skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By 2001 Linux had, for all intents and purposes, caught up with the commercial UNIXes.

No, I do not believe that is correct. That sounds like Penguinista revisionist history. Linux was quite usable yet still half-baked in 2001. In 2005, when IBM tried to switch everything over to Linux, there was a major revolt among AIX administrators that had numerous valid complaints, so even by 2005 Linux was not quite ready for prime time. By the end of 2008, the server install split was about 50/50 Linux/NetBSD. Everyone thinks Linux took over in 2008, but I think it was later, 2012. Linux was super popular without a reason to be. I still, today, do not see it as any better than NetBSD. Grassroots marketing by PC punks blanketing forum posts with nut bar verve made Linux popular, and not by its own merits. Linux is pop music.
Absolutely, I'm not sure that I sufficiently covered in the post on DLNA specifically that... a lot of DLNA implementations sucked. Windows Media Center had a pretty high level of polish, but it was sort of surprisingly limited in terms of features and the original, XP-era implementation was such that it felt awkwardly disconnected from the normal operating system (I think launching WMC caused the session host to start a whole new shell session?). Basically every other DLNA implementation was a mess in some way or another. I've owned around three devices with DLNA browsers/renderers over the years and all three have had serious stability or UX problems.

And this is all sort of beside the fact that Microsoft's incomplete implementation lead to Twonky and Plex as competitors, both of which had their own problems and sort of muddied the waters on the whole thing. The HP Home Servers shipped with WMC, Plex, and Twonky all running by default! You can imagine how confusing that could be to deal with.

It's hard to say why exactly this was, other than that I think Microsoft sort of heavily pushed DLNA support in embedded devices like HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players but there was no real quality enforcement, so a lot of vendors put in a token effort. The fact that the DLNA spec was relatively complex is presumably another reason, and lead to a lot of rework of the same ideas over the following years.
https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/

Very thoughtful design and execution.
It appears to be just reformatting the content of [0], except that it's fetching it from [1] instead. Bizarre.

[0] https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-vi...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211004045518/https://laconicml...
The Europe mostly missed the boat with the current era of web platforms. With enough regulation, maybe the result will be missing Web 3 as well.

I don't think so, though. France in particular, seems to have a lot of energy in its blockchain tech scene.
Mastrad silicone spatula. It's such a massive improvement over an old two-piece rubber spatula.
I have heard this argument before, but there is an easy work-around: low-income people can request an exemption and if they meet the requirements they will be exempt from the taxes.

Though honestly, at the end of the day, there are large corporations making huge profits whose workers commute to their office every day, and they should be the ones footing the bill.

I think of my local situation in Portland, Oregon, where many people in Vancouver Washington commute to portland every day and do not pay a DIME for the road infrastructure they clog up.
+1 for UPI.

However, UPI is not "open" in the true sense (you can't have an app running on linux or AOSP for instance). It's locked to certain apps, which apparently need license from GOI. The whole Indian banking system is also too reliant on SMS + TOTP.

That UPI locks people to US proprietary systems, while GOI also has been making noises on tech monopolies, is apparently an irony not apparent the babucracy.
> A vaccinated person can get infected, can get seriously ill, and can spread out to others more vulnerable.

I can get hit by a car when I walk down the street, but I've been doing it my entire life and I'm still here. I can die in a horrible plane crash when I fly, but I still do it. I can have a heart attack when I go to the gym, but it's still a net positive for my life.

Do you have a grasp on the actual risks involved here? You do realize that, even unvaccinated, unless you're elderly or obese or severely immunocompromised, the risk from this virus is measured in fractions of a percent, right? And if you've had even a single dose of an approved vaccine, you can take that number and divide it by 10?

At some point, you have to let the terror go.

> my understanding is that it does not confer individual invulnerability.

