skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few other highlights I'd like to draw attention to.

Russia developed a Wang 2200 VP work-alike, called the Iskra-226. I say "work-alike" in that apparently it only modeled the Wang BASIC-2 syntax, but was a completely in-house development from scratch. The compatibility was simply so they could take advantage of existing Wang BASIC programs. The machine support Cyrillic characters in addition to the standard Wang character set, and added a number of syntax extensions. This page talks about it, and has scans of some manuals (in Russian) for it:

http://wang2200.org/iskra-226.html

In the early 80s, the team which had just created BASIC-II (a large advance over the original Wang BASIC dialect) created a system that could run both COBOL and Basic-3 applications (though any one "partition" could run only BASIC or COBOL). BASIC-3 added long variable names, named subroutines with their own variable scope, DBMS commands built into the language, and more.

Wang produced brochures for this new product and had started beta testing when it got crushed. The Wang VP team felt the 2200 was going to "confuse" the market because this new product would encroach on the low end Wang VS products. One of the engineers saved one of those beta (though not final beta) disks. So far no manual has turned up, but through playing around I discovered some of the features. I haven't yet figured out how to set up a partition to run COBOL, though. If anybody cares to dig further than I have, I'll happily share my notes on it (not published on the web page)

http://wang2200.org/wang_basic.html#WangBASIC3

After Wang was folded into Getronics, a company named Faastcom was started in Quebec to keep the 2200 alive using modern technology.

http://wang2200.org/fasstcom.html

Finally, here is a collection of surprising side effects and outright bugs that I've found (and some that others have shared) in the interpreter. Most of them are for the first generation Wang BASIC, which was in ROM and thus bugs lived forever; BASIC-II was loaded from disk, so bugs were usually quickly removed.

http://wang2200.org/stupid_tricks.html
The low cost airlines do, even long-haul international. I know it was definitely for-fee on Condor when I flew them from Germany-West Coast USA a few weeks ago (~10h flight).
I don't know you can keep blaming Hollywood.

I've been watching english subtitled shows for decades. Before high speed internet was affordable, people were sharing fan subbed anime. Dudes at university would show up with their RAIDs with multiple seasons worth of anime. Back then we still measured RAM in megabytes.

Things have only gotten easier to watch.
Doing away with leap seconds does not solve the problem. It only transforms it into a different problem. It's addressing the same problem that February 29th speaks to. You can do away with leap seconds, and you can do away with February 29th. But doing so with change the fact that the length of a year is not a while number of days, nor will it change the fact that the length of the year is non-stationary.
It's another case of where "security" means keeping your computer secure from you. And the password stealer argument is just stupid: by the time EAC kicks in, your password is already stolen.
Thanks to OP for kicking off the discussion, and to all for the passion on this topic. The feedback has been clear that we need to do a better job of identifying the regions available for our trial offerings. To that end, we have made a change to the Azure portal for our trial users which will now take you directly to the regions that have availability for free tier images.

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We appreciate the interest in Azure, and hope that folks will continue to give our offerings a trial. And if anyone experience issues at any stage of their journey with Azure we would welcome the opportunity to connect to learn how we can help.
It's not like the timer is counting down and the game ends when the timer runs out. The timer is going up. There's no pressure, you can ignore it (or even write a script that hides it client side).
Finally heading back to the office tomorrow; tired of this officeless sand
Unless that group is marketers, apparently.
> borealocentrism

Guilty as charged. Thinking of that - there could be no more Russian winter as we used to it at all, even in the Northern hemisphere. My friends are now growing apricots in the Russian temperate zone. Apricots! - in the place there the “Baptismal Frosts” (to happen each year just before Christmas) used to kill all such fancy vegetation.

#climateasitwasbeforechangecentrism
For affordable housing? As a foreigner? I somehow doubt it.
Howl's Moving Castle really falls apart at the end, and it's a shame.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky are the most similar in feeling to Princess Mononoke. High fantasy, adventure, against all odds. (This is my favorite batch of Ghibli / Miyazaki / Takahata films.)

Spirited Away is an otherworldly coming of age treasure that cannot be missed. Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service feel similar. Whisper of the Heart is this too, just aimed a little older. (And if you like that, check out Your Name by Shinkai or Wolf Children by Hosoda - not Ghibli films, but very deserving of a watch if you like this sort of film.)

Grave of the Fireflies is a very poignant anti-war film.

FWIW, I bought the old Miramax domain name for Princess Mononoke and kept the website online [1]. It's one of my favorite films. I wish Miyazaki made more films like Mononoke and Nausicaa - they're sublime.

