skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to think that none of this would even come up had the “right” candidate won.
I tried using Firefox for a while recently (over the last month) and still found it unbearably slow as well as downright buggy in the way it handled and displayed certain pages. Was very disappointed by this since I really want to start using it again.
One thing I appreciate about the internet is that it will make articles like this searchable for future generations, so that they can see that every generation says the same things.

Kids these days are weenies, politics are worse, prices are too high, etc etc etc. Rinse and repeat.
And "welcome to my website it is still under construction please sign my guestbook" isn't cookie cutter?
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Was computer programming back then as lucrative as it is now?
Are we sure it's the design that hooks people in? I tend to believe that's the nature of gambling. The exploitation of human's desire to want more than they have.
The headline reads 'Dramatically Different', but I don't see much difference, other than the medium the ads were placed in. People don't seem to be looking for that much different these days.
Try to find more better information on very specific topics, however, and you'll find that search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the popular content, making it harder to find the anything else. I don't think that's a good thing.
I'd say Anandtech is the closest we come to this level of detail today, and we just have to hope they'll keep going long term.
It's a little bit different here because universities are actively discouraging free debate by forcing students and professors to walk on eggshells around other students due to fear of reprisal. It is very authoritarian in nature and difficult to rebel against due people being branded morally who disagree with it.
So problem, as I understand, is that it requires significant amount of capital to get going for independent company, and they might go under if big company cut them. And the big companies undercut independent ones so later they could raise price.

So I had this question - what if state would commit to 10-20 years worth of contracts with some kind of locked in rate (adjusted for inflation or something), not just one off contract? This way independent company would have more motivation to do major capital investment, and big companies will not be able to undercut small players on one off job, only to get all next ones for 20% more..

Hopefully this makes sense.
Project Treble, the Real Test Is Android Q
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Try to find better information on very specific topics, however, and you'll find that search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the bad content, making it harder to find the other stuff. I don't think that's good.
Read/Write External Connection of XLSB File and Set Values Code of Chart Series
Oh, I understand. I didn't help this problem. I sold my traffic modeling company to a larger group. It's a lucrative industry, even without gouging.
Couldn't find much on salaries for 1970s, but here's a resolution to hire a junior programmer for ~$10.6k/year in 1979. Seems like the $13k referenced was not a huge amount, but about an annual salary for a single dev.

http://www.co.walworth.wi.us/Committees/CBoS/pdfs/2015-2016/...

Here's another reference to programming costs:

"Computerprogramming and operational costs for 1978 wil be $12 300." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1819069/pdf/can...
Why do the airlines allow people to bring large bags into the cabin? On all airlines I travel on (mostly in Asia and Europe) the bags have to comply with a maximum size.
Check out the search engine at http://wiby.me

From their about page:

Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well. But finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.
Vim Is the Perfect IDE, Especially for Python
Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins
because a flawed argument in defense of containers is that it is safer, since it's harder to escalate priviledges.

my point is that false sense of security makes it even easier for an attacker to use readily available privileges in the badly coded application.
Nowadays, everyone with a basic understanding of search engines easily find almost anything they need within seconds.
Almost anything popular and rather insipid, yes. Try to find more detailed information on very specific topics, however, and you'll discover that search engines like Google have been optimizing more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the content.
STRONG HINT == Use Vim as a Python IDE
The computer is not the program.
Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey
Why don't “scientists” just shut up?  the Kelp Highway, indeed
Yes, there's always an element of that; there's the classic Socrates* quote to fall back on.

That said, there does appear to be a noticeable shift in children's upbringings, away from the unsupervised 'free range' approach.

I quite liked the take I saw a few years back, that blamed much of it on lawyers; whether they're actually to blame is another question: https://abovethelaw.com/2012/11/lawyers-made-your-kids-fat-f...

[edit: allegedly not Socrates: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre... ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_araucana

It is indeed interesting.
Pia Mancini – A New Way of Sustaining Open Source
OP should put 2010 in the title.
some places have laws were one govt contact can't be more expensive than the previous similar job. if there are no bidders, the posting should remain open for a long time (12months here).

doesn't solve everything, but the intent of those laws is to make that harder.
In fact, that this guy's combination of laziness and arrogance had led to him to have a much better presentation than me with much less effort left me absolutely Mad.
ive been to casinos many times, played slot machines many times. dont find them fun or addictive at all. those machines dont make even a smallest suggestion that i would ever win any serious amount playing them. people addicted to slot machines are basically stupid
Hey turfer, take another English course.
I wrote a little program that does the "follow links and see if I find anything interesting" thing. It takes seed links, pulls all links that don't go back to the same domain, and then chooses 50 and repeats. Then there's another program to find the uncommon sites from everything gathered. Check it out at https://github.com/riley-martine/water_skimmer
Your problem is that big business has conflated free-market capitalism with the right to monopoly and convinced your constituency that anti-trust regulation is destructive to a free market when, in truth, oligopoly leads to corruption of the free-market and a farce of capitalism.

