skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't necessarily mean "old internet" in terms of internet culture or even the hosted services & structure of as such. She's talking about content, though most big swaths of that content was hosted on services, proprietary platforms or whatnot.

It's a noteworthy point. Over the last decade or two there has been quite a bit of churn and not much archiving. You can kind of estimate a default rate of social media bitrot, linkrot or whatnot...
I thought similar. To me what Buzzfeed are calling the "old Internet" here is something I very much remember bemoaning as the "new Internet" in which dedicated protocols such as NNTP and IRC got displaced by brattish commercial upstarts whose web-based versions had 10% of the quality-of-life features and about 5% of the community etiquette. However they displaced everything that came before them because you could embed images, have an animated avatar and (most importantly) not have to delve into the world of finding a client of choice and connecting it to your ISP's news servers.

What I find myself missing more than anything else is that news server was something you paid for, either as part of an ISP package, as a dedicated service or your university tuition fees. The commercial model was purely the provision of that resource - not selling your data, nor being a vector for targeted political ads. There was no incentive to make the basic mechanics of discussion worse or promote flame wars in the name of "engagement" or "monetisation", and while I'm sure the smaller community size played a part things seemed to bump along with a far greater degree of civility and allowance for misunderstanding.
He eats burgers a lot too.
I don’t think he was speaking in a nutritious sense. He’s not an idiot.
This is a poor suggestion, IMO.

OP is trying to get into CS, so they need something that's clear and approachable. By your own admission, it's possible even for experienced people to be stumped by TAOCP. It's simply too vast and too difficult for a beginner to finish. This fetishizing of difficult things doesn't help anyone, least of all people trying to get into the field.

The failure mode to watch out for here is not OP getting developing a small misconception about something, but that he finds the field too intimidating to continue.

It's far more likely that a beginner has success with the other suggestions from this thread - like Nand2Tetris, which is clear, explains the fundamentals, is accurate and most importantly, fun.
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If you care about not killing birds, ban outdoor cats and contribute to your local feral cat spaying charity.
Reddit is at its best with its smaller communities. The only time I ever use reddit is to check in on one of these. Just find a subreddit for one of your interests and enjoy.
Of course it doesn't excuse secret prisons ("communication management unit" is a very nice euphemism), there was probably a lot of wrong with the treatment of Justina Pelletier, and the morally and normatively bankrupt state of the BOP is well known - it's just that this guy is a really bad example to showcase this over.

And if he indeed only disrupted a fundraising event rather than the hospital operation it could be a serious miscarriage of justice (with complicity from the news outlets who described it as such if this was amenable to fact checking), but this should be argued by lawyers familiar with the case because PR-wise he has very little going for him.
I think that's what GP meant about "Americans aren't dying in the streets" -- the French lower class were. Their revolution was about survival, which made it quite popular among the poor.
I agree with this. It was when we designed protocols with consensus thru RFC, and apps communicating with those protocols.
Interesting that they don't mention the business model that powered the old internet: VC money based on a vague promise that a large enough user base, coupled with ad revenue, would bring untold riches.

As TFA says, most of those sites switched to paid accounts as the promise of "build a huge audience and work out how to monetise them later" didn't actually deliver any money.

So it's not that they died (they're mostly still there). It's just that they're not free any more.

I think the next decade will see this more and more: people actually paying for the things they use on the internet, because they realise that's the only way this will work now. The rise of information products and services focused around actually providing what their customers want, for a reasonable fee.
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Wake turbulence was the cause of the second deadliest air crash in US history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587

And involved in this one, though the situation is harder to assess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_427
> No harm is done to anyone.

I disagree. I think harm is done to everyone who uses the site.
Back in the day, blocking all the distractions (well, almost all of them, <blink> and <marquee> tags were a thing) was the default. You had to click a button in order to load all images inline, after the text had finished loading.
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> You really didn't care about that dog at all, GP?

If you're asking that question, you've adopted some sort of fatalist view of the concept I don't hold. I don't know what caring is if it doesn't have something to do with feelings. To answer your question, I cared, empathized, and sympathized enough that it outweighed my fear, anxiety, and doubts about helping.

Why do I feel that way and others don't? Probably because of my experiences with dogs, my thoughts about dogs, and my thoughts in general. I could, with intention, retrain my thoughts so I am likely to not help dogs in the future, if I so chose. Likewise, I suspect I could have taken the mental hit and not helped the dog; but I don't think that's what people generally do. And I think when people generally do a thing, if they're not getting a reward, they're building a reward system so when they do the thing in the future they get a reward.

