skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, I like the point you are making, but how do we know that overprotection was not a cause of the increased safety?

The numbers quoted in this article look ridiculously high to me:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-children-america-unsolved-...

But even at a tenth of that, making your kids harder to abduct may be the main driving factor in lowering kids abductions.
If you pay for an app, you are a Google Play customer. They are acting as a retailer, purchasing software from a vendor and distributing it to you as a markup. The developer of the software is the "third party" in the transaction.
It's been a process.

At first it was: "oh, thanks for the concern but she/he's fine"

Then it was: "What exactly are you afraid of, this is the safest time in history"

Then it evolved to: "Why don't you mind your own business"

Finally, I just moved to an area where people aren't like that, aka a rural/farm/country area.
Fear ruins everything. As adults, we fear failure, so we try to prevent our kids from experiencing it. As adults, we fear not winning, so we re-invent games so there are no winners. Everyone wins! (except everyone actually loses). We fear lawsuits, so we don't let kids play on our property, and we don't let them skateboard, and we don't let them do things unless its an organized activity with licensed/bonded/insured supervision.
My first 6502 program was self-modifying; I wrote it just before reading the book chapter on using registers for indexing relative to a base address. That book was Programming the 6502 by Rodney Zaks.

I have some 1986-dated 6502 assembly code of mine in hard copy (on dot matrix paper with the "holes" intact). I'm going to scan it one day and post.
This is an extremely common situation and, as you might guess, totally unfair. The portion of your salary that is unpaid is essentially a "bet" on the future outcome of the company. You bet more every day, as do others. The betting continues until the company can afford to pay everyone. At that point it will be easy to calculate the value of everyone's bets...yours, theirs, everyone.

Your share of the equity should be based on your share of the bets.

Think about it. This is the only logical solution. Why should you ever get a percentage that is less than your share of the bets??

Your 1% is a made up number that represents nothing. On day one 1% is way to much because you've done nothing. On day 435 it's probably not enough.

To calculate how much you should have use the Slicing Pie retrofit calculator: https://slicingpie.com/slicing-pie-retrofitforecast-guide/

You don't have to get screwed.
Still patiently waiting for an EPUB or Kindle version :)
As a French, the text is also really easy to understand, except for the two words "vole esser". That being said, writing in this language would still require months of learning.
Why is there no high-speed rail in the U.S.?
Someone I know relayed a story to me once wherein, at the passport gate into England she, a Canadian citizen, was held up by the passport control agent for not having a visa document. "Where's your visa?" "I don't need a visa, I'm a Canadian citizen. Your queen is my queen." "So you don't have one?" "Yes, because I don't need one."
I just want mainstream/built-in JSON parsers to be able to ignore comments and trailing commas. What ever happened to lax parsing?
Not sure if I’m familiar with the term “design defense”. Can you explain?

Stumbled into the idea. Basically just brute forced it. Tried thousands of things, built a huge database of languages, and tried to keep it simple.
Huh. I hadn't heard of Fair.org before.

I'm going to add them to my RSS reader for a while. If they realy are 'fair', it should be a breath of fresh air.
> The 24/7 fear cycle of news has drilled it into so many peoples minds that if you see someone anywhere on your street outside, they are there to murder, rob, mutilate, or otherwise commit crime.

Join NextDoor.com if you want a dose of how nuts people have gone.

I live in Orange County CA and I have checked it from time to time. Apparently this place is a crime infested jungle full of human trafficking gangs that abduct kids and street gangs that will sell your fifth grader fentanyl. There are also gangs of Satan worshippers that will sacrifice your kids to the devil or something. Then there are the sightings of pedestrians...

Then look up the actual crime statistics. With the exception of a few spots here and there this is "officer! Have you seen my cat?" territory. The stuff about gangs is the most laughable. The joke is "OC gangstaz be like 'it's not a phase mom!'"

As a general rule, the safer the area the crazier NextDoor becomes. Anaheim does have actual crime and the community boards are pretty sane. South County is almost zero crime and the paranoia on the neighborhood boards is off the charts.
I never thought that a tan protected you from DNA damage from the sunlight that caused you to tan. I thought that it protected you from future DNA damage to the now more type IV-like skin.
There are so many different variables at play in determing that though.

I remember in my football team's locker room, one guy ended up with an erection and beat up, spit on. I got to deal with hearing "faggot" for years just for being the one person saying to stop. I can't imagine that kind of thing happening today as often. There are good and bad changes.
The math of that dick joke from “Silicon Valley” (HBO)
By "slow startup time" I also include the time to import libraries which is really the bigger problem. For example loading the DataFrames library takes quite a long time, and I've heard the libraries for plotting take even longer to import.
Ah thank you. Some good info here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4418
Hell no, terraform is way better even though HCL isn’t the nicest DSL.
How can I market my SaaS product to founders?
I have an online equity calculator tool for the founders of early-stage, bootstrapped companies. What are some good ways to target this audience?
"starting"???