You need to work on educating your citizenship gradually until they understand the conditions wherein capitalism actually works. That way they might see why breaking up big busines and preventing M&A is often the Right Thing™️ and conservative to do.
I remember seeing this API from another post.... Any idea who's behind it?
thats a lie. almost all brands sell also on amazon and will come after your listings if you list their products on amazon. the fact that those are original products and you arent infringing any trademarks or other ip dont mean shit, ‘retail arbitrage’ is not allowed on amazon. your walmart receipts wont prove anything either. you must be authorized reseller who buys the stuff from wholesale suppliers of the product.
The sequel to Daemon was even better imo... Freedom TM
CSS Creatures
> Zubrin writes that the huge difference in dose rates (0.01 Gy per 60 * 24 * 30 = 43200 minutes vs. 0.05 Gy per minute) makes such studies completely useless because at the lower dose rate the body can self repair and at the higher dose rate it can't.

I think it's worth pointing out his views, but I also think people should know Zubrin is going against the grain here. Most researchers, as well as nuclear regulatory agencies, use the Linear No-Threshold model for connecting radiation exposure and risk. This is exactly what it sounds like: the model assumes that risk accumulates as a linear function of dose. Whether the LNT is true at small doses is a matter of considerable debate (it's hard to study in humans because the purported effect size is small and it's hard to do such a study ethically), but Zubrin should not talk as though the matter is settled.
I didn't know about that before. Looks very interesting (looking at wikipedia) — thanks for mentioning it!
No. Hiring competent accountants to help you run your company more efficiently is good. What people have an issue with is when the ultra-rich hire accountants who specialize in tax avoidance.
There are usually regulations on what is the maximum the machine can retain. It's not truly pseudorandom but rather weighted pseudorandomness.
Citus is my favorite website when it comes to Postgres content. Their blog posts are usually very informative and useful.
Celebrity-ish faces generated by an AI program
Unfortunately, a large part of the reason the web used to be fun is that there didn't used to be anything like it. The only way we can get that again is by inventing the next world-changing communications technology, not by trying to dig up the old web. It pains me as much as anyone else to say this since I got started on the web back in 1994 and experienced its early magic first-hand.
I think there's a fundamental difference in how technology is sold nowadays versus how it was sold a decade ago.

Technology used to be sold as a solution to a problem. Want to record TV? Buy a VCR. Tech specs are important because you want to find the best solution to the problem.

Nowadays, for better or for worse, technology is sold as an "experience." A modern phone doesn't really do much a phone from 5 years ago can't do, so phones are sold based on how they look and the smoothness of operation. Will anyone really notice 2gb of RAM vs 3gb of RAM? Because of this, modern reviewers will emphasize first impressions and general "feeling" of the device.
I am going to lose so many hours to this. Thanks!
>I quite liked the take I saw a few years back, that blamed much of it on lawyers; whether they're actually to blame is another question:

Blaming lawyers for anything is always popular, but this is pretty much entirely a result of the media (and politicians, for different reasons) doing things to portray a number of risks to children as having much greater incidence than they actually have and being increasing in occurrence when they were in fact decreasing, and sustaining that over a period of several decades, creating a popular perception of the risk profile (and consequently the responsible actions given that risk profile) very divergent from reality.

Insofar as lawyers were involved at all, it was simply leveraging the popular perception thus created to get favorable outcomes in cases, but they weren't the ones creating the beliefs in the first place.
Yes - what a great question to explore! Nice article, thanks.
ah yes, normal users
By your reasoning human languages shouldn't have grammar either, because its not needed by humans that can just guess what you are trying to say.
Anandtech was lost years ago. It's been a ghost of itself since Anand and Brian went to work for Apple. Ian Cutress still writes good desktop CPU/architecture reviews, but editorial quality and consistency have gone way down, and most of the content that comes out of there just isn't up to par with the publication's formerly high standards.
My first computer had just 1KB of RAM. My second had 64K. My third had 640K (and a massive 20MB hard drive!)

