skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turned into a thread about same-sex marriage, which has nothing to do with the article. Whimsical tangents can be ok, but well-worn-political-debate tangents are off topic on HN.

Keep in mind that when we moderate something like that, it's never just about the root comment (i.e. the one you posted). It's always about the subthread as a whole.
The title of this article reminded me of that one time when I found a small programming app for android with a very limited language. It had some basic variables, if statements and a drawing routine for solid colour circles. It contained no function calls and I don't think it allowed for loops.

What it did have was timers which took a piece of callback code and could be set to repeat that code with a given frequency.

It was all very simplistic and restricted, so I spent an evening making a breakout clone in it, just to see if I could. That was a lot of frustrating fun.
> You don’t know these people, he said. Sometimes it can take them 10 years to get the joke.
My favourite quote from the article: "no one needs a billion dollars". Wonder if that's a reference to "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars."
Add share buttons from social media networks – ShareThis
An 8-bit byte can hold 256 values, from 0 to 255, and cannot hold a value = 256, whatever the philosophy is.
This is really great! I wrote and operate a pipeline framework for analyzing data from multiple astronomical observatories in low-latency [1], and I'm currently adding this sort of burst-performance scaling for things like background simulations. Things like Kubernetes spin-up time or packaging huge libraries for AWS Lambda are, indeed, challenges. Getting those startup times down and doing autoscaling in a relatively platform-agnostic way with low boilerplate overhead would be really game-changing for these sorts of analyses (among other applications).

If you can run an analysis in low-latency and detect a joint gravitational wave/EM source, for example, you can quickly follow it up with other telescopes, like we did with the first direct kilonova observation [2]. Though the gamma-ray detection localization wasn't good enough to really aid counterpart searches for that event (GW170817), there are other types of candidates (like GW+neutrinos, my project) for which this rapid localization would be a huge improvement. And if you can do really hard things like estimate the GW source parameters before merger (e.g. whether you're looking at a binary neutron star merger, which is likely to emit detectable light if it's close enough), you can try to get fast-slewing telescopes pointing on source at merger time. Not to mention that burst processing would let you do more clever things with your statistics (getting better sensitivity) in low-latency as well. So stuff that makes this easier is really exciting!

Maybe if the API is amenable to my own solution I'll be able to implement this as a backend :)

[1] http://multimessenger.science
[2] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...
Not terribly relevant to your point, but: Noon is actually a time in the day where it is still getting warmer. Temperature usually peaks around 16:00 or 17:00 in the summer.

Example: http://wetterstationen.meteomedia.de/?station=104870&wahl=vo... (the forecast diagram for my local weather station)
How to Make Changes and Become Successful by Keeping a Journal

It is really simple to get started, but do choose a journal that is really aesthetically pleasing to you and just the right pen or pens. Use medium that make you feel like writing, but don't be too precious about it or you will stop the flow. I find that a nice cup of tea just adds to the experience! Pick a time of day that suits you and when you will not be interrupted. Shut off the phones and allow yourself to write. Just write. Don't censor it or think about it too much. Some people find that it helps to write with their non-dominant hand. This can help to unlock information from the right side of the brain.

So, now you are good to go. Being successful is not just about making money online. Being successful is about being physically, mentally, spiritually and financially all you can be. If you make a lot of money but become physically unhealthy or alienate your friends and family along the way, then you are not successful. The money itself will not make you happy unless you make sure everything else is good in your life.

Journal writing is a great way to check in honestly with your self, set goals and tackle challenges. Make your journal your constant companion. You can make one journal work really hard for you and perform all kinds of functions.

You can use your journal to explore your feelings, make them conscious and examine where unwanted feelings are coming from. You can release overwhelming feelings in a safe way and disentangle and demystify the ones that are perplexing. You can connect the dots between what you are feeling on the inside and what is happening on the outside.https://healthadviserpro.com/no-bs-manifesting-course-review...
I guess I should clarify that my perspective is from US urban areas, and the single biggest risk people in the US face is having a health issue which forces you to not be able to work, and deal with extremely high medical care costs.

For me, comfortable middle class living does not just include the food/shelter you need, but also protection from volatility such as changes in labor market, your family members’ health, and ability to take leave from work. As the US doesn’t provide any of this, you have to pay for it, in the form of savings and investments for yourself.

The other component of it is that in my lifetime, the income/wealth gap has grown and grown. Opportunities for your children decrease if you don’t stay ahead of the curve, so this is also another risk to protect against by earning enough to be able to live in the better school districts and provide your kids with a better shot of income stability for their future.
You can't start investing in start-ups and expect to hit the good ones without excellent access and knowledge. You will almost certainly lose all your money.

