skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was around for original Digg. 1.0 was better than 2.0. 1.0 had beautiful minimalism, 2.0 turned gaudy and it just got worse and worse.

Digg was cool for its time but it was way overly simplistic. The frontpage was dominated by a really narrow set of power users because of how the system worked and the comments were single threaded. It was kind of a hot mess.

It is both crazy that K Rose missed out on selling it for $250 million and that's all it was worth. Had he played his cards right, it could have been Twitter and valued at tens of billions of dollars.

If you want to get into great sites that I miss, I really miss Reddit from 2005-2010, maybe a little later. Do I get a prize for using Reddit when it had no comments? The programming related discussions were good. HN's too ideological and big for them now, and r/progamming is a clusterfuck of people being assholes to each other and talking about shit we were arguing about 15 years ago.

Those early sites had a feel that I can only imagine the pre-Eternal September net had for older people.
This is the problem when people start treating real estate as an investment when it should be a human right.
Sure! Current inventory:

- 1 box and 3 bottles of cheap moscato

- 1.1 bottles of rum

- 4-ish bottles of various whiskeys

- 0.7 bottles of brandy

- 1 giant bottle of tequila

- Half a gross of bottles/cans of beer
verdaccio aims to do this as a proxy: https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio
Sure, but people who don't show symptoms can infect more! So in that case, the less potent one becomes more dominant, no?

Meanwhile those who show symptoms are more likely to stop infecting as soon as they're isolated.

That said, I'm not sure if there has been any different stands identified yet?
We look at compute graphs in deep learning, but it isn't very valuable because the graphs are so complicated. Among other issues, it's difficult to create a visualization of a compute graph that represents the time dimension well.
You can find the companies hiring during covid-19 crisis here : https://www.openjobs.live/joblist
I'm the opposite - I miss alta vista...
I miss a search engine with a real _search_ language that gave me the results I actually _asked_ for rather then just randomly picking stuff that matches half the query and stuffing the page with paid results.
These schools feed graduates into very lucrative companies.

Investment banks, hedge funds, private equity, management consulting, white-shoe law firms, and the list goes on. Sure - most of these don't say "We only want to hire top ivy-league grads", but they a good chunk of their recruiting happens at those school. Most firms have gotten better at casting a wider net - but having the "correct" background does still pay off, if you plan on a career in those places.
I'm still missing London in this discussion.
Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed your family? Would anyone try to stop you? What about a billion loaves?
Making it illegal to do business also erodes the idea of capitalism.
Staying sane during a pandemic while leading a remote team
I have a good real-world counter example: The game Rollercoaster Tycoon was written in assembly and ran full speed on a Pentium 1.

OpenRCT2 is a code conversion to C++. You can turn off all the visual tweaks they have implemented on top of the original game and it still requires significantly more CPU time than the original. And thats with a compiler being able to take advantage of modern CPU instructions while the original game can't do that.
> I envy your knowledge and ambition. What you've done is beyond my capabilities.

I mostly did just coordination and verification. The only code I contributed are very small workarounds for the NVMe controller and webcam. Nothing noteworthy. The serious work of reverse engineering and implementing custom drivers was done by others which are to be applauded much more!

There is one person I want to point out in particular and that's roadrunner2 [1] who took the existing input driver for the 12" Retina MacBook and not just made it work with the MacBook Pro's, but also implemented support for the TouchBar and ambient light sensor. As this driver is based solely on reverse-engineered workings of the input system and Apple does very unique stuff there this was so much effort. Including very subtle, but surprising bugs (e.g. [2]) which could've easily avoided if documentation would've been available.

roadrunner2 is also the one to applaud for bringing the support for keyboard and touchpad to mainline Linux. As that not just required an input driver, but also touched other subsystems and required serious refactorings that was quite an achievement as well and is the reason keyboard and touchpad even work out of the box after booting a Linux distribution nowadays (although it's still not perfect as some distributions don't enable the applespi driver yet).

[1]: https://github.com/roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver
[2]: https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/issues/53
Same here, I still remember young me and my friend crying of laughter on the floor playing this game :')
A safe bike route from SW to NE, e.g. Fulham to Shoreditch, would be lovely.
with the tension members on spools it could be adjustable sitting/standing
Of course they did: quit smoking, smoke outside.
Yeah that "ad in the middle of a sentence" thing annoys me, particularly because surely Google of all places has the ML chops to figure out how to place an ad at a natural break point based on the sound track!
HN users can be incredibly incredibly petty at times, which I think you are referring to. I think the software itself is just too easy to abuse and the moderation is too inscrutable, even if I appreciate dang.

