skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They ate up disk and CPU. It was the nature of NNTP, at least at the serious provider levels, that you had to be able to keep up in real time with a certain high level of responsiveness, or you'd miss your window for posts and there'd be holes in your binaries (because Usenet is perhaps the dumbest imaginable way to transmit a large binary, a Usenet binary was a chain of separate posts, all of which were needed to reassemble the binary).

You could run a Usenet server without binaries, just to host the discussions and source code sharing and whatnot. But customers would have none of it: if you didn't have binaries, you weren't serving real Usenet, and they'd go to ISPs that did, and when ISPs generally stopped serving Usenet because it had become the world's lamest warez and porn distribution network, they moved to centralized NNTP services.
Building data liberation infrastructure
Online forums.

Salons in 18th and 19th century Europe generally revolved around one or a few wealthy patrons of the salon who not only funded its operations but also attracted the luminaries and intellectuals to its doors.

The analogue of patrons on the internet would be forum moderators, website owners, group creators, etc. But only to a certain extent because the owners and maintainers of an online forum are far less personally engaged with the conversation and daily goings on.

Of course the scale is much larger on the internet, and we don't actually deal with one another face to face. Banter is usually restricted as well and discussions are highly focused, in contrast to salons which were more of a social club.
I've been using my 64-core threadripper on ubuntu without a problem.
In other words, malwarebytes isn't selling anything to Mac users, so they paid pcgamer.com for an advertisement.
How to Learn CSS in 2020?
I vaguely flirted with some CSS in 2013 or so - back then I was a backend developer who sometimes dabbled in CSS. Now I want to sit down and really focus on improving my CSS, but the problem is that the internet is really filled with contradictory advice, and often much of it is outdated. For example, I'll be googling how to set up a certain kind of layout, and I'll get answers about using a (non-responsive) table layout vs flexbox or CSS grid.

Can anyone recommend a new/modern resource for picking up CSS that won't leave me with bad habits?
It’s difficult to have a discussion when in both your comments here, you’ve proposed that people who disagree with you aren’t discussing in good faith (in the first case by attempting to cast it as the politically correct opinion, and in the latter case by suggesting I’m not interested in facts).

The status quo today is that DNS interference is being mitigated by the CA system, which is no hero but does have the benefit that rogue CAs (or CAs which have been forced to behave badly by other actors) can be delisted. The push to increase TLS deployment, detect TLS cert shenanigans, and move additional technologies behind TLS (DNS-over-HTTPS, for example) all work to move the needle on the risks in the current threat model for the vast majority of internet-based workflows. These changes are what’s actually making things better for your example of your sister’s website.

Regarding fail-closed, I didn’t say that security controls should fail open. I said that unlike other security controls, DNSSEC fails by dropping the site off the internet. As an end user, you don’t even know it’s a DNSSEC problem, you just know the site has disappeared.
What's telling is that neither Nintendo or Sony give a flying fsck about this. The real reason people are willing to pay so much is nostalgia, then pile on some novelty and rarity. They'll claim it's an important historical artifact, which it may be. But even in the distant future it will not represent the culture of the day, it's just an interesting oddity that never made it to market.
My brother bought a box of baseball cards in the 90s hoping to cash in (unopened card packs). Its really not worth that much, he noted recently, but he still has it.

(Wondering how the gum that came in those packs held up.)

Classic video games are fun for nostalgia, but one of as the Broderbund software guys (Doug Carlston) says during an interview that he has old machines and the sometimes plays the old games:

"They not as great as they are in memory, in truth is our tastes change and become more sophisticated over time"

The rebooted Karateca for IOS and it didn't do well, and maybe he's rationalizing. Its kinda a fun listen, though not as good as others in the series:

http://appletimewarp.libsyn.com
The point is no one else touches my device or credit card, and I don't touch the terminal.
Pretty much every installation of Windows in the mid '90s and onward had Outlook Express installed and it was definitely capable of interacting with usenet.
Excel's version control is decent if you use it properly. It's easy to track changes over time, view check in notes that describe what was updated (as long as the user enters them...), and reverting to prior versions is really easy.
I think that Excel is already spectacular. That being said, if a C# or similar lived inside excel as a first class language (instead of VBA), that would make Excel unbelievable.
Long distance rates to BBS's were nasty, too. Thus the joy in finding any and all ways to get free calls. In ... 1992? i think it was I had a provider that offered dialup shell access for $8/hr on an 800 number, and that was the best legitimate price around for a good while. I built people networks off that box.
AMD CTO Looking Beyond Exascale in Future Large-Scale Systems View
Whether that warning is a good idea or not is irrelevant to asking why there aren't any innovative sideloaded apps on Android.

