skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA spells out the estates being referenced in detail:

In Europe the first three estates are a reference to how society was organized throughout the Middle Ages: the First Estate was the church, the second was the nobility, and the third were the commoners....

Fourth is the press. Fifth has been variously attributed, but here is being applied to online activity generally. It was ascribed to bloggers specifically in 2006.
Way back when pretty much every ISP offered some homepage space with your connections (also email addresses and usually newsgroup access). Loads of people put one up, and it wasn't brimming over with JS, tracking, and calls out to a dozen services. Nope, it was distinctly amateur in feel but you got a wild eclectic mix of pages about hobbies, history and interests. Often hooked to a webring of other sites in the same niche. Then for those without ISP space, came Geocities. Same sort of things except animated starfields and rotating icons were so much more popular.

Mostly those have been replaced by FB groups, reddit and other feed based aggregators so that it's interesting for a few hours, then lost (almost) without trace. It relies on you being active enough to see it when it was posted. Even blogs are fading, unless sales focused tied to your company... There's more code out there on github, but that's just one aspect of creation.

I see almost infinitely less lasting creation, with a few remaining islands, but an awful lot more rhetoric and pontificating. Which used to be mostly the easily avoided preserve of some of the newsgroups. :)
Rich people throw away nice stuff. The trick to getting it is patience and the capacity to pick things up on a whim.

I've furnished my entire house with free stuff. It takes a log longer than just throwing your credit card at Ikea but the stuff fits my house so much better anyway. It's not clapped out junk either. It's mostly nice stuff from people moving and empty-nesters downsizing.
You have to realize your experience is not everyone's experience. And nostalgia is a lie.

> We had skype, games, ICQ, MSN, blogs, blog aggregators, rss readers, galleries, audiogalaxy, guestbooks, forums, hotline communications, IRC, video chats, joomla, wikis

Signal,whatsapp,ipfs,discord,slack,github,confluence,twitter,twitch,stackoverflow and so much more from a "techie" perspective. But have you considerer how much more accesible the internet has become? Forums were nice but you had to find the right one and once that site shuts you might lose all content and all the people you know there but for most people social media is better. IRC,icq,etc.. Were not very secure,they were not multi media friendly either. You heard of Viber? Super popular in non-western countries on-par with whatsapp. Skype you say? Zoom,webex,logmein and the like make video chat and desktop sharing a breeze. Learning things is so much better too: pluralsight,udemy,cybrary and MOOCs were not a thing in 2003. Free webhosting ,document editing,job hunting anf so much more (excluding things like uber,doordash,instacart that provide IRL services). But more than all that,there are so many more options for just about everything now.

The past always looks shinyand guess what,the internet is even more mysterious now for those who get curious enough!

I think like most you're only looking at the popular sites and apps. E.g.: peertube vs youtube or HN vs Reddit.

Daily I frequent 5-10 sites on a regular basis but I visit a lot more than that when finding external content on those sites,certainly a lot more than 10+ years ago.
A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong
Rebase isn't really a trick though.. is it?

It just a normal workflow and, sometimes, housekeeping in your small "feature" branch.
Just as a side note: the Internet was not actually created to organize US troops in the event of a nuclear strike. The Internet, the one initially birthed by ARPA, initially had academic and civilian aims. That said, some of the early research on networking was developed to aid the military in case of nuclear war. In particular, Paul Baran invented package switching explicitly to help the US air force maintain its defense radar network in case of war.
> They are continually sold to new owners because nobody knows how they can generate a profit.

They were founded in 1992, were bought by Google and then sold to Softbank. I don't think that qualifies as "continually sold", particularly when the buy-and-seller was Google. I'm not as negative on Google's acquisition strategy as many here, but Google selling companies a few years after acquisition is hardly unheard-of.
That trading liberty for safety usually yields neither.
Horticulture LED grow lights, Indoor farming plant lighting OEM
This also raises the question: not only is it suspected that an email application is being monitored for engagement metrics, but is it also the case that growth-enhancing UI features are being a/b tested on us as well?

Well that is of course all silly conjecture and I doubt its anything more than a bug, but if it were true then that’s some real Silicon Valley stuff right there.

Maybe Apple own stock in whichever paper manufacturer is post commonly used for printing emails from meemaw. More emails really pushes the needle on those paper sales! Q4 performance summary cycle bonuses all round!
Every city has (at a minimum) a few nice suburbs where the good stuff is.

Also it helps if your standards are lower than those of the people throwing things out. I'm pretty sure every piece of wood furniture I have "should be refinished" according to someone but it's all as nice as the stuff the people I hang out with have so why bother.
Cheers, glad you cleared that up. I must have gotten bad info. Love all your services!
No, it should not be the choice of the parents - the parents should not be able to force an unethical treatment onto their child.