[1] http://princess-mononoke.com
I'm doubtful that whatever increase they're seeing isn't simply due to broad legalization and destigmatization combined with pandemic restrictions. Alcohol and opiod use has also risen in the last few years. Ascribing mental illness to weed use rather than the opposite also strikes me as optimistic. Does anyone have a link to the studies they're referencing?
> ... the solution is simply to use International Atomic Time (TAI) internally, and convert it to UTC when you want to display information to a user.

From a software development perspective this seems monstrously more complex than just muddling along with the current situation even with leap seconds.

First, consider the question of "what do unix timestamps mean?" The answer is UTC, except just be broken during the second where there's an extra leap second added or removed, and don't try to represent it. They neither represent TAI nor UTC perfectly, and have no way to encode a leap second, but they are very space efficient to store needing only 8 bytes.

Now, we want to start converting our systems over to TAI, great! To do that we need a format to efficiently store a unix time in a binary representation. For this exercise let's use Jan 1, 1970, and so when we call it we get a value today that's equal to unix time plus 37 (the current offset between TAI & UTC). Awesome, now we need a new function to call it in every single language we use, and then migrate all callsites over to it. Try not to miss any places where someone's passing unix time as an int64 instead of, say, a time_t. If you call into libraries that return timestamps make sure you shim them so that you can convert those timestamps from UTC to TAI.

Now, we have the problem of how to store those int64s. We can't store them in place of our current timestamps, they'll be 37 seconds off. So let's add a field to all databases where timestamps are stored to store the TAI version. Additionally, every RPC is going to need to send along both TAI & UTC during the migration process, so change those too. We can't just ignore cases where we need an integer representation of time, either - those have historically been the places where systems break during leap second changes.

I hope this gets to a little bit of why it would be extremely non-trivial to use TAI in place of UTC right now. If you're storing your time as, say, a string representation with a time zone built in you're right, it's actually generally not that bad, and time zone information is frequently encoded in the string. It's _extremely_ difficult to deal with once you move to a representation of time where the timezone isn't directly encoded in a timestamp.
Thanks, I skimmed the wiki and it sounded like they could only be added.
Should be marked 2018. Even though the article is (oddly!) not dated, at the end of the article a correction is dated July 22, 2018
Our family used to manufacture soap. But then the megacorps came and you know the small guys get killed. So around the time my switch happened, we switched to distribution and retail of hardware (related to water, not electronics). Basically 1 shop, then 3, my brothers still manage those including a workforce of 20-30 people (could be more, I do not dig into those unless I visit their office) of various profiles - sales, manual labor, back office.

Edited to add: So I have seen manufacture of soap, retail of soap, home-delivery of soap (not sure why but we used to do that for some areas), sourcing and distribution of water related hardware, and even done financial book-keeping for our business ... this was before computers, and was based on decent handwriting, decent arithmetic, and able to follow the directions (be able to transfer totals from one page to another with decent attention to details without messing it all up), and just be able to sit down and do the work. But that was in a different millennia :)
Much of the food tastes better (and much of it tastes exactly the same).

It's really nice to have lettuce all the time, and I like being able to pick cherry tomatoes for a snack.
How do i automate going to status update meetings?
Now, if they had called it a shitless horse, that would have been something people wanted...
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I would thought even more useful is assign powers of two to each colour/band (1, 2, 4, 8...) so that you know which bands were in and out of play, in case you went to more of them and wanted to extract more complicated data.
I was scared off from using Nebula when they claimed to secure my data privacy by using a blockchain.
> Someone should fork the NTP protocol to use TAI instead, and go from there (or at least provide tai offset).

There's a draft of the next version of the NTP protocol (NTPv5) at https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-mlichvar-ntp-ntpv5-04.... which not only has the option of working in TAI, but also has explicit support for "leap second smearing". It also has a field to explicitly provide the TAI offset.
Ha, thanks, however I do not think I know enough about GNS to be able to do a good writeup on it. I tried figuring GNS out few months ago (in an attempt to use Handshake for the bootstrapping root zone), but had trouble running their tooling and promptly gave up, and that's where the research stopped.

However there are a lot of great people on their mailing list which I'd say probably qualify a lot hetter than me.

I do plan to play around with soon however, and would probably make a public writeup, I'll send a link if I do :)
I’m still hung up on the NOx. From what I can tell this doesn’t come from atmospheric nitrogen. It’s from nitrogen in the fuel. I’m not sure if this can be controlled or reduced in the synthetic fuel.
That's really neat: https://github.com/mbafford/textract-cli/blob/master/textrac... - my tool had to involve an S3 bucket too just because Textract won't let you upload a PDF directly to it without storing it in S3 first.
This seems to disagree with you:

>Oddly, languages either have the exact same ordering as English, or the exact opposite as English. And, nouns in various languages fall in some designated position between the string of adjectives -- in English it's at the end, in Romance languages it's somewhere in the middle, such that most adjectives follow the noun, but certain adjectives precede

