skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was UUCP email, where you had to know the path of hostnames to route the mail. No FQDNs! Just a list of hostnames separated by "!"

Example from [0]: "User barbox!user would generally publish their UUCP email address in a form such as …!bigsite!foovax!barbox!user."

You had to learn how machines were connected, and which were high capacity. Otherwise, delivery might take days, or fail.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing
I don't know about purest form but in 1993 when I first got access it was Gopher, email, MUDs, NNTP and IRC. Lots of different clients for different protocols. Anonymous FTP was how you got your stuff. Lots of Telnet (things like MUDs and library systems in particular). Very few ads. Images were something you actively sought out to download. Websites were new, relatively unusual and mostly text. Veronica seemed to be down all the time. No one worried that anyone else could see what you were doing, and most of the time, nobody cared.

That last is what I miss the most.
Technically yes, but I didn't count it because that one ended before the next work day started.
It's very common with features like A/B testing, analytics, advertising and CDN.

This should be inserted by the customer instead of filtering traffic, but not necessarily. It's very user friendly to only have a button to turn something on or off.
To be more specific the market says an increasing amount of people (as in a trend) has decided that new phones are not worth it year after year for a good while now.

Project that trend into the future and you’ll see just what happened in the PC market: ever decreasing sales.

Unless you’re prepared, that’s going to get ugly.
You’re right, it’s not completely useless yet
Is it worthwhile to note that most of them are democrats? It seems to me that at least that is an important point if one party has a strong affinity for scientific disciplines as opposed to the other. Further discussion may have been unnecessary, but it seems to me that this insurgence of scientifically trained representatives is a reaction to a government decreasingly interested in valid science, which would make the point relevant to the discussion at hand.

Perhaps it’s more an issue of how it was stated (aggressively) than the core idea?
Just wondering, what was the reason for this? I would assume that the peace brought by the Pax Romana alongside with the employment of military devices such as ballistae in the roman army would increase innovation instead.
I'm sure he also benefits a lot from feedback. Someone goes to book a route he suggests, and the connection now doesn't work, they are going to tell him, and he can update his page on it.
Did you go back and strike the non-competes already signed, too?
pretty much any good linear algebra course should do the trick
Very much related, "Populating the Semantic Web—Combining Text and Relational Databases as RDF Graphs", Kate Byrne.

- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/kbyrne3/docs/thesisfinal.pdf
The timeline i understood from the article was testing was successful, and then after testing was completed the prototype crashed / failed.
Ah I was wondering how Minecraft got so big (I also always thought it was just an open-source thing). Microsoft seems to be really good at hand-holding the masses and sitting them in front of things they didn't know they would've liked.
Person 1: That miserable bastard shot 20 people.

Person 2: Oh man, the problem is *guns!*

Hint: maybe the problem is miserable bastards.

Maybe the problem is people being driven to their breaking point, over and over again, by an increasingly brittle and rigid social order, to the point that psychotic plots are a highly visible statistical anomaly, that resonates with far too many people as a conclusion to draw from the circumstances they face.
> no search engines

There was Veronica in the Gopher days. It was always busy, but it was nice that it came from educational institutions (UNR's is what I used locally). I don't think anyone at UNR remembers they ran it.

Oh, and Archie.
Patent: Distributed system for large volume deep web data extraction [pdf]
because iMessage is closed api by apple. and they likely will prohibit any interference with their api...
Time to finally add a bot to my WhatsApp group chat!
I definitely prefer that. Amusingly, most of my DRM-free ebooks are in Apple Books, because it's become a really great reader and it's trivial to get "outside" books into it.
It looks like this opens a copy of WhatsApp Web and instruments it as its client. And it uses compiled class names like `._2EZ_m` to interact with the DOM. Unless I'm missing something, this will probably break weekly or every time they release a new build of the frontend. Not sure if there's a better way?
It's not a pretty vision of the future but maybe there are ways to escape it.

The reason apps all went cross platform is that desktop operating systems stopped innovating. Which is the desktop platform with the most new native apps, where developers take pride in making non-cross platform experiences? MacOS for sure. Which desktop OS has been consistently the most innovative over the past 20 years? MacOS!

Haiku running IntelliJ is technically interesting, but ultimately as a user I don't understand why I'd want to use Haiku. BeOS may have been innovative 20 years ago but it's a dead OS that hasn't changed in decades. May as well run IntelliJ on any other platform, then.

I think the desktop can be great again, but it will take a new generation of developers with new ideas about where to take operating system technology. I also tend to think that whoever tackles that problem will probably tackle it by writing a cross-platform app runtime that slowly expands to become more and more of an operating system until the actual OS is indeed, just relegated to providing some drivers and bootstrap code. But the actual UX will be defined entirely by that environment. Sort of like how Pharo gives you a full blown desktop environment when you start it (but I'm not arguing for Smalltalk)..
A Signal gateway would be nice but an irc gateway to a e2e secure platform might constitute a reduction of security for all involved parties.

