skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely not just you - I agree completely that "modern" shows have gone too far into the gratuitous violence and sex in their content. It's not because of the story either, it's just "let's make this as explicit as we can".

Part of this is due to lack of standards of where the content is appearing (network TV used to have more red lines one couldn't cross, cable and others don't), but also because of the increased volume of content, shock imagery is certainly effective in pulling people in.

Another commenter said it's normal because they were desensitised due to video games and so on, but I don't think that's the case. There's a huge difference between the cartoon violence of something like GTA5 or even obviously synthetic shooters, and the graphic gory detail that show runners seem to want to include now.

That being said, one of the most recent Mortal Kombat ones though really went out of their way to make it graphic - I enjoyed the originals back in the 90s, but this was too much for me so I switched it off.

We very heavily censor media in our household. Screen time is extremely limited, and even then only a filtered set of content. It's necessary as the natural content guardrails that were present when I was a kid are completely gone now.

On a related note: we've been watching some Hercule Poirot mysteries recently - all movies, some were made for TV in the 80s, and even though they are murder mysteries, they handle it really well with no graphic gore or anything. If you're looking for something for this weekend!
It should be possible to generate a list of package versions uploaded before September 2020, sorted by number of weekly downloads, to empower users of those packages to upgrade to a newer version (if there is one) or file an issue against that package asking for a release of a new patch version (if there isn't).

Unfortunately, the number of weekly downloads wouldn't give much indication of how many people were affected, since some of the downloads will be by bots or eager CI systems, and some organisations cache packages locally after the first download.
Tesla made a high performance electric car. Its nothing like "conscientious and intentional comsumption". They didn't make having a wussy electric car cool, they made a powerful electric car. The parallel I could maybe see to efficient living is making it zero cost, or somehow more rewarding, instead of asking people to cut back. This comes from better technology, whether its cheap efficient lights or lab grown meat that actually tastes and nourishes like meat or carbon capture or whatever.
This organization doesn't pass the sniff test. This is a passage from their mission statement on their own front page, complaining about the "great awakening":

> In the last decade, white liberals in America have shifted far to the left on issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Ideas once seen as radical, like defunding the police and gender being on a spectrum, are embraced by more people than ever before.
The Solana Scene
Title should be updated to include "[September]", my first thought was "Already?!" :)

Link to CSOs resignation post the article is referencing https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-ch...
That isn't the problem.

The problem is that philosophers believe that they know things from first principles which, in fact, have been falsified by science. Therefore the thing that they are saying is wrong.

See https://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/this-philosopher-helpe... for a famous such clash. Please be assured that legions of lesser philosophers have fallen into the same trap.
Happiness is all about expectation management. Living in a constant state of disappointment and letdowns is miserable.

There is no objective criteria for whats too high. It's something you have to feel out on a case by case basis for everything in your life. What are your expectations for your spouse? Your career goals? Your children?
Interesting, as I went into webdev too some two years ago for a year and a half, it was a good experience.

What're your pain points in browsers?
Don't forget declining interest rates.
A plot might require a murder but I don't need to be a voyeur.
I’m not saying that people being on government help is better for the economy than people working at minimum wage.

I’m saying that maybe employment rates aren’t as relevant of a measure as they once were, because employment at min wage isn’t as useful to the individual as it was 10, 20 years ago.
i’m sure we’ll have the joe rogan plan…$30/month for a family plan with no adverts, even on podcasts.
I've noticed a recent uptick in suspect 'new companies' debuting on HN. By that I mean I think someone is testing what sorts of company ideas, products, etc. gain traction with the HN audience, but to what end, I'm not sure...

GoodIP's Twitter presence is limited to a MatthewBunchOfNumbers username... https://twitter.com/Matthew99770523/status/11792742969480683...
Sure, no need to give me examples because I've seen plenty on my own.
Still, I don't think we should abandon the idea of basing our decisions on data just yet. Bad metrics are efficiently worsening products and work culture, but the solution is better metrics, not going back to HiPPO.
The problem is that engineers don’t get promotions based on bug fixes or refactors, and they get rewarded for building features, even if they introduce lots of new bugs.

Also, if getting a promotion was just as easy as a pay bump for transferring jobs, maybe engineers would stay longer. These are all ultimately management problems.
Why, how, is it even possible to play music that isn't downloaded when not on WiFi and the option to download over mobile data is deselected?!
Sns217. Spider mites like it dry, so mist your plants and it may be a little wise to repot your plants or fertilize with cal/mag
Journalists and writers on Substack and similar platforms are entrepreneurs. They have to work hard to build a brand and ensure retention through superior coverage. If they are journalists they have maintain integrity with their audience.
It is like the difference between Zoom as a point solution and Microsoft Teams as part of the Microsoft 365 suite bundle.

