jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> Is it so hard to set up a game between your kids and others?

Yes. Yes, it is actually reasonably hard to coordinate 18+ kids and thier familes (thats the minimum size for two baseball teams), have an experienced adult coach them, and hire a referee (if that is judged to be necessary), coordinate field usage, advocate for local governments to set aside sports and play space and protect existing space from development.

Now are many American youth sports leagues a bit nuts about the competitive or developmental aspects? Absolutely, and baseball is one of the worst. I really want a checkbox that says "do you want your kids to play in the major leagues some day" so I can not check that and hang out with other parents just there for fun. But coordinating sports and recreation (and ensuring space and facilities for sports and recreation exist in the first place) is not a trivial exercise and is why most local governments have an entire department set aside for it. Parks and Recreation may be a funny and absurd series, but in real life those people do real work that has real benefits.
Tbh, the market for Bitcoin doesn't care what it "promised" the people before, and doesn't care what the expectations for it are. If people want to put money in, they will. Clearly, enough people don't care about it's instability to store $1tril, and it'll probably get a lot more stable. Labels are one thing, but price and staying power are another.
The “wealth tax” exists already at the local level as real estate taxes. The introduction of a federal wealth tax is tantamount to a future national real estate tax, surely inevitable as over the decades the limit on wealth taxed drifts ever lower.
I cannot agree with you more. We are working on making open source software sustainable so that people view open source software as a real career. People should be paid to work on the projects that they love and care so much about! We have had many discussions around becoming open source in the beginning. However, in order to ensure that we achieve the aforementioned mission, we believe that is it best to start off as a proprietary company for a number of different reasons. In the future, we will be looking to become open source. Thank you for your feedback!
Yeah, it's great for wikis. Less so for forums.
The launch this year was a bit rough for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) permits here in Minnesota. They limit permits to lakes, and the holiday weekends go fast, so I'm one of those who makes the Labor day plans (etc) in January.

Mine worked. Lovely site, knew exactly what I was headed to, and got my permits. Seems others had issues if they had to search around. Entire thing sounds like it shook apart later that morning. They canceled the reservations and did a second 'launch', which was the right thing to do. I don't know of anyone who thought they had booked, canceled, and could not get a permit later. Successfully turned a terrible kickoff into something OK.
Up to a couple of years ago, Checkpoint had been shipping a 10 year old version of openssh. I always wondered if anyone figured that one out :D
As someone working on a crowdfunding platform that I would like to be able to release the source code as an open consumer union implementation, I have concerns about enabling unmoderated crowdfunding.

The power of a collective wallet is not something to be taken lightly. Whether it's environmental destruction or divisive politics, I have yet to decide that setting something like this free is for the best interest.

I would like to see an open source license like the GPL that has enforceable, well-defined provisions for environmental protection and human rights.

It seems like to go all the way, a smart contract would need to be used to ensure the transparency that a standard webserver-based infrastructure cannot provide. But credit cards are the standard for online payments so this would put a project in a further category from the start.
Doesn't look like it. The article mentions that it's a deal with the department of corrections, and that WVDCR is getting commissions from the program.
An attacker would be beyond opportunistic if they're already monitoring upstream traffic in this case?
Apparently, some folks now think that participating in a protest against your employer gives you permission to break that employer's rules of conduct, and even to continue breaking the rules after being told not to.

Unless someone has some evidence beyond what is actually being said here, I fail to see how this is retaliation for anything.

Frankly, if a coworker of mine was calendar stalking me and posting publicly where you could find me to harass me, I'd be pretty damned angry if the employer didn't fire the offender, and my reading of the article is that that's what is being alleged.
“The authors intended redisplay to be used on text terminals over slow links. Emacs, to this day, has code that activates if it thinks you’re running on a connection slower than 2600 baud.” https://m.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smoot...

I feel like a grumpy fossil for asking this, but if your problem is “Sometimes you have to use non-personal computers where it's not possible/undesirable to install desktop Emacs,” why not run emacs the way it has been run in exactly those sorts of situations for almost 50 years? Remotely, via shell?

Is the hat trick here that by stuffing emacs into a docker container and accessing it over the web you can consume like 10,000 times the energy and resources of just running it over ssh in a terminal window as God intended ?

Sorry sorry that was a rude question. Now please get off my lawn.

(Honestly though I ran emacs for 5+ years entirely on an overtaxed Sun workstation shared with dozens if not hundreds of other students, over ssh, and it was fine! I believe I even had color working. I began at 14.4kbps and went from there. I saw the machine once, maybe twice.)
... and the Linux version will have half the RAM (1GB instead of 2GB) and a fourth the storage (8GB instead of 32GB).