There are jabber and slack gateways.

In practicality,I would like to see a gitter to IRC gateway,because of foss projects usage of both platforms.
Uyghur population is less than one percent of China's population. Results won't change even if they are able to participate.
These days, PostmarketOS is trying to support those older devices, and in a way that actually takes out Android! ...out of the device I mean, haha. But IIRC, most devices that CM used to run on, only had 512MB of RAM-- and that's honestly not enough to even browse the web on nowadays. (Many of them are also on earlier flavors of ARM that would be a bit harder to support natively, with e.g. Alpine having dropped support for anything earlier than ARM7.)
Why is this even patented ?
Isn't it pretty standard ?
I also like the pomodoro technique but i have a hard time choosing a good looking app. I came across mater from Jason Long [1] but it still need some work under the hood. It is based on Electron.

[1] https://github.com/jasonlong/mater
It’s a byproduct of Objective C. It’s pretty common to see just about anything that provides bindings/bridges into ObjC to match the casing of the ObjC code—this is typically to help with matching and looking up relevant ObjC documentation to understand the original code better. It is off-putting, for sure.
Just focus on executing and getting things done instead of planning. I have a flexible work/social schedule and just do things when it's most convenient.

Forget about things you're kind of interested in and just execute on high-priority stuff.

Calendars and meticulous planning are a necessity for ultra-productive people with insane schedules, but for most folks, they often end up as nothing more than extra busy-work.
Tetris in HTML and JavaScript
Usenet was incredible. For me it was like discovering Hacker News, but not just on a single topic, on any topic I could imagine. For those that never used Usenet it was a distributed point to point discussion system. Through your client you would download any updates of the forums you subscribed, and uploaded any new posts/replies. The server periodically synchronized with other servers.

Because of its distributed and assumed trust nature there were no built in safeguards to combat spam. Over time spam increased, a tolerable amount at first. But, the problem grew until it killed the utility of the service.

The closest analogy to usenet today is Reddit. Where we've normalized spam into a tolerable number of advertisements. Where we've traded off distributed systems to a single corporate control. The distributed nature meant you had multiple competing clients, corporate control today means you access through whatever mechanism the company authorizes.

I miss usenet.
Engineering and Designing Biology – Andreessen Horowitz
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It’s name recognition. Whenever I have to help a company, friend, or family that doesn’t really know “tech”, their domain is, without fail, hosted by GoDaddy.
I've took this article out of the MPP so that it's free to read. Enjoy!
I get some interviews.
If applied for 100 positions:
around 50% don't reply.
around 40% reject me.
Part of that could be because if visa sponsorship.

Some reply and I get interviewed.
In most of the cases, I do very well in their technical interview.
Then they would say, we are looking for a senior software engineer.

In two interviews last week, I was cut in the middle of the interview and it was ended once they discovered I'm not a senior engineer. One of them, supposedly saw my resume before hand and I did great in their online exam.

I have some projects yes, but not big enough for them.

In only one job, the requirement was an exceptional algorithmist. I'm not exceptional, but I applied anyways.

They sent me three problems. I solved two and sent them some thoughts about the third one, which was very difficult. I found several papers related. It was a publication level algorithm. Even my algorithms professor spend a day on it before giving up.
I think I have some thoughts about a solution, but I needs more time than I can afford at this stage.
Still waiting for their reply though.
Given that he actually travels the routes in question, I imagine he gets the information in the same way he books his tickets - online if its there, in the station if its not.
You had to hire a lawyer to get out of signing the additional agreement? Why did you sign the additional agreement?
Several times I’ve been in need of a nice way to build automated/smoke tests for an email signup process. This looks like a nice solution (particularly with the GraphQL subscription API).

Anyone used this service yet?
The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
Some people use their phone for things other than web surfing. Some examples: shooting high quality video. Taking high quality photos. For many people, the high quality phone has taken the place of a camera. The sub-$1000 digital camera can be replaced by iPhone. You can record music using GarageBand. An iPhone can also replace a Zoom recorder in many contexts. You can use an iPhone to measure rooms, plan furniture and even plan how paint will look on your walls with AR. You can create Keynote presentations pretty easily. You can create documents using Pages or update spreadsheets. You can use iPhone as a POS system: when I had a small hotel, we used iPhone to check in guests and take payments. I also occasionally use it to SSH into servers when I need to do something quick and I’m not at my computer. I use it to read books, so the screen quality does make a difference. The screen quality also makes a difference when editing photos.