In other words, the lack of sideloaded apps on Android is easily explained by the warnings and therefore isn't evidence that closed app stores aren't preventing innovation.
I own a piece of semi-precious test equipment, a Fluke 9010a base unit along with some pods. A beloved mentor got it when an engineering company discarded it and gave it to me while it was mostly a curio. I used it on a retrocomputing project ten years ago.

Tens years ago when I last used it I was a bit surprised to find the set was worth about as much as "a new laptop." (Apparently people still use the Fluke for troubleshooting arcade machines.)

This week I was surprised again to discover the set is now worth about as much as "a new Mac laptop" (i.e. about twice). And many of the prices I was looking at were for non-working ones. Mine works.

So I think it's very easy to lay something aside with a vague idea it "might" be worth something without realizing it's worth the effort to find out exactly how much. You don't know what you don't know.

(I don't think I'd sell mine due to its sentimental value from who gave it to me and what I've used it for. Though I would probably sell it if it doubles again.)
The fact that Nintendo Play Station wasn't used is what makes this console all the more rare.

Plus retro gaming tends to pull higher prices than retro computing (generally speaking) and this piece of hardware is almost mythical in that it's the birth of the Play Station as well as a rare piece of hardware from the much loved SNES era (which also tends to command higher prices than it's 16bit Sega counterpart)

When I first saw this auction my first thought was "I bet that gets at least $1 million." - I think $3M is a little ambitious but I wouldn't say it's impossible.

This is my observations as a retro hardware collector. Ultimately something is only worth as much as someone else is willing to pay so it's sometimes hard to put a price on rarer items.
Parasite: At last the Oscars jumps the ‘one-inch’ subtitles barrier
Making people pay for the privilege of posting online isn't a good idea - getting people to use a forum for free is hard enough, just try getting Internet people to fork over "the price of a cup of coffee" as well.

If you want decentralized spam resistance at scale, Web of Trust is the only solution that works. To register, I contact a node that adds you for free by filling out a captcha, talking to them on IRC, etc. They add me at a trust level just above zero. If I start off by posting spam, my account instantly dies.

So I have to first post a bunch of productive comments that people respond to, and then I can start spamming.
I fail to see how this is different.

Say you have a function f1 returning an Either a b value then another method f2 which calls f1 but doesn't handle the error case will simply flatMap or bind or whatever the language of choice is calling it and return yet another Either a b value until at some point up the call hierarchy someone actually decides to unwrap and if necessary do something with the error case. The function signatures have the same problem as the parent comment mentioned.

flatMapping over an Either and returning the result is no different than adding "throws SomeException".

Then Option types (since they were mentioned as well somewhere) are a bit of a different story all together. They make sense for describing absence/presence if values/results and are definitely useful. However they don't compete with Exceptions in any real way since they don't really work for error handling beyond the most basic cases (i.e. where handling the error somewhere doesn't matter/need to happen).
I tried to teach someone new to programming javascript... I was quite astonished at how hard it is to learn. Nearly anything you'd want to do, there are 5 different ways to achieve it, together with 5 more libraries/abstractions that help solve the issue, and they're all a bit incompatible.

Have fun trying to integrate the "document.write('hello world')" example you found from stackoverflow into a react app while being a beginner and not really knowing why exactly they aren't compatible.
Yes but governments also cause problems, and if they get big enough the cure can be worse than the disease. E.g. if all governments in Europe had not had the power to override citizens' freedom of choice by drafting them and taking their factories to make bombs, there'd have been no WW1, saving tens of millions of lives. If Russian and Chinese governments in the 20th century had not had the power to override their citizen's freedom of choice and expropriate their property, Stalin would not have been able to conduct his purges, Mao would not have been able to conduct his great leap forward, the great famine would have been avoided, saving close to a hundred million lives.

As the quote goes, "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.". People think "oh it couldn't happen here"; well that's what people in Germany thought in the 1930s.
But will that really help though? It'll just be another mechanism for signaling, but that doesn't mean it will improve the situation, because the technology moves so fast that it's virtually impossible for the certification to be relevant, unless you mandate that software engineers get a certificate every year in some arbitrary newest technologies.

Engineering is a field where we understand the fundamentals. Changes from year to year or even decade to decade aren't going to uproot half of the things you know about it. In software that can very much be the case.
Easy to the uninitiated sure - and that's not a bad thing - but anything that needs maintaining (in a professional sense) shouldn't be in a spreadsheet.

I realize this is an unrealistic proposition, but think of all the principles we've developed (as an industry) that spreadsheets violate - no separation of code and data, prone to repetition etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZi9CSB9_kk There was a talk at DConf about this with a bit more depth than what I've written here, and potential replacements
"man"?
> But that savings of $600 per month is more than outweighed by the huge repair costs we've incurred. It'll take ten to fifteen years to make up the difference, to break even with the condo expenses.

