skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is so depressing. No wonder suicide rates are up.

You know there's a difference between "give a man a fish" and "teach a man to fish", but what do you do when the fish are just gone?

It was mentioned in the article, but not extensively discussed. I think maybe the largest distinct segment of the economy in ex-coalcountry regions is now pharmaceuticals, legal and illegal. There's the legal root and mushroom hunting, which go into supplements, but a large fraction of the people are growing marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, collecting sassafras root bark for MDMA cooks, and reselling their prescription opioids, in addition to the older traditions of moonshining and tobacco cigarette smuggling.

And everyone is on social security disability. If all you ever knew is coal mining, that's your condition that prevents you from finding gainful employment. If you need to see what happens with bare-bones basic income, that's it. The whole community barely scrapes along, and everyone has to do some niche hustle to earn their gas money a dime at a time. If you threw out the penalty for working, most of those people would be doing something productive, even if it's manufacturing ugly tchotchkes to be sold in a tourist trap, because whatever it is would give them beef in their stew instead of just barely enough gas in the tank to keep going.
I didn't want to believe that the loss of Jobs' would change much, but sadly time has shown otherwise. I miss the days of the annual iPod lineup, where each year would bring some totally new, radical design even though last year's was stunning and enough to last at least 2-3 years as the flagship model. The ever-changing iPod Nano lineup is clearest to me.

When Jobs' was asked why he would change something that was already above and beyond anything else on the market, his response was "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will."

Geeze, I really miss Steve Jobs.
That's actually there in Private Browsing (and I think you can enable it for regular browsing using about:config? But you'll have to search for that yourself), and Firefox Focus includes that by default as well I think.

I believe they're not including it for regular Firefox by default because they don't want to piss off the content industry as long as there aren't enough viable alternative business models.
It's also a very old CPU generation, and slower memory.

They're great boxes for cheap on-prem etl clusters.

I prefer sell R810s over those hps because they're 2U and have better power consumption with the same specs.
I am not sure it is correct to call Postgres or MySql "legacy software"

To me, legacy software would be something like using Novel PeopleManager 2002 or WordPerfect 7.

Postgres 10.0 is < a week old, and is a perfectly fine path to go for a brand new application. You are fooling yourself if you think you should just throw every new application in MongoDB or Cassandra because they are "web scale".

If you are using "Legacy Software" to mean "software that has existed for a long time", then I guess sure. But there are many pieces of software that are very new, and could benefit from a single instance with a lot of cores.

The most common use of "Legacy Software" is "Old crusty stuff which needs to be replaced", which is NOT at all the case for MySql or Postgres.
I still had AIM and Yahoo on Pidgin up until maybe two or three years ago.

It amazes me how Facebook messenger became the dominant force with it's totally broken and garbage XMPP implementation (now gone), it's unreliable delivery and the fact that it was a total piece of garbage.

It's now finally up to the standard that AIM/Yahoo/MSN were, twenty years ago. For people who yell about it being proprietary, well so was AIM (Oscar)/Yahoo/MSN/etc. Today there are OSS devs doing the same thing they did back then with project like purple-hangouts and purple-facebook.

We have a lot of different chat services today, but we don't seem to see people developing things like Trillian/Audium/Pidgin the way those were developed back in the day. Today people are fine having multiple chat apps, all with their bloat and terribleness.
Ok, so it's not that the dev community is moving from VS Code, Sublime to VIM, uff...

In case I'm stuck I used to use nano. but like you say might be worth learning vim vasic commands.
You're also only going to get any of the perceived benefits of the choice to build a custom UI kit if you're only solving the same problems that the framework authors were solving.

If you suddenly need, as an example that I've come across, a list of stats to update with a high tick rate which is unusual in an app so no one optimises for it you'll likely find you're no longer anywhere near a native experience.