The Civilizations AR App is pretty incredible and isn’t possible on low quality hardware. The Chalk AR app for live tech support is also not possible on a cheap Motorola. There are also “fun” aspects, like games, and the Dance Reality app that uses AR to teach dance steps. You can use iPhone to launch model rockets, control drones and a bunch of other cool things. Not everyone is going to care about all of this stuff, but for those that do, iPhone is far more than a websurfing, texting device. The criticism around why would anyone “need” so much power in a phone isn’t unlike the old days when nobody “needed” a hard drive or more than 16kb of RAM. Or a color screen. Or anything other than a dot matrix printer. These expensive phones are essentially supercomputers in your pocket; that people choose to use them for the proverbial solitaire isn’t the fault of the tech. It’s like people that use pocket calculators lamenting why anyone would ever need a Cray.
And they have a history of doing this. Before they had the Kindle, they sold Adobe digital editions content, and after they made the switch they retired the Adobe digital edition license servers. I lost an ebook I desperately wanted when they did this. They didn't send a warning about the upcoming retirement either, despite the books being registered to email addresses which they could easily have sent alerts to.
It's the invisible machine. They are all still running core systems in a lot of companies.
What phones do have, is heavy post processing. You can make DSLR photo look much better than for a phone, but you need to spend some time in photoshop. Phones are now doing photoshopping for you, so out of the box they tend to often look more attractive.
It's not the the concerns are imaginary, it's that they are inconsequential. Everyone will have an opinion about everything they interact with; this is the human experience. You can't control the fact that others will form opinions about you and your actions, but you can control how you react regarding this.
Love the idea, saw another one in 2018(https://www.gravwell.io/)

At least in my experience the web interface is a huge gap. Kibana is ok but Splunk and it's query language and visuals are much better. Anything that competes with Splunk is great imo.
Reading through documents, scrolling, and especially when having discussions or jam sessions with others a touchscreen really makes a difference. It's such a natural way to interact.

I have only noticed this now with the MacBook at work which I have to use and how limiting it is not being able to touch the screen and have it do things. It seems just a natural thing.
Goodbye OpenSSL, Hello Google Tink
I only knew of the internet through what was said at management meetings at a Palo Alto research institute circa 1988. They wanted to send documents back and forth between the research institute and universities. I believe it was titled "Technology Transfer".
The iPhone has about a 56% market share in the US, compared to a 26% market share in Europe (with the UK being the outsider with 52% market share).

That makes a huge difference: in Europe it's very unlikely that everyone out of any group of friends has an iPhone, making Whatsapp, Telegram etc the goto solutions for group messages.

Apple is also huge in Japan, but I don't know what kind of chat apps are used there.
I think that’s what they will eventually do. I saw somewhere a paint had been patented that matches the black of the edge of the case but that lets the camera see out (or something like that). I do understand that there are legitimate uses for the front of the phone real estate. But I think they’re already willing to experiment with removing features for design so a perfectly edge to edge display sans sensors and camera makes sense-if only as an option amongst a couple options.
It was great, but inaccessible to the average person.
1) Burnout - When you first start doing something, like a new project or a new technology you end up enjoying it since there is so much to learn and do. Over a period of time you end up doing the same mundane tasks and have to exert a huge amount of effort to do something which you could earlier do in a short period of time. Usually only limited to work. Switching projects/jobs helps.

2) Depression - It is a state of mind where you do not have the energy to do anything, not only in office but also in personal life. Usually characterized by lack of enthusiasm in anything and a lingering feeling of sadness. Switching jobs won't help, consulting a psychiatrist will.

3) Laziness - A state where you have been doing the same thing for so long that you have gotten good at it and do not feel panic anymore. If you do not have any aim in life and just want to cruise along ( and have the ability to cruise along while getting good reviews in office ) laziness is a valid choice. It might not get you promoted or noticed at office and you will stagnate. IMO it is not a negative state to be in, but not positive either.

4) Being in the wrong job -
Two types that I can think of

1. You have tons of energy, you have tons of enthusiasm and want to do tons of work but still you seem to be going nowhere, is a sign of being in the wrong job.

2. You have low energy, you don't enjoy what you do while at your job. At home you have high energy, contribute to projects and can work on stuff which interests you and can get you paid. In burnout, depression and laziness people's ability to do side projects is markedly diminished. This is not the case with being in the wrong job.
I first got online in 1993, which is pretty far from the beginning of the Internet, which technically started as ARPANET in 1967. It was definitely the early-adopter phase for the WWW, but the WWW is a relatively late development for the Internet.

