skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was indeed malicious compliance at a large scale.

New regulations were drafted that required these popups to be as easy to agree as to disagree, precisely because of this.
An asteroid already on a collision course with Earth only needs a tiny push to miss if we hit it early enough -- think about slightly bumping a sniper before he takes the shot. An asteroid a month out, heading straight for Earth's center, could be redirected to just skim the outer atmosphere with only about 4 m/s of delta-V.

On the other hand, getting a near-miss asteroid to orbit Earth instead means taking it from above escape velocity (11.2 km/s) to an orbital velocity, which means at least a thousand times more delta-V (more like 4 km/s). And that's the easy case -- getting an asteroid from the belt to fall toward Earth is another several km/s on top of that. Besides, ejecting 1M kilograms into a busy Earth orbit in order to slow the asteroid down sounds like a pretty scary idea. Especially since we'd have to do it hundreds of times for one asteroid.

So no, it wouldn't be the same technology at all.
Supply side got everything they wanted but the evidence is in: what trickles down is piss, not money.
Absolutely, but there's an elephant, in this room.

Successful people (especially young ones) make a great deal of noise. Everyone is aware of their success.

Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, kind of die quietly in the corner, unless you have major blowouts, like FTX.

For every SV unicorn, prancing around the Bay, there's a charnel pit, filled with the corpses of ten thousand goats and donkeys, with horns tied to their foreheads.
That makes my point. The 3wheel bike doesn’t work in that case.
The CDC and WHO track any outbreak worldwide where a group of people mysteriously get sick in a very short period of time. CDC website is full of epidemics where a village in Nairobi or rural Vietnam get some hantavirus via a hampster or whatever but usually fizzles out because they all handled the hampster but it wasn't very efficient at human-to-human transfer. Sometime in 2021 there was a canine coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia/Malaysia area with humans and that was rapidly sequenced as well. Lots of epidemiologists working in the background constantly. We caught and sequenced covid early too, both Russia and MRNA had functional vaccines ready (but untested) within weeks of sequencing. CDC website is encyclopedic about past outbreaks and information about how and why they respond.

After food and housing security, disease prevention is a top item for governments to tackle as it's critical to the economic output and business interests so it's been well funded for over a decade. Even smaller less developed countries like Colombia are building new vaccine factories now to keep up with demand.
And they were right, the 2001 recession was so soft some economists don't even consider it to actually be a recession.

Outside of the tech bubble it was pretty much business as usual.
That sounds like an assumption that's not actually been tested recently. Downloading a 2MB bundle or 100 separate files is an equally poor experience, but the separate files at least let you download only the parts that changed over time, instead of having to download a completely new 2MB bundle every time someone changes a single letter in one of 100+ files and a new bundle with a new integrity digest gets rolled out.

I'd rather have an equally slow experience on first load, and then much better performance forever, compared to having something that constantly invalidates the entire cache.
So ISPs should be nationalized?
This is somewhat related to a ~3% Digital Services Tax that some European countries imposed on large-scale businesses. It's part of an ongoing attempt to get companies to pay more taxes in countries they receive income from. https://taxfoundation.org/digital-tax-europe-2020/

Telcos are lobbying for some of this money to go to them because it's "unfair" that they have to transit so much traffic from big tech companies on behalf of their customers (???): https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-consult-big-tech-contr...
I'm a little disappointed that the title didn't take the opportunity to use the term "gigagram".
I thought this will be an article about adding import maps to deno, which would be great.

I hope builders start adding it (at least to dev instances) to decrease the magic.

I was trying to use import maps, but it's not trivial go create actually.

There are always problems with Node lagging behind browsers though that makes developing hard (no WebSocket support by default for example, crypto module is also not included)
e-ink roofs :)

press a button to turn the walls from black to white :)
> Latin subsetted fonts are generally 10-30Kb, it's really not that much.

Agreed. Make your own custom font files with only the characters you use, or are likely to use.

> A few milliseconds of a different font appearing is truly not much of an evil, but can be addressed by exactly what the author links in their footnote.

Browsers will wait for about 3 seconds for custom fonts to load before showing a fallback font.

> both of two font files are >140kb, they don't have gzip on

woff2 format fonts are already compressed, so gzip won't do much.
In my own personal opinion, spending time arguing over who is right is a pretty damned poor form of social interaction.
E-learning provider Udemy cuts 10% of its workforce
Horrible idea. Really what the regulation states is that iMessage must be interoperable with other chat apps.