Who promised you invulnerability?
This story underscores how toothless our environmental regulations are. Rather than protect people from these kinds of developments (which shouldn’t even be allowed to happen), all they do is provide a never ending cycle of lawsuits for NIMBY groups posing as environmentally conscious entities to slow down development in wealthy areas so they can wait until there’s an agreeable payoff. Meanwhile, the poorer areas get developed without so much as a sniff from the government agencies as long as someone somewhere checked the correct boxes saying an environmental study was done (regardless of the study’s conclusions).

We need real environmental law reforms. The EPA should be abolished and rebuilt with an actual mission to protect the environment instead of their current regulatory regime which has been completely captured by industry and “environmental” groups.
Why this obsession with doing away with a central authority? What is so evil about a central bank? Decentralization is not cheap. I buy a pack of bread from a door-to-door bread and eggs salesman (Yes that's a thing in India). It costs INR 40 ($0.53). I pay him via UPI, he gets money instantly in his bank account with zero fees. He gets full INR 40 like I had paid him in cash. I don't think any decentralized system will be able to do that with zero fees.

It obviously costs money to banks to maintain the infra that makes UPI possible. It still costs nothing for end users to use UPI. You know why is that? Because the Reserve Bank of India has mandated that. A central authority that grants banking licenses and oversees all banks in the country. Banks have to factor in the cost of supporting UPI as a regular cost of business. Banks actually may be saving money by supporting UPI because they don't have to deal with cash. They need less branches and ATMs, less people to handle all the cash.

You remove the central authority, and it becomes anarchy.
Ask HN: Free software to scan website for malware with API?
Hello,
is there any good software i can run on ubuntu or centos to scan a website for malware that anyone knows about?
- one that is kept up-to date with latest malware.
- has an api/binary so i can sent it commands and get results ( via nodejs )
- flexible with settings

something like clamAV would be perfect if it could scan a website
Raptor supplies is the non usa equivalent but less usable
That image made me think about all those fancy 'thicc' mechanical keyboard on Youtube. My wrist hurt just seeing the video. Low profile keyboard FTW!
I really like reading through a post that can make people think. Also, many thanks for permitting me to comment!

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I’m looking for something specific to messy handwriting, the kind you find in notebooks and on post it notes.
> We considered 2 exposures of interest: 1) specific underlying medical conditions and 2) the number of conditions. We captured data on both exposures by using ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes from inpatient or outpatient hospital records in PHD-SR from January 2019 up to and including a patient’s first inpatient encounter for COVID-19. We used 1 encounter with an ICD-10-CM code to establish the presence of an underlying condition because few patients had multiple encounters in this hospital database. We excluded 3 ICD-10-CM codes (ie, oxygen support, dependence on a ventilator, and tracheostomy) listed during the patient’s COVID-19 encounter because they could be part of COVID-19 treatment.

...

> To further differentiate underlying conditions from acute complications of COVID-19, a panel of physicians (K.K.W., W.M.K., H.G.R., B.B., N.T.A., J.M.N.) classified the 314 CCSR categories into “likely underlying” (274 categories; eg, asthma); “indeterminate,” which could include underlying or acute complications or both (29 categories; eg, cardiac dysrhythmias); or “likely acute” (11 categories; eg, acute pulmonary embolism).

Am I reading this correctly that they are determining "likely underlying fear and anxiety disorder" from a single ICD-10 code that was likely generated at the time of admission for severe COVID-19? If that's correct, it seems rather flawed at determining if these people had an actual underlying anxiety condition or if the anxiety was due to severe COVID-19 symptoms(moderate to severe difficulty breathing, lack of sleep, lack of food/fluids and pain).

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm
I say this as a pretty leftist person: I also want free stuff. But I am an adult who understands that our roads, cars, and congestion cost money and it needs to be addressed.
Static type systems with global type inference haven't had this problem since the beginning (for example OCaml, right around the time Java came out). However, for some obscure reasons the shittier the technology, the more chances it has at becoming popular.