Invest in the S&P 500 using an index fund, that's it. Investing in the S&P 500 is another way of investing in "the world's economy", and that will, hopefully, go up over time. And if it goes down, then at least you're not the only one who lost money so your money will be worth as much as it used to anyways.
If you make use of the NPM ecosystem you are inviting security holes into your product. Stay away.
There is the project Valhalla now, https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/Main, aiming to bring value types and eventually generic specialization and reification.

The work on that project has been impressive, and there is now an experimental EA build called LW2 where you can play with value types: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/LW2

Will this solve everything? No. The char type is hosed. But there will be an opportunity to e.g. get a new Character.
There was such a case in Russia several years ago. An experienced skydiver was filming his friends and fell out of a helicopter without a parachute. He has landed in a pond and died immediately. It was said that the impact was so hard that it has torn off his jumping suit.
I would be interested to see the racial breakdown of the thieves. I'm guessing that very few of them were Asian-americans, for example.
Uggh. This is such juvenile criticism about something that you do not understand. You really need to look at the design of most modern(ish) operating systems in the last few years including Android and ChromeOS which are already mentioned in the article.
any idea why? The ground starts releasing accumulated energy or what?
I think if we only used two kinds of plastic for food or consumer packaging, plastic recycling would make more sense, we unfortunately use like 10, which means s high labor cost for sorting.
If you want a book Drawing On the Right Hand Side of the Brain

http://drawright.com/

If you want a video course

http://drawabox.com/
It's not really a US only thing - based on your username I'm assuming Dutch? - a quick Google says that there was 6 billion euro in new consumer credit in the Netherlands last year, and it's been much more than that even in the past decade. People in the Netherlands seem jsut as likely to buy cars on finance and rack up credit card debt as everyone else.
You'd also have to disallow null as a value for any of these boxed types.

It's disconcerting and astonishing to check for true / false and get a NPE, to say the least.

One nice thing about Go is that strings are values and cannot be null.
Reading all that makes me think.... you must have one of the coolest jobs around
Survey instruments generally have a few ways to check for this, usually via attention checks which require you to answer in a specific way as stated in the question text (defeating your bot). Similarly a survey could be designed to ask the same or similar question multiple ways, and a survey response that lacks the expected correlation can also be rejected.
The thing about the network effect is sometimes the network decides to leave. MySpace flowed all into Facebook just as digg flowed into Reddit. The companies have been spending lots and lots of money to build a moat but as they make money they do the things that makes other platforms seem more attractive.
In Scheme, the only way to loop is via recursion. In Clojure, all high level functions and looping macros (for/doseq) are implemented via recursion as well (loop/recur).

Yes, it requires significant paradigm shift when you start to use these languages, but after a while, you start to appreciate high level functions (map, reduce) instead of language looping constructs (for, while) - they can be easily composed, parallelized, scaled over cluster, refactored... Even code looks much cleaner.

You like it even more if you are mathematician, because things looks more "natural" :D
> easier access (lower taxes) on alcohol

I think you are conflating decriminalization with taxation, and decriminalization with legalization, because alcohol is a legal drug. Most people I know who are in favor of legalizing other drugs also support their taxation; at the very least to a point where (a) consumption is heavily disincentivized, (b) external negativities are paid for, and (c) black markets nearly disappear.
> there are millions of people in deep poverty in the US.

Sure, but "deep poverty" today is what "middle class" life used to be for their grandparents or great-grandparents and normal student life is like for most college students. Having to cook from scratch rather than eating out every day, or maybe even only having meat a few times a week. Having to go to a laundromat rather than having your own washing machine, and riding public transit or a bike/motorbike with rudimentary knowledge on how to fix it.

These are hardships only when compared to extremely lofty standards of living - and if that makes you become a career criminal, it is hard to have sympathy.
This is your take-away?
The US doesn't have a perception problem with poverty. It has the image of a rich country where lots of stuff comes from. Like Google, Microsoft etc.

India is perceived as a third world country, where people shit in the streets because they lack the infrastructure for even toilets. Whether this is true or not doesn't change the perception of these things. If a country that is perceived like India starts a space program, eyebrows will raise.
Your comment reminded me of interviewing.io and their strapline "chat roulette without the dicks"
Similar idea but for engineering interviews and practice interviews
> It has, but there's a fundamental incentive problem that I have to wonder might be a byproduct of how younger people are switching jobs so often.

