skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All in HTML 1.0 written by hand, from Unix shell C, using pico.

When I started, I was getting huge international traffic, from people seeing near-instant page-loading when using 2400 baud dialup. I think classrooms were using it for ESL teaching. Also, huge traffic from the deaf community (any images w/text paragraphs, and ease of speech screenreaders. Unexpectedly this put me way high on google, when it finally appeared years later.)
how much ram do you have?
I hope everyone finds ways to get home during the holiday break without too much discomfort. And try to stay safe wrt Covid.
They landed 32,000 men at New York, the largest British fleet ever assembled up to that point. The idea that they were playing on easy mode is a delusion.
Machines these days boot and become usable faster than anything I remember, and I've been using computers for 40 years. Yeah, maybe an IBM PC booting DOS 1 or 2 booted faster, but I don't recall, and didn't use either version very long.
If I remember correctly WebKit replaced the 3-wheel date picker with this recently because people thought that was too skeuomorphic. Guess they can’t win?
The Swiss seem to be doing quite well.
Actually the Firefox and Chrome date pickers look... exactly the same

I don't think this is so much a problem of UI not being consistent as us just not providing resources to help elderly navigate the web better.

Also, they could've just... set a default date of like Jan 1, 1960 and saved 90% of their users a headache

<input type="date" value="1960-01-01" />

Edit: ok, not "exactly" the same but functionally very similar. Or at least they'd have the exact problems pointed out in the post. See for yourself:

FF: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/files/2017/06/input_date_ca...

comparison: https://wd.imgix.net/image/vvhSqZboQoZZN9wBvoXq72wzGAf1/uh0U...
> Profound boredom stems from an abundance of uninterrupted time spent in relative solitude, which can lead to indifference, apathy, and people questioning their sense of self and their existence - but which Heidegger said could also pave the way to more creative thinking and activity.

I wonder if there is a record of what could help one break out of 'indeifference, apathy, ...' phase and into the 'creative thinking and activity' phase. It is just a matter of time? Is it possible only for some and not for others? Have you, dear reader, succesfully transitioned to the latter phase and as a result, change the course of your life towards a desirable goal?
Google keeps showing alerts in their products (eg. Gmail) telling people to download Chrome.

I don't see how Mozilla could "improve their promotion game" to stand up to that.
I think they meant "censored".
I have read this somewhere, not sure where, but by someone very much in touch with nature. He called it the "lost car keys" approach. Always approach animals as if looking for your car keys on the ground: avoiding eye contact, and not in a straight line.
Forget Gmail, it's a distraction at best.

I have said this many times: the Internet, as it bloomed starting around 1990 or so, was built on someone else's hardware. Usenet, sure. If you were on IRC at the time, chances are your IRC servers were .edu servers. At first the "someone else's hardware" (SEH) was largely from universities, who often had no real top-down policies about how their bandwidth and such were used. Many SPARCs were pressed into service.

Roughly a quarter of a second after the invention of the <img> tag, advertising began to be a thing. Anyone remember NetZero? The banner era began, then animated .GIFs were added, and finally the CPU-crushing Flash banner evolved. Take a moment to remember NetZero, as well as the free hours on AOL discs so numerous the US postal service shuddered.

About a thousand people invented AJAX as soon as they realized the implications of the XMLHttpRequest object. Just as the <img> tag was the four-color print for advertising, so this began an era where, with the addition of cookies, you could get more information about how your ads were received, how your viewer moved across domains, and so on. This in turn means you can ask for more money for advertising, after all you can target and track! Before it was merely exposure.

Ah, but how to know more? Well, for one, you could have the users host all of their content on your servers. First email, then photos, then video. Why not? And it's all for free. We just need to perform sophisticated analysis on your content, then decide to show you this Viagra ad anyway. This more or less ends at Cloud Computing.