If this becomes a thing, why would society accept autistic people, rather than telling us to undergo treatment that we don't want to make us more like them?
Replace 1000W HPS to 600W LED Grow Light, Full Spectrum IP65
Outside the US there tends to be free choice of union. E.g. in Nordic countries Germany etc you normally have multiple unions to choose from and you don’t have to be member if you don’t have to.

It is the US and Anglo-Saxon countries were unions tend to be a binary thing. Germanic countries tend to follow a different union system: sector wise unions rather than company specific unions. Different types of employees will typically join a different union depending on the type of work and interests they have.
Maybe something to make would be an addition to mail servers that chat-ifies group emails.
Yeah, let me repeat the observation that those things are passing through a phase of hyperoptimization with money being the only goal, that I post every time some discussion like this appears.

Internet content is not even the worst case of hyperoptimization around, nor by far the most concerning. There's something to say about how companies measure and treat their employees. But yes, it's a problem, and very hard to solve.

I don't even understand what is causing it. We aren't in some sudden crisis where we need to optimize everything, and in the end it goes even against its own goal so it's not rational anyway. Yet, it's everywhere.
That's a risk inherent with any upgrade to any software. The answer is ultimately that you can't know without trying it on your system. The best thing you could do is to create a cloned backup of your drive or use time machine to restore it if it doesn't work out.
And yet tribes and nations that recognize and protect inalienable rights are consistently able to defeat those that assume the strong should have power over the weak.

The reason being that individuals living in societies with inalienable rights feel they have more worth fighting for, and they are more industrious and able to build robust trust networks.

None of that is subjective, it's all how the universe works, so, yes, you could plausibly attribute it to God or any kind of creator.
People often conflate the web with internet, and given how predominant http has become, I don't blame them.
I thought that DDG is effectively a (privacy-preserving) front-end on Bing, so it makes sense that Bing would give the same or similar results. (Maybe they're doing some of their own indexing these days? I haven't been paying close attention.)
I agree with the "entitled teenager" feel of the article. The author sees a change in Mail's look and a change font.

A software developer sees Apple finally busting up iTunes which was an overloaded monolithic beast. A software developer sees Apple dropping 32-bit to reduce complexity. This is all refactoring which we'd love to do on our own projects.
How do you know it's not a symmetric relationship?

It always seemed inherently weird and self-contradictory to me to accuse someone of lacking empathy. How can failure to understand another person's feelings be other than mutual?

Everybody ignores the feelings of others on occasion due to lack of understanding, but also when their own feelings are powerful enough to take precedence. I think it's best to assume that any time someone is causing pain, or even awkwardness, it's due to one of those situations or maybe a combination. I'm doubtful that there are really any other kinds of people.
Before that it was 'IBM' ...
Something I was intrigued by is that the VOA has a .ru domain. (This is the Voice of America, which broadcast US propaganda and world news to the Soviet Union during the Cold War)

https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/
Another excellent resource on a similar vein: https://git-rebase.io/

Written by Drew Devault, author/maintainer of swaywm, sourcehut and others.
In the US, the press is occasionally referred to as the fourth branch of government (after the legislative, executive, and judiciary). Occasionally others are proposed: lobbyists, special interests, the intelligence services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government
That would make it easier to recover. More weight = more traction.
all you need is an X-header. I also liked the expires header but it didnt catch on
We have the technology today to do this right - make the green and yellow lights have a countdown number, or blink slowly then quicker as time gets shorter (not sure if that might cause a person to have a seizure though for those prone?)

The problem is people don't know how long the green then yellow really is, nor when it is about to change from yellow to red. I've been using crosswalk countdowns where they're available, but they aren't always reliable in my city (Phoenix). Sometimes, it will hit zero - and the light will stay green.

