skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was lucky enough to work on some of this technology across the 1980s. I don't claim to "own" any of the running systems because what I did was OBE and peripheral at best, but none the less, I have never felt "I wasn't there".

Something I think isn't said enough, is that despite everyone understanding what "convergeance" meant (it was actually the topic of one of my first lectures at university in 1979) it's one thing to understand, and it's another to actually experience it and get some deep sense.

For instance, I knew the flatter protocol design implications of TCP/IP meant "same everywhere" which was a huge relief after living networks with a distinction between LAN and WAN in protocol terms: But I didn't really think "everywhere" meant built into the doors of fridges.

Mentally, I think a lot of us made unnecessary, arbitrary distinctions between systems which felt like toys and were sold as such, and systems bought to "do work" -in fact several universities deliberately went out and got amigas and did both low level coding, GUI design, and just banged the bejesus out of them as cheap terminals to Vax 11/780s.

TL;DR being there was more than just being alive at the time. You had to learn to think in new ways too.
Does the mash composition contribute that much to the flavor of a whiskey? Or, how much of the flavor can make it through distillation?

I was under the impression that most flavor comes from the organic material present in aging barrels.
I miss those days as well. Felt like the people online then were somewhat more interesting than those now, and were likely to get involved in stuff because it was a fun hobby rather than a way to make money or 'build a career' or what not.

Still, there are communities like that out there now, and quite a few of them are where they always were. Forums are less popular, but active ones do still exist, and some have good communities. Same with IRC and mailing lists and chat rooms and whatever else.

And while it's unfortunately centralised, I guess Discord has become the 'place' for many of these communities too, with the better ones being basically an old school forum in chat room form.

There are places out there.
Art doesn't have competition in many cases. There is no alternative good to "Gone in the Wind", it is a unique product with a monoply on it due to copyright.

Many of these companies, and Disney especially,have done their best to prevent works from falling into the public domain when they make a lot of money off of deriviations of public domain works
Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
I can speak to some of the pros and cons of two codebases for ios and android that share a common api service on a semi-large production app with 6k to 10k constant users. Pros:
- Native performance and API exposure for both, without a wrapper/glue layer. That's it.
Cons: Feature implementation complexity and nuanced differences that leads to one version having a bug the other doesn't, or they both have the bug but for different reasons.
- dependency updates, testing workflows, build and deployment tool chains, actually all tooling - is different for both.
- syncing development between teams is a nightmare.
- delivery time on releases becomes two deadlines, and stakeholders don't understand why both versions can't always be complete on the same exact day.
- ui implementation, and organization of graphical assets are just plane different.
- device support, and user support in general, must account for basically any supported ios or android vendor hardware/os
I've seriously considered a vibrating alarm, though I'd always looked into models that shake the pillow or mattress.
That’s assuming all the customers will continue to subscribe including a bunch of price increases and nearly double the current amount of subscribers.

“We expect the steady subscriber growth, together with gradual price increases will outpace the increasing investment in content and the upfront working capital spending on self-produced and owned programming, resulting in steadily improving margins. We believe that those margins will need to grow from the 7% range of 2017, to the low to mid 20% range to generate positive cash flows. As a result, we forecast the company becoming cash-flow positive in approximately five years.”

Yeah that increases as in plural.
I’m glad it pointed to the article of the terrible accuracy of the x87 trig functions - the OS X and I assume GCC software implementations are ostensibly correctly accurate, which I think is done by using witchcraft. (More precisely I think they do it using infinite precision Pi?)
What will the ability to or not to code fizz buzz about their prior experience?
> traveling the country by interstate in a Fiesta, staying at Motel 6 and eating at Waffle House

The problem is that those things are not difficult to obtain, and so any following you would have would be shared by 100K people just like you. To be interesting, you'd have to have some unattainable quality in addition to eating at Waffle House, such as being a multi-billionaire, or an extremely successful actor/actress, or a Turner Prize winning artist.

Of course, this would end up with custom $250K Fiestas, Motel 6 starting a curated luxury brand, and Waffle Houses with chefs and monthlong reservation lists. The reason why a flow of money for nothing comes from luxury branding is pretty obvious. The cash is coming from people who spend large amounts of money casually, in a way that can be significantly influenced by the people they follow on Instagram.
OT but I keep reading "fart noise"
I miss it too. I really miss IRC. I used to have a large group of amateur radio operators I chatted with for 5-7 years (the IRC channel is still up & somewhat active!). We used to do meetups for ARRL Field Day & Dayton Hamvention. We were all great friends, we all just shot the shit & had fun. Unfortunately everyone found something else or moved to different software to communicate and we slowly drifted apart.