I submit that the various frees and SEHs have created radical distortions in the mindset of generations when it comes to "Who pays for this, anyway?" It's certainly devalued some kinds of labor, overvalued others, and probably has some knock-on effects that we might not even immediately notice. I think the need for Cloudflare and other anti-DDoS products stems from the overly casual egress filtering of various ISPs. It's all just free stuff, anyway, let someone else pay for it. Email is "free," and we've largely dealt with spam by building some great machinery (eventually) and hiding it away from everyone, but its big brother, Internet Scam Sam, continues to slither along. We now build to scale and simply make tech support some forum where the users attempt to solve each other's problems -- they're not even interns.

I could go on and on, but my key point is that thirty-plus years of "free" has translated to "someone else's problem" and I wonder if we aren't starting to see some bills come due at last.
It's sorta like how Christopher Columbus "discovered" a new world ... that 50 million people were already living on.
(2016) and shared just over a month ago

Some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14061935
It's also exactly how Firefox and Chrome's date pickers look. So they were probably to up their web compatibility game to look like everyone else and give users a more consistent UI
I didn’t even know <input type="date"> was a thing, I rely on JS datepicker libraries in various places. However there’s usually plenty of configuration that goes along with that, so I’m not surprised it isn’t optimal in all cases.
Dual CPU is not same as multi-core. And dual-cpu systems were uncommon in the 90s because of their cost.
Didn't this happen primarily during the Trump administration though? At least the previous "Twitter Files" releases concerned a time period when Biden was still just a candidate. Yet I don't think the people supporting Twitter's behavior in this instance view Trump as "your party"...
Pentium Pro came with SMP options, from memory. Not exactly multi core.
Just because X is bad doesn’t imply Y isn’t worse
It sounds reasonable but I’m surprised that it’s not “cost efficient” to have a few sore planes and crews strategically located around the USA - you’d only need three or four to be able to respond within hours to any scheduling mishap. Margins must be quite low.
The brain's default mode is to forget as fast as it can. That is what I remember from an Elon M interview with the badgalaxyboy mma podcast The Full Send. If you have a strong why case your brain will lower the bar to remembering.

One old approach to memorizing is the memory palace. I've heard there are institutes dedicated to studying this kind of thing.

I don't take many notes. After reading 284 of 362 pages I have set down 606 lines of text in gemini mode on emacs. I group ten pages of reading to one section. The resulting gemini file is viewable through a gemini browser. I have the option to further process my notes to org mode or Texinfo in emacs.

Captured drawings can convert to Inkscape SVG or PDF. I use Graphviz to connect the dots of ideas.

Learning is easier to retain and improves if you teach what you have learned from the Master. At a guess, short-term and long-term memory, cognition, group consciousness are keywords to search in the field of psychology and information research for more information. Marvin Minsky observed in one of his lectures on Ai that children of varying grades, stages, ages learn well from each other together.

To internalize and digest a new idea you can exercise while you think.
FEA Solver that doesn't need defeaturing
I don't work at this company, but know some of the people involved and I think it is really cool. For those not in the know, most FEA programs require the model to be simplified and a custom meshing put on it. They also have difficulty solving traction between two objects. Coreform's IGA can create a mesh on any shaped volume and solve traction between two surfaces easily.
Advent of Programming Languages
Time to update the image search results! Sharing is caring ;)
You’re suffering from confirmation bias just as much as /r/HermanCainAward. There are 8 billion people in the world, there will be plenty of examples of any theory you can come up with.
Not just Sydney, but all across Australia.
Yeah if you could find a flight you’d probably be damn near the only person on it.
A New Old Idea; Permacomputing
Hah, tell that to Edgium. There are still incompatible sites, same as with Google Chrome® and Chromium. Their own Google Meet will not work properly in Chromium whereas it does in Google Chrome and Firefox. I don't use Edge myself since I'm on Linux (though, surprising fact of the day: there is an Edge release for Linux!) but my girlfriend has stories (which I apparently failed to remember or I'd give examples now; they might also be company intranet sites though). Might have something to do with trying to be more IE-compatible.
Google also did this to Windows Phone, actively sabotaging the platform by refusing to allow Google Maps to load in WP's browser and repeatedly disabling Microsoft's YouTube app. It was Google at its worst for me, together with their shenanigans around subtly breaking FF on their web products throughout the years.
Sockrates – Penny Arcade
Phone was stolen while traveling and I needed to log into my account to get my flight information. Google wouldn't let me log in from a new computer even though I don't have 2 factor setup. I had to use my 'recovery e-mail' to confirm an e-mail just to login, and that other e-mail address also required a 'recovery e-mail' to login. Luckily my 3rd e-mail down the line of recovery e-mails was at a website that didn't require a recovery e-mail, e-mail. The steps it took to just log into my account without 2 factor enabled was insane. It was a miracle I was able to do anything at all after having my phone stolen.

