skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better alternative link:

http://article.olduse.net/4737%40ethz.UUCP

Yes, I have an Usenet archive in my harddrive so I can search for the message, get its original Message-ID, and present you a link to Joey Hess's historical Usenet exhibition. Google Groups was originally Deja News, the most complete Usenet history archive at the time. But Google acquired it ~2000, and converted it into to Google's private forum service, instead of a museum that preserves the history. Not only the original raw archive was not available to the public anymore, but they also REMOVED the original message querying and indexing.

In Google Groups, you can read historical posts, but cannot find any technical trace of the original history - the whole thing is not indexed in the original way, I didn't even find a option to show the message header, making it utterly useless for archeology, instead, now the best Usenet archive we have is saved from some old tapes from one or two universities, and far from complete. This is really bad.

And apparently Google Groups as Google's private forum, is also already irrelevant. A lose-lose.
Returning to the roots of agile
Sure, but it'll be harder. Most places have a stack of resumes for positions, guess who gets weeded out first?
So. The case is interesting maybe. But 500usd for a $pi with a 30usd ssd?
And then 99usd/yr to route mail via a t2 nano on 1yr free tier?
So in a year's time the relay service will stop?
Or before that the ec2 instance will go down but then that means enough helms have been sold...
I could be wrong....
Not really, maybe if bought in bulk. 5$ for 1g seems pretty competitive with black market.
If you reverse engineering the code somehow, then it could fall under it I think.
2) Central government bails out bad loans by selling a portion of their $3T in foreign reserves, including $1T of US government debt. Chinese creditors, investors and citizens are made whole. Foreign bond prices fall and interest rates rise, causing recession and financial crisis in the US.

Selling treasuries is a double edged sword. Driving up borrowing costs for the US also lowers bond prices, wiping out the Chinese government's portfolio value, right when they need the funds for a bailout. Dumping a lot of dollars on the market will drive the dollar down relative to the yuan, hurting Chinese exporters right when their economy needs it most. China has really twisted itself into a knot on this one.
Isn't this on Rockstar to fix? How is it even allowed in their game code for a bag of money to be spawned in... there's no mini-game, heist, or mode that does this, so why is the code even possible?

Same with attaching Christmas Trees to people (very annoying), or killing everyone, or setting everyone on fire. Their API seems to be enabling this behavior (and the server gladly accepts the state change, impacting all other players), even though it's not used anywhere else in the game for legit reasons.
I guess you know you're getting old when you start seeing people "invent" things that you saw people using every day when you were young.

> I came to think, maybe we should create a digital typewriter giving us the best of the two worlds.

What the author calls a "digital typewriter" is what originally used to be known as a "word processor" -- a standalone, dedicated digital device with a keyboard and a (typically small, typically monochrome) display, running built-in software for editing text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_(electronic_dev...

You would type on the keyboard and your words would appear on the display, where you could go back and edit typos and such if you needed to. The display usually only showed a few lines of text, but you could scroll up and down through the entire document using the screen as a buffer. Your work would be then persisted to some storage medium, often in later models a floppy disk. It wasn't WYSIWYG, but it was a vast advance over mechanical typewriters, for all the reasons the article mentions.

These devices had their heyday from the '60s through the '80s. They were eventually rendered obsolete by the arrival of the inexpensive general-purpose personal computer. All the functions of the word processor could be provided on the PC via software, and the PC's bigger, more colorful display made it a better environment for doing those things anyway. The programs people used to do word processing on PCs came to be known as "word processors" themselves. Eventually the dedicated devices stopped being made, and I guess over time people just forgot that there was once a word processor that wasn't software.

My mother was a writer, and I have many childhood memories of her sitting at her treasured Brother word processor. So perhaps I have more reason to remember the hardware word processor than most people do.
Cool, I’m curious what the backend stack was ? Java, c# ?
Leslie Lamports Paxos protocol has to be in to top 5 algorithms/protocols (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf). This enabled so much progress in computing its unreal.
I suspect that it's pay more than ageism.

As you get older, it gets harder to get jobs - not impossible, just harder. It takes longer.

Why does it take longer? We're outside the knowledge of most hiring managers. They're thinking of "junior" as 0-2 years experience, and "senior" as 5-7. Where does 35 years fit on their spectrum? They don't even have a category for it. (You may be looking for jobs with the title "Principal software engineer" rather than "senior software engineer"). Those jobs are ones where your experience gets recognized as worth more money.

But most jobs see you as just an older, more expensive senior engineer. And if they can get a senior engineer for half your money, why would they want you? (Yes, I know. You're worth more. You can deliver actual results faster than those people. You can avoid mistakes those people will make. I know that. Your average hiring manager who's looking for a senior software engineer doesn't know that.)

