skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" A sight of the world today would surprise President Jefferson much more, I suspect, than the world of 2022 would surprise the little girl who sells candies at Grand Central Station. For Jefferson knew nothing of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, automobiles, aeroplanes, gramophones, movies, radium, &c.; he did not even know hot and cold bathrooms."

I wonder what we would show the girl of 1922? Space travel and obviously the internet & computers come to mind. Antibiotics, DNA? Anything else?
headmelted tried to think of how headmelted would even phrase an answer to this question either way and quickly got very confused.
This is accurate enough that midway through the article I started wondering if it was a prank written recently.
The closest we can get volume-wise is a cup of olive oil for about 2k calories. Stuffing any more calories into the same volume would require using materials we can't currently digest.

(NASA does not like the side-effects of an all-oil diet on space toilets, I suspect.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Quarters
India is much larger country than the others mentioned in this thread.
>I simply choose to read proper sources and be informed of geopolitical events rather than parrot US propaganda

And yet in your other comment you linked to "Moon of Alabama", anonymous blogger which always takes a pro-Kremlin position. How is that a "proper source"?
> like everyone else, they didn't predict the internet

Nor the computer, personal or otherwise; nor robotics. It's funny to see how he could predict, sometimes with surprising accuracy, the trajectory of development of technologies that were already in place, but could not fathom what had not yet been discovered and thus had not yet entered the public discourse.
Same here, I think (but then this was quite a while ago) even the early mobile phones had such features.
The 90s thinking was that a smart person who isn't a weirdo would have chosen a respectable profession like lawyer, doctor, accountant or similar. So it was kind of expected that programmers are weirdos.
Agree, but also think lobste.rs makes hn less interesting.
Moving Inbound emails out of Beta
What about people who are made happy by innovating and progressing?
Chinese emperors had paper money before they had guns. The copper coins were too heavy to carry around in bulk.

but your main point stands, the paper money depended on the power of the state.
Interesting. Seems I have a new rabbit hole to investigate. Thanks for the response.
The four-digit year is only prescribed as a minimum by the standard.
>for temp variables

Whew, savage.
Surprisingly good predictions on a number of fronts.
> My kids are 17/18 now, while I was the same age back in the early 80s. There's no comparison. The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better.

Most people aren't having children[0], largely because they can't afford them. This is probably selection bias. My kid has a better life than I did, but that's mainly because I have avoided the addictions my parents had.

[0]https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/us-population...
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>if I threaten someone or am called by my country to fight in a war, that right is trumped by something larger.

So how do you feel about conscription? Would you be alright if say, the government in question were capable of disabling your vehicle for draft dodging? How about protest attendance getting you on a no-drive list?

In the intelligence world, one does not assess an enemy based on their current motivations, but on their capabilities. No one can know another's true intent, but you can plan for what they'll do when they decide to throw principles to the wind and pull out all the stops.

A government should fear its people. Not the other way around.
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The newest documentation is when the internet got turned off for Kazakhstan, the hash rates of mining pools went down. Alot. https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1478764142957846531
When did JVM switch to the insanely fast HotSpot JIT?
hm I regularly massacre processes in my laptop...
Yes, I believe the high transmissibility before symptoms appear is the most beneficial trait to Omicron. However, if a variant appeared with exactly the same traits except that it was 10x more deadly, then a lot more people would be taking it more seriously, self-isolating and driving down infections. From an evolutionary perspective, there is an incentive for the virus to become milder rather than more deadly because of how the news of a deadly virus changes human behaviour.
> I think you're severely underestimating how many businesses make a significant amount of money from their website, but doesn't actually have full-time developer available.

No, I’m well aware. But there’s a simple solution to this problem: Don’t try to run and maintain your own servers. Pay a little extra to use cloud hosting and let it be someone else’s problem.

I take issue with these calls to setup and maintain your own custom solutions and servers, while also suggesting that the cost of engineering and maintaining such a custom setup should be ignored.