In order words, if it wants to improve its service, it will need to get buy in from a committee of its competitors.

This is a solution in search of a problem. Consumers today can choose from iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Google Chat. There's competition, and there's so many great options for each person. This regulation can only make things worse.
Hey OP, I did something similar ~3 months ago you may find useful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773972

Feel free to use the historical data, I haven’t had time to update for Jan and Feb 2023!
Man, don't give them ideas. Have you seen systemd, pulseaudio and wayland ?
> Need styles? Just make a PDF and throw that online.

Just use some old chars (maybe them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing) and some spaces and boom, a nice style in a simple txt file!
Hacked Resume Gives Inside Look at Wagner Group Founder Yevgeny Prigozhin
And in a world trying to minimize fossil fuel use, this is bad because...?
I think the main point is that, balance is also a very important design decision. A bit of CSS can go a long way; a lot of CSS can become a nuisance. There is definitely some 80/20 sweet spot where you get most of the design you need from a little CSS; finding that sweet spot is the challenge.

Javascript transitions/animations, on the other hand... yeah. I won't got there.
It still happens if there's enough political capital at play. Florida just punished one of their state's biggest tax benefactors over a social policy.

Whether the union question drives enough voters to care or a politician willing to stand up for the issue will be the central question.
> I wouldn't say it's poor performing

Let me reiterate that I meant that it was previously low performing. I've developed in .Net since 2009 but only last few years have brought significant improvements in performance.
How do they calculate this rate? I simply left the country after layoff, and most likely not counted in the numbers.
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It also happens in the japanese calendar, since the year changes when a new emperor ascends the throne and that might not happen on a first of a month
No, but it nicely illustrates the contrast between serious dangers we all end up facing and the relatively minor (and likely useful/educational) dangers posed by play structures.
I did some application tests recently. I don't think I can even get an interview right now. Maybe if I tried python/node/javascript/ruby I could, but typed languages are tight competition for not many offerings.

Update: Actually just got an interview so it's not so so bad.
Plus, you have to fight a lot with canvas and resource usage, compared to spitting markup with events around in the DOM
I find it very hard to believe "it's the phones", when 1 in every 8 teen girls reports being a victim of rape.[1]

> Of note: 18% of teen girls said they had experienced some form of sexual violence in the past year, compared to only 5% of teen boys.

> The rate of teen girls who have experienced sexual violence has increased by 20% since 2017, when the CDC first started tracking the measure, per ABC News. "The percentage of male students who experienced sexual violence by anyone did not change," the report stated. Nearly 15% of teen girls said they had ever been forced to have sex, a 27% jump from 2019 and the first increase since the CDC began tracking the metric, per the Washington Post.

4% of teen boys said they had ever been forced to have sex, with no increase reported.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/02/13/teen-girls-sadness-violence...
>I don't Know much about Israel or the politics but let me take this opportunity to badmouth Arabs.
Not giving unrestricted access to a smartphone to a child is child abuse? GTFO.
This is the wrong analogy. If I rent a car, and drive it to a restaurant, I might pay road tax...which is fine because I want to use the road.

This is more akin to taxing the restaurant. The customer already paid, and the only reason they paid is because they wanted to go to the restaurant. Without the restaurant (or more broadly, places to go), people would have no use for the roads.
In his examples the content is so niche the reader is probably willing to put up with no design to get the information.
> But modern population genetics has found that 1. There is more similarity than difference between any 2 humans on earth

It's not even that modern. A human shares over 98% of the DNA of a pig, and about 50% of the DNA of a tree. Anything much closer to us than a tree has "more similarity than difference" to humans on a genetic level.

https://thednatests.com/how-much-dna-do-humans-share-with-ot...
I don’t think we need to identify Google’s motives as malicious. Google has been trying to get people to use its own messaging apps, but Google missed the boat, bungled the user experience, and kept confusing people with new apps.

Google would probably love it if Android shipped with a Google-branded, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that people liked to use.

I think that there is a combination of internal Google problems and problems in Google’s relationships with Android vendors that makes this difficult. And then, any such app would be probably be in, what, 6th place at this point? Meanwhile, Meta has apps #1 and #2.
To provide a bit of context for some of the younger readers, certain advocates of OO in the early 90's argued that it would be an end of ALL procedural code. At the time, I listened to a talk by a computing consultant who asserted that, by the year 2000, all programming would be objects with no methods. Methods were just a crutch for programmers who didn't understand proper OO methodology.

