skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still feel the same way now about this article that I did then: Popularity is a misguided goal for Emacs. Emacs is a hacker's editor. Back when I started using it, the OS I ran it on -- Linux -- was niche, and the editor itself was niche of the niche. It seemed to come with "power users only" signs guarding it. It had its own diskset in Slackware because it was big and heavy and not the kind of thing every Linux user needed to have so you could easily exclude it. It's designed to be shaped into a custom tool that does what you need the way you need it done, as you work with it. Not everybody works this way, not every programmer works this way. Many enterprise shops aim for a software factory approach where there is one common, blessed workflow and you train people in that workflow and just plug them right into the assembly line. Those people make up the vast bulk of developers and most of them wouldn't know what to do with an Emacs if they had one. And that's fine.

When those people start crossing over onto Emacs mailing lists and going "What Emacs needs is to work exactly like my favorite IDE, else it will die in obscurity" I'm just like, psh. Go away. You've got your own great big ballfield to play in, why do you feel the need to come in and start trying to set rules for our little one?

In fact, this reminds me of a story. Back in the early 2000s there was a clown called Scott McCollum. An ultraconservative, he was fond of writing articles about how Linux and open source were communist cancer. McCollum had an acolyte named Joseph D. Wagner, who once trolled the gcc mailing list with a bug report about a TOTALLY CRITICAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY wherein gcc's optimizer would remove code to scrub sensitive data such as passwords from a buffer before reusing the buffer. When he was told "that's what 'volatile' is for" and to go fuck himself by the gcc maintainers, Wagner had an op-ed published on McCollum's site wherein he went "AHA! The open-source commies maintaining gcc don't care about your security! Use Microsoft Visual C++ if you want your software to be secure!"

Because of people like that, I don't trust entryists from outside a community. I have reason to believe there's a good chance they're not acting in good faith for the benefit of the project.
That is an impressive list.

Nitpickery - I note no entry about sea level rise ca 20000 years ago, nor the end of the Younger Dryas.

Maudslay's thread cutting lathe of 1800 is also absent.
Optimizing for player base is at odds with optimizing for paying player base. I am a "whale" as a consumer - I really enjoy video games, but my time is at a premium. I have more money than time, and I am happy to use it to accelerate my access to free to play games, especially for cases where I am playing games with my family, who generally have more free time than me.

Unfortunately in many of the games that my kids enjoy, I have noticed that the optimization path for the freemium model includes increasing the time sink required for access to game mechanics and content, and increasing the rewards for paying actual money for access to mechanics and contents.

There are some free to play games that find a good tension between this early on, but longer term, I find that the games because less enjoyable because it is too time consuming for others to keep up with my "pay to play" approach to skipping the time intensive portions of the games.

> Saying Fortnite is “optimized for profit” makes very little sense, since nothing you can do in the game requires purchases at all.

Sure, from a mechanical perspective. My son uses a portion of his allowance to keep current on his emotes and skins because his friends apply social pressure by teasing the kids that don't have them. It's been a great opportunity to teach him about peer pressure, and the relatively harmless of this version of it, in contrast to more harmful ones related to drugs, alcohol, or risky behavior for teenagers.
> From what I understand, all this started with SecDB at Goldman, which was a the prototype for all these systems but wasn't Python based. The lore is that SecDB was instrumental in Goldman being able to rapidly figure out what their exposure was during the 2008 crisis.

Correct. We used python for a bunch of infrastructure stuff (eg distributing all of secdb to all of the places it needed to go). The actual pricing and risk was written in Slang with a lot of guis that were "written" in slang but actually that caused autogeneration of JIT bytecode that was executed by a JVM. Most of the heavy lifting behind the scenes was C++. So a bit of everything.
Ok but trying to lure people to your own site they've never heard of is much more difficult than luring them to your twitter or discord. Creating a community that spans multiple widely used platforms is much more effective than just shouting into the abyss for people to come to your bespoke solution.
Sorry, facts don't care about your feelings. You are wrong and can't do anything more than shill for Intel with no evidence, personal attacks and delusions you made up and can't prove. I don't know why your ego is so fragile over hearing the truth. Are you being paid well to shill and spread lies?
The key thing to note is that the LP isn't a "legal entity". It's a function running on some set of blockchain nodes.

Transactions on the LP are visible in the ledger, so if you want, you can construct a list of depositing and withdrawing addresses and amounts.

But cryptocurrency is fungible so it doesn't make much sense to try to match up deposit transfers with withdrawals to form some concept of "who paid whom". That would be equivalent to trying to identify who's money I got when I make a cash withdrawal at my bank's ATM.
You are thinking of this like a technologist. Think about it on how we handle reporting requirements on a cash transaction. There is nothing inherent in a cash purchase that facilitates reporting of the transaction to the government. All of that _paperwork_ is handled outside of the transaction itself.

