skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd expect such websites to communicate it, though, and do the minimum of work to prevent me from entering with ad blocker on. I'm fine with paywalls, and even "disable your ad blocker" walls - they're up-front, and in agreement with spirit of the HTTP protocol.

Much like cinemas. If I try to bring in food I didn't bought at the cinema store, I will be stopped at ticket check and refused entry. Also, the cinema doesn't require me to buy food as a condition for watching the movie. If they did, I'd consider it the price of entry.

What current ad-loaded websites are doing is the equivalent of letting you in to watch a movie, and then having someone come to you as you're watching, and poke you and yell at you because you didn't buy anything at the store.

> They can call the cops and have you arrested for accessing the theatre in contravention of the rule.

I've never heard of a cinema calling cops on people who snuck in food into the theatre. Is that US-specific?
I get where you are coming from. It is not a bad indicator. I as job seeker would have probably just skipped the job all together. Having been through this system recently, one more form to fill out that is hand crafted, would have made me nope out. You explain why but it does give off an interesting look you may want to rethink. Now you may be fine with that. But my level of dealing with HR form systems has dropped to a dramatic level of low, please end me, levels. A hand crafted one would make me think 'that is odd'. The whole fill out this form system almost every company has now, plus other tests has worn me out. It does not even matter how 'easy' the form is. It is just one more hoop to jump through.

I also understand where you are coming from. You have 1 position and 100 resumes. At least 99 of those have to go. Filtering for not reading the instructions is not a bad one. Just be careful you can end up with a set of people who do not know how to do things that are not in the instructions, and will block out until someone corrects the issue.
Your observations of your own peer cohort are not informative. People get older, their friends get older, they all have babies at the same time. It appears to you like a baby boom but demographically it isn't data.

We already have enough vital statistics data to know that 2020 has clobbered the birth rate in the US.
I think there’s a lot of jobs that will never come back. While visiting HQ in Washington, I noticed most of the little cafes and convenience stores around the area were closed or only open for lunch. We’re at 60% working from home, and management is considering how to push that to 90%. If companies like mine, a large SAS monolith, move their people out of the offices and buildings, who will shop and dine at those small places? I worry they may not recover.
There’s a very good chance that the MacBook is outdated or otherwise broken by the time the SSD fails. I’ve been using SSDs for about 10 years, and I’m not the heaviest user, but so far I’ve never had an SSD fail from wear. Thumb drives, sure, but not SSDs yet.
IBM Watson Trying Grammy Awards Debates
In a letter to government leaders Thursday, a bipartisan group of senators called for a quadrupling of base high-speed broadband delivery speeds making 100Mbps down and 100Mbps up the new base for high-speed broadband.

Why are Senators writing letters to the Executive branch? The Executive branch enforces the laws that the Legislative branch writes. If Senators want a different definition they should do their damn jobs for once and write some laws.
To clarify, if you are a 3+ kid poor person, you will come from a family that is likely very poor. If you are a 3+ kid rich person, your parents are probably 95th percentile.

If you aren't from the neighbourhood for the first group, you're not trusted, and if you don't just know certain things, you aren't trusted by the second, because each group quietly assumes you're really part of the other. It's what we used to call class, and that's what I meant by being alien to each other.

There are exceptions. The most interesting ones are religious communities. Few people who belong to a church would accept being called poor no matter what their income was, and religious people with middle class jobs have lots of kids as well.

The other anomaly is the new institutional who have the iron stability of things like academic tenure, teachers unions, municipal and state employees, who only receive that stability at an age just as their fertility starts to wane, and usually after sacrificing it to get there.

It would be hard to argue that public policy has been anything but anti-natal for the last 50 years.
What a delight! I implemented an HTTP server from scratch (well, from RFC) in Objective-C some years ago. Many of these hit pretty close to home. Lots of plot twists in those RFCs.
> If you would like to continue using, maintaining, and improving Brackets, you may fork the project on GitHub.

https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/
Hello All
I'm available for Meet
https://rebrand.ly/sexygirls007
Oh freaking finally. I've been making the point for years that OUR is about 20% of total (all 16-64 minus ft+pt 16-14) unemployment.

I understand that the total includes self-employed but it also includes underemployed.

I am convinced that the most important employment numbers are:

People who are insufficiently (less income than needed to sustain until death) employed. I believe that number is much higher than even total unemployed.

People who are critically (less income than needed for regular bills plus typical emergencies) un/under-employed.