Lazy and sloppy ITs will subscribe to Microsoft suite offerings. Those who want to step up their game will buy best of breed point solutions.

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This is a good piece on the dark patterns NY Times employs and their signature hypocrisy:

https://www.nirandfar.com/cancel-new-york-times/

HN discussion on NY Times hypocrisy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27338157
It's easy to forget, but housing is affordable for most people in most parts of the US. Here on HN it seems otherwise because we disproportionately live in California and other expensive metropolitan areas along the coasts.

Rising prices of gasoline are the most visible sign of inflation for ordinary US consumers.
Is this a widely accepted definition of introversion or just one you made up?
The Wetware Crisis: The Dead Sea Effect (2008}
I'm the opposite. I hate how some movies (PG-13) show people getting shot without a drop of blood, or people getting unconscious from a swift hit to the head and then waking up a few minutes later as if they just went to sleep. Violence without consequence is worse than gory violence, because it teaches the viewers that it's ok.
If you don’t need to be in a place with jobs, you can surely find a cheap place to stay. For a lot of Americans, it means they can find a free place to stay, like with relatives.
This is the interesting thing about life and art. It can be pure escapism. It can be a warning. It can be a veiled account of what is or was.

Personally, while I don't really think we 'need' hopepunk, I understand the inherent need for it in others. I may have stated this explicitly on this forum before, but I believe we already live in an dystopian future amalgam envisioned in some of the novels I read as a child. In such an environment, it is not a surprise those stories can thrive. Compare it post-WW 2 era, which allowed unprecedented peace across the western world that allowed people to explore darker sides of humanity in media ( grim dark, fascination with serial killers, various future dystopias to name a few interesting currents ).

The solace one may get from hopepunk is a false hope.
Everyone should do this once! I picked MSP430 because it was the simplest instruction set that GCC would compile for, and the process of building the emulator was every bit as pleasant as I'd hoped --- I got the compiler working, wrote a disassembler, and then iteratively built the emulator to get successively more interesting C programs to run on it. Took 2 weekends altogether. One of the best learning experiences of my career.
The Rock will be POTUS in our lifetime
Some clever and funny stuff. Also actually found something useful.

https://plan.cat/~wasabis
Strategy Tax: Outlook Storage, First Attempt
Fun Fact: MIT still runs a finger server at mit.edu (no subdomain!) that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessible, but now you need to make your request from within the MIT network to get a response.

You could also get the schedule for movies shown on campus with `finger @lsc.mit.edu`. That finger server is actually still running but looks like it's not being updated.
SNES hardware beaten by this simple Amiga trip – Sprite Multiplexing
If you're into math/crypto, no better place if you're not also into fintech and you don't want to be babysitter in academia.
It was just text. There was no definitive markup format, just what people conventionally used in other text-based forums (like newsgroups) at the time. So you'd have a variety of potential bullets (*, +, -), things like *foo* or _foo_ for types of emphasis, and whatever plaintext formatting they wanted besides that.
one thing to consider is that the types of people writing code are very different. In the 80s it took geniuses to write a simple videogame within ram constraints. Now that is a feasible final project for an intro CS class.
> The Millennium Tower’s foundation consists of a 10-foot or 3-meter-thick concrete slab supported by 950 concrete friction piles driven into the subsurface to a depth of about 80 feet or 24 meters.

When I see modern townhouses slab foundation instead of proper basement (which Archimed law favors as soil is just a very slow liquid in which building is floating like a ship until of course it's piles are driven into bedrock) I cringe at that cost cutting though it is ok for a 3 story building. I never imagined that it would be done to a skyscraper - no basement and no bedrock reaching piles. The story of Millennium tower reminds those buildings in Siberia on permafrost where builders cheated and did shallower than needed foundation - you can notice those buildings from a distance by twisted pagoda style roofs, etc.
Last time I checked, Gargoyle's QoS system consisted almost entirely of obsolete 1990s-style manual classification and prioritization. The only interesting capability it offered was a feature to try to estimate the actual bandwidth you were getting from your ISP in realtime, to tune the overall bandwidth limits of the QoS system.

Unless it's been overhauled to incorporate the lessons of CoDel, fq_codel, CAKE and modern active queue management in general, the QoS portions of Gargoyle can be ignored as a time-wasting anachronism. You'll be better off with vanilla OpenWRT and its SQM package.
I suggest you look at the employment data breakdown. The DOL goes into a lot of detail about what jobs are created, at what pay, etc.
> whether the system as a whole understands Chinese.

"The system" isn't the kind of thing that understands. If I give n people a letter each and a number indicating the position the letter should occupy on some grid, it does not follow that the group knows the sentence because groups are not knowing subjects. If they arrange the letters on the grid, then each individual person in the group now knows the sentence when they read it.

