skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The general public did not use any of these services.

The users of Prodigy and CompuServe were very much part of the "general public."

I'm sure me and all my high school friends thought of ourselves as somewhat elite for dialing into BBSes, but that's just because we were jerks. It's not like we were a secret society or something, and there were plenty of us. (You might think of computer users as an elite of that era, since they were middle class tools and not for everybody, but users of online services or BBSes were not an elite subset of that group at all. Maybe that's the big lesson here.)

> Most computer users bought boxed software, and that was it.

You've obviously unfamiliar with shareware. Adorable. (the wiki page on Shareware is inadequate enough that I guess I shouldn't wonder too much about it)

It's too bad, though, because the very lightweight and high quality software that people used to make for each other and sell or give away serves as a counterexample to a number of the assertions about the web and software you made in the grandparent post. A bigger topic, honestly...

> Was anyone actually selling software over the internet in the 80's/early 90's at scale?

Okay, first of all, you need to abandon the idea that "the internet" was the entirety of digital software distribution in the late eighties or early nineties, since you're talking about the last few years when really interesting networked systems might not rely much, or at all, on TCP/IP. I wouldn't blame you for not including that era's CompuServe users as part of "the internet," since their connection to the internet involved nothing more than exchanging email with internet users at that time (I'm not even sure when they got that ability). Although they were definitely part of the "general public." Anyway.

> Was anyone actually selling software over the internet in the 80's/early 90's at scale?

The video game companies and individual developers of games or utilities were probably the first to do it at scale. Doom, in 1993, was probably the biggest example of the era but it was relying on a well established method of distribution.

Doom fulfills the "scale" part of your question but it's a little deceptive - most software isn't like that. The great thing about early digital software distribution was that tools and games that weren't necessarily big enough to justify creating a company had a path to get into consumer's hands. Doom would have got out there regardless, but a tool like, just as one example you might have heard of, pkzip, really was a product of that environment. It eventually was shrink wrapped, but only after it'd established itself a decade prior.
At some level of scale (obviously not zero clients), a client services person can be useful for chasing down POs, checking in on clients regularly, etc. But in my experience at a couple of consulting firms, a "sales person" has trouble even selling standard packages on their own. And they really have no way at all of selling one-off projects.
Hi there, I'm someone who builds and buys SMART on FHIR tech, albeit small potatoes in the space. A few thoughts from checking out your site to see if I should follow up with you, I hope these are helpful.

1. WHo are you? Your site says nothing about you. I'm going to give you the keys to the PHI kingdom, I need to know who's soliciting me. Are you two twenty-somethings with amazing skills and ideas, or 20 ex-Epic employees looking to fill a particular gap you found? Without this general information I wouldn't know what sort of project to think about including you in.

2. Where are you? I'm under contract with numerous health agencies that require data to be on US soil. I have no idea if you are in Romania or Virginia. (Side note, government is the biggest purchaser of health care and therefore your paths will cross at some point, even if it's simply being downstream of federal or state data.)

3. How compliant are you? Your one page tells me nothing about your understanding of HIPAA, nor how you ensure the security and privacy of the data you will be exposed to. It may seem as if anyone in the space _should_ know about this and the reader can assume compliance, but frankly it's not the case. Yell at me about your third-party audits, your ability to transact PHI, as well as any SOC/FISMA compliance you have.

4. What have you done before? There are a lot of corners in the niche, and I'd need to know what systems you've worked with, what you've built and who for, so I can get an understanding of whether or not you'd be a good fit.

As for leads, with most conferences going virtual your usual approach of HIMSS is buggered, but Healthcare Datapalooza just put out a call for presentations so they're likely looking for (virtual) sponsors already. I assume HIMSS and HCDP sell attendee data, have you looked in to that? And how about FHIR aggregators like 1up and Redox, they are likely plugged in to many of your potential customers.

I'd be happy to chat more, my profile has an E-mail address you can use. Good luck with your venture!

EDIT - forgot to mention, starting out a great way to get noticed is to participate on a HIT Challenge, not sure what's up for grabs lately but challenge.gov - easy way to find the right people to start netowrking with.
DPI is needed if you want to scan for malware transported through https, but it is also just a plain MITM attack.

I can understand the desire and would support it as long as browser vendors don't include root certs of these firewalls, so that there is the need to at least kind of consent to it.

In my country you can disallow private usage of company machines. If people disregard that and share private info, you can still be guilty of a privacy violation if you expose the data. Sounds stupid at first, but it is one of those few laws in the digital space where smart people were involved.

That said, I agree that the accusation is unfair. Belarus is the worst dictatorship in Europe. It is like the USSR never failed. But you cannot forbid the usage of common infrastructure, even if you don't believe they want to scan for malware.

