skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Do I give them the ability to do online purchases?

> - Do I allow them to use up all of their money even as a mistake, or do I set up a limit?

IMHO you should not allow online purchases until a certain age, I would say until 10 years old or so, before that they should ask you for something and you pay for them (if the request is reasonable and anyway if they deserve that).

Starting from 5 or 6 years old you will need to teach them about money (its uses, its risks, how it costs time and sweat to have it), which is something extremely difficult in these times of "immaterial" money, in the old times it was easier, with "real" money kids had their own piggy bank that had its own weight that could be felt, when you opened it there was the ritual to count the coins (and possibly a few notes) and see if it was enough to buy the whatever was desired, a 5/6 years old kid will have difficulties in understanding what the balance of an online account is (that those numbers represent actual money).

When you will be able to allow them to directly make their own purchases (again after some training with you) you should let them spend what they want to spend within a given total budget, i.e. refill a rechargeable card to (say) 100 dollars and give them access to it. (i.e. they should be free to spend the whole 100 dollars on a single, stupid item or buy 5 items 10 dollars each and keep the remaining 50 in the balance, without any intervention by you).

At a given fixed interval (let's say monthly) you credit (still say) 50 dollars more to the card, plus you may credit some more dollars for merit/prizes (if they behaved good, had an exceptional good vote at school, etc.).

This way they will (should) learn that money is a finite amount and that - while one is free to use as he/she wishes - it doesn't come out of thin air.

The problem might be with gifts from relatives, in my times (I was a kid many years ago) I had some uncles that often slipped a note to me (without telling anything to my parents, it was our little secret), now the kid would probably have to "declare" this extra income to you in order to be able to spend it online (and I doubt - but I may be wrong - that modern uncles will recharge the card online directly).
Everyone into synths came to the comments to all say the same thing :)
Storing and Analyzing a Genome on a Blockchain
While this is pretty nice the title is incorrect (as others mentioned because of the sprite images).
I think in DL applications the sigmoid threshold functions can suppress the noise.
Always worth the read.

But what hit me was that Athens' most famous battle was also famous for literally being 26 miles from Athens. The reach of most armies was ... not far

Also, There must be a lot of poo.
I still like IEEEs Computer and ACMs Communications, but they aren’t market oriented at all. OTOH, print publications aren’t agile enough to do product reviews, as the shelf life of a magazine far exceeds most product runs.
The product of tech companies is the tech itself. For oil, the tech is a means and can be imported. Drilling oil is technically complicated but you can hire foreign companies to do the hard work, just like most African nations. Russia relies heavily on foreign companies to drill oil.

https://zeihan.com/the-end-of-russian-oil/
I made a lot of money from nothing back in the day, buying cheap servers from Softlayer and the like (physicals, virtual wasn't a thing) on a monthly rental, purchasing cPanel licenses and selling shared hosting services. Primarily to Americans, the polar opposite of my time zone.

The big money maker was having Frontpage Extensions enabled on the web server - anyone serious wanted it, and few people provided it. I also wrote my own (awful PHP3 based) payment integrations, allowing automated billing. Quite often, the business ran itself.
I've been trying out Remotion to make videos in React and my mind is blown. Utilizing CSS (filters,translations,blend-modes e.t.c) has made me more proficient than I ever was in After Effects
That is the point of the article indeed. Think about the book and come up with your own ideas, then write those down and put them into the context of your other ideas.

(I read almost exclusively programming/product/art related non-fiction).

I am someone who “thinks while writing”. Taking notes while reading a book (I usually write into the book margins) allows me to clarify what I think the author is saying, start bringing in some of my ideas and juxtapose them, reformulate some important points. It is the opposite of taking away from the book reading experience: it makes it oh so more vivid. This also applies to articles on the web and my twitter stream.

Seeing how fallible my memory is, I envy people who can recall what they were thinking even just yesterday when reading a complex piece of literature, let alone retrace the complex arguments I make to myself (and the reified author) when reading.
The issue with lighting is that the springs used to ensure proper contact are on the phone side. USB-C wisely put them on the cable side. This means it’s a bit harder to insert but when the springs become loose you just need a new cable rather than get your phone repaired.
There is hydrogen in it!
I was talking about Google Maps on iOS. There are countless instances where it will refuse to work without a connection; there's even a modal pop-up to scold you for not having a connection, rather than trigger a dedicated mode like other Google apps. You can't lock in a destination and have the routing work consistently until you are there. The journey will disappear at some point without a warning. You can't find it back without an active connection. Simply having the option to lock a journey and only delete it when expressly told so would be a major improvement.

