skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing human prosperity/reducing human suffering is largely a function of technological advancement, wealth distribution and avoiding wars. All of these require a large population of educated humans to drive forward and since yours will likely be educated, probably net positive.
Some entity has to have those powers. Just because you don't like those in power in your state doesn't mean that regulating businesses is bad. You are taking an extreme position on something unrelated to your grievance.
But the actual article above is not at all like that? In fact it says the opposite (that the US isn't good at something).
Naturally you're 25 years older now. So you're seeing that time from a different perspective. Age-wise I'm guessing you're in yor 40s now looking back again at a teenage self.

Your lament is pretty common to adults of that age, and has been going on for hundreds of years. It has nothing to do with the Web, and everything to do with a time which was less complicated for you, a time when you first interacted with a world beyond home/school. A time unfettered by the responsibilities of adult life.

Yes, your experience will be different to your children. You bemoan that they're not writing blogs, I bemoan that my kids were inside (in my youth we didn't have computers, we roamed outside on the mountains.) Our kids will bemoan to their kids (as they spend all their time in VR) of the simple days watching tiktok on a phone.

In truth of course, nothing stops you having a personal site today. Of writing a blog. Of building community around a shared interest. But I bet you don't, because in truth that's not what you are really missing.

Rest assured though. You don't need to be sad. Your kids will find their own experiences, they'll form their own memories, ultimately they'll have their own nostalgia- and when they do in 20 years or so, smile gracefully.
The publishing side went big because of the rachet of financial leverage and consolidation.

From their perspective, because a big game is predicted to earn more, and because investment will chase higher returns, they have to say they'll go big to get any investors on board. The publishers that can stay small have to bootstrap, which makes them unattractive as sources of funding. It's not being driven by consumers that assume a production with 4000 people involved is strictly better than one with 3 people, it's the funnelling effect of all the money coming from more speculative sources that have no motive to consider industry health holistically - which is a macro-economic problem.

You can learn about the early days of this from Matt Barton's interview series with Robert Sirotek, particularly the last part[0]. Sir-Tech ran sustainably, by Robert's assessment, and consistently shipped smaller productions, but a shake-out occurred in the 90's. At first it was primarily coming from retailers who wanted things done their way to get a placement, squeezing out lower-cap players and imposing drop-dead ship dates on the developers. But it's reasserted itself a few times in a few different ways, since then, and is now pretty clearly tied to the industry being in a dilemma of either getting no investment, or endless amounts, with a promise of making 100x that, which ultimately reflects the decades-long asset bubble and increasing use of "free money" federal lending. If they don't promise those kinds of returns, someone else takes the funding.

So, the market is actually scrambling to figure out what to do with the investment tap cut off right now. Embracer Group, one of the biggest consolidators of the last cycle, reported troubling finances last quarter and has started closing studios. It's become a "lowering tide, see who swims naked" market.

[0] https://mattbarton.net/?tag=robert-sirotek
Indian pickles are not same as American pickles. Totally different concept.

I come from the background where these pickles and many other things were passed down as family heirloom. It appears one of the china jars we used to store the pickle (raw mango) was from 1800s and one was from Spain.

My family primarily did mango pickles and the oldest one I consumed was around 20 years old. There were 100s of varieties of mangoes each very distinct but around 4 specifically bred of pickle. We used fenugreek and coconut oil as some of the ingredients. Each year we made pickle of around 100 tiny raw mangoes and stored for future and passed on some old pickle to the friends and relatives (never sold it).

I do not think in my region this was a big deal, most of the classic and wide variety of pickle seems to come from Rajasthan.

Few other food items that were passed down over generations:

1. A bottle of alcohol. (Only used for medicinal purposes) this was around 200 years old and purchased from a sailor from Portugal. It was an extremely powerful Cashew fruit distilled alchohol.

2. A very weird kind of gourd. This was fucking far too old. I mean older than my great grandmother and which she brought as dowry from her mother or something like that. I do no even know why and how it was preserved but it supposedly had some medicinal properties and people often came to my grandmother with offers to buy it. Eventually someone stole it.
> I’ve spent enough time in places like Germany, Japan, Romania, Vietnam, Turkey, and Peru, to understand how different we are when it comes to food, and to see how little it matters to us, culturally speaking, compared to almost everyone else.

I am skeptical of this trope that Americans are somehow uniquely spiritually deficienct (for lack of a better term). I have heard this about food, socialization, work culture, and just about everything else. I used to believe it before I had really travelled or met people from other countries. I even planned to move to a different country because I had always been told of how much better they were.

I wouldn't call myself worldly now but the more exposure I have the more I feel people are fairly similar everywhere. They have different preferences partially shaped by their experiences and countries have various pros, cons, and quirks but it's along a spectrum. I don't think absolute statements about counties like this are particularly informative.
> ... you invaded and are currently genociding citizens of a sovereign country.