I really dislike how political/personal everything gets around here, even the tech discussions, and the tech discussions themselves are full of breathless hype and hot takes that don't really make sense, too many people that learned something last week and then rave about how x and y changed their life. I don't know what early Slashdot was like, though, how it compared.
Do any code editors also treat a delete of one of these spaces as removing the tab width size? (I've never seen it, but maybe there are ones that do that.) What tends to happen is that yes, the tab enters the N spaces, but if you have to move code around, you can find yourself deleting a lot of spaces.
Oh yeah! Koro5hin rocked!
Wimp.com

slashdot

homestar runner

albino blacksheep

newgrounds

ebaumsworld

slime flash games
Mirsky’s Worst of the Web was great.
Misery is clearly the best.
Check out r/gigworks as well. It's listed in the sidebar of some of those sites and I run it.

If you can at all avoid homelessness, that's better. I have seen many conversations on r/homeless and r/almosthomeless where people said "I expect to be homeless in x weeks/months" and were encouraged to find answers before their time ran out and they did. It's much, much easier to problem solve while still housed.

If homelessness absolutely cannot be avoided, make sure to read the following posts before it's too late (because things like getting a mailing address beforehand is very helpful):

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/prepping-to...

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and...

Best of luck.
Rephrase: people use new TS features much more often than they use new Node features.
Mirsky’s Worst of the Web!!
Do you think the feds can set up a whole new system to funnel billions of dollars to small companies in a short time? Quicker than unemployment systems?
Guessing you're thinking of https://archive.today?

That gives you a web page where you can give the full URL to the paywalled one, and it'll give back an "https://archive.xx/address" URL where you can see the full thing.

eg: https://archive.vn/0ikco in this instance
My need for the back button was that I clicked "that's enough to consider" when I was done entering things, and immediately realized you wanted me to click "submit", then "that's enough to consider". So the last choice I entered didn't get considered.
FizzBuzz/EsoLang – Rosetta Code
Off-topic, and regularly repeated, but people up/downvoting based on (dis)agreement is the second biggest annoyance of web forums (right after Android keyboard autocompletion).
I do... being able to craft a query that returned _just_ what you wanted and not having to wade thru 10 pages of results because 'page rank' put all the really good stuff on page 5+....
My take you could very quickly funnel money through payroll companies. They have all the contact and banking information needed. Lots and lots of small businesses use payroll companies.

Steps would be pretty easy, business sends paperwork to the payrol company, they cut the checks, and bill the Feds.

Easy.
Is anyone still doing this? That company (SeamBI) is long dead. (Domain for sale, twitter nonactive since 2012, etc.)
Yep, entirely new engine. Warband used a custom bytecode-like programming language that required Python scripts to generate, whereas Bannerlord uses C# and XML. The engine rewrite is a big reason why it took so long to develop, but it was well worth it.
Covid-19 mortality risk for [ ] individuals [ ] in pandemic epicenters
>then measures will be taken to get your attention back to where "it should be".

Please drink verification can.
ThePirateBay
Yeah. Cross your q's instead.
The original versions of g+ was actually great, and they steadily made it worse and more confusing as time went on.
https://dask.org/

> Dask provides advanced parallelism for analytics, enabling performance at scale for the tools you love

edit: removed comments
The forced economic shutdown has decimated the entrepreneurial class in the US, particularly small businesses, I anecdotally know of many (non-tech) examples in my own circle of friends.

The jobs they created will not come back for the foreseeable future in many cases. It isn’t like they can just reboot with a clean slate, much of their capital was destroyed in the process. For a lot of businesses, “pausing” them is a death sentence, and there won’t be nearly as many people stepping up to replace them.
Please show us a proof - I have yet to see any non-toy program / routine with complex control flow written in assembly beating a modern optimizing compiler.

You can optimize a small routine. Anything that's not a toy rapidly becomes impossible to optimize by hand.

Just the register allocation itself can be a gigantic pain to do by hand, even with a limited register set of x86, let alone other RISCs with much larger register files.

EDIT: Added clarification in the wording.
Germany/Austria/Switzerland have similar programs (called Kurzarbeit) which are for situations like these (where companies don't have enough work at the moment but are believed to recover), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time_working - what was done for the covid crisis here (Switzerland) was to simplify the application process for it.
I think you're on the right track. We all (I hope) agree that stuff like this should be standardized. But that's not the same as "should be a package".

At the very least, W3, or Mozilla Foundation, or something with some kind of quasi-authority should release a "JS STD" package that contains a whole bunch of helper functions like this. Or maybe a "JS Extras" package, and as function usage is tracked across the eco-system, the most popular/important stuff is considered for addition into the JS standard itself.

