skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the client isn't the technical challenge, it's the (federated) servers, and it's more of a business challenge. In particular, "who pays for them." Usenet servers used to be something ISPs maintained & your ISP subscription would include (usually) a certain number of hours of internet access per month, an email account, access to USENET and perhaps a couple other things.

As it fell out of favor in the mainstream ISPs stopped supporting it/paying for it & it became a niche service to pay for separately, if I understand correctly, and the only people willing to pay (by and large) are people sharing pirated software, media, etc.
This is circular. All you've said here is that stealing the KSKs for DNSSEC would enable an ISP or government to defeat DNSSEC. The comment you're responding to accepts that, but argues (correctly) that it doesn't matter if you defeat DNSSEC, because nothing important relies on it.
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/
None of the phones you listed are on the build roster, because they're unmaintained. If you go on the wiki page for them, there's a warning saying

>Warning: The Sony Xperia Z5 Compact is no longer maintained. A build guide is available for developers that would like to make private builds, or even restart official support.

However, if you look at this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bx6RvTCEGn5zA06lW_uZ..., there are plenty of phones released in 2014 that are still actively maintained. Those phones tend to be flagships, which explains why the phones you've listed aren't being maintained.
I’ve held, examined, and played this prototype at a couple of conventions while talking to the seller a bit. He’s an interesting and controversial fellow.
> GC = General Council

No, General Counsel (Council is a group of people who make decisions, Counsel is an advisor, especially, as in this context, a lawyer/legal advisor, or their advice; “counsellor” is also used for a lawyer or advisor.)
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Do banks still exist that don’t allow for online international transfers? Are you sure?
Be advised... while this img tag is ok for embedding, clicking on the link in HN reveals an extra quote character.
And the EPYC uses higher latency RDIMMs and LRDIMM RAM. Traditionally, server RAM (RDIMM or LRDIMMs) is 50ns+ slower than consumer UDIMMs.

Video games and pointer-chasing care more about that latency figure than bandwidth. I'm sure there are bandwidth-bound tasks, but any latency-bound task would prefer highly-clocked, over-volted (1.35V) DDR4 UDIMMs at 3200 MT/s CAS16 or faster.

Server RDIMMs are naturally slower, due to the register (and LRDIMMs are probably even slower). RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are designed for capacity more so than latency: you can have 1TB of LRDIMMs RAM on one machine but all the RAM runs slightly slower (3200MT/s maybe CAS22 or slower) as a result.
It's not a complete solution but most popular OO languages have some concept of modules or packages which provide separate namespaces used for grouping related classes.
many interesting usenet groups were long dead before that due to spam... the things you mention are more like pulling life support than the cause of death
Can someone teach me what a Buyers Premium is? There's just 20% added on top of the current price. Is that basically the fee that the auction house is taking?
Very helpful. Thanks :)

Wish this was a bit more discoverable on MacOS - I think that's what windows' file explorer is particularly good at. Though, I'm almost certainly biased.
Thanks for that. Law firms have a document management system. You will no longer work there if you don’t use it. Companies use email and SharePoint primarily, maybe OpenText. There are specialized contract management system available but not everyone in the company will use or have access to them. Hence SharePoint is a good default.
To add upon or when Ulkesh said: whereas today "USENET = pirated stuff" in the olden days "USENET = Discussion."
Right, the unifying thing there is basically about community size. The same thing happens offline. The fact that you had a highly educated user base made a difference too. Early internet users either at a university or affluent and interested enough to pay a lot of money for that use (pre-flat rate AOL.)

A lot of the challenges today are related to community size. Also, a lot of the problems are either solvable or already solved, but just relate to platforms wanting maximum user growth/monetization so they disregard those early learned lessons. Just take a look at the stuff Randall Farmer has written. These are lessons dating back to easy online communities in the 1980s.
I work for a Bay area Startup client via Toptal.

PS: I didn't mention the name earlier, to avoid being taken as marketing for a platform. Now that you asked... :)
Neither is the PSX which you can easily buy used in Japan.
The Halcyon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon_(console)
I remember Peter Hilton giving a talk[0] and then speaking on a podcast[1] on the subject of naming. I thought at first it was him who was writing the book. Surprised that it wasn't :-)

[0] - https://hilton.org.uk/presentations/naming

[1] - https://www.se-radio.net/2016/12/se-radio-episode-278-peter-...
Also in my quote, there was a good reason why.....
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“Please” being the operative term in “please don’t – to be perfectly frank, if I see people behaving fanatically, I’m going to mention it. Elsewhere others beyond myself were downvoted for simply mentioning that they’d never heard of the OSes mentioned before. Is that deserving of downvoting? No. Am I going to stay quiet about it? Again, no. Do I care if I will be downvoted to hell and below? For the third time, no. I consider the behaviour of others to be far more rude – and such behaviour is on the rise. If it is hidden behind a rule that has the side-effect of making it impossible to call such behaviour out, I’m going to disregard that rule – as I am doing now.
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Semi OT -> Sometimes I'm baffled at how people don't know about rare things like this, but I wonder how long that can last.