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/997
That's actually a lot less then I thought. For some reason I thought Ocean: very vast, and a great patch within that? Must be millions of tons at least. But 80000 tons sounds like a fixable amount if we truly invested.
There is no mention of terrorism on that list, but I think that is a safety related improvement that largely goes unnoticed. Yes, the TSA is generally mismanaged security theater, but overall security is so much better than it was 50 years ago. I don't think people realise how common hijacking where in the late 60s and early 70s. There was literally a hijacking every week or two. Now they are incredibly rare. There hasn't been a major one in the us in the 20+ years since 9/11.
I think the biggest reason it's scary is a statistics literacy problem: everyone has lots of mutations, and a mutation is much more likely to be bad than good. This means that when people look at a Prometheus report and see a long list of deleterious mutations they tend to take it, overall, as bad news: so much red! But since that's what you would expect to see even before looking at the report it shouldn't move your opinion either way.
Perhaps not everything needs to "scale".
Right but you don’t need Hollywood as much any more. Lots of streaming companies original content isn’t “Hollywood” in the traditional sense. Not to mention all the other ways of consuming entertainment nowadays… Hollywood doesn’t really have the power to gatekeep any more (outside of maybe the Oscars, but that’s a tempest in a tea pot.)
No, it does give you the sequence… what it doesn’t give you is the context. The WGS data we’re talking about here only give you two 150bp fragments. You know these fragments are 100-300bp away from each other, but that’s it.

There are other techniques for getting more of the context, but that’s not the WGS we are talking about here.

It’s like copying pages from a book, but without page numbers. And some pages might be copied more than once. Or not at all (Poisson statistics FTW!). You can get fragments of stories, and can probably get the gist of the plot. But this might not give you an exact copy of the full book, in the right order.

To keep going with the analogy — what you’re asking for (telomeres and centromeres) would be the equivalent of placing every “this page left intentionally blank” page in the right place. Even though, they are all quite similar. You will be able to “copy” (sequence) each of these pages, but putting them in the right order is still difficult.
So in the earlier days of the drift scene, a lot of cars ran small, stretched tires to allow the car to slide easier. Smaller tyre has less grip, and the stretch stiffens the sidewall. When you've got a relatively low powered car this helped a lot.
These days a lot of drift drivers opt for more traditional tire sizing with the aim of getting more grip - as cars get faster and entry speeds into corners also get faster, you want more grip to sustain better angle.

The 'stance' look that you see with people stretching tyres is kind of a throwback to those early days, with a bit more of a focus on form over function. Personally it isn't my thing.
There's already been ransomware written in java and go. This doesn't help anything in that respect.
I've heard this so much about _Grave of the Fireflies_ that I'm afraid to watch it - what if it doesn't affect me the way it does everyone else? Would that mean there's something wrong with me? Is it some kind of cinematic Voight-Kampff?
Also a thing in Denmark where’s it’s “Maccen”. They use it in commercials too.

“Den Gyldne Måge or “The Golden Seagull” is another common, but older, name here.
Rockets ... looks like rockets, except in the case I correctly referred to. Thank you.
I mentioned it specifically because I write software for hobby devices that poll at 20hz that use literally the same Bosch sensors as apple. The use case is for gliding variometers (audio altimeters)

The sensor that is in the Apple Watch draws significantly less than 1ma when polled at 20 hz. Without an EE degree I have my devices, including the 90s era processor and piezo speaker, running for 100+ hours on a 150mah button cell.

I cite this example because I KNOW what is possible. This is a pure software issue.

I suspect that apple rate limits because the raw sensor data is quite noisy, and would look glitchy in a badly designed app. But there is a lot of signal in that noise that I want access to. Instead people in the gliding hobby spend hundreds to buy devices that have the same sensor package as an iPhone 6, but are able to access the sensors in a way that are useful.
>You are employing a series of straw man fallacies.

>Socrates died in 399BC., so it certainly can not be Socrates arguing.

So not just wrong, but also a comedian. Dinner and a show!
Well, if you want Ghibli's best movie ... Grave of the Fireflies to my mind is easily one of the best movies ever made, let alone Ghili's best. I've seen it at least 3 times because I'm a glutton for punishment that way.
Nope. Eating healthy fats and protein is am absolute requirement for long term health. However you don't need to eat carbs at all. The body produces the little you need.
Or a gene drive that accomplishes the same thing, enslaving all of humanity within a few generations.
Eh for awhile my Apple TV was starting to seem like the asymptotic limit of how easy it could be to watch what I wanted at the price of subsidizing a bunch of empty suits in Hollywood.