(Older readers might be able to guess the make & model from those specs).
Agreed 1000x, today I needed to do a real search on a subject and all I got on the first pages was total crap...
Show HN: Serverless CSP reporting server that streams reports to S3
I don't think you can categorize this as a typical "kids these days" rant, this isn't about disrespecting elders or having different tastes in music, this is a fundamental change in how parenting works and how much freedom kids have lost that could (arguably is) have a profound impact on their lives. I couldn't imaging being a kid today, not being able to walk/bike to school, not being able to take the dog to the park, not being able to ride our bikes to the beach and learning what happens to bikes when you ride them through salt water, not able to go fishing with a bunch of friends, not able to go camping with them.

Aside from all the lessons learned and battle scars along the way, we also had to work out what we wanted to do, plan ahead and then do it, we didn't jump in the car, play games on our tablet for 20 minutes and materialize somewhere else with all the equipment we needed. Freedom simply develops so many real world skills that are invaluable.
does anyone remember web rings?

i remember web rings. i remember a full circle of sites providing 99% of the same content because it was easier to keep a website updated reusing the same popular content. and since the webring is the #1 source of popular content, it becomes a death torus into total homogeneity.
NAS4Free – The Free Network Attached Storage Project
Is this not a perfect use case for a trie? Can you make a trie in Redis?
most people are indeed clueless to what this is.
Cool connections. Do you happen to have a link for the digital art project?
> It took him a few minutes just to realize that the test covered the same topics, while I thought the test was merely "hard" pedestrian content. Once I talked him through the problem, he realized how cool it was, and then he realized one of the key differences between our schools -- the boundaries of my thinking on topics were challenged and stretched much, much more aggressively.

Well as long as you were able to demonstrate that you were better than him, it's all OK.
I didn't know that Grapher was still around.
exactly, lets say he really does make 200k in sales per month. and lets say he happens to enjoy 100% profit margin (very impossible) thats 200k-100k-50k (amazon fees) leaves him with 50k profit per month. 10 employees excluding him is 25-35k range, and 1.5-2k rent for warhouse and 1k for all utilities and shipping supplies. that leaves the guy making around 10k a month before taxes. very far from ‘millions’
(In the hope that a correction is actually helpful) it's 'preaching to the choir'.
I used to program in 1982 and these things were completely obvious at that time. However, you can patent almost anything,
both then and today. Patents are more of a process than a science.
Looks interesting. Loving the fact that the page loads in like 2 seconds... Every single other game SaaS I've used has like super low page load times because they're all using whatever newfangled css library is out there. :P
Don't forget to include Joel Garreau's "The Nine Nations of North America". The theme is similar, but the outcome is slightly different.
Added a new feature: Trig function (sine, cosine, tangent) morphing by beat & FFT buckets. Looks trippy and goes well with glitch/ambient/IDM: https://dweetplayer.net/demo/v1/*/1829@10f,683f2,3313f1,915f...
in the old times there were _a lot_ of search engines, and they even had directories, you could find lots of interesting websites and communities linked between them, no optimization or ads, you'd also use usenet to talk about topics (like today's reddit and digg)

plenty of creators
This is a super interesting. 2 interesting bits of history I feel people need to consider on this topic;

Firstly in my limited discussions I'm surprised how many people fail to recognise economic equality the west see's today is not normal. It's a ~70 year blip in 5,000 years of history that was heavily manufactured to be this way. Not a result of 'capitalism' as many people I've seen discussing this like to say. As 50 years ago most western countries had more government managed economies than today.

And more interestingly, I wonder how society will react under democracy assuming we move to the historic norm of increased wealth inequality. As democracy in terms of masses having the vote is only about 100 years old. Less for other non-white backgrounds. As before this voting was restricted to land owners and men.

Anyway I would think democracy would act as a pressure value but maybe not. Have a look at this list for how things played out over the years;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_labor_issues_and_e...
Author here. Thanks for the advice. I love Gitlab and what they are doing.

Because the slides don’t reflect them very well I thought I chime in. Currently Drone and GoCD both are in the process of decommissioning to fully migrate to Concourse as our single CI/CD platform. Because our current business runs like a clock, you can imagine it’s not a one click process.
I remember that spending time on a web was actually interesting back then.

Interesting like discovering and learning something new not like browsing shopping sites and FB, Instagram because there is nothing else to do...
Based in EU, I can't see how they wouldn't.

