skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> But, as I said, these updates were all free and available on the Internet, so downloading updates wasn’t a problem for most people.

Kind of surprising in 1995. I didn't think that many people had internet access. Then again, power users probably did, who would be customers of RAM Doubler.
I think what they're saying is that current scientific achievements are usually the result of huge swaths of scientists from all manner of disciplines working together, and giving an award to a single researcher is usually just a popularity contest or publicity stunt that ignores the work of everyone else.
You should have dumped windows.

I played doom II with 4MB on a 386DX40. We had a DOS 6 boot menu to not load smartdrv. It ran good enough, except on the last level, where all the different enemy types caused all their graphics to be loaded at the same time. That was too much, and caused severe disk trashing (not swapping, DOOM managed the disk on its own).

doom used less memory, so it should have been good enough.
> you must realize that the potential of nearly half the population is completely wasted

Umm you do realize there are important roles outside of STEM right?
I find it quite funny that there's a parallel discussion as to whether or not everything in a modern circuit board is implemented with NAND gates.
You can use Dropbox or other cloud storage service https://getpublii.com/docs/publii-on-multiple-computers-via-...
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Yeah, I don't think it's a literal quote, unless it was in a very specific context.

It was making fun of the 640K limitation of MS-DOS, and the implicit reasoning behind that hard limit.
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A somewhat more extensive research of that quote:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
[Note that nobody has paid for a product yet.]

If you don't have "paying customers" in some fashion, you aren't really in business. The rest is just window dressing, basically.

An even longer runway!

There's your "Universal Basic Income" right there: Money for nothing (and your chicks for free, no doubt). See, also, Duke Nukem Forever, where they basically didn't ship until they had to because they were running out of money.

I think an essential source of friction in the world of business is there are two ways to make money:

1. Add real value such that if someone pays for your product, you both walk away better off. The world is enhanced by the existence of your company/product.

2. Milk people for money in some social/commercial variation of strip mining where you extract resources for yourself and don't really make the world a better place. There are externalized costs of some sort where the world is, in the aggregate, worse off because you got your needs met in the short term.

Real startups are the first thing. Zombie startups are the second thing. And friction over "Yes, but am I paying for something that genuinely makes life, the universe and everything better or am I paying for some blood-sucking piece of shit?" is the essence of a lot of criticisms of business, capitalism, etc.
There being a desire to fight back does not mean that this fight is effective or avoiding an arms race (which is wasting resources for everyone).
The GDPR is mostly good. The right to find out and delete the data is excellent. The bad thing is the constant consent popups which have become synonymous with the GDPR.

Obviously there are also still a lot of sites that try to wiggle around the GDPR by saying "By entering the site you agree to X", a practice that should soon be found to be in violation of the regulation. If that is allowed, the regulation for storage/processing becomes almost pointless.

That data collection should be opt in if it isn't an essential function of the app/site/service.
They have DTAG I believe, you have to pay extra for it though.
#TeamThanos

There is a huge difference between the population flattening out and continuing to grow strongly. Whilst you are broadly correct, that we need to solve for 120% current - that's obviously easier than solving for 200% current.
This is hackernews, does something "non-STEM" even exist? :)

But seriously, of course other fields than STEM exist. And of course they are important too. But if you believe that the underrepresentation in STEM is not entirely due to beneficial reasons and that remedying that would be beneficial, then the above mentioned still holds true.
They should add Certificate Transparency logs too, but otherwise a good list.
Extreme left-wing politics is basically defined by hypocrisy at this point. "Discrimination is bad... Unless we do it!" "Violence is bad... Unless you're punching people the mob deems Nazis!" "Free speech is good... Unless you say something we don't like!"

I'd like to imagine that most moderate liberals are seriously embarrassed by this kind of stuff. It seems from the thread that this is true, so that gives me hope that it's not all bad.
> Nobody was creating electrical signals by hand and sending them down a home made wire.

I think we're talking about completely different levels of sophistication.

You're talking about electrical engineers vs regular users, I'm talking about levels of functional literacy... Don't forget that the average Joe/Jane has a level of functional literacy of somewhere around mid to late secondary school.

The earliest internet adopters were universities (so a entirely different level of education) and after that it was middle or upper class people who could afford a PC and an internet connection plus had the interest in doing so, considering that PCs until Windows 95 were either too expensive or not very user friendly.

The current internet, thanks to mobile devices and cheap, ubiquitous internet access, is truly accessible universally.
Your comment is being downvoted because you're just rambling like an old man grumpy about kids on his lawn. Not a single shred of evidence, or even an attempt at making an actual reasoned point.