I'm very skeptical of any claim of purely altruistic behavior, because altruism can have many rewards, both internal and external. Pam rescues Jim because Pam cares about Jim. But what does it mean to 'care about' a thing? Isn't that just pro-rescue feelings?
We only prompt if your timezone offset changes (traveling), or if you've never set things up. Something in the parent's configuration is triggering "never set". We have not used BSSIDs for this because some corporate and campus users roam between hundreds of APs, so it would be much more invasive (or we'd have to chat on the network to figure out that nothing had changed).
You don't need to make IP logging illegal to make collecting user info that's not absolutely necessary to a transaction illegal, and to make selling or using any necessarily-collected data for anything other than e.g. auditing or further service to the transaction (returns, say) also illegal. I don't know how this became about Apache logs or whatever.

[EDIT] my point is there's a ton of info being collected that goes way beyond web server logging, so I don't know how this became about why all this is impossible because server logs are a thing.
That's all good, but can you quit it? Sorry, had to be cheeky!
Brazil Surpasses UK in Facebook Fine over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
the 1995 docs are probably more useful for most people, especially since the original Inside Macintosh code examples and references are all in Pascal rather than C

(also I'm more of a System 7 person)

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/inside-macintosh-cd-rom
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I do build my websites, I do run my servers and I still feel like in the wild west.

Noise increased however by orders of magnitudes thanks to social media that's why you don't see the "old internet"
Plus, Knuth, despite his accomplishments, is a terrible computer scientist and programmer in some capacities. TeX must be the most odious language not designed as a deliberate joke.
Lebanon is facing a massive bank haircut due to the current financial crisis there. I'm sure an international globe trotter like ghosn has bank accounts in other countries.
That initial 'if' is extremely unlikely. There are hundreds of jurisdictions that would love to be persuaded to pass favorable laws.
Axios has a number of email newsletters that are very good. They come out daily or weekly on specific topics. I like the email format where I can expect a good overview of what is happening in a topic (news/politics in the AM, tech news, science weekly, etc). For me, these have been good overviews from a variety of primary news sources. I also really like the email format. I can choose to consume the information on my schedule and don’t have to worry about constantly checking website for more information. Plus, by the time the news hits Axios, the story is already relatively mature. They also release breaking news bits when major events happen (like SCOTUS rulings), with context.

Bonus feature - they show you an estimate of reading time for each message too. That can be helpful when planning your time.
I remember bookmarking a great article critiquing the style and content of the Economist, a publication I read regularly. I was reminded of that article recently. When I went to look up the bookmark, and the site was dead. No redirect to a new domain, nothing.

Fortunately I used the URL to pull up a copy on Internet Archive, but there's a wealth of good info that isn't being archived.
Have long read The Economist and it has definitely influenced my world view probably more than anything. +1 to everything you said—it’s a huge help in conversations.

Recently, their app has included audio recordings of all their articles the day a new issue is released. That’s made it much easier for me to digest nearly the whole thing each week.
Twitter bans animated PNG files from tweets because of epilepsy safety concerns
>And who made those videos?

ARTE (Franco-German public broadcaster) [0] and the BBC [1]. Back when they weren’t fighting Cold War II.

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182322/

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811050/
Um... Perpetual motion? Free lunch? Sign me up!
Incorrect. Its not evasion. Its a tax agreement which every state in the EU is free to establish. And if we are going down the road to "illegal subsidies"... where do we even start?
An example of what I'm describing is:

Decision A: 5 years (after 15 already spent) = 75% chance of success

Decision B: 20 years (after 0 already spent) = 10% chance of success

In that scenario, Decision A (sticking with your current research) is more rational as long as your estimate of your chance of success is accurate. We know from the article that this is not true -- their estimates were wrong.

The sunk-cost fallacy would apply for something like:

Decision A: 20 years (after 15 already spent) = 10% chance of success

Decision B: 20 years (after 0 already spent) = 10% chance of success

Since both A and B have the same cost and same likelihood of success, you should not consider the time you've already spent. Most humans would, though.
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Because whatever flows in networks is a fundamental properties of the networks and it's natural for it to be available for anyone/any entity running centralized or decentralized services. Tracking is a natural consequence of operating networks.
Have the been any advanced in either technology or farm design to minimize bird deaths? While it's seen as somewhat of not a big deal and a necessary evil now, I imagine that may change as there's more built, there's more built making it more likely to be present in an area with endangered species, dm'd climate change affects increase the amount of engaged species.
Real-Time map of Australian fires
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I'd like to see how much of it doesn't leave our digestive systems.
""Kaloyev is a hero. Those guilty of causing air crashes often remain unpunished. Such a radical punishment is the only way to make them carry responsibility for their crimes," said Vitaly Yusko, a member of a Russian organisation dedicated to helping the relatives of air crash victims. "