I know that's not a unique problem with opinionated frameworks, but it's usually a programming issue to solve in the background, not a deal-breaker due to how every customer suffers.
Everyday people couldn't even tell you the definition of "algorithm", even then, they wouldn't recognize that algorithms are not only encoded into chips but also business process, legal compliance, etc.
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VisualStudio for any .net language, Jetbrains if they have an IDE for a specific language and for small projects or changes I'll use vim. The main impetus for switching editors/IDEs is when an editor has specific built-in support for a language that your text editor won't (ie support for solution files in .net). This extra functionality becomes much more important when you're less familiar with a language or when you have a large/complex codebase (1M+ LOC)
So you need to fix the developers not upgrade your network cards :)
Skype used to do P2P until like 2 years ago, now all files shared are uploaded to their servers.
Nobel committee cranks good jokes from time to time! Obama, EU, ICAN... what would you bet for next nonsense?
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SMS had the dubious distinction of being the most expensive way to send data outside of non-commercial satellite and exotic military technologies. I can remember fees of $.35 for 160 7-bit characters worth of data, using bandwidth that was otherwise just going to waste. Carriers got so greedy with SMS.
I'm not sure what features of Vimperator you're using, but if it's only about being able to navigate through your keyboard only, try Vimium-FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/?sr...
Reminds me of a few articles I have bookmarked - more about suburban than rural, and how the people get by:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/12/6/best-of-2016-s...

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/08/15/suburban-poverty/

https://granolashotgun.com/2015/03/30/affordable-housing-mau...

https://granolashotgun.com/2017/08/04/the-precariat-shoppe/
It's just a paraphrase. Here's the quote: "Yes, financial markets are the first rogue AI." I didn't read the paraphrase as an endorsement. It's just a description of what was said.
There are various proposals for keyboard shortcut APIs to support extensions like Vimperator. Here's one:

https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api

It's too late for it (or something like it) to be in Firefox 57, but it seems likely a future Firefox will have this capability.
If you put your iPhone in "Airplane" mode, the wifi shows "OFF" (with a slash through it) vs toggling the wifi button just grays it out and shows "not connected"

Seems fine for me /shrug
I don't get why people put so much emphasis on the boot time nowadays. I have a 5 years old laptop which takes less than 30 seconds to boot, with Xorg already.

Even if you power cycle every day. If you ACPI sleep (and it works great), you I'll have to boot your machine once every 6 months, when there is a new OpenBSD release.

I would much rather "spend 30 seconds" every 6 months to boot the OS I want to run for 12 hours/day than to "save some seconds" in months to run an OS that I don't for the same amount of time.

I'm not sure people realize how much complexity you have to add to make a system boot even a couple of seconds faster. If you somehow have to diagnose a problem in a system like this, all the seconds you saved in a lifetime will be spent on a single debugging session.
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I wonder if there is a chance the AIM server source code gets opened up. Would be interesting to see and possibly somewhat useful for retrocomputing.
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I feel like a google search of each topic would be more efficient. Listening to a 35 minute presentation with bad audio/video quality is a slow way to learn this type of stuff...
Absolutely. I won't be upgrading and I'm already looking for alternatives, as long as crucial parts of my workflow (tree tabs, session manager) have no adequate replacement.

The ugly redesign is also a thorn in my side.
No shit. The tricky thing with this kind of work is it has to be all cash-only, under the table. Best if nobody sees you doing it, which rules out a lot of the more legitimate kinds of side work - if you're supposed to be 80% disabled, it looks a little fishy when you're out cutting lawns or splitting firewood or caretaking... I grew up on the northern end of Appalachia, and huge numbers of people there supplement their income growing a little cash crop out in the woods - you had to be a little careful in places that you didn't blunder into a plantation when you were out deer hunting. I wonder whether the recent legalization pushes are putting a hurting on that front.
I felt the same about Super Mario Bros. At the time it was just nothing new.
I wonder how its implemented. I think its possible to do run this type of service at a very large scale for extremely low costs using AWS Lambda and Cloudwatch events.
They have some quite funky military technology for example the mach 6 scramjet Zircon missile http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4557934/Russi...
I've watched Backblaze closely, and I love their detailed reports of drive stats. I've always been curious about their choices of manufacturers though. In my past I found that Hitachi/HGST drives were far more reliable than others. We had a couple people doing hardware and software support on ~120 machines, and hard drive replacements were expensive (in man-hours) for us, so whenever possible we got Hitachi drives.

The Backblaze numbers seem to support this as well, far fewer failures of HGST drives vs Seagate, but they seem to buy mostly Seagate. I guess when you have tens of thousands of drives, you're always going to need to be replacing them. So maybe a 10x reduction in failures isn't worth it? Or maybe they just couldn't get HGST drives in quantity?
It's worth nothing that Appeal to Authority is a logical fallacy only when the authority is not an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.

Deferring to a subject matter expert is logical.
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An important point, but I hope it is recognized that "we" don't do economic downside-mitigation, at least in the US. People said the same thing about NAFTA - they'd fix it in post. I think there were some half-hearted education efforts and a bit of other fluff, but nobody who could actually do anything really cared. You can see this pattern repeated over and over.