I don't want censored search.
Author here. Fun fact MacB is also my current manager. Indeed a great person and mentor.
Texas Church Shooting Leaves at Least 26 Dead, Officials Say
Axiomatic validation of memory barriers and atomic instructions (2014)
They do mention $35K/year salary at some point in the article.
Galaxy S9: An interesting concept inspired by the iPhone X
Author here. Sure, there a reflections of their vision in Go. However all these deficiencies are now merged with the vision of current stakeholders, aka community. Go has learned and changed a lot in the past years ( in a good way). Going forward everyone will benefit from it, including us.
Yeah, I'm sorry, you must have been confused when I said reports and stories are not the same as evidence. And then you linked to the daily mail of all things. And the most credible report you linked to was just completely unhelpful to the point you're trying to make.

Don't bother me with your unmitigated stupidity again.
Bitcoin warning
Hi all,
I am sharing this information even though it will put my government job in jeopardy but I rather have saved people from loosing out than to have saved none.
Because of the massive price increase in Bitcoin it looks like from an email that was accidentally sent to myself and others that our F cked government is bending down to wall streets requests for an inquest into Bitcoin and more regulation. By the sounds of the Memo it looks like the gov wants to suspend Bitcoin exchanges until they can verify that Bitcoin will not be used by terrorist organisazations and criminals. They believe current measures are not enough.
You can take this post as a grain of salt and ignore what I am saying. I don't care it's your money, I just had to warn all.
Right, reading about the Alto is one example - or even Atari lore - at least those are still out there..
Seems like a good point, and I agree that it was a mistake to hoard their knowledge.

But then, the Roman Catholic Church fought fiercely against science for a long time. They banned the works of Copernicus, they prosecuted Galileo, Kepler and many others. Science had to be done and published in secret for fear of prosecution. The church can legitimally be blamed for lagging our progress.

As the study of philosophy started making society more secular, science could start making progress again.

We would be in flying cars on mars if the church was a bit more open minded.
I actually like its theme stylistically more than I like DDG.

A couple of points of feedback though:

- When I go through the lite version (which should almost be the default), if I image search, clicking on the results takes me to the webpage that the image is on, not the image itself. If i wanted that I wouldn't be doing an image search.

- There's an "install qwant" button in the top right hand of the screen. I'm not clear what i'd be installing if i clicked on that, or why i should need or want to install anything to use a search engine?

- I've gotten two separate front-pages when visiting www.qwant.com on desktop. One is a semi-minimalist page, a bit more complicated than the lite version, but quite nice and clean. If this was the default i'd be happy. The second was a version more reminiscent of the old "yahoo" type setup, with news and stories and random stuff splattered everywhere below the search bar. Subjectively, the second one needs to die. However, i'm not sure why its no longer turning up for me (even though I'm glad it isn't). I certainly haven't saved my account, nor am i consciously using a remembered URL.

- I got a captcha type thing popping up saying there'd been a lot of activity from my location. I'm pretty sure I'm not currently behind my VPN, so that seemed weird for me to be seeing such...

- On mobile, that just took WAY too long to open. Almost 10 seconds. As others have mentioned, you need to eliminate half the crap and make the rest more responsive. I don't go to search engine to view tabloid stories (or if i did, i'd search for them), i'm there to search.

- Its not entirely clear why it seems that the links on the lite page are redirects, but the links on the main page appear to be direct? Is that deliberate? A bug? Obviously one would prefer them all to be direct.

- Don't know what's going on, it appeared to me subjectively that the main page was picking up successfully that I was from Australia. However, during one of my searches using the lite page, the options up the top of "web, news, social", etc looked like they were in another language (looked dutch-ish to me).
They are in HYPSM though.
Good trick on the #2, reading the negative reviews. Of course, now that you've mentioned it here - soon enough that'll be gamed, too.
>This is a problem mostly because of the way we’ve organized the web. There are many clients that want to get content and use programs and only a relatively few servers that have those programs and content. When someone posts a funny picture of a cat on Slack, even though I’m sitting next to 20 other people who want to look at that same picture, we all have to download it from the server where it’s hosted, and the server needs to send it 20 times.

The article reminds me of the Pied Piper platform from Silicon Valley, but especially the above quote.
Author here. Yeap there are bag geeks out there. As someone else pointed out, checkout my blog posts at arslan.io

A bag geek is someone who tries to find the perfect for the current occasion. So if you travel for one week, a bag geek will try to take only one bag. Which material to choose? Are you going to take a laptop with you? Shoulder or backpack? Are you going to bring gifts back to home? Etc... these are all questions that can’t be answered with a single bag. For example checkout Tom Bihn bags and their community of bag geeks (they have a forum).
i prefer the fingerprint scanner to be on the back of the phone.