skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a couple of vintage computers. One is my original first computer. While there is a cheap expansion that would allow me to hook up any VGA screen on it, the part of the experience is the screen.

I've been hooked on to retro computing a while, and I flatted out somewhat. It all depends on what you want to do. If you want to play games or run software I suggest you take a good deep look at the emulators. I had a task to do with my XT and that was pulling the data out from it. I did some original programming for that purpose. I spent days loading software from the internet to it in minutes which was kind of miraculous. I programmed some graphics demos on it. I upgraded it with an XT-CF, etc. In the end there is no need to keep that machine up and running on a desk somewhere. The best purpose would be aesthetic, because it is really beautiful as a package, but even if it were in mint condition, I wouldn't risk running it for a couple hours daily for an useless purpose. Although it would be nice to have an 80s style terminal displaying current whether, RSS feeds, etc, it's just a bad way to run your historic machine out of working hours.
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There is an ethical website [0].

The EU has created an alternatives website [1], which is tech from EU.

Note there is some overlap.

[0] https://ethical.net/resources/?resource-category=analytics

[1] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...
If you look up an X-Files episode guide, you should find something that helps you get through the muck. I found it on red several years ago and I have it on my share drive but it's offline at the moment. It ranked each episode as part of the story arc, generic monster of the week episode (MotW), or "not story arc but particularly good".

I use that to get through five seasons of X-Files and really enjoyed it. I did the same thing with deep space nine.
- What is your tech stack?

I run an uptime (+ cron job) monitoring + status page service: https://onlineornot.com

Uptime monitoring:

- AWS functions spread across several regions for redundancy

- Node.js

- Postgres

Frontend:

- Next.js (React)

- GraphQL

- Tailwind CSS

Status Pages:

- Remix (React) frontend, heavily cached on Cloudflare Workers

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- Why did you choose it?

It's what I already knew, and used professionally for several years.

- Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?

No customer has ever asked me "What are you using to build OnlineOrNot?". What they have asked me is "Hey can you extend feature X to support use case Y?".

Building with technology I already knew meant I could respond "Hell yes", and have the feature deployed and released by the next morning (if it fit my roadmap, of course).
I can see both sides of this. There's the side of me that looks at advertising and sees it as a necessary annoyance. It's the primary funding source for the open web today, and thus far that model has been very successful. Advertising has enabled the development of well polished, incredibly useful software like YouTube, Google Maps, search engines, etc without requiring users to directly pay a single cent for those services.

Then there's the Stallmanesqe, crypto-anarchist side of me that says it's my machine and it shouldn't do anything that doesn't directly benefit me. Tracking and ads don't directly benefit me, so my machine shouldn't cooperate in running them and if your business can't survive under those conditions then it doesn't deserve to.

I'm not 100% on how to resolve that tension, but I can't really fault Google for the way they're handling it. (As an optional, yet on-by-default feature that cooperates in serving relevant ads in a way that's more private than cookies but less private than just blocking everything.)
Or, you know, that single threaded runtime that OP just mentioned. ;P
What can be done to mitigate such effects in pre-2000 ICE vehicles? Would lead-acid batteries succumb to a violent death if subject to such a storm? Would the wires fry or would the chassis-as-capacitor smooth out the effect?
Always use Unix Domain sockets if you can. There are at least three concerns with TCP.

First, local port numbers are a limited resource.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-stop-running-out-of-ephem...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-quantum-state-of-a-tcp-port/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/this-is-strictly-a-violation-of-...

Then the TCP buffer autotune can go berserk:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unbounded-memory-usage-by-tcp-fo...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/when-the-window-is-not-fully-ope...

Finally, conntrack.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/conntrack-tales-one-thousand-and...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/conntrack-turns-a-blind-eye-to-d...

These issues don't exist in Unix Sockets land.
JSON and YAML are used as programming languages for e.g. Docker, expressing conditionals, variables, etc. I don't like it :p.
AF_VSOCK is another one to consider these days. It's a kind of hybrid of loopback and Unix. Although they are designed for communicating between virtual machines, vsock sockets work just as well between regular processes. Also supported on Windows.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vsock.7.html
https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtioVsock
who this people ?
What this misses is the curl response format.

Long time ago at Klarna we used this tool: https://github.com/for-GET/katt Here's an example: https://github.com/for-GET/katt/blob/master/doc/example-http...
The U.S. is not at war with Russia. Kindly point out the presidential or congressional declaration. Also point out the section of law that makes him a "traitor". Kindly also point out the court ruling that made Starlink's terms of use baseless. Without any of those, I fear you don't have a leg to stand on to call anyone a "traitor".