I only mean to pick on the US a little; we are worse than some other nations, but the problem is not unique to us. Humans just generally don't mitigate big, looming collective action problems. They ignore it until it happens and then whine that nobody did anything. Or, if it only effects the already-poor, everyone else settles on a narrative that it is their bad morals or laziness or whatever excuse doesn't make people think too hard.
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Honest question: does Chrome share any data with Google, assuming you turn the right switches off?
I've set it up to monitor an "out-of-stock" string on a product I'd like to buy, but is going to be hard to get in the run up to Christmas, so I guess that's one.

If I was very keen, I guess I might pay a little to check more often than daily (although I haven't done that in this case).
In fact, they could use a Smart Media Token to do so :). All joking aside, the structure of such systems are antithetical to the way large corporations operate. That being said if Facebook decided to replicate our model (our protocol is open source and it relies on an open and public database, which is obviously part of the reason they won't)and distribute profits back to its most valuable users, I would count that as a win. I bet they won't. I also bet they won't distribute nearly as large a percentage as we do (100%) because they have expensive data centers to take care of (I think the latest one alone cost $1 billion). New technologies with fundamentally different economics always disrupt large incumbents. It might not be likely, but it is possible and the potential rewards are large and accrue to the earliest stakeholders. Always. I'm not saying people should invest anything they can't afford to lose in crypto projects--whether it's time or money--but if I had listened to all of the naysayers for the past few years who dismissed bitcoin, then ethereum, and now steem, I would be much poorer in many different currencies and I wouldn't be part of an amazing team solving incredibly difficult problems every single day that give it an incredible competitive advantage against anyone who tries to do what we do. So I know Facebook can't do what we do because they don't have us :)

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I came to Pharo after the fork from Squeak. What I have picked up is that prior to the fork, there was significant tension between those that wanted to maintain backward compatibility and those that wanted to move the language forward. The latter group forked Pharo and that statement was Pharo seems to have be a response to their previous repression. In practice it hasn't yet diverged greatly.

However one novel thing Pharo has added is Slots... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.653...
>How would running a single MySQL service require a full time dba?

"Enterprise". I've seen guys who manage a single SQL server with 300 users or a share point install of a similar size "full time".
I'm guessing the other responders might be from other countries. SMS was THE thing when I was younger (early 2000s) way before AIM, ICQ or anything else. Mainly because not everyone had a computer, but everyone had a cell phone.

And then when mobile data became all the rage, everyone I know just installed ICQ on their phone because the data transfer for ICQ was less than the cost of an SMS.

I grew up in Europe and when I got to the US, I was surprised to see most of my classmates either without a phone or just getting one. I got my first cell phone when I was nine? Maybe eight? Most of my classmates got their by the age of twelve. In the US, my classmates got their phones when they were 14 or 16 or even older; however, they had ready access to a computer at all times, I didn't have that back in Europe.
Hysteria sells.
There's an official Whatsapp Electron app for MacOS and Windows.
> ICQ got merged into the AIM network after AOL acquired ICQ.

ICQ is still its own separate network.

You could communicate between the two but ICQ will outlive AIM :)
What difference does an ORM make?
There are systems like the one we use today where it doesn't have one, but that means each vendor has its own independent source of truth for things like your mailing address, delivery preferences, etc that are more convenient to maintain in only one place.
Back in the day I had to use a few different chat programs (AIM/ICQ/MSN), then came along Trillian, and I could just run the one program. I've since switched to Pidgin (or whatever they called themselves before the rename), it was quite nice not having to bother with all those separate programs.

Now we have Discord/Slack/Whatsapp/A myriad of voice chat programs and I'm back where I started.

Edit: For those curious, AIM for Counter-Strike, ICQ for random internets, and MSN was pretty big here in Canada.
"Our fears ultimately should be of ourselves and other people."

Indeed. The short-term fear at least should not be about machine overlords, but about how people in power use AI to increase their power and/or make life worse for everyone else.
So should Security Bulletins released by Apple and Microsoft not state that a vulnerability/exploit was found since stating how to fix it implies that one existed?

This support article speaks mostly to people who have already seen the symptoms of the bug. It doesn't do anything to inform people who may still be affected but haven't noticed it yet.
Wake me up when Intel starts offering ECC support in their desktop processors. Until then Ryzen looks very tempting.
Assuming this is reliable it would be great for job searches. (if you're targeting smaller organizations with static-enough job pages) Seems a bit expensive though--especially when I might rather sign up for, say, daily checks on up to 240 websites instead of hourly checks on 10 websites.
Usability. And if you look at all of the above none of those company really have a product or vision of messaging app.