I think I might pass on this.
Any feedback would be appreciated!
I will definitely get in touch with you. Thanks Jonathan.
Unless the link has changed, its linking to a site of pdf documents which would not need that tag
Edinburgh too :)

http://amazondc.com/jobs
Hugo is my choice as well
> Going to meetings, making dinner, creating to-do lists — these don’t fit my personality at all, but I have to do them because they need to be done.

Have you ever tried not doing things, and seeing what happens? A lot of things are quite frankly unnecessary in life.
i don't buy this argument. Most prominent people go on twitter for a reason - to disseminate their work or something, the days of salad photos are over. They get something out of it.
Shameless plug, I wrote tumblelog [0]. Demo site: https://plurrrr.com/ It's a static blog generator but can also handle stand alone pages.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
Fear mongering? Property crime is up in many cities. That’s real. The fear mongering is from those attacking Internet-connected cameras and creating a fake outrage when people are just exercising their constitutional rights to record video and exchange information. The entire notion that voluntary disclosure of information will lead to a dystopia is not just the slippery slope fallacy but also ACTUAL fear mongering in action.

And yes it is proper to suspect door to door salesman. Many are criminals casing homes and pretending they are someone else with an alibi. Having them on the radar is appropriate.
It's also disingenuous to compare their manifesto to full on communism when they are planning to leave the majority of the economy to the private markets. Just because someone thinks that Marx's analysis is insightful doesn't mean that they are advocating a soviet style economic system.

You say their plans are "hardcore socialist", but most of them have comparable implementation in other western european countries. And socialist or not (socialism isn't a dirty word you know), they have generally been very successful for these countries.

To take one example, a large proportion of the British rail system that is supposedly "privately" run, is in fact run by the state rail companies of other countries (who bid on the contracts). It's kind of crazy that we allow them to profit off our country in this way.
I love awk too but most people don't know much of awk. Better use regular things and keep awk for whenever you absolutely need it.
by that logic you should also give that pass to beer and cigarettes, as they are comparably addictive and unhealthy. I think it's more cruel to have no standards for expecting responsible eating and spending as it only leads to more suffering down the line for ones family.
Wonder what percentage of Americans produce 97% of main stream media news and commentary? Would it be over 0.2%?
Yes! I am on Twitter and talk to people interested in music performance, computer programming, and math. With judicious following, blocking, and filters, I rarely see anything else.
“A large subset” doesn’t mean “the majority”. Presumably rolling back everyone would have been worse for Atlassian.
Can you explain what you mean by "lack of design in V"?
Approval is moot, as US presidential approval is rarely that high, but most Americans will probably support their government over a foreign one, as most people will support their own government (it's only rational).

I think China is big enough that it operates in much the same way as any large organization... that is to say it will be doing so many things that there will be plenty to disapprove of. Whether they do more or less harm than Americans is up in the air, but my point is really that both China and America both do some pretty disagreeable things. And yes, if you ask the Americans they will say they do less evil things, as if you ask a Chinese citizen they will most likely say America is more evil or in the best case (from my experience at least) they will say America is just as evil.

I think one of the primary anecdotal experiences I've had is that I've asked my Chinese relatives and they acknowledge China's horribly corrupt and evil, but they think America is equally as bad... whereas most Americans are ignorant of our own problems.

Unfortunately since there's really only two major world powers and spheres of influences right now, there isn't a whole lot of competition and wherever you go you'll step on some unsavory things.
The main things found in many games would be procedurally generated assets like maps, and strategy game AI/pathfinding. Most other things should be possible in blueprint scripts or standard components if you can live with the performance, which you can if you can live with unity performance.
It's unfortunately a complex issue.

There are multiple kinds of depression. Some qualitative, some quantitative, and some a mix.

We categorize diseases by their symptoms, but multiple different diseases can have identical symptoms. When this happens, we often label that group of symptoms as one disease. We start to give it multiple different names once we have multiple kinds of treatments, each treating each kind. Psychology has this problem where multiple diseases have overlapping symptoms, and because we haven't found out a single magic bullet, we often think of depression as one thing today, when really it should be thought of as a myriad of different diseases that each give a similar profile of symptoms.
I think the same thing would have resulted from almost any closed-source binary parsing remote data deployed on a huge number of different browsers. Flash, Java, and Adobe Reader, present almost uniquely-attractive attack surfaces due to their cross-browser ubiquity as well as their fragility.