Compared to the reality of Americans, OUR is full-on bullcrap.
Okay... I still don't know what it means to "apply MMT". I already told you that monetary policy has been used by governments since the 1930s long before MMT was invented. But, anyway, what is your point? Do you think that QE was a mistake? What do you suggest would have been an appropriate monetary policy during the 2008 financial crisis?
Ask China, I'm sure they have a copy of the plans.
The Man Without a Brain https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70204/man-without-brain

Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-...
They're trying to determine their own ignorance. It's a useful thing to do not not necessarily a useful thing to publish. Personal branding is one reason to publish this.
That’s exactly what happened to us. It’s happened with sippy cups too and strawed cups. To a lesser extent but if they don’t like the shape or handles or whatever it’s effectively useless. It's funny how opinionated kids can be at such a young age!
no. parent is sarcastically referring to a (very old now, circa 1990) saturday-night-live skit where the actor always ends up mentioning that he lives "in a van, down by the river"

I think parent poster means that there are no other places to put the app/launcher.
Firstly, it's quite disingenious to take Germany as the example when they have never had a large army in the past 50 years and have not been a military power. Let's compare what is comparable: Russia and France use about the same percentage of their budget for military purposes: 9% for France, 11% for Russia.

Tanks - Russia

- T72 - 2000 tanks, 7000 in reserve

- T90 - 350 active, 200 reserve

- T14 Armata (i.e., top of the line) - 100 planned, 20+ active.

Tanks - France

- Leclerc (top of the line) - 222 active, 200 upgraded to XLR-Standard

- AMX10/20 - 300

Planes - Russia

- SU57 - 1.

- SU35S (refurbished Su27 from 2003) - 97

- SU34 (from 1990) - 120

- Mig35 - 4.

- Planes from before 1980 - 500

Planes - France

- Rafale B/C/M - 150

- Mirage 2000 - 120

So, even if Russia intends to throw tanks from 1970 at Europe to have them be utterly crushed by aviation, a single country from Europe stands more or less toe to toe with it.
Why Democrats Are Scared
That's a very sensible perspective. Unfortunately, you will probably, as most people do, change your mind about this and decide to have children anyway.
World’s first space hotel by orbital assembly expected to open in 2027
Jack Dorsey is a pedophile.
I'm a pretty happy VSCode user but I do find it pretty heavy and startup is pretty slow, even on my M1 Mac.

I used to love Sublime Text but it looks like it hasn't received much dev input recently, although it is perfectly serviceable. The TypeScript experience is still a way off VSCode's though and it would be nice to get an Apple Silicon build.

Does anyone have any recommendations for modern text editors? I use a bit of Vim from time-to-time but would struggle to make it my main editor.

Tempted to give https://nova.app/ a try.
I get 940Mbps up and down from Centurylink, and it almost always delivers the advertised bandwidth. Sometimes I see it around 800Mbps.
HEY: Email the Web
That's a sort of two way street though. In areas affordable housing exists, there often aren't many opportunities financially speaking, especially in the labor market.

It's one thing to live in a city, work for awhile to bank up capital, and then move somewhere with a low COL area to live comfortably with some supplemental income from the region with knowledge of that nest egg if investments you currently have.

It's an entirely different story to live in such an and accumulate enough capital to purchase a home. Often, jobs are few and far between that are competitive, even after adjusting for COL. Employers in these areas often have less competition for positions and therefor have more leverage. Acquiring debt in these areas when you start your career could make it difficult to climb out of. Its not true with all positions. A lot of healthcare positions can pay better in these areas due to what are essentially government subsidies through medicare/medicaid. You'll occasionally have some industrial organization doing specialized work people with advanced degrees can prosper in but they need to strategically target these areas.
How to Use Chat Marketing for B2B Lead Generation
Not the right forum for this type of shallow dismissal. Please be more substantive with comments or don’t comment at all.
Please do. Had to go up to full gigabit down with xfinity to get 35 up. Next highest was 15 I think? Not that you can figure that out easily - their website doesn't list upload speeds. Or maybe it does - the website is terrible to navigate, slow and I got 404s off their main internet landing page.

Anyhow at the risk of this turning into a multi page rant about comcast I'll cut back to upload speed. I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. What do the cable companies want people to be doing?

If you look at the popularity of twitch/youtube/(things I'm too old and unhip to know about) it is a direct threat to cable/traditional content creation. I'd wager the current state of affairs holds a lot of people back from getting into content creation, especially poorer/larger families who have to share a limited connection.
What made you settle on Godot instead of any other engines? I'm looking into making a mobile game and I'm looking at Defold, Solar2D (previously Corona, heh), and Phaser.js all as potential rivals.

Defold and Solar2D both use Lua instead of a custom scripting language (GDScript) which appeals to me. Defold seems very polished, and includes infrastructure for ads and for Facebook games, which is ripe for monetising, whereas Solar2D is much more barebones.

Phaser.js seems like way more of a hobbyist tool than either of them, but I'm tempted just so I learn js.

