skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I had a similar experience around 2000. I built a Danish website about Goldeneye 64 in FrontPage. The first website I ever made. It used frames, but I feel it was quite pleasing on the eyes, because I avoided a lot of the 'fancy effects' that was common for the time.

I'll admit, being born in 87, most of the site was simply copied from other websites about the game, and translated to Danish. So it was a decent exercise - particularly for someone dyslexic as me - to both built a website and translate from English to Danish.

If only I knew where that website ended up...
My first programming job often consisted of us adding buttons and a javascript snippet to third party websites as part of the on boarding process (thinking embedding a webring script). Usually this was easy, but sometimes you'd get a FrontPage site and this simple edition would completely blow up the site.

Fortunately I usually didn't have to use front page to do it and could hand edit the HTML, if it blew up when they tried to edit it in front page again we could blame that on MS, which was believable with their software quality at the time.
They consulted existing literature, they asked in internet forums, etc

Expecting people to know and remember beyond the basics is simply ridiculous especially at the age of Google
Curious how it's so deeply important to the core of people's identities to loudly and proudly assert that others are enjoying things for the wrong reasons.

I may as well claim that because bicyclists are always wearing spandex and carrying helmets around, there must be more to it than the alleged enjoyment of cycling - they don't actually like riding bikes, but only want hipster-fitness lifestyle points.
It brings it alive - sounds corny, I know, but it's true. The article depressed me, which had it just been a piece about statistics and policy statements would have left me cold.

Interested to know why you're not interested in the human angle.
At my current job I am rewriting a 25 year-old VB application into a web-based application, and the majority* of our documentation is written in FrontPage. The horror, indeed.

*: Well, sort of.. there are bits scattered everywhere, I had to dig into email archives to find some specifications.
if useless quips are fun then maybe the appropriate venue is elsewhere?

Pointless quips add something else we have to scroll past to learn anything or find something interesting. The goal is more wheat not more chaff.

"this was interesting" can be accomplished by upvoting.
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Not just that they can push back, but that the business, product or service, and developer happiness is better if the developer and manager partner on understanding the business problem and solving it. This is in contrast to the developer just "implementing to spec" and then being surprised when the end user is bummed that "this doesn't work the way I thought it would".

We are experts in our domain of software development and do no one favors when we hide it and just do what we're told.

(That isn't to say that the developer has the only opinion that matters, just that they are a stakeholder with expertise and should act like it.)
The whole domain is amazing.

Just look at this page, updated LAST YEAR: http://www.telecommanderhosting.com/ec/framed_Microsoft_OS.h...
Look at the waving Win 95 logo!
Not to mention the "office clipart guy" in the homepage...

I am just suprised that the obligatory "under construction" gif is missing!
OP makes it very clear cheap space where it matters, where people need it: "NIMBY" and "neighborhood character".
we crapped all over wysiwyg editors, yet nowadays we dream of a binary web format that's fast as balls. we'll probably need a wysiwyg editor for that.
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> Microsoft FrontPage 98 also now provides support for the Channel Definition Format (CDF) which is a really keen way of broadcasting your web content to an end user's Windows desktop. You can "push" content to your visitors without having them seek you out daily for updates.

It looks like this used to be the precursor of RSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Definition_Format
Yes it happens. I’ve interviewed people who couldn’t psuedocode an isOdd function after making sure they knew what an odd number is.
Writing dot graph using jupyter
I don't think anyone ever had it as an official job title, however.

I knew lots and lots of people that did.
> Google funnels your data but give you better search, MS swipes some info about your PC to give you better drivers, Facebook takes all your likes and dislikes to give you stories to your taste

Google's search results are on steady decline over past years, result filled with ripoff pages, often original pages are buried deep in the list full of ripoffs. Started using duckduckgo much more because of this. MS drivers tailoring or whatever you meant are presumably a joke, I know which driver for which hardware I need and if not simple system scan should be enough. And FB feed is crap too, worst point was when feed was completely randomized on every reload, very frustrating. Even now its pretty bad - some posts hang on top for a week, interesting new stuff is buried somewhere deep.

I would be much happier without any of those. Good effect is, these 'platforms' are getting worse and I am using them less and less (FB is at the end anything but social), or using competition
Affiliate links from the 90s :) And what a wonderful tool Flash was, before Adobe crapped all over it. Those were the days!
Google's sure looking more and more like the Oracle of this generation.
see, I don't think the state is very good at dealing with issues like this because from such a high viewpoint, the state can either apply a one-size-fits-all policy, or provide a localised but drastically oversimplified strategy for specific regions that will require more overhead for managing the many regional subdivisions. Providing for social healthcare is a good thing (at least within the context of how our nation states currently operate), but I think it should be devolved down to local authorities with perhaps a state-level overseer to monitor their performance.

