skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Miracom did indeed have a hefty BBS SysOp discount. Less than half price for their modems, in limited quantity, though the application process was somewhat lengthy.

My first modem was a 300/300 acoustic coupler. Then later a 1200/75, and then a little later, a Hayes 1200/1200.
> The main problem is that most of the facts we are taught in school are all just things that were read in a book or told by an authority figure. We don’t come to them from scientific investigations.

I think it’s also a byproduct of having so much information persisted through generations. We want to “wow” students with the new, exciting information and end up skipping over or glossing over the “trivial” stuff that humans figured out a hundred or more years ago, treating it more like something to be memorized rather than discovered.

And if you don’t memorize it (out of inability, or distrust in authority, etc.) then the conclusions might seem unbelievable.

Imagine just seeing the last 10min of a movie, it would seem pretty confusing and unbelievable in many cases. But if you filmed the movie or edited it, it would probably seem pretty realistic and predictable.
Everytime news like this comes up, I'm more certain that if we ever find life outside our planet, it would take years to be announced
The only thing I'd add is "key industries" would be highly capitalized industries. Chip making is the largest scale, most highly capitalize industry in human history. Chip plants are the largest buildings in the world, suppliers for chip manufacturers are themselves large and highly capitalized.
KaiOS ( Firefox OS ) is the only one with some usage. 150M, around 3.3% usage. The other 96% are all iOS / Android.
The acquired podcast episode on TSMC gives some more insight into TSMC's interesting history. Highly recommended.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
This is really cool, I wonder if there are efforts to represent different data sources with townscaper houses.

i.e. Map data from your hometown
Yep, although there are people who would change the license or ignore it, and hope that no one notices.
This article is from 2011...how has ICE used this power since then?
> "obviously insecure will be treated with more caution"

What planet are you from and can I go there?

SecureString provides one layer in the "defence in depth". If someone accidentally logs it, then it won't leak. If it is used as a script parameter, then the prompt will use password input characters automatically.

Seriously, I want you to try this PowerShell snippet right now. (You can even run it on Linux too with pwsh v7, so no excuses!):

PARAM(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[securestring]$Secret
)

Write-Warning "Oops I didn't mean to log this: $Secret"

$Secret | ConvertTo-Json -Compress

$Secret | Export-Clixml 'accidental serialisation.xml'

Get-Content 'accidental serialisation.xml'

Run the the script and see what happens.

There's even low-level protection built-in, such zeroing out the memory when it is garbage collected (unlike normal strings).

Why is this a bad thing!?

Do you like secrets leaking everywhere unless everyone is always hyper vigilant? Or do you prefer to roll your own half-baked secret storage type that nothing else is compatible with?

PS: The page with that advice is based on an "archived" read-only repo with a bunch of open issues of people befuddled as to why this bad, BAD, BAD advice is being published there.
What does “operate” mean in this context? I’m generally curious why one should consider this comment to be anything other than low effort flame bait?
There's no conflict between evolution and Orthodoxy. I have medical researchers, physicists, psychologists, and other prominent scientist attending our church. Our planets was seeded with life and then God help a little bit so that it's not populated only by beasts.
Perhaps they seen lots of lying from their governments and the media mouthpieces and so have developed an ingrained disbelief of authority and the establishment and this pervades to all parts of life.

Just like how all the mainstream media attacked MLK and the government treated him like a domestic terrorist. Now we lionize him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973075
I'm glad they're careful not to oversell this finding, but it's a little discouraging how far we are from the phrase we want to hear:

"Mars has life"

"We've found past life on mars"

"Rover finds past life on mars"

"Rover finds hints of past life on mars"

"Rover detects hints of past life on mars"

"Rover detects carbon signature that hints of past life on mars"

"Rover detects carbon signature that may hint of past life on mars"
> Auditable in the sense that the code is there to read

Which code? Just your client code, or the code that miners and brokers and exchanges run on their servers, too? If the claim is the latter, how do you know that the published source code actually corresponds to the executables they're running?
And within tech circles, crypto is just a parodic extreme continuation of what we've been seeing for the past fifteen years ago- dumb money being thrown around at wild ideas by investors looking for crazy returns.
MDs are often less authoritative on public health matters than PhDs in biochemistry, virology, etc. But this is not a topic requiring publications on your CV. A medical resident can readily discern the damage done by misinformation on a popular radio program.
Isn't that more about iwarp, who are presumably still alive and running a business and paying bills?
Interestingly since you can't pass an allocator to an operator call, there is some extra guarantee around whether a hypothetical overloaded operator can allocate. If you implement it for a vector type which doesn't contain an allocator reference, then you're sure that any operators won't allocate.
An equivalent setup would be a Raspberry Pi. :-)

