skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no, there is actually a specific problem causing this -- most of these rules are at the local level and the people who get a vote in the local assembly are... local residents. Who are predominantly local homeowners. The home ownership rate in the US is ~65%. Since they already own a home, they want the price to go up rather than down, so they vote for that, and they still outnumber the tenants. Meanwhile the prospective new homeowners don't get a vote in the local elections because they don't live there yet.

In theory this shouldn't happen in local areas where the tenants outnumber the homeowners, but then some jackass invented rent control for those areas, thereby giving the existing tenants an interest in maintaining the status quo and once again screwing over new tenants and prospective homeowners.
> Making 99.9% of websites ask for js permissions, and often break if the user clicks no, is just adding unneeded friction for the huge majority of cases.

That problem is solved by making sites avoid needless JS.

Today I can browse almost every major news-site without JS and they won’t visually break. Same for documentation. It’s all documents after all.

If I enable JS they load megabytes of scripts and still act just the same. What did those scripts bring me? Increased CPU load and lowered battery life.

What is it wrong with not wanting that as default?
In normal times I would agree with you, but these aren't normal times. The government has said that many of your tenants can't work right now, and that you can't replace them with people who can.

All of this is painful, but reasonable under the circumstances we find ourselves in.

But "free market!" isn't what has messed up their plans. Surprise, almost completely unpredictable government regulation has messed it up.
The reason why everyone loves eryanping trail
How do you not see that businesses are run by people too? If their business suffers (rental or otherwise) they suffer just like you would if you were laid off.
The prerequisite is a lackluster/dysfunctional/toxic work environment, which is probably like 99% of jobs out there.
I think most of the best tech workers are already living in major cities. Before the virus lockdowns started, those people were required to work in offices just like everyone else, so they had to move to where there employers were located.

I don’t really buy the argument that there is a major untapped pool of talent living outside major cities — if there is, what have those people been doing for work until now? It hasn’t been easy to have a good career in tech in rural areas, for example.
Haven’t ISPs been caught MITM’ing literally all traffic and injecting tracking or ad code on every page? They don’t check if it’s a library catalogue or not
Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
Curious: did you complete all the exercises in the book? Not doubting you in any way, just wondering if that’s a possibility. I know I’ve gone through books without doing the work, while on others I have done the work — and it’s usually a pretty different experience.

But, not everyone is gonna connect with everything, regardless.
For eight years, I've been trying to get my email address out of Xfinity's databases. The customer support team literally can't find my email address in their system and I still get emails. They passed my case on to engineering and they can't find it either. Not only have I never been an Xfinity customer, I've never even lived in an area where I could have be an Xfinity customer. Thankfully, the emails are few and far between now.
I’ve been out of the Erlang world for a few years now, but it doesn’t seem like a great fit for serverless. The VM has a non-trivial overhead, and the language (and VM) design is optimized for long-running, high availability services.
The point of the article is that the web ecosystem is breaking compatibility with “old” servers every six months or so these days.

First certbot broke. Now, older tls. Next, they’ll probably deprecate tls 1.2.

I imagine http 1 or 2 will be on the chopping block in the next few years.

They can’t kill both http 1 and http 2 because http 3 needs to use at least one of them as a signaling protocol to establish connections. I’m guessing that means there will be an http 4 that breaks with http 3, but doesn’t need a separate session establishment protocol. (Http 3 partially breaks TCP, and replaces it with userspace stuff. Http 4 would complete that process.)

The web was a success precisely because it was simple and stable enough to let everyone escape from the old hosting providers. They heavily censored content, charged high fees and so on.

Now, hosting is unnecessarily complicated, and the providers are consolidating back into a handful of players like facebook YouTube and cloudflare. Censorship and mass surveillance are on the rise. Since more people use computers than before, these players are helping kill the free press.

Telling people that operating a static web page should be a full time job, because it’s (been made) really hard is just accelerating these trends.
I definitely have my gripes about their technical implementation, but I mostly read either in paper or via the iPad app, so the web presentation is only rarely relevant to me (i.e., when I share a story with someone).

At any rate, the implementation is just that: the package the excellent writing comes in. As long as the words are there, I'm happy. And I _do_ like that they've spent so much time on the wrapper, so to speak, even if it falls short in some respects.
Zulu and Corretto are both distributions of OpenJDK.
This is one of the reasons Begg Knives shut down his forums. We literally couldn't delete accounts fast enough.
Before you could tar and feather the collectors, and shoot the foreign soldiers who attempted to enforce. The money went to a far off land, which would eventually give up.