I'm of the strong belief that central management at scale is unilaterally inferior to decentralised and devolved decision-making that can more effectively take local variables into account.

> But for a task of this scale, which has to provide benefits to everyone in the country, I only trust the state with it, and not a private entity.

Trusting the nation state and trusting a private (presumably either commercial or charitable) entity are not the only two options. The charity and taxation options can both occur at a local authority, or a community, level.
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If I did the math right, then if the notebook I typing this comment on mined at 100% CPU load for 1 hour, the payout to the script owner would be equivalent to US$0.00085. For nearly 200 Wh consumed, or 70g CO2 equivalent, or $0.004/kWh. That's two orders of magnitude less than the cost of the energy consumed, supposedly somewhere around 3% efficiency.

I suppose asking for donations/selling subscriptions/products/whatever is more sustainable. Even if 3 users out of 100 agreed to donate/pay the monetary equivalent of 1 kWh (~ $0.140), the site owner would receive more than forcing 100 users to heat the air for one hour and putting 7kg CO2 in the atmosphere.

The web doesn't need browser-based mining. The web needs affordable and convenient microtransactions. With something better than a 0.05 + 5% fee.
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I love this! This is a much better example of what things were like in the early days of the internet than a lot of what I saw on the Web Design Museum (https://webdesignmuseum.org, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17891826) -- I'd completely forgotten about the tendency to use garish round images for buttons and weird fonts.
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> if you replace it with new wood it will still store carbon.

Good point, although you need to be sure you aren't counting the wood you replace it with as more carbon storage. Every wooden house essentially provides a fixed amount of carbon storage, no matter how much of it is replaced, and only as long as it stands.
But it is pretty obvious. In an automatic, you pretty much have to touch the brakes to slow down. In a manual, you have other options. Taking your foot off the gas in a manual tends to slow the car quite a bit more than in an automatic, for example.
None of that is my responsibility. I'm not obligated to help anyone but myself. Nobody asked me for consent before flinging me into existence, and now I have to follow all these rules that people make up?

I don't need "unnatural, human-oriented, ethical states". I'm perfectly happy with a state where I can acquire as many resources as possible, even if that incurs a significant cost to others.
The server interaction features also worked on Linux!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/202198/how-to-insta...
Homesite was amazing. I think it was the first 'professional' piece of software I actually spent my own money on.
You know, good design principles weren't invented in 2006. There was plenty of good design in the 90s in other industries (publishing, newspapers, magazines, advertising, academia, ...), but apparently fucking nothing of that filtered down to webdesign.

I mean: yes, technology was limited. I get that you couldn't have free range with things like typography and that CSS wasn't a thing yet. But for the love of god: a textured red background that made the already shittily rendered text even harder to read?! What were we thinking?
Going to try it right now, thanks!
Why are there no references to the original discovery, the patent(s), or the "snatching" by "cosmetic companies"?

The link to the Daily Telegraph is broken ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7964109/Sci... instead of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/796410... )

If it was rediscovered at a university in 2006, why are there no publications from that year?

At least the ACS is an authoratative source, perhaps that deserves a link?

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20...
You can flip it:

> Why hasnt the government solved this problem?

Maybe the government is not a good tool to solve inequality?

After all, what percentage of your salary before taxes goes to directly help the less fortunate with no middleman? Before you answer: You could probably do more.
What if I have an Automatic Driving Licence (UK) and I go to America and rent a Stick Shift then the Police pull me over?

Also could I go to a developing country, get a licence there, then it is valid in the UK and America?

These questions came to mind when I read your comment.
Oh neat.. I used to maintain a similar WordPress plugin well over a decade ago. https://chris-lamb.co.uk/projects/figurerender
C and C++ are not separate languages, one is a subset of the other.
I just mentioned C explicitly because some hardware devices don't have a C++ compiler.
In what other field of substantial complexity is there any expectation that errors never occur? I don't think it's defeatist to accept that there will always be problems. It seems to me in any complex field (medicine, aviation, finance, etc.) the thing that maximizes human success is to design processes so that problems are exposed, treated, contained, and prevented from re-occurring as easily as possible. Looking for something shaped like "problems will cease to exist" seems like a distraction to me.
> Visual InterDev

Haven't come across that word for over ~15 years =)
The parent above wants a way to stop people that can't shoulder the financial burden of children intentionally placing that responsibility on society, and suggests removing subsidies that allow that reallocation of burden is a way to achieve it. It isn't clear what part you disagree with. Is it the solution he proposes that you don't think will work? Or the implication the government would have the right to restrict parenthood to those it feels capable?