FYI: I am not Russian, don’t have any Russian family ties or ancestry or whatever. Born in The Netherlands and perhaps the earliest ancestors I know of were likely French Huguenots [0] that emigrated to The Netherlands to flee persecution in France.

With that said I’d like to think of myself as having a balanced view on the conflict.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots
Just saying something and hoping it’s true doesn’t make it true
The "Japan is number one" literature is presumably its own genre, with it's own unique tropes. I don't know (but I can guess: I can read Serbian and Hungarian, and I know that the jingo articles targeted to Serbians don't usually extoll the virtues of infrastructure, public services, etc. and have a rather different tone). And in any case ehat Japanese articles claim is unlikely to come up in an article on French vs US food, and doesn't provide context on the Twitter war in question.

However, if you've read enough of a foreign analogue of this genre, to be able to list its common tropes, I encourage you to make a similar post under a relevant article. It'll help people consume it with the appropriate amount of salt.
It’s not shameful that people try to grab power to stop evil, it’s natural. What’s shameful is that we don’t have more political checks against these type of power grabs. And that citizens who could stand up and fight against abusive surveillance are increasingly apathetic.
Kiwi here, would never ever do that, I'd just say "a few". Amongst those few things there might be "a couple of apples" which would definitely mean exactly two, no more, no less.
I would argue Westinghouse demonstrated some of these ideas first, in the 60s. They could have executed on some of it too I am sure, but I believe it was mostly aspirational demonstrators of what the future could hold.
I think that the audio space hasn't evolved because there isn't a lot of money in it and it's a bad environment for learning proper technique. The cross section of expertise is quite rare: music theory, instrumentalism, signal processing, software engineering, performance optimization, architecture design, research tooling, musical perspective, user interface, sound design, etc. The fact that things haven't effectively changed in decades means that the cost of changing is so large that something has to be radically better to convince people to alter their process. People generally are not capable of seeing what is possible outside of their scope of familiarity.
Expecting precise use of imprecise measurement words seems nuts. If people were of the mind to be precise, they wouldn't be using "couple" "few" and "several" in the first place.
I don’t know if that’s true. I currently live in Europe but lived most of my life in the US.

I’ve had amazing Italian and Indian food, and more authentic, in Amsterdam, than I ever had living in the US (lived in multiple cities and regions). Also incredible fresh Mediterranean food in Amsterdam and Switzerland, in addition to Mediterranean countries.

I’ve had delicious food in the US, but it was usually so good because of fat/salt content. When I have good food in different European countries, it’s more the freshness of the ingredients and preparation, as well as unique flavors. It’s rare to find food as fresh as I’ve gotten used to in Europe when I visit the US now.
It’s totally standard to use “couple” as a small indeterminant number. “I’m going to the store to grab a couple of things” doesn’t mean your shopping list is exactly two items long.
The French also have Saumon à l'oseille, although I don't know where they get the salmon from, maybe Norway. But they have Maquereaux au vin blanc made with locally caught fish.
These are fantasies.

> Historically, the reason the obvious free market things I describe don't always happen is that governments mess with markets, making them not free. So the obvious answer is to not do that.

We tried that in the 1800s. Have you read any history?
> instead, most of the population can just digitize themselves and live in an eternal, simulated heaven as they sip on resources slowly and only expand when absolutely necessary. This also minimizes the risk of encountering aggressive neighbors.

Sending out von Neumann probes would be very cheap, and logical to offset that risk of aggressive neighbors.

>why waste unfathomable amounts of energy and labor "exploring" pointlessly when, instead, most of the population can just digitize themselves and live in an eternal, simulated heaven as they sip on resources slowly and only expand when absolutely necessary

If future civilization is "unified" into a single intelligence, perhaps it would only want to probe instead of expand. But if its non-homogenous groups, which seems possible, its inevitable that some would wish to move/expand for the same reasons they have throughout history.

You might be right about initial conditions.
the real gist here is

>>> We primarily use Clang, and it is a common occurrence that our CI server will report a warning when compiling our “warning-free” code with GCC.

...
my only point here is: FIX YOUR TOOL CHAIN
why do you want to use Clang if all your dependency relies on GCC?
> Chinese

Exceptionally idiotic communist policies probably played a much bigger role. At least initially. If you ban families from having more than a single child and perform forced abortions or impose massive fines on those that dare to have a second one. Well.. I’m not sure what else you could expect
The food can exist, but you need to really search it out. That is different then if we had a strong food culture, this food wouldn't be hidden away in ethnic ghettos.
Bread has become way more expensive in France even in small bakeries. Easy to remember the price before the euro introduction and now and you will see the huge inflation in bread prices
> a grocery store chain

Here's your problem right there.
There's not a real need for this, when you can just go to your local market.

