skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the room with Richard Stallman, in Palo Alto, in the 1980s, as he gave a careful and serious presentation to about twenty chosen people.. from my point of view, the statement above does show one part of the OSS evolution. Meanwhile, the "net" was growing as a combination of ex-dot-mil and their allies, and people who were deeply committed to signals, evolution and in most cases math or physics training, for its own sake, and the social evolution it implied (science fiction readers and highly creative signal processors like musicians but different).

both sides of this odd couple had different motivations and restrictions, but they cooperated in building the network and the software that ran the network. People here have complained, but I claim, TCP/IP was not the only network game in town then, and the massive scaling that you see today was not done yet, and did not work for lots of reasons. Many OSS projects related to the network itself, the signals across the network, and math/science. The media world was largely influenced by commercial print and Hollywood, and was less influential in the early days, as they stuck to the commercial distribution mechanisms. Network media tended to be odd, music-oriented, or sick things, in those early days. Also note that single, massive source code repos were not a thing, so people traded "tarballs" with important releases of whatever.
the curvature and saturation are massively exaggerated from what using these terminals was really like

Depends on how much your company wanted to spend on terminals.

I worked for a chemical company where we had hand-me-down Wangs from a different division that looked very much like these.

This is really hard to look at for more than a couple seconds.

Perhaps speak to your optometrist. When I was back in the office, I used this all day long on a 27-inch monitor with no problem. And I'm a graybeard.

the old VTxx terminals were much easier on the eyes, particularly the amber ones

I remember the amber terminals being marketed as easier on the eyes than the white or green ones I used, but I have no first-hand experience with amber.
Sorry man, the subway is much much worse than the Paris metro. Can't speak for Rome but it's definitely worse than the metro in terms of cleanliness, not even close. Plus the MTA is pretty terrible service wise compared to the metro as well.
Sure it could come in via user agent. I would worry that governments would then attempt to regulate and lock down browsers such that Free Software is no longer viable, or even legal.
Very cool. I assume you are able to make a living selling your pieces? They seem pricey to me but then again you're not in the business to outsell IKEA.

Is shipping a problem or do your customers generally arrange to pick up the pieces themselves?
A good day trader is able to shift gears in case of a bear market e.g. knows when to short. Very few days traders are actually good, most lose money and quit after some months.
I figure it's actually rather complex: certainly the area most unanimous in their support for the Nazis (Bavaria) is also the most deeply religious. The simple explanation is that the Nazis were a big tent coalition that had a fetish for appearing ultra-unified - so you often get loads of conflicting and contradictory policies, together with an almost hysterical presentation of the mess resulting as the product of a unified vision of a unifying figure.

It's chimes with the article, actually. Just like Hirohito, Hitler was a void.
Right-click page, inspect, find the network tab in the developer tools. It might give you a hint as to what's happening. When I upvote you, I see a network request that ends in "ok"
I think it's less "because we can't be bothered" and more "because we don't want to compete with YouTube"
Memoirs of Picasso: four characters in search of an artist
Show HN: I’m Building a Nerf Dart Missile Defense System [video]
I’m building a robot that can track nerf darts and shoot them out of the air.

I’ve worked on other projects in robotics and object tracking (perception for self driving cars), but this has a whole different set of challenges.

Nerf rival rounds travel at over 100 feet per second and shooting them out of the air requires aiming systems that are precise to less than half the width of a human hair and timing precision of 600 times faster than the blink of an eye.

This is the first part of the series of me building the project (and my first video!) so I’d love to hear what you think!
Chrome will save credit card data on request, it’s incredibly convenient if you do a lot of online food ordering.
Explaining Web 2.0 (2008)
This is both cool and unusual!

I have a question: did you ever get a feeling of what I can only describe as "numinous vertigo" when thinking about software systems? I sometimes get the sense that I'm peering into some basic universal structure, especially if the work has strong ties to theoretical CS or mathematics. It's as if I'm looking at something so fundamental and so meaningful that it ends being an emotional experience. At times, it's even been somewhat overpowering; it reminds me of Stendhal Syndrome in its quality [0].

Most people think it quite strange to have this kind of reaction to software, but computer science isn't really about computers in exactly the same way that geometry isn't about measuring the earth. In both cases, it feels like there's a divine essence.

At any rate, I'm curious if your sense of calling in any way resembles this, or if this feeling is familiar to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome
Future Farmers of America:

https://www.ffa.org/about/
If you right click then you can go to Settings and reduce the curvature and tweak all of the effects levels. I hated it originally also but after turning a few things down and a few other things up (advanced tab "quality") it is much better.
Sublime text is written in C, and before VSCode it was arguably the most popular editor on the planet.
Off-topic a bit, but I actually registered a name on ENS recently and now I can’t stop thinking how weird it is that the registrations are time limited, considering “blockchain” and all that.
2TB feels like a really low 99th percentile for a video site. Is Vimeo really that small?