For the record, I'm 56.
Nikit: new look for the Tcler's Wiki
I'm not defending Rockstar here but it sounds to me that they shouldn't have to spend resources just because some random people decided to create cheats.

I much rather have them developing more content/games.
Airflow 101: Automating your workflow for complex data pipelines
Ok... lots of state school offer liberal arts programs so not sure what point you're trying to make there. I would hope that it cost a lot less than a house, but I still think going into debt for a bachelors is a bad idea. I'm gaining equity every month rather than paying hundreds of dollars for a degree that provides little to no benefits over what you can get from a state school without taking on debt. Also, my house has appreciated 46.5% since I purchased it which is another financial benefit I would not have had I stayed at the expensive university
That is the most absurd thing I've heard in a while. I grew up in Canada and live in California right now. In general, I feel speaking freely anywhere in Canada than I do in the US. Leave the country and go visit somewhere for a change.
From everything I've seen, heard, and read on HN, the Bay Area isn't really big on tolerance.

It's big on virtue signaling specific kinds of tolerance towards certain groups, but that's about where it ends. Apparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but those are my observations as a 3rd party - I have no skin in the game.
If you're a frequent gamer, in an always online situation, have faster internet, don't have bandwidth caps, or you are a collector of indie games then it might not be your experience.
Naw it's all good. I hear ya. It's similar in the sense that if that thing age, race, whatever is the thing... I can't do anything about that and it seems to preempt anything else.
Rocket League Players Are Competing to Create the Most Skilled Bot
I'll make the same comment I make in all these threads: Requiring a college education is the last bastion of socially acceptable racism. If we can break that, then we have a shot at knocking that third item off the list.
Drug traffickers collect revenue in increments like $40 a pop so I'm not sure that sort of comparison serves your argument very well. In commercial disputes, it's common for a plaintiff to put a lien on a defendant's assets, or to get the OK from a court to search the defendant's offices for paper or digital records during the discovery phase of a case. Why all the drama over some contractual litigation?
Twitter releases content tied to misinformation campaigns
Love to see a list ranked by revenue instead.
18 year cycle confirmed.
That's not the sense of "depends on" that applies here. It's a textual relationship- in this case, I believe the last commit would depend on the second, which would depend on the first.

If you're familiar with CRDTs, they're closely related. Patches store enough information to commute, so a given state (e.g. a branch) can be described purely by a set of patches.
Thanks, very helpful !
The goal is to make it viable by developing enough of an ecosystem around it for it to be desirable by a wider audience. Accoutring to your approach, we wouldn't have free software at all, because it flies in the face of conventional economics. Someone with a little more vision had to prove it works, despite all the naysayers.

> if they don't want to be stuck in a box forever, whining about the "evil" Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.

If supporting a real hardware platform that is independent of "evil" Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. isn't taking practical steps to not be stuck with them, I don't know what is.
I second this. I know a couple people in their 70s who do nothing but consulting. They make great money and mostly work directly with the founders of companies who have ideas about big projects they want their business to undertake and need guidance.
My school’s (a public one) chancellor made $600k a year...
I did, but I'm not sure that's a get out of jail free card for the author.
> For starters, they should consider getting two degrees in a 4 year period. Many students take more than 4 years to get a single degree which significantly increases loans while having less job prospects.

I think quadrupling the work load of a student is only going to pan out with extremely talented individuals. This sounds entirely too unrealistic to be practical advice.
Are there third parties selling servers with this form factor? Or would we be locked into Helm when we need more compute or storage?
Yeah, this doesn't make much sense. Seems like something the police/other authorities would do and the article is just poorly written. Are private companies allowed to petition to search their customers' homes in Australia? Is the private company that ransacks your home allowed to invoice you for their time?

Edit: turns out they are allowed to do so. From the original source (page 5) [0]:

> Applicants means Take-Two Interactive Software Inc and Rockstar Games Inc

From Vice [1]:

> Two lawyers from the Bird & Bird law firm representing Rockstar and Take-Two were part of the "search party" that was allowed to look through their computers, along with independent lawyers and an independent "computer expert."

[0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5002897/GTA-ORDER...

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw949v/lawyers-fo...
Same. I wonder if there is any way to recreate that in normal life?

I find that when travelling, I find myself excited to get up in the morning and I am quickly full of energy after waking up, motivated to do things. Not so in everyday life, even if I don't have to go to work / do anything during the day. Is it due to more sunlight? Better scenery?

