skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the child that out of her own will started to strike for climate awareness is beeing used?

I didn’t follow every nook and crany of her story, but I didn’t see her promoting anything that a rational objective observer should also conclude.

What I did see, were a big amount of butthurt middle aged men who couldn’t handle what a girl telling them the truth does to their own self image. And instead of using this as a chance to groe as a person they start to rationalize their behaviour in ways which are uncompatible with the reality.
Oh those terrible scientists brainwashing our kids. Something must be done.
I don’t care either way. I just hate that everything boils down to elaborate story telling. She had to travel by boat to the UN. All of this is highly theatrical. The facts have been known for a long time, just talking about it won’t change anything. Whatever she has to say is not new, interesting or particularly intelligent. It can’t be. She has to rely on experts and then packages their statements in digestible, made for TV, Twitter and Instagram form.
This isn't American phrasing just the original poster's bad title.
They could well come to the same conclusion if they followed a similar person learning "coding"..

Cherry-picked example. Although I do think the Conservative opinion of skilled trades is not really rooted in reality. Most of the better-off tradesmen are sole proprietors.
Hawks, owls and snakes are much more useful for removing rats, and cats are about as useful for removing those as they are for removing rats.

I do not support a cat ban, but that argument is not a good one.
Atlassian for one. Their old code viewer was a disaster but that might have been Bitbucket’s fault. The repository list lazy loads, and if you’re at a big enough company the repositories get into multiple projects and it’s always disorganized. Which project is this repo in again? Time to hunt around and oh yeah CTRL-F doesn’t work unless you remember to scroll to the bottom repeatedly.
I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it.

https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb
Is there any evidence from their S-1 or other publications, that this is actually their strategy? Or is this a narrative retrofitted on the message boards?
> … meeting or beating Fortran…

Keep in mind that there seem to be more programmers - making more effort - to improve the C and Rust benchmarks game programs.

The Ada and Fortran programs don't get the same work and improvement.
You might very well think that, and it sounds like you won't be investing. But presumably people who believe "culture" is what makes WeWork a good investment are used to investing in intangible things.
Please don’t argue with imaginary people about issues you imagine they care about. It’s really a waste of all our time, and it’s the easiest argument to win since you control both sides.

There are plenty of actual people with present concerns you can talk to.
Not a dumb question. No, we can't clone it. It will be an incomplete genome, it's just a subset of the animal's entire DNA sequence, and it's reconstructed from proteins. We've recovered some words from the ashes, and so we can tell what language the book was in, and where in history that book fits in with the language (comparing those words with other books with similar words), but we can't reconstruct the whole book yet.
Advertising ruins every medium it ever touches.

Newspapers. Billboards. Magazines. Radio. TV