All of my transgender support communities have been gutted and destroyed by hate speech and people going "YOU HAVE A MENTAL DISORDER, FREAK". I really used to enjoy my PHPbb & other forums for real groups of caring people. Anonymity let the hate flow. I feel those communities have since moved to Reddit -- just like mostly everything else.

The centralization & ease of access (it's in everyone's pockets) is really what turned the tables.

It's fun to do internet archeology. https://wiby.me/ is a fun search engine.
I'd check out scuttlebutt [https://www.scuttlebutt.nz], a decentralized social network based off of the secure scuttlebutt gossip protocol. It feels like the internet and bbs days that I remember.
I'm 27, but here's some recent experiences:

You can still participate in IRC! It's still alive and kicking. Look at the channel in list in freenode.net, it's huge! Most of it is focused on tech, but there's plenty of non-tech channels as well.

Try checking out communities using Discord. I started participating in a couple anime-related groups and I met tons of interesting people through that. I eventually got invited to a private Discord where many members hang out, but it's more casual and personal than the public server, and it's been a blast. I've learned tons of things about their different cultures, and I'm hoping to meet some of em at events later this year or next. Although I haven't met with anyone in real life yet, it turned out one member actually lives live like 20 mins, so we actually planning on meeting soon, when we don't have any big real-life issues on our plates.

It turns out a few of the people I've been talking to recently are Muslims, and I didn't know much about their beliefs, so it has been a highly enlightening experience. They recently stopped fasting and were celebrating being able to eat during regular hours again.

One of the people I've been talking to is from a middle-eastern country but had family in Qatar, so he's visiting. Did you know that apostasy is illegal there? Oh, and they also block porn sites! This is an image of what you get when you try accessing a porn site in Qatar [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/1a9lDDi.png
Oh please. So individuals have to play by a rigged and ever-changing set of rules laid down by media conglomerate lobbyists and copyright lawyers, or they’re unprincipled? By that logic everyone would still be buying CD’s with malware from brick and mortar stores because Sony makes more money that way than with iTunes or Spotify. The media landscape today didn’t just happen, it’s the result of a tension between different forces, and you don’t want to see what it looks like if one group lets go. Pirates were the first digital distributors, most not out of selfish desire to get something for free, which was proven by the overwhelming support for legal digital distribution.
If you didn't use UUCP you shouldn't be allowed to post

In fact if you're not Vint Cerf, you shoudn't be allowed to post

Get off my lawn
Use a lot of bits, increment upon re-use of the slot, and throw when the pattern reaches its maximum.

Alternatively, give each item a unique handle (again counting up) and implement some sort of lookup table to convert those handles into actual indexes.
It all depends on how entertaining the person is. Could Rowan Atkinson do that? Absolutely. Could your average person? No, it would be awkward and incredibly boring. In between, though, sure, someone could make something interesting based on that. Some of the best TV shows have very thin plots after all.
It’s certainly not dissimilar to the plot of Office Space.
Nostalgia: It ain't what it used to be.
thanks this looks really useful... what are your thoughts on continuations?
Having grown up with BBSs and getting on information super highway in 92, I miss the crazyness and "decentralization". Also stuff like IMs and IRC I find a lot better than what has replaced them, since you had your choice of programs to use with them, not web page that kind of just lock you down to a browser or a closed off app that is really just a web app. Why cant I have Facebook messenger just part of trillian or pidgen or what ever?
I agree. I had a UUCP node in 1992.
Of course, this isn't a general solution to every problem and I wouldn't use it if there was a huge distribution in entity sizes like you described.

The reason it worked in my case was that for a 2d game, the state of even the maximum sized entity was very small. For animated objects I had a per-entity integer that stored what frame to display. The texture and animation data was stored elsewhere outside the table, but that was also loaded before the game started so there was no allocation after that point.

For a 3d game with complex animations it would be foolish to try to store all the animation and texture data in the same table, but I'd probably do something very similar for the game state.
That's because under capitalism, salary is confused with talent and pricing with quality.

the most famous musicians are not the greatest musicians, the relationship is largely arbitrary
People trust and are totally happy to be manipulated by completely fictitious, entirely fabricated depictions of individuals in advertising and programs on television.
Making a Killing in Virtual Real Estate
Some responses:

> Strace doesn't count, by the way. It tells you what a program is doing, but doesn't collate the information so you can slice and dice it.

> strace -f $CMD 2>&1 | sed 's/^.pid[ 0-9]..\(.\)/\1/g' | sort -u does most of what I want, so will probably do for now.

> snoopy? bpf?

> Snoopy looks like it tracks executions across the system rather than focussing on what one execution did. bpf looks powerful, but is only for recent kernels, which might suffice.