And the young people switch jobs so often because the corporations don't care for their employers less, and the corporations do that because of short term gains.

It's a vicious circle.

If people switch jobs often, you can't build complex software anymore because it takes time to grow the required knowledge.
How would you use space to create wealth?
Ask HN: What is the best coworking space you have worked at?
Looking for suggestions for good coworking space anywhere around the globe.

Thanks in advance!
I end up putting mist of it in the trash bin, except glass or metal. It's too hard for me to know which goes what, how am I supposed to know what's compostable (I only have a broad understanding what composting is, and how it's done), much less if this plastic widget that came with the thing is a recyclable one, a compostable one, or made of styrene (which is neither). So off into the trash it goes.
The view you presented here is deeply, if unintentionally, flawed; it'd take a small essay to unpack and elaborate all the points in detail. But to sketch a tl;dr of a part of such essay:

- 'pas touched upon the amount of people in poverty; add to that mental problems, losing the IQ lottery, being born into a pathological family and a host of other concerns, and you'll see you're severely underestimating the amount of people who are forced into crime through circumstances.

- There's lots of people who for some reason don't care about such ideals as niceness, community and civilization. For those, committing a crime isn't meaningfully different than any legal activity - it just have a slightly different risk/payoff profile. If you look around carefully, get to know more people, you'll discover plenty of crime happening around you - not murder and robbery, but tax evasion, skirting environmental laws, health&safety laws, etc.

It may seem that in 2019, life of crime shouldn't be rewarded, and yet 2019 brought us a multi-billion-dollar IPO of a company whose primary business model is law-breaking at multinational scale.
I don't know why you're so into the United States and more importantly, I don't follow what you're saying at all. Are you implying here that country-level concerns are more important than global concerns?
So I did say production, but my main issue isn't mere production but the mining of materials and that mining's impact on the environment. Also, PVs and rechargable batteries do use some rare earths which also sucks because, well they're rare and may eventually be depleted.

Regardless, thanks for the talk, it's interesting. I think someone told me a while back they did an analysis of the difference between gas electricity plants vs solar and they came away with the realization that the only way gas wins is really due to the financing around it, so something totally due to regs and how society is already used to it. I just am not sure solar is going to be the silver bullet and actual reduction of consumption might be the only way to stave off climate change.

Relevant:
https://earthjournalism.net/stories/the-dark-side-of-renewab...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mavb/we-dont-mine-enoug...
> Now we need to create a new operating system for an optimal user experience.

No we do not.

TLDR: Choose Pop!_OS or ElementaryOS as they both match the 'It just works' requirement for all users.

Since you are targeting developers, it already indicates to me that you build on top of Linux which meets the drivers requirement to support the laptop's hardware. Linux already has the majority of the developer mind-share, so I see no reason to use a BSD for the desktop in this particular use-case. Don't even think about rolling your own distro unless you have a good reason to or you can afford to maintain it.

Now, the real question is: Which distro to choose for developers for optimal user experience?

To help you choose such a distro, there has to be one that must offer a level of customization that doesn't sacrifice the consistency of the OS with standard defaults to revert back to via both a CLI or GUI settings control (As found in macOS and Windows). Another requirement is having a distro that has software that feels integrated with the system software and it behaves predictably such as desktop keybinding software must work across all windows and apps or the availability of accessibility software built-in such as text-to-speech. Following this, you have eliminated 70% of all Linux distros that fail this.

Also, this distro needs an easy and consistent way of installing development libraries or even the latest libraries without it getting in the way of the developer's work. Whether if it breaks the OS or forces the developer to decipher those cryptic error messages via googlgling for each distro / library combination. Well done, you have eliminated some of the default Linux desktop OSes that do just that.

Lastly, what happens when a dev tries to install your software / firmware update? Is it as clean as a Apple software update? Is there a easy way to revert a failed system update without reinstalling the entire OS or trawling through a blog to copy-paste commands for recovery options?

Unfortunately, every Linux distro requires the latter and there is no standard or easy way of rolling back a bad update without typing a few commands. If we have users that do not mind this issue, then a choice of either Pop!_OS or ElementaryOS look like clear winners to me to pre-install onto a standard or high-spec laptop to sell to devs and consumers.
That's the bottom line right there: thinking that recommendations are useful to YOU is naive and missing fundamental things about the experience.

That said, you can indeed tell them what you like but by use of negative space. When you get bombarded with obviously horrible recommendations, do the two-step process of clicking 'Not Interested' (if possible without even watching the video, or you can check it in incognito mode, assuming they're not watching that even more closely) and then 'tell us why', and respond 'I'm not interested in this channel: "undesirable video maker".