Unlikely to ever break even. The opportunity cost of the $100,000 they spent is enormous. They’ll never break even on that by saving $600/month.
Programmers should be, and indeed have to be, fundamentally lazy, to be any good. My entire goal in life is, and always has been, to get the shit that other people shovel onto my plate done as quickly and efficiently as I can, so I can get back to the much more interesting things that I'd rather be doing. A good programmer will go to great lengths to avoid doing time-consuming tedious bullshit.

With regards to fixing bullshit transient bugs in other people's software: usually understanding the full root cause does not matter. It's going to update, and bring forth a whole new suite of bugs and oddities in short order. Your machine is a weird, ungovernable collection of state that cannot be fully understood and rarely presents the same way twice. If I had a dollar for every time I followed the definition of insanity and did the same thing over and over to get different results, I wouldn't need to work anymore.

But when you have found a StackOverflow post that ends up working to fix some whack-a-mole stupid thing, it's not like you move on and that knowledge goes poof into the aether. You might forget some details of what it was, but the next time something along those lines comes up, there will at least be the trace of a memory of what fixed it the last time. Over time, you build up this pattern matching apparatus, and in a couple years you can look at a bizarre nested exception trace generated from deep inside some Javabean hell, and you know that, "Oh, something is wonky with DNS on this machine" or whatever. It looks like magic from the outside, but it is utterly mundane.
Much like you can implement TCP (or something like it) atop UDP but you can’t really do the reverse.
I do wonder what is the best tool for this kind of expansive open world 3d construction, some perhaps would say Minecraft, but it is rather tedious and not designed for the purpose. Maybe Magica Voxel, but I think the canvas sizes are rather small.
I'm not following - in part because I'm too young to have ever used Usenet/NNTP. Did you have to offer hosting binaries? My (limited) understanding is it's a decentralized thing; couldn't you just do discussions over some niche topic (like web forums still do today) and have value in that?
Market segmentation is what allows you to have cheap things. Next time you walk through first class to your coach seat remember that those people are subsidizing you.
> The point is, the web ate all the other info-sharing protocols

I wouldn't say that really happened until after sometime in 2015.
> Here in Germany we have news pages like Spiegel Online, whose journalists criticise Facebook et al. in quite harsh words, but you can't read any of these articles without loading a bazillion tracking cookies on your browser.

There is some good part about this: There is some amount of separation of journalism and business. The journalists should be free to report anything they consider worthy to cover and the business running the site and going out to advertisers etc. doesn't influence this. This is good as it prevents big advertisers from preventing bad reporting. Of course it doesn't fully work, but in Germany it is better than in many other places in that regard.
Is this an limitation on the processor or on Windows itself? Since virtualization is not part of x86 but rather vendor specific, is the AMD implementation difficult?
Urban design often reveals how little we value transit riders
No, I don't think it takes only engineers to run a good phone company. I dispute, however, that it takes mostly administration.

And my concern seems to be validated by the outcome - they failed to build and ship the phone. They have a really shiny website, nice renderings and concepts, good market awareness...but no product.

It seems self-evident to me that it's impossible for a company to function on only administration and no product. You have to have engineers to actually ship a product, if you have none and ship nothing, the company is guaranteed to fail. However, if you have only engineering and no administration, yeah, things will be a mess, marketing will be basic word-of-mouth, and the design will be fragmented, but if the product works, exists, and is able to be purchased the company can hobble along and fix the rest later.
I mean, if by “putting them up for sale” they’re putting the thing on eBay as an auction, that’s not exactly mal-adaptive behaviour. The market will—hopefully!—recognize the value and set the price.
Putting aside whether or not this is actually a problem: The survey is only N=50, not N=10000, in spite of the article's emphasis on the second number. Large firms are unlikely to use different techniques for managing different contracts.

This is a white paper report from a legal AI company, not an academic study, so some selection bias is to be expected.
> Interface - UI made it easy to scan many posts quickly

This is the thing I really miss. The NNTP client I used in the late 90 / early 00s had a far better UX for dealing with large groups and complex nested threads (such as those seen in groups I used to frequent like comp.language.* and alt.fan.pratchett) than anything I've seen implemented via HTTP+HTML since.

Part of that is due to bandwidth constraints no doubt: the client was working from a local database of content that the UI was pulling data from for display so achieving everything it did on "old web" tech could impose a massive bandwidth cost on the provider and UI latency cost on the user, but with modern UAs this could be largely replicated with the various client-side storage options. There would still be an issue for users who moved between different browser instances regularly, a bunch of "read/purged/etc" data would need to be synced between clients via the service which increases the design complexity, but something noticeably better than most (all) web based forums offer should be eminently possible.
Integrated LINQpad
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/20/18632374/microsoft-sony-c...
Uber is testing out a new 1-800 number for people who don’t use apps
I'd really like to see how an average user holds their phone...