Running your own servers and not having developers is a recipe for an endless stream of contracting invoices that are going to cost far, far more than just using a hosted cloud solution.
With 14 I played with a stick. You build an OS. Incredible.
The main motivator for doing so would be to sell it more cheaply to those who can’t afford the cocaine sold elsewhere as crack requires lower dosages for effect. You’ll find this in patterns of cocaine use already, the affluent use cocaine and the impoverished are more likely to use crack. I don’t think anything changes on that front with legalization except you trade arrests for outreach. I don’t see why we should expect demand for crack would suddenly grow and become more rampant with legalization, I’d expect the opposite, but in either case the solution is outreach not prohibition.
United States does rank below the UK in terms of social mobility. The notion that that is because the economic development of the country is "finished" seems weird.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report....
>Again, _as opposed to what_? Are you saying polyhaven should go multi-cloud and spend triple what they need? You aren't actually presenting any real solutions, you are just complaining about the cloudflare ceo.

I haven't complained or suggested a damn thing in my previous comment. All I've provided is an extended summary of Superkuh's comments and supported those claims with evidence of past events. Exercising due diligence shouldn't be regarded as a controversial position.

>I'm a guy who wants to host a service. You are telling me Cloudflare bad.

I'm telling you that depending on a single service, whether that service is Cloudflare, Youtube, AWS, etc., is a bad idea. If you don't have a credible alternative provider you can migrate to at a moment's notice, you're website and content is at risk.

>What is the alternative, and how do I ensure the CEO of that service doesn't null route me?

Alternatives:

https://www.esecurityplanet.com/products/distributed-denial-...

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-ddos-protection

Not mentioned is DDos-Guard, which has a pretty good offering if you don't mind that it's in Russia (perhaps that even might be a bonus)

You can't ensure the CEO of a company doesn't null route you. That's why it's important to have alternatives and plan migration ahead of time.
Because Sun (or oracle, I'm bad with time) decided to forbid MS to keep developing their own implementation.
Weird that the people who actually produce these things get let off the hook though, right? So you build it and don't get in trouble, just that mean ol' CEO.
As an end user, you could definitely tell Java apps looked janky as hell.
If anyone else is interested in the author who exerted such prescience, Wikipedia has an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._George
>we can generate excellent 1-day returns following his buy recommendations (even beating the market in doing so!)

From having tried this sort of stuff, no you can't! What happens is stock X has people say willing to buy at 90 or sell at 100. Before Cramer or whoever recommends it it's trading at 90, as soon as people start buying they end up buying at 100. Hence Cramer can look brilliant if you just glance at stock he tipped went from 90 to 100 but if you try trading you buy at 100 and if unluck sell at 90.
"In the limit [Sun] can make the web totally OS agnostic"

Well yes, the web became OS agnostic, which is a great thing, but I don't think Myhrvold really grasped what that would mean
When social support for that goes away, it's only the "crazy" who would do that just because. But without societal support it's a dead-end.

There are countries with lots of people --but whose contribution to innovation is substandard. There is no societal support so innovation is stunted.

It’s like thinking justice will happen just because… No, it happens because society supports justice. Justice or innovation don’t just “happen”.
Increasing risk of what exactly ? Since you are already doing it anyway ?

The original saying (that I don’t necessarily agree with) is not about competence but about ethics: if every ethical person refuses to work in weapon manufacturing/ advertising / whatever is deemed morally unacceptable, then the only people that will do it are people with no morals and we will be worse off as a society.

So really, in this case the person just shutting up and doing it is already the worse fallback.
The liability is on the licensed engineer who signed off on it.
Java would be the same success as PHP .. it might be everywhere but due to all kinds of side forces.

It's like playing snooker, claiming a ball, missing it but scoring all the other ones accidentally and bragging.
> I am sorry, I don't know how to phrase it in English without ruining the nuance. It's a mix of calculating, cunning, and a bit flirtatious?

The closest word I can think for what you describe is insincere. See also: almost every influencer on TikTok.
If you're taking an intro course, make friends with the loud students and challenge everything they say.

