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Ask HN: What are your favourite hard-to-find sites from the “young” Internet?
There seems to be a lot of nostalgia in the comments on HN lately, harking back to an earlier era of the Internet from the 1990's and 2000's. The Internet was young, things were simpler, more magical and less commercialised.

According to these commenters, this Internet still exists today, but won't show up on any major search engine (Google seems to be the usual target of this complaint but I assume it's more or less true of other search engines too).

Growing up in a household that didn't get an Internet connection until 2006, I missed this "young internet" almost completely, and so I was wondering: what are some of your favourite examples of niche, eclectic, wholesome, fascinating, magical, quirky, mind-blowing, profound, simple, nostalgic, and/or interesting sites from this young Internet that still exist today?
Not if it's a Vera Bradley lunch box.
I think you absolutely can find a position that fulfills your requirements (mainly because I have one like that and love it!), however it's either going to take just getting lucky and striking gold randomly, or networking like crazy with your network and having them tell you about what the work atmosphere at their office is like and back channeling you with their HR. Great companies with great work cultures exist, but they're like exclusive rent control apartments... we tend to fill openings with internal referrals because the talent brings their best colleagues from their previous jobs.

How I got into where I am was I dumb-lucked into it by connecting with a great recruiter and randomly having the hiring team like me a lot. I've been there two years and have recruited two of my best previous coworkers from other jobs to come join us. We are all loving life.

Anyways... work your network! Good luck and don't give up!! I would say stay away from newbie startups and go to midsize profitable firms.

edit: I don't have my own private office, but I have a really big high walled private cube with a door. big enough to leave my bike inside it and do yoga inside. I love it. I feel dorky in a cube but it is really nice!
I'm disappointed that this remains the pathetic reality but I'm not surprised nor confused. This has been the way it has always worked. Humans hold different levels of value to different people depending on which group or locale they belong to. We associate with the journalist more than the Yemeni children so it makes bigger news. The rest propagates outwards from there.
Being honest, for many people, they're not going to be in many situations where they need to worry about this. And when they are, they have some advance time, like they've decided to go protest this weekend. They could have face unlock on most of the time, but switch to a password for those times.
"quick way to smooth over small fender benders/paint nicks if you accidentally damage someone else's car in a minor way"

Anytime I've had a body shop repair dents or paint nicks it has cost so much more than $100 that I would literally laugh in the face of anyone that tried that with me.
For those that didn't watch:

A laptop with a bent LCD backlight connector pin is taken to an Apple store. The staff notices that the humidity indicators have changed color, so warranty is voided. To fix it, they want to replace several boards and possibly the display, which will cost the user "over a thousand" and possibly more.

The user (CBC's The National) then takes the laptop to a third party repair shop (Louis Rossman's) that spots the problem in under a minute and, taking just one more minute, bends the pin back restoring full function to the laptop. Rossman then states that he normally wouldn't charge for such a quick fix.

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We must ask how this happened. Rossman first shone a light through the Apple logo at the back of the monitor and was able to see a mouse pointer moving around, indicating that the computer and LCD panel are both functioning. This identified the backlight as a problem, and the first thing to check was, "is it plugged in?". It wasn't. Rossman has a simple procedure to follow that allows him to zero in on the problem.

Why wasn't Apple able to diagnose this problem similarly? Rossman is clearly a talented and dedicated individual. However, an Apple repair technician has the resources and training of a multi-billion dollar company behind him. Apple never even got as far as diagnosing the backlight as the problem. When faced with a monitor that doesn't come on properly, why isn't their first step similar to Rossman's?

To take the car analogy from the video a bit further, how many car owners stick to using the dealer to service their vehicles for the entire life of the car? Once the warranty has expired, there are usually cheaper and more competent options available. It's not uncommon for car owners to develop a long-term relationship with a mechanic they trust. As discussed later in this video, Apple legally harasses third party repairers and anyone importing proprietary parts. Would you buy a car from a company that tries to lock you into dealer service by suing your neighborhood mechanic or anyone who dares to import parts specific to their vehicles?
The galaxy's dark matter is largely rotating with the bulk of the visible galaxy. However, the solar system's peculiar motion through the dark matter (DM[a]) does perturb the DM, and some DM will entrain to solar system objects (mostly the sun) leading to small overdensities.

However, remember that within the orbit of Neptune there is only about ten Phobos-masses worth of dark matter, or barely more than Jupiter's small moons Lysithea (disc. 1938) or Sinope (disc. 1914, until 2000 the outermost known moon of Jupiter).

Moreover, Jupiter can't really gravitationally entrain anything beyond 0.35 astronomical units away from it (otherwise the sun dominates), and gas (whether dark matter or electrically neutral atoms or light molecules[b]) is too low-mass to be drawn into a orbit around Jupiter with such a small radius.