Ughh that was bad to read..
Sure, analog FM wouldn't be a good idea either. But why not use something digital with proper collision avoidance and EMI resistance?
Your mileage may vary but the most helpful commentary I have gotten in my life is usually couched in that format: when I am asking for X, but had not considered Y enough, or at all, and someone replies suggesting Y instead, and then I realize new possibilities.
No one is campaigning on NSF research. The director is appointed, but most of the staff are career workers who aren't replaced when the President or Senate change.
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> absolutely necessary to a transaction illegal,

"absolutely necessary" does not mean anything. For example, tracking in banking systems has very good justifications such as fraud detection. That alone means banks have a blank check to connect tons of features about their users, and not for nefarious purposes.

[EDIT] to your EDIT point: even with server logs you could start building user tracking and if your net is large enough you can derive a massive amount of data just from that. Pattern analysis, sites/services users connect to, geolocation, etc... even without the most sophisticated tracking systems this is already good enough to build business value.
It does to a degree but there is immense confusion on how it does. For example with OPS https://ops.city (I'm associated with the project) we deploy directly to AWS or GCloud as an ami or cloud image not orchestrating qemu on top of an existing linux image. A lot of people until they have actually tried booting one are thoroughly confused on this process.

You could play on top of google nested virt or ami's 'bare metal' but both of those would have performance taxes.

I think in the coming years we'll see the big public clouds refactor their environments to support these in a better fashion.
I definitely struggle with the same thing, my mind just not wanting to calm down and running through a million ideas.

That is not meditation though. Learning to meditate has helped me a ton in being able to calm my mind down and get to sleep. I'd recommend checking out the Sam Harris Waking Up app, just do it for a few days and see if it clicks.
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Why not simply do 'cal 2020' and embed it in HTML?
If you work in retail you expect not to have mush PTO. I do consider myself lucky my job offers 6 weeks vacation plus sick/personal time off; but this is one of the reasons I've stayed with them b/c of this benefit.

I still do not think the government should dictate to private businesses in this area.
> This sounds like a retort to OSI's "open source", but it isn't.
I mean containerization is not the same as emulation.

But I would assume a lot of people just want a notebook to do their work in. Does it really matter if it’s running in a container or natively? Most python projects run inside a virtual environment anyway, which is comparable if not more poorly encapsulated.

Also the cloud use-case is expanding. Environment basically doesn’t matter at all in that case.
Buzzfeed did not watch and do nothing, they actively participated in creating its replacement. The author of this article is so tone deaf that he rails against social media giants dominating the netscape in an article with "Tweet" and Facebook "Share" buttons at the top.
I'm mostly stumped by how people find decent freelancing connections or opportunities. I've had seemingly great opportunities or work passed on to me from friends end up being absolute nightmares. Granted my approach to being a Digital Nomad would be finding some way to work for a handful of freelance clients while traveling. Been meaning to spend some decent time in eastern europe :)
> reddit personal finance flowchart

Woa it's really good. Didn't even know that it existed.

For future wanderer: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics
Yeah, I've learned the hard way that networking is 96% of the key to having a stellar career without leetcode BS. I decided to not burn my savings staying in Boston and moved back to ATX to live with family. However, I'm strongly considering moving back to NYC or Boston solely because of the networking advantage.

It's also soul crushing to know I now have to compete with stay at home moms and liberal arts dropouts who went to bootcamps for positions...

I've thought about doing my own startup I just strongly don't believe I have the technical chops to deliver, but maybe I should take a swing to save my career chances and avoid wasting 4+ years of my life getting a CS degree?
Advertising Will Keep the AR Revenue Crown in 2020
AI, Blockchain, Quantum COK mputing... Bingo!
And companies started dropping that when it became very important to their business model that they maximize the amount of data they can collect about a user. 3rd party clients for my service? Unacceptable, can't spy on the user as much there, and can't advertise at them. Communicating with users on other services? Unacceptable, I need those users on my service so I can spy on them too, and besides those other services won't talk to mine for the same reasons.
The problem isn’t hosting, it’s discovery. Discovery was easy on the old internet because we weren’t yet drowning in spam, link farms, and cloned/scraped pages. To bring the old internet back we need search that filters out all that commercial noise and we can’t rely on Google et al to build it. Why not? Because those companies have a conflict of interest due to their ad-driven business model.