Now, another faceless drone in a suit will simply replace the collector, the soldiers are domestic and called police, and the money is distributed to a large amount of people via fake work jobs in the financial industry who will fight tooth and nail to preserve the system.
I ran an Apache site with 10000+ daily visitors for 10 years on my own SuSE box from home. Firewalled the box and only left ports 80, 443, 25 and 22 open. Only had to update recently when I replaced the box with Raspberry Pi (I wonder how long the SD card will last).
activity != accomplishment

We always knew that's bad bosses never understood this.

It's just sad to see that now there's a market for it.
If it brightens your day your product looks cool.
on the other hand, there is something to be said for the decision to interpret the image in a way that makes it relevant to our times.
Are you forgetting that guy, completely unprovoked, told Elon to shove the submarine up his own ass?
The output file size relative to other approaches will depend on the contents of the input file (e.g., does it embed any bitmaps, or is it only text in non-rasterized fonts?), the density you use (e.g., 150 dpi is 4x greater than 75 dpi), the bit depth you use (3 bits is 4x greater than 1 bit), and whether you add noise or not. Also, the one-line command above your comment is short/easy to remember and reasonably fast -- which is useful if you're impatient like me.

All that said, note that you can always add a `-compress <compression method>` to the convert command, although this could make it noticeably slower, say, for a directory full of long documents. There's even a Fax TIFF compression method that makes the document look like it came out of one of those fax machines you see in movies from the 1980's. To get a list of supported compression methods, type `convert -list compress` at the command line.
https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/opbsd6-other
I'm guessing it's about avoiding US authority for at least some current or future projects under the aegis of the foundation, or allowing some members like Huawei to participate more fully.

Even if technology transfer doesn't get away from US export rules for existing US-based projects, the switch might be relevant for future donations from Huawei to Eclipse.
In python you can do

pip install light

and it installs all the requisite dependencies. Awkwardly, god runs as root and doesn't bother with virtual environments, so there might be some bugs due to version creep
Yeah I would personally use this instead of Unity because I don’t want to pay royalties on a tiny indie video game that I’m barely making any money on. My games aren’t ever going to gross a million dollars. The licensing model at Unity is vague regarding whether tech workers need to pay for Unity Plus if it’s a side thing for them also (I recall there being a 100k cap).
The traditional architecture seems much more practical and better suited to the challenging environment. Winters there can be extreme.
The fastest development process you’ve never heard of
Once rotate is dead on and stable, translate and approach can be helped by the graphics.
All of the points are taken from research and surveys.

https://smallbiztrends.com/2020/02/remote-workers-are-lonely...

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2014/h...
I think a lot of this comes back to laziness and/or lack of critical thought toward measuring efficiency of completing work. It’s perfectly normal to want to determine who is most efficient and who is not. Those who are working harder than others should be rewarded and the inverse for those that need to improve. I think the big question is how do you measure output? The wrong way is measuring how often your mouse is moving or tracking how much time you spend on Facebook. Ultimately management should have some way of measuring job efficiency, in a way that is difficult to influence in any other way. Surveillance software is going to give you terrible metrics probably unrelated to output (amongst tons of other bad side effects)
It's different because you have representation.

Landlords are subject to the laws of the land, so you actually have your government representative making laws about what your landlord has to do and how much they can charge you for it.

You're also your own representative with your landlord. If you have a problem with your situation, you can talk to your landlord and try to work it out. That's the thing that representatives are supposed to do with the government. It doesn't guarantee results, but you have representation.

It's also different from taxation without representation because it's much easier to opt out of a bad landlord than it is to opt out of a bad government.
I think it's time to start naming and shaming these companies. This doesn't increase productivity. It's disgusting. You don't own people's lives for 8 hours a day; you pay them to help you achieve goals for the company.

It baffles me how the US has trouble not understanding that paying for someone's time does not make them your slave.
Pretty sure that’s mostly a US problem, I haven’t heard of any other first world country where this regularly happens. You should probably work on fixing the problem instead of requiring everyone to accommodate you.
Most users don't understand the difference between "Sign in with Google" and "Give my Gmail password to this dodgy website".
What is your thread model? What’s the worst thing a spammer can do if they sign up? For most websites, what spammers can do is very limited so why are you expecting spammers to sign up in the first place?

If you really think a captcha is necessary, limit it. For example, require that a captcha is required for two account registrants with a 24h period from the same ip. Don’t require captchas for logins unless a reasonable limit of attempts has been exceeded (5 wrong passwords within 24h by the same ip for example).

If your site is small, a captcha is often overkill. A hidden input can trick pretty much any automated spam bot (if input empty, real user, otherwise bot). Just make sure you do enough research so accessibility readers also work with that field properly.

