skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VS was more of a successor to the 2200 than a competitor. The 2200 was mostly a single-user system with a ROM-based (later, firmware-based) OS that simply ran a BASIC interpreter. Later versions (e.g., 2200 MVP) supported limited multi-terminal, multi-user capability, but it was essentially multiple independent BASIC interpreters, one per user.

The VS came out a few years later and was an IBM 370-like machine in a minicomputer form factor. It supported 370-like assembly language and several compiled languages including COBOL, RPG-II, and BASIC. The BASIC was quite a bit different and considerably evolved compared to 2200 BASIC.
True, and yet computer files can be containers as well.
As long as property values increase faster than the desert tax, this might not work
What 60% trap is that? The linked page looks very suspicious and doesn't offer much information.
Stinos - you rock. This rings true for me and is very helpful! Thank you.

Going to keep this handy.

I've had a gripe with fragmented learning and memorization approaches. They just don't work for me long term. Many methods rely on silly imagery to make something memorable.

I do think visualization is key, but using it as a part of deep understanding rings true on a deeper level. Rather than using visualization for a false scaffolding, the way you are using it, the imagery becomes a true working model and seems much faster for the intuition to work with rather than translating the pieces to reconstruct meaning, the meaning is inherent in the image.

Thank you again. This is a gift.
Ultimately, marketers market themselves. They may be good at it or bad at it, but at the end of the day, if they're dishonest about it, they can be successful also.
To reiterate: impeccably timed fix steals the headlines. Not the greatest deduction for anyone who has been following the industry.
Botching a prod update -- that happens to the best of us. And sorry to say I doubt Rogers would attract the best of us but I digress. But only kind of digress.

When the human waste hits the circular cooler device, that's when we find out how well an organization is built and managed.

Who is surprised here it took them this long to recover? The necessary no-blame culture, temporary removal of decision barriers, all-hands-on-deck to get back to normal, all the things the lucky of us take for granted are guaranteed to be missing here.
(maybe) the intended link:

https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/us-disrupts-north-korean-hacke...
The point of the quote — “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” — is that until the motorcar existed most people would not have been able to imagine it. This ad does nothing to contradict that.
Absolutely, and for the "full" FMVSS this makes sense - the stakes are high and the rules are a byzantine mess in a lot of areas (for example, making sure specific warning lights aren't obscured at each possible angle of a telescoping and tilting steering column).

But, for LSV the requirements are so simple that this is much easier, though.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/tp-500-02.pdf

The rules for an LSV are pretty much "has lights, a DOT windshield, and seat belts, isn't overweight, and doesn't go more than 25."

I would think that if a US importer could partner with one of these Chinese OEMs, they could make decent money selling one of these cheap LSVs.
Aerc – Terminal Email Client
Sounds lovely to me. I sure do wish I lived in a high trust society surrounded by people culturally compatible. Alas, as an American, diversity is both our strength and our weakness. Good on the Dutch though, current and historical struggles notwithstanding.
In the worst case, you would get 2 leap seconds per year. So in the worst case, 1800 years.

However, in the past 50 years, we've only had 27. So at the current rate, probably more like 6667 years to be off by an hour.

Of course, if the earth's rotation changed speed by so much that 2 leap seconds per year wasn't enough, we'd find a way to cram more in. In fact, in that case, the case for leap seconds would probably get stronger.
The chip-scale atomic clocks were developed to support precise timekeeping for small devices that can’t communicate. One example is undersea sensor networks, where you want to leave the sensors in place for a year or more, and when you return you can correlate the readings from the sensors because you know they were all ticking at the same rate the whole time.
> The local government in France told people to shut down Wifi

What does this mean, shut down wifi? (Oh I looked it up...unplug your router when on holiday [1])

Simple big-picture recession framework: 1) Lay out your concerns for self and others 2) Rank them by fear level, re-rank by probability x fear level 3) Create a basic check-in structure with calendared items, to shore up any issues that seem likely and risky or dangerous to your wellbeing 4) Repeat.

Anti-framework: 1) Don't express your concerns for self or others 2) Wait for conversations to turn dark before you express anything at all 3) Scare everybody incl. yourself 4) Repeat

1. https://www.thelocal.fr/20220720/lower-the-air-con-cut-the-w...
I've designed a lot of street furniture for companies like Cemusa, Jcd, etc.

Even nice fancy stainless steel things that are built better to withstand a city are very inexpensive when ordered in quantity from overseas. A good example is a shipping container. They cost about $2k to manufacture in China.

So, yes, I think a trash can should cost less to manufacture than a shipping container.

Source:
https://www.quora.com/How-much-cost-to-make-a-new-shipping-c...
> carbon fiber reinforced concrete

Obligatory mention of Basalt rebar as well.
That may be the case for some people, but that is likely a gross over-generalization.