Do you think the 'boxed up in a random lot, IDK what it is, some computer thing' behavior we've seen up to now with many rare electronics, games, computers, etc. will go away over time as more people grow up with internet access and web search?

Let's take something that is equally 'dead' in terms of not being made any more: the Samsung Taylor, a dev windows phone. A few devs got some, but otherwise it is gone to the wind. Just to look at it, it looks like a slate smartphone, pretty innocuous. But if you were to search its model number, you'd immediately know you had something rare and valuable to a certain niche (which I admit to being in).
Don’t bother. Companies dumb enough to pursue this route are also the kind where dissenting opinions are punished.
Some of the oldest C compilers had a hard limit of 8 characters for identifiers. Those limits were removed decades ago but old habits die hard.
Nah, it needs to be in Kotlin, remember Android is #KotlinFirst, #KotlinEverywhere now.
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Quite a bit of group think on HN with controversial concepts and ideas squashed.
Who cares about piracy? It exists over HTTP, too, and in a far greater volume than a modern USENET-equivalent could ever hope to achieve, and it's not like ISPs need to be sucked up to anymore: they've already taken their ball and went home on this matter, proverbially-speaking.
You help people pollute the web. Got it.

> (we're talking about lower-tier/repetitive journalism, which consists of a majority of journalism)

The majority of content farms maybe. The majority of journalism is interviews, local events, editorial pieces, analysis, obituaries, event listings, etc. I work with dozens of news organizations and you do not seem to fully understand how a legitimate news business is run. Your tech may be interesting but in my opinion your tool is more harmful to journalism than it is helpful.
My experience has been we have a big pile of complexity with some way of doing things. New shiny tech promises to eliminate this complexity. Perhaps it does, but also introduces new level of complexity. Old complexity hasn't fully vanished either, but now its problems have to be solved through the new level of complexity, resulting in a further emergent level of complexity.

Fortunately, there is a new shiny technology that will make all this complexity go away.
What I meant was inserting stack frames into assembly, which are dissimilar to calling free, slowing things down.
For more recently uncovered information about a possible deal between Sony and Sega, read:

https://mdshock.com/2019/03/18/sega-and-sony-new-insight-int...

That article also gives insight into why Kutaragi/Sony wanted to partner with Nintendo.

A quote by Kutaragi:

“I wanted to start up a business that would become a new major income source for the company in the future… [Sony executives] thought it would take too long to start a new business from scratch with venture capital. So the only way to initiate change was from the outside. We could join forces with the best-performing company in the field. We would sell them our technology, establish a track record, and use that as the springboard to future success. That was my reasoning.”

Also, from historian Reiji Asakura:

“Nintendo was concerned that its business would eventually be taken over by Sony if Sony continued to drive product development. Although Nintendo was dominant in the game-machine market, the company was fully aware that Sony had a superior research-and-development operation and thus had the potential to outstrip its competitors in the area of technological advancement.”

References are in the linked article.
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I feel namespaces imposes the wrong structure. It’s just a tree where the actual problem is mixing in multiple levels of concepts and describing their relationships. (Sort of like OO inheritance vs. composition — or maybe a closer analogy would be file system vs. database.)
Javascript + BigQuery (SQL) is great for working with Google spreadsheets.
maybe move from AWS to good-old VPS/small business hosting?
There are some solid use-cases for this technology beyond currency and collectables. Check out Livepeer [1].

They are creating a p2p network for live video broadcasting infrastructure, essentially a competitor to "AWS Elastic Transcoder" or the GCP equivalent. The thought is that through an automated decentralized auction for transcoding capacity, customers will always get a better price than centralized cloud computing providers. It would be interesting to see this concept applied to general compute capacity as well. I think I read about something like that elsewhere.

[1]: https://github.com/livepeer/
Keep in mind that their email probably doesn't look like your email. There are literally thousands of tools that plug into email and/or build on top of it in some way. Everything they're sending and receiving is going to be searchable and auditable by multiple entities, both within and outside of the company, and will stand up in court if challenged.

Just because they're "using email" doesn't mean they aren't also already using specific tools for this purpose.
Is perhaps the article author's name – October First – a reference to Eternal September? :-)
I have never met an application that's as easy to maintain as a spreadsheet is. It's the only thing that feels like you're actually editing what you want and not being hand cuffed by some constraint. It's the very definition of WYSIWYG. There's a reason that the shared calendar of choice for my wife and I is a Google Sheet and not Google Calendar.
If upper management is in favor, why are other departments dictating your workflows? Are you the kind of company that hires people who need babysitters? If so, then your obstacle has more to do with who your people are than anything political.