But an equivalently large-scale setup is probably a half-dozen racks in the basement.
I found it highly amusing how much people care about what other people think, as if the earth is really going to physically change its shape if some people believe it to be another. It's like believing the world is created by a god, or believing the universe isn't expanding, or believing there are finite amount of prime numbers. So what? These beliefs are descriptions, not ideals. They are believing in the earth is flat, not the earth should be flat (oh but I hope so much there's someone believing in the earth is round but we should flatten it). I personally prefer to live in a world where people have absurdly different beliefs on things that won't make a difference in everyday life.
I can't imagine this not happening; it's a certainty.
Or heck, just about Spain's Mondragon Corporation.
It's tricky. In my school system we ran experiments for the basics. Put balls and blocks down Inclines and dragged things over various surfaces and watched things swing for couple of semesters, then "figured out" and calculated results of experiments, until we got results we already knew we were looking for :-). I'm sure those experiments can be done in a fun and educational manner, I just haven't been privy to that. Maybe they come too late in North American system - they should've been done way way earlier in life. I was a total sucker for science but they fell flat even for me. For those who didn't have inherent interest they were even less engaging.

I do agree that accumulated knowledge through generations is a factor. There's so much of it and we are so far removed from its inception and wonder
"What is the bull case for $USD?"

Is Bitcoin a currency or an "investment"? (Here's a hint: you don't want a "bull case" for a currency.)
Big cartography!
True. Most arcades are enough clean. Most pachinko shops are dirty. Don't confuse them.
I used to be on the HR-XML standards committee which created XSD schemas for resumes (and other job-related data, like background checks). They seem to have morphed into the HR Open Standards Consortium:

https://www.hropenstandards.org

You must join (via email) in order to have access to the standards. Documentation for implementing the standards is via paid membership.

However, I have never seen a job site that will accept a conforming .XML file as an upload. They all want a .DOCX or .PDF, which they then proceed to mangle.

I can't explain why companies implement (bad) first-tier filtering via software, other than it's likely from their recruiters complaining to their bosses about all the spam and inappropriate candidates they get for openings.
I started reading the book and part of the thesis is that nothing was learned at the time and the industry is repeating similar mistakes.
Maybe "eras" nowadays aren't defined by anything real any more, but by buzzwords.
Tip is not included in the bill in Europe, I can tell it's not in Germany
But, but...Spiderman! And the Hulk!
"These people tend to be more suspicious, untrusting, eccentric, needing to feel special, with a tendency to regard the world as an inherently dangerous place," Hart said. "They are also more likely to detect meaningful patterns where they might not exist. People who are reluctant to believe in conspiracy theories tend to have the opposite qualities." - Joshua Hart [1] discussing their research [2] of 1,200 American adults.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180925075108.h...

[2] Joshua Hart, Molly Graether. Something’s Going on Here: Psychological Predictors of Belief in Conspiracy Theories. Journal of Individual Differences, 2018; DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000268
Lovelace's insight was understanding that it was possible to represent symbols using numbers (letters, notes of music) and that therefore a machine that could perform calculation could also perform computation [0].

That's something Babbage didn't anticipate (or at least, didn't express it publicly). Lovelace did.

Now this article, while true, will sadly get flagged any minute now.

EDIT: Wow, I had not seen the rest of the site and the alarming white suppremacist content.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&t=2189s
If you hate these relatives
why don’t you just… not go?
> However, the project placed very little emphasis on the development of boring-but-practical end-user software for the device, like educational games and tools, book reading tools, or course management software.

OTOH, I recall that media interest in the OLPC project helped pave the way for the earliest "netbook" class devices, which could readily accommodate these features, and in turn found plenty of use as educational tools in middle-income countries. (Though not in the poorest countries nor in the earliest grades of primary education; in either case, this would have called for rugged subnotebooks - much like the OLPC itself or, more to the point, the Toughbook series which was very costly on the market.)
> They wouldn't sell to poor Americans and relied on NGOs

They wouldn't sell to individuals generally (“poor Americans” weren't specially excluded), because their entire model (and the basis of their pricing) was direct bulk sales (or construction licenses) to public education entities (principally, national ministries of education), for use within public education curricula.
I think the Flat Earthers are really referring to the Masons Firmament which is the Masons way of suggesting they control everything.
>>I'm glad you don't incorrectly disagree with the fact that most of the arguments proffered against ACA

Just because I choose not to respond to all of our unhinged conspiracy laced non-sense claims that everything you disagree with is a dog whistle to racism does not in anyway imply I support said statements. '

I choose not argue with crazy people on the internet, and clearly President Trump broke your mind and I hope for your sake you get professional help.