Whole Foods works in the US because in most places this is the only option to obtain (quality) fresh produce. Not so in France.

It's a fundamentally different approach.
As a would-be parent, it is your duty to guarantee a comfortable childhood for your child. This means having a reliable and sufficient income stream to provide for a reasonably comfortable life. If you lack that sort of income, it is irresponsible to become a parent.

So to answer the question of whether poor people should have children: No, they should not. Absolutely no child deserves to knowingly live a destitute life if it can be helped.
> Japan's an interesting case, as they're absolutely open to immigration

> working visas are super easy to get but crazy hard to renew

That's not immigration, those are guest workers.
I am on the wife's side here.

I was in the US and someone corrected me when I said I had a couple of something and they said "Actually, you've got three" or something "That's what I said" "You said a couple" "..."

It had never occurred to me that people mistakenly thought couple meant exactly 2 - how weird.
It's hardly a given all countries will be shrinking, just ones that follow a certain value system.

As for a sustainable model, yeah. Have kids. Like normal living organisms do, have always done, and will always do. If a population as a whole is unable to sustain itself through this incredibly basic function then their values have led them to an evolutionary dead end.
Godwin's law has just kicked in.
Never said you cant have both at the same time. But supermarkets clearly win on convenience.
I'd disagree with that as a 'native' AU speaker, it's less formal than that and can definitely mean more (or less) than 2.
> I'm grounded enough to realize, I'm not a person who never fails physical feats. That's not what a typical consumer is.

Friendly amendment. Some references:

https://trevinolaw.com/most-dangerous-consumer-products-of-2...

https://www.al.com/news/2016/02/25_most_dangerous_products_i...
What made you assume the GP has no friends that go back 20 years?

Do you think a person that makes new friends easily necessarily lets old ones go, instead of holding on to them?
I had my Pixel 5 dial 911 once at random. There was a tiny piece of debris stuck in the power button that triggered the call. A couple of blasts with a compressor and this hasn't happened since.
The chatcontrol law does not require scanning on the OS level.

The chatcontrol law requires scanning on the ISP level and on the internet service level.

That means:

* ISPs are required to check for connections to flagged servers. They also have to check for illegal URLs (yes, HTTPS will make that pointless)

* Services like chat/e-mail/file-sharing services need to effectively check if a user is sending illegal material (no, the law doesn't take into account the complexity of open source ecosystems and the many options you have for client software and server hosting options)
No, in the UK I have never known it to only ever be 2 (unless context is romantic)
Every prosecutor in possession computer evidence of a crime having to prove the software correct is a nonstarter.

Assuming it's right, and proving it buggy, is the right principle.
The article describes middle games as "'middle game' should only take 1 to 9 months to create and can be profitable (or at least not a money sink) because it is expected to earn in the range of $10,000 to $40,000."

Am I understanding that right?

A reasonably competent developer could make at least twice that in salary, with far less risk. So that's not really profitable, once you remember opportunity cost (and especially if you risk-adjust it).

The ones that take a few days can be a weekend project. The longer projects you'd be hoping become huge, and very profitable.
During our visits to England, in both Nottinghamshire and Sussex we had great (albeit not very varied, healthy or interesting) local cuisine. I was actually surprised, as I was aware of the stereotype that English food is terrible!
Google used to compile development builds with clang by default (better tooling and error messages) but production builds with GCC (better optimization). I don't know if they still do that.
> If you go to Spain and order Chinese, it's made to accomdate their tastes.

Just like how pho and bandeja paisa in America is accommodated for the American palette which would be why Americans (I'm assuming you are American) would prefer their version of the dish over the country of origin's version?

Furthermore maybe you like the Middle East's sushi more because the Middle East has no sushi legacy and can appeal to the Western palette more?

I agree that America can have incredible cuisine that rivals other countries, but that's sort of the article's point - the majority of America is still devoid of this excellence.
Your eyes and nose are the physical openings by which germs can enter your body. Your hands are the part of your body that picks up the most germs. Never touch your eyes with your hands. I do rub/scratch them sometimes, but I use my shirt.
Indonesian govt –> blocked all Vercel subdomains. possible illegal gambling
Similar blockage happened in South Korea where the govt blocked Cloudflare's r2.dev domain.

What's your stance on a single root domain hosting thousands of projects?
Yes, more layers on police will surely solve this problem
I've always used the Heroes of Might and Magic army size as a reference: https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Creature
Sonic? Sonic is barely relevant IP any more.
Why? The real BS is from the people arguing the earth is over populated actually
I didn't know if there was a fork of Insomnia. Will definitely check this out. Thanks!
Soap Opera Effect
Just wait until you find out what yeast is made of.
You are right. Additionally, there are varieties of Indian pickles which use a similar technique as used in the US. In South India, some vegetables (for e.g., Indian gooseberry) are pickled in brine like the US does.
Unless you are an aquatic mammal. Or a human that loves to float.
> Immigrants are just as likely to have bachelors or post grad degrees than non immigrants, and are more likely to get associates degrees.