That isn't making excuses for them, of course, but it gives us an important data point as to what behaviour to avoid in future. (I'm looking at you, Silverlight.)
Interestingly there were a bunch of language alignment papers in the last mailing that proposed adding all the above (IIRC templates only in a simplified form) to C.
some sports still need equipement that need to be regulated : javelot, tennis, etc..
As someone teaching at art school and who worked and works as a freelancer in all kind of creative professions (VFX, graphic design, programming, sounddesign) I think the best advice you can give to anyone in any creative profession is:

Learn to switch hats. When you have your writing hat on, put your critic hat, your editor hat, your publisher hat, etc. down. Make space for the other hats in times when you don't feel like writing. Same is useful for music, film, painting, design, art.

The thing is: it is really easier said than done. Most people constantly worry about other domains when they work on their things. Sure, let some ideas of how you want your work to be published flow into your writing, but don't worry about it. You can still worry later when you read the text again with a different hat. Or you could have worried about that before you started writing. Worry about writing, about which phrase to use to convey what, worry about where you want your text to develope and how fast.

The mastery of this type of very conscious context switching is hard, because nobody is going to tell you which hat you need to wear when and for how long. Nobody will tell you which hat is more important, and which you better leave to others. It is a very individual thing, but one thinking about really pays off in the long term.
That's all well and good, but YouTube Kids lacks the TOOLS that parents need to help protect their children from the junk.

The problem is that there's no money to be made from curation and high costs in doing so, therefore Google/YouTube simply does the bare minimum to avoid critique.

You can ban individual videos and even channels, but this "solution" scales poorly with near infinite videos/channels, much of it unsuitable for your parenting goals.

I agree that there is some fantastic content on the platform, but it is like a 5:1 thing between trash:quality. That's a problem.
> we care little about where we take cars off the road.

as someone who almost completely abandoned the car, even though I live in Rome, one of the most car crowded cities in the West (and probably the World), if we care about taking cars off the road, we need to make cities walkable

Many areas of Rome already are and have been by design, because pedestrians and cars don't compete for the same space and there are large enough sidewalks

in the city centre where streets are narrow, cars usually drive very very slowly, because the road is occupied by people walking and have precedence

But when pedestrian share the space with other vehicles, like in car restricted areas, that's where things start to get unpleasant if not impossible

bikes, electric bikes, scooters they all make walking difficult to the point that pedestrian need to be careful about them more than with cars

in this covid times with virtually no cars for Rome standards, my biggest concern when I am around is avoiding riders and their bikes, they are everywhere and respect no rule.

I can be relatively sure that on a one way only street no car is gonna suddenly appear from the wrong direction, not so much with bikes (and other two wheeled vehicles) especially because they are extremely quiet

this is my experience after 45 years as a Roman citizen and 7 years without a car
I parted ways with my child many years ago. The product itself is still around and has gone through 2 rebrands and has evolved a lot. It's now home under https://codemagic.io
ah, well it will be interesting to see how the theorists resolve this!
You'd be suprised, WeChat for example is almost a platform of its own.
> it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else

Or it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they lost their encryption keys... there are two sides to that coin.
StackOverflow is not working for me either. Is it working for others?
Ehhh, I've read his book (which is really just a rehash of Michael Porter) and I've seen some of his talks and while I see where you're coming, I wouldn't be quite as harsh, although Thiel might be sailing a bit close to "real monopolism has never been tried."

With regard to Yarvin I have no idea what Yarvin wants because he takes 10,000 words to explain himself and I can never find the energy to finish reading anything by him. He has a much less long winded brother who has a somewhat interesting blog though (totally unrelated topics to the better known Yarvin). I do think it is good that people like Thiel support these sort of thinkers though. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I'm sure some of their ideas have merit.
> If you vaccinate more people, you would expect that the cases that present at a physician will be selected to be the most severe.

Most of cases both before and after vaccinations are not severe. Moreover, the share of severe cases seems to stay the same or even increase ( https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general , I hope it can be google-translated or something).

As I explained in other reply ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26142482 ), I expected change in fatality rate due to disproportional vaccination of the group with most of the fatal cases. For 60+ fatality rate is very high, and many of them are vaccinated. For everyone else, the opposite. I agree that if only severe cases were registered, we should've been looking at case number instead (which would be more stable since almost all of those would be registered).
I didn't even shut you down. What are you talking about? This is HN and you're on the Internet. Toughen up.
What do you mean exactly?

You need a C/C++/fortran compiler that supports openmp, which is most of the mainstream ones (I believe MSVC still only support an older standard, still more than enough for parallel for). Compilers that do not support openmp are supposed to ignore the pragma and the code will still run fine (although serially) and be fully compatible.

