skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

My daughter (now 12) played a lot of Roblox, and mostly it was fine. She seemed able to avoid the shadier parts and, as a parent, you trust the child-friendly features.

However, controls are subverted (for example, by using special characters to get through language filters), and my daughter fell victim to exploitation that moved from Roblox innocence, to instagram, porn, and one-on-one calls. Fortunately we caught it (in time?). Police traced it back to international gangs that prey on the innocent. The trail, at least for us, went cold as there is a request to police in a country (we were not told which) by ours (UK), that is unlikely to be followed up.

Roblox was a big thing for her, and the events that started there were traumatic for the whole family.

Roblox is extremely popular and a really good platform. I'm not going to go on a crusade to try and chance peoples' minds, but Roblox is not as kid-friendly as one would think. It suffers, as all digital social platforms do, with uncontrollable, mis-understood, and untraceable actions by bad actors, that are used for nefarious purposes.
Sadly nowadays there is no real incentive to try harder for most people -- except maybe "don't stop or all the money you poured into mortgage will evaporate and you and your family will be evicted".

That's not motivational, that's being threatened with a big stick for a huge chunk of your adult life.

Jackie Chan's advice definitely applies to his work -- movies and stunts. I can see how his words are true in that area. What many successful people keep missing however, is that their advice is very far from universally applicable.
Different styles are used in different languages [0]. My personal favorite is Finnish: »…»

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
This is the entire reason Electron is so popular, and generally users love these apps and don't care about whether apps use native OS controls. This is the same approach Capacitor takes for mobile. Being able to use your existing frontend skills and access the existing web dev market is really compelling.
The requirement of forming joint ventures has been dropped since 2014. The 'forced tech transfer' rhetoric has been out of date since the first day of the trade war.
I love the fact the you've spent time focusing on onboarding.

Most SaaS companies onboarding workflow these days is:

- Describe what they're about
- Ask for a sign-up before you even have the chance of using/interacting with the product
And to target children, secondlife mistake was that it was targeting adults
Behind claims of the "replication problem" are different phenomena, and some claims there are themselves more wrong than some other. Specifically, one specific person who made his name of claiming "replication problem" as bigger than his peers believed later himself obviously proved to be a tool in promoting unsupported claims under a disguise of scientific work: John Ioannidis, who accepted money from a billionaire to publicly claim, and even write papers, that the pandemics will be magically over in no time.

On another side, there are surely known problems in social "sciences" (which by definition aren't those which establish "hard" physical, chemical or biologic facts, but which can surely be helped by these facts and by the tools developed in the "harder" sciences) but the problems there existed since these areas of study existed and some are inherent to them.
What I'd like to see is is Substack paying the initial exclusive authors more beyond what the author's readers will pay in, as a kind of a Silicon Valley subsidy of the early movers, ultimately to be able to take a bigger cut of the late movers with a lot of high prestige early people and network effects?

Many of the journalists who have move have said it was a moral thing, but none of the big ones have disclosed any monetary incentives that might have tilted their hand. Do they get stock options as well, in a kind of law firm-partnereseque model?
Ouroboros Steak grow-your-own human meat kit is “technically” not cannibalism
I thought that is what profile is for?
I can't find that process in my system, nor a significant difference in physical RAM usage before and after starting Ubuntu in WSL2. Digging a little it seems like memory is dynamically allocated and reclaimed when freed. I'm not defending WSL2, just trying to understand how is it supposed to consume 8GB of my 16Gb of RAM.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/memory-reclaim-in...
I think it's effectively code for "it's not like C". Easy iteration, lambdas, generics, patterns, type inference etc...

None of these features are technically novel but they do tend to be shared by newer system languages, as opposed to C/Pascal/Fortran/Cobol and friends. Then of course there's C++ that's both old-school and modern because C++ is slowly but surely evolving to become the programming language equivalent of the Borg and eventually all other programming languages are bound to become a subset of C++.
I think they're (one of?) the only smart speakers on the market to automatically calibrate themselves to the room. I'm sure it's just some EQ and maybe a bit of phase adjustment, but the speaker doing it automatically for you whenever you reposition it is a nontrivial feature that makes the audio sound noticably better than much of the competition.
State governments probably have the power to require it.
I doubt that's a high percentage of infected people. Do you have statistics that back up that claim?
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We're in the same boat. One of our main driving factors is that in the issue tracker we're building [0], we use an editor (SlateJS) that has its own format for how documents are represented, and our issues are pretty rich and complex. To try and reproduce an editor that adhered to the same schema across multiple platforms is simply more work than we can take on as a small startup.