There is likely a small overdensity of DM within the sun, but that's really a focusing of dark matter gas through gravitational lensing rather than dark matter gas staying trapped within the sun. It may help understanding if you hold the sun stationary and blow a wind of dark matter gas past (and through) it -- the gravitation of the sun pinches some of the gas inwards. Since on timescales of small numbers of years the sun has roughly constant velocity against the gas (or the wind blows with constant strength from a constant direction), the pinched wind is at a constant location and constant density deep within the sun.

Whether any of the less-massive bodies of the solar system have overdensities within them (or possibly tails[1]) depends on the mass of dark matter particles, and right now that's not well-enough constrained to answer with any confidence.

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[a] here I mean specifically cold dark matter (from the standard cosmology) rather than neutrinos. Solar neutrinos and (relativistic) neutrinos from far away sources are "hot" and so run away from the galaxy too quickly to account for much of its non-visible mass; cosmic neutrinos (the neutrino analogue of the cosmic microwave background) are cold and dark, but individually they're too low-mass to form galaxy or even galaxy-cluster size halos. The total mass of the cosmic neutrino background is also small.

[b] of course, ionization of neutral atoms and gas molecules is pretty likely in the solar system, and Jupiter has an enormous magnetotail. Dark matter doesn't feel magnetism (and isn't ionized by UV or X-rays), otherwise it wouldn't be dark. So while gases can be drawn around Jupiter electromagnetically, dark matter cannot.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-might-have-hairy-dark...
Car companies are trying just as hard to make third party repairs hard as well. So many things can only be replaced now anyway.

It's not just Apple, which is why we need a law.
What “Touch Bar madness?” They put a Touch Bar. So what? Some of us actually love it. Some of us even use Vim and love it. Calling it “madness” is a bit hyperbolic. You certainly don’t have to like it, but people are acting like they removed the space bar.

One benefit of their “lame” repair policy is that it protects resell values because you can generally be assured some back-alley repair shop didn’t use an inferior part or fix something with shoddy workmarkship. With three year AppleCare and good resell values, Macs are great values. Ever tried to sell a 5 year old Dell? Pretty much paperweights after a few years in terms of resell value.
What do you mean Apple Pay came and went? Where I live (not SV) I pay for everything with Apple Pay. I haven't found any stores or restaurants that don't accept it.
The article seems to miss the key way to succeed at networking: help as many people as you can before asking for help.
Yet Sherman estimates that he has lost “hundreds of thousands” of dollars in potential revenue due to copycats.

Just like piracy, it doesn't work that way. Far more people are willing to pay $10 for a selfie-stick phone case than $50.

Alternatively, I've also seen a lot of Kickstarters which were simply "marketing" for an existing yet not-so-well-known product available from Alibaba, with a substantial markup added. This means there is already significant "innovation" happening in China, contrary to what a lot of people think --- they just haven't seen the true scale of what manufacturing in China looks like.
“I might find an iPhone veteran...”.

This was an email chain in October 2008? The iPhone had only been out for a little over a year, the official SDK for 8 months, and the store for 3 months.
It's poorly received because it's hyperbolic. I've been around many powder cocaine users and have never seen someone's personality radically change. It's a stronger version of caffeine with more euphoria, that's about it. Given the health impacts, I dont recommend using it, but people should be honest about what this thing is, what it does, and how it feels, not participate in fear mongering.
Puerto Rico is a part of America, just not a state; Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
In higher interest rate countries it may be better to use credit cards for payments, since you get to accrue interest on cash you would have otherwise spent, for the 50 day interest free duration of the credit card, so it is like the credit card helps to earn a bit of money.

Also credit cards offer rewards program, so in effect, most purchases are tiny bit cheaper with a credit card than cash, and over a long term these tiny savings can add up.
I'm in the Portland Oregon Metro area. I've yet to come across a store or restaurant that doesn't accept Apple Pay.
"Hurts me is bad" is an excellent line of reasoning; I can hardly imagine a valid reproach. You can't dictate to another person that what hurts them is good.

> But you're only concerned with making sure your own kids get out ok.

I can't speak for grandparent, but I'm concerned with all the kids getting their rightful inheritance from all their respective parents, not only my kids.

That said, I don't think there is anything wrong with providing for your kids and not others.
What Mastadon servers do folks here frequent? Which ones are worth your time?
For training I find wherever I can get the cheapest gpus for my training set, usually aws is the winner. But we operate in 3 clouds. For inference it’s complicated. A lot of that is cheaper to do on the right low priority/spot/preemptive machine. Tpus seem to be exceptional at operations like soft max. I wonder how well fpgas might be good at some ml applications you might be thinking of. It all depends honestly.
Why? What does “independently” mean? How is that relevant? Furthermore, the link in the title says “youtube.com” already.
You wouldn't even need to power off, just require passcode. You'd also need to require passcode to enter airplane mode.