I have quite averagely sized hands and I've never once dropped my phone because it was "too big" (currently on the 5.8" iPhone XS, before that I've had the gigantic Note 3) and I can comfortably reach about 80% of the screen with my thumb...
Revenue comes from shipping a product, right? If you have no product, you're guaranteed to run out of money.
Usenet was full of people like me: educated, tech-savvy and interested in a whole wide range of obsessions.

The first time I "met" people who weren't involved in tech online was probably Friends Reunited (school friends) and then Facebook. Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok are all far more diverse than Usenet ever was (although I only ever use Twitter these days, so that might have changed).

I therefore can't accept your view that it had a dramatically diverse group of participants. It has an even less diverse group of users today, and it's worth remembering we should probably not talk about it exclusively in the past tense: it's still an active thing.

On the authority thing: the OP link suggests a public shared space has to be owned collectively, and therefore the policing model that Usenet lacked (other than a few good actors at the edge of the network like you suggest), will eventually be its downfall. We see this in unmoderated spaces all over the Internet today.

All public spaces are at risk of anarchy without some sort of policing, once populations reach a certain size. This is not a uniquely digital/online phenomenon.

I wonder if it's possible to create a protocol where policing is built in somehow, whilst retaining the public commons features that the OP desires.
this is what I'm hoping since lazy loading is constantly an issue for me (where I live my internet is frequently less than ideal.) Unfortunately my issues are more apparent with content lazy loading, and less with image lazy loading.
Strudel – A front-end framework for the back-end powered web
You can see the perspective of the authors of this article by the "Leaders" and "Laggards" lists at the bottom.

E.g., the top "Leader" point is: "Will adopt AI-based contract risk mitigation technology in the next 12 months."

I mean, who am I to tell "GC"s not to have some fun and fluff up their resumes at the same time? But if you want to improve your capabilities to manage contracts, buying AI solutions is not exactly a straight line to success.
You can to some extent by searching Google groups (which would include posts to usenet). It doesn't work very well in some cases though.
The wheel is always being reinvented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M9muYyYxhI
McClatchy files bankruptcy
A day early?
Same here, even when I'm alone in the arena. Unplayable. Feel like the packet has to go to the server and back before I see a response in my local craft.

Edit:

Pinging 13 times I got: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 125.981/217.330/322.054/63.585 ms

>200ms ping average, 64ms median deviation, yeah I bet the packets have to go to the server before it responds and that explains everything. The weird thing is that it was still an issue while I was alone on the server so it can't have been overloaded.

To my own website that's 37.490/39.462/41.610/1.199 ms, so it's not my connection.
Underscores are difficult to distinguish from underlining. That's just one issue.

Underscores_make_full_highlighting_easy

Dashes-make-single-highlighting-easy

It's also a use case thing. Double click on each sentence and note the behavior. It depends on which one you want. We use snake case in our urls because you can copy something from the documentation and easily highlight a portion to change.
Two research questions to revolutionize app development
Depends on the workload, but EPYC's 8 channel memory support would definitely be an advantage.
> 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?

It's over for rare cars. A friend lives in Southern Africa and used to buy gems cheaply when the person didn't know what they had and then ship them to Europe or the USA for a good profit. Now the owner can just google it and see immediately it's worth big bucks
>Take a place like NYC, for instance, where there are so many people, from so many parts of the world, that it arguably begins to "approximate human culture and interaction as a whole."

Except people are a product of context, so putting them into a new context creates a new breed, the new yorker, of which no human being aspires to.
From the loading speed it seems that the results are not cached. Isn't it?
Quantum entanglement over 30 miles of fiber
Throw in "commerce" (on both lists)!
I found The Gaming Historian to an excellent source of history about this kind of thing. I don't doubt he's covered this very device at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mcfrosticles
I have spent a lot of time on contract negotiation and management for engineering and EPC contracts. I can confirm that more or less, excel, SharePoint, and email fits with my experience of how things are done in the wild. (I do have some home-grown specialized tools I use for things like claims tracking.) Every big contract is different, and tools with lots of requirements are often not as adaptable to those nuances as a trusty excel sheet that you've honed through the years.

However, my experience in utility EPC space is that contracts are negotiated primarily by sales & supply chain people and reviewed by lawyers, and then turned over to contract managers, who only get their legal departments involved for advice or when there is an escalating problem that looks like it might head for arbitration or court. So asking general counsels about this seems like the wrong audience--at least out in my little segment of the real world, it's contract managers who mange contracts, not lawyers.