Other than that and possibly passing the correct command line flag, openmp is fairly low friction. A parallel for can provide significant speedup for embassingly parallel problems and these days it even support custom random access iterators in C++.

Of course it is more involved to express less embarrassingly parallelizable problems, but it is still doable.
Tsoding. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbYhDd6c6vngsF5PQpFVWg
Haskell, Rust, C, and vodka
Yep. And NKY’s is called TANK.
> who act like Rich Hickey was God's gift to programming

This is a typical cult pattern: the “esteemed leader” who is godlike perfect and can do no wrong. Having said that, in all fairness, Rich Hickey is a great presenter and I learned a lot about functional programming from watching his talks. I completely disagree with him on types but still learned a lot.
I grew up in a midwest rust-belt city, and traffic wasn't crazy, and still isn't, even in the suburbs. Probably because the population is still rebounding.

I'm in Florida now, and most of Florida is horrible. Sprawl on top of swamp. Everything is so spread out, the roads have so much traffic, and there's too many people driving agressively or not paying attention. Every hour on the road is a roll of the dice in my $30,000 vehicle versus some asshole swerving through traffic because he was raised on Fast and Furious or something.

Houston is the same, just so many cars and everything so spread out. Atlanta leaves that impression, also. And much of Charlotte. Two-thirds of Austin is jam packed with traffic and nowhere to park. These places were all mostly built in an era of car-centric urban planning.

My impression of Indianapolis, and some of it's suburbs, a booming midwest city, is that they are on their way to the same situation - Driving miles back and forth from housing developments to box stores for every need with only hundreds of cars for company. It's inhumane.

Yuck. This is a fail for so many people. I have working poor friends and it sucks that they have to spend several hundreds of dollars per month each for a non-shit car, insurance, and gas. It keeps them in the hole. I blame zoning and selfish property owners who won't allow more density.
I don't think we actually disagree on a ton, my original comment was extremely vague on which "systems", I meant mainly western governments and mega corps.

I don't think this unbalance is baked into humanity, I 100% agree people collectively taking a stand (unions, mass actually effective protests, etc) would lead to far better systems.
Not when the goods are all cheap junk that breaks in 1/10th of the expected lifespan or poisons you.
as a counterpoint, nearly every grid-attached power storage system I've seen has been almost entirely described/discussed in terms of "useful for renewable power", i.e. the duck curve. though it doesn't often get mentioned by name.

the exceptions are either A) they also mention how e.g. nuclear power is very limited in its ability to change output at all, so it's also useful for day/night power imbalance in general, or B) they target short-term spikes and dips to e.g. allow gas/coal time to adjust.
The official one, pion (go) and webrtc-rs (rust) can all be used on both sides.
For every weird niche hobby there is a guy who is creating literal database of something with almost scientific precision.

Mix it with rule 34 and you got things like WikiFeet or some Czech site which is literal database of nude scenes in our whole cinema history (sorted by movies, actresses and director including screencaps of course).
At a low level, webrtc interoperates with VoIP. But because webrtc doesn't mandate a signalling protocol and VoIP uses SIP, generally you need a browser to run whatever proprietary signalling the site decided to implement in JS.
WSL1 process creation is faster compared to Windows, because part of the black magic it does to run Linux processes on NT kernel is using minimal processes - so called "pico processes"[0]. These are much leaner than standard Windows processes, and more suited for UNIX-style workflow.

I can't say if it's faster relative to WSL2, but I'd guess so. WSL2 is a full VM, after all.

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[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-proc...
1) I started MobileCoin to fund Signal. That’s it. I believe that a world with a well-funded signal is a better place. In order for signal to compete in the 21st century with messaging apps around the world they need a payment story.

So I think that's the base of what people are upset with. Signal suddenly essentially became a for-profit (it decided to prop up a for-profit company which would in turn fund it as a revenue model). Now a lot of people that donated to and promoted what they considered to be a non-profit project feel cheated.
You have the causality the other way.

Society was always idiocracy, it was just obscured. If anything, the internet is one of our hopes for improving things.

But change is rarely short and painless.
Putting opinions on cookies aside for a moment, session cookies, cookies that store the language chosen by the user, etc. are examples of what is usually considered "required cookies".

Now, the technical choices that lead to those things may not have been the wisest but the general thinking is that:

- the site is less functional without those cookies so requiring them ensures a common baseline for all users,

- they are used internally for things that are directly related to what the user is here for, so they are in a somewhat different league than all the cross-site targeting cookies everyone is concerned about, so they are less harmful.

But the truth is that saving to and reading from cookies is not an absolute requirement of building websites.