1993-1995: Mostly scientific & technical papers & discussions. Deeply intellectual, with almost everyone on the Internet having a professional background and many being top experts in their fields. The WWW was a relatively minor protocol on the Internet; much discussion still happened over E-mail, Usenet, and Gopher, and Telnet and FTP had as many sites up as the WWW. (Although fact-checking my memory, apparently AOL opened up Internet access in September 1993 and that was the beginning of an influx of kids - like myself - onto the Internet, which is what started degrading the Internet.)

1995-1998: AOL's Internet access was in full swing, Yahoo and Geocities were founded, the trivial "fun" usages of the Internet started to overshadow the scientific & technical ones. This was the era of WebRings, Geocities pages, <blink> tags, garish colors, and sites that looked like they were made by a 12-year-old because they probably were. Lot of band pages, fan pages, joke sites, and trivial pop culture. First Internet advertisements started to appear.

1998-2000: Dot-com boom heyday. Peak gold rush. The dot-com boom is normally dated from 1995-2000, but it massively accelerated in 1998 after the Amazon & E-bay IPOs, resolution of the Asian Financial Crisis, and drop in interest rates. This was the era when VCs were throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at ideas on napkins and then taking them public 3 months later. Most activity was centered around E-commerce, where the belief was that an online version of every retail sector would take over and dominate (which turned out to be true, but happened 20 years later with Amazon).

2001-2004: Dot-com bust. Many pundits declared the Internet over, though anyone looking around could see that wasn't the case. Most of the big VC-funded companies founded in 1998-2000 went bankrupt, thousands of people lost their jobs, many people get out of the field entirely. People talk about how all software engineering jobs will be outsourced to India. Microsoft "wins" the browser wars with IE6, and also has heavy adoption in the server (NT Server + IIS), database (SQL Server), and programming framework (ASP.NET) areas. Enterprises start moving their software to the browser. Consumer attention is largely focused on P2P filesharing (Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, etc.) and on early proto-social-networks (Xanga, LiveJournal, EZBoards, 4chan, Friendster, MySpace).

2004-2008: Social networking boom and return of Web 2.0. Facebook kicks it off in 2004, along with the acquisitions of Blogger, Flickr, and Del.icio.us (all of which had been steadily building throughout the bust) and then in rapid succession we get Digg, Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter. At this point the corporation names start getting recognizable, so I'll stop there.
> The oligopoly juiced prices for flagships and is shocked it affected demand.

> The oligopoly juiced prices for flagships and is shocked it affected demand.

It didn't affect demand, it affected market clearing quantity because demand was not (assuming, arguendo, the description of surprise is correct) what the makers involved in the “juicing” of prices thought it would be.

OTOH, if there are effectively competing alternatives to those offered by the “oligopoly”, then it is not an oligopoly.
Based on a couple things you said, you may be misinterpreting the author's meaning of "strong" and "weak".

The article thesis is, "technologies usually arrive in pairs, a strong form and a weak form". It's not a value judgment, and it's not predictive. Meaning: It's not a given that strong forms will be successful. As the article notes, "weak forms of technology can be successful" and may even receive more focus when the strong form falters since "weak technologies appear nearer to mainstream adoption".

> iTunes is doing fine last time I checked.

It's not about iTunes "doing fine", but that selling tracks and albums is just a digital version of the old retail model that's been around forever. Streaming, on-demand music is "strong" (according to the author) because it's a new model for music consumption, and requires changes in both the industry and consumer behavior.
Nice, what was your first trip, the Lusitania?
It's perfectly possible to beat match on belt drive but yes, not something you'd ever want to use over direct.
UK engineers have completed the build of the novel Quantum satellite
I would add that you could meet people on this walking trail who enjoy peace and nature and who aren't there anymore. Or if they are, they are mixed with others so you can't just say hi and have a moment together just based on the fact that you both know this trail.

People used to have personal pages, not just blogs, often trying to share their knowledge and notes on different topics. I miss that. Plus casual IRC.
Part of every formal job application process that I've completed is to disclose any applicable non-competes. All of those companies will not risk violating a non-compete due to the substantial legal risk, placing the employee in another area, or more likely, declining to hire.

I haven't seen this yet in NY, although I have been contracting for several years.

In the case of my ex-boss, he told New Company right away as he was being hired, and they had already the legal setup to watch his back. Lawyers came after New Company, and then eventually it went quiet.
It started crumbling when Apple joined Alliance for Open Media. Since they were obnoxiously anti free codecs in the past, it was surprising to see Apple there.
Do you have anything to back-up you claim about "most places"? Most of the job ads on Indeed.com/.co.uk for Python and Javascript make no mention of Typescript or mypy.
Mind unpacking all those military abbreviations?
It was mostly academic with some small ISPs until that fateful day in Sept 1993 when AOL cast its shadow of death over the internet. It's been downhill since then all the way, IMO.