The same went for message passing, by the way. He believed that later versions of SmallTalk would eliminate message passing, as passing a message was just a procedure with extra steps.

The programmer of the 21st century would merely define a class that inherits from other classes containing the desired behaviour. For example, at the base level, a language might have a "PrintH" class that prints the letter H where instantiated (with similar classes for other classes). You might then simply write your program

class Main : inherits PrintH, PrintELower, PrintLLower, PrintLLower, PrintOLower, PrintComma, PrintSpace, PrintW, PrintOLower, PrintRLower, PrintLLower, PrintDLower

Now, the above code is obviously tedious, but most programming would be done via higher level libraries. The important part was that a class was purely defined by what it inherits - the language would have no operation beyond inheritance. This was the only way to ensure that all code would be reusable.
I've been arguing that HTML would've been a much better information-carrier if "basic browser styling" did this. I'm quite certain that a large part of the web would need no CSS or just a few lines of it, if the basic (browser applied styles) were good. As in: designed by (information) designers. They could even differ per browser, as long as all of them were good (or really good).

But alas, base styles are a mess (yet still there!). They do have some hierarchy but accessibility and readability are bad. That's aside from aesthetics: just stuff like alignment, spacing, fonts, flow: very poor.

I am aware that more base styles would make that cursed "reset.css" even larger, but I guess if a large part wouldn't even need that, it would be fine. It would be a situation where everyone can choose "good styles" or "spend lots of effort to get even better, custom, styling", rather than everyone "spend lots of effort to get an even decent styling".
I self-host a minimal CMS that checks the post folder for an HTML file. I prefer the flexibility of laying each page out for the content it contains.

The more I learn, the more features look like training wheels and training wheels like restraints.
What people call Java OO was made mainstream via C++ UI frameworks, that is what consultants, thought-leaders, and shamans were selling before a Oak tree turned into Java.

The famous GoF is all about Smalltalk and C++.
False positives / false negatives are important to note. It is likely that they're saying that out of 100,000 scanned files, 10,000 to 20,000 will not include child sexual abuse.
Regulation is also used as a euphemism for unelected bureaucrats creating policy with the force of law without real democratic input. Unless you consider the regulator retiring from government to take a seat on the board of a company he or she used to regulate or give $100k paid speeches to same a form of democracy I suppose.

I don't know if that's what it means in the EU, but operationally it's observably what it means in the USA. I will say from a distance it looks like the EU's unelected bureaucrats have even more power than the American ones do.
There's definitely a lot of websites out there that are just super dynamic and flashy and complicated in ways they don't need to be, and I mean that to the owner's detriment, not necessarily the reader's. How many hacked Wordpress sites didn't even need to be Wordpress in the first place? If you don't have comments on your site, you probably don't really need Wordpress, and even if you do a Disqus-like solution on a static site is probably still more secure. Which, again, I mean in terms of bothering the owner, not just the users.

I think articles that are just all about how you're bothering your readers can be a bit tedious, but there are ways even the owners are hurt by the belief they need every whizbang thing, because they all have maintenance costs and general quirkiness costs associated with them too.
> Hidden. Invisible in the program's source text

where else should it be?
Prepare for permanent stimulus checks and permanent large annual inflation?
I was wondering the same. Yeah it seems like date formats are inconsistent. Maybe they need some other stuff than HTML.
Thanks and that’s awesome! basically learned to stick weld for this project and it was one of the reasons to take it on.
Have found welding cage/mesh-like pieces to be difficult since theyre so thin but not the best usage of stick rod in the first place
The object model hasn't changed -- ES5 classes are syntactic sugar on top of standard prototype-based JS classes :-)
Great idea. My prompts weren't very creative but I love the ad at the end of each answer.
Reminds me of PKD's "Ubik".

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You may have a different experience than me. At my work place, if you mention experiences with "old" technology you are looked down upon and spoken to in a condescending attitude. I'm talking about common sense things like gzip compression and etags for huge downloads. This "magic" is relevant even though they haven't heard about it before as someone fresh out of college.