You must be new here...
The YEC community has extremely similar rhetoric to some of the flat earth “debunking,” utilizing scientific jargon and mimicking scientific instruction.

See Answers in Genesis for a perfect example. I’ve seen speakers from this organization, and I’m quite convinced that they are not trolls. https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/starlight/does-distan...
Apples and oranges. Japan is one of the safest countries in the world.

-

Murder rate (per year per 100,000 inhabitants)

Japan: 0.20

USA: 5.30
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

-

Rape rate (number of rape incidents per 100,000 citizens)

Japan: 1.0

USA: 27.3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics
I wrote a big sibling post, but I wanted to just point out that schools do tend to use up student's time. Students are required to enter a club and often these clubs are 6 days a week, so compared to the west, students have no individual free time. I know many (most) western parents think this is awful, but most of the students I had loved club and never wanted to go home (we had to turn the lights off at the tennis courts and even then some students would try to play in the dark!)

Some students hate club and we had clubs for students that hated club (unfortunately the English club was one of them). They show up for an hour a week and go home. It depends on the principal, though. Some principals are very much opposed to that idea, so if you don't want your kids to spend a lot of time at school it pays to investigate schools that will accomodate you. I will admit that I like Japanese schools and find them dramatically better than anything else I've experienced, so I'm biased.
Well, it might not be compliant, but the splash screen is their attempt at compliance. It doesn’t show in the US.
Help me understand, which ideologies are allowed to be discussed? The person I replied to didn't understand why people don't vote for certain policies. I tried to help them understand the position of people who don't agree with increasing aggression.
It's not about right or wrong, it's just that they work for different things but programming languages unlike math or human languages have to pick only one as default. 1-index is good for counting, if I want the first element up to the 6th element, then I pick 1:6 which is more natural than 0:5 (from the 0th to the 5th). 0-index is good for offset, for example I'm born on the first year of my life, but I wasn't born as a 1 year old, but as a "0 year old".

And since pointer arithmetic is based on offset, it wouldn't make sense for C to use anything other than 0-index. But mathematical languages aren't focusing on mapping the hardware in any way, but to map the mathematics which already uses 1-index for vector/matrix indexing. You can see the relation of languages in [1].

If you want to write generic code for arrays in Julia, you shouldn't use direct indexing anyway, but iterators [2] which allows you to use arrays with any offset you want according to your problem, and for stuff that is tricky to do with 1-indexing like circular buffer the base library already provides solutions (such as mod1()).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...

[2] https://julialang.org/blog/2016/02/iteration
Nothing mentioned about how these won't run into things or cause chaos in intersections? What happens if someone tries to jump on one while it's driving itself? I'd really like to know
There's definitely some overlap because of confirmation bias (young-earthers looking to help their case). But, in my brief time exploring and trying to understand the drive behind believers of 'flat earth' (mostly on YouTube), it seems to me a stronger corollary predictor for belief in 'flat earth' would be beliefs and fascinations with other conspiracy theories.

I would contest that in most cases if you have a Christian who believes in young-earth and you also have a person who believes JFK's assassination was a CIA hitjob, believes 9/11 was an inside job, believes government is using chemtrails to poison or otherwise alter people's perceptions or mental/physical faculties - the latter will be the one I'm putting my money on as the most likely 'flat earth' believer.
Websites can discriminate against you even if you don’t use them, California SC
To a large extent, alcoholism is by chance, accidental, and without any known cause.
3x times LOC, 1/3x speed and weird State corruptions? Not to mention dependence on 3rd party.
I guess Wiktionary might be mistaken, but it says the not-really-so-modern meaning of ‘loft’ is shared among Germanic languages: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loft
This is a common response, but I reject it. The over-protection in the U.S. goes way beyond actually protecting kids from violent crime. It's rooted in some kind of pathological paranoia. Even with its low crime rate, I think it could hit Japan in exactly the same way.
Came for the orthography fight. Disappointed.

But progress?
End of (work) life stage with 37 years continuous employment in two economies and 7-10 employees under my belt, I do not believe I could cope in this hiring market, at these behaviours.

I do not envy the cohorts surviving in this market/model. I feel we screwed things up, allowing HR to drive to this, and I feel we overplay "selling" in hiring, instead of letting people reach out and find like minds. I realize its a highly competitive market, but I think we've allowed the distortions to overtake the real intent.