If you're taking an advanced class, make friends with the quiet students, and believe everything they say.
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Java didn't kill the desktop. The web - Javascript - has put a huge dent in it, especially via the medium of smartphones which were never going to run Windows desktop software. (+). The desktop limps on but it's not quite as dominant as it once was. You can run an entirely successful multibillion dollar software business without a single Windows machine being involved at either the client or the server or developer ends.

(+ don't mention Continuum or UWP or Windows Phone)
It just seems easier to get yourself into a bad performance corner with Java. Other languages seem to just start slowing down as load increases. You see more variation in response times, but still plenty of throughput. Whereas Java has a sudden performance cliff that's reached, and you usually won't get it to perform well again without either removing 99% of the load or restarting the process.
It's certainly not "backed by the west". These dictatorships exists because they allow the elites to exchange the profits from the sale of natural resources in exchange for dollars and euros. That money then flows into western equities, bonds and real estate. It's the (western) dependence on these natural resources that enables the regimes not the backing by the governments.
> My kids are 17/18 now, while I was the same age back in the early 80s. There's no comparison. The quality of life available on even a modest salary nowadays is far, far better.

Where do you live? I don't think my kids' day-to-day lives are any better than mine was at their age in Ireland in the 80s.

edit: ah sorry, you're in the UK, I hadn't noticed. What about your kids' lives is better than your life was?
> In my own country, thankfully, we get paid time off if we're sick. If we're sick long-term (I don't know what the cutoff is), the employer has to pay us 70% of wages for a year, after which the government takes over

1y sounds like a long time, esp for smaller companies (like if you have say 5 ppl on a payroll). I wonder if they can insure against such a risk (say if an insurer can cover the salary if absence longer than a month).

In Poland this is 70% (if in hospital), 80% (if general sick leave), and 100% (pregnancy related). Your employer covers this for 34 days, then the social insurance takes over. IIRC if the absence is over 6 months, then the social insurance stops paying % of your salary and pays some low fixed disability benefit.
They had radio and video cameras in 1922, I don't think facetime would be all that shocking. 1822 had neither telephone nor electric light. Steam trains were just getting started; by 1922 they were running regular service at over 100 mph.

Evidently its debatable which century saw more change, from sailboats to Titanic, or gunpowder rockets to Apollo... certainly there have always been cynics and dreamers...

edit: GPS would be pretty shocking to either, I expect
I did. I remember a press release that described Microsoft's policy w.r.t web standards as "embrace and extend" sometime in 1996 or so.

I thought it was the embittered rest of the tech industry that added the "extinguish".
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Run FreshRSS on your own server, its good. Not perfect but very good.
> Labour isnt expensive…

Engineering labor is definitely expensive.

The entire $400/month bill for this linked website will only get you 2-3 hours of consulting time. They’re getting an enormous value by just offloading the work to someone else and not having to worry about it.
I immediately thought of boomers going off on conspiracy theories, like "this is the first step to being locked out of our cars and autonomously driving us all to the gulags. they're already being built!"

Get a grip, it's just a broken clock. God forbid a lightbulb burns out at their house.
It's a matter of taste. For me the web is much better like this. Your website is trying to track me to sell me a car or a vacuum cleaner and you dont want me to refuse consent ? No problem, i'll leave. At least I'm informed.
"how to terminate forked children"
huh. I heard about a company who named some of their OS releases after features of California geography.
It’s the same here (our 2km² city center has 5 churches, so you are never far from one), and I can confirm. You sleep easily through those, and I only hear them subconsciously. When someone is visiting and complains about how loud it is, I sometimes have to ask what they are talking about.
True, it does not sound any better, especially if you take into account the progress of other challenges in medicine.

We aren't anywhere close to, say, solving cancer, but we are conquering new territory inch by inch, with a massive difference of outcomes in last 50 years or so.

I suspect the same is going to happen in the longevity field. Dr. Gregory Fahy managed to rejuvenate the thymus in several individuals (TRIIM and TRIIM-X trials) and lower their epigenetic age. It might have well been the first baby step on that journey.
> But the authority is all delegated from a center.

Yes, but authority can be delegated recursively, thus disempowering the top of the tree (ICANN) over the leaf nodes (the rest of us). The root server could technically lie and say thepiratebay.org.'s A record is 127.0.0.1, but recursive resolution (from right to left) prevents that so that only a direct parent could lie.