Can you even legally immigrate into the US unless you at least a have bachelors degree (with some exceptions)?

If all western countries only accept educated people. Well.. it’s not going to end well for any of the host countries if migration rates increase significantly.
React-aria hooks provide freedom tailor your own components w/o needing to work around the limitations of general purpose controls, while retaining correct interactivity behaviors (the hard part). React-aria has steeper learning curve but well worth it IMO, as I spent more time working around/hacking UI frameworks like MUI, Mantine, etc., to fit my needs that just comes naturally w/ react-aria. There is also react-aria-components (RAC) that went beta a couple weeks ago, which Adobe team is pushing at the start point, use hooks only when needed. Since RAC is just glue on top of hooks, only small incremental hit to bundle size, and lets you have cake and eat it too (e.g., I'm now using RAC 80% of time for declarative approach, also unstyled, and hooks for special cases). If want styled, can go spectrum -- also layer onto of hooks, there ay many options
Wow. These are giving me some insights. Thank you for sharing.
Its secret chats do what they promise. Not as handy as Whatsapp (only work on one device and both partners need to be online for the key exchange) but it does the job.

Telegram focuses more on big public groups anyway where this doesn't matter so much because anyone can join. This is really what I use it for too.
The macro version is for printing the variable's name.
But it also has a function version.
Why this library has some other macros is written in my new comment.
Also, (though I hadn't mentioned competitive programming before my new comment,) as far as competitive programming is concerned, I prefer `dump()` to operator<<, which has more letters/types(`cout << variable << endl;`).
Pretty sure it stays quite sunny in the desert. Also, there are quite a lot of deserts around the world.

The land given it serves no other purpose is probably not expensive.
Remember the days before mailing list distributers filtered out of office replies? It was fairly common to open your mail in the morning and have to delete several hunderds of these auto replies and dozens of replies from people complaining about it adding to the bulk.
Interestingly, the first comment is the article is from @CancelThatCard honoring @NeedADebitCard for doing the hard work of finding the tweets with card pictures. "...my bot wouldn't be able to do what it does without @NeedADebitCard doing the leg work and finding the cards. It's is a non-trivial challenge to do with a high success rate. My bot just messages the people @NeedADebitCard finds, nothing more."

I think this illustrates partly why the punch-up/down metaphor has fallen out of use. It's not such a clear distinction.
A bit off topic, but my pet peeve at the moment is the use of "slightly". I've always considered it to mean like less than 5%, maybe a lot less, but I've seen it used in newspapers to mean a 20% or even more. It seems to have lost its meaning somehow.
Do you think America actually integrates people well? I don't think I agree, outside of a certain strata of more prestigious institutions and firms. I.e. Google may integrate people pretty well to google. But broadly speaking I think we just have a lot of space and the groups move around each other, while being vastly different. It is something tourists comment on, that they stumble into different neighborhoods and feel they are in a totally different place. There are whole sections of my hometown which basically operate in a different language and where everyone has moved out. It doesn't seem like integration to me. I think people just move around each other in America and can afford to do so more.
I have questions about MFA push notification fatigue
I cannot imagine what system of ethics you are operating from that you would have to ask this question

Catholic (-ish) ultra right wing nationalism, would be my guess. Surprisingly popular in some places. You can pretty much read stuff like that in the newspaper and, to a degree, on billboards.
I've been out of university for almost a decade now. Your experience echo mine. I also started out in a local community college so I missed those first two years.

> Unfortunately, I came to discover that the SE program was generally considered “easier” than CS.

I also came to the same conclusion. At my alma mater the difference between CS and SE was only a few classes: Algorithms 2/3 and Automata Theory. So I switched from SE to CS as I felt it looked better on the resume.

> I discovered over time that none of my team members had written code outside of a homework assignment.

I also had the same experience. This was especially apparent in the CS undergrad capstone class. Which required working with a local company to develop some software. I ended up doing the majority of the prototype with .NET and AngularJS. Technologies which I was already experienced with from personal projects.
Except it seems like most EA games these days never actually get built much beyond the EA launch, and then after 6-18 months of radio silence, some random version gets tagged as “1.0” and the dev then disappears.

Early access is, at least for me, starting to a signal of poor quality. Certainly when the EA release is barely beyond a tech demo.
It's amazing to me that someone would have the audacity and simple-mindedness to declare that 330 million people don't have any food culture. It boggles the mind. America is not France, or England, or India, it's food culture is as valid as any other country's.