Try Elm as a simple example (can be done in a weekend), it'll probably blow your mind. You don't have to write type annotations at all, but the compiler complains at build time if the same function is called with two different types in two places.
> And, in those countries, investing in stocks is only for the upper class in general.

I'm not sure that is true at all. I mean, nowadays it's as hard to buy a position in crypto as it is to buy stocks from the, say, US stock market.
Haidt is a top psychologist, the book’s appendix is full of citations to quality psych research to back up his claims.

I don’t know how the authors of this paper are related to Haidt et al
Wow 60g would take me 20min on my cheap hand grinder.
Yes. And I would suggest that we shouldn't tax renters more than owner-occupiers. Renters are already poorer on average.
The Langstroth beehive.

The parts are cheap, interchangeable, work with the bees and are pretty obvious in the wet, the dark and to a beginner.
> What if I generated my own electricity from solar in say sunny Spain or Portugal.

I'm not sure about Portugal, but nowadays Spain is undergoing a really rough time with historically high energy prices due to its overreliance on gas as it's energy source.
Can also recommend apps like Flux which dim your screen near bedtime and prompt you to go to bed.
Yes, humans cooperate. But it's not a universal truth. Indifference is the default state of man's relation to man and it is man's prerogative to decide who should receive his consideration. With this in mind, it's better to say humans are contractual. They can cooperate when the incentives (or disincentives) align towards doing so. They can also ignore or attack each other when such incentives are ineffective or insufficient.
On the contrary, any reasonable Android device lets you disable far more tracking than iOS. On iOS, you cannot get your location without telling Apple or install an app without telling Apple. You cannot even use your phone without an Apple account. No such problem on Android.
This is a very useful list.

I recently found out that every FASTAG (highway toll payments) has its own VPA handle for convenient top-us.

https://www.npci.org.in/PDF/npci/netc/Bank-UPI-Handels.pdf
You can install any root you like as long as your device lets you. TVs are less likely to let you install your own root.
The way to close the gap is incompatible with the way we're all used to programming. Alternative computing architectures are required to get there.

Imagine a RISC CPU with a chunk of Static RAM, running slow (100 Mhz), and synchronously, with no need for any of the usual tweaks like cache, pipelines, branch prediction, etc. Such a CPU would be very small, and if you sized the RAM correctly, you could put all of it into a grid that would more than make up for the slow clock rate, and still be fairly low power.

In the end, though, I think we'll end up programming arrays of 4x4 bit look up tables that talk to their neighbors. But not directly, through a few layers of optimizing compilers. The advantage is that it could be fast, fault tolerant, and would all run in parallel. You could compute as fast as you could shovel data in one end, and out the other.
This sounds a lot like the 'catastrophizing' that depression often causes, which hurts people and puts them into downward cycles of depression.
It’s crazy how much Zelle has taken off in my area. Home contractors. My barber. My family.

Also the etiquette that’s emerged around using Zelle is funny too. If I’m paying someone new, they’ll normally have me send $1 as a test to make sure we all have the right contact info before sending the rest.
> The least tech-saavy amongst my family either get Chromebooks (which I despise because Google), or they get a Windows machine that I lock down pretty hard

Sounds reasonable, Installing alternate OS on Chromebooks is also an option[1]. This is especially useful since Chromebooks are often subsidized and portable laptops capable of running Linux (or even Windows) often cost at least 2x more.

Note: Alternate OS on Chromebooks doesn't guarantee bypassing hardware level data collection if any.

> I'd like to install PiHole

Add NETDATA[1] to the same device you're installing PiHole in and set up alerts on Netdata. This way you can get an notification when there's weird activity on the network(not just silent blocking), e.g. You'll see apps from your phone, tablet calling out their analytics mama during midnight to push out data.