We will of course ship native iOS/Androids apps at some point and then there will come a reckoning. Some sort of a hybrid solution is an option of course (make the bulk of the app native and have a small webview for the editor).

0: https://kitemaker.co, a super fast issue tracker with deep integrations to all of your tools
"Non-vulnerable people" means "people who probably won't die if they catch the disease". There are a lot of nasty things that COVID-19 can do to you besides kill you. Many people have lost legs because of the clotting associated with it, which can also cause strokes resulting in permanent brain damage (which is actually more common in young healthy patients), some have permanently lost their sense of taste. Even those who do come out without major disabilities have to spend two weeks with their throats constricted to the size of a coffee straw.

The idea that COVID-19 is somehow less dangerous than having some RNA in your blood for a few hours (remember, it disintegrates fast when above -70C) is completely insane.
Hi Bud!

What is actually needed is a correct exposition (such as

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021) of how

inferential incompleteness of Russell's Principia

Mathematica follows from the computational undecidability of

the Halting Problem.

Prior to https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021,
attempts to proof inferential incompleteness were
*incorrect* for foundational theories because of the
incorrect assumption that theorems of a foundational
theory can be computationally enumerated.
I can see why you can’t understand my rationale.

I don’t think there is a need for adaptable cities. People should be adaptable. Not cities.

Civilizations emerged on the edges of rivers and water bodies. Valley civilizations were always on the banks of water bodies because there was a stable source of water during agrarian times. Because this is when we switched from migratory/nomadic mode to pastoralists/agrarians.

Any healthy eco system relies on the availability of resources. Resources are not always renewable or fungible. Infrastructure is not mobile and is often bulky.

With the current tech civilization, we are ..in a way..becoming nomadic again. Environments are generally inter connected massive cogs that change slowly.

Wanting adaptable city environments with a nomadic minded populace is unattainable, unsustainable and an utter mismatch.

Let me give an example in simple terms: When Musk wants to create underground tunnels to move people about or when we build a rail system or roads for a bus route or freeways for inter/intra transportation, we are putting down a rigid foundation. This is expensive and certainly not ‘adaptable’.

When we put down a power grid or lay pipes for a water department to serve people by sending water to residential taps, we create rigid inflexible..and expensive..infrastructure. This caps population and rather it MUST cap population and regulate migratory tendencies because carrying capacities exist everywhere and at every scale.

To not have a binary approach to migration vis a vis adaptable cities is the equivalent of building civilizations with spit and duct tape. Which has been proven again and again all over the world including the Bay Area.
> Reusing to the frontend skills I learned throughout the years

Not weird at all.
I have been a FreeNAS (ZFS) user for years. While I do follow a proper rule of 3 for backups, my main FreeNAS volume (100TB) is where I will randomly dump stuff until I sort/backup it up later. It hosts a wide range of stuff from media, to small files (db). The only thing that will eat that data is a hacker, massive sw bug, or my house burning down.

I've broke a lot of systems and data over the years. With that in mind, I like my data storage (NAS/filer) to be boring and predictable. FreeNAS is exactly that for me.
The lawyer of the man suing to have the American election overturned is not a reliable source of factual information. That's like believing Charles Manson's lawyer when he says his client is innocent.

Get a third-party confirmation on anything Sidney Powell does not say under oath. Even in the quote from her, we can see she is not the primary source on this information. "But I do not know if good guys got it or bad guys got it." She's relaying information she's received second-hand, and since her client is known to believe unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, it's safe to assume a modest probability that the second-hand source is unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

(Also, as a useful first-pass filter on baloney, any news story that starts with a blast-word like "HUGE!" is probably not going to pass the sniff test for veracity. Rags use blast-words because they have to make up for their lack of integrity with spectacle. News organizations with a reputation to lose just use short-sentence headlines).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/heres-how...
Yes my point would have been better taken without that, sorry, his comment rubbed me the wrong way.
The real ques is: What % of the population are willing to be the "early adopters"? I wonder how things will develop in countries where that % is less than 5.
Flash grew up in a very weird time where nobody cared about hardware acceleration at all. Go back just a few years and even basic multimedia tasks like playing music or decoding a JPEG require some amount of accelerator support. Go forward a few years and hardware accelerators are suddenly crucial to energy efficiency. Ergo, everything in Flash Player is done in software. Vector rendering & compositing? Software. Video decoding & playback? Software. This wasn't at all exclusive to Flash, of course, but Adobe was uniquely unsuited to realize this problem.