With crypto the same manual reporting would apply. If however we want to supplement crypto with new extensions to help facilitate the reporting that's certainly possible.
Yeah, I get that. The issue is not that it wouldn't work, the issue is that I think it would be more traumatic for me then a normal person, and I base that assessment on the fact that putting contacts in is more traumatic for me than a normal person (like "extremely traumatic" vs "something so non-traumatic that they voluntarily do it to themselves on a regular basis").
I have an iPad with a Magic Keyboard that looks quite similar if you squint (albeit a bit bigger). But I can probably do a fraction of the things on it that the GDP will be able to do. I wonder why? Better hardware? Makes you wonder.
Another funny thing about Swiss German is that we don't have a simple past. There is no "We ate" or "I made" or "You played". Rather, we always say stuff like "We have eaten" or "I have made" or "You have played". I.e., we only ever use present perfect. It's rather weird and as a native, never noticed this particularity until it just came to me once when I casually switched from speaking Swiss German to High / "normal" German (or English, for that matter).
Exactly this. Laws are the operating system in fact.
That's absolutely what this CSS already does and why a suggestion above is to shrink the browser tab width to a "mobile" media breakpoint for vertical scrolling if that is preferred even on wider screens.
Yes, it is a bizarre comparison because of that fact. A programming language will never be more intuitive than "just a serialization format".

Also, the argument that lisp's s-expressions are just as intuitive as JSON is verifiably false because you can use a simple natural experiment: what is used more for serialization, JSON or s-expressions?

It's extremely ironic to try and argue these points on a post that's entire theme is how to get more people to use an editor that is quickly losing market share to easier to understand and configure applications.
BC Canada. 86% Vaccinated with 2 doses. 90%+ with 1 dose. Still going to be vaxxing kids. Cases are higher now than a few months ago (Seasonal?).
This Wikipedia page always gives me a similar feeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
You may find LibreWolf interesting:

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Babashka works exceedingly well with org-babel, much nicer than using Clojure directly as you don't have to worry about setting up a project, namespace and connecting with cider.

See the following gist:
https://gist.github.com/adam-james-v/f4d2b75a70b095d14a351a1...

And example code:
https://github.com/adam-james-v/bb-draw/blob/main/bb-draw.or...
ThinkPads are made of shitty plastic, have stupid keyboard layouts, worse trackpads, and come preloaded with malware/bloatware. I say this an exclusive x86 user. ThinkPads are average quality tools, MacBooks are delightful, beautifully designed devices. Really tempted to switch
Sure, but all else equal, wouldn’t you rather earn more? That’s what I’m saying: all else is equal.
Phrasing and grammar quirks on that website suggest that they should have spent a few extra bucks on an English-native writer or proofreader.
At JPM, Athena:
Walpole = Bob job runner
Dagger = pixies
Barbara = hydra

The python 3 migration is still ongoing
ELoran: Part of the Solution to GNSS Vulnerability
It’s also attacking the current financial system where elites get special privileges and act irresponsibly.
Author here, CSS variables change the landscape in terms of what is possible. I think Theme UI (CSS-in-JS) uses them heavily under the hood. I can't think of the name, but I saw a CSS framework on HN some months back that is almost exclusively CSS variables. Plenty of unexplored territory there.
No, because applications, publishing and intent doesn't factor in.

Student grades and disciplinary issues become official documents as soon as the teacher documents them regardless of form (i.e. paper, audio recording, IT-system, etc). The school is then obligated to provide those official documents to anyone upon request.

The school could argue that this information should be kept secret but student grades are not explicitly protected by law and it has already been established that this type of information is in fact public. I don't know about disciplinary issues but interactions with social services and psychologists are explicitly protected by law.

The Swedish government has always been obligated to make information accessible to humans and with new regulation regarding Open data and Digital government that obligation has increased to also make information accessible to machines. Attempting to create an application that makes this difficult would be misconduct - the Swedish government is obligated to provide APIs.
Instead of 1 bill with 3000 pages, you'd have 3000 bills that are each 1 page. Frankly, that's a great outcome and this a great idea.
The President Hakainde Hichilema – In Conversation with Zambians in the UK
It's stupidly expensive, and US only. No thanks. I'd rather stick to a PinePhone if I wanted to go that minimalistic.
Agreed, or use a clean debloated Windows image from the community's subreddit
But 100% more firing a flamethrower into your hydrogen filled envelope while looking your customers in the eye.
Thanks for those, I agree. Although I think the term invest you used is very applicable, there'll definitely be a larger barrier to entry.