Also, do you really care about what other people want you to do?
> A fleet of space telescopes research teams could interact with through an API without much cost and zero approval, would for sure advance science by a lot.

100 % someone would point at the sun by accident and burn all the sensors within six months if access is unrestricted and the api is powerful.

In any case easy access to data will mostly result in data lying idle on disks somewhere because people are busy doing something more interesting. Analysing data is many months of work, and you don't get more months just because there is more data.
Ask HN: Tools to block web and phone work disruptions?
Can we switch this to the original publisher? I assume it was republished without consent.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-a-codin...
true, but for the pro-nuclear folk who are frustrated by the “fear factor”, it’s a really important point.
> Their greatest existential threat [against Russia] is a united europe.

No, it's Putin. He's an existential threat to the people in Russia.

Whilst NATO is not and he knows it. (Except for replying if Putin starts firing nukes.)

> if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars

That's not how people think. "Let's attack Ukraine because Napoleon ..."

I doubt you seriously believe in those things yourself, and the other things you wrote.
I’ve done something similar before (asking for “your company legal counsel’s contact info”), to which I also indicated that any further time of mine taken up by this matter (resolving their fuck ups) would be charged to the company at a rate of $75/hr with a 5 hr minimum, calculated by the minute.
It's much more like the process for standardizing tech specs than the "lItErAlLy WrItTeN iN bLoOd" that people like to claim.

A lot the specific requirements were proactively created because it's easier for everyone if we all just agree that a particular widget will have certain specs because then the engineers and manufactures can behave accordingly without thinking about it and managing it or there were a couple competing "not quite standard" ways of doing something and they just kinda picked the better looking one.
0BSD is the license for that if you do not even care that attribution is provided. 0BSD code even ships with Android, so it is safish to assume other large companies would approve it too.
Our university do something like that plus each year accepting their record enrollment number of freshmen. Yet with inflation and very low payment for graduate students, they refuse any payment raise because they cannot afford that.
Which one of my examples is treating the pet improperly?
Same reason people keep using cat or dd, just habit and millions of old docs google has enshrined telling them to.
Web: hosts file

Phone: Faraday pouch

(Personally I don't work this way anymore but that's where I'd start if focused on those aspects)
Very cool! I suggest adding a daily puzzle with a share result (day number and how long it took to solve) like all the games in the wordleverse do. My spouse and I would enjoy doing one daily and sending our results to each other.
Using BUFFERS for Postgres query optimization
> And sorry to say I doubt Rogers would attract the best of us but I digress

"The typical Rogers Communications Systems Administrator salary is $67,329" (https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Rogers-Communications-System...)

"The average system administrator salary in Canada is $71,981 per year or $36.91 per hour. Entry-level positions start at $61,425 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $94,400 per year." (https://ca.talent.com/salary?job=system+administrator)
Congrats on launching!

I'd suggest rethinking "5 automated flows with unlimited emails" on the free plan.
Sending a few emails is very cheap, but sending a lot of email is not.
Inevitably somebody will sign up for the free plan and send far more email than you expect. It will either end up costing you money, impacting the experience for your other users, or both.

You can always offer higher limits on paid plans.
Measuring the fine as % of revenue doesn't make much sense here. If they got $x in RDOF funding from the census block that they defaulted on, and they got fined $3x, that's a substantial penalty in relation to how much money they got in the first place. Getting a $100 parking ticket (for not paying for parking) isn't affect a bay area software engineer much (as measured by % of income), but it's still going to heavily disincentivize not paying for parking.
Yes precisely to your point of pro-West and isolationist factions that are splitting up the leadership. It does seem that from Xi's travels that he clearly feels secure enough to meet foreign leaders and leave beijing unattended.

Jiang Zemin's people are throwing everything they got to hold on to essentially unlimited power and wealth. We can see that they also have their fans in the West who have benefited from this system setup by Deng.

It's unlikely that Xi will compromise, I can see that he was able to hide his ambition very well, enough to fool other CCP princelings that tried to wrestle away control. ie) bo xilai
Thanks, I've fixed the mistake s/exon/intron/.
I doubt any of the IT infrastructure in Canada is build by the “best of us”. And it shows, banking, healthcare, telecom, they are all stuck somewhere in the 90s.
From the readme:
> Although this project is intended as satire, we take openness and inclusivity very seriously. To that end we have adopted the following code of conduct.
Good point, thought not as far as my father's computer use is concerned!
It really isn't too bad if you have the right use case. You could get a Kei truck which makes a lot more power and you can register, but you'll be paying a good bit more ($9k for a 1990 with a dump bed near me) and you'll have the fun of maintaining a 30 year old JDM vehicle.
Show HN: CodeStruct – Python programming environment for novices after Scratch
CodeStruct is a structured editor that includes:

→ a context-aware toolbox of explorable tutorials

→ allows point-and-click + char-by-char code insertions

→ automatically handles syntax

→ provides immediate feedback + suggestions while coding

→ provides visual aids: holes + scope

We also evaluated CodeStruct in an 11-session study with 26 high school students. Some of the results:

→ Transitioning to CodeStruct reduced syntax errors (4.35x) and help requests (4.63x) when compared to transitioning directly to Python.