If you want my opinion, the people who loudly bang the drums of war and demand its relentless escalation and declare folks who stand against the same as treasonous without any basis in law are the folks who are the real traitors.
That is literally forcing edge on people.. it is ignoring their choice, and forcing them to use edge or change the desired browsers.

It is not forcing them to use it (mostly) but it is forcing edge on them in a dark pattern which needs to be called out.
We are following this approach at Veezoo (https://www.veezoo.com).

When Veezoo connects to a database / dwh for the first time, an initial Semantic Layer / Knowledge Graph gets built automatically based on the data itself. We try to recognize how the columns link to other tables, try to identify units, and other semantic information e.g. if something is a "Location" or a "Country" and so on.

The whole conversational "plain english" querying then operates on top of the semantic layer, ensuring business logic (and other governance topics) are always respected.
The California law only mandates reporting how decisions are made, it does not do anything to how the company makes those decisions.

If companies can now argue that complying with a law is against free speech, they can literally ignore all laws.
INAL but wasn't scrapping legal? They can ban it in their T&C but that doesn't make it illegal.
Not a lawyer but if that’s the case, could California say “Fine, but Twitter can no longer do business in California”?

Edit: not necessarily saying they should, I’m just
wondering if they can.

Edit 2: Looks like the most they could do is make it harder for social media companies in general to do business. If they were perceived as targeting Twitter then they could have grounds to sue.

Based on 20 minutes of reading so grain of salt applies.
It was obvious to me, a Brit, that there would be massive American retaliation against whichever country was linked to this - and I said so in the office where we had all broken off work to crowd round the TV or refresh news websites. Then a second plane hit.

(I incorrectly guessed it was the PLO responsible)

> That week, many of the people I know would've been happy to launch nuclear weapons at every population center in Afghanistan and the capitals of every nation that'd so much as looked at the United States funny in the previous ten years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

There was (and still is in some quarters) a huge desire for revenge against Iran. A side effect of Republicans going full Qanon is that they no longer care about the middle east at all, and the PNAC lot fade into history.
There is almost no real business reason to use analytics, it's more of a cargo cult. If you want to check your sales channels, you make separate promo codes for each channel and see what codes are being used by paying customers. Because paying customers is the only metrics that matter if you're selling products online.

If you're curios about site visitors, you can use Clicky.com or Beamanalytics.io to get some basic stats that are enough to satisfy your curiosity, without spying on people.
Do not use TSP! Use sodiumtrippolyphosphate, aka STP, STPP. TSP is as caustic as lye. You can find STP on Amazon.

Mix 30% STPP with powder for hard water. 10% for soft water.
You can feed them hashish or whatever and turn people into berserkers. Also, in mercenaries people do it for other reasons.

Anyhow, when you look at the elated reaction from people in some areas of the world when it happened, one can see why people might react to that reaction with seething vengeance in mind.
What is technically possible and what actually gets done bear very little relation.
Flag bad articles and email the mods if you suspect abuse otherwise the forum fills up with meta.
was wondering the same ...
I've dug this up 2-3 times since 2001 and I always have a nightmare of a time finding it. I'm not finding it anywhere right now. I'm pretty sure it was a Nanog report but I could be wrong there, it was very thorough and a lot of slides.

Best I can do right now is the Nanog mail list that day/week... https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archi...
This is painfully whiny.

Look, the government has to regulate things and it's sometimes going to be clumsy. If this particular thing bothers you, that's fine. But it's childish to use the tone of "the gubment hates mah freedom" here - ESPECIALLY for us, in a time where more regulation of e.g. tech and cybersecurity would likely be a good thing.
It's becoming harder and harder to arrange for power and water (and jobs to pay for them) without the Internet.

Sure, looking at cat pictures or whatever isn't that important, but as things continue to become online only, your argument becomes less and less valid.

Imagine how you'd move to a new town across the country in 2023: how do you find real estate without the Internet? How do you know who to call to set up power and water, how do you find thier number? Most of the ways i can think of involve someone looking up stuff on the Internet for you...

Half the time when I call any of these places, trying to make use of some drive time, they just tell me to go do ot on the website since the csr can't do it for me anyway.

The only time I've been able to reach a human at the mortgage servicing company is when I switched banks and flu bed the new account number... they were sure to call to let me know the payment failed, but the csr couldn't help me fix that problem, just tale the corrected info for the one payment.

It's utterly absurd to think that something so important to the function of our society is subject to the whims of scumbags at Comcast and att. If the Internet broke for more than a day or two, I'm pretty sure it would be catastrophic at levels similar to the power grid going down for more than a day or two.
They didn't claim their experience was universal. They explicitly qualified their statement. So, you said they were wrong in _their_ experiences, which is calling them a liar and a bad interaction overall. If you'd simply replied that their experience perhaps wasn't indicative of the industry as a whole, _then_ you would have contributed something meaningful to the conversation.
> These numbers only matter if you plan on subsisting entirely off of social security in retirement,

Actually, number of workers per retired person matters A LOT regardless how you look at it.