Passcode requirements are pretty opaque though - as is, my Android and iOS devices ask for passcode (vs biometrics) randomly (from my perspective). Would be nice to have proper documentation of all the conditions that force passcode entry.
Actually Einstein was great at reaching out to others in the field and discussing ideas with them. He also voraciously applied to various programs to find great places to work.

He’s no Edison in terms of networking, but it is interesting that even a cononical super-nerd creating theories in their basement (or patent-office) still gets value out of it.
I currently run my own Mastodon server, and wrote some scripts if you want to run your own on Vultr:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/

I'm really glad I set this up. Mastodon is an interesting platform; like one big lopsided chatroom. You do have to follow a lot of strangers to get started (unless you can convince a bunch of your friends to join).

People also go pretty ban crazy on there. I've been called a "Nazi stooge" and been flagged and reported once ... which went to my instance admin .. which is me. A lot of instances ban entire instances (instances like sealion.club tend to get banned and bofa.lol recently imploded). So running your own ensures you control what you see and not be censored by an instance admin.

I'd be interested in following more HN users. I suggest putting your ActivityPub address in your HN profile.
Classic Computer Science Problems (Book Series)
Surprised the parent's downvoted - it's as close to the truth as anything else.

Like a lot of Google products, Photos has a lot of forebears. Picasa was one of them, as was Google+ (IIRC, the Picasa team was folded into Google+ when Larry refocused the company on Social in 2011). Sounds like Bump was also aquihired into it, and I think there was also a lot of cross-pollination between Image Search, Research, and Google Photos around some of the search & content recognition features.
But if it can be tripped from humidity how can it be effective in pelican boxes...
Usually when people talk about the very high quality of apple hardware they are rarely talking about the specs. But instead about build quality, software, integration, usability, etc.

As a practical example: I have been using a Macbooks for years and whenever I use something else I get disappointed by the small and terrible touchpads.
Procedurally Generating Life Stories of Fruit Flies Across Generations
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“Hackett: A Metaprogrammable Haskell” by Alexis King (YouTube Video)
Any idea why sharing this link to Pocket on Android 9 does not work? ("this webpage does not contain a valid link")
There was the guy who sold the "secure" phone (it was targeted at drug dealers and cartel members). He would remote wipe them if they were in police custody. He's now going to jail.

Courts take an extremely dim view of the willful destruction of evidence.
Quoting my colleague:

-- begin quote --

I'm not sure how many of you are aware of the political situation in Brazil. Basically, there's a fascist candidate who disseminates hate speech against minorities and is very likely to win the presidential election that is currently in progress.

As a result of him winning the first round of the election, we're already seeing many attacks against those minorities as reported here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/brazil-electio...

And here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45829440

Yesterday I saw the news on the following "game" that it's available on the Steam platform:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/930460/BOLSOMITO_2K18/

In this "game", one would play as Bolsonaro and attack black people, women, LGBTQs, and left-wing activists.

-- end quote --
I personally find Twitter’s centralization, despite the obvious inherent downsides, to be its defining feature. To be able to have a real-time feed of everything that is being tweeted by anyone in the world on a given keyword or topic is really amazing, as well as the (reasonable) certainty that I’m following/tweeting at the “real” @celebrityaccount. Otherwise, I’d be happy to stick to blogging and Google searches. That said, it’s great to see a community-driven open source social media project and watch its ongoing development. Really loved the reflection from the developer here:

> I’m very happy with Mastodon’s accomplishments. Overseeing such a large project has its ups and downs, as it’s impossible to keep everyone happy all the time when people have conflicting desires. Irregardless, I consider these to be the two best years of my life, as work on Mastodon is incredibly fulfilling and interacting with all the interesting people on the platform is very fun.
Y-combinator: walk through chapter 9 of the Little Schemer
For one thing, you don't have to use this module with C. Any language that supports exporting C-compatible functions will do – there's C++ of course, but also Rust, Go, D, Nim, and many many others.
This is the point of failure. This never comes to fruition.

"Computers are hard, and I'm just not very good with them!"
I’m all for a lightweight GraphQL client, but does this do any client side caching? Query diffing? Query merging? To me those are the killer features enabled by GraphQL.
> "I'm an academically trained futurist"

What does this mean?

> "and I'm continually frustrated by the future as being techno-solutionist-driven and mostly Western or some Hong Kong/Tokyo future."

The future as it is and has been coming to pass? How we, today and recently, culturally portray the idea of the future?
First off, thanks for engaging in a bit of debate. I came off a bit needly when I was trying to allude to a technical point.

I'm guessing that we're talking about different things. If you think of gravitational waves as any non-zero Fourier transform of some gravitational potential, then you and I agree, but that's not what we typically mean by "gravitational waves" which are, formally, metrics admitting a covariantly null vector field.

