skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads kill brain cells and create the problem of spam filtering, which consumes a lot of resources.
The failure of Minitel lies mainly in the underlying networking model, and resulting capability to become a service provider.

Minitel was based on x25. Contrary to IP, x25 was a network where the terminals are dumb and the network needs to be smart.

This means that there was an incredibly (for the time) steep learning curve to transition from a Minitel user to a Minitel provider.

This meant that the technology could not be easily studied and tested in a garage (even if some like me did), not impossible but tougher than with IP.

You know the rest of the story.

There are also more minor factors that lead to fall of Minitel but mainly it was IMHO a closed vs. open model root cause.

I was heavily into both service and tech of Minitel at that time, AMA.
I interviewed 7 London startups about C19. Here are the 5 takeaways for survival
This. I really agree with this.

The async afficianados also bring along the async ecosystem split.

I wish they did a better job of bridging this gap.

Languages like rust, which already have amazing support for threads don't need this split, please.
Nikola compared to Theranos scam after founder used similar arguments
that's basically the heart of it - its a different motherboard and CPU architecture and therefore a different bios.

this is where things break
When I was (very) depressed I could get plenty done. I just couldn’t feel any reward for getting anything done. Of course, I couldn’t feel any reward for slacking off either. So I had the choice to either live in a world of ash or live in a world of ash and do something. Either way I felt (or more accurately didn’t feel) the same way. So it was an easy choice and no willpower was required to actually do stuff.
These days people are doing selective breeding by simply sequencing genes. It can produce the same results as transplanting genes in a matter of months for a lot of plants (because they don't use normal procreation).

It's not cheaper or faster.

And of course, now there's a massive debate whether this is GMO or not.
> I doubt any of the kids learning to program like that ever enjoys the same feeling of truly understanding your PC and how you can use it that we had back then.

I still have that feeling programming for small microcontrollers today. Stepping through some disassembled code and comparing/changing registers on the fly is just pure bliss.
When Dropbox was presented to the VCs, I think it was just a powerpoint. Does that mean that it was fake ( according to your logic). Musk is just using standard startup methods used in modern startups.
I mean, I get your sentiment, but what's the alternative?

So far, this tech seems to be recon + defense oriented and not straight up slaughterbot killer drones etc.

If we aren't building it, someone else will - and I'd rather us have this than China etc. or some other authoritarian government.
Hey! I've spent a half hour using your app and it's great! I was feeling a bit tense, confused and unmotivated this morning and going through the technique with your app really made a difference. Thanks!

For those not in the know, this is based on what's sometimes called the Sedona Method. There's a popular book about it by Hale Dwoskin [0] and the questions (and phrasing) in this app are almost exactly the same (the self-questions are an important part of the technique).

I've been geeking out about psychological self-help for a long time and this is by far the simplest and most effective (especially in terms of the ratio between accessibility and effectiveness) method I've come around. The idea, to summarize it crudely, is that you can just let go of feelings. You're a layer cake of stuff and the more you take off the better things get. At first it sometimes feels like "ok, I've let go of this basic thing, but I'm no better off" (it's a bit like the situation you'd find yourself in if you started shoveling a landfill). The technique, apart from the basic insight that you can let go, provides troubleshooting and guidance that let's you get a lot of results from something that is so simple. One of the things that originally attracted me to it was the feeling I had that, whatever the mechanism behind my hangups is, it's simple, but with emergent behaviour, and this really satisfied that part of me, and has been otherwise very rewarding as well.

My favorite book on the topic is Letting Go by David R. Hawkins [1], which is also one of my favorite books of all time. I could sing praises for it for a long time; it's been a big deal for me. If I need a spiritual pick-me-up, that's the book. It's a really good instruction manual for your mind, feelings, emotions. If you think you might lack emotional intelligence, this book is a good place to start too.

