skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are positives over a direct vote. I like that presidential candidates have to consider the desires of smaller states instead of simply playing to large cities. I think that it produces better outcomes for the country than a direct alternative.
In that the electoral college exists? Sure.

In that if we did proportional voting different candidates would be elected? Probably.

Then again somehow we managed to elect Eric Adams in NYC despite him being the worst option.
Seems like a poor safety feature to have it also turn on when you're cleaning.

I've never seen one of these soft touch control designs on a cooktop but I did hear they existed and at least one cat had turned one on by standing on it resulting in a house fire. The only dumber idea I can think of is a touch screen, which I'm sure they're hard at work integrated right now.
Thanks, that really helped. Perhaps a good framing for life and episodes within it too.
This works with hobbies and your wife as well.

Don't bring up buying a new boat/whatever until she does. "Honey, your boat really looks bad and has so many problems, maybe you should think about getting a new one"
Thank you! At my company we've used GTSAM extensively in production (and the creator of GTSAM was our chief scientist). Much of the math and APIs of SymForce were inspired by GTSAM. Ceres less so but we had someone who has used Ceres professionally implement the experiment in the paper.

The main comparison is that in SymForce one writes symbolic expressions in Python, and generates runtime code. In GTSAM and Ceres you write C++ code. This is really nice for exploration and code maintainability. SymForce also has a powerful system of automatically competing tangent space Jacobians that is more elegant and powerful than what the alternatives offer. Finally, SymForce has the benefit of a fresh implementation using the other libraries as a reference, and I think we were able to get better performance by greatly improving memory access patterns and designing functional APIs with solid abstractions (in the C++ optimization library). You can see this with the benchmarks described in detail in the paper.
Not unless you're a NYT-level big player, and even those don't seem terribly keen on the idea. The fundamental problem is that advertisers want to know that their ads are being shown to actual people who are actually interested in what they're selling rather than bots run by fraudsters with fake websites full of fake traffic, which means tracking and attributing clickthrough, and that alone is enough to count as personally identifiable information for the purposes of laws like the GDPR. Contextual ads and not tracking users in order to select the ads doesn't solve this issue, it just reduces the profitability of advertising.
Although I would say that this misunderstanding is not the problem.

The problem is that people think the cookies are the problem, when in fact it's not the cookies but the tracking.
Avoid cgt, not the meta in this crash
It was easy in my case. As I recall, all my bank wanted to do was 3-way call a few bill collectors so I could authorize them to talk about my payment history.
Wow, TIL.

https://reason.com/2022/04/28/florida-tennessee-ban-ranked-c...
Adolescents act out because they quickly realize that the adults in their life give a lot more attention to problems than to things going well. I think this makes sense, and there's a psychological basis for this. I'm not surprised then that it works the same way in the workplace. No one is going to be willing to change things unless they feel the pain associated with not changing it. If someone keeps putting out fires at the expense of their work-life balance or health, then their superiors will simply direct their finite attention at the fires that weren't put out - just as the honor roll student with a dropout sibling probably doesn't get a ton of attention from their parents.
It sounds like you're not getting paid enough for the late hours you work.
Kernel ASLR. User-space has ASLR enabled and working, in addition to shadow stacks and a number of other hardening techniques.
Well, the two-party system is a result of having single-winner districts. Countries with multi-winner districts tend to be the ones were many parties are viable.
In this case, weirdly and confoundingly, no.
because the NRC does not permit the development of new nuclear power plants
A true planetary scale RTS, which kept the conventions of the RTS genre intact.

Supreme Commander gets close to this, but I want the full surface area of a planet as the campaign.
I'm in UK, working at a video games studio and while we work 37.5h a week indeed all training is done during work hours, we hire people from junior and bring them up to senior/expert levels, with our average seniority being something stupid like 12 years+(longest one atm is 29 years). And yes, we only have to be in the office 1 day a week, personally I work 4 days from home 1 from the office, but it's up to everyone how they want to do it.
This is simply not true. Plenty of lawyers work for a cut of the proceeds, and big companies don't like going to court.

My sister, who works for 15$ an hour, has successfully sued two very large companies when they don't hold up their end of a contract.

Even if only 'some' of the people wronged sue, it will lead to better practices for everyone.
At crossref.org we are building out a form-based application using this library, and also working on the development of the VueJS/Vuetify renderer set https://github.com/eclipsesource/jsonforms-vuetify-renderers.

The UISchema is a compromise, and I think that largely is a result of the limitations of JSON Schema when applied to form generation - it's good, but it's not perfect.