I know I disagree with the latter, but I don't have an alternative to the former. Which is (I think) exactly what the parent means when they say 'That is the issue nobody likes to address'. I think if there's anything in the post I do agree with, it is that education feels like a good starting point, and that personal responsibility is a necessity.
I can't answer that until we establish what you mean by "wrong".
"When we say software development is a craft, we're saying that it's like shoemaking, pottery or woodworking."

The point being, there are intricate details that are very hard to deliver in the traditional class-room oriented school environment with well defined requirements.

Those do not state anything about scalability. Crafts can scale - like for example how the old giant cathedrals and castles were built in middle-age europe.

They don't say anything about mindsets either. You need an engineers mindset to buid a cathedral or a castle.

The specific problem with crafts is that adapting to new requirements is a complete hit and miss process. The reason for this problem is the lack or proper theoretical framework in which to pose ones work and into which embed the requirements themselves.

The program verification people are working towards solving this problem, see for example Leslie Lamport's work in TLA+.

But until we have a general, mathematical proof backed compiler for requirements, as well as for the program implementation, we are pretty much stuck with craftsmen.

(Well, we have proof compilers but those are at the moment completely unusable for general programming since they are so complex to use.)
> The market did solve the problem and then we blew it by undermining the family unit so we have people dependent on the state with no significant family support.

Good point. In my birth country you must support your elderly parents by law. Even without the law 99% of families would.

The idea that the government should do it seems crazy.

The government only needs to step in where the elderly have no family, are unable to work, and private charity is not enough.

This means the government only deals with a tiny percentage of people.
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I would consider it borderline fraudulent not to use the title your employer gives you when listing experience.
Polemic. We also get stories like, "despite a strong economic recovery, John, 26, struggles to find a new job after being laid off."
People choose to acquire skills, or not. It's the whole point of all the education available to Americans, most of it free. Choose it, or not. Heck, you can even get an MIT education for free over the internet. It's up to you.
These are interesting questions! I don't know the answers, but I guess international law is often bad at dealing with edge cases.
I remember at the company I worked for, we used AppleTV as inspiration for our own UI so it makes sense why we would use similar tech.
Sharing resources with other people has absolutely nothing to do with being intelligent.
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Related, Folk Models of Home Computer Security, http://www.rickwash.com/papers/rwash-homesec-soups10-final.p...

> Home computer systems are insecure because they are administered by untrained users. The rise of botnets has amplified this problem; attackers compromise these computers, aggregate them, and use the resulting network to attack third parties. Despite a large security industry that provides software and advice, home computer users remain vulnerable. I identify eight ‘folk models’ of security threats that are used by home computer users to decide what security software to use, and which expert security advice to follow: four conceptualizations of ‘viruses’ and other malware, and four conceptualizations of ‘hackers’ that break into computers. I illustrate how these models are used to justify ignoring expert security advice.
I've never used requirements.txt, etc. though I've seen various references to the problems. Your essay made it clear about what those problems are, and I have a better understanding. Thanks!
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For a fairly accessible description of this work see [1]. As I understand it, they're addressing the problem of the internal functioning of DNNs being hard to interpret, by using composable NN modules.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-lincoln-laboratory-ai-system-so...
The thing is that "advanced Python" is too large a topic for a single book, or even for a single person to cover completely. It might be a series of books though; off the top of my head I can think of the following topics, each of which will cover many advanced areas:

- Python concurrency: multiprocessing, multithreading and asynchronous programming
- data science and numerical computation in Python
- embedded Python
- Python GUI development
- packaging and deployment of Python applications and libraries
Since this censored version of the search engine will only work in China, I don't see how they are "handing the future of the Internet" to them.
https://boles.com/ (website the article uses in examples) is now front'd by Bootstrap.

Is Bootstrap is the new Frontpage?
> They managed to coordinate simply by looking at what the others were doing.

This bit seems incorrect, https://medium.com/@stelmaszczykadam/do-openai-five-dota-2-b....
Okay, you are conflating fairness and equality, which are totally separate concepts.

Let's assume you are talking about sharing, as that's what the original point was about. Specifically the sharing of 19 bones among 20 dogs, by dividing up the bones.

Assumign by 'naive' you mean wrong, are you saying that it is simply a more optimal situation for one dog to go hungry?

Does the one dog always go hungry, or does one dog (but a different one each time) go hungry?

Do we just let the one dog go hungry each time intentionally, so that in future no dog goes hungry? What if then one day there are only 18 bones for 19 dogs? Do we let that dog die too?