I hope no government will ever get a root cert trusted by browsers. It doesn't actually say in the article how the government evaded that problem. Or maybe users in Belarus are already trained to ignore those fat warnings about compromised TLS.
Gravitricity is claiming weights as massive as 5,000 tons and shaft depths from 150m to 1,500m
They work because although they lose money, they don't lose as much money as the alternative.

In other words, if you sit on your money, it might evaporate at a rate of -3%, but if you loan your money, it evaporates at a rate of -1%.
Or, if they had the income to service a 4x loan, they could quickly save additional down payment towards an 80%LTV loan.
Yes. Money and Greed.

Edit: Server-side and client-side rebidding.
Yeah, I did a feasibility study on underground pumped hydro which you can find here: https://www.terramenthq.com/uphs/

UPHS has never been fully built to my knowledge, but it's been well studied and quite a few projects have tried to get funding for it.

U.S. DOE research from 1984: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6517343.pdf

Projects trying to work on this:
https://utilitymagazine.com.au/pumped-hydro-storage-the-futu...

Other proposed projects:
- https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/features/featureinvestiga...

- http://www.eaglecrestenergy.com/project-description.html
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6517343.pdf
Australian Consumer Law would make Dell liable for damages if anyone bought a computer from them that damaged a CPU by design. I don't even think that having a warning attached would be a sufficient shield, because it's impossible to 100% guarantee that an end user fully comprehends the consequences of a computer that is designed to permanently alter how their CPU functions.
“...for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
Not at all. The bank is just an intermediary between the central bank and you. There are people in NL/BE/DK who actually get/got money on their mortage, monthly, just like a mortage payment but in reverse.

edit: for example, my mortage was the monthly Euribor-rate + 0.9% margin. Euribor-rate = -0.5, I pay 0.4%. But there are people who managed to get just a 0.5% margin. They pay nothing or get money back.
That strikes me as a heavy handed option given the prevalence of linters and performance tools which can already detect some of these issues.
is digging a shaft more expensive than building a tower taller than the sears tower that can hold 5,000 tons?
Apple Silicon Production for MacBook and iPad Pro Reportedly Start in Q4, 2020
I bought it as a signal to Paradox, to keep making such games, even though I don't have time at the moment to play the game.

Various Microsoft game/whatevers on PC were such a shit show in the past (while on consoles it was great) I am probably not alone in just ignoring everything that comes out of microsoft on PC.
While their end goal is pretty clear(brand loyalty, profiling).. i doubt that it will come to pass with our current tech.

Lets face it - IT professionals do not trust such systems, nor use them - they are inferior to any type of input mode at the moment.

Most normal people do not care about them, nor use them.

There is vocal but relatively niche group of tech enthusiasts who are really into it, but they are already a brand loyalists.

On a side note - the whole concept of brand loyalty is completely idiotic from consumer PoV. There is no merit for the customer in it.
> Desktop mode. Please, desktop mode already.

> If i would buy a new device, i will want to gain control of it.

You should be interested in GNU/Linux phones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinephone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5.

(see comments in another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411568)
And what happens when old hardware is resold? How can anyone trust any future excorp hardware?
What’s to stop you using single file components in React?

The only way I know of to make them is to use styled components. RedwoodJS seems to doing something like a template literal for styling but that's still not really the same. In my opinion Vue's <style scoped> approach is much more elegant.

constantly scrolling up and down the file between the methods and the template/styling got pretty annoying quickly

Buy a bigger monitor. :)
there was a startup for this in germany called shelfsailor they became lagerfinden.com afaik
Video chat fuels the American deportation machine
Do you have any source on that? Sites can request archive.org to stop archiving them and to delete what is currently archived. They can do it for any reason; concealing changes of article contents might be one of them.
That doesn't align with car makers incentives

If does if lack of CapPlay/Android Auto prevents sales.

I won't buy a car that doesn't have them. I don't want to install more apps just for my car. I don't want to learn new systems when the native integration works just fine. I certainly don't want to pay for updated navigation when I get it "free" from Apple or Google.

For a while, that meant no Toyota/Lexus (it appears they've since caved and have native phone integration).
Grit, or the Moralist's Fable About Education
There is some nuance with the Australian laws, but for the most part, the protections exist: [0]

When you buy goods or services for your business which are:

+ under $40,000

+ over $40,000 and normally bought for personal, domestic or household use or consumption

+ vehicles and trailers used mainly to transport goods on public roads

your business will be considered a consumer and entitled to certain remedies under the consumer guarantees if something goes wrong.

---

As an EPYC CPU doesn't cost more than $40,000 per unit (closer to $8,000 from what I've found), it would fall under the guarantees.