There is an open discussion on the JSON Schema GH about creating a custom JSON Schema vocabulary for form generation, which could answer some of these limitations https://github.com/json-schema-org/community/discussions/70
A modern single-player Ultima franchise game
I don't understand. The vote was split between Democrats Lieberman and Lamont. Nobody voted for Lieberman because they were worried Schlesinger would win. Lamont himself beat Schlesinger by 30%. As the well-known longtime incumbent, Lieberman was ahead in the polls the entire general election. This was a reelection campaign, which he won. Anyone who wanted change could and did vote for Lamont.
It seems that Star Trek was incredibly prescient when they depicted literally every interface as a touchscreen.
Why would you ever make a gorilla cage out of bananas?
Rank choice voting allows flooding the ballot with candidates to downrank another. Approval based voting is far simpler and superior.
Unless it's a smartphone running exclusively free software (Librem 5 or Pinephone).
But does multiparty actually result in better outcomes? It's not like any parliamentary country has such a rich array of options. I think most max out at 4 with right-leaning and left-leaning parties forming fragile coalitions that cost a huge amount of energy to negotiate.

I think RCV is a net win and we actually did it for the mayoral primary here in NYC and I think it functioned well but the winner was still the most mild and obvious candidate. I think it will produce a very marginal benefit for voters.
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I found this as an MHT file, edited as best I can. Maybe I should get this to archive.org?

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:40:05 -0700
From: Windows Contact Us <wincu@css.one.microsoft.com>

We apologize for the delay in our response.

I have attached "The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right" an interview
with Cutler and Mark Lucovsky.

Goldie, Microsoft.com Customer Support

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The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right

Once upon a time ... there was NT OS/2.

Every month, Nadine Kano prowls the halls of Redmond to profile the real folks behind Windows 2000 development. This month: David Cutler and Mark Lucovsky, who helped guide the operating system from its infancy.

"Well, we were just about to leave," David Cutler says from behind his desk.

I'm five minutes late to my interview with Cutler and Mark Lucovsky, two of the original architects of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

As I wilt into the carpet, I realize Lucovsky must have mentioned to his colleague how nervous I was about approaching them. After all, who the hell am I to be talking with these guys? They are developers' developers two of the visionaries behind the operating system that began as NT OS/2 and has evolved into Windows 2000. Cutler refuses virtually all interviews with the press, but he and Lucovsky are willing to talk to me, a program manager from down the hall. They probably find my nervousness amusing.

Build it, ground up

I was a college senior when Bill Gates personally recruited Cutler, Lucovsky, and others from Digital to begin the NT OS/2 project at Microsoft. Their quest was to build, from the ground up, an advanced PC operating system, something far beyond MS-DOS. NT signified "New Technology."

One of my engineering classmates, David Treadwell, joined Microsoft to work on NT. I remember how excited he was to be a part of this obscure little development effort that none of us really understood. Remember that 1989 was before Windows 3.0. In 1989, Windows was still a nonentity.
No, I only check it when I have some down time. It doesn't feel addictive or flashy in any way/
My oven has touch controls on the front that are rendered useless as soon as I open it and heat/vapor is released onto the front panel. Luckily the touch interface is only for secondary features like setting timers, the important ones - temperature and mode selection - are physical knobs that can be pushed in flush with the front.

From my limited experience with touch operated stoves - these would be just as reliably operated by randomly throwing darts at a board.
Pretty sure this is often a cost saving measure, capacitive buttons can be less expensive than knobs, especially if they have to be waterproof.
This sounds like a nightmare. Following this reasoning, all children would be subject the whims of their backwards city or rural enclave. Parents will have more of an ability to brainwash their kids, I suppose, but that's not what we usually mean by "liberty." We've already seen what happens at the state level (abortion, creationism).

Allowing even smaller populations to further insulate themselves will only accelerate the cultural, intellectual, and moral decline of the Republican voter base. I'd rather see the government work to bring these people dignified lives, i.e., solving the problem instead of giving up.
I’m not a fan of my vote not mattering at all because my state is solidly one color or another. Meanwhile rando’s in Pennsylvania matter immensely, and it’s largely just a race to see which side can rally enough people from either the city or the surrounding areas to go to the polls.
That's just another way of saying that an individual in a smaller state is more important than an individual in a large city. The Senate and the electoral college are the modern 3/5ths compromise. Every human in the country ought to have the same ability to influence the outcome of elections, regardless of how much land they own.
All unopened in box.
>The two biggest problems in US politics are the two-party system

In terms of cause & effect, the USA's 2-party system is the effect caused by the voting system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

The game theory of voters not wanting to "waste their vote" on a marginal candidate -- and -- candidates naturally forming alliances and consolidating into fewer parties to have the best chance of attracting votes means.... the inevitable 2-party situation emerging organically.
Yes. It'll have more bugs to begin with because the software team has no hard deadline to meet. Then it'll accumulate more bugs over time as "features" are added (while existing bugs are ignored). Then after 2-4 years nobody will be working on it any more and within 6-8 years it may no longer function at all or it may have well known never-to-be-patched security holes.