If you feel like this method is working for you and you want to learn more, I recommend going back and forth between the two books. They have very different approaches on the same thing. I found that at different times I needed more of the one or the other.

In the app, I noticed that the voice-over "letting go might be new for you" kicks in every time you're going through a new emotion. Might be better if it was there only for the first time.

I think I'll be coming back to this app a lot. Thanks again! Are you considering open sourcing it?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Sedona-Method-Happiness-Emotional-Wel...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-M-D-David-Hawkins/dp/14019...
"Everybody lies." ~ Gregory House

"Talk is cheap; show me the code." ~ Linus Torvalds

"To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program." ~ Alan Perlis
Because of threat of US sanctions Harmony OS is very attractive to phone companies in China. Open source helps but it is still dependent on a services component (corresponding to Google Mobile Services - a server component for messaging, map, app store, app validation etc.).
Getting Started with Eleventy (11ty)
A decision is either easy, or it doesn't matter
There is a certain asymmetry in it, but you can also sue and have shit like that declared illegal. Thing is it would threaten most bizniz-models of the bullshit economy, so it doesn't happen that much.

I'm expecting that this finally changes for the better, at least in some parts of the world, where the parts which don't adapt to that change spiral further down.

Rightly so!
"The only way to be wisely selfish is to care for others." -Sam Harris
Internet Privacy Easy+Fast Starter Kit for Average Users
Perhaps it's explore / exploit. You need a huge amount of time to get the fundamentals, and then to use that to find some sort of individual expression. If you ever find one, your incentive is to put out more from the same area, but you hit diminishing returns.
I suspect it may be the IPO underwriters, the big financial institutions that most companies going public will work with to make their shares available to the public. In short, the company and these institutions negotiate the initial price of the shares beforehand, and on the day of the IPO, those institutions purchase those shares from the company at that price (thus funding the company) and then immediately flip them (hopefully for a profit) to the masses.
"Why do it right when you can do it twice?"

I use it sarcastically when people want to hack things together so I don't think it counts as a motto.
It's going to be interesting to see how the defence handle her apparently pretty rapid recovery to good mental health post-Theranos, i.e. new boyfriend, posting smiley selfies etc.
This app is based on 'The Sedona Method' which has helped me in the past, but treats symptoms. For more permanent change I would suggest REBT, which has helped me even more.
The will is decisive.
I think it depends on who your audience is. If it's pop music consumed by younger people it's natural younger musicians will be more popular. In my world, contemporary art, a lot of celebrated people only got recognition later in life.
Don't mess with Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas
I would recommend building a tutorial around a source language that wasn't deliberately obtuse.

I do see it makes the parser simple, but it reduces the audience to the small fraction that think a deliberately confusing language is useful.

My opinion anyway.
Ha, I did not.
How do you know that your tests are useful ? most (I'm a senior tester so I know a few) teams write tests that are useful when they are new or when a new feature is being developed, those tests quickly stop finding problems and in the worst case give false negatives (fail for no reason).

A related problem are Rotten green tests [1]

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00062
Pipelining and opportunity for parallelization:

A = computeA()
B = computeB()
C = A+B

Vs

futA = asyncComputeA()
futB = asyncComputeB()
A, B = waitAll(futA, futB)
C = A+B
Square is putting all of its crypto patents into the Crypto Open Patent Alliance
Then use Jitsi, or something.
"Unlike conventional online services, TiddlyWiki lets you choose where to keep your data, guaranteeing that in the decades to come you will still be able to use the notes you take today."

Very nice. And that also mean you can keep your notes local and private I guess.
> Open

Until they gain enough market share and decide to close it, just as with phone bootloaders: https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-bootloader-unlocking...
And you can use some of them as a serial console using a simple TTL to serial voltage adapter.