So because you can get names from pretty much everyone and only a direct parent has authority over you, power is very balanced overall.
iOS developer. I work from the spare bedroom in my house.

Kitchen chair, Purple seat pad, 3' x 2' desk from World Market, M1 MacBook Pro, clip on ring light for meetings, Magic Mouse. I use the built-in microphone and webcam on my laptop.
> fine that is also affecting the developer

That quickly turns in to, the rich guy who will profit from the lawbreaking needs a scapegoat. Always more dignified to tell important people they're out of line by punishing their serfs, don't you know.
Interesting to see Bill Gates being so anxious. Also interesting to see him explain the anxiety clouds his creativity. Makes you take some distance.
More relaxing is not a goal! Very few people can spend spend days in bed if not forced to. If you try your body will betray you by getting up and doing something.

You can do "more work for the man", or you can do a hobby of some sort. Either way though you are up and doing something.
Were all the wallets part of the same Metamask account? The transfers are all a few seconds apart... they could have gotten in the front door by obtaining your Metamask password without needing any keys. Because Metamask is a hot wallet, it's always connected and easy to steal. Metamask also produces a set of words for emergency recovery -- attacker could have obtained those as well.

With that said, they stole 7 dollars. Pretty cheap lesson on security in my opinion.
Later, but HotSpot to this day means “less slow” - it’s a lot better than it used to be but you still need considerably more RAM and CPU than native apps.
There's some good info about Japanese 1st- and 2nd-person pronouns here, including a brief mention of boku in a 2nd person position, but unfortunately doesn't go into any depth. https://legendsoflocalization.com/personal-pronouns-in-japan...
My work essentially involves brainstorming new bacterial targets for antibiotics, and over the past couple years this idea has crept into my mind.

Science statisticians tend to balk at the placebo effect, and use it as kind of a “zero effect”. But, I can’t help but notice how sometimes a placebo (or more generally a positive attitude) can actually help a patient overcome an illness.

I’ve met enough people suffering from terrible bacterial infections, and from my eye, the most positive people tend to have the best outcomes. Of course, modern science would have my head for any mystical thinking.
Rightly so. They added all kinds of things that only worked on the MS JVM, which was the "extend" of their EEE strategy, right before extinguish.
I almost zoned out there, reading about your uncle. Limited attention span.
Archived link: https://archive.fo/75VqL
> This website blog.polyhaven.com/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400/ is currently offline. Cloudflare's Always Online™ shows a snapshot of this web page from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. To check for the live version, click Refresh.

oh the irony
Be curious about how things work. Computer Science is really about giving instructions to the computer for it to do something - output something to screen, place some bytes in a file, add two numbers, store something in memory, send some bytes onto a network, etc. As you learn things, explore and try things out - the worst that can happen is you see errors.

A simple example: once you learn how an if/then/else statement works in whatever language you are learning in, put some different data types into the if clause - strings, integers, floats, arrays, etc. See what happens. Don't just finish the assigned exercises and be done, explore a little.

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Making the most of data: Transferring language models from one domain to another
In a very indirect way; leveraging its popularity, and coming on the heels of Apple to create a captive audience for their ad networks and surveillance machinery, Google used Java to spring up a developer base for Android, which ate away at the use of MS product outside of the US like iOS did stateside.
Would this be solved by a universal basic income? Is that “now I can do 2x what I did before” due only to financial requirements of the household?
Average quality, yes.

Total, and even max quality? Not so clear.

In number of articles/ books that are above a given quality bar? I wouldn't bet on 1922.
DailyWTF changes every company name to Initrode to protect the guilty.

A related story: a friend of mine submitted a story to DailyWTF, with a lot of detail removed so that the company or developers in question could not be identified. The story was published, the editors made up a lot of details to give the story some color and some of them just happened to exactly what happened in real life.
I guess this is just taking the bait, but Noam Chomsky has never accepted any genocide as ok or rational. Stop with the poorly constrcuted strawman.