Apple realized very early on that you needed hardware acceleration for common computing tasks in order to have laptops that last more than an hour on a single charge. It took Adobe several years after the launch of the iPhone to actually support some amount of hardware accelerated video decode, and as far as I'm aware vector rendering (the core of the platform) was never meaningfully accelerated. As far as I'm aware, pre-iPhone efforts to get onto phones involved a special cut-down Flash runtime that was perpetually out-of-date and was only really popular on early-2000s Japanese handsets. This wasn't at all built for the "computer in your pocket" that Jobs wanted.
> most of the infections are happening in mask-free places such as between family members in the home

Yes, and certain workplaces. But that's the distribution you'd expect if masks had a positive effect.

(I would really like good league tables on where all the transmission is happening, including workplaces, schools, and universities, but that seems to be beyond the capacity of the UK state).

The cost of not wearing masks is transmitting the disease, which, even if you and the person you transmit it to, do not experience symptoms, prolongs the pain. If we had 100% effective transmission prevention this would all be over by now. In some countries it is. The sooner people improve their anti-transmission behaviour the sooner they can stop doing it and we can all go back to the pub.
A bit of an aside, but I find the repeated use of the "st" ligature (and seemingly no others) throughout the text really distracting.
Not yet, but I will add something along the lines.
Are you sure you got the right username? You sound more of a bear than a bull.

Back in 2014 I was consistently selling BTC to friends in Brazil at a rate that made perfect sense for them and even above the BRL-USD rate.

This year I paid for all of my domain renewals using BTC on namecheap. Hundreds of dollars.

You can go to a service I provide right now and you can purchase the services with ethereum and ERC20 tokens. I also accept Raiden, which can make the transaction cost virtually zero.

I will reiterate what I asked in first comment: instead of just arguing with the amygdala, is there any chance you can establish a set of parameters and values that will make crypto (not necessarily Bitcoin, not necessarily Ethereum) something you consider worthy of a experiment, or are you forever going to believe that the status quo is the best we can do?

> Also, why. It makes no difference.

You playing the cynical permabear who sees no point in building on blockchain tech is no different from a corporate drone who does not understand why people work on Free software without any immediate financial reward.

Even if Bitcoin fails, it has already paved the way for something that won't. You may not care about your freedom and self-reliance, but it ABSOLUTELY makes a difference.
And you forgot Konqueror with the KHTML engine.
The prediction was that peak oil (i.e. the maximum rate of oil extraction) would happen in 2000. For conventional oil, this was not far off: production peaked in 2005 and has been in decline since. What the prediction missed is that we would extract shale oil on a large scale. The long-term economic viability of fracking is in doubt, though, since apparently no fracking enterprise has been profitable to date; it's all financed by venture capital.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/11/16/peak-oil-neve...
I'm being pedantic, but technically, it literally is "available in Europe."

It is not available throughout Europe, however.
Users don't recognize Swing, but I wouldn't say it didn't succeed. There are an unbelievable number of little utilities, obscure programs, and company-internal tools written in Swing that people use every day and don't really think about. Swing didn't catch on much for big name software, but it still manages to be everywhere, and is much of the reason a lot of intermediate users reflexively install Java on new systems when they get them.
Looking at wish, I just had an idea for another startup model.

"Massdrop for chinese products"

If you are going to build a wrapper company around aliexpress, might as well make curation your strong point. Basically a Chi-fi model as it exists in the audiophile scene, but extended to other domains.

Pair that with some 1st party support for 3rd part products and you have something really good on your hands.

I would think it would manifest kind of like Uniqlo. In that it is great value-for-money and has a (relatively) small but curated lineup of offerings that cater to a very wide audience.
Agreed. Everyone already has a philosophy (and a religion), though many people don't know it, and some would deny it. The question isn't whether to have a philosophy but which philosophy to have.

EDIT: since some have asked what I meant by "everyone already has...a religion," I meant that even something like atheism is a religion. It has a story of the origin of the universe, various accounts for why and how you should live your life, and an eschatology (where the universe is headed). Many atheists think they don't have a religion because they don't worship a personal God, when in reality atheism holds that the universe itself is functionally an impersonal, all-ordering deity.

In my experience, many atheists also seem to proselytize with a religious fervor as well (famously, Dawkins et al.).
I'm not sure why you single out Bush as the point where people lost trust in the government.

From as far back as the USS Maine, operation northwoods, and more recently the fast and furious scandal, or all the snowden leaks. The government has always lied and has never been worthy of trust, before during or after Bush.
A few years ago Ubuntu was still using Unity.
Just go all of the way and get a shaper! (definitely a dream tool for me)
https://www.shapertools.com/en-us/
The execution part of it is pretty key.