That spreads to other areas as well and you are not included in technical discussions that are not frontend related. I guess the rationale is that someone who is not up to date in React, are probably not up to date in databases or architecture either.
So you get junior developers not really listening to advice from seniors because they are not in the right group...
iron oxidizing bacteria often produce that sheen when disturbed

one way to tell is if the sheen, when itself disturbed, stays broken into pieces (bacteria) or rejoins together (oily)
Such articles would be more helpful with more details. What career did she have that did not allow her to save for retirement? Was she always single? What social security benefits does she have access to?

One thing I hear about a lot is people attempting to live off social security payments, which is usually not enough. I wish that there was flexibility to contribute more than 6.5% (or whatever the personal contribution is) to social security as well as IRAs, which are capped at $6500 or $7500.
Sure, but that's any endeavor. You simply cannot get away from the power law. The truth is though that it's much easier to get to, say, $5k or $10k and support yourself than it is to have a Silicon Valley level success, so that's what I advocate people try for. If the business is successful enough, one can always try raising money afterwards, like Carrd did, or sell for X multiple and get a good chunk of change, if not set for life.

Or if that's too much work, work at a FAANG, stack cash in VTI and retire in 20 years.
We will get better at using ML systems. I find myself regenerating chatGPT's responses just to see if it generates similar responses. I ask it questions phrased differently to see if it is consistent. Discussing what code needs to do before asking it to implement it. And I get tremendous use out of it.

Electricity must've been scary when it was invented (harnessed?).
My understanding of GDPR, et. al. is that you don't need consent to use cookies. You need consent to use tracking cookies, third party cookies, and any cookie that isn't essential to the use of the app.

So for me, that reads as anytime I am asked about consent, it is an admission that the site is using my data/adding cookies in a way that is unnecessary and invasive. Automatically decline!
I can't wait to forever jump from app to app because as soon as one company exceeds 7.5 billion euros, it'll get struck by this new set of laws that makes its entire business model impossible. Of course, that's assuming that the EU doesn't expand this when they notice that happening...
I never thought of it as arguing over who is right, honestly, because nobody cares who is right. It's more like a puzzle-solving exercise used as grist for the conversational mill.
Nobody is going to ship their commercial apps outside the app store, because else nobody would be able to find their app.
I asked where I can get a gender reassignment operation and it told me they were illegal and immoral and to be proud of who I am.
Retirement accounts aren't in high-yield savings accounts. Using S&P 500, $1 in 2008 would be $2.61 at the end of 2023. Average APR is 8.45%, while bank savings is 3.5% right now.

Just a few hundred a month could have made you a millionare today through dollar-cost averaging. Deciding not to invest because you think our economy isn't as great as before is a terrible reason not to invest. If you are trying to "time the market" with your retirement account and believing that no time in the past 12 years is a good time, rather than dollar-cost averaging and investing all throughout, you're really screwing yourself over
No one wants you to be able to install any CarOS. What you can have on a car info system is strictly regulated for safety reasons. For instance you can’t have video showing where the driver can see it while driving. On my old car with Ford Sync, you couldn’t even pair a phone with your radio while the car was running.

A “product” is a combination of software and hardware.

My opinion is that both Windows is worse than Macs and Android is worse than iPhones because they aren’t an integrated product.

It’s the same with game consoles.
s/language/language as defined by the specification that also defines the concept of undefined behavior/
Oxc: The fast JavaScript compiler and linter
Wow, thanks for those links! No joke; the CSS on the better site is literally going to become my default CSS from now on.
Medicare, not Medicaid, although she may be eligible to use Medicaid to supplement.[1]

[1]: https://www.medicare.gov/basics/costs/help/medicaid
One of the problems is that many people have a lot of debt when they go to retirement age as well as a lack of savings. For decades, people spend more than they earn and it's a habit.

UBI in this environment means the gov keeps feeding the consuming beast.

Financial issues are one of the top causes for divorce, having trouble sleeping, and more. UBI doesn't solve for the any of this when people spend more than they earn.

I'm only pointing out the deeper culture problem around money that UBI doesn't solve.
Interesting data. Looks like postings are still up nearly 100% since the bottom of the covid curve.

I'd be interested in seeing this compared to other non-tech job postings. I'd expect the trends wouldn't match entirely but that software development jobs are still in higher demand.
All it takes is one executive to notice him in an ad or for one person to spend more time at a Salesforce booth at a conference to potentially turn into a large sale.
We simply can't have encryption in a world of online child predators. Think of the children.