I’ve always seen them as more a backend provider for paywalled video content, makes sense they’d lean into that audience
Am I the only one thinking, "fair enough" ?

Vimeo has transitioned through different strategic directions, and seems to have settled on B2B -- if this doesnt work for a platform user, move platform.
I agree with you, I was only teasing :)
They seem to host a lot of recorded webinars and courses that can be made behind paywalls or memberships
(Sorry folks, was replying to the (at the time) only other comment about wireshark automatically doing decryption - edit)

This doesn't work if you use DH, and you should be using DH.

To work with DH, you need to run your browser with a SSL key logfile, as discussed here:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35639/decryptin...
> She’s uploaded 117 subscriber-only videos so far, and each one only gets around 150 views on average. Her most viewed video has around 815 views. … Her bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users, the company said

Well that’s telling. Sounds like a company that’s on the rocks trying to squeeze money out of a small number of users to survive.
Now I have fomo for all those cool indie films, dances, animations etc, that are going to be deleted before I ever see them.
This is a response to the Patreon story from last week[0].

The thing with Vimeo charging that much for videos is that it doesn’t look like they actually needed Vimeo. Ya, it’s nice to have rich analytics, but it sounded like they would have been just fine simply distributing the MP4 to subscribers via some file transfer service, eg. WeTransfer.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30686704
Pop Quiz: Who remembers Wireshark’s original name?

What a fun tool for over two decades!
> Is Mastodon really decentralized?

Yes. There is no central Mastodon server. Anyone can run a host and federate with other hosts at will.

> If you use YourName@SomeMastodonSite and SomeMastodonSite deplatforms you - how do you keep your posts, likes, comments and contacts?

The Mastodon interface makes it easy to export/import your information so that you can copy it over to a new host - if you worry you might get deplatformed and get cut off without warning, you can do a periodic local backup to be safe: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

The export includes your posts, but that document does say "Mastodon currently does not support importing toots or media due to technical limitations, but your archive can be viewed by any software that understands how to parse ActivityPub documents." I'd be curious what those technical limitations are. Presumably you could write a script to re-post the archived posts since it's just stored in ActivityPub JSON.

Edit to add: The most sure-fire way to avoid deplatforming is to run or pay for your own host. Other hosts may decide not to federate with you, but you'll at least be guaranteed a platform for those who do decide to engage with it.
Are you doing software in that field, or are you an entirely different sort of engineer now? If so, did you have to obtain some kind of certification? Can you tell us about how that works?
> How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first place?

What do you mean by “rich” exactly? This was pre-globalisation - countries would invest in building infrastructure and military by creating it for themselves, with slaves and colonisation at scale.
Ask HN: How to Stay Focus?
What is the best way to focus? I'm often being distracted by everything around me while working. At the office, I heard what my colleague discuss and always want to jump in.
When wfh, noise from cars, tv, fam members talk...also borders me a lot. I've tried using headphone but I don't think it work. Can you guys give me some recommendation on how you apply to stay focus?
It sounds to me like you just don’t believe cutting back on air pollution is important. Perhaps if you spent more time in a heavily-polluted place such as many south Asian countries (India, Bangladesh, etc.) or Mexico City, or if you’d grown up in the smoggy hellhole that was L.A. in the 1970s, you’d feel differently. For wide swaths of the population, it’s definitely not “minor.”

We also have an entire planet to think about. Climate change is real, and we want our children’s children to continue to live here and for the complex ecosystem that makes it work to continue to operate healthily. To call the very justified concerns about future survival as “elitist” is unfairly dismissive.
I disagree with these broad strokes you're stating as universal facts, but I do agree that everyone should have access to some kind of UBI/stipend. That'd be awesome.
No. Same mpg in all three. 2 use premium, one regular (GLI, turbo Miata, Prius)
There is something wrong with your car you just haven’t seen it yet. I’d get an odb2 scanner and look at real-time data. Duty cycle and o2 readings in particular.

Extrapolating your sample of 1 to the population mpg and assuming a correlation with the fuel price change is as relevant as making a correlation with the horoscope predictions of the month. There are so many things that could change that reading that you’re not telling us that this post is pretty useless.

It would be more useful to try to troubleshoot your mpg change.
Online C IDE/Debugger with Collabration (Open Source)
> and at the end of fifteen months return to Boston,” the New York Times reported on February 25, 1894. “The traveler starts out penniless, with simply the clothes she has on,

> […]

> Speeches were made, and then a representative from New Hampshire’s Londonderry Lithia Spring Water Company handed Kopchovsky $100 in sponsorship money

It also isn’t clear to me how she paid for those boat trips, and find it conspicuous that the New York Times up front wrote it would take 15 months while the only existing attempt took 33 (on a penny farthing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stevens_(cyclist))

I guess this was more scripted reality than a true attempt.
Dunno, finding something meaningful to work on has been really hard for me, personally.