At one point in time, All AOL, MSN and ICQ really did was try to prevent orders from working on their network. ( AIM / MSN )

And other point ICQ were trying to turn itself into Yahoo, an internet portal.

Google Chat? It couldn't even get the basic right.

MSN started to displace ICQ when it was faster, better and Icons pack ( before Emoji ). And ICQ somehow manage to react to this threat by keep boating itself.

At some point before 2007, MSN won. AIM were still being used in US but the trend was clear, people were slowing moving to MSN in US while the rest of the world has switched away from ICQ to MSN.

Being Microsoft who in my mind has never created any decent product, thought they won and decide not to do much about it. It was the era before iPhone. The era when everyone would question, what is going to bring down Microsoft?

Then came the iPhone that shocked the world. Well least in broad sense of it. The UI were revolutionary. But the tech or dreams wasn't. Pocket PC, Palm, all had similar idea before and HTC were ODM at the time. We had a lite, useless, slow Windows Mobile that couldn't do much at all.

Everyone thought, surely linking MSN Messenger between the Desktop and iPhone / Android would make perfect sense?

Not at Microsoft. And when they finally did? It was too late.

Whatsapp manage to became the dominant platform because it was good and simple. Somehow the tech industry took nearly two decade to figure out.
Well I'd hope that we'd expect better when an author makes outrageous, nonsensical claims.

They are rehashing the book instead of analyzing its claims and assessing its validity. Conveniently, the blame of all the issues are left on the firms instead of the rules of the marketplace, conditions, etc which lead to distortions and structural issues in the market.
Facebook Chat (now called Messenger) came out in April 2008, at a very opportune time. Quote from my earlier post at [1]:

While it's tempting to accuse AIM, MSN, and Yahoo for being incompetent and not catching up to the "mobile era", they in fact did pursue this market as much as they were able. In truth, early iOS and Android were inferior platforms for a chat app. Push notifications were absent, data rates were expensive, and the average smartphone user at this time was not very likely to use those networks anyway.

Based on this info, I reason that it was truly Facebook that killed incumbent IM networks, at least in the US. Between the release of the iOS App Store and the introduction of push notifications for Android, Facebook grew by more than 300 million active users. This coincided with exodus of users from Myspace to Facebook; many of those users likely having used AIM, MSN, or Yahoo messenger in the past, now found themselves in a much larger network that also offered chat. Since Facebook largely subsumed everyone a person knew in real life, these users only had to go back to the old IM networks to chat with people they didn't know in real life, setting the stage for the weakening of connections and these networks' decline.

In my research, I've also prepared:

- A timeline of messaging networks [1]

- A timeline of Google's messaging rivalry with Facebook [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114518

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483
It's kinda understandable, though. Whenever the services of Google, Facebook, etc. behave in an inscrutable, nonsensical, or offensive way, they blame it on their "algorithm" (for a recent example, see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/youtube-alte...). That's really the only context where the term "algorithm" surfaces in mainstream discussion.

ML has had a lot of successes, but one of its failures has been more unpredictability on the level of individuals and events that people actually experience.
I need to be able to use Tab Groups, so I won't be going to 57+.
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And that system wasted insane amounts of electricity since each user needed to leave their computer on 24/7. Say what you will about Facebook, but allowing people to leave their computer in sleep mode at night has been an enormous contribution that Zuck has made the world.
I'm aware of that. Not saying it is the right method, just that it is the best general method we have.

And I'm also thankful that I trade mail with far fewer designers these days.
Yeah, I had similar experience. The person who came to deliver did not know how to get packages into the package locker of the building.
All things that were once great come to an end. I met my first longtime girlfriend on AOL/AIM and used AIM to communicate with just about everyone, including coworkers (OTR-enabled, of course, because we thought we were cool). Now I just feel old thinking about how long ago that was! Thanks AIM!
I would love to see an experience report of someone who has used Bedrock in a nontrivial application.
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To add to this, a bit: Our present political kerfuffle is no small way caused by collective feeling of anger by population who have seen their (industrial, mining, farming) jobs in rural america disappear due to globalization, while the market expanded .... elsewhere. In New York, in San Fran, in China, in India. And the money from that expansion did not go anywhere near those affected.

But the upside is how much lives of Chinese have improved, so they got that going for them, which is nice.