Did you consider any of these before choosing Godot? Curious to know if I should go with Godo despite using its own scripting language which isn't useful outside of Godot.
... yes ? https://github.com/weliveindetail/JitFromScratch
Modern game engines aren't like libraries you link with your own code. They are entire systems your code runs inside of. A modern game engine is a lot more like an IDE and an entire operating system combined.

Just like you can't start writing a program for Windows and then gradually remove pieces of Windows, you can't not use the game engine.
It's about time this sees some daylight. I've been explaining this to people for years. I'm really not sure why it's been kept this way for so long and why the media never comments on how it works when reporting these statistics.
Agreed. I lived in a fiber city for five years and absolutely loved having gfiber as my ISP.
I think you underestimate how lazy I am.

If it was something I did often, I would probably make a vscode plugin or shell macro for it though. Or just use mermaid if it turns out to be good.
I'm a really visual person, so I love making diagrams to explain my ideas. Unfortuantely I can't "think" while i'm typing. In fact, I can't really think while I'm in front of a computer. I usually draw everything out on a dry erase white board.

This could solve my second problem, which is to take my drawings and convert them into something presentable and consumerable by other people. But this is not my ideal way to do it. Ideally, I could take a picture of the white board, and it would be auto generated.
"Our service is so great, nobody will want to cancel it, so we don't need to test the cancellation feature."

This is what your comment boils down to and why we need regulations in this area. Difficulty in canceling services affects many industries, not just technology.
Perhaps I don't understand what the hard problem is?

Is it this thing of trying to find the little man inside of your head that is viewing the television screen that displays the images that go in through your eyes?

Could you help me to see what the hard problem is?
To your point, employment is an archaic, broken metric (from the "before times", when stable jobs throughout the economy were a thing). Jobs are poor indicators compared to a metric more robust and blended, such as income, needs being met or not by income, etc.

"Does your current income situation allow you to comfortably meet your basic needs?" "If not, how much is your monthly shortfall?" would be better questions to gauge consumer financial health versus "Do you have a job?" I assume this would not paint a pretty picture of the American labor market.
During the height of severe covid cases in my area a lot of hospitals were not even allowing spouses in during delivery, so yes it was still relatively safe but definitely not the same.
No, not really - those explanations are nothing more than what's in TFA, and they don't help it make any more sense. There's no reason in the world why no-cache should mean 'cache this please but with caveats', when we have all of the English language available to come up with an alternative header.
Municipal ISP here in Colorado, is offering 1GB Up/Down for $50 a month.
I recall trying to get the dotnet-format command to do something and not succeeding. I'll try it again.
> How is America behind on this?

There is no single situation in "America" with respect to broadband. We're a federation of 50 different states that's almost the size of the entire EU. Broadband is mainly a state level issue and it varies by state. Here in Maryland, over 60% of people have access to fiber. I have two different fiber providers to my house, more than an hour outside a major city. Symmetrical gigabit here is under $80.
Interesting move by Square. Could be great timing with the impending return of concerts later this year, if they were able to handle ticketing. Would be great to see some competition for Ticketmaster
The article makes the claim. I simply repeated the claim as a tl;dr. I suppose I should have made that clear.
I'm on a 7-person Zoom call with 15 fps video and 1 fps 4K screen-sharing right now. The quality is excellent. The real time stats are 300-314 kb/s upstream and 1350-1411 kb/s downstream.

Even if zoom is incorrectly using kb to mean bytes (instead of bits), that's ~3 Mbps of upstream required per video call.
To the author: this is amazing work, and I think you should monetize it. I would absolutely buy a print of this.

Please consider hooking this to a Shopify store with a print on-demand plug-in (Gooten comes to mind, but there are a dozen alternatives) and sell them!
The Cold War is still going on.

We are still at risk of nuclear destruction. Not only are the old weapons still around but we are making new ones for some crazy reason. (Check the Doomsday Clock, I'm not the only person who has noticed that atomic war is still threatening this planet.)

You have to take the long view: For approximately a million years we lived in very stable societies (as judged by the artifacts and art left behind.) In fact the people of Sentinel Island and some other places still live this way.

Very recently, since roughly 10k to 15k ago, we started doing agriculture and cities. Since then things have been rough: wars, famines, societies collapsing, etc.

Despite that, in the last 400-500 years, we have developed science and technology, which has increased and accelerated civilization but not stabilized it.

Now of course some people have had it pretty good for, say, the last century or so (I date it from the ready availability of hot and cold running water in the tub. If you can take a hot bath you're ahead of the game, IMO.)

And that's great! And more and more people are getting in on that, which is also great!