If a spammer targets you, you can always active a captcha manually, although by the time you realize it, it might be too late.

Keep in mind that a captcha only adds friction to the spammer (and users). Bypassing reCAPTCHA is possible for any motivated spammer for only a few cents/captcha. There are services that have humans in developing countries solve them for you. Coupled with a headless chromium, you can easily build a reputation so that google will let you through. For testing credit cards, this setup is definitely used and most likely worth it. So a captcha will not always save you from bots.

Also keep in mind that hacker news does not have a captcha and the amount of spammers is minimal.
Clever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
There was a time when that sort of made sense. When companies didn't lay people off during hard times, carried pensions that were risky for the company, etc. It seems like some didn't understand that loyalty goes both ways...pull one side and the other goes with it.
Inside one of the cameras:

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Good job fellas.
I can`t find a link to the story (thought it was tech crunch), but I came across an an article a few weeks back speculating on all of the commercial real estate on the west coast and the possibility of residential conversions of defunct commercial space to dramatically increase housing supply in larger cities practically overnight.

I scoured the net and did not find much additional information and even tried to call a Realtor I know to see if the red-flags in commercial RE are the ripple to follow post-covid and if the downward pressure on residential home prices by residential conversions is on the horizon.

The jury is still out (not enough data), but that may end up being a bright spot of the new normal(word soup) if millions of new units become available over the next 12-24 months.
I know, I am a landlord.

Depreciation, as it is normally calculated, is somewhat nonsense on properties, especially over the past decade as they have increased by leaps and bounds in value.
Not productive now. Just like every other intensively farmed grain, you start with something that will actually grow, then modify genome until economically efficient. This seems like solid research, because finding crops with the genomes that allow them to grow in the outback is probably useful elsewhere.

And I fail to see how some hypothetical bulked up kangaroo farm is going to be any solution. 'Selective breeding' kangaroos can't change "there's not many calories out here, and not much water" into a nice juicy steak that western palates will make economical. See: Masai cattle breeds.
Well put. Far too many people have fallen prey to learned helplessness in the US.

We have to change the government ourselves, no one else can or will.
It sucks that we are going to effectively bury the "old Web" (well, Google will by ranking websites frontend over HTTPS over HTTP-only websites), but it is also really nice that people can't see what I'm doing over the wire and that I get big fat red warnings when the certificate I think I'm using isn't what I think it is.
I'm not sure whether your comment was about a time delay before release of the engine, or whether you're implying that computer hardware won't be fast enough anytime soon.

In the video they said it was running on a PlayStation 5. There was a section in the demo where they had interactive gamepad controls so it appears it might have actually been running real-time on a PS5?

I never thought I would be saying this but storage might actually end up being a bigger issue than CPU/GPU performance. The new MS Flight Simulator has to stream the world over the internet because the entire map is 10 petabytes. In the UE5 video they said the demo scene was 13 or 16 billion triangles... I imagine that will take up a huge amount of disk space.

Modern AAA games are already 50-150 gigabytes each, and this is only going to grow as models and scenes become increasingly detailed.

Edit: finding holes in their demo - this may be a video compression artifact, but the big open scene at the end appeared to be of much lower quality. This is something current AMD GPUs can do where if you move around it dynamically lowers the resolution to prevent FPS from decreasing. Perhaps they also dynamically lower resolution in the big open areas? IDK how much of a benefit that would make, but you can never trust these marketing videos...
I think you are reading the document too broadly.
In the past, I have always looked at Demos from Games and thought this is very good and getting close to movie quality. But that "close to" remained "close to" for quite some time. Even though It is improving every year but you can still tell it is gaming graphics. Even if some of the shots are not real time and pre rendered, they are still gaming like.

That Unreal 5 Demo was the first time ever I thought this is Hollywood Movie quality GFX ..... ( Apart from the Character ). IT IS STUNNING! And this is done Real time on PS5!

Edit: I am sorry for the tone and block capitals.... I am seriously geeking out.
Well, it's worth noting Unity doesn't have royalties - you just pay per seat on a monthly cost, and it's free indefinitely* if you make/raise less than $100k a year.

* (this also means no official support and a few missing features, not sure if UE4 offers everything for free)
Racket and Common Lisp probably both fit the bill for what you're saying. Racket is more "batteries included", while Common Lisp has a wider variety of third-party libraries. Both have mature JSON implementations.