I do not believe this is a good model. I do not want to participate or facilitate this model of resume/CV and hiring.
One cool thing about the cover that it drawn to say algorithm in Arabic.
Yep - play outside, but wear sunscreen.
Yeah knowing the audience is key. But an eye catching resume can also be very valuable.

In this field a design with something like familiar grey/white fixed-width type on a matte black background, ascii table outlines, and “syntax” highlighting, etc, etc, would probably get some more attention (good or bad)
A tool with a camera and other sensors you can log into remotely and drive wherever you like in Washington (for example) and then have it loiter while it beams data back to china. Sounds like a plan!
This is the #1 reason I would never, ever, ever use the Google Cloud to build a serious business.
This published edition apparently got rid of some content that was in a previous pre-publication draft. I remember thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of treaps and generally using randomization to great effect. That seems to be gone from this edition :( It was always one of my favorite topics to discuss with interviewers when doing coding interviews (if the interviewer is into it of course).
I wonder what fraction of web programmers understand transistor physics?
In western nations there seems to be a consensus into thinking that CO2 and GDP are bolted together and that industries can't become more efficient. Interestingly, that is totally and utterly wrong.

Since the 90, we emit about 50% less CO2 per dollar of GDP produced (PPP, so inflation-adjusted):
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD

Chinese citizens have cars, but they pay extra if it is not electric. Go visit Shenzhen one day to see the result: all the cheap vehicles are electric-powered tricyle, bikes or small truck.

The technological solution is there. It is a combination of clean energy (which includes nuclear, something that needs to be hammered on) and electric vehicles. We have these solutions now. The reason why it is not adopted worldwide is political. And countries like China who subsidize EV and tax thermal vehicles are showing the way.

Seriously: look at the energy mix of France, look at how fast their electrical production became mostly nuclear and produced very low emissions. The whole world needs to make a similar nuclear plant production run and switch to electric vehicles. There is nothing to solve in terms of technology,

We'll make the batteries a bit better, a bit cheaper but even that would be totally unnecessary with a strong political will.
Has anyone made this stuff work in a country outside the US?

I've done a bit of research into this in NZ, where it seems to be a lot harder to grind points (e.g. FlyBuys / Airpoints).
"could win a suit" on those grounds is a more precise way of phrasing what I meant.
Agree. This should be legislated just as calories are today. You could ratchet up the severity of the legislation slowly; initially you might allow estimates, over time you could start to audit the supply chain etc.

Some items do already expose this information, but it's pretty much all stuff for the eco market.

Though I remember Walkers' crisps doing this ten years back. 80g for a packet of crisps. Or about 3kg CO2 per 1kg crisps. Doesn't include final transportation though.
I feel some of this is basically unethical. The cards should stop proffering points bribes, and people with no intent of using the card as a cash vehicle gaming the points are making it harder for longterm card users, because they are eroding the value designed into the card as a real financial vehicle, not a points-hound game.

I totally get why people do this, but this is not a good model for how to live, which sustains, and is equitable with everyone else. There is an implicit "laugh at the ordinary joes" tone to this kind of behaviour.

"...just become a travel writer, get schwag for free" Please: writing is a skill. If you don't have good things to say about travel, and are doing it for the skim, you're not adding value to the travel writing business.

Maybe I'm over sensitive or grumpy today. I think this is bad karma.
Highly doubt Twitter staff are going to fight this because as long as China is paying/advertising on their platform, Jack Dorsey is going to keep quiet, continue to provide value to Twitter's shareholders and welcome Chinese trolls and bots with open arms. See my thread here:

https://twitter.com/improvehk/status/1156853415999180800
I'd take an outdoorsy farmer kid who can weld and blow shit up, over a "well educated" city kid who stares at their iPad, any day. I can work with that. I can't work with useless...
One thing overlooked in the article is that we no longer have mothers at home.

Society looks down on such women without considering how important constant attention is to children in their formative years.

Working households also have more stress and more bills (two cars, childcare, etc).

Why these points weren't considered for the article is beyond me.
Yeah, thanks, I seem to have forgotten the difference between 10^0 and 10^1.
They are still found as embedded cores in computer mouses and keyboards, monitors (OSD processor/scaler), digital picture frames (https://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe&page=1), MP3 players, Furby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599 , actually a 6502-subset) etc.
If you're a Google Ads buyer, Google is easy to contact. If you're a mere Google products user, good luck getting help via their crowdsourced message boards...
Maybe in languages that don't have powerful type systems.

I know c++ allows you to overload both the method operator and subscript operators.
A chat app that Google Translates all your messages through five languages and back to the original.
Build a web app with real time technologies
Find jobs where the degree is not a hard requirement. However many may require one, I've never had trouble finding employment without one.