The following are compatible with 80 columns:

Minitel 1B

Minitel 2

And type the following after power on to switch to 80 cols:

Function T+E
I bought Ladytron's new album, i got FLAC+Cassette.. I have a cassette player in my car, and was looking forward to listening to it there.
I was very dissapointed to find the tape of absolutely horrible (by tape!) quality, it sounded so bad I couldn't use it.. Totally a gimmick. I ended up just recording the flac files onto another, blank tape and they sound just fine (by tape standards, actually, by most standards).

I hope the new-vinyl is not as gimmicky as new-cassette.
As much as I agree with this, I hate the privacy implications behind this approach.

Plus, hey.com (from DHH) has seen huge growth without any sort of re-marketing or spy pixels (as he says)
You don't even need all the equipment listed in the article. I've been making music for years with just my laptop, a cheap Focusrite audio interface ($150), a pair of studio headphones (Sennheiser HD280), a cheap keyboard (Akai MPK Mini) and copies of Ableton and Serum synth.

You can still spend an inordinate amount of money on hardware and software. If I bought every plugin I really wanted, I would likely end up spending a couple of thousand. Throw in a better audio interface ($500+), a good keyboard ($400), a pad controller ($200+), and a better computer ($1500+) and you can easily add up to several thousand dollars.

But the point remains: it's absurdly cheap to start producing music today. You can get near studio quality with gear that, outside of your computer, won't cost more than $1k.
I met my first wife thanks to the Minitel.
I met my second wife thanks to the Internet.
> In my opinion public infrastructure would ideally be maintained by states

There's no government layer at the level Debian operates. As pretty much everything internet based, its users ( and contributors) are international - which I think is the main reason why we don't see public alternative services to social networks, search engines, etc.

China is a special case, since they explicitly would rather keep the userbase restricted to Chinese citizens.
I used one of those. There was a narrow time window prior to the dial-up age when multple telcos considered something similar, but the investment required (especially terminals) was massive. It was a pretty neat universe. I last played with Minitel data when looking at (of all things) _dial-up_ set-top-boxes with a basic browser (it was an Alcatel thing, I think, that talked to a Minitel gateway to render content).
What is a reasonable range for an answer to (A)? I know it's going to depend on what stage the company is at, and I figure 1% is probably going to be the upper bound, but I don't know what the lower bound should be.
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Not sure if you're aware already, but you can disable religious victory in the advanced setup settings.
I wish for a simplified, security-focused fork of Wordpress.
In what way is it more complicated that one would naively expect? And why?
Mmm. A million dollars isn't a lot of money these days. That is something like 5 to 18 full time devs, for 1 year. Good luck running the Debian project at market rates.
The same way it does on Android.
It's just life. Don't take it so seriously.
Very interesting point of view ! I'm a French engineer owning "BSPCE" (stock option equivalent for french startups), I wonder if I can exercise those and sell the stock privately (obviously, the company is not IPO'd). If any other french HNer is reading this and has experience with this subject, I'd be interested to talk about it !
In Spain we had Ibertex, which is basically the same technology (some minor improvements), but it wasn't as popular as Minitel in France.
Along the same lines, memento mori, emphasizing not only that this will pass, but reminding you to consider that in the context of your own teleological end (whatever you consider that to be)
This gave me the cold chill. I think I will print it and put it on the wall.
> It is easy to conceive that we would responsibly organize to police fire

No it isn't, when you think of the cost and needed resources you will be overwhelmed. You can counter claim that the cost of the fires exceeds this, but we are bad in preventing big future problems. Just see how the global warming discussions goes.
It goes to show how good producers before the digital era were. Albums you'd consider 20th century masterpieces were recorded on 4-track recorders. They'd record a section, bounce it to one track. Record another section on the second track, then merge the two tracks. And so on. Incredible amount of hard work.
If a test never fails unexpectedly then you know that particular test has been a waste of time.

e.g. if no regressions ever get picked up by the test subsequently
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/facebook-custom-audience-illega... would be an article in English about it from a digital rights organization.

https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/pm2017_07.pdf is the official press release of the Bavarian DPA (in German), with their guidelines attached (starting on page 4).

