. [...] The team identified 17 species kept at the zoo and others living near and around it, such as hedgehogs and deer. Some zoo animal DNA was found nearly 300 meters from the animals' enclosures. She also detected airborne DNA likely from the meat of chicken, pig, cow, and horse fed to captive predators indoors. [1]

In the near future we'll probably see fairly widespread use of this kind of tech in the search for rare and evasive species.

[0] : https://peerj.com/articles/11030/

[1] : https://www.science.org/news/2021/07/dna-pulled-thin-air-ide...
I guarantee you that when the technology exists to bring back some of these species via cloning or genetic engineering, they will have some habitat restored once they are ready to re-introduce them. Otherwise it would be a complete waste of time and money.
People Are Scared of Using AI/ML Because It's Good at Chess
People are so worried about non-data scientists getting to the wrong insights with AI/ML that they forget people are already getting to the wrong decisions without it.

Then you see AI play Chess and Go and think "no way this applies to my day job." But I've seen heavyweight analysis in Excel just trying to identify a few key drivers that exactly map to what ML was supposed to do anyway, and it just feels like there is a marketing-reality disconnect to using these tools properly.
No, I played a fresh game. Latest version at the time (1.16.3 & 1.16.4).
Checked a wiki whilst playing so to make sure I wasn't missing major new stuff.

I can't agree that the additions have been "enormous". Not for 10 years. And if you've seen one mineshaft or stronghold or underwater temple, you've seen them all. No variation.

There's of course something to be said about staying true to the purity of the gameplay experience (like, say, DOTA2, but the depth and replayability there is in strategy, not content), but that feels like the wrong approach to a game that's in a large part about exploring like Minecraft.
> AI system can teach me to speak a human language as well as a native human speaker of that language could. Seems a long ways off.

And when such a system appears, you'll claim that it's still not AI --- just a fancy pattern matching trick --- and say that it's not real AI until some other arbitrary benchmark is met.

"AI" is just what machine learning can't quite do yet.

> collection of very sophisticated pattern matching algorithms

What do you think human brains are? Humans are Turing machines as well --- all physical computers are. We process inputs, match them against internal state, and generate outputs. You can't criticize AI on the grounds that it's "pattern matching": everything is pattern matching.

You can't look at the output of GPT-3 and tell me that it's some kind of dumb regular expression here. You just can't.

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
Would this actually ever make any sense? Not counting totalled vehicles. There really isn't so much profit in new cars price that it pays for used car fully. Unless that used car is really heavily used. Which then leads to questions of how much lifetime left the parts have.
I'd generally agree that prison by itself shouldn't mean the end of a person's ability to make a life for themselves.

As I said above, the problematic thing with Milken is his crime and his "paradigm" kind of walk around-in-around. Not that corporate raiding always leads to particular things that are against the law but that it overall leads to a broad situation of the already strong leveraging their strength to extract more from the weak as well as "leveraging the future", so-to speak. This approach does lead to a fundamental arrogance, which in turn leads to crossing various lines to make money as well. "The Milken Way" is kind of a combination of all this.
It makes no sense for a single taxpayer to look at how much will be owed over time to millions upon millions of other taxpayers, without taking into account that all of those taxpayers are also simultaneously paying and will be paying taxes.
My experience with both the web UI and the app is that they work so annoyingly slowly that it just frustrates me so it's awesome that it's possible to integrate it into HA and still have the functionality you're buying it for. I've only tried Protect stuff with HomeBridge but that was kind of disappointing and I couldn't get it to work properly because it wanted to re-encode the stream using ffmpeg for some arcane reason and that was not a great experience on a Pi. I'm a recent convert to Home Assistant but it's good to know for the future! :)
Great thing is, we probably won't know what that point is until we've past it.
Aren't you, in fact, the same Thomas Ptacek who has repeatedly claimed that DNSSEC is so irrelevant that events like this would go essentially unnoticed?

Edited to add, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400167

> DNSSEC is moribund and almost nobody uses it; in reality, the DNSSEC root private keys could land on Pastebin tomorrow and nothing would "break"

We have this whole thread here about a "service disruption" for Slack, and nobody leaked the "root private keys" just one person made a dumb error and it blew up their site.
As a general rule; please do not build your own blog engine.

Unless you're doing something simple, then fine.

Also, do build your own blog engine if you are also happy to manage META tags for Twitter, OpenGraph (Facebook) and general META tags for each post. Also if you are good with generating your own schema.org JSON for Search engines, manage your own taxonomies (tagging, categories, events, locations, authors), and also generating/updating sitemap.xml as needed.

One last point from above...

> Using a blog engine will probably make it tougher to get fast load times

No it won't. The blog engine is not the same as the front-end. You can modify the template, theme, or whatever as much as you like. You have full control here. Thats all on you.

> You can rank high on Google just by having good content and fast load times

Um, maybe - but not for anything that will matter. There is more to it than that.
And speaking from a Russian perspective, your assertion that anyone in the USSR viewed their officials as self-sacrificing and altruistic is quite frankly hilarious.
What an amazing comment; penetrating insight clearly communicated. Thanks for sharing.