It would be nice to increase the baseline to that state you experience when travelling. I definitely remember feeling similar / more powerful excitement and the feeling of being full of energy as a kid.
I didn't read it as saying not to get a degree - but to do so without such a large amount of debt. There are many ways to do this.

I did it via the military. There are other options - that's just one.
No one should owe 75k for a bachelors, and having educational loans take up 20% of your post-tax income for a decade is beyond ridiculous.
If you're a dev, there are a lot of implementations, or code examples online.

Here is an open source Java example of some of the algorithm impl, and an HTML / JS example to test out in the browsers.

https://github.com/inversoft/prime-two-factor/blob/master/sr...
https://github.com/inversoft/prime-two-factor/tree/master/we...
There is a big difference between "don't feel forced to get that luxury product, it's ok to go without if you can't afford it" and "the product is literally worthless".

Nobody is saying the second thing.
It would be interesting to know the cap delta, not only the cap.

For example, if a company has a valuation of 5B and to reach that point raised 4B, its cap delta is 1B.

Not sure why only the total cap is the one publicized, probably are more newsworthy bigger vanity numbers than smaller sanity numbers.
For all the reasons you give, bad things are going to happen. We don't have time to stop that, but if we start now, we can mitigate the severity of those bad things that do happen and prevent others. The cleanup scenario isn't an option in any respect if the earth is really screwed.
Twitter blog post: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18240704)

Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/twitter-p...
Also only 1 year warranty
A cheat is a derivative work, so the game developer actually owns it. They do not give you permission to use it or sell it.
We can give up, or we can take action. The choice is ours. I still think popular pressure can make a difference, it's how every progressive action yet has come about.

Many countries are already onboard, China is realising very quickly how important the environment is. The US public is on the side of reducing emissions, I think the only thing left is to convince US elites and we can get there.
If that’s the case, why does it listen on IMAPS/993 and 587?
I have to agree with this comment. More often than not one-liner rewrites of even trivial functions are unreadable and can't easily be modified, all for the sake of having the appearance of elegance. It's more important to have code that is easily understandable and extendable, which isn't always the case with fewer lines of code.

For example I could write a massive list comprehension in Python in one line that could solve my problem, but it would be much more difficult to read and would be a pain to modify. I'd much rather work with the 10 lines of code it would take to actually spell it out.
Or, for better time complexity (with a bit of extra space) making a map of char -> frequency and comparing the results.
It really depends where the kids grow up. Free range parenting is possible, but in metropolitan neighborhoods with lots of traffic and psychos the risks are quite high. Im a parent and would love for my kid to grow up the way I did, free range and all. But there are always risks. I remember being hit by cars twice. The first time just a bruise, the second time broken leg, double fracture, from which I developed a slight scoliosis. Some kids I grew up with died in stupid accidents so I keep the risks in balance. Are you a parent yourself? Would you let your kids free range in a city like NYC?? Yikes..
> I can tell you that the cheaters always had a line of people asking them for free money

> I think the only ones having their fun ruined are the shareholders

That's just it... Rockstar wants to sell their "Shark Cards" - real money in exchange for in-game fictitious money... and waaaaaay overpriced to boot!

$8mm in game money for $99.99 USD?[1] That's maybe 6-8 hours of game-play (not trivial, but not ridiculous), and can be spent on one item, maybe two. No wonder people are spawning money...

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/376850/GTA_Online_Shark_C...
Can relate to most of that. After passing on-site day and hiring committee at a FAANG, was nixed at the executive level for "career trajectory" issues. In other words, "too old". Another place opined "skills rusty" after I pulled a recursive-descent parser off the top of my head in five minutes.

One of the problems with rich companies is that they can afford to have nonsense hiring policies. There's no real pressure to do right by candidates, so why bother?

I ultimately stumbled across a solution of sorts, which was to find a money-poor, non-SV organization with serious tech problems to solve. They're f___ing lucky to have me, they know it, and I'm treated accordingly. Very gratifying.
Interestingly to me, it seems that the broader international audience on HN has absolutely no idea that individual states in the USA have fully legalized and regulated cannabis.

Colorado (where I live) has done so for 4 years, and California, Nevada, to name a few, have followed suit.
It is not the fact of choosing between UVA, Virginia Tech, and William and Mary. Anyone of those schools is highly likely to give you a return on investment even if you get a non-stem degree. Why is this? They all have strong brand recognition. They are very selective; even the least selective of those three (VT) has an average GPA acceptance of 3.92. [1] It gets confusing for people who are not the best and the brightest. if you have a 3.0 GPA and 1000 SAT (median scores for high school) you might think it is a good idea to go to a school like Radford University. [2] Both cost about the same but one will vastly decrease your chances of making a return on investment. Now it might not be a bad idea to attend Radford if you plan on staying in southwest VA and you got a marketable skill. However, there is a large number of people who go to Radford get a history degree and move back to Richmond Virginia. Now your six-figure investment is worth about the same as the paper it is printed on. My parents always told me "It doesn't really matter where you go to school or what degree you get, you just have to make sure you get a degree!". This might have been the case at one point, but it is nowhere near the case anymore.