What if a group of 18 dogs is required to take down an animal that provides enough bones, but we let the two other dogs die because sharing is naive?

Well, that pretty fundamentally calls into question rather a lot of all the principles civilisation is founded upon and which permeate nature, even (nature!).

So you better provide some amazing scientifically backed proof of that statement. No, Atlas Shrugged is not scientific proof.
With some probability, yes, but it's still non-zero. There are other failures where ECC doesn't help (ie, bitrot on your SSD or Harddrive, cosmic ray hitting the CPU itself, anything that does DMA).

The best we can do is deploy ECC, hope the cosmic rays don't hit our Datacenter too hard and design software to fail fast if it fails, even if math says it can't fail. Because it will fail.
I believe the main issue in Europe was due to torque converters being inefficient. With expensive gas and small engines, the performance hit is non-negligible. Nowadays you can get good robotized gearboxes that have almost none of the disadvantages, except for a slightly higher price. And given that most people drive manuals in an idiotic way, they can easily be more fuel efficient.
Do you think the system should be structured so that no one is ever behind anyone else in the "rat race"?
It's too grandiose a term honestly. And it does not really convey the role the role-holder does. It's a really confusing term. I guess the term came around when the web was still young and was used as a precursor to "guru".
In academia we say "not published, not done". Perhaps the open-source community could benefit from "not documented, not done".
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FrontPage 97 was the first WYSIWYG tool I ever used, since graduating from the humble text editors. IIRC, I got a free upgrade to FrontPage98. Coupled with Visual InterDev, it formed the core of my webdev workflow.

At the time Macromedia was making terrific advances in this space. Ca. 1999-2000 I moved to Dreamweaver, Ultradev, Flash and Paint Shop Pro(liked it better than Fireworks; story for another day).
> Why do you think they got that habit to begin with?

In short, childhood trauma and lack of family support. Often the trauma comes from abuse from their family. These are not problems you can just throw money at.

> I question how much experience you actually have with either the poor or drug addicts.

If you must know my experience I did youth work for inner city kids from 1999-2006 in Langley BC. I then lived and worked in the Vancouver DTES from 2006-2017. I have several close friends and family members who work at Insite Injection Clinic, Portland Hotel Society, HIV/Aids Clinic at St. Paul Hospital, and the Odyssey and Nexus programs in downtown Vancouver.

Perhaps you are unaware what life on the streets is like.

Edit: also, I never said I was a "majority" that has an expensive addiction. I said the number of people is significant - which it undoubtedly is.
I was asked a series of brainteaser interviews at a university interview.

It was immediately clear that the purpose of the questions wasn't really to see if I knew the answers, but to see how I responded when asked about something I didn't (immediately) know the answer to.

Isn't this a perfectly legitimate way to try to see how a candidate might deal with solving problems they don't know the answers to?

Ironically one of the interviewers (a somewhat crusty old astrophysics professor) later became my physics tutor, and continued to ask us brainteaser questions during tutorial sessions.

For instance, I dimly recall us being asked to "estimate the change in the length of the Earth's day if all the cars in the UK were to drive on the right-hand side of the road instead of on the left"...
I'm so glad we've learned these days with 10,000KB of JS for 1KB of text rendered in tiny, hairline thin fonts on no-contrast backgrounds.

It's honestly always been bad ... before the web you'd dial into terminal based systems (BBS) and be assaulted with a perverse amount of ANSI escape codes and 8-bit extended ASCII flying around the screen and blinking at you (interfaces like this: https://s0.mundogamers.com/uploaded/bbsmenu.jpg). In between the two eras even IRC and UseNet got full of crufty ASCII art followed by leet-speak spelled weirdly cased words...it was illegible, unappealing and awful.

Having the maturity to know when to stop and having the control to know what not to do have always been talents far more rare than we'd prefer.
Or you can share 5% of your hunt to keep the lazy dog from attacking you while you sleep. Is it 'fair'? No. Is it a wise move? Maybe.
This ended up on PCMag as “Amazon Granted Patent for Workers in Robot Cages”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/363657/amazon-granted-patent-for-...
I thought linking to the patent would be better
I used it back in the day to create biology-online.org

All the cool kids used DreamWeaver, the hardcore ones notepad.
Do you have any constructive suggestions to add, or just cynicism?
reminds me of the episode of futurama where a uses a crack vending machine and it gets stuck dropping out of the machine

i do have to wonder why no one thought a pen vending machine was odd though, they dont even have pen vendors in japan (that ive seen anyway)
There's always oil rigging work, which can start at 80k and pretty quickly get into the six figures with no college education