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/

[2] https://learn.netdata.cloud/guides/monitor/pi-hole-raspberry...
Would love to see folks add things like where to get free/affordable:

contracts
billing software
legal advice

I know there's been some goodies posting mainly a couple/few years ago - so maybe those are still the way to go, don't know.
Thinking about getting back into this again myself.
VISA/MasterCard-based services suffer from US regulatory pressure, applying US norms across the planet. Non-US-based payments systems will instead have pressure from their respective countries. For instance they may care less about WikiLeaks pulling the pants down on US intelligence, but may be even more strict on porn.
Yes and its pervasive because people are willing to blame[/suggest] the victim [was at fault]

When much of this stuff is getting more sophisticated and identical to legitimate emails
I love that you mentioned pans. I have a set of Finex cast iron cookware and I can't imagine cooking on anything else. They're almost perfect.
India, a third world country has worked it out. Apart from UPI, we have other bank transfer mechanism that doesn't involve writing a check.
There's RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) for large payments. It's what we use when we buy property or do large business transactions.
There's NEFT (National Electronic Fund Transfer) for instant transfers upto INR 500K.
There's IMPS (The underlying mechanism of UPI) for instant transfers upto INR 100K.

Intra-bank transfers are always free and instant because bank is just changing numbers on two accounts in the same database.

It has been so easy to move money between banks in India that we don't even think about it.

A decentralized system like crypto which uses pointless proof-of-work to remove trust providing intermediaries are just too slow, expensive and overall inefficient by design. They won't work in real world.
Ask HN: What Discrete Maths books are there for CS grads in need of a refresher?
Basically title. I got rid of my copy of Rosen's book after undgergrad but am not keen on enduring it again. However, I'm also in need to reflect and refresh on the topics discussed therein. Thank you.
Yeah that confused me about the article. I've never heard of SEPA direct debit fraud, as my understanding is that SDD requires a notification to be sent before any debit is initiated to give time to the user to block it.

It surely can be an issue but I'm not familiar with people refusing to share their IBAN number because they're afraid of random charges, which is a thing for ACH numbers.
Swiftpoint Z mouse. Such a joy to use. Alas they aren't producing anymore.

Obsidian.md - such a joy to use it for keyboard-based notetaking.

Zulip - group chat that is not Slack and not Teams and the threads actually work for comms.

Supernote A5X - a tangible upgrade over the pen-and-paper notetaking.
> Well, no, its very different than having no LVT, and in a way which encourages, rather than discourages, wealth concentration; given the context in which it was suggested (specifically, in response to options for reducing wealth concentration being sought), that's a pretty salient difference.

Could you please explain that?

LVT doesn't make any difference to land use. But it does make land owning expensive. So you could suggest it as a way to reduce wealth concentration. I don't see the contradiction?

> A tax that makes certain uses generally economically impractical, as a heavy LVT would be, is effectively identical to a ban on those uses.

Huh? Eg a moderate tax on petrol stations would certainly lead to fewer petrol stations, wouldn't it? Things happen at the margins.
I used a beautiful wooden Japanese grinder, Hario, because I loved its simplicity. But, same as you, it takes forever. And sadly, I didn't even know it was taking longer than usual as I didn't have a baseline. Try one of these linked below. You can knock out 30g in about 20 to 30 seconds.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07ZNXQF4S
That's literally the study this thread is talking about. It's great that they did it -- it should have been done in early 2020, all over the world. We should have dozens of other studies just like it.

The fact that we don't is an indication of how hard it's been to pursue any sort of science in this area. Almost nobody funds it, you can't get it published if it doesn't fit the public health narrative, and even if you do, the the news media won't report on it, and it might just get censored on social media.
BitTorrent is 20 years old, IPFS only 6. So, might just come down to familiarity. Definitively many more people, even outside tech crowd, have heard of BitTorrent whereas IPFS is still mostly unknown.
I don't have this notification. I disabled iCloud backup when setting up phone first time.
> Microsoft has discovered that the "other platforms" are very important

Very important to be able to run applications, not to develop them. I spent a few years doing dotnet development on Linux and have had enough of it (so I'm moving away to JVM which looks more and more interesting as long-term research projects and some language improvements land). It is very much a second class citizen. They still want to force developers use Windows and their tooling.
Regular exercise makes it worse because of PEM [1], and graduated exercise therapy is contra indicated [4] because their ATP energy system doesn’t fully work [2]. You could cripple them by forcing progressive exercise dogmatically. Talk therapy is no longer recommended [2] and many antidepressants are not effective [3].