Edit: note I luckily had memorized all three passwords to the different e-mail addresses or I would have been up a creek.
The frontpage doesn't mention microcontrollers. What's your plan for them, and what kind of microcontrollers will you target (memory and performance)?

I'm assuming there is a plan given "run anywhere".
I have reached Vim nirvana
I installed guix on top of an old debian on an unupgradable 2008 laptop. now I can get updated software again (when guix does not fail because out of memory)
I’m with you but if all my friends and colleagues still use it, Google continues to have a whole lot of my info, eh?
I wasn't trying to say that was invalid or made up that you were going through those difficulties and I'm sure it can impact work. My point was more that I don't think it's helpful to consider it a failing due to factors out of your control. If your old code sometimes makes you cringe or think of various things that you would have done differently and better, that's evidence that you've been learning and improving. It's healthy for everyone to feel that sometimes and be able to reflect and critically evaluate their own work (though maybe not to the level that you're taking it).
The right credit card, if you have one or can get one, usually includes "insurance" for travel delays, lost luggage, cancellations etc. I always forget about the benefits other than "points" but there are some great ones.

Recently, I was glad I used the right card to book an airbnb which we had to cancel day of check-in. Full refund on a non-refundable airbnb.
> CPUs were single core back then

You could still have multiple CPU cores via multiple sockets.
Go read the twitter files drops
Does anyone remember where the longest siege ever in history was waged?

Hint: It was in the American Revolution.

Second hint: Not Yorktown or Boston.

Answer: Correct! The siege of Gibraltar. Undertaken by France and Spain, the (largely inept) siege lasted more than 3.5 years and delayed the end of the war long past Yorktown.
Ah yes, the memories of early LAN parties before switches and cat5. You would configure a network with 5(0?) ohm terminators in both ends. When someone had to leave had to break the bnc wire and start all over. It could really hurt is you disconnected the network and touched the centre of the coax cable.
I grew up with token ring/ AS400 / OS2, so NetWare was always foreign and exotic to me.
Funny because I wanted to go to the beach like usual but it was closed and the police were issuing $500 dollar tickets if you stepped on the sand.
Sorry, nope. Had one of my replies called a "nonsensical answer produced by an AI" in a different thread, so I done did my best to outpace the machine with that one.

When 082... was jus' a little baby, sittin' on their papa's knee
Well they picked up a keyboard and a little CRT
Said keyboard gon' be the death of me, lord, lord
Keyboard gon' be the death of me

https://youtu.be/lY_s42QvOTs?t=50
Extending Python with Rust
Slight tangent on this and something I've always wondered: if something as basic yet extremely crucial as scheduling software is outdated (SWA might very well be on a mainframe or transmitting CSV files in an FTP server and that server could've acted up), how on earth are they expected to scale and adopt new tech? It seems like a ticking time bomb and gross mismanagement.

Fortunately I'm not flying this week, but I've already seen and experienced numerous meltdowns from SWA in the past. If this doesn't signal a wake-up call to invest in tech infrastructure for any company I don't know what else will.
I don't see what there is to disagree as the first.

Either you're a platform or a publisher, and the difference is whether the company is legally liable for the user's content.

Twitter claims itself to legally be a platform, and therefore on a legal basis should uphold free speech (not to mention on a moral basis).