Sure you can download local maps. but that just saves some bandwidth. Neither Search nor Routing works offline. Without Routing, the app loses most of its uses. Not having Search wouldn't be a problem if you could pick a location on a map and ask: what's there? or even flag it––but you can't. You have to find the name otherwise and search for that, often zooming ridiculously close to get the location you are interested in to appear.
I do know at least a couple that have had severe reactions, especially skin conditions and issues with their eye muscles of all things. Of course there are risks taking vaccines, but they're minor compared to the risks of what covid can do to you. The vaccine reactions are very rarely persistent beyond 6 months or so. I know at least a few people who are still struggling with what covid did to their bodies over 12 months ago with little indication it will improve with time.
Why Quantity Should Be Your Priority (Redux)
List at https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/sys_p2p:
- Anonymous Messenger
- Bitmessage
- Briar
- Echo
- Jami
- Katzenpost
- Mesh-Chat
- Retroshare
- Ricochet Refresh
- Scuttlebutt
- Silence
- SimpleX
- TinfoilChat (TFC)
- Tox
- Vuvuzela
actually.... FORTH...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
I’m not sure that notetaking is a weird productivity hack. If anything, this is about taking notes that will enrich your thinking and intellectual output, rather than just mindlessly highlighting or jotting down passages of a book. Writers have been using notes, marginalia, post-its, diaries, written correspondence for a while now.
Neither it mentions the extensive slave trade with North Africa and Arabia, only the gold trade.

Also telling that my criticism in that regard was immediately downvoted.
Burn out. Teaching is a job that is never "done", and expectations from management and parents are constantly set higher and higher. Especially around IT. I lost count of the number of times I asked for help from management and got told "but you are so good at computers".

Tried the startup thing, my product crashed and burned, work for a charity now.
> Without specific goals in mind obsessive self-documentation is just a massive level of busy-work that doesn't actually contribute to your skills or happiness.

I don't think this is true. Taking notes like this is shown to help with the ideas and knowledge you retain after having read the book (surprisingly: if you take the notes by hand it is better than if you type them somewhere).

I often take notes while I read books or attend meetings without ever having the intention of using them for anything. It helps me memorize the important bits of the thing I spent some time of my life on. And then it can simmer within me, mix with some other books, movies, music, experiences and come out as an really new idea. And then potentially I could go back to the notes (I rarely do) if there is something I was not sure about.
My issue with this idea of self promoting to stand out (as the article suggests), is that imagine if everybody did it, including all the creators you are competing against for attention. Overall effort increases, but the signal to noise ratio stays the same.

I think an occasional HN post or a tweet is fine, you need to at least introduce your project to the community. But encouraging anything past that first introduction feels like it could lead to a culture of spamming
This is the second time I've read on HN about a company reaching out to someone to offer to buy a domain name, offering an unreasonably-low (disingenuous) offer, and then using that exchange as evidence that the domain owner is attempting to extort the company.

Moral of the story: Don't entertain offers to sell unless that was your real intention all along.
I hacked up a simple forth-like system in golang, by following the overview posted in this hackernews comment-chain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082825

The result is here:

https://github.com/skx/foth

It's not real, but it was a pretty fun experiment regardless.
Although I agree with the sentiment here, I must admit that I have recently started to write small notes in a flat text file. 3-4 lines for each book. Just enough that I can refresh my memory that it was this book that had the interesting ideas about that, for the day when I want to reread it.
Sorry, my b.s. meter rang out here.

Here, on the page 9 of this dissertation, we have a newspaper from before the revolution that describes the area as "cages" for women, most of whom are "caught in mental and/or familial issues and crisis", "some of whom never see daylight". The older ones, who apparently could leave, ended up "becoming child caretakers for younger prostitutes". In the middle of this "women's space", there was an open air "garbage dump", and "mattresses were made from the cotton of discarded sanitary napkins".

So yeah, a "prison" "concretely" belongs to the inmates.

https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk//799/1/Sadaf_Tab...
That was the link I posted in my comment!
By taking a more world-view of language security, having multiple syscall entrances to similar resources makes for harder security to maintain.

Letting macro and script languages having direct access to system resource is also a recipe for multiple and ongoing security disasters.

But here we are.
My opinion: children don't need access to the internet, period. There are plenty of ways to let them explore, learn, and play, without giving them any access to the internet. I plan to host an entirely off-line copy of Wikipedia, a bunch of other resources, video games, programming tutorials and libraries. Basically a whole bunch of content that will let them learn about computers and the world, without having access to the internet. The internet is not what is used to be, and the cons severely outweigh any possible pros, especially since the pros can be achieved in other ways.
Me too! Awesome, thanks!
Yes, that’s really where it gets funny.