I try to avoid buying tech that can be updated, and tech that can connect to the internet in general.
I know speculating on the purpose of biological sleep is a common cliche on internet forums and pop science, but what if this is why we sleep ? is there any evidence something in our body "resets" when we do?
The article ignores the fact that you can have use case specific resources and/or views with REST, too. If you're only interested in a picture and a title from a book, you could crete a content type that includes just that. And advantage of this approach is, that you can tailor the database query to return just that, what is not directly possible at the abstraction level of GraphQL.
> a type of enslaved person who worked inside the enslaver’s home performing chores that freed their enslaver to live, in Roman eyes, nobly.

This newspeak is so tiring. You know what is more succinct than 'enslaved person'? 'Slave.' One loses no expressive power. I know folks do it to make some sort of point about the personhood of slaves, but I think they are being silly: we don't call plumbers 'plumbing persons'; we don't call programmers 'programming persons.' Moreover, many slaves were not en-slaved, because they were never free to begin with.

'Enslaver,' though, is far worse, because it is not just ungainly but misleading and inaccurate. There is a difference between someone who enslaves someone — i.e., reduces a person from freedom to slavery — and a slaveholder (who owns someone previously enslaved, or born into slavery). It is doubtful that many of the owners of these ornatrices were the ones who had reduced them to servitude, so calling them en-slavers is incorrect.

edit: Granted, neither example of newspeak is as bad as slavery!
If the GOP gains control of the House, as is widely expected, the deal will not be ratified as is. Presidents have signed on to climate change treaties without Congressional approval, partly as a symbolic gesture, but that won't work for taxes.
It massively benefits the GOP, which is why it will never change.
In the case of cars, why can't the UX be a replaceable module so that third party options can be chosen?
Why is that not an appropriate form of productivity?

And I've never seen somebody who learned to navigate on a map effectively actually locate their position in moments.
Are URL Shorteners Needed in 2022?
Does anyone remember “liquid war”, where you battled with another player to control a lump of fluid and engulf the other person?

I really really want to play that, two player, on my phone over network where my finger controls the liquid.
A large majority of firearm deaths are gang related and not mass shootings in public schools or otherwise. The cases you point out are statistic outliers.
RTS FPS combo, where one person gives orders to the units who are then played by players. Maybe this already exists idk
I'm familiar with the ideas you're summarizing here. There is no question that colonialism, explicit previously, implicit and less obvious recently, has made big contributions towards the wealth of Western countries. The question is how much.

Is it a critical ingredient? Do cheaper raw materials and cheaper labor for things we've previously done locally, make enough of a difference that in a fair competition, an economic system with much worse incentives and individual freedoms for keeping the fruits of one's labor, will actually do equally well as Western ideals?

I have concluded that this is not the case; we would still see countries with Western values as economically more powerful in such a scenario. They would be less wealthy than they are today, but not in a different league entirely. The colonialist strategies amplified the success, but were not a requirement.

I'm not convinced of the comparison to the situation in South America. St. Petersburg and Moscow are already a short IRBM flight from Estonia. NATO does not have five hundred years of history as an expansionist empire, Russia has. NATO does not have ambitions of expansion; countries threatened by Russia wish to join NATO for their security against invasions that have hundreds of years of precedent. The USA does not conquer other countries and ship their industrial surplus back home, Russia does.

But yes, USA has orchestrated coups and toppled well-functioning, locally-chosen governments. There are geopolitical analogies here, and I'm not as certain of the last point as I am of the first.
Fahrenheit is intuitive. 0°F is the lowest air temperature measured in a town called Danzig in winter 1708-09, and water boils at 212°F. 4°F is ammonium chloride brine, and water freezes at 32°F. These are ballpark figures, you need Celsius or Kelvin to precisely define Fahrenheit.
There was another starcraft mod called Golems Evolution that was almost an idle clicker, but you had to choose how to evolve your army. Would love something like that.
In the context of the GDPR, I just want to remind people of this thread where a HN user invokes their rights in order to make Spotify back down on a change that would have locked user playlists into their service for no good reason - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371

(can't be 100% sure this is what made Spotify change direction, but it seems likely)
The $86m rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick
Ok, so what did he do that is worse then a global conspiracy to subvert environment regulations that did huge amounts of harm to millions of people, specially children in cities?

My guess is you don't like their handling of developing FSD. That seems to be the most often mentioned on here.
AFAIK twitch deletes your saved streams after some time.
Hey, I’m on my mobile at the moment but I think we can do that, can you send a message to dom@dresscircle.co.Uk and I’ll see if what we can do will work!
Isn't planetary annihilation exactly the type of game you're looking for? While I don't think it's as good as supreme commander (it gets too complicated to operate stuff in late game IMO), but it executes the premise of using full surface of planet (and multiple planets in fact!) for the campaigns.
The primary modus operandi for that time was turn on your PC, work/game, turn off your PC. As Win9x was never a server OS, nobody treated it as so.