If you're targeting a specific employer known to have that policy, then yeah, you're SOL, but there's huge demand for smart, capable people out there. I know a lot of guys who got spurned during an interview process when someone found out they didn't have a degree, and they wear that as a chip on their shoulder, using it to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars along with 2+ years of evenings on night school, when they could just say "Well, bummer, guess it's not going to work out" and move on.

For some people getting a degree is the right choice and opens the right doors. Just make sure that you're one of those people before a few frustrating experiences are allowed to dictate the next 5 years of your life.
Crazy.

Other places send homeless to California. California sends them back.

Not many advantages to being homeless, but maybe cost of travel isn't one of them.
Yep, but it's also the danger of building a business on algorithms. If developers start not to trust Google anymore then Google is going to lose quite a bit of its edge. Algorithms shouldn't have the last word about people. They can advise but not judge and people accepting wrong advices from algorithms should not get their bonuses.
A lot of it sounds like a huge case of false economy anyway unless they're buying stuff to resell or something.

> Chase Ink Business Preferred: Will offer you 80,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first three months. That is worth $1,000 of travel.

I don't have a US perspective, but someone who spends $1600 a month after rent in the UK is either financially suicidal or well off enough that they probably aren't fucking around with this sort of nonsense, they'll just pay for the holiday.
Show HN: Dead simple dual-licensing for open source software
Hey HN, I'm Ben Carlsson. I recently left Twitch (YC W2007) after five years and have founded an open source esports startup. In my downtime I've been trying to solve the perception issue that causes many open source authors (including myself) to be afraid of making money off their software.

Several times a year I've seen open source authors have mental breakdowns and post, more or less, "I'm giving up because of the unbelievable stress and/or lack of income, someone please take this off my plate".

As a community, it's embarrassing that such dedicated and successful authors have been driven to the edge, but on top of that every time it happens it contributes to a perception issue about open source software: "it might lead to a mental breakdown, better not".

Something is broken here. The kind-hearted are being driven away from open source. It's time to marry kind-heartedness with the free market. Open source should not mean poverty. Open source should not mean sacrificing nights and weekends with friends and family to fix bugs for large corporations for free. Working hard is one thing, but consuming your life with perceived obligations that don't put food on the table is another.

I believe dual licensing is a possible solution to this, but it hasn't taken off for two reasons:

1. Authors are afraid companies won't use their software because of the friction involved (not the $, but the internal bureaucracy)
2. Authors just want to write code, and can't be bothered to deal with licensing and payments and "customers", so just choose MIT

Dual licensing is what it sounds like -- the author chooses two licenses instead of one. The user chooses which one they want to use. Usually one is free but has restrictions (e.g. GPL), another is paid but has no such restrictions (a commercial license).

I'm trying to solve these two issues with dual licensing. I built Licenseland to take on #2, taking the extra headaches out of things like accepting payment. For now the #1 fear still remains, but I think it can be abolished with good success examples helping to set industry standards. Companies need to know that great open source software might cost some pocket change, and that letting their engineers spend that money should be a well-lubricated flow without second-guessing.

I will fall in love with you if you give me any feedback on this idea! I've been an open source developer and advocate in and out of companies (and government programs) for a decade now. Much love <3
One big one is that Lisp is probably much faster. Common Lisp is AOT compiled to the metal so it starts up fast and runs fast. CL is often within a factor of 2 of C speed and dramatically faster than plain Python. I haven't used Julia but recent stories on HN suggest it's no speed demon.
You're missing the point of my comment, and the parent comment. The parent comment isn't talking about how the GFW is a consequence of an authoritarian government, it's talking about how he wasn't aware people could get around it.

Where I'm pointing out that this kind of unawareness is quite common, and until you've actually been to China, or have lived there, you'll have a totally different picture painted by the media. (This really goes for all countries)
> Kids in Japan lead carefree "be home by dark" lives up until late middle school and high school, when they start studying 4+hrs/day and sleeping <5hrs/night to prep for standardized tests.

In my experience the same's true for upper-middle class Americans.
We had one too! "Go play, and don't come back until you hear the dinner bell." Plenty of range. So important for kids to grow up and explore.
That's an incredibly selfish way to parent, and I hope your kids are sneaking in some useful skills under your nose while you're not looking.
Did I write my comment that poorly that you think I care more about social activity than my kids fun? I didn’t think I did but maybe I’m interpreting your comments incorrectly.
> Yeah, see, I don't spend $5K in three months.

I do. And that makes the $1000 free money for zero effort (signing up for a new credit card in the US really is zero effort if your credit rating speaks for itself). It's just another way that rich people profit by virtue of nothing else other than being rich.
And Germany produced the Holocaust. Do we really want to use them as example of normal?
having kids shouldn't be a thing you do to affect your happiness, it should be a thing you do to replenish the population.