Australian laws are still skewed in favour of the larger companies, but one place where the law tends not to fall down is consumer protections.

[0] https://www.accc.gov.au/business/business-rights-protections...
Can confirm. Vue was the first framework I learned and I remember it being super intuitive. The only thing I couldn't understand at first was Vuex because I couldn't work out what the point of it was. This was probably because I hadn't ever seen an app big enough to benefit from it.

I know there was a big meme about how js frameworks come and go every 2 years but it feels to me like react and vue are almost the end game frameworks. They work so well and have been so stable over the years that this might be what we end up with. It almost blows my mind how they manage to make such simple interfaces for things that are super cumbersome in plain JS
I've recently tried to get a simple webpage snappier replacing hi-res images with appropriate sizes and including heights -- not only widths -- to prevent re-layouts was easy enough, but then…

The single biggest offender in both download and render time that I can do nothing about is youtube loading in over 400kb of Javascript for an embedded video, taking ages to first render, making everything feel glacially slow.
Market yourself on B2B forums of your industry and create a funnel.
I still link to the original URL because the author deserves the ad revenue and traffic, but I archive a copy to the Wayback Machine just in case the website can't handle the load, so there is an alternative way of getting the content.
Well, who knows. Maybe soon it will have voiceprint and the delivery automatically goes to the prankster's home address. /s
It's more like waging a war against its developers, which is one of the reasons why users adopt Android.

That being said, I think that Google did the right thing in this case. I know of and use K9, so I trust it. Google does not have this privilege. While they probably have more than enough data to determine if the app is trustworthy in the first place, it would be difficult to determine if a trustworthy app went rogue in a timely manner.

As for the issue, keyword stuffing is way to manipulate search results. In this case, keyword stuffing appears to have been used appropriately. Now imagine that people started stuffing in terms like Gmail or Outlook to benefit from brand recognition. Given the scales that Google operate at, it is unlikely that they could detect such transgressions effectively for all cases.

The immediate removal is problematic, but it is difficult for outsiders to understand how giving notice would impact Google. Some developers may simply put such warnings on the back burner, or even forget about it, if given advance notice. Others may manipulate the system by taking advantage of the advance warning (e.g. using it to stretch out their transgression).
Samsung Is Developing a Transparent Smartphone
Covid Crisis Does Little to Slow Climate Change
I agree it's important to define your customer, although when starting out it can be difficult to do so as it brings a sense of closing some doors that you might want open for a bit longer, but in general I'd say your comment:

>you're trying to sell something that customers don't buy - any integration, FHIR or HL7 or something, is only ever needed to get one product to talk to another

is not entirely correct. I for one buy small scale interop product, and the FHIR space is growing quickly, more and more companies will be looking for small and medium activity in the space as new regulation starts taking hold.
But then the solution becomes: stop using computers, because the kind of sophistication required is out of reach for a very large part of the population. So, computers will stay part of everyday life. Making the interface simple and predictable, and locking features that can be abused may be fighting the symptom, but it's better than nothing.
"Could you please give an explanation of panpsychism applied to software that make sense? Spoiler: you cannot and it's totally refuted empirically. If I code a hello world, what kind of cognitive abilities does this have?"

You aren't making any sense, go read about the things you are talking about.
Time to sit down and read a book for 30 minutes. I miss that.
The UK is very similar though it depends a bit on the setting and qualifications of the person involved - but generally max 3 per adult for under 2s, max 4 per adult for 2-3 and 8-13 per adult for 3-4s.
Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise
De Botton does not write about things he cannot know about. He has not proposed a Grand Unified Theory of Physics or a mechanism for how matter becomes conscious. He writes about things everyone can relate to, which means he can relate to them as well -- but the work seems to be in thinking about things in non-obvious and novel ways and in the actual writing process. The quality of de Botton's writing really speaks for itself.

It must be difficult work in itself because even Taleb, when he took a stab at this 'pseudo-philosophy' genre with his book The Bed of Procrustes, managed to produce absolute piffle which would never have been published if Taleb weren't already famous for his popular finance books.

There seems to be an underlying presumption that writing is not real work and so people should be successful in the real world before they should feel entitled to write anything.
Out of curiosity, why wouldn’t we want the government managing mortgages for the whole country? (Assuming the acquisition process isn’t slow AF because government.)

Real estate seems like a pretty important part of the economy and, more importantly, the government artificially making housing more accessible for potential first time buyers creates a virtuous cycle where people can finally save money and the eventually spend that money to stimulate their micro economies.
In a rush, so I’ll keep my answer short: I think that the benefits of closing the preschools would not outweigh the downsides. I have three kids and I can’t imagine trying to work if they we’re all at home the whole day.