But most of the time, when it hits zero, it will go from green to yellow, then you have roughly 3 seconds left.
When the first web browser came out, for me (and, I've heard, very many others) it was a "where were you the day of..?" moment. I literally remember the afternoon X-Mosaic came out. Computer lab, 1993, a group of grad students huddled around a SPARCStation, I walked over and tried out this new program. No, I didn't see the huge eventual potential that day (the World Wide Web would remain an ad-free space for a few more years), but it was a definitely a "today everything changed" moment.
Around 1992, my friend and I started doing desktop database apps as a side gig while we worked at a consulting firm doing IT. We decided to do this full time. With connections in the music industry, we started doing websites and online stores for some big names like Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Phish, and others. By then there were about 5-6 of us, working out of my friend's house. We weren't real employees, and only got paid when my friend walked into the room and started handing out $50 bills. Our online stores morphed into an award-winning product for small and medium-sized merchants, that you could pick up for $19.99 at Staples, CompUSA, etc. In 1996 we incorporated, and I was hired as the first official employee/lead programmer. I think I was making about $50K by then; we had grown and moved into a real office. A couple of years later, we had the first single-shopping-cart online mall. I was making $85K. We had almost 70 employees. In 2000, a Canadian company bought us for $45M and I was given another raise to almost $110K, but then things fell apart quickly. The last 6-8 months I was basically paid to drink coffee and sit around. By 2001 we were kaput. My 60,000 stock options, when I could finally do anything with them were worth about $1200, down from an initial value of ~1.8M CAD. I had bought a truck, and had put a downpayment on my house, but that was about it. I flailed around for a few years looking for programming work, and then got the job I have now, doing IT at a local University. I'm making about $50K again :/ It was a lot of work, with (mostly) great people, and for a while we were on top of the world. In some ways you could say we were Amazon before Amazon. If we hadn't gone under, Amazon probably would have bought us. Perchance to dream..
Thank you, I guess I the fact that you "buy low,sell high" in cryptocurrencies made me think it was an investment. I knew people that had good ROI with trading bots. I will read up on that link.
AWS Calculator only works for infra structure. People still forgets about indirect charges.

Believe me, they're making a killing $$$ there.

A survival tip if you have 10TB of data to replicate across regions.

Share via VPC across replications(you will increase latency a bit but saves around $10.00 every sync.

In case you do this every hour, it's like saving the price of an car.

Images? Share via VPC.

Don't use any managed service.
W520 was the best old ThinkPad - still old-school keyboard, Full HD, 32GB RAM, 2x HDD/SSD.
Once you get into the TB range with memory and disk, and 64+ cores, easily.
Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication
I went through it, and started a company soon after it crashed and then a couple more during the downturn. Ironically a lot of money can be made in downturns if you know where to look and how to approach it.

What I saw and experienced was enterprise devs basically just kept doing what they did. Startup devs that could went into (or back in some cases) to enterprises. Enterprises used it as an opportunity to snag up good devs at a bit of a discount in many cases.

To be fair, true developers were not really negatively affected at least not more so than other professions. One nice side affect I thought was that the crash cleared out most of the people claiming they were developers but had no real experience or talent. Most of my friends and people I worked with were fine and at worst might have gone back to an enterprise gig or in many cases were already there and didn't really miss a beat.

IMHO, if we have a crash this time (versus just a softening market), it will be similar as the need for quality software devs won't disappear. It will take longer to find a position in general and there won't be as much money floating around but decent developers are not going to have a hard time putting food on the table or finding work. Remote work will suffer, pay will suffer and VC dollars will drop dramatically, but the average developer will be fine.
I'd wager that salaries in Europe are so small compared to USA precisely because of all the "protections" workers receive from the unions and the government, making it almost impossible to fire lousy workers.
No. It's not absolutely useless, even if it is practically useless.

Do professional musicians play scales? Yes. Even if nobody would pay to hear it
Probably less if we take into account tax credits.
Fuchsia + Zircon kernel is probably the most serious answer to being a mainstream "open-source" non-linux alternative operating system other than GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS.
Used to be you couldn't visit a health-food store without finding that posted somewhere. Then it completely vanished, as if it had never existed, and channelers took over. Even ST-TNG had to get a Ship's Channeler (whom the writers clearly despised). Then channelers evaporated, a fitting end.

Desiderata for Gamers:

https://cantrip.org/gamers-desiderata.html
I remember reading this post* which is very useful for comparing US and Swiss(Or European in general) work culture.

* "Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture" https://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-...

I can attest to the European side of comparison, they do value work but they also value the resting and recovering part.
>I think it's reasonable to protect certain titles (engineer, doctor, lawyer, dentist).

I've always wondered this: why are software engineers allowed to use the title "Engineer" but aren't at all required to do FE or any certification?

It's very strange. I always thought certification was about being able to be employed as an engineer, not use the title.
Hi, I'm a user, I don't pay for services. And I'm a paying customer. We were told that everything is fine, privacy matters less, safety is what matters most and we blinding believe in big tech co because tech is the new frontier, tech is the future, tech is the new God
>you notice something goes wrong later,

What, specifically, do you mean by "something goes wrong later"? Like a full outage of some kind? A production bug? A mistake according to the design spec? A failed test in CI? A failed human QA validation? What are we talking about here?

>it's much easier to trace where the problem is.

Furthermore, why would the git commit structure have anything to do with debugging any type of issue, regardless? Isn't debugging mostly comprised of combing through logs, adding random print statements to console output, and using an IDE debugger? Or some kind of more advanced tracing/profiling tools? Are you debugging by hunting in commit histories and Jira tickets or something?

Or are you talking about blaming, not "tracing where the problem is", but "tracing who the problem is"?
The article's approach makes it impossible to draw any conclusions.