Every time there's comments like this I can't help but think I'd be extremely surprised if the people writing them knew any of the names of the people who worked on the law.

I wonder what you even define as "having an idea what you're doing".
By definition developers etc are "professional" grades.

Unfortunately those who are the first in their family to go to uni and go into a professional job don't always get the support and informal knowledge passed to them.

One example would be read a proper newspaper - I can recall when being asked which newspaper you read was a common interview Q in the UK
Gibson's prose has a short shelf life. That's why he doesn't write future-set stories anymore.

In the film of Johnny Mnemonic, the screenplay of which was penned by Gibson himself, Johnny must act as a courier for 320 GB by using a brain implant -- in 2025. It's 2018 in the real world, and data smugglers today would probably get farther by swallowing toy balloons with two or three microSD cards in them than by going the whole invasive wipe-your-childhood-memories brain implant route (if such a route were available).
“In the end the only leverage USA has is its market. So if they give market to legal entities, cartels and violence associated with them will go away.”

Oil is legalized in the US, yet a cartel has until recently dominated that market, and OPEC’s members certainly use violence to maintain their control. The only thing displacing OPEC now isn’t a free market, it’s local production.
16 million terabytes will be a lot of RAM for at least a couple of decades.
It's through Core Backbone, has nothing to do with this "unlimited traffic" thing and it is NOT possible to add that option for their cloud services.
There's long been a saying that "Once it's out there (on the Internet), it's forever," but I used to save links in a Microsoft Word document, and I went through them a few years later and almost none of them worked anymore. The years in which they were saved was 2006 to 2009, and the year I went through them was 2012. The links were from MySpace (which totally overhauled the entire site and all content), Facebook (where users had deleted their profiles or pictures), Tumblr (where bloggers rename their blogs, which change the URL, or they wipe them clean, or delete their blogs), YouTube (tons of videos and whole accounts have been deleted because of copyright infringement, whether by the account holder or by YouTube itself), Blogspot (same, but also that some bloggers made their blogs private, perhaps to prevent spam-comments or trolling), Yahoo articles (which I see Yahoo deletes after some time), Style.com (Vogue magazine's website of all runway shows, which are now on Vogue.com instead, with a different URL structre), and dozens of other websites that don't exist anymore.

I think the statement about "stuff that's out there" really only applies to famous or public people, where leaked and/or damning photos or videos are quickly copied, saved, and rehosted by websites all over the world, including Twitter, Pinterest, and other platforms. For instead, while Google Images fastidiously won't show you the hacked photos of "Jennifer Lawrence naked," as Google sought to avoid a $100M lawsuit [0], Bing Images, once you turn off Safe Search, shows plenty of sites that host the pictures, with most frequent such site being a German-based one called "OhFree," but there are at least 3 Blogspot sites as well, I suppose ironically.

[0] > "We've removed tens of thousands of pictures," says the web giant - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/google-responds-je...
This should really terrify us all.

The Chinese economy is not just inflated, it's now an enormous chunk of the world economy. Throw in their really wild housing bubble [0] and it's a time bomb. Globalization has made everything cheaper, but it's tied us all together in many ways. They won't fall over alone.

Hiding news that the economy isn't doing well distorts incentives. Those with political connections will know what's really happening and take full advantage. Those without will make poor choices. Like buying a 4th unfinished condo as an investment.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-24/why-china...
Definitely. Also, there can be flaws in the actual implementation of older tools as well. I'm going to avoid diving into specifics because it would be a distraction, but I know more than a few older tools that would benefit from parallelism. They were written in a time where parallelism wasn't as ubiquitously supported as it is today, and thus, the entire implementation would need to be carefully rethought, refactored and possibly rewritten to grow that benefit. We're talking shared global mutable state, everywhere.

Even if you had the person with the expertise, time and motivation to do the work to improve the implementation, you still aren't even guaranteed that the enterprise will succeed. You'll need immense social capital to even convince others that it's actually the right thing to do. Just think of all the new bugs that will be introduced. The angry users. The headache. The added maintenance burden and the pressure from trying to fix the new bugs quickly. It's an absolute nightmare and it's why it doesn't happen, IMO. It's also why starting anew is so much easier and so much more enticing. When you don't have any users, that's when you can really innovate.
Having watched a 4K movie, I can confidently say 640K should be enough for anybody.
> Maybe because Instagram millionaires are about as common as sports millionaires?