There is two kinds of "custom audiences" - one list-based and one based on tracking pixels. I'll only quote the parts relevant to the method where customer lists are uploaded.

a.Rechtmäßiger Einsatz - Der Einsatz ist nur aufgrund einer informierten Einwilligung der Kunden zulässig. Das Hochladen der Kundenliste kann weder auf eine Rechtsgrundlage des BDSG noch des TMG gestützt werden. Diese Rechtsauffassung beruht auf einer europarechtskonformen Auslegung der geltenden deutschen Datenschutzbestimmungen und berücksichtigt die jüngsten Entscheidungen des EuGH zum Datenschutz. Im Übrigen wird das Übermitteln dieser Liste an Facebook auch auf der Basis des ab Mai 2018 geltenden Rechts, d.h. nach der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DS-GVO), nicht ohne Einwilligung zulässig sein.

b.Widerruf der Einwilligung - Widerruft der Betroffene seine Einwilligung, so muss er von der Kundenliste entfernt werden. Da der Webseiten-Betreiber keine Kenntnis davon hat, welche Kunden auch Nutzer auf Facebook sind und beworben werden, ist die vollständige Custom Audience-Liste unverzüglich zu aktualisieren.

(Translation - Google translate with misleading issues corrected manually:

Lawful use - Use is only permitted with the informed consent of the customer. The uploading of the customer list can neither be based on a legal basis of the BDSG nor the TMG. This legal opinion is based on an interpretation of the applicable German data protection regulations in accordance with European law and takes into account the most recent decisions of the ECJ on data protection. Beyond that, transmitting this list to Facebook will also not be permitted without consent according to the law applicable from May 2018, i.e. according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Withdrawal of consent - If the person concerned withdraws his or her consent, he or she must be removed from the customer list. Since the website operator has no knowledge of which customers are also users on Facebook and are being advertised, the complete Custom Audience list must be updated immediately.)
Well the popular and expensive services were advertised according to their access code: 3615.

But the less known nerd services were found on much less expensive 3614 access code such as RTEL, Privilege, QBBS, ...

Even some hackish servers where on the super cheap 3613 or free 3605s.
A/AAAA records on gTLD level are not allowed by ICANN. ccTLDs may have these records (probably just an oversight from the past) and some do (http://ai. for example)
I re-watched Whiplash recently. It is a marvelous movie for many reasons, but I always wondered how accurate its depiction of a competitive Jazz band really is.
That is not much unlike Android the c standard library there is forked from FreeBSD
thank you, how do you think about UI UX? Have anything not good i must be change?
NASA Global Temperature
Hardware Design at Apple
I've long wondered if Apple uses their own hardware to design their products. As a civil engineer who is also quite a computer nerd I've seen very very few CAD packages, FEA tools, PCB design software, etc. available for macOS. Does Apple use dedicated PC workstations for hardware/PCB engineering or do they use Mac's running Windows in a VM or Boot Camp? For example, it seems like there might be some circumstances where using FEA tools with NVIDIA gpus might help speed up the design process. I think ANSYS has built in support for CUDA as long as you have a NVIDIA GPU.

I've used tools like Civil3D from Autodesk in both boot camp and paralles/vmware fusion and it works fairly well. I'm curious if anybody has any knowledge of what tools Apple uses internally to design their hardware.
Or a mandatory sunset clause on all laws, say 10 years.
"keep the heid"

i.e. Stay calm

My mother always said this to me before exams at school.
Well, it's forever if you assume that the threads live forever; for a web server it's perfectly practical to have threads that only live for a single request, or to reuse them for multiple requests but not allow a single thread to live longer than say 10 minutes.
We have a saying in France about the minitel. It first put us 20 years ahead of everyone, and then 20 years behind
Well what made Minitel popular was that France Telecom (now Orange) gave the basic Minitel 1 for free to anyone requesting it.