If you disregard imports, the total amount of goods and services produced per capita goes down. No amount of cash can buy more stuff than is for sale in a market. As more and more money chase less and less stuff, inflation has to go up to compensate.

And these two workers can demand more or less what they wish, while old people get poorer and poorer.

And there is a limit to how far down society will let the pensions of the poorest retired people go, so some way will be found to bring enough cash for them to have at least a little.

Meanwhile, the working people can more or less demand what they want in saleries, if the shortage of workers is great enough. And if the government tries to take a lot from them through taxes, they can always go on strike, move abroad or something similar.

Those with savings but no productivity, who are rich without working, they are fair game in such a society.

The word "boomer" is already a slur used against a generation seen as pulling the ladder up after themselves. And as the number of retired people per worked continues to go up, such thinking will just gain traction.
Anyone know if there is something similar for games ?. my parents like playing classic games on their phones but they're usually filled with scammy ads.
Some previous discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28492719
I'm not sure if you aren't a native English speaker or are just being deliberately obtuse, but I wasn't asking for any consideration on your part. I was expressing disbelief at the apparent naivety of your previous comment where you started off by writing my post "passes for a comment" and then proceeded to argue this article is some kind of insightful work in the area of online privacy.
Gen A would be wise to learn from the Koreans on how to hide their income/wealth to avoid subsidizing the old, because that is all they will be doing.
An aside…

I encourage you to get a Nintendo switch and not connect it to a network.

Very high quality game (cartridges) that you pay for once.
I think an important point is the data that is sold by these aggregators are leveraged by PIs and will go to show how vulnerable this tech makes everyone. One should consider if they should promote something that they don't also want to be made a victim of.

These things don't change unless someone important becomes a victim, otherwise its just collateral damage.
The headline as written has nothing to do with the issue or its discussion.
It reminds me of Facebook's experiments where they tweaked people's feeds to alter their moods - sometimes for the worse.
I mean, there is nothing stopping people from using the [Diataxis Framework](https://diataxis.fr/) for any sort of documentation - it just doesn't have as great a foothold outside our sphere.

I was a bit surprised it or Divio (where it was created) announced when they talked about the four types of documentation. I would love to see it make its way into information systems curriculum, as it's a quite useful mental model.
X should lose here. Governments have a long-standing right to force companies to disclose information that is important to consumers.
MIT's Building 20: A Masterpiece in Usable Architecture
Mike Masnick's opinion:

>Elon Musk Files Really Strong 1st Amendment Challenge To California’s Terrible Social Media ‘Transparency’ Law

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/08/elon-musk-files-really-s...
It is trivially easy to damage car speakers in my experience. If it's just an issue with one speaker, there's probably some form of mechanical failure in that specific unit. If the distortion is across all of your speakers, it probably comes down to the receiver or wiring.
This 100%. US regulation is woefully inadequate, and even if the EU has teeth, US companies are gonna treat them as toothless and see how far they can get screwing over the world.

It’s time to fight back against Big Tech by refusing to use it as much as humanly possible. Especially those of us on the software side that could contribute to improving the FOSS space.
dunno. mine sounds great. take back to dealership?
Maybe but that was never actually a thing. It was not even a thing which got moved away from like type states or internat iterators, it never was.
Compilers vary greatly in their complexity. In particular, optimization is a truly open-ended task, which can consume however much CPU time and memory as you're willing to throw at it. GCC and LLVM today are much more sophisticated than anything around in the 1970s or 1980s. They will chew up the entire program, transform it into an enormous (many megabyte or gigabyte) graph abstractly representing the program, and then spend hundreds of billions of cycles, exploring possible rewrites of this graph, that make the program faster or more efficient.

In comparison, early compilers, including the first C compiler, usually worked on a single statement at a time, immediately translating it into equivalent machine code. It never examines the whole program together, as there wasn't enough RAM in those machines to do that. This produces inefficient code, but it's very fast to compile. In fact, accommodating the memory limits of machines like the PDP-11 influenced much of C's design. It's why everything has to be declared before use, for example. That way less state needs to be kept to resolve forward references.
Why would it need it? LinkedIn doesn’t owe its users anything and A and B testing is quite common.
I didn't realize how draconian and big brother-ish the law was:

> AB 587 passed in September 2022, requiring social media platforms to submit a "terms of service report" semi-annually to California's attorney general, providing "a detailed description of content moderation practices used" and "information about whether, and if so how, the social media company defines and moderates" hate speech or racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation or misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference. Under the law, social media platforms must also provide information and statistics on any content moderation actions taken in those categories.