If you enjoy it, that's good. But not everyone enjoys it and that's why STEM has lower praticipation from females and that's what we are discussing here.

I didn't say millionaire anywhere. Many modeling gigs pay more than entry level median salaries in STEM.

It's about efforts vs reward.
People in STEM require years of education compared to posting a product review on Instgram which doesn't even require a high school certificate.

Don't compare it to Pro football players either which is very risky and requires years of training and money.
No one actually wanted a computer in their home.

They did want an interactive TV set.
Confluence isn't complex at all. My company has an antiquated piece-of-shit knowledge system that's been doing nothing but causing headaches and issues for the last 5 years. The company wouldn't let us investigate a new system, so I just setup Confluence on a VM and moved about 600 articles to it in a week, manually. I then just released it on the trial and everyone immediately abandoned the old one, forcing the company to pay for it - forgiveness is easier than permission etc.

Anyway, if you think Confluence is complex, that just means you haven't tried it yet, or you spent too long looking at the admin panel options. Cars are complicated if you start doing gearbox changes, but if you're just sat driving then it's a piece of cake.

I tried tons of software for this before I settled on Confluence, tbh nothing came close.
> Such a discrepancy between a Normal distribution of inputs, with a typical scale (the average talent or intelligence), and the scale invariant distribution of outputs, suggests that some hidden ingredient is at work behind the scenes."

There's no mystery here. It's the accumulation of value by the top end outliers and recognition of the value they provide by others. Preferential attachment produces a power law.
If we stop making big deal of these things, it won't matter anymore.

What makes you think this?
Well, not that I agree with the grandparent comment, but in many parts of the world left-handers are indeed discriminated and forcefully trained to become right-handed, which leads to all sorts of problems. This was also commmonplace in Europe until not long ago.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bias_against_left-handed_people#...
that's so last century... now we believe that 'nobody needs a quantum computer at home'
Not realy don't do what the trendy thing is in the city and any C level might get pushed out.

on example was the campaign against a former BT CFO would not would print shares to go on a buying spree - like Vodaphone was doing
> It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists.

Achievements in modern science are usually seen as incremental, done as part of a larger team and based on a substantial body of prior work. I think the author is trying to say that behind these successes, there are people who may have committed as much to the field but achieved no recognition. In my experience the larger teams / collaborations thing seems to be more of a Particle Physics thing.

> This recognition is for those, who successfully appropriate the spirit of a given time. Aside from the propaganda/marketing stunt.

The author, I believe, is saying that success is more to do with luck. I'm not sure I agree -- there tends to be a network effect with science that people who have proven themselves get offered better opportunities and so can in some cases have a cluster of successes, but I have heard similar sentiments and they're not so easily dismissed.
> Such a discrepancy between a Normal distribution of inputs, with a typical scale (the average talent or intelligence), and the scale invariant distribution of outputs, suggests

Read this: http://www.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/papers/EPJB-17-723-2000...

The authors started with even distribution of money, and random transactions with uniform probability, yet they arrived to very uneven distribution of outcomes.
For local addressing inside a computer 16 exabytes is enough.

For global or large system level addressing 128 to 256-bits should be enough.

(note: you may want local 128-bit virtual addressing for other reasons than accessing more memory)
Because thats a totally arbitrary statement and it's also not really true. It's pretty trivial to swamp the GPU, even if you know what you're doing. If you want to show something big/complex or very pretty, or even just novel rendering that will stress the GPU (raymarching, scattering), the CPU will be waaaaay less burdened.

CPU bottlenecking is an issue in videogames where the main loop is usually handling a massive amount of computation, doing its own intersection checks, etc. Etc. Plus any other processes queuing sounds, running physics etc. There are just a few cores doing a huge amount of work.

Its still relatively easy to swamp the CPU in javascript (webworkers and async obviously help), but if youre just piping orders to the GPU then any CPU can easily max out the abilities even on high end cards. In most cases that's basically what webgl is used for, AFAIK. How many full on ai and physics heavy games are there? Webgl games tend to be lighter, and are very often accessible ways to play with interesting shaders. The use case tends towards GPU bound.
I have no idea either, but it's probably worth pointing out that, for better or worse, promotion to full will entail a certain degree of bean counting. Thus, there are a number of perfectly respectable ways to not meet those metrics. For example, someone who decides to tackle a very hard problem with very high risk of failure is likely to look less productive on paper.
> This regulation is clearly made by people who don't understand the technology and capabilities...