A new “Old Internet” needs to be non commercial. I don’t know how we do that.
So just a nitpick, but the CEL is not exclusively for emissions related codes. There are a wide range of things that can fail that do not affect the emissions output of the car, but will still trigger a code and light. All of them can fail you in an emissions test, but not all of them are emissions related.

Edit: All of them will fail you -> All of them can fail you. Not all codes will trigger an immediate fail in CA smog testing anyways, depending on if they are manufacturer specific, or what they effect. I passed my most recent smog with a few codes.
> and did nothing

False, it's just that plebeians like ourselves have no power against politicians anymore or the corporate world.
I'm just a normal guy who has worked hard to build up a career.
Shocked how many of the creators I'm interested in who previously would have had a website presence now only have Instagram pages.

Mostly find it shocking because Instagram is so anti-internet you can't even post links to promote/sell your work...
Let’s put it in more perspective. So far in the 2019-2020 season (which is still going) we have lost 1011 homes and 5.9 million ha have been burned.

This is the single largest and most destructive fire season in Australian history. It is still ongoing and currently there are fires burning out of control across the country.

Our PM knew this was happening, but went on holiday. He at least came back. The NSW Emergency Services Minister took a holiday to Europe in the middle of it all. We still don’t know if he is coming back.
To anyone that has use for this, I also recommend trying the fish shell. It takes some getting used to at first but the sheer time save I realize with just autocomplete is monumental!
Assuming the story[1] is true, that seems plausible to me. At the very least, they found a way for immigration and customs to not open the large "musical instrument box".

[1] https://gulfnews.com/world/did-nissans-carlos-ghosn-flee-jap...
> I don’t follow your illustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
So the world ends with fire, ash and brimstone after all
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> trackpad in all my laptops

even in a macbook? it probably is the best part of macbooks in general
Doesn't work the same as it used to on my iPhone 7. You don't get the feedback as you force press an icon on the home screen anymore, you can tell its just the same simulated algorithm as on the new phones.
If you read the article to the end it is explained: the US gov does not believe that the dome contains any worse radiation than the surrounding area - which is already massively contaminated.
Woah this is so clever!
Iowa is a terrible place to build wind farms since it still has some of the most valuable soil on the planet.

Better to build these things on land with steady wind, less agricultural value and nearer big population centers, such as Wyoming and Colorado (near the I-25 corridor from Cheyenne to Colorado Springs) or the barren hills on either side of the Bay Area.
The observability/monitoring/debugability arguments are super old arguments that simply aren't true in today's (and most of yesterday's) unikernel world. Most of the current day observability tooling I see in use today like prometheus and such work out of the box.

Also, something without TCP support of which every single unikernel I know of has sounds extremely limiting to me.
it's just you.
Cool. Can't sell it, can't leverage it against users (e.g. use it to select which products to try to sell them). If you're doing that on any significant scale it's gonna leave a hell of a trail and enough people will be involved that it'll be found out.

"waaaah but we need to share it with 'partners'" hahaha OK whatever, but bet you don't though. Illegal. Figure it out. Bet you can.
Of course there were recommendation engines - they were called librarians.
A few people have tossed around the idea of “what if Rust but drop the commitment to zero cost abstractions.” That’s probably our principle that causes the most ergonomic hit.

Of course, Rust won’t start taking that path, but if I were to start a new language today, that’s what it would look like.
> there is no "central government"

You're right, I meant The EU Commission flexing its autonomy over the member states using its own courts, governing abilities, and physical location. If only there was a word for that.
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Ask HN: D programmers, what does your development setup look like?
For D programming, I was wondering what sort of setup do people have in terms of code editor, plugins for editor and build system?

Do you have features like autocomplete and refactoring in your environment?

I recently started exploring D and I use VSCode and the code-d plugin with dub or simply dmd -run for small files, but was wondering what more seasoned developers use.
Saying that twitter is anything like the sociopolitical dynamics of pre-1500 is just as ludicrous as your other statements. You're acting like hiding in a hole and ignoring the issues around you is the right thing to do.. and trying to sell it like you've discovered this new and better way to live.
That sounds like the same bullshit line that the FISA courts give their 99%+ approval rating for domestic surveillance warrants.

We saw how that works in practice recently with that FBI report where the judges were basically yes men trusting everything the FBI told them without even basic scrutiny...

The Japanese system is more on the input end regarding due process and rights to counsel.
From the article: "but the scientific community is still only scratching the surface of understanding just how much plastic we consume and how harmful it could be."

Zero harm, so far. That's phrased like they're racking up lists of harm it causes. But so far, zero. So 'scratching the surface' means 'haven't found anything'?