In k8s, if I remember well, the default retry policy for failures will involve incremental back offs, which means if your transient error lasts 20 min your next retry might be in a few hours. It’s fine if your system is ok with that, otherwise jobs will need to “succeed” even when they fail, and so handle errors as gracefully as possible.

Same actually for the user input one: you need to tell your user it’s a recoverable error and not just throw a random “oopsy” message, which means at least some handling of the error to come clean at the end of the tunnel.

My take is, errors are complicated. It’s nice when a script can just die at the first error and not care about how or what happens from there, but that’s such a niche case.
Utterly. I'm disappointed that what would otherwise be practical advice has this overly specific implementation mentioned. It's as if you could not possibly think properly if you did not use zettelkasten. Feels like being in love with the idea of productivity and meaning rather than actually doing it.

It makes total sense however that taking notes without synthesis is somewhat pointless. These are things you probably won't read again. The catch is I think many do both without really thinking about it in the form of commentary in notes.
Text interfaces are still quite common in mainframes. If the vendor is IBM, the screenshot is probably a 5270 terminal running a RPG (or COBOL) application.
In fact, these kind of systems are still so popular in the financial industry that there are libraries to wrap a modern GUI on top of existing terminal-based applications.
It doesn't look like it's a library. It's a service you run. They also provide SDKs for app integration but that's not the same as being a library.
Error 500 for me. Looks like it's having trouble.
Google came pre-sold out, given that the existed to sell ads.
I very much agree with this. Sometimes it's good to stop and think about what is lost when automating a task instead of doing it manually.
Was the presentation taken down or does it not work on mobile?

Getting 500 error on embedded site & link.
Only if track circuits are used in the first place. Modern installation tend to prefer axle counters, and even with track circuits some designs use only one rail for the track circuit and therefore wouldn't be able to detect breaks in the other rail.
Sounds like they were doing a background/credit check which is pretty standard for apartment(?) rental agrements.

The only question I have is: did they ask you for permission or notify that they were going to do so?
Resources to learn Docker/containerization of an monolithic web-application
Hey :)

I developed a software which is a plain simple monolithic web application. Pretty basic: ASP.NET with angular and SQL Server as a database. Currently I use one windows server for each customer. I do this to make sure, that no software bug accidently shows data of customer A to customer B (privacy is the most important priority).

I am considering containerizing the application. From what I have heard, the handling and updating of the software is easier.

Do you know of any good resources to learn more about this topic? I am still missing the conceptual basics.

I appreciate any help you can give me! Regards!
It might seem odd, but have to agree, in terms of lack of "evangelism" on the part of Object Pascal users and developers. I think this is partially because of the long "language wars" involving C/C++/C#, and continual propaganda claims by competitors that it is "dead" for the last 20 years, many might prefer to quietly indulge their preferences.
Delphi/Embarcadero does attempt to push the needle some, but of course its more for their own benefit, and arguably not as much for the language in general.

There is also the perception of what languages are favored for jobs (though freelance and independent work seems overlooked), despite that Object Pascal/Delphi is still doing quite well in the rankings (and for many years). Often floating between TIOBE's 10 to 15 rankings, and among or ahead of many notables like Go, Rust, Lua, Kotlin, D, Nim, etc... Who nobody in their right mind would claim are "dead".

One could argue that Nim had its shot, as its no spring chicken. Nim is older than Go, and has been around since 2008. So if it was going to get "the push", would think that would have already have happened.

V (vlang.io), on the other hand, comes across as a special case. Is still relatively young, so could possibly at some point make a run towards heading up the charts. It's in a sweet spot between being both a C and Go alternative, and has taken the approach of studying other languages to make itself more appealing, useful, and practical. Perhaps the sport's term, when describing a prospect, is that it has a "high ceiling" or high potential is the most appropriate.
> Given the strategic importance of submarine stealth, Gower asks, “Why would any country want to detect and track submarines? It’s only something you’d do if you want to make a nuclear-armed power nervous.”

The US had the capability to detect and track Soviet subs in large swaths of the oceans for decades using SOSUS and other sensor networks.

https://dosits.org/people-and-sound/history-of-underwater-ac...

During that time, the US did not exercise their ability to wipe out the Soviet Union. Would the Soviet Union or Putin have pursued the same course of action if they had such an advantage?

This is why it is important to keep a technological edge over authoritarian governments. Such governments are not morally equivalent to democracies. They have radically different goals, and radically different value systems.