And when people whine about 9x being unstable they don't remember (or even never experienced it themselves) how awful was the hardware it worked on.

I "fondly" remember some combinations of hardware were a literally ticking time bombs, you never knew when it whould BSOD. Though by that time I had enough understanding what if I see CMSXXX.VXD failing it is the problem with a cheap ass sound card drivers, not Windows itself.
I doubt highly skilled modern workers would want to work for someone with the attitude expressed. Those people have options and working for a company that has a one-sided old-fashioned attitude that refuses to train them for the companies chosen development stack would be foolish.
Yeah but this is resolved with installing a Pi-hole or Ublock into browser; yes, teens can do that and those who care about privacy do it. The rest has already spewed their data all around the internet anyways.

Why care about protecting the kids from Google and Facebook etc when they have Youtube and Facebook running in the other browser tab? Why not protect them from actual physical threats they can't do anything about by themselves instead?

You can't do shit about being forced to go to a school building - don't go and the police will come to force you to go (tested that for you).

> I don't see anybody calling for edtech to be cancelled

But that's the practical outcome - here they said "oh we have these unresolvable problems [...list of bullshit...] with this internet stuff, I guess we need kids back in the prison!". And articles like this are just feeding them more.
There's no need for this type of ID especially so when it's insecure. It's technology for technology's sake.

My license is the card type and it was renewed after the digital license was introduced so I had the choice to have both but I deliberately chose not to do so.

This smacks of another one of those deals where gullible government public servants have been hoodwinked by technology sales people who smell an easy buck from government.

There's another reason not to have a digital license and that's because it requires the parallel installation of the Service NSW app on one's phone. I'm not the brightest person on rhe planet but I'm not stupid enough to put a government app on my phone - I don't need to voluntarily allow the Government to track my movements, steal my data and so forth. Anyone who does that I reckon is a bit balmy.

It never ceases to surprise me how many people easily fall for stuff like this when the Government is pushing the tech. I don't trust the government with my data anymore than I do Google and Facebook with it.
As @jasode said in another comment [0]:

> In terms of cause & effect, the USA's 2-party system is the effect caused by the voting system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31503357
I've heard Teslas described as "iPads with Wheels".
A buddy of mine said the touchscreen on his Chevy Cruz (I believe) didn't even work in the winter until the car was warmed up.
I am from Pennsylvania but I have lived many places. I assure you that the randos are everywhere.
Note that is this an activist website, not an EU government web site.
RNA Vaccines too!

The above comments seem to assume that progress is limited to consumer goods.

As for progress in terms of atoms (rather than bits) behold the elaborate global supply chain.
Just stop. That 'isn't a democracy' is such a trite lie, that only makes sense if you redefine all the terms from what they are commonly understood. USA is a (flawed) democracy. Republics can be democratic, autocratic, etc. The founding fathers were against direct democracy, not representative democracy.
A company might persue projects for all kinds of reasons.

As a research project to inform design design, as a long term bet and sure, for staff retention.

You have more insight, but it's sort of hard for me to see even Google put that many millions into an OS and, more importantly, put it into production usage on actual hardware (Nest) if that were the case.

One factor here is that Fuchsia is in direct competition with both Android and Chrome OS.

Maligning it as just a staff retention project might serve those teams quite well... either as a coping mechanism or as a political tool to kill it off.
Funny, that fragment actually works as written in some contexts. :)
Ah yes. Let’s settle it with Twitter mobs
This is very good, although it’s not quite the same use case as IMDB given that once a show has finished its run, it’s gone. I’m not talking about overpriced long-running musicals - which deserve entries for cast changes anyway - but most other productions around the UK. The NT digital/live/at home projects helps preserve a few really big shows, but most productions don’t film well and will only exist in our memories years later.

Archiving shows in this way is really important, however, but I doubt discussions would continue once shows are gone. It might be worth comparing and rating different casts and leads - “Was Layton Williams the best Jamie? This revival sucks!” - and perhaps coming up with a UK-wide awards system, as the Oliviers are by their nature, London-only, even if the show originated in Edinburgh or Colchester (disclosure: I was once an Olivier panellist) and the rest of the country could get some publicity.
Hell Let Loose, Squad and similar games are basically this.
Ideally the idea of representative government is that the legislators would have the time to study the issues before voting on them.

Direct democracy is problematic because most people can't be bothered to read up on the issues, or even bother to vote in most cases. It would just give way too much power to lunatics with too much free time.
Yes. And any city dweller can move to the county or vice versa. The rules of the game are well-known, hence fair.
Well also Windows systems should be rebooting every month for security updates.