If you read the book Why Zebras Get Ulcers by Sapolski there’s this story about the African farmer who has his cow die, and can no longer farm or support his family after. Sapolski says in America you’d give antidepressants, in Africa you’d just chip in and buy a new cow.

No offense, and as respectfully as possible while getting the point across, but you’re being a dick to your friend. These people bounce between doctors for years [5] because there’s no FDA approved diagnostic test, with a hyper complex disease that’s literally debilitating to them do you really think you can drive by diagnose and they just missed completely obvious and first pass treatment options? Your comment is the “I could build it in a weekend” response to ShowHN.

Edit: note, I believe in somatic experiencing of symptoms, as described in the link to this threads article. For example there’s quite a few stories in the biography of Chairman Mao [6]of high status officials suffering “neurotic crises” and requiring bed bound recuperation, arguably because of the repressive environment they lived in. But ME/CF is completely different.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/healthcare-providers/clinical-car...

2. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)...

3. See dots in bottom left quadrant for Paxil/Zoloft/etc etc. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CureTogethers-page-on-ch...

4. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Graded_exercise_therapy quote: “ Graded exercise therapy (GET) is a form of physical therapy for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) where physical activity is gradually increased over time. It is a treatment that was offered to ME/CFS patients in the UK by the National Health Service (NHS) as specified in the NICE guidelines from 2007-2021, but the recommendation was removed by the 2021 NICE guidelines because of high rates of harm.”

5. https://www.omf.ngo/what-is-mecfs/ quote “ People with ME/CFS often go years before diagnosis, and 90% of sufferers have never been properly diagnosed.”

6. https://www.amazon.de/Mao-Biographie-Alexander-V-Pantsov/dp/...
I felt that Peter Jackson butchered Lord of The Rings.

There was no reason for all the changes he made and many of them were stupid and offensive such as dwarves being portrayed sort of like clowns.

There were many great things about Jackson’s LOTR but overall it was a real disappointment. The Hobbit was truly garbage.
So sorry to hear about your dad and your symptoms, that sounds very tough. I'm very glad to hear you're feeling closer to your "normal" self, I hope that continues.

Anxiety/stress/panic attacks are no joke. I think a lot of us in technical fields discount the "mind" - "it's a brain, it's just a meat computer" - and while I don't ascribe any supernatural aspect to it, the brain/mind can have really powerful impacts on the body.
There's no need for investors to get an ROI that's just over the inflation rate. Why would they want that? Because they want to get rich quick.

So let me rephrase it like this: do you like paying too much?
I think your response kind of shows that you aren’t grasping the pretty standard social construct that she likely got dissed by her friends by most socialized peoples metrics (within the confined context of the original papers scenario). The person you replied to laid it out as clearly as possible.
Also, by referring to emotional intelligence as pseudoscience, do you mean to dismiss it as a valid concept? Surely you realize some people are better in social situations than others.
The article misrepresents how direct debit works. Just having your bank details is absolutely not enough to initiate a transfer: the user must confirm it by issuing so called direct debit mandate. This mandate usually has a limit on the amount, and can be revoked at any time. Also, the business faces penalties for repeated failed transfers.
The reset is reasonable except the antialiasing line. Shame. It was discussed just a couple of days ago on HN.
You say that now, but just wait until you splash yourself clean with an Aeropress while sipping an espresso.
that looks really nice, might have to spin one up
You can achieve this in JS via `f([...a])` instead of `f(a)`.