> You're looking for sysdig.

> It's tricky to get that to tell you what a _program_ did, a la strace -f.

> Auditd with a proper rules config

> @brendangregg flamegraphs shows time spent per system call. strace, lsof will show files opened and bytes read. auditd and selinux wil show, log and permit access to files and processes

> gAdvisor would be an interesting place to implement something like this

> possibly a combination of auditd, lsof (now), and viewing /proc filesystem... there is tons of great info in there.. i think the issue is you need auditing on to see history...

> Perhaps something like cuckoo sandbox might be of use?

> It's been a while, but possibly dtrace?
Regarding Frankfurt airport's strictness: It's Germany's biggest hub with the most international connections, some of them more "targeted" than others (say El-Al flights...).

Regarding ICE's: That's one of the trade-offs. Either guaranteed (cramped) seating after being "violated" or un-violated uncertainty.

Every time I use one mode of transportation, I'll damn myself and vow to always use the other mode from now on.
Yeah I miss it too. I used to run a few forums way back when. The most popular one I ever had was Forge Hub (gaming site). It still exists. I could go back and start posting but I think its best to leave that memory in the past. After all, there's a reason we left message boards in favor of aggregators and social networks. Best to leave our memories as rosy as we can.
Actually sad its a fake story cause its fun :(
I have spent the vast majority of my online time talking to strangers. All of you, for example.
It really depends on what kind of hotel and where in the world it is.

What you say is true of Paris, Aman hotels, some Four Seasons properties, African safaris, most of the Maldives, and a handful of other places and hotel operators.

It's not true of many others, some of which are surprising: Mauritius, Vienna, much of Asia (esp Japan and Thailand), much of South America, most of India, a lot of Italy, and even French Polynesia.
There's definitely some nostalgia involved, but I feel some things from the previous Internet have been lost. Discord communities are at least a reasonable approximation of the old IRC channels, and there are other modern analogs to "old Internet" things, but the forum format is something that I feel has died, and I miss that a lot.

Perhaps the main difference between forums and modern sites like Reddit, or Facebook groups, is that forums were a natural fit for slower, longer in-depth conversations. It's normal to have a forum conversation that lasts days, if not weeks, and where the posts all consist of many paragraphs. A site like Reddit is designed for older posts to sink. Same with anything that employs a "news feed" page format. Yes, forums are still around, but they're a shadow of their former selves, and often seem to have an old userbase.
That sounds like a good idea. Couldn't the I will leave if you don't do this part sound like a threat and sour the relationship?
There are still old phpBB forums that are still going strong, but that sort of thing depends enormously on having a committed core of people keeping it going and weeding out the trolls and spammers. Keeping a public forum running these days is beyond a full-time job, and a lot of people just don't have the time for that, especially in today's environment with hostile states, scammers, and general jerks trying to ruin everything.
People complaining about cavities should stop eating so much sugar. Brushing their teeth is only a band-aid and doesn’t attack the core problem.

And yeah, that means they should probably stop eating processed food with added sugar. Which means they should avoid most of the shelves in the supermarket.

It’s a serious problem which goes far beyond personal responsibility. Our whole industrial food system is designed to deliver as much teeth-rotting food [as a bonus, also causes diabetes and heart disease and obesity] to as many consumers as cheaply as possible, while convincing those consumers that there’s nothing wrong. Not only that, we subsidize it heavily using our collective tax money.
Yes, there are quite a few esters and acids that will hitch a ride with some of the alcohol and water molecules that make it up the column. This certainly depends on the type of still (eg plate vs alambic and continuous vs pot), but there are a lot of flavors transfered. The distiller's job is to choose which ones (eg at least remove the heads and tails).

One easy example is apple brandy which has a very distinct nose. It's not until you multiple distill and charcoal filter that vodka loses its flavor (you can actually detect potato, if you care to).
I think a better grasp of history would lead you to believe that there's nothing especially British about these activities. This is the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful, and is a close to a universal law throughout history as you're likely to find.
I'm old enough to remember programming for the original Macintosh which used handles and relocatable memory. It was a nightmare. Constantly locking, unlocking handles was a chore and error prone. I also remember early Windows APIs that had opaque handle-based memory allocations. Sometimes in life it's useful to check your history books and understand why some things were consigned to history.
I don't have first hand experience but I believe a big problem with sound channels is multipath propagation/challenging frequency response. FSK naturally deals quite well with those; it's similar to OFDM but more robust due to single carried symbols. You can extend the symbol period as long as you like while using an adequate number. Finally in challenging environments it'd a good idea to use error correction, not just error detection as done here -- you can (in theory) achieve reliable transmission over arbitrarily noisy channels by adding redundancy.
I’d merge generic white girl in bikini and bald middle-aged guy on motel 6... wait what
100% agree with you. The problem is not just that parents are setting their kids in front of a wide open medium filled with abusive content, it's that they're letting their kids watch hours upon hours of mindless entertainment in the first place.