It's either a big drop in revenue or bullshit projects
A restraining order (at least, a temporary one) can be issued without a hearing.
Have you tried go at all?
> Me refusing to transact with you isn't a war crime.

You refusing to transact with me isn't a war crime, but your line of thinking where normal citizen activities are similar to conscripts shooting at you can certainly lead to one.

It's one thing to target citizens who work on applications for the military, and another to target open source devs because they happen to be Russian. If you can't acknowledge this distinction then I'm afraid we have to agree to disagree.

Also please don't put words in my mouth. Strawmen will get us nowhere.
I should mention I'm going to Open Source a lot of the dev tools I built, including a back-end SDK + Flutter renderer to make life easier building mostly CRUD apps in Flutter.

I'm using Nim on the back-end, but a Python SDK is going to be added soon after the initial release.

https://nexusdev.tools/
I find it ironic since they essentially booted me off their platform for creating some vaguely-commercial content (I was a paying customer at the time). Left a very sour taste in my mouth esp. since other people they seemed to ignore.
There are many commercial open source projects already, with developers who get paid.

I don't quite get the moaning. If you are unhappy with FOSS, don't do it?

Nobody is entitled to a FOSS developers time. But on the other hand, FOSS developers are also not entitled to anything.
Apparently her videos are multiple-hour long. So, caveats applied.
Day trading doesn’t work. What is your secret ? You can make millions selling your book.
Wasn't the indie side their original spin ?
I never used DEC VT terminals, but the curvature here does not seem exaggerated to me for other monitors circa 1980’s.
They traded with, were allied and supported by, and now mutually benefitted by the economic and military union of Europe.
My understanding is that the lab studying coronaviruses situated in close proximity to the wet market is the much more likely source than the wet market itself. And as labs in western countries have had similar leaks (see for example Foot & Mouth disease in the UK), I'm not sure we can really blame the Chinese.
>Synthetic stocks have arbitrage discounts/premiums that shouldn’t exist.

Why is this a bad thing? It only implies that there are information inefficiencies. A discount/premium represents a oppurtunity to capture it and make money, remind me again why this is a bad thing? ADR's/GDR's are a very similar thing (well actually inferior in some respects) in traditional finance and have a tremendous product market fit.

>Major cryptos are all down 20%+ from their peak. That’s wild inflation.

Uh, you and I must have a different definition of inflation. I dont think taking price delta is a useful thing. Conversely I could argue that if you moved the point of comparison back 18 months, the dollar has markedly declined vs. crypto (which is a fact), obviously this is cherry picking, hence why price discussions arent useful.

Capital controls are not a fairy tale for a large group (see: billions) of people. Crypto has found a use case in Venezuela, China, Turkey, Lebanon and Argentina amongst others. As a point of clarification you cant evade controls with dollars in financial systems that neccessitate holding said dollars in bank accounts, with the very same banks that are controlled by regulators who enforce those capital controls, frankly that is nonsensical. If you are implying bags of USD hidden under beds is suitable, then good luck with that.
I'd argue that daytrading is less of a net negative for the world than working on ad tech software.
The comment is explaining "Guns, Germs & Steel's explanation of why they speak Spanish in Patagonia is inaccurate". Did you find it unconvincing in that regard? If so, what specifically did you find to be flawed in the critique?

The comment isn't trying to explain "X is the reason why they speak Spanish in Patagonia". But I don't think that's necessary to rebut a poorly justified Grand Theory of History (tm).
China and Australia are very close.

China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, accounting for nearly one third (31 per cent) of our trade with the world.

https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/china/china-country-brief

The CCP is evil.
"Can't afford to compete" would also be accurate.
Giving the creators a week or less notice and demanding such a sharp increase in fees is nothing less than a shakedown.

Had they given them a 30 day heads up, I can't see much room for criticism.
I just think they should have given users much more warning, so they have time to migrate.
The swamps were dried up as a state initiative and replaced with what is now one of the largest artificial forests of Europe, if my memory is correct for both sanitary reasons and to produce trees for shipbuilding.
>Hate to break it to you, but the people are already against one another.

I'm aware. We need less of that, not more of it.
To be fair more than 9 out of 10 of youtube users don't get +10K views too...
Racism is like crime. It takes 0.1% violent criminals in a neighborhood to make it a "bad neighborhood." It takes just a few determined racists to make the entire neighborhood racist.

The people who are not racist generally don't know racism is even a problem if it's not affecting them. Fighting it would require bureaucratic trench warfare, and most people don't have time for that shit. There is probably an inverse correlation between people who have better things to do and racism anyway, since the racists tend to be the types who... lets just say have enough time on their hands to be actively racist because... well... lets just say there's probably a reason they don't have better things to do.
You make it sound like there's no money to be made in Apps, but that's clearly obvious to not be true. Switched to freemium with In App Purchases is the model I see every where, and I am constantly amazed at the fact that $0.99, $1.99, etc are paid multiple times by the user to the point that they could have bought a AAA console new release with the IAP paid.

These apps also include ad sales to the IAPs. The money no longer needs to come from the initial download.
I used MAE on HP/UX for many years. Worked great. We were workstation based designers and couldn't stand Windows so this allowed us to stay on the workstation and still have access to corporate tools like Office. Had mh wired to pop up the appropriate Office app from MAE when those email attachments arrived.
How I Finally Got into Journaling After Failing 5 Times
It depends. I could see myself using this for niche applications such as visually marking certain terminals.

When you work on multiple remote hosts, it's common practice to use different profiles to visually identify hosts. Say your local machine has your standard and preferred colorscheme but staging machines have a green background and customer-facing machines have a red background. Indeed, it's a manual process but I've seen people use it in most places where a substantial amount of work is done on remote hosts (I still use it today if/when I need to access remote hosts).
I used amber monitors briefly and they were neat because they were different but I don’t recall ever seeing a study justifying the “easier on the eyes” claim.
In Our Time: The Gold Standard
Great points. I’m turning 40 in a few couple months, so I saw a mostly saw it all since the beginning as well, from Kings Quest till games today as they evolved. I would concisely boil my view down to, and I think you’ll agree: I prefer games be fun even when losing.

For me that says it all. And I don’t find the Souls games fun. Too much 3D camera control, and frustrating rather than fun when dying. I think if you removed the beautiful graphics, few people would play them. I also think the player base for these titles are going to skew younger, those who haven’t experienced as much as we have. I see nothing special in them at all. They landed on no magic for me.

The game that brought me to this realization that a good game should be fun even when losing is League of Legends. While there’s too many kids that think the fun is only in stomping out the opponent quickly or they want to quit, for me that game is fun in the struggle for a comeback. And I’m still mysteriously unbothered when I lose. I enjoy it all the way.

For me, that’s the mark of a good game. And it’s probably not a coincidence that it’s the most popular video game in the world.
What makes you think rust is more safe? The platform itself it’s flawed, so any language running on the platform is also flawed.

Load a rust program into mem, change mem, run rust program. You’ve just lost safety.
Nope. I was surprised at how high my mileage has been when I recently hauled 1200 lbs of fencing and got 20.5 mpg for that trip
I believe it's reported in the book 1491 the the Chinese government abruptly changed policy to forbid global exploration. That may have something to do with it.
What a load of shit. This is the same mindset folks who pop up to yell at some Google engineers have. Why are you using your skills to collect data for adtech! You could be helping bring clean drinking water to the world!

People value what they value, and should be able to work in fields that bring them happiness and don’t break the law without your judgement. Who are you to tell anyone what’s meaningful?
The best way of day trading is to exploit a market inefficiency that nobody (or very few) are aware of. As soon as this inefficiency is know to public it will disappear, that's why there is not much sensible material for day trading to learn from, maybe except for the psychological aspect, which is very important. Try to find a system that works for you and be quiet about it. Unfortunately, 95%< of day traders didn't find a system that works and quit after some time.
Idk I used to run some big projects and I just told people straight up that I’d love to add or fix that but that I don’t have time

Some people still idolized the hell out of me
Economic sanctions send a clear message to Putin that his invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable.

Direct confrontation is not an option and neither is doing nothing at all, so sanctions is the logical choice.

I agree that sanctions will not make Putin withdraw from Ukraine. But seeing Europe make a targeted effort to stop relying on Russian oil and gas, should make Putin think twice.
Only in the same way that "if ... else if ... else" needs to know about types, which is to say mostly not.

AFAIK - and this might be either dated or just wrong - the two places GHC doesn't fully erase are 1) polymorphic recursion (where if we squint it's probably not unreasonable to treat the dictionaries as type tags), and 2) when the programmer explicitly asks for run-time type information with Typeable.
'History of science' sounds like the attempt to frame acceptable scientific discussion.
I used to believe, at least in the early days, that these tech companies were successful in upholding the values of freedom of expression, speech, and exchange of information, subsequently the values that the early internet itself formed around. They were anti-authoritarian.

Now it seems they willingly accept being pushed around, succumb to any request to compromise its values in the interest of shareholder value, and willingly collude with authoritarian requests from governments.

It's all so typical, in a way. Whatever shred of idealism I had left for these companies is now completely gone.
> The Indian subcontinent and the Middle East were fragmented for much of their history, and Africa even more so, yet they did not experience a Great Enrichment.

They had an opportunity to explain why the colonised lands didn’t experience a “Great Enrichment”, but they chose to completely ignore most of history.