→ Interestingly, learners that used CodeStruct performed equally well after the scaffolds were removed.

Learn more here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3501712.3529733
$7k gets you a really nice compact pickup, not anything the average HNer would buy, but nice enough for farm duty and new enough to not need anything for years. And you can drive it down the street. And when you snap something doing farmer stuff (which you will, because farmer) you can go buy a replacement part easily.
- All sections must be connected into a single, contiguous network.
- The whole network is contained in the grid, and no pipes may run outside the grid.
- Bulb-shaped pipes with a single connection are terminations (dead-ends).
> it was about 2:3 scale

Lol it's normal size for the rest of the world.
Yes, this. My father worked for Wang through the 1970s and he thought it was a huge mistake that An Wang handed over the company to his son Fred, instead of to a company veteran like J.F. Cunningham, who left around the time it became clear that Fred would be An Wang's successor.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-20-fi-6028-s...
This is a good point, but this is advertising not marketing.

From the OP: It's a constant pain point that even in this thread people are conflating marketing with advertising
I ordered an electric bicycle from Aliexpress... after a couple of months it still had not shipped... so I canceled the order and luckily got a refund... he got lucky with his vehicle.
My bad, yeah, that one. Using Materialistic on Android and I guess the "copy link" choice in the "share" menu associated with a comment doesn't actually copy the comment link, despite the clipboard contents saying "Comment by [user] - [url]". Never noticed that before, so I'll submit an issue/fix if I can, and if I can't then I'll be more careful next time, thanks!
very possibly, but I think possibly not too. if the government instituted huge grants for the arts and media - something they may have to do to sell this radical idea - the effect could be the opposite

obviously in a democracy those grants are always at the whim of the day's government

if we assume that doesn't happen, it would certainly screw over the little guy
Note FDA rules require them to retain the data for a few years.
While everyone complains about Google, the secondary data market is far worse and remains largely in the shadows.
The launch is already a minor fraction of the total price, making a small bit of the price smaller obviously doesn't solve anything.
Watch Chaplin's The Great Dictator and it's really amazing when you realize it came out in 1940 and was created in the late 30's, right when Hitler was seizing power and starting WW2. Chaplin was a genius and realized the most powerful way to hurt Hitler was to make him look like a fool and mock him. Its monologue is an equally unforgettable scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20
Even stainless steel throughout objects can and do rust.

Here is a pretty good article on what goes on when the passivation layer is compromised:

https://www.alliagesunifies.com/blog/does-stainless-steel-ru...

So this isn't about 'objects coated with stainless steel' it is about objects made entirely from stainless steel. Have a look at what a typical all through stainless steel terminal on an ocean going ship looks like after a couple of years. Especially when they are made from lower grades of stainless (such as for instance 304) vs better ones. Not all stainless is made equal when it comes to corrosion resistance.
Perhaps when you add the arrow, the editor must open the drop down menu, and after selecting the function add the parenthesis.
my first 5x5 try was 0:58. I was actually very surprised when it came together as it felt like i was just randomly fitting pipes to their nearest neighbors.
In the US you'd have to buy a bunch and put them through destructive crash tests to certify them, and I doubt these would pass - those smart cars actually have expensive high end steel structures built in that make them surprisingly resilient, and I doubt they do that in China.

If they had 3 wheels you could skip a lot of that and count it as a motorcycle. Also, anything older than 25 years basically just bypasses the rules which means a lot of 90's Kei cars from Japan are starting to make their way in, but obviously those are combustion powered (still cool though).

There is the concept of Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, but I don't believe they are allowed in my state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle

Who knows, maybe there's a business opportunity to import these things and certify them - I'd be a buyer.
Chipotle courts the gullible with a crypto game
That's a fine point. You can buy one separately for ~1-5k.

I kinda wish there could be a solar panel mount so nobody would accidentally run over it with a truck.
You're right either everyone who has studied supply/demand/pricing and is informed about the topic is a shill.