But if you want to say, as you did, that "Pretty much every single generation other than your parents (assuming you’re 25-40) had a tougher time and lived in a world with a more uncertain future. Every generation, going back millions of years." that's wrong. It's only going back a few thousands of years, at most, and then only for a small fraction of the people on Earth.

That's before the problem that luxury the few are enjoying is bought at the cost of the life or our whole planet! Is it really so great after all if some people get to live well for a generation or two but then everybody (that survives) has to live in post-apocalyptic hell?

Sentinel Island will be destroyed by the rising ocean in a few decades or so. The folks that have lived there for some 40,000 years will die or be forced to migrate. That's on us, not them.
What about the "world's unambiguous IaaS champion" (https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6446) Oracle Cloud??
That's fine, but who is experiencing the state of that machine?

The state machine isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is that it is aware of itself.
What employment? It takes the same number of people to operate wired infrastructure regardless of who owns it. No cable company or telco company has moved jobs or retained jobs in an area as a bargaining chip.
You can as of C++20 - aggregate initialization has been extended to support T(x, y) syntax.

See https://godbolt.org/z/Tj5baM
and https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initial... (case 5).
Studio Ghibli: Netflix buys rights to iconic animated films
As you know (but others might not) salts aren't (just) for stopping rainbow tables. They also mean that two users picking the same password doesn't result in identical hashes. That's often a more meaningful protection than stopping rainbow tables.
Well, the unemployment rate is inherently a BS, deceptive metric. True Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is a much better one because of who the UR conveniently excludes.

I seriously doubt many policymakers except progressives have "lost faith" in UR because it can be selectively-sculpted to make the economy seem amazing.
Kids might make your life better, but they probably would have been better off had you stuck to your plan of not having them.
There's nothing stopping you using FVWM or XFCE on newer hardware either.
1) If only people would pay as much for a game as they do for a coffee, there wouldn't be these ridiculous incentives to aggressively monetize the 2% who pay for the 98% who don't pay. At least for studios that are content to be successful small business, rather than industry-dominating outliers.

2) I worked at freemium game maker Get Set Games, and everyone involved in making the games was an old-school gamer who struggled with the new economics of the mobile game business. In my experience there's a kind of conversation/rationalization where at least at the more conscientious studios people don't want to make addictive games, but they also want to make some money to keep the studio alive. So you don't talk about addiction, but you talk about engagement. You don't do the most user-hostile things, but you do engage in industry norms that are parodied in TFA.

3) I believe that more generally, a lot of people working in the games industry have some level of addiction to games. You can call this love, or passion, or whatnot, but it's there. Staying up 'till 3 to play something and then coming in to work tired. Working on this passion even though there are other interesting and better-compensating or potentially more socially beneficial alternatives that would stroke all the same interests out there.

3b) I'm old enough that when I was a kid, computer games was not a respectable hobby. There was no "gamer culture". If you spent a lot of time on games, you were considered a bit weird or a loser. Because of this, I think that people of my generation get really defensive when there's any talk of addiction. They spent their childhood and adolescence fighting the stigma of being really into gaming, and are not willing to have a nuanced discussion about engagement and addiction. Because, yeah, games can be a wonderful positive force and form of expression. It's just that most aren't.

4) I was a die-hard gamer from about age 7 until my early thirties. I can honestly say that I spent too much time playing games. Yes, it got me a job in the games industry, and while at times horrible, there were many great things about that experience. But ... as you get older ... you realize that 20+ hours a week is a lot of time and that time compounds. What if I had spent 10 hours a week playing games and 10 hours working on math, or physics, or biology, or getting better at business, or living on a sailboat?

I strongly believe that people should follow their interests, as I always have done -- for better or for worse. However when there is an element of external compulsion or facilitation of internal flaws ...

It's a complicated issue and I don't see it being discussed seriously by those in the game industry.
"I'm fine overthrowing your government to increase my companies profits" seems explicit to me. I guess that isn't their advertised line of business?
M7.1 quake strikes off coast of New Zealand
I think there are really only 2 things for you, either switch into a job that allows for you to grow from technical mentors or get into open source (or a side project) that will allow you to develop deep knowledge of a language/framework/architecture.

A lot of my technical growth comes from side projects I work on (for myself or open source).
I've recently read High Performance HMI [1], highly recommend for anyone implementing user interfaces for safety critical systems, even if your company has external consultants to sign off. In a more general sense, I find it valuable to study these and see what parts I can adopt for general web site design and data dashboards. Dark mode is the thing these days (Grafana) but you'll see why that's not ideal and usually these safety critical HMIs use a medium tone gray background. Totally different approach, from the bottom up. Esthetics is literally the last thing they worry about if at all.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-HMI-Handbook/dp/0977...