That assumes you can be sure you want to nuke the channels and subjects in question, but when it's clickbait channels and/or alt-right propaganda it's generally easy to identify and not get wrong. I'm sure the same would be true for leftwing propaganda, but the stuff I don't want pushed on me has a whole language and lexicon that's easily recognizable by video title, channel title and attempted clickbait image. If stuff trips my sensors on those grounds, I'm generally comfortable nuking it unseen.
This is such a brilliant idea. Wish YouTube made something like this to improve discovery. I am already a fan.
Qutebrowser is really amazing and I'm using it for lots of my browsing, too. What keeps me from going all in is the lack of something that can match ublock+umatrix. Sadly, the Internet has become a harsh place, where these things are needed.
I like the concept and it looks good.
Some criticism: After pausing a video, it still goes to the next video after a couple of seconds.
I'm also seeing way too many XHR requests on a paused video. It's like the next video is already playing but invisible? The network tab just looks way too messy.
Flutter is drawing a native style UI elements on an OpenGL (like) surface, and that is pure binary running on the device processor. Platform-specific features like Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. are bridged just like in ReactJs.
I will readily admit that I don't believe such a juice exists in any shops close to me. Anything that claims to be fresh is from concentrate, pasteurized or barely the juice that it claims to be (eg 90% apple juice, 7% the juice that you want, 3% unaccounted for).
Yes it is true, but you might accidentally skip cases which a proof assistant will tell you about.

There is much information you can specify than later extract from the already given piece of code eg. with dependent types.
Interesting. May I ask what hobbies are these?
Much of what's happening in such markets is collecting data to build ML systems.
Perhaps they're transcripting some receipt to compare/check with the result of their AI-type system?
>Part of the whole 10x package is getting the manager on board and increasing trust, not going behind their back.

It's a bit of column A and a bit of column B. Organizational politics often blocks productivity. Often the it's better to ask forgiveness than permission is quite effective so long as you're reasonably astute about how much political capital you have, how much you will make from the move and how much you will spend by the move. Other times it's the ability to build consensus and gain buy in to remove the organizational roadblocks is what can really be a force multiplier.

Both of these dynamics are at play.
It depends, $0.01 might be worth something in a very poor country.

But on the other hand if you have access to a computer a poor country, 1 cent might not be worth your time anyway.
sorry, meant to say EU:) good point, though!
Scenario-Based Learning – A New Learning Perspective. Node.js – Part 1
Even some 19th century rifles were banned in the Feinstein/Clinton ban of 1994-2004.
Then they smile, and say 'great, thankyou!', except actually their dog died the other day, and they're just saying that because their manager is right there, and the company policy is 'service with a smile'.
It's curious that no one ever talks about 10X times environments, 10X companies, or 10X management.

Nor about 0.1X environments, companies, and management.
We used to use glass, which doesn't really break down biologically, just mechanically (you can turn it back to sand) - I think we ought to be using all the plastic we make as some sort of fuel for power generation, it burns quite readily.
There will always be a need for landfill sites. And the current standards for their construction, use and end-of-life maintenance are vastly higher than they were 20 years ago.

Sadly, making sure operational/new landfill sites stick to the standards doesn't fix the problems surrounding old/abandoned landfill sites. If people want to make those sites safe(r), then that's going to cost a lot of money.
Would you say that people interested in languages should first look at certain "mainstream" languages Scheme/Racket, Common Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, Smalltalk, and Prolog, before looking at less-mainstream ones?
Magento 2 benefits, what are they?
Pretty standard in Europe : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocage
San Francisco Homeless Census Finds over 8k on Streets, Majority from SF
When some drastic new piece of law is introduced some people on HN are confused about where it comes from.

This article is a good example of how legislation starts. The UK is slowly moving to tighter regulation of gambling and activities which are like gambling, especially if these are targeted at children.
Might be a bit late but do you have some more info on these EU funds? I'm just a very technical guy but somewhere on the horizon there will be a point where our proto is matured enough we probably should seek some funding if we want to do something with it. Thanks.
People with guns are significantly *more likely* and capable to commit crimes

That is not at all what that paper actually says.
This is also how I perceive the 10x discourse. The Twitter thread - much more so than this HN thread - was quite revealing of this political/worldview aspect. Liberal views tend to encourage us to think that we are all equal and have the same opportunities. And obviously the idea that there are coworkers out that literally "10 times" as productive goes against this and receives a hostile reaction.