Anyway, just do it and let the results speak for themselves.

One thing to keep in mind: When I went remote, "everyone" in the company was in the habit of interrupting me for trivial matters. At the time, I was trying to get my manager to run interference. Me going remote acted as a bit of a forcing function for my manager to be more aware of the problem.
Maya Lin is an American of Chinese descent.
Is that even true? Stopping smoking reduces the risk of lung cancer by like over 90%, blocking Facebook doesn't change the fact that the Chinese and American spy agencies are still doing everything they can to record all your emails and personal communication.

Degree matters, because the harm from censorship and restricting people's choices is a matter of degree, and if the harm avoided by the ban is a lower degree then it ends up as a net negative.
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Hi! We're working on the mobile experience across the board. Here's a recent tweet highlighting improvements to the mobile web experience: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1227378615387443200?s...

And yes, we're also definitely investing in the mobile app as well and the reception from the beta has been really positive so I'm excited for when we're able to roll it out to everyone.
As usual I am obliged to point out that what killed Usenet was software piracy. The amount of work it took to run a competitive news server with reliable binaries was unbelievable, easily the most expensive and fussy hardware we had at the ISP, and if your service fell behind or dropped any binaries, users would absolutely lose their shit: Usenet was an all-or-none proposition, so if you weren't going to buy a rack full of NetApp filers to run binaries you might as well not run Usenet at all. The protocol centralized before web interfaces made centralization palatable to users, and then died.
San Marino would be the perfect place for European Data Protection Commission.
Ditto. I uses Gnome2 under an Athlon an 256MB of RAM too, but Fedora's Gnome 2 was unusable, Debian was far faster.

Nowadays is either Fluxbox+rox+udiskie on Slackware/+hotplug-diskmount under OpenBSD.
I recently published an article on naming: https://codedevotional.com/blog/naming-climbing-towards-abst...

I spent a lot of time on it and about halfway through the process decided it needed to be split into two parts. The second part is still in draft status.

Even though the article is long, it's very specific. I left some things out for sure. A book on naming makes sense, if for no other reason than we need to be having these conversations.
Seeing graded, sealed video games makes me angry. Some of the games in this auction are legit rare and haven't been played enough.

I'm glad emulation is a thing.
They've repeatedly mishandled and mismanaged users' private data.

No, it's not benign even if "no one died".
Also if you are going to buy a house like this, then in the next line say "Paid a Handyman" - you have already lost (From the standpoint of frugality).

If you want a fixer upper have some fun and learn to do things right yourself. Your projects take longer but they are very fulfilling. 90% of the tiny-home movement innovations are all from people who are just hacking their living spaces.

A home is not an investment that will make you money. You will (almost) never get $'s out of it that you put in with _time_ and effort. What you will get back is the joy of a space that is purely you- doing work on you home can be like tending a zen garden... hell you can make a zen garden. Its your creative space.

The same argument goes for cars- I just bought a new car and have spent the past week going through the service manual because I want to know it as much as I care to dig. I like to work on my own vehicles. It seems like people generally either fear working on things themselves or just don't take pleasure in physical problem solving.
Definitely. Some of the network changes (epoch(9), kind of like RCU) went into 12, IIRC, but you mostly want 13-CURRENT.
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A google docs spreadsheet, duh
Warrens and Plazas.

Both are necessary. Neither is superior. They are complements.

I'd hived the idea from elsewhere, and this piece discusses it in the context of trying to form a new community (largely failed), but the ideas may interest:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MKaTH/comments/4ntf5p/public_privat...
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If you have no background, why would you want to learn the basics in a language no one uses rather than the dominant language / framework of the specific domain? Seems to me an extra cognitive load to bear.
I remember Usenet and the science newsgroups. The author of the parent article mentioned the problem with trolls. There was one who was especially infuriating and unforgettable. He was from Dartmouth and used the screen name "Archimedes Plutonium". People would be discussing some topic on the science newsgroups and he would post off topic rants proclaiming the plutonium atom was god. Of course people took the bait. Dartmouth decided that was part of free speech. I think this was the origin of the advice "Don't feed the trolls".
Aren't most people running a load-balancer in front nowadays?
> That said, I often think twice about posting anything meaningful; I know I'll get a bit frustrated when I put myself out there in good faith, and people have nothing to say, but downvote anyway.

I've notice more and more people say this and it's a sentiment I feel myself too. Personally I don't come on HN half as much as I used to because I just don't fancy putting myself out there when, at times, it can be a flip of the coin whether your gain or lose "points" over it.

I know it's just numbers and it shouldn't bother me; but it does. Judging by the comments others have posted, I'm not unique in that regard either.