I'd founded a startup in 07-08 that did basically the same thing as Roblox - it was a web-based game creation engine where teenagers could make their own games (with custom assets, physics, behavior, etc.) and then share them with their friends. Gave it up in '09 when the bottom fell out of the economy and my cofounder and I got scared. This year I was being heavily recruited by Roblox and on the "meet the executives" part of the process, ended up reminiscing with David about all the competition back then - companies like Sploder, Game Closure, etc. It was a crowded market even back in '06-07.

What Roblox had that we didn't was persistence. David Baszucki has been working on this problem since before I had a computer - he started his first company in 1989 with a recognizable predecessor of an idea, and sold it in 1998. It's that willingness to spend 30 years working on a problem that builds a multi-billion dollar company.
Joseph Stiglitz did wonderful research on calculating the staggering financial cost of the Iraq war, estimated at 3 trillion dollars in 2008: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=878012...

Amazon's market cap is 1.6 trillion to put the 3 trillion figure in context.

The financial resources invested in these wars was enormous.
Nah depends on what fever means. I got my flu shot this year, and I didn't have a fever, but felt like garbage for a day and a half where it was a struggle to have energy to do much of anything. Fever != feeling crappy.
You indicated that a given data point would be interesting and relevant to the conversation, and then didn’t indicate that you had invested any time in researching that data point to contribute it to the conversation. It’s poor form to shrug off that effort into others when your participation in this specific discussion on HN suggests you are both familiar enough and capable enough to attempt to look it up yourself. That you attempted to do so and couldn’t find the answer would have been relevant to mention in your comment, and knowing that now, I’m happy to retract my reply.

(However, regardless, I do not consider researching your line of reasoning to be a valuable use of the time I have available for this discussion, so I will not be doing so. It’s not personal at all, though I imagine that’s of no comfort. Perhaps someone else will do so; I see someone trying in another branch.)
You know the private pharma company in question is German, right? Is the German government also responsible for America's high caseload?
You're right in that a stable ABI goes a long way to keep old binaries working!

My point is about this sort of thing:

> [...] anybody who has read the Old New Thing blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) or Raymond Chen's chapter on Windows backwards compatibility (http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech..., PDF) will be both impressed and horrified at the lengths the Windows team went to in order to avoid breaking programs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450629
Yours isn't an accurate picture of how the vaccine will be distributed. State and local governments are involved, health agencies in the federal government is involved. But private companies play the main role here, too: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/14/trump-administrati... As I understand it, the role of the military is mostly in planning logistics:

Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna (who is the four-star general who is COO of Operation Warp Speed): “There will not be this vision that some have that there will be Army trucks driving through the streets delivering vaccines. The commercial industry knows how to do it.”

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dod-planning-every-logisti...

So yeah, I think my summary -- that administration is playing a "leadership" role -- is quite right here, too.

I think a better point would be to praise the work done by NIAID and others. Obviously I wasn't diminishing the role of these fantastic scientists, or the role of people like Dr. Fauci, only highlighting that this vaccine was developed in the private sector (with roles played at every level of government).
The article is about the number of people killed, not the number of American people killed.
Shameless self-promotion: I built Video Hub App using Electron and Angular. It allowed me with virtually 0 new learning build a cross-platform app in a few months.

Currently I sell about 100 copies per month (and donate $350 of it to charity).

Public: https://videohubapp.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

ps - and I have a free file renamer made in Electron and Angular: https://yboris.dev/renamer/
I beg to differ. For a sufficiently large time scale, every programming problem is a memory-constrained hard real time problem.
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If you visit the issue I linked you’ll see they crossed out SAML support with the note “won't be implemented, since repository authentication mechanisms doesn't support these providers”
> I’m completely fine with having less software, if that means having better software.

But it doesn't work like that. Why would you suddenly have "better" software?
I've been using Anki for about 3 years to learn Korean and it's been tremendously successful. In that time I've learned around 3000 new words (both English -> Korean and Korean -> English with reversed cards) and a ton of grammar (using Cloze cards). I couldn't imagine trying to memorize this amount of information any other way now.
This isn't and can't be a completely individual decision, though, any more than driving on the left is. It has to be coordinated, formally or informally.
Pragmatic Bookshelf is having its Black Friday sale
Hopefully this leads to completely reverse engineering AirPlay 2.
Do you know of a source for a spindle that accepts iso20 for less than 4K?
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The article is about 9/11 and the subsequent events.