Having hundreds of packages that each contain one line functions, simply means that there are hundreds of vectors by which large projects can break. And those can in turn break other projects, etc.

The reason, cynically, that these all exist as separate packages, is because the person who started this fiasco wanted to put a high a download count as possible on his resume for packages he maintains. Splitting everything up into multiple packages means extra-cred for doing OSS work. Completely stupid, and I'm annoyed nobody has stepped up with a replacement for all this yet.
This necessarily might not count as a website but, playing CyberStrike on AOL during their free trial period years was awesome
This is actually so cool. I find it amazing that such a high quality resource is available for free. When you think about the potential the Internet has to democratize knowledge books like this are really the perfect example of that. I appreciate the authors for sharing their knowledge. Definitely going to take the time to read this when I'm through some of the other books I'm reading
Implement Execute Around Pattern
The article was specifically about MK-Ultra style mind control.

Saying there are other ways to try to get people to do what they want - especially at a population level as the OP claimed - is a completely different proposition.

I've linked elsewhere to IARPA SHARP which is the closest thing to actual mind control.

Do I think intelligence agencies try to manipulate public opinion by methods similar to advertising agencies? Yes absolutely! Do I think this this is mind control or anything resembling that? No, and I think it's important to note that despite all the leaks (Snowden, Wikileaks, etc etc) there is no hints that I'm wrong about this.
The health crisis doesn't "end" by itself. I'm sure most people would rather get back to work than stay at home and receive free money. Let them do that.
Just cancelling property taxes would fix rent and protect property values. Rent to property value ratios are much lower without property taxes. Also home ownership rates are much higher without property taxes.
The fairest solution would be for tenants to pay as much as they can instead of the government declaring that all tenants in the nation are incapable of paying the entirety of their rent for the foreseeable future (because this is obviously false, some tenants can pay all or their rent, some of them can pay some of it). You are correct here.

The only caveat is that ownership of financial assets including real estate is inherently risky. A monthly rent to retain the right to use a financial asset is in many ways the opposite, both for the reasons of not being liable for the underlying asset in addition to the variety of tenant rights in this county. Your guy assumed these risks when he purchased his 3 properties.

An abhorrent attitude is emerging in the United States among the ownership class. They feel they are entitled to steady, eternal returns on their financial assets, equity, real estate or otherwise. Concurrently the labor class has no guarantee of a right to steady, eternal income through sale of their time and energy.

In nature, ownership of anything is no guarantee of receiving from it productive benefits. We would be wise as Americans to remember this when we expect anything more from the civil society we inhabit.
https://archive.vn/HuMeO
Did you read the article?

Propaganda is not the same as the mind control they are talking about or the OP claimed is being used at the population level.
I think the problem is individuals treating real estate as a risk free asset (it’s not) and our cultural acceptance of retail investors placing highly leveraged bets (via mortgages) on those assets.

If you have a bad portfolio (100% real estate) and you’re highly leveraged, you’re going to have a bad time.
This will prove ineffective in a few months. Not all 100% Of jobs lost are coming back.
But in prisons you spend way more time isolated. There is less freedom of travel, and I'd assume they'd be less physical contact (although maybe more if you considered shared showers).
The cigarette ban would increase domestic violence as people without any support aid would be forced into limit spaces with partners. How do they justify that decision?
Quantifying and Time Tracking My Reading
The comment you replied to suggested freezing all mortgage and rent. So the guy guy know doesn't have to pay the mortgages on the properties and his tenants don't have to pay rent. No need to sell them at all, everything is just on hold.
>> 2. For landlords who cannot sustain the loss of cash flow, offer to buy them out at market price and then hire them as property managers for their previously owned properties.

But who's going to decide on the value? And pay for it? If the goal is to help US population, why not just use that money and give to others with less wealth? Because money given to those without savings will definitely be put back into the economy.

A big chunk of money given to one person will most likely sit in a savings acct or something like it...
I miss the feeling of 'exploring' I got everytime I found a new .edu gopher server...
Tracking down all the nooks and crannies looking for documents related to tech. How awesome it felt went you found some lecture notes/thesis that was just _gold_ and you could curl up and read it ...

Stonybrook algorithm repository was a similiar feeling...just going thru and exploring all the different techniques people have come up with.
Separate channel is perfect (I do want them to be distinct). Looks like it did indeed get tied to the account I created, so we're good :)
I find your joke to be in poor taste.
I miss JibJab. They're sort of still around, but they seem to have long since stopped making satirical flash animations they used to be famous for. Their Year in Review videos were hilarious and awesome back in the Bush & Obama eras.
(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmEP93NVTaw)
Yes, all the things that people posted here. And, in addition, you could chat with the user. It was so interesting to connect with someone purely through shared genre love. And then to ask them questions about what they liked that you didn't know about. There was nothing else like that serendipity.
Probably should have left the title alone. There's no such thing as 'MIDI music'. MIDI is a communications protocol to transfer encoded performance data between electronic sources and sinks.