Only individual knowing agents know and understand. Abusing the definition of "knowing" or "understanding" doesn't help clarify anything. All it does is lead to equivocation.
Would be first to board such cruise ship :-)

And indeed nuclear is a known answer here.

Not sure if it is good argument for covid-like events though
Although this is brilliant, I am worried that most non-technical people will mistake the circle for counting the length of the password.
> Are jobs and employment rates really what we should be using to measure the economic outlook?

That was not the point I was trying to make. I'll try again:

* Self-identified GOPers (supposedly) think it is worse now than when economy was tanking and hemorrhaging 800K jobs per month. What planet are they living on if they honestly think this is true?
Thanks for reading it, and raising some very good questions. I tried to keep the blog post short, as my side of this story is how I helped this business build the MVP, not the business itself.

Here are some answers:

- The market was definitely not USA

- He made some kind of an arrangement with his employer, where he helped them during the transition period after merger (something he really didn't want to do, given he was being fired right after) and they didn't come after him for entering the same market as a much smaller player.

- Initially he handled all the issues you raised (and ones you did not) manually. At scale, you cannot handle courier demand manually, that's why you need software in this business. But he didn't start at scale, he just started. Did things that didn't scale. After we launched, he didn't sit back and watch money pile in. He was there all day, refreshing my non-autorefreshable application and being on the phone with couriers and restaurants and sometimes end customers, making sure it all didn't fall apart.

- The outcome: as I said, this was not a US-based business and the money he made was not the US money (both in terms of currency and scale). He built a business of a local importance in a small market. To me, there's nothing wrong with having a small bootstrapped business. In fact, that's one of my goals in life.

When the pandemic hit, food delivery became really hot and 3 startups of global scale have entered his market. His former employer didn't survive, even though they had nearly 100% of market share at some point. So he had to pivot as well. Instead of running a delivery business, he is now running a SaaS business - offering only the software to restaurants who want to handle online orders themselves (with in-house delivery) to avoid paying 30% marketplace fees. This allowed him to focus his attention elsewhere, while running this SaaS on the side, with nearly 0 involvement and exactly 0 employees.
Appreciate the perspective, I didn't realize that there was much higher up to go :) Makes sense!
While an interesting study, I think proper caution needs to be made with respect to his health before his marriage to Anne Boleyn and his health during and after said marriage. It is very possible that Catherine had fertility issues, but by the time he re-married, he was obese, over 40 etc. That is to say, he was only with married to one woman in his "prime".

Still a fun thing to think about though.
Rock is a great entertainer, cut his teeth in WWE. Why are we comparing? Is that even objectively possible?

Personally, I like the diversity he brings in all aspects.
I think we're learning the limits of screen-based education now. There's something about being in the same room with a person at a chalkboard that is far more effective - at least anecdotally. (I'd be surprised if there wasn't research backing this up). And this seems deeply unfortunate if true, because it means the cost of learning can't go all the way to the ground.
I have a Spotify family account, a wife and two young kids and several Google Home devices. I can’t give my kids legit spotify accounts to play music on the devices, so my account has to be used on multiple devices and my kids can book me off.

Not a hard problem to solve but Spotify has known and not cared for years.
Let The Right One In!

The original movie was so fantastic. I assume the American remake ... wasn't.

Similar story with The Vanishing.

(I'm an American, fwiw)
Supersonic Speed Check
Any time you read "Hi, my name is ____ and this is _____" you know it's a transcript. Nobody (hopefully) writes like that for reading consumption. It's just so awkard when read.

There was another one of these here just the other day about processing cocoa from bean to chocolate. The written text kept saying things that implied a visual reference, but no images to support it. It wasn't until the end of the transcript before the video itself was embedded.
I’m pretty skeptical of Qualcomm being able to effectively challenge Apple on its M series. Not because they’re not a competent company, but because Apple has been developing their chip behind closed doors for more than a decade. And they’re developing for a stack they fully own. Qualcomm can make a competing chip, but they’re still building for someone else’s product. They have to convince Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc, etc to adopt this, and then convince all the adjacent parties to buy too. Apple is in the dictatorial position of just saying “do it this way, or have a nice day.”
Not to forget littering space with needles, some of which are still up there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
The announcement starts with:

> Transparency is key in maintaining the trust of our community

and then proceeds with apparently a bit trying to hide the dangerous bug, behind a wall of text.
There's a pandemic going on in Jesusland. No one is prepared to go out and spend under such conditions. Can't find fault with the reasoning.
Worth noting that computers don't actually compute functions. They are used to simulate computation, but they're not computing per se. Any claim that they do is an anthropomorphic projection onto an object that lacks that capacity.