[1]https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmp...
[2]https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmp...
Another option, a modern Commodore 64. For example the C64 Mini has BASIC: https://thec64.com/basic/

It doesn't boot directly to BASIC, but I do believe that is achievable with other modern C64s, like the C64 DTV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
If that provider is one of the major ones, you an also use Oauth2 to sign in, no magic link needed. Also its more secure.
Nah, they're great at making games but they suck to support it. They're only focused how to make more money on players that wants to have fun.

Playing online is constantly watching loading screens, waiting between matches I queues are ultra long.

Cheats works like forever, before banning occurs.

No simple heuristics, like 'if player earned 1000000000000 in a day - something's worth verifying'.

I could block half of the cheats with few hours of such simple logics (I used to host Multi Theft Auto server, heuristics and "playing" with cheaters was very easy and successful way to protect legite players)
On the whole, Google shows me two types of ads: things I don't want, and things that are competing with non-ad links to the same product.

I can understand why Google gets bidding wars over people searching for "vacuum cleaner" or "cheap web hosting", but for most other things I can't quite imagine the use case. I either don't want to buy something, or I know who I'm buying from.

Facebook seems much better placed to show things like "hey, you liked this band and you live in this town, did you know they're coming next month?" On very rare occasions, FB actually manages to achieve the theoretical role of ads as "notifying people about mutually beneficial transactions". And when they don't, I can at least see that the ads are having effects like "making me aware of a consulting firm" that a marketer might value. Meanwhile, I've never seen a Google search ad I valued, and I don't know if I've ever seen an Ad Words ad I valued.

(Actually, I've benefited from Youtube ads occasionally also. But only ever for learning about new-release music, movies, or games.)
Apparently it does this if it knows you have an account. If you open in incognito it will let you see it fine and dandy. I hate Google Groups and their abuse of requiring JS for what is nothing more than just text and this login crap.
Anecdata: in 2005 I dated a Czech who called the country "Czech" when speaking English (her third language).

Further tangent: at least part of it has been "die Tschechei" in German since 1918 per the Wiktionary[0] and that's certainly the word people used in West Germany in the 80's, and I believe it's used widely today despite "Tschechien" being official[1].

The Wikipedia article (in German) suggests Tschechei is from Čechy which seems to be Czech for Bohemia. But I am not Czech nor Cseh nor tschechisch nor Čech so I may soon stand corrected. :-)

[0]: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tschechei
[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschechien
As with UI, the defaults do matter for decision-making of individuals.

And I think that a sane and successful society should help its citizens to do smart decisions.
What’s the intersection between people without the know-how to run their own servers and the people who understand what tech companies do with data well enough to feel that this is a big enough need?

In my experience, the average person doesn’t really understand what GMail or Facebook or whoever do with data or the extent of their knowledge about individuals. Even basic things like lookalike audiences or retargeting across the web regularly blow people’s minds.

I hope this project is successful, partly because that would show that people do understand these things enough to view Helm as solving an urgent need. I wonder if we’re there yet.
That's a great example.

Imagine waiting for a game to download, playing it, then having to download it again the next day. If you've experienced it once you will remember. If you've never seen it happen, then maybe it seems like a mystery to you. Some people have slower internet, bandwidth caps, busier schedules or different game libraries.
Landing Fortune 500 Clients and Raising Money from Big VCs – CEO of Balloonr
Agreed. I wouldn't be so skeptical about the effects[0] if it wasn't because those researchers weren't being paid by big government, while recommending new taxes[1].

[0] it seems unlikely that humans have no influence on the environment. It equally seems improbable that we can predict sea levels half a century from now with any accuracy.

[1] before anybody puts words in my mouth, I reserve the same skepticsm for any other report coming out of the mouth of an institution which advocates it should have more funding...
Not so fast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galoob_v_Nintendo

Smith compared usage of the Game Genie to "skipping portions of a book" or fast-forwarding through a purchased movie; thus the altered game content did not constitute the creation of a derivative work as Nintendo had argued. Smith wrote that "Having paid Nintendo a fair return, the consumer may experiment with the product and create new variations of play, for personal enjoyment, without creating a derivative work."