I don't think they've every heard of Rust and it is a relatively minor project for a small section of the uni. As much as I would love to jump on the Rust bandwagon, I feel more confident that Node.js would be a more "justifiable" choice. It might be easy to understand well written Rust code, but trying to implement something new will need an understanding of lifetimes and memory management.

I would love to see Rust in the web spotlight, it shares blood with C/C++, but it has real potential in higher level abstractions as well. It would be great to have a solid go-to web framework, like Phoenix or Rails, we'll have to wait and see. Good luck with your own endeavour!
Do you mean 24/7 credit card or 24/7 takes cash? Because credit card readers built into pumps seems almost universally standard. Being able to get gas at any time of the day (even if the shop is closed) is very standard. It’s weird when the pump is not working or doesn’t have a card reader built in.
TDP isn't really a peak wattage number though, it's hand-wavey.
> But could you make a better game if you didn't need to funnel people into buying gems at all? The answer is always yes - you always need to give up something to make people buy gems.

This ignores the fact there aren't unlimited resources to develop and maintain a game. Not requiring people to buy gems would improve some areas of the game for sure, but making less money is certain to impact other areas of the game - you always need to give up something in order to fit things in budget.
I'm not sure this was the "original intent". Perhaps an "early adopters' vision". I think the original intent was just to make a workable implementation of electronic cash, something that had been discussed in the literature (without the nation state attack aspect) for decades prior.
The OSHA requirements apply to companies with >100 employees.

The deadline federal contractor requirement (which is more strict) has been updated to match the Jan 4 OSHA deadline.
Module here is the kvm module?
Revenge is an interesting way to put it.

Question; if, upon finding a defendant guilty of a severe enough crime, they were instantly and automatically transported to a foreign island not under the control of the state, would the government have a duty to deliver food and other amenities to them? That is to say, are the people of a nation morally obliged to provide for people that they no longer want to be part of their community? If your answer is no, and no other country will take in the person found guilty of the crime, then what is the government supposed to do? If your answer is yes, that's quite a strange position to me. It prioritizes the needs of criminals above that of law-abiding citizens (as, with rare exceptions, a law-abiding citizen is unlikely to have their physical needs met in such a manner by the state). Why should your tax dollars go towards the care and housing of a person who has proven themselves eager and able to murder you if the opportunity arose?

Also, you have either misunderstood or altered my premise. Regarding the first part, It's not that the life of an inmate has no value; my premise is that said life costs more to preserve than the education and healthcare that could be provided to dozens or hundreds of people for every year that said inmate languishes in prison. I'm comparing the QALY's of a prisoner with others. Life imprisonment as an intervention fails to maximize social utility and fails at the task of killing fewest people because, after all, (regarding the second part) everything that a government does kills people. A state that spends 2 billion dollars on housing death row inmates is choosing not to spend that money on improving its education, infrastructure, social programs, healthcare systems, and everything else it can do that save lives. Hence why I mentioned the identificable victim bias; people on death row feel more like victims than the hundreds of people that will freeze to death in the streets because of a lack of housing, or when wildfires consume their homes, or because higher taxes and regulations have stalled out the economy and left them destitute and hopeless. They are killed by neglect rather than direct action, but they are dead all the same.

The American prison complex is an inhumane travesty, and life imprisonment is one of its worst failures. It is the worst compromise possible between those who see the system as fundamentally reformatory, and those who see it in talionic terms. It is maximum punishment at maximum cost.
Don't forget that the light that reflects from you falls onto passers-by and creates a small pressure on them (unless you are a perfect black-body). You violent thug you.
It's totally unscientific but in my opinion it's like when you are hiking a path you never did and when you reach your destination, you hike back. Going back always feels faster even if the pace is exactly the same, but you already know the path, you remember some rock, or that view, or those oaks. And your brain works less.
We have routines when we are small children just like we have when we are adults so it might be that as we grow older the brain is in power saving mode and that feels like going back through a path you already know.
> consider this comment an open-invitation for other good css references!

I'll take you up on that! Any good resources for learning tailwind that jibe particularly well with your “learning tool” approach?
lol, when you discover c__t.com links to a wikipedia page.
as someone who is constantly hiring frontend engineers and who has a partner who is hiring frontend engineers, i can tell you that the industry is absolutely flooded with entry-level candidates from other industries who took a two week bootcamp and whose github profiles are full of the exact same projects.

my only advice: don't make a todo app, a weather app, or any other kind of simple productivity/display-results-of-single-api-call apps. everyone has those and they're a signal that the candidate does not have real-world experience or experience building applications on their own (i require at least one of these).
All major clouds have better alternatives to Vault. Vault is mostly for really large companies that want to run things like this by themself.