I realize this is kind of a third rail at the moment, but hear me out. The fact is that parents got by for thousands of years without having electronic child sitting devices. The time children waste on glowing screens could be more productively spent learning (remember books?), socializing with their peers, or enjoying healthy exercise. If a child absolutely has to have an hour a day in front of a screen, at the least give them something worthwhile like Mr. Rogers' reruns to watch. Who knows what the long term effects of 3 hours of the same nursery rhyme a day will have on their mental health. At the very least I think extreme caution is warranted; it's easier to let the screens do the baby-sitting, but raising a kid has never been easy.
> The internet changed

It got a heck of a lot cheaper for home users. People forget just how much online access used to cost. It also got a lot more users, and many services seem to want huge numbers of users, rather than being happy to serve their niche well. Finally, when you're dialing up at 33.6 or slower you make an effort because every second counts.

Here's a page from 1988. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2janfrd&s=7

Compuserve charged $11 per hour and had "more than 250,000 subscribers".

The Source charged $8 per hour and was popular for its conferencing system "parti".

Delphi charging $6 per hour had a loyal but small (less than 10,000 users) following.

BIX charge $9 per hour.
It can be that place, if you want it - just stay away from the walled gardens, use free software, don't fall for the ephemeral gratification of having the newest and latest and fastest gadget. Use a PC running a free unix or a mobile device running a Google-free AOSP-derivative and you'll zip around the 'net at speeds unimaginable in 'those days'.

You won't find as many 'home pages' as back then, in that sense the likes of Facebook have done real damage, true. The sheer expansion of the 'net means you'll find plenty of interest outside of the gardens anyway so instead of pining for days long past I'd suggest to gear up for the here and now and for days to come when the blight of Facebook and their ilk are nothing but bad memories.
Everyone misses what they used to live for, I'm only 23 and I've noticed the pattern. Look up "Eternal September" or the "September that never ended" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September.
During this period AOL aggressively marketed Usenet access, saturating what was once a University grade Network for educated users, steering the path towards the consumer focused Internet we now have today. People longed for the old 70's-80's era of the Internet back in 1993, nothing new, nothing old. Because of my age, I miss the 2006 Web 2.0 era of the internet, before the access was even more expanded to the smartphone generation. When having a blog or a website was still relevant, before everything became encapsulated into social media. Yes, I'll admit, I don't like this new wave of illiterate image based Snapchat and Instagram morons that express through emojis and selfies, but they'll too as community environments become even more abstracted.
Clearly I talk and play with my son as well (its a bit difficult talking someone for a walk when you're waiting in line for something or sat at a restaurant but maybe that's an American / UK cultural thing). I also occasionally fall back to electronic gizmos when my kids get so bored and disruptive that all of the aforementioned fails to keep them entertained. Because, if you really had kids you'd understand just how impossibly hard it can be to ask a 3 year old to have the patience of an adult ;)

But thanks for the patronising tone bud. Just because someone admits to playing YouTube to their son once in a while it doesn't mean they don't still spend nearly every waking moment at home interacting with them. Just like how feeding them fries occasionally is completely fine if their usual diet is healthy.
Is that different from "influencer"?
Review: How Laws of Physics Govern Growth in Business and in Cities
Most of the time, my iPad (current iPad Pro 10.4) works well. The major problems are actually stupid web sites which insist on using broken "mobile" modes even when mobile Safari IDs itself as desktop.
> Small kids will watch the same thing over and over again.
> being able to pay $10-$15 a month

That seems like a terrible deal, compared with just paying for that "same thing" once and watching it over and over for free.
>Developing countries that embraced free trade (see Africa, South America) largely remain poor today while countries that embraced protectionism (see Asia) are much wealthier

The assumption that South America and Africa are pro free trade is not true. Indeed, most of the countries with the highest tariffs are in Africa.

https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/which-countries-have-...
TDD is essentially the same.
Back in the mid-1980s in Champaign-Urbana, one of the most vibrant BBSes in town (Tranquillity II) had no downloads - conversation was its specialty. There were even real-life gatherings of the participants. That sort of thing is hard to do when almost everyone you interact with could be halfway around the world.
My GF has 18000 followers and gas worked hard for her brand to be meaningful as an influencer. She isnt just posting a picture sitting next to the pool. As a result she gets a number of things comped at hotels and restaurants, sometimes without even asking.