In any case, HN will keep rolling on albeit the signal to noise ratio will gradually worsen over time as people get more apathetic about spending their time writing a high value post.
What is your point? Are you saying that it's bad he didn't tidy up the source?
Have an IT department take over. Have things that took five minutes to change previously now take weeks of writing requirements plus waiting for implementation only to be told after a year that your request has been descoped. Now you have a “professional” Solution but also some spreadsheets because you actually have a job to do and need these changes and Excel is the only way to do it quickly.
Will teaching basic financial skills in school actually help? We teach basic health skills like nutrition and exercise but look at America as a whole, we're unhealthier than ever yet we still teach health in school. We can teach basic financial literacy but I don't think by and large it'll change anything.
Yes, this! We'd love to open the beta up to more folks, but we're capped at that number for now. Excited to bring it to more people soon though!
Spam started when Google acquired DejaNews renamed it to Google Groups, and have Usenet access to everyone without responding to any abuse complaints.
Maybe it's a good thing that "AI" is used so much so that the hype will die down.
This is an annoying downside of dark mode, which I tend to have enabled on everything all the time: Favicons often don't look good (github, circleci...). Also many slack emoji don't show up.

I don't know if there's a good solution to this. It's unfeasible to require developers to provide two icons, particularly in places that are mothballed. Should browsers always render favicons against a light/white background?
Calling Unix/Linux a "consumer-market" OS is quite a stretch.
If anyone used DNSSEC it would be a problem.
It also needs to be rewritten with Flutter after a while.
This is great. Is this a parody of something? I couldn't get passed the first few paragraphs without laughing hysterically. Good work whoever wrote this.
Or maybe the downvotes are related to the rather fanatic behaviour of some readers of this thread – I got downvoted for mentioning I hadn’t heard of those OSes, only to be then voted up; and downvoted elsewhere when I told somebody to cheer up because they had been downvoted for essentially making the same comment. It’s pretty frustrating, to be honest: “try to cheer somebody up, get punished for it” isn’t the way things are meant to be.
> With public auctions, my understanding is they only need to pay attention to the domains someone actually tries to register. So if I'm China, I don't need to preemptively register the entire space of `/tiananmen/g`. I only need to download the list of auctions every day and run a regex on that finite space.

Sure, but since it doesn't cost anything to lose a bid (I believe?) if anyone tried that it'd be pretty easy to force them to spend a _lot_ of money buying domains that they have no intention of using. It also wouldn't stop anyone from registering `tiananmen.massacre`, as you noted.
There was also the Blackberry Storm which had a physically clicking screen[1] and I thought it (the tech) would take off and be the next big thing!

[1]: https://youtu.be/bLkb8HLZ_vQ?t=103
Just wanted to point out that Valentines day is originally a European tradition.
Thank you, those are great images
someone say a little prayer for 8tracks

one of the nails in their coffin was when SoundCloud cut them off

https://blog.8tracks.com/
The definition of mississuance is based on DNS data so DNS does matter for CAs. Conceptually DNSSEC would help except no one uses it.
"price gouging" is a myopic view of what goes on in the CPU/GPU market.

intel/amd could not afford to sell hardware at consumer prices if buyers could turn around and put those consumer parts in servers at scale. in the alternate universe where certain features aren't disabled for consumer parts, your i7 costs as much a a xeon; you don't get xeon features for i7 money.
It was posted by the author on Twitter, so it was absolutely for the world:

https://twitter.com/invtym/status/1227321408469909504
If there was only decent version control so you could go back quickly if something goes wrong.
That’s exactly what it is.
Oh man, I had a 300 baud modem for a very short time. Then my parents found out how much it'd cost to use it (long distance to nearest BBS or provider) and they sent it back. Ugh.

I did eventually get to use a 2400 baud modem though, and even ran my own BBS for a while. Fun days.
Well that's the thing with making history. When you're making it, it is often boring, thankless and paved with dead ends. Does anybody want your shitty high school drawings? Only of you end up being the next Picasso. But who would have thought? Then there's artifacts that are worth a lot to the right dozen people, and literally nobody else would give you a dime.
People have done this but with hasktorch. Which are haskell bindings to the pytorch C++ libraries. The static typing definitely helps when you want to ensure that the input/output shapes of a layer are consistent.
Maybe it's just me, but this looks like a bunch of incomprehensible gibberish code. I'm sure I could understand it if I spent many hours pouring over it, but why would you ever do that? When written out in Python (or even in JS!), the whole thing is so much simpler looking and more closely resembles the underlying math. This is especially true if you use a package like Numpy. I know he said he didn't want to use any libraries, but if the underlying primitives in the problem are vectors/matrices, then it seems like you are reinventing the wheel in a very substandard way that doesn't aid in understanding in any way and results in something that isn't beautiful, isn't high performance, and is confusing for someone to read-- even if the person is familiar with the subject matter!