Algorithmic performance data is a thing, but generally not very musical. There've been a couple of exceptions.
Ideally, basically what Japan is doing. Don't try to discriminate on company, don't make it complex, just cut a check to keep employees on the payroll. There's no dumb drama over "who gets the loans", if all employers do.
I'm not sure I buy into the idea here that there is government speech control from the federal government ... much at all. And certainly not what we see in China.

"Community standards" are not directed to support a particular leader, nor do they exist to suppress even silly mockery of political leaders.

The platforms have grown in influence, but they were never a free for all, and with influence comes a lot of work and responsibility that they seem willing to do when it comes to moderation, even if for their own purposes. YouTube doesn't want to host anything and everything, same with Facebook. Few if any site ever did, and those that chose to... often changed course after exposure to what being a site that hosts 'anything' actually becomes (generally, just the less desirable parts of 'anything' and the rest of the users flee).

Things change, but the idea that it was a free for all the father you go back has more to do with the fewer people on the internet, and even then there was moderation.
Is this test sensitive to just SARS-CoV-2? What is the possibility that other corona viruses (like the ones that cause many of our colds) could create a false positive? I haven't heard anything from a reliable source on that.
What killed the "is this the year of desktop Linux" question was the smartphone. The Desktop/Laptop segment peaked in 2011.
There is some pretty strong evidence that mid-ocean ridge volcanism is modulated by sea level change (no bearing on hot spot volcanism like HI). I read some papers on it a few years ago. Here's a recent one I haven't read yet: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116121
Australia has a similar program, but universally applicable (not just small companies) to any company which can show negative effects from COVID-19.

They subsidise salaries at a flat rate of $1500/fortnight.
> they clearly want the performance - the algorithms (as you can easily see in the repo) are trivial, its just a huge amount of data to process

> C++ can shine here

And my point is: it didn't. And it didn't because of the learning curve involved. It's only the better solution if the knowledge is invested in ahead of time, and if the gains don't outweigh those you'd get from Go by an amount that greatly exceeds the time invested to net them, then it's not the better choice.
I haven't tried 20.04, but this is the "dconf dump /" setting in 18.04 that got emacs in the ballpark:

[org/gnome/desktop/interface]
text-scaling-factor=1.5
Ask HN: What are the best obscure/less well known jobs?
> It's like a creeping cancer that cannot be stopped

Billboards are heavily regulated and sparse in New Zealand. It can be stopped, but it takes willpower and hard work.
You should probably see the trains in some Eastern European countries then. Slow and dirty.
The Keepers of Lists.

Each day a topic was presented and visitors could suggest additions to the that day's list that would then be voted up and down. Things like Top Items You'd Take To The Moon, or Worst Things To Find In Your Shoe In The Morning. It was crowdsourced Letterman-quality humor. Very clever and super funny.

But this was back before you had to log in to web sites to use them. The internet worked on the honor system.

So after the Eternal September, it started to get targeted by spammers and angry losers and eventually became useless and went away.
We use rebase heavily and it makes our lives so much easier. The main rule is that we never rebase anything in the main repository- only in our forks. And everyone accepts that the forks are unstable.
You just need to mute the call before authenticating.
If "erodes the idea of capitalism" is the best argument against it then I'm not sure that is as compelling as you seem to think.
Item #1 was to cancel mortgage payments and property taxes. This person would only be paying for things like maintenance contracts, lawn service, and insurance. I would think those would be relatively low and all of them are very likely negotiable right now. I know many are proactively reaching out to accommodate. Much like Japan subsidizing 100% of salaries, there would be a timetable for it to sunset since it's obviously can't happen indefinitely.

Not that I think that idea is 100% feasible (I don't think states and counties can function without property taxes), but losing an investment seems like a better option than losing where you live.

Ideally, "the market" would fix itself. Nobody has leverage here. It's not like there are new tenants waiting to move in and pay rent. So everyone is motivated to renegotiate--unfortunately, the volume of renegotiations often means enforcing silly policies like "evict everyone immediately" might get used. This happened in 2008.

I, too, am worried about consolidation. I know that will happen without any action, and will likely happy if the government does.
That being said if the time invested in learning C++ and the extra time needed to write it and optimise it doesn't exceed the performance of the same solution written in (optimised) Go by a factor larger than the time invested then it's not the right choice overall.