If they want to be a publisher then they can do that and destroy their site, and everyone will migrate off to competitors.
Extreme nitpick on my part: Southwest isn't actually a legacy carrier: they were one of the first "low-cost" carriers to begin interstate travel after the airlines were deregulated in 1978. The only remaining legacy carriers in the US are Delta, American, United, Hawaiian, and Alaska.
On OSX you can do something a little less fancy with pbcopy | pbpaste. I normally use it to copy text from files to an email / url output etc.
I know Microsoft was notorious for not playing nice with other browsers but I thought that mostly had to do with them deciding to go their own way with non-standard features or simply not implementing standards they don't like

Is there documented evidence that Microsoft stooped this low as well? Did they purposely make their sites not work as well on other browsers?
I agree with you and let me make another argument for it.

Consider the fact that a sensible longer variable name can not be THAT MUCH longer.

This creates a problem where you have to manufacture a 10-20-30 character name that somewhat describes what the variable is.

Inevitably you end up creating a somewhat misleading name that badly describes what that variable is supposed to be. Probably leaving something out to avoid the name getting too long. You can't write an essay as the variable name.

If you accept the short single letter variable name instead you avoid this losing battle to manufacture a name for an abstract thing.

Instead you will have the ability to maybe describe what "a" is in a more elaborate code comment.
Southwest is one of the few airlines that has non-stops from AUS and Chicago and Kansas City, so I fly them almost exclusively. In general, I'm always impressed with how well everything is run, and how professional and friendly their crew are.
The New Tech Worldview
Right, but you don't expect NYT or WSJ to be required to print every "letter to the editor" submitted by anyone in the world. They are for-profit, non-government, and they print what they want. Twitter is also for-profit and not the government – so why is it different if they also choose not to broadcast some things?

Newspapers and TV media also have always received a lot of government pressure trying to spin their coverage or convince them to downplay (or emphasize) certain stories. I'm still confused about why it's suddenly so much more scandalous that anything similar happened with Twitter.
may I ask which resources helped you start your own software business?
Here's a simpler solution that's even safer for screen reader accessibility: use the platform

Just set a default date and it won't default to today.
I'm much older than that, but I have millenial kids and just some days ago we talked about it. They all use social media apps sometimes, but do it for communication (private messages/groups/etc) or for entertainment. They all consider social media in social media sense far too toxic and unhealthy. They all know people using social media actively though and there seems to be two reasons – as part of trying to build a professional brand or inertia. The last group seem rather sad for them and reminds me my experience from my thirties. I think that all of us know people who are stuck in some area in our past and can't understand that the world around them has moved on.

Note that these observations are probably very specific to area and social group.
> If we had better technology which eliminated the need for phone calls, this would have been fixed by now.

but... we have better technology!

> Checked bags are currently a disaster. Plan to not see your checked luggage for at least a month.

wait what? the planes are grounded. can't someone walk there and get the bags out? if that's not a possibility then it's time to consider it.
If someone argues in good faith I would probably do it but he is clearly trying to gaslight here. Or do you believe DDG is jeopardizing an essential part of their search business just to fuck with him?
I have story about this one too. When I went to take a covid test ~1 year ago, they had an iPad for self registration near the reception. I filled it out, noticed this issue and sat down. An elderly lady came up and started going month-by-month back to her birthday year. I had to get up and help her.

It's crazy Apple hasn't fixed this.
Security researchers are yet to verify whether the Indian Railways data is authentic and how it was accessed.
Only three and half years?

That doesn't even make the top three IIRC.