There is no need for service discovery in the cloud in general.

I have also used Nomad a lot. Maybe it is because we always needed the cutting edge features in general, but in general not very good quality. Core features always worked though. People should use Kubernetes instead in most cases.

There is simply no way Terraform and the HCL2 will survive for cloud environments. For other use cases I do not know.
where has this been all my life!?

on the plus side I found it now...
English kings flirted on and off with Catholicism throughout the 1600s, up to the point where in 1685 the old king converted on his deathbed and his successor was an unapologetic Catholic. For Protestants during this time it was often difficult to thread the needle of being anti-Catholic without appearing disloyal to the king.

Constant remembrance of the Gunpowder Plot provided a saving grace out of this dilemma. Protestants cared too much about the monarch's life to stop being suspicious about Catholicism, regardless of what he might tell them otherwise.

There were strong political reasons to make a lot out of the Gunpowder Plot as late as 1745, when a Catholic-led invasion army made it most of the way to London.
Is MSRP relevant? Does the Nvidia 3080 Ti MSRP matter in the real world?

Where is it $589? Its sold for $1,426.45 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FXDLX95 and the 5950X is $749 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0815Y8J9N/ so the Intel is much more expensive in the real word than MSRP and the AMD is slightly cheaper.
As far as I know, there hasn't even been an attempt at having a serious, ~fact based discussion on the matter that involves the public. Where/how would such a discussion even take place?

The way the world operates in 2021 is a mess, unfortunately this is normal so few people seem to notice.
>1. Which age range do you fall under? - 19 and younger - 20's - 30's - 40's - 50 and older

40s

>2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y/N

Y

>3. How long have you been using Hacker News? # of years

12

>4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily - once a day - every other day - once a week

once a day on average

>5. Do you contribute to the website? - yes, often - yes, every now and then - no, don't care to - no, too difficult to

yes, often

>6. Rate the usability of the current website. 1 being low 10 being high

8

>7. Why do you choose HN as your Tech news source over other platforms?

High degree of alignment on interests while still having a good range of opinions and civil discourse

>8. What do you hope to accomplish when visiting HN? Are you able to accomplish your goal?

Keep up to date on tech, tech industry, startup culture news.

>9. If you could add a feature and remove a feature from the website what would they be?

I'd add the ability to follow or highlight people who's comments/submissions I'm interested in.

>10. Describe the current website in one or more words?

Straightforward and useful.
Implementing a P.A.R.A. system in NotePlan or other note-taking apps
You got me! I've read McLuhan and while I think he can be a bit overdramatic in his proclamations, his way of looking at media as whole user experience rather than just content in isolation makes a lot of sense.

It's relevant in this discussion because the content and the user's environment both determine whether a thing is "good" or "bad" (or as McLuhan would say... cold or hot). I personally don't listen to podcasts as a passive activity, I try to concentrate as if I were reading them to follow along with the concepts, but that's a function of what I'm listening to, I tend to favor theoretical discussions of concepts rather than people making jokes about the news or analyzing sports highlights or something that is more divided into discrete sections.

I can listen while driving a car, because driving a car is purely reactive (the GPS is telling me when to turn, and otherwise I simply react to signs, traffic lights, and other vehicles without thinking much). But listening while coding doesn't work, I'll have to constantly rewind to a section of stuff that I've tuned out while reading docs or thinking about something else.

On the other hand, if someone prefers listening to analysis of the previous day's NBA games and because they live in Houston they don't care about the Bulls vs the Knicks, who cares if they tune that part out and miss most of it? Listen while you're watching TV or cooking dinner if that's what floats your boat.
Also a Tachyons fan. I looked at TailwindCSS, but stopped at the installation section. The recommended path to get it working with Create-React-App is to install a bunch of JS packages (PostCSS, autoprefixer) and to layer on another tool over CRA (craco)? No thanks, I'd rather just <link> tachyons.min.css and move on.
Most crime goes unpunished, no matter the neighborhood. In 2020, only 14% of investigated crimes against persons in Sweden reached a solution. But that doesn't mean we should ignore all other problems.
It feels to me like "my" Web has already passed the bottom of the valley, and is only improving with time.

Only a couple years ago there was no Teddit or Nitter, and now they are here.

I'm finding more and more usable sites almost every day, and I'm missing anything less and less frequently.

A couple years ago, I was mostly down-voted for pleading for noJS support here on HN, and now it's the opposite.

I'm feeling optimistic. The biggest thorn in my side right now is SSL/HSTS, which is a very fast treadmill. I'm praying for an easy-to-use and transparent SSL-stripping proxy I can use in the near future, which will make things even better on machines I control.