This is quite literally thought police. You literally have to send the state's lawyers details on how you moderate content to ensure it complies with whatever arbitrary thing the state believes in at the time. This is clearly not constitutional and the state has no business whatsoever dictating how speech is moderated.
Well, that might not be the best option for you.

Fortunately the article speaks of hyparpalatable ones and this is a bit different category - one we'd better avoid altogether.
This for sure; it's a kind of anxiety that can be alleviated with self-confidence and exposure over time, or in other words, practice. Loads of people have trouble with small talk because they don't know how it works, but it can be learned and practiced.
Yes, the voice sounds very natural and not computer-generated. But it gets a lot of, even simple, pronunciations wrong. There's a long way to go before this is genuinely an enjoyable and useful option.
Apple will use location services to serve ads to you.

If you were walking near old ones, and others had searched about them before (not you) the graph database would create an association between location and grain augers.
Unisys MCP & MS-DOS. Two Operating systems.

MCP on Unisys mainframes was the most reliable Operating System I ever used.

MS-DOS started the world domination of Personal Computers, after a few false / failed starts by other desktop Operating Systems.
A single threaded Tokio runtime still has a separate thread pool for heavy tasks. Maybe block_on? I can't remember where I read that tho.

Edit: not block_on, but spawn_blocking. See https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/16ebdi1/comment/jzy7f...
IRS will use AI to crack down on wealthy potential tax violators
Maybe not forced, but definitely hostile
This is an overly cynical take. It’s not either/or. Meeting more people just means being exposed to more first hand information in both directions. It gives more surface area for serendipity to strike.

It’s nice to imagine that all information about the job market would be available online for convenient index and search, but that’s just not the case. When it comes to understanding the culture in a company, theres no substitute for talking to someone on the inside. Similarly when you are a hiring manager, not every great candidate is going to apply or even have a LinkedIn profile.

Now, I tend to agree that most things explicitly labeled “networking” feel tiresome and a bit forced, but there’s nothing about meeting people that means bypassing objective evaluation for hiring.
I see, thank you! I hadn’t realized the hidden limitation in the usual iterator/generator/streams concepts in modern languages. It looks like the thing Linq and Java Streams have in common is that they’ve been added later, with a pragmatic focus on collections. They “bake in” iterator/next based composition. If you start from a more principled functional foundation, the limitation probably seems more jarring (why fix one “template parameter”?)

It also reinforces my view that you should try to separate logic and control flow as much as possible. At work, we use awful callback chains. There must be a better way to express the logic and hide the callback logic, even in C++ (lots of rope to … find alternative solutions.)
Haskell has a better type system. In fact rusts type system is derived from ML languages ...

Tons of languages have better type systems.
I think they probably will have my 2fa, because then they've probably pwned my computer.
This is spot on. I have two close relatives in their early 60s who lost their jobs during the pandemic. One has diabetes, and searched for months before finding a tenuous low-level position for the insurance
> the state has no business whatsoever dictating how speech is moderated.

Red herring. It does not dictate anything, just requires companies to report what they’re doing.
I don't know who Masnick is but the loaded headline tells me I shouldn't care. So, should I?
What you're describing just isn't normal. There are some possible explanations. You might have really hard water. You might not be using high-quality, enzymatic dishwaster detergent. It's also possible that there's something wrong with every dishwasher you've owned, I guess.
Are they really losing "$1K"/day, or is the inflated FB-type projection? I would posit that if anyone was interested in what they had to say or sell, they would get that money regardless of ad blockers. Ad blockers are not limiting you, your shitty product or services are.
Try Hard, but Not That Hard
No, but circuit courts have long established precedence, especially in matters
More that it doesn't need to have a big emphasis on social skills or the people you know, but on merit and skills. Most software development jobs are already like that though, with both face to face interviews and take-home assignments.

Some do whiteboard interviews, but I don't really get those because they're not representative of the job you will be expected to do - unless it's for a teaching position.
It won't, nor would the inverse happen, i.e. data ownership won't "take on the tech companies". That's what the TFA argues, that data ownership is the ONLY way to reduce the power of the tech companies. And what I am saying is that a) it's not the only way, in fact there are much better/easier/proven ways, b) that just creating this false dichotomy distracts from the need for regulation and at best delays regulation or at worst it actually benefits the tech monopolies (because large companies can work under/with privacy regulations better than startups).

Not arguing against privacy, at all. But saying that privacy, which is a hard problem to figure out at scale, is the only way to regulate the FAANGS, just distracts and delays. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.