>> since you believe and spread the same conspiracy theories,

Sorry information released from government records pursuant to a FOIA request is not "conspiracy", I am sure you so biased in favor of your lord and savior (Dr Fauci) that you probably have one of those candles or figurines on your desk devoted to him so you will never believe anything negative however reality does not require your faith.

He is mid rate bureaucrat thrust in the lime light by circumstance and this hero worship of him is insane.

Further at no point did Rand threaten him or his family. The attempt to shift any real or imaged danger there is due to public backlash is a very dangerous game, tell me do you apply the same standard to Democrats who inflame AntiFa and other violent groups? Are these democrat politics to blame for all the violence, riots, etc they "cause" (and to be clear I do not believe they cause it, but you world view dictates we place this violence at their feet, i am judging you by your own standard)

Somehow I bet you will be hypocritical
If you know you're going to rewrite the thing in a new language, then why push to include it in ruby now?
One example: Physics can sometimes involve pretty gnarly integrals. Some of the intuitiveness of physics comes from the fact that we study the cases where we can get a closed-form solution -- nice geometric shapes for example, where we can set up a nice mathematically described surface integral or whatever.

Unfortunately, engineers insist on designing devices which are neither perfect spheres nor perfectly flat planes (ridiculous!), and they might only have equations to describe how properties change in time or space. In this case, it can be easier to discretize the thing into a mesh, and use a matrix to describe how the physical phenomena at the points of that mesh relate to each other.
No, I just thought that as someone who is highly critical of TV shows and movies that even I found a few shows to be good. I was just surprised given the number of different genres that there was nothing whatsoever that was appealing to the person I was replying to.

I agree they don’t have much of a catalog, but they also don’t charge much and give the service away bundled with new devices. It’ll take some time to build up content. No big deal.
Your post is basically the logic behind OLPC, and many people share it. However, the logic features two weaknesses.

First, inspiration.

If you give three children $300 PCs, you may not inspire any of them. Give one lucky kid a Macbook Air, however, and they may feel so special at having something beautiful and unusual that it draws them into a lifetime of working with devices and technology. That kid may grow up to generate more utility for his community than the other three kids combined. Additionally, the presence of a Macbook Air may inspire other children or motivate the parents of those other children. Think of your first experience with the most important activities in your life. Often the first blush was a small encounter that sparked an inextinguishable passion (metaphorically). For a musician, it may be a particular concert. For a pilot, it may be a first passenger flight. For an engineer, it may be a first time dismantling an old radio. I suggest that the more nuanced that first experience, the more substantial its impact on the rest of your life.

Second, frustration.

A utility function that overvalues quantity over quality is obviously not workable. For every device costing $X we can imagine a device costing $X/k that could be purchased in greater quantity by a factor of k. However, at a certain level of cheapness, devices will frustrate users rather than empowering them.

My viewpoint is that the resource constraints are not as tight as they have been drawn to appear. Rather, it's a question of priorities. Governments prioritize other things. The US government spends >$700 billion annually on defense. People prioritize other things, too. Many engineers who live in, say, San Francisco (one of many tech hubs) go on vacation in the third world. They could buy a Mac or PC before every long vacation, tuck it into their suitcase, and spend a day finding a poor family that seems deserving. That act would most likely change one or several lives for the better while costing a small fraction of the giver's annual salary.

The resources exist, but we pretend that they cannot be apportioned for certain things while over-apportioning them to other things.

I'm a firm believer that when we want to help someone, we have to help them in light of their needs and potential, rather than our own. Children are typically easier to help than adults, because they readily accept assistance as a matter of necessity, and they are less aware of the possibilities of gaming a system designed to help them. The number one challenge to affecting a child's life positively is not their buy-in, it's our own. We have to commit to helping individuals fully and meaningfully, rather than diluting the help down so much that the likelihood of lasting impact diminishes.
The Jews[1], apparently. Somehow when you follow any conspiracy theory for long enough you find antisemitism at the root of it.

1. Flat Earth Conference, All Gas No Breaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H110vCGvTmM
For example gold can be used to make jewellery etc. USD can be used to pay taxes. Shares might yield a dividend. Any physical object could have some use. Crypto has nothing.

The 'market' is not the be all and end all!