SOSUS was eventually betrayed by the Walker spy ring, and the Soviets ended up making much quieter subs.

Putin now has a new submarine that can launch nuclear powered torpedos from hundreds of miles away. These torpedos have 100Mt warheads. I sure hope we can track this thing and neutralize it, because there is no balistic missile launch to detect and counter.
When they are described like that, they are ridiculous. That description of what to do lacks the context of why you might want to take notes at all. The OP put it best with, "Your zettelkasten should be made up of your ideas about the authors ideas."

It took me a couple of years of "doing it wrong", researching some more, and practicing the act of notetaking to understand why some people are such strong advocates of zettelkasten. Thinking and writing down one's own thoughts to reflect on later is far more useful than recording the thoughts of others.
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See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32123781 as a great example of procrastination disguised as productivity
Well, relatively modern of course (2000 v. 1981 for SS7 :-)
There are many more ewww type meats that we culturally accept, like crustaceans. I mean, they're sea insects basically. I enjoy a good prawn yet I'm repulsed by the idea of eating a scorpion. I am aware it's just a cultural artifact and not DNA driven disgust.

On the other hand herbivores and ruminants are the type of meat humans find the most delicious, and horse is one of them. Carnivores or omnivores I seem to understand they don't taste as good, and here's my justification for never considering cats, dogs, bears, etc., as possible food unless my life depends on it.
Cool, but what most people want is run x86_64 Windows on Apple Silicon.
We hugged this one real tight.
Bayes Rules – An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling (2021)
bundle show gem-name
bundle open gem-name

Fix the last one
They are kids.

Kids should be able to have their room door closed but that room is a save space.

The internet is not a save place it's like walking in an huge anyounmous city

You should not let your kids walk alone in a huge city until certain knowledge is learned.

Unfortunately the internet provides even more hurdles than a huge city.

I personally would even create a list of things I would teach my kids over a period of month and years. From grooming, pedophiles, scams, password management, spyware etc.
You said companies would be secretive and uncooperative without patents. I was replying to that.

We live in very different times.
If project is really broken then I would agree with it
(Author here) Yes, "release notes" is probably the appropriate term. The issue remains however: many projects generate their release notes from their git commit messages.

Regarding the conflicts issue, this is where tools like Changie can help: instead of modifying one single file, every merge adds its own separated entry. They are then assembled together at release time with `changie batch $VERSION` to produce a single file for $VERSION, then merged into the global changelog/release notes file with `changie merge`.
What is more interesting is whether we can identify cases where clear civilisational collapse was arrested or reversed by change of strategy by the leadership of that civilisation. Perhaps Komnenian restoration in 11th century Byzantium or maybe Tang dynasty China
Drilling Russian oil still involves maintaining and supporting whole cities in Siberian tundra.

Not rocket science (though Russia also does it), but not your average mafia-driven business either.
Generally, yes.

The area where I saw analog computers that made sense is in CCTV cameras. Installing an analog board into a camera to identify shapes is cheaper to be done on camera vs sending all video for processing.

Think manufacturing QA, retail foot traffic, or similar applications.
Arizona has a plan to pump water from Kansas to Colorado
> elaborate ploy to steal my identity

Unless you think the idea is that are going to clone you, pod people style. Nobody can steal your identity, what they seek to do is defraud a bank or credit institution, you aren't really involved besides them incidentally using your name to do so. I wouldn't worry about it unless you get a bill or have something wrong on your credit report.
Makes the trend to on orbit “servicing” of satellites seem much more sinister.
Why don't people go back to self hosted on a cheap rented instance?
I am pretty sure recent versions .NET (especially .NET Core) are fully containerisable. For this very specific technology, this is the start:

https://docs.docker.com/samples/dotnetcore/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/docker/build-co...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/quickstart-asp...

Be sure you really know what your are doing and understand basic security and containers concepts; there are tons of write ups and articles with the basics.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/docker/tutoria...

Regarding security, I made a blog post years ago on a technology agnostic approach to Docker image security. It seems to be still up to date.

https://sysdogs.com/articles/how-to-secure-container-image
Except, perhaps:

Opening paragraph of article [1] linked below (full version is worth a read - sort of redefines the concept of dedication):

>For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils.

[1] https://lithub.com/a-chinese-borges-wrote-millions-of-words-...
From what I've understood, Apple Silicon Macs can't function at all with "nothing on them", the same flash memory is shared between the pre-boot environment and the OS and data. There's no separate firmware flash memory.
Designing Is Easy, Implementation Is Hard