One reason for the distinction is that in a GR analysis of the 2-body problem, the radial potential energy contains an extra term not in a Newtonian analysis. This is interpreted as energy carried away by gravitational radiation. Even in a classical case, an external observer witnesses a periodic gravitational potential, but only in GR do the waves carry energy and cause Mercury to precess.

The error bars on the early Cavendish experiments were way bigger than any GR correction to Newtonian gravity. As such, we can safely analyze it within the realm of Newtonian mechanics which only admits DC offset "gravitational waves". That was the intent of my original comment.

Actually, as far as I understand it, the Cavendish experiment is simply a static equilibrium analysis. We measure the deflection of a torsion pendulum with and without the test masses present. I'm not sure what you are referring to with the "flipping" procedure, but I'd guess it's more about homogonizing erros rather than generating "force pulses".
Facebook Says Hackers Accessed Personal Data from 29M Accounts
> I’ll be honest, if I’m dead... you’re welcome to it all.

Yeah, but you probably want to avoid creating software-based incentives where some people would prefer other people to be dead.
Anyone else thought this is something about SSH Tunnels and Ruby on Rails before getting to the "under Mexico..." part of the title?
I completely disagree with this sentiment. I have a group of six friends from a former company that I still keep in touch with and we meet for lunch at least once a month , the youngest is 42 and the oldest is in his late 50s. The guy in his late 50s, hired all of us at our former company. He “self demoted” to a developer after his kids graduated.

None of us have any desire for management. We all keep up with the latest technology and any of us regularly get jobs within a month or two depending on how picky we are being.

I am in my mid 40s, been developing professionally for over 20 years and it’s never taken me more than a month to get a job from the time I start looking. I am nowhere near the west coast but I do live in s major metropolitan area.
I spilt a glass of water on an old Lenovo laptop I had (while it was running), the keyboard had a tray under it which drained outside of the laptop. [0] But if i had damaged it, every single part was removable, orderable and replaceable.

[0] http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/avoiding-water-on-the-brain
Why? Because you don't like CSS Grid or because you don't feel it is widely supported enough yet?
Running your own instance ensures that the idiot admin of the instance isn't gonna ban you, but other instances can choose not to federate with you.
> The first thing about this video is that the laptop malfunction was at lest shady to me.

Some reporters, when trying to track down illegitimate fees for car repairs, purposefully perform a trivial forced issue, such as a bent sparkplug ground electrode. These sorts of things should be trivial to diagnose.

Even if the CBC did this, which I am skeptical given the lineage of the CBC, it would still be an entirely valid exercise.
I remember they used a “Panspermia” animation for Pantera’s cover of “Planet Caravan” back in 1994.

https://youtu.be/kWChhdIgT6Q
"The gold standard" is an odd way to put it, but, yes? Emacs' bloat cannot compare.
I’ve created enemies by forgetting names. Socialites are unforgiving.

I’ve learn to never ever say “good to meet you” and always say “good to see you” instead.

Worse, attraction plays a big role, and being married, leads to many conversations, generally of comedic value at this point. Maybe not the same conclusion in the early days. But one borne from confidence and time.
Clojure – exercism solutions
Nice project, and congratulations on release. Could you compare this to Apollo Client? What are some advantages and disadvantages?
It's the CBC. Do your homework.
EU urged to seize assets of foreign hackers
It just takes discipline. The discipline to not haphazardly throw macros all over the place, and keep them pure(no side effects).
Classic hiring move
When I get done with an outing, Photos prompts me to share pictures of it with other people who were there and are pictured. So maybe it is being solved?
No, FUSE literally stands for "Filesystems in User Space"
Yeah, I recently bought a motorcycle with cash. Price obviously too high for ATM so I went to bank drive-through. Apparently too high for the drive through so they asked me to come into the store. There they gave me the cash, I felt nervous carrying it the rest of the day, and then I picked up the motorcycle and counted out the bills. This was after we couldn't find a working venmo, Zelle, PopMoney or PayPal solution. That much is increasingly rare.
>Insiders often also have power over the behaviour of a company, so for example a corporate leader might short his company's stock and then take actions to ruin the business. Or they might release plans for some action that would be seen negatively in the market, depress the stock price, buy, and then change the plans to ones that will attract investors and pocket the difference when the price goes back up.

Legalising insider trading wouldn't legalise such behaviour per se, as such behaviour would still constitute a breach of the leader's fiduciary duties. Look for instance at how Musk was prosecuted for doing that kind of thing; such prosecution was unrelated to insider trading laws, and could still occur without them.
Lighten up. Are you all missing the irony?

The OP is about MS. The title is about embracing. The parent comment mentioned extending it. I must be old and just couldn't pass up the historical hacker pop culture references. My apologies.

Don't sprain your wrists while shaking your pitch forks.