I suppose that as crypto maintains a record of transactions, and in so far as we can tie crypto wallets to real individuals, it might be possible to unwind all the transactions and pay reparations to the victims.
I'm curious if we do if we do find evidence for life on another planet would we explain it away with non-biological theoretical phenomenon before realizing its significance?
Thanks for sharing, i think how you handled it was quite compassionate. if i ever run into this situation, i have a playbook.
Yes there are 10^157 possibilities but I suspect it's not a factorial process to solve it - let's pick a random page, we compare it with the 99 others and find the one that follows it and the one that precedes it (198 tests) - now we have a chunk of 3 lets do the same again (194 tests) now we have a chunk of 5 (190 tests)

The result is more like 2*(99+98+97+....+1) tests which is ~10,000 tests something a person can do in a real amount of time - nothing like a 10^157 age of the universe sort of thing.

(of course there are going to be some pages that might have multiple potential subsequent pages - sentences that scan and make sense - so as there's more of a puzzle in there)
I think the author of the post is on to something. It isn't that he's saying flat earthers have evidence or are saying something reasonable. He's saying that the Western education system teaches people to memorize facts such as the roundness of the Earth without teaching process methodology to derive the roundness of the Earth.

Anyone who begins to question some of the facts they have been indoctrinated to memorize: (1) will not have a methodology for coming to a conclusion, past "hypothesis" and anecdote (2) will not have peers and close contacts who are able to refute the hypothesis, outside just insisting on the fact themselves, which itself isn't credible or scientific.

One claim that the author makes is that this is a flaw in Western education systems. It would seem to me that Western education varies significantly. And I am not familiar enough with other types of education to know what alternatives are working better in different cultural contexts.
> How can you look at the log chart and think BTC is “going to zero”?

Because eventually it will be worthless. Your return on investment is entirely predicated by how much demand there is for Bitcoin; currently it's pretty high, correlating with media attention and whatnot. This is just about the highest demand we'll see for it though, the future of all crypto obviously hinges on practical applications, which venture capitalists with unlimited resources have struggled to define.

HODL what you please, but I'd really like to hear the logic behind how people think that Bitcoin can survive an inevitable crash.
There are basic income schemes (such as Andrew Yang's Freedom Dividend proposal) where UBI also involves slashing existing programs.

> I suspect California will try UBI anyways and fail spectacularly. It will be a canary in the coal mine.

We've already discussed Richmond, CA before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420296
Not uncommon to find plain old ordinary antisemitism at the root of these conspiracies.
"...the former are legitimately strange and I can't fathom how they come to exist"

I've come to believe that 10+% of any given population is insane (i.e. the fringe). I find it true almost regardless of what defines the group: professionals, academics, regular folks, ...
Show HN: Demodal – A browser extension that blocks modals and overlays
I still buy game discs because I like having a collection of boxed games.

In recent years I’ve grown to prefer cable tv over streaming because I can turn my brain off and pick whatever is on.
I feel that there's a lot of focus on markdown lately. Markdown is good. No issue there. But I feel we need to go back to html editing, so the modern day note taking apps can make more inroads into common usage.
Putting that money into buying up surplus commercial systems and shipping them out to disadvantaged places could have been much, much better in terms of results. It wouldn't have been near as sexy a subject for feelgood reporting.
This comes from way before SE 11. I was using it in 7. The doc says it comes from 6. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver...
I consider dealing with that as my karmic punishment for copy/pasting code off the internet!
I'd find the key claim here to be more persuasive if it wasn’t embedded in a two page misogynistic screed.

If anyone would like to post a less emotional argument that attempts to make the case that Lovelace's contributions to the history of computing are overblown, I'd love to read it. But written in this way it’s hard to take at face value.
Yeah but in my mind columnar stores and graph stores are NoSQL databases. Because they're not relational.

But the term has shifted underneath me. NoSQL means document database.

And - in practice - it means using a document database as the primary store when it's not really the right choice (been there!)
Well, they wouldn't return the phone calls of at least one public education entity. I'm still a tad bit peeved at them and Google's Chromebook offer. At least Chromebooks were obtainable later on.
I agree. That being said, functional programming has almost no benefits in a language like Python, since it well execute more-or-less equally as fast as an imperatively written or OO-based program.
Undersea cable damage wipes out Tongan internet access (2019)
Don't forget the heaping tablespoon of surveillance.
Ha, anybody who thinks memorization is a Western thing hasn't experienced Indian schools.

Isn't Flat Earthism an American phenomenon? If so, the school system wouldn't explain why Europe doesn't have it.
I don't think any of those are affordable to someone working at a bit above minimum wage in a country that's "really really really poor" (in the OP's words).

Literally any other country in the world makes more sense from a cost/credential perspective. US universities are a crazy bubble market.
You would have to look for evidence of life in the first place if you wanted to find it. None of the rovers we have on Mars right now have the right instruments to do so. Exomars' Rosalnd Franklin will be the first.