Or they all don't believe it's the investors because they're right and that's what the data says.
Without passing judgement on the value of the approach, I'd caution against taking to much away from those method, considering the sample bias of the forum here. I can't help but think the relevant distinction between leading paths of easing your kids into computers with a bash shell vs. hanging them an iPad and a Chromebook might have more to do with the manner and knowledge of the person they turn to when they have questions. The OP's kid asked "what does install mean?" Does it really matter whether he was trying to install htop, ncdu, Zoom, Roblox, or TikTok? Or does it matter more the positive affect of the OP's response and the deep well of knowledge and understanding that he could pull from in formulating an answer? A busy mostly tech-illiterate parent may interpret that question as a "how" question and simply respond, "go to the app store - that's the blue button with the weird 'A' - open it and type R O B L O X. Let me know if you still can't get it." that's not the answer to the question and offers no opportunity for follow on questions, but if you don't really know yourself, you can't really answer.
Is this true? I can almost imagine one puzzle that can create two different spanning trees. Maybe I ought to draw it up to verify.

Spanning trees may be required but not sufficient for a unique solution.
Definitely hasn't been ruled out. Researchers have hypothesized that the amyloid plaques are a protective mechanism; unfortunately, we still don't know why they form.

One hot area of research is currently focused on herpesviruses such as HSV1. Here [1] is a paper summarizing some of that research.

The thing about viruses is that they are weird things with unexpected behaviours. For example, we are still learning about Epstein-Barr (EBV, which is another type of herpesvirus); only this year did researchers come to suspect that EBV could be responsible for MS.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234998/
I was thinking that the config file was edited in vi with no program to check the config file.
Assuming they live in the US there is a 0% chance that passed DOT crash tests and thus won't be street legal in the US.
Then that's an annoying ambiguity in the word sequencing.

If sequencing is the technique, then it's true that you can sequence anywhere in the DNA, but the technique will not always be able to give you the actual DNA sequence, in particular for centromeres or telomeres.

If sequencing meant "find out the DNA sequence", which is what people are actually buying, then it is just false that you can "sequence" anywhere in the chromosomes.
What we really need is are manufacturers providing kits. Kit cars aren't subject to all these regulations. I think the cap is 2000 model units per year though.
Do you need to be a contractor with an hourly rate to get away with charging companies for time wasted of yours?
A friend has one of his jobs with a telecom company. Everything there is political. He bets that the day the outage happened, as many devs as possible would have tried to call in sick as that is what happens at his firm (Telus/Bell).

I would have. I call in sick during prod failures at one of my gov jobs.

In jobs with no real rewards for excellence but decent job security, a crisis is a reason to get out the door.
One feedback I have is that it seems like emails are just getting less and less read. They don't even make it to the main inbox for gmail users. I don't know how to reach people other than just hitting them up on Twitter but this is also tough since most people don't use Twitter actively.

I'm worried because if it gets tougher to reach people via email (you sure as hell not going to do it via cold calls), you are really left at the mercy of giant ad networks. Also if people are spending less now, its going to become even more costly as the number of people waiting to put their ads in front of you is always going to be there.

Just overall concerned about the state of the economy
> contrast that to the dueling German anthem in the film, which is a rather explicitly anti-French anthem

Yes, OTOH it seems to have a mere passive, defensive spirit: “a guardian of the river” – “the watch on the Rhine” – “protects the sacred border of the land” – “remain”,[1] written afraid of annexation:

“Repeated French efforts to annex the Left Bank of the Rhine began with the devastating wars of King Louis XIV. French forces carried out massive scorched earth campaigns in the German south-west. This policy was fully implemented during the Napoleonic Wars with the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806–1813. In the two centuries from the Thirty Years' War to the final defeat of Napoleon I, the German inhabitants of lands by the Rhine suffered from repeated French invasions.

The defeat and exile of Napoleon gave the Germans some respite, but during the Rhine Crisis of 1840, French prime minister Adolphe Thiers advanced the claim that the Upper and Middle Rhine River should serve as his country's "natural eastern border". The member states of the German Confederation feared that France was resuming her annexationist designs.”[2]

Maybe itʼs even meant as a signal of dishonesty that it is sung by soldiers whose army didnʼt watch at the Rhine but occupied France brutally? Anyway, I donʼt intend to praise the Wacht am Rhein, itʼs certainly not great poetry, rather a rattling and clattering from the dustbin of history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein#Lyrics
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein#Origin
Once again, there is no evidence that a balanced vegan diet is inferior at any stage of growth or age.
Pretty hilarious how negative the original article comments are, and it turned out after a year of use the author has nothing but positive things to say: https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h...

I think there's a large education gap surround EVs that needs to be filled. Hopefully more articles and experiments like this continue to appear. If you have an EV, consider spreading the word - good and bad. It's important to talk about all aspects to both bring more users into the EV fold, and address existing issues.
Horrible! Why doesn't Canada have Comcast or any US ISP?