And AFAIK preschools has not been a major source of spreading of the Corona virus.
Are you guys all using ad blockers? I open Vue docs — and the right-hand column of the screen is a wall of ads. For comparison, I open React docs — and there are only docs there (unless you count the obligatory BLM header). With a larger font, too, because there, docs don't need to compete for page space with the ads.
Personally, I don't care about form if I find the content interesting.
Make a Language Using Rust
Upgraded my Pixel 2 today. Amazingly, battery life seems much better.
It is wrong, no offense. Mortgage backed debt is just a debt instrument payments from which depend on mortgage payments. It isn't debt issued by a business that has a bunch of mortgage loans on its books- those sorts of things don't exist anymore.

The mortgage industry is bewilderingly complex but short version is- most loans are almost immediately sold to Fannie or Freddie, not kept on the books of those who made them. Fannie and Freddie then securitize- make bonds out of combinations of those loans- a large portion, tho not all of loans they buy. The Fed is buying a lot of those bonds, probably generally the ones backed by the most risky payers, but the analysis is extremely nuanced.

That is why the Fed owns 1/3 of bonds, which (only) equate to 11% of total loan value. This prop on the market is much more powerful than 11% suggests.
> You cannot see the blue

Oh my. One should not so blithely confess that they can't see The Emperor's New Blue. Such a shame.
Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing
Well it is quite more.

It also tracks your position via satellites.
Here's something related from the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1kYBnY6mwg ("Image compression deep-dive")
In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information
They are, and I guess most people are too, unconsciously. That's why not winning while having a predicted 71% chance somehow becomes such a big thing. You hear "election" and "71%" in the same sentence and you immediately think that's a huge margin.
https://i.imgur.com/hQvs1X3.png
> was that deliberate by the artist, or a mistake?

If you have to ask this, you don't know the art world. Artists don't make mistakes.

The proper way to ask is "was this an attempt to communicate X, or simply an acceptance of Y?". If the latter, or if the answer contains "I was fascinated by the results" or "I found the result even more enlightening", you have your answer.
But do those permissions get revoked automatically if you don't use the apps for a while? (the "permissions auto-reset" feature)
2002, and we know what motivated it.

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/string/strcpy....

One of the things about FreeBSD is that the entire version control history is available back to the 1980s, and quite a lot can be just looked up. (-:
You're thinking too small though ;). You can dig a mile deep. And you can lift enormous weights. As comments show below. Gravity is weak, but cheap. It can scale up to provide 1 GW of storage - enough to balance the load of an entire large city.

Lots of these ideas are popping up right now because it's a very compelling idea which is demonstrated to work. And because climate change is driving massive growth in renewable energy (woot) we will desperately need massive amounts of energy storage in the very new future. The energy storage market is expected to grow massively year over year.
Source for ECB? FRED says they've got about 6.458 trillion euros [0] and the english version of the ECB website says they had 4.6 trillion at the end of 2019 which also matches the FRED and they haven't updated it since then [1].

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECBASSETSW

[1]: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/annual/balance/html/index.en.h...
Bright neon-colored lighting is a big part of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
If it is a global pandemic, what is the benefit of having state-sponsored childcare if the schools ought to be closed?

Unless child-care workers are immune to the virus, they have to stay at home like everyone else, likely taking care of their own kids as well...
In places with decent consumer protection laws (like California), manufacturers must honor warranties regardless of who you bought the product from.

The term "unauthorized dealer" is another word to stop using. In a free market, everyone is authorized to buy & sell every safe product at all times.
I wouldn't bet on it. Firstly, rust has value as a "C++ without the cruft" language even without safety as a USP, and secondly rust had to do a huge amount of design work to get the language to work in a way such that the kind of static analysis it does is reasonbaly feasible. C++ would need to adopt more paradigms and then create a subset of itself in order for this to work (there are such designs in the works like 'C++ Core', but they have already had to give up achieving the same level of safety as Rust gives).
These days, IBM i is specifically the operating system (so OS/400 successor), which is one of the operating systems (besides AIX and Linux) that run on IBM Power hardware.
Despite the author's obvious enthusiasm: WASM has a long way to go before it is really useful. From my humble perspective there was not much progress since the 1.0 release. As long as every access to the host (especially the GUI) is tunneled via JavaScript, one shouldn't be surprised about the low performance and the enormous memory consumption. See what happens behind the scenes when you set a pixel in the SDL API when running a WASM app in the browser. And there are plenty of good alternatives for the desktop already.
Of course there is schema at some level, but it feels like it's not utilized. This UI seems like very good use of schema. Another would be if I open up an VSCode, there should be a way to autocomplete / or give error squiggles if I write something wrong, in realtime.
Where are you looking? I don’t even see a Space for ads.