That was huge at the time.
That's fine. They can ask for your consent and you can provide valid, informed consent to this ad targeting, and then get better ads.

What's no longer acceptable according to GDPR is forcing this onto people unknowingly, or by packaging it into a "take it or leave it" package of fine print.
I sometimes use: Why do today what can be put off until tomorrow?
https://www.fix-knee-pain.com/basic-postural-problems-at-the...
Oh, I was thinking of (nearly) synonymous alternate syntax. It's true that Ruby has lots of true synonyms in method names.
There is a bit of a sad downside to vinyl: it seems to release toxic chemicals into the air where its being played or even just stored [0]. I hope there are ways to find alternative materials because I thoroughly enjoy the medium overall.

[0] https://youtu.be/aZ2czFuIYmQ?t=681
If one of two airborne transmissions remains within normal variation while the other drops significantly, then masks had an insignificant effect.

The more plausible explanation is that mask wearing had a tiny impact on both covid and flu. The reduction in covid results from something else. Not everything has to do with masks. Masks don't discriminate between flu and covid.
Not liking the bug tracker and mailing lists as well as several other points come across as typical things-need-to-be-done-differently now, which has destroyed the culture and meaningful participation in other projects, like Python.

I'm sure there are many valid criticisms of Debian, the main one for me is overpatching upstream packages.
> SpaceX is literally taking queries for the sale of private Mars tickets[0].

The only thing close to 'private Mars tickets' is the footer which says: "For inquiries about our private passenger program, contact sales@spacex.com". That sounds like a very generic "If your problem is having too much money, we can help!" kind of sales pitch.

> If I made a website and sold tickets to the "Nicest place to sit and observe the apocalypse when it occurs." for hefty profits i'd be driven out of town.

If you're a company that sells private bunkers and you have a page on your website about a possible apocalypse, then no one will fault you for having a generic "For inquiries about our private bunker program, contact sales@bunkerx.com" footer.
Early is on-time. On-time is late.
You'd need to explain why it would have won against the internet when AOL/MSN/CompuServe didn't.
> foobarcorp.net, foobarcorp.info, foobarcorp.sucks, etc. Why even allow this

Because there can be multiple companies with the same name. Why cut them off from using their own name in a domain address?
The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it.

I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got Scream Tracker on with its included samples plus whatever I could rip from a few .MODs I could get my hands on had to do. There were four tracks. There were a hundred samples, half of which was obscure crap (and even those found their use).

Building with it and making them sound awesome, plus discovering the amazing tricks the OGs of tracker & demo culture did with their editors (sliding and bending notes! dead stops in the middle of the sample!) was endless fun.

Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there's gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that's still better than the one I'm using right now.
Put Cloudfront in front of your S3 bucket and they Amazon will handle your certificates for free.

Egress traffic is cheaper too I believe.
A question for people that have experience with both Hugo and 11ty: What are the main differences and which one do you like the best (and why)?
We built a website for a film festival using a static site generator, deploying to AWS S3 + CloudFront Content Delivery Network. A few months later, the client asked about shutting it down to save money. Turns out it cost $0.05 for the month it was active, and $0.01 in the previous month.
Doesn't seem like a design usable for modern GPUs..
https://postcompetitiveinsight.com/2015/09/posterior-pelvic-...
Regarding (A) I know they might tell you unofficially but they won't put it in writing necessarily. Would you know why?
Um, isn't one of the benefits, especially for hobbyists, that you're not inhaling lead-laced fumes?
That's important to learn. When given the choice to feel nothing about either, you should choose something productive to do. People are much more likely to help you if you have a good past record and can maintain some benefits for them. It's an investment to help a depressed person for society and if you get stuck in the hole for longer, you are that unlikely to get any help.
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.” -― Nicolas Chamfort
Better graphics?
https://postcompetitiveinsight.com/2016/10/posterior-pelvic-...
If at first it doesn't work, force it.