1. A statistical analysis of thousands (or more) companies, labs, universities and papers/patents needs to be performed for even a slightly meaningful scientific conclusion.

2. The evidence of IP theft perpetrated by Chinese state-backed entities seems to suggest the beneficiary to be China

3. A majority of AI researchers in the U.S. obtained their undergrad degrees in China, India, or elsewhere.

Considering the above 3 points, US AI research benefits greatly from foreign (especially China, India) born researchers, but the US research and industry ecosystem attracts and produces consistently high quality output with global impact, especially from open sourcing this research (tensorflow and friends). As of 2019, China seems to benefit more from American IP than the other way round.
Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
Presumably the unit economics are positive and they will break even.
The warnings were for MacOS developers to update their codebase to support 64 bit and transition to newer APIs. Mojave's warnings were for users.
> like paying 100% commission to real estate agents.

Why did they do this?
It didn't merely disappear. It was murdered. Chances are you are complicit.
Any good git "best practices" doc will inform the user to never use rebase on a shared remote repo. The details are given, but sadly I can never really follow the logic. Rebase always sounds like a good idea (imo). And being the only one to use rebase on my team... I've had several instances where I go to rebase a remote branch onto my local work, and I'm met with tons of conflicts.. except the conflicts are all my own commits from a later time. I've never really figured out why, but I've since just stopped using rebase unless I really know there is nothing funny on the remote branch.
46B. Still insane.
I think your last sentence is perhaps the most important - timing the "Toys to Big Thing" transition is really hard and leaves a lot of dead companies in its wake. For example, at some point in the future, VR and AR will probably be in this category, but who knows how long it will actually take (basically-modern VR has been around since the 80s!) or what will cause the shift. Meanwhile, VR has left a decades-long trail of dead plans/businesses and AR seems to be doing the same.
I did that until about 9 years ago. It was too annoying and error-prone (due to forgetting to set that up in new environments, or in some cases not being able to, like in some build machine account or whatever).

Instead I simply learned not to use git pull. I always pick up new changes with git fetch, followed by git rebase.

Just purely out of computer science principle, I want to avoid commands that bundle multiple unrelated operations and behave differently based on magic globals.

If I notice upstream has been forced (shouldn't happen in any well-run public repos), I tread carefully. Instead of just a git rebase, I will do something like git rebase HEAD~3 --onto origin/master. (If 3 of the top commits are my local ones.) That tries to transplant the 3 commits onto the new material coming from the remote. Basically, reset to the remote, then cherry-pick my commits.
Big Edit: multiplying is hard, forgot to multiply by the PE ratio! Actually, potential valuation is 660B.. so 20% would mean 3% of US office real estate business. At a less generous pe of ~10 (perhaps more appropriate given they don't own the buildings), it would be about 10% of real estate market.

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Sure, but $20B valuation seems hard to achieve.

US commercial real estate market by revenue is ~$1.1T [0]

Office space by value is about 1/8th [1]

Regus gross margin is ~16% [2]

Real estate generally has good PE ratio but partly because they usually own the property [3], so let's be generous at 30x.

So if we value WeWorks as a normal real estate company AND weworks has %100 of US office real estate business we have a valuation of 1100 / 8 x 0.16 x 30 = $660B.

Now, weworks exists outside of the US, but the valuation you propose means they must have ~equivalent of all US office real estate.

[0]- https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/co...

[1] - https://www.reit.com/sites/default/files/chartjuly92019.png

[2] - http://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/LS...

[3] - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052815/what-priceto...
Have been using rocket chat for couple of years without issues.
Back of a napkin:

* Growth in remote workers = 9% per year.

* Percentage of remote workers who want an office = 20%.

* WeWork market share = 90%.

= 1.62% of all workers each year will potentially shift to WeWork.
Yes.

"Server" implies redundant power supplies, 4-?? disks, an excess of high quality capacitors, a heavy steel case, a motherboard probably 4x the area of a typical ATX motherboard, ECC RAM, far more RAM slot capacity, etc.

Furthermore, extended service contacts are the norm. Five year same day on site service isn't unusual. Five year 24/7 on call/next day replacement is typical. One year warehouse service is unheard of.

That's just the device itself. Servers also imply a rack to put them in, real estate for said racks, 24/7 HVAC for said real estate set to substantially below room temperature, and an expectation to run it (and consume electricity) continuously. You also need network architecture to support them.

This isn't even getting into the realm of stupid specced servers. 512GB RAM? Easy. 128 cores? Sure. Disk space, network capacity are cost limited: if your server is limited by network speed or disk capacity you can simply punt a briefcase full of money at your supplier and get more. You want all of that arbitrary capacity disk space to be SSD that's just an accounting problem.