Staying ahead of them with a technological trick is only a partial, temporary solution, though. Eventually you can expect that there will be an attack, whether purchased (see GreyKey) or legislated, on the workaround. What should happen is that the whole arms race should be nipped in the bud by outlawing this kind of data collection coercion. But I don't have a lot of hope about getting that genie back into the bottle.
Well, we could go on and both claim our statements are true. OR you just follow the link of my initial post and read a book that simply states facts published by the UN, and you would see for yourself that the rates of poverty, child mortality and mass inequality have become much better in the course of the last 30-50 years.
You haven't stated why you need a good alternative? I recently integrated Confluence at my company and it's one of the most popular things I've ever done, it's transformed our department.
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https://books.google.it/books?id=2C4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22nobody+wo...

the fact that a direct quote doesn't exist doesn't mean that it wasn't the sentiment at the time.
I totally agree. I have used them (occasionally) for years whenever I need extra compute for a few months, or for long term development servers. I especially like running large Haskell builds after updating to new versions, overnight machine learning runs, etc. on a rented server rather than my laptop. For me, GCP is a close competitor to Hetzner for a different use case: when I want a lot of compute for a few hours at a time.
I think that's an issue both in communications and in handling people.

For example, did you have to take credit for that particular situation? What was the true downside of your boss taking credit? Why not cover for him and gain the ally? Build the relationship and you'll often find that it pays back in multiples.

Business is 99% about relationships. The only way you can get what you want is by helping others get what they want.
Neither the README, nor the documentation and several other places on GitHub (the tags, the short repo description) mentions how to use this on Linux.

I am happy that this project (which is new to me) works on Linux now, but I would suggest updating information more diligently before trying to attract interest from the crowd. First impressions matter, after all.
IIRC they ended the DTAG transit agreement due to DTAG having unreasonable pricing requests for the renewed agreement (i.e. DTAG holding Hetzener hostage, you can read more about it here [1]. If you are interested you can still buy DTAG transit for your Hetzner servers via https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en, do keep in mind however that this is a metered connection, not unlimited like for regular web traffic.

[1] https://www.golem.de/news/hetzner-und-netzneutralitaet-extra... (German)
Exponentials being what they are, the 32 -> 64 jump buys us a lot of headroom.
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Interesting comment in the light of the article, in that you focus on what went wrong (in this incident) as opposed to when it goes right.
A class that has 2 methods and no state whatsoever. This is exactly why I don't like much of the ruby code out there.

EDIT:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but spreadsheet column addresses are basically just base-26 encoded numbers, where the digits are 'A'...'Z'. If you convert them into their base-2 representation, you could store 65536 rows, instead of the 26*26=676 you can store with two integers.

An additional consideration would be that spreadsheets are often of fixed width and grow downwards, so you can use more bits for indexing rows than columns. This depends on the use-case though.
The boss could very easily at least make it known which engineer did the good work to fix it. If that isn't standard practice, something is seriously wrong. I make it a goal to be clear about who did the work when talking about something my team accomplished, even if I had the idea.
I’ve been reporting the same bugs in Finder since Mavericks, don’t get your hopes up that they will be fixed.
Have been a customer for years now... they're one of the really innovative hosters from Germany with dead cheap competitive pricing...

Also their new cloud options are top notch.
"Tricksters and pranksters" AKA good old fashioned trolling. It's a shame the modern definition of "troll" seems to have warped to include those who tell people to kill themselves on social media etc.
From the engadget article:

> Amazon has also thrown down a gauntlet to its competitors, challenging it to match its wages, and has said it will push to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour.

Of course, because if they don't they are opening up a significant flank for a startup/competitor that can exploit this labor market inefficiency.
So Amazon starts paying wages that even Bernie Sanders deems fair and you arent happy. What do they have to do, cure cancer?
That's even cooler, photons popping into existence like whitecaps on a wave as the energy coalesces to a point after travelling independently for hundreds of billions of miles.
I'm glad to hear this. The "about" says it bans loading web fonts- which is good for speed and perhaps privacy but bad for pretty.
In "John dreamt he wasn't dreaming" the two observations either have different observers or happen at different times. At no point is John both aware that he is dreaming and also thinking that he is not dreaming.
Moving beyond a 64-bit architecture will allow manipulation of memory address spaces that are larger than 16 Exabytes. Even high-end servers today do not contain more than 1TB of physical memory. It would take several decades if not more for memory densities to become high enough to begin to reach the boundary that 64-bit addressing limits computers.

So yes, highly likely for a little while..
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