Kripke's quaddition vs. addition distinction is also a good point in this regard.
> while greatly reducing or possibly eliminating a market for selling such addresses for a time

I would argue that this is harmful. IPv4 addresses becoming expensive is what's finally convincing the bean counters to care about IPv6 adoption. The IPv4 market has effects analogous to a carbon tax on climate change.
Does adding a header-only (C++) http server to projectM’s visualizer [0] count? I added a very basic http server to switch presets from any basic web browser (including a kindle paperwhite) using a static html page. [1]

It’s been great fun hosting parties and projecting visuals across the room onto an opposite wall. Then passing around a very old Android phone to go through the presets.

I highly encourage others to do the same with their favorite applications it’s fairly straightforward and makes it a pleasure to use.

[0] https://github.com/hashFactory/projectm

[1] https://github.com/hashFactory/projectm/blob/compression/src...
It may have something to do with age. I remember brushing off tv, computer violence like it was nothing ( partly because I did not think it was real ).

These days, I don't watch horror movies, I talk through my problems with NPCs rather than use violence.. overall I agree with you that basically I stay away unnecessary violence as much as possible, because it disturbs me. Squid game falls into that category.

Separately, I will also add that I did not buy the premise and didn't like the opening at all. I am clearly not the target demographic though based on its popularity.
The issue i take with this is that we’re using measures to define economic well being where we use terms like “most” and then leave behind the other 49% of people, and tell em, “hey, the economy is cookin!”

“In the nation as a whole, 70.3 percent of lowest-income households face severe housing cost burdens. ” [1] (2016)

[1]https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/ha...
Those prices depend not only on buyers’ confidence in the building’s safety but also their willingness to be associated with a building that is regularly in the news.

He's leaving out a big factor that any condo owner understands: maintenance fees. I wouldn't take a unit in that building if it were free, because for the lifetime of the building there will be ongoing excess maintenance associated with every system because of the settling. Imagine the extra wear on the high speed elevators running out of true vertical. Imagine the differential stresses placed on pipes and boilers and tanks that expect to sit vertical. Imagine the effect of continually reseating the building's connections to local services like sewer and electricity. And imagine the effect of the HOA spending money on grand fixes while routine maintenance gets deferred.

In the near term, the effect of the tilt is negligible, but buildings like these continually suffer from imperfect, discontinuous maintenace under the best conditions; the Millenium Tower will forever be marked by every realtor and owner as maintenance-expensive (meaning vastly higher monthly fees) compared to all the other buildings around.
Luckily this issue is not politicized.

Otherwise, there would be army of people asking if you were an expert or if you has source backing up your claim.

Just like when a small group of people didn't believe Fauci when he said masks didn't work.
Only on mobile though - why is this not on desktop?? At least for windows, i haven't used Mac recently
Why not just switch to a better podcatcher? There's a lot of good ones to choose from, like Pocketcasts and Overcast.
Although 16 or 20 characters is too less, I can't think of an efficient and user-friendly way to allow arbitrary lengths. What if a user inputs a password with 604462909807314587353087 characters?

If your client is doing the hashing, it will get stuck or seem to take too much time to submit. If your backend is doing the hashing then you would need to send too much data over the internet, again killing the user experience.

I think 256 or 512 characters should be a sensible limit.

PS: 604462909807314587353087 is a Mersenne prime ;)
>flying cars
At least you can buy them now.
Yea, it's a lot of fun. I did this with a 6502 over Christmas vacation years ago. Mind, it was a 6502 emulator, not a specific system. My goal was to get Fig Forth up and running on it. I wrote it in Java, and had my own console, as well as CPU level breakpoints and such for testing. It supported the simple "serial" console and simple block disk I/O.

So, not only did I write the emulator, I wrote an assembler to assemble the stock Fig source code.

It's hard to express how interesting it was testing unknown source code, with a buggy assembler, on a buggy CPU. For extra loads of laughs, my "benchmark" system that I happened to be testing opcodes and such against (for flags and what not) was a buggy web emulator. You just never knew what was going to go wrong where. Amazingly, I sussed it all out.

The good news is that the Fig source pretty much worked out of the box. Outside of my minor changes to adapt to my "I/O", it worked really well.
Braktooth Proof of Concept Code Release: Causing Havoc on Bluetooth Link Manager
The counterpoint to the argument of "excessive politicization" is "the personal is political". There will forever be a tug of war between left and right as to what constitutes acceptable public policy discourse.
Emacs is more user friendly than Office.
Also, if an attacker exploited this bug to upload a patched version N+1 after a legitimate version N was published, there's a good chance that the legitimate developer would eventually also try to release version N+1, and NPM would report the clash to them.

An attacker would have to get very lucky, exploiting this bug just up until the point when the logs started (which they had no way to predict), and to target only packages which have either never been updated since, or which were followed by a minor/major package update (not a patch).