That said, I think you're underestimating the value of learning Lisp with no intention of using it to solve real-world problems. There are some big benefits:

1. It shows you a different way to structure programs, which I think is simpler and more powerful than OO.

2. It's a lingua franca of academia, which allows you to read a lot of papers you wouldn't otherwise be able to read.

3. For better or for worse, Lisp is a secret handshake that will get you into a lot of clubs. I've gotten more than one full stack Python/Django/JS job offer after interviews where all we talked about was the Lisp implementation on my GitHub. And while you definitely don't need Lisp experience to write full stack Python/Django/JS, there are jobs which require FP experience for good reason, even if you aren't writing in a very FP-focused language, especially if you're solving hard problems.
Just because something is unjustly profitable doesn't mean you want to spend your life doing it. Let me complain about telemarketers, shady supplement makers or aggressive Internet advertises who make life worse for everyone else while collecting huge profits without requiring me to become one of them.
That looks so good! I hope they add few VR related features.
I tried running the default VR scene with Unreal 4 and couldn't get it to work.

Unreal looks better than Unity but I found it difficult to get started.
Kids are a spectrum. The lockdown is so different depending on how old your kids are:

Infant = stressed, but manageable

Toddler = worst case scenario

Young child = second worst case scenario

Teen = enjoyable
It’s pretty cool. You can change where they point and zoom in/out. Usually can’t do that with public cameras
Layer 3: frozen interest and payments on municipal bonds.
I remember the first UE4 thing I saw was Fortnite, which didn't seem that impressive...that might have just been the first UE4 game though, and not the first UE4 footage, I can't remember.

(Just a reminder, this was back when Fortnite was not a Battle Royale game, and nobody in the world knew about the it. That game was in development / early access for ages before it became the biggest thing in the world.)
And if our users had ever mentioned this happening once, ever, in decades, it might be important.

I've never seen it happen when I used it from home, I've never heard of it happening. It's a nobody cares situation.

Now, I have had to defend university servers from quite a lot of things, in a large variety of situations. But this? This has never shown up as an issue.
I think that line is different for each person and very task dependent.

Personally I have no issues multitasking when I'm doing coordinator , oversight, or review type work. I can handle many requests coming in, provide answers to different people on different projects, etc...

When having to do development work I find it almost impossible to multitask. It takes time to review and get in the right headspace to start. Any interruptions break my flow and it takes time to get back in rhythm. Something that should take a few hours of dedicated time can take days if there's constant interruptions.

While multitasking is something we should all be able to handle a good manager should know their team and work styles to allow them to be most productive.
I don't disagree with any of that and, again personally, I hope the poll numbers stay that favorable. Nothing would delight me more than the public behaving in a sensible fashion.

However, I also don't think the economic impact has truly started to bite into enough of the population hard enough yet. It will be interesting to see where those polls sit in a couple of months.
Likewise on both counts. I couldn’t take the flat with me when I moved from Cambridge to Berlin.
Maybe worth linking to: https://www.insecam.org/
The Department of Labor didn't collect unemployment numbers until the 1940s, but it's my understanding that the recent spike in filings is unique in size since they did.
You want that as a default. You aren't wrong for your own needs. But your needs are different than other people. The large majority of web usage is not interacting with documents. It is interacting with applications.

"I wish things were like the 90s, but with broadband" is a constant refrain among techies but go talk to the rest of the world and it is absolutely not what people want.
>I actually think half remote is the way to go to preserve the advantages of both worlds

It's also a way to preserve the disadvantages of both worlds. For the company, it means having to retain an office in an attractive location and design it with an estimated capacity based on the whims of the people employed there.

For the employees, it means having to both retain housing near an office in an expensive location, which usually comes with not insignificant sacrifices, _and_ set up some sort of office for yourself at home, which may not be possible due to those sacrifices.

It also means employees, when some but not all are remote, are going to be put in the position of having to juggle onsite/remote meetings which are very difficult to get right unless you mandate it to being remote-first, which doesn't gel well with open office spaces.
> it can be done with a native UI.

Yes, but with what price?

We (people outside of Microsoft, Apple and Google) cannot afford UIs nailed down to pixel grids and particular trends.

Years ago it was Skeumorphism, then it was flat UI as Metro, today people started speaking about Skeumorphism again. CSS is just a convenient tool to follow the trends.

And "yes" it "doesn’t mean you need electron" as there are other options :)

Take Sciter and forget about UI problems and "resource hogs" for years to come. HTML/CSS will be with us together with the Internet. And so are UI developers that can take care about it. And C++ developers in case you will need to fix something critical inside the Sciter.
It may have changed, but back when we were looking into Engines to use, Unity had a completely free license until you hit $100,00 in sales or wanted to remove the unity splash screen on app launch which costed a then flat $1500 licensing fee for the "Professional Edition".