Then at some point everyone with an IP catalog started launching a streaming service and at the rate it’s going I might re-learn how piracy works because I value my own time enough to be pretty much over trying to figure out if my show du jour is on Disney Plus or Viacom Prime.
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Awesome work! I would recommend showing a comparison table of the cost of some of your competitors and your product. I use customer.io for a side project and it's crazy expensive (I think like $150 a month), so it would (a) help showcase what products you're an alternative to and (b) show how much better priced you are. And to be honest, I don't need all their fancy features - just the ones you provide so this is great!

Random question, I noticed you are using Next for your site as well as your blog. What headless CMS are you using if any or is it just some markdown in a file?

Edit: the only downside I just remembered is that I would have to fire off separate events just for Plunk, since right now everything runs through Segment. Would be dope if you could integrate with them!
Yeah, I imagine if you're going to use a truck like this, it's for (relatively) slow hauling of stuff around a private property where there's low risk of hitting something. I wouldn't trust this in a collision with another vehicle even at low speed.
Is this new in Japan or has it always been the way?
I'm not saying it isn't right, I'm just pointing out the inherent bias. Infrastructure in the US is woefully lacking.
It seems like what i imagine a cython poc looked like, plus html?
Synthetic vanillin is fine for baked/heated goods because the differentiators present in actual vanilla extract are overwhelmingly volatile compounds that evaporate in the first few minutes of baking. By the time you pull the goods out of the oven, the result is nearly chemically indistinguishable. This is why many no-bake custard recipes specify that the vanilla should be added only as one of the last few steps, after all heating is completed.
It should probably have whichever text is most accurate to whatever actually happened or is happening.

So if they did/do actually ask only the male actors, it should probably say that. If they're asked only based on the characteristics of their facial hair, it could say that.
Wouldn't want people cheating in our highly competitive virtual hangout video game.

At least it still works on Linux.
I think you want to limit the number of 'profiles' that you send unlimited emails to. It lets your income grow in line with your customer's ability to pay and limits your liability.
About people justifying/supporting his actions to defend their own interests? I don't think it really matters, unless you're realistically expecting Russia's population to revolt.
based on the comments from alzforum, the relevant academics do not see this as 16 years of research in the wrong direction. they seem to see it as an invalidation of one branch of the research, while the overarching theory is still intact

the cynic in me suspects that they're saying that to maintain their - presumably funded - status quo, but not being even remotely knowledgeable in the subject, I have no idea whether that is well-founded
> “Modified clients” are a large problem for VRChat in a variety of ways. Malicious modified clients allow users to attack and harass others, causing a huge amount of moderation issues.

Imagine if non-game companies were this open about their servers being exploitable
TLDR: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I couldn't make it through the entire article.
"And growth in an economy is normal and expected and good, not unsustainable"

So far, we have not seen economic growth without proportional growth in material inputs, including energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dematerialization_(economics)

"We know, for sure, that housing can both be a good investment and affordable because it worked that way for a long time."

You are referring to a period (the 20th century) that saw tremendous urbanization due to one-time advances in technology. Those will not be repeated. For details, see "Rise and Fall of American Growth" (Gordon).
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Yes, that’s how China sees it. Other countries see the creation of artificial islands and reefs via dredging and landfill as a pretext to restrict navigation in the South China Sea. It’s complicated, hence sort-kinda.
Yeah, from my experience driving bumper cars, they seem to be front wheel drive and have a near 180 degree turning radius. You go in reverse by turning really far.
> I have built a 30 kWp PV at home 2 years ago - you would think this is quite big, for a private plant. It is not enough. If I want to power a heat pump (with drilled holes), e.g. to cover the heating for the house from November - February, I calculated I would need about 70 to 80 kWp (optimized for winter sun angle, e.g. pretty steep modules at 60° or 70° that relatively produce less in summer, but more in winter).

Have you considered a thermal battery? A cubic meter or ten of NaOH solution can store a surprising amount of energy, and can be charged during summer/spring/autumn with simple solar modules consisting of black pipes in glass.

Even if you only store half the energy needed for some of December and January, it halves the needed size of modules.

Hydrogen electrolysis is also shockingly cheap, if there were some safe, small scale storage this issue would be solved.
A car-centric 15-minute city is actually quite possible. Something like Urbana-Champaign could well qualify. It's basically a stretch of suburbia centered around a university, which ends up being inherently pretty walkable to boot too.
Pdf is downloadable here: https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366...

The full-text html shows a summary and requires a payment for the full text: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
I wouldn't be comfortable sharing code I wrote for a previous employer because I treat that as confidential. I'd be happy to show my personal code with the understanding that it tends to be improvisational and done a bit more casually than production code. But along the way I'm sure I'd show enthusiasm discussing the architecture of my personal projects as well as my home infrastructure: everything running on VMs, control panels, private git server, Jenkins, and everything deployed to containers.
Vala, Vale, Vely, and others?
I loved Pom Poko, was such an interesting take on so many things.