The Siege of Ceuta, and the Siege of Candia were both 20+ years.
KeepassXC is good in a lot of ways but I don't use a cloud sync service and finding a good multi platform doesn't seem easy. I do love KeepassXC auto type a lot and website autocomplete is sometimes better than enpass but sometime cause problem which I need to investigate.
Title: "PSA from a SWA employee since the company won’t give any info" to give some idea of what you're clicking on
There are people who have taken 2nd mortgages on their homes to send money to Trump for his “stop the steal” grift. People are too ignorant in general.
> When did something that was originally worth 5 LOCs turn into 20 LOCs

When you want it to work properly in all the cases. That includes when new data is being fetched and you don't want to show the old data. Or when you want to not refetch data if the conditions for refetching are not met. Or when you want to cancel an in-progress data fetch if the data shall no longer be shown after fetching it because the user closed the component tasked with showing the data.

I bet your 5 LOC can't do some of these things.
It needs to make a polished groove or smooth surface-divot. Definitely use colored or black plastic, to promote surface-absorption. The real key is to eliminate jaggies. Either your steppers need micron resolution or better, or the laser-sweeping needs adjustable radius (smooth curves, but stepped depth.)

I tell people, if you could play the hologram on a record turntable, the scratches must be silent. No micro-wiggles. The must behave as long, curved mirrors.
Thanks - that was actually useful.
Here is some promotion of misinformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqaN68vBvXQ&t=3
I wish, I can get the screenshot but there's no easy way to get that on the internet
The 529 change is huge. As college value continues to decline, this gives you an out 18 years in the future. It's like a break glass type of change.
Sure, but a major flaw of the American system is that it's deliberately pushing its people into being distrustful of the system (and each other). Not trusting the government, or wanting to make it less effective, is considered a virtue in many parts of America. (And it's not just the conservatives.)
Try https://snipboard.io (iirc I found them via HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887660, used to be snag.gy which imo was a much nicer domain but oh well), I use that to paste-and-forget images that I don't care much about but want to be longer-lived than on dro.pm
Pipe dream, but Firefox could be installed by default on iOS devices and Apple could invest a lot of money into Mozilla as a partnership.
1) What benefit does simulation have for the SI?

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2)
> There are trillions of worlds out there existing for billions of years (and that's just what we know of).

You start with the assumption that those worlds exist according to our knowledge, but if your conclusion (that we're in a simulation) is true, then those worlds could also be fictitious. You see the loop in your reasoning?

3) It's not improbable that we live in a simulation, but that doesn't really make any difference for us. There's no "breaking" out of the simulation for us, and there's no deeper meaning to life as we know it.
Mozilla can't stand up to that, which is why I mentioned that Google would need to cease all promotion of chrome (including cross-promotions in other Google products).

But that alone wouldn't suffice. From what I've seen of Mozilla's efforts to promote Firefox, they don't have any idea of how to appeal to the broader audience, or really any audience beyond the privacy-conscious. That Firefox allows better control of one's data is great but it's not nearly enough to carry most people past the friction point of switching browsers. For that you need things like major advantages in battery life and features that fix common web browsing annoyances.
My view is that paywalls were to combat scrapers in a legally defensible way.
> It is better to keep them idle when possible; that means switching.

Perhaps so.

Still, how to switch? If the "switch internals" is just a token-ring + ARP table (IE: each port remembers the mac addresses its serving, and token-rings the data around), the switch will have ~10GbE for all-ports, but only a max bandwidth of 10GbE before it starts losing packets. (Ex: Alice <-> Bob <-> Charlie <-> Dave with only 10GbE each link. If Alice talks to Charlie and Bob talks to Dave, then the Bob -> Charlie needs 20GbE, so half the packets will get dropped)

This isn't a full switch classic.

Maybe a "Hub classic" isn't enough, since that keeps the ports needlessly active as you noted. But I don't think the full 80Gbps bidirectional is needed for an 8-port home-consumer (or even many prosumer) environments.

The full 10Gbps switches all get quite hot, probably due to drawing a ton of power. I'm thinking that some simplified architecture is needed to reduce power (by trading off and reducing bandwidth)
Recent news suggests it's not for lack of trying that Alexa hasn't been monetized, and Amazon has started cutting staff as a result of the failure. People just want to buy the smart assistant, not a voice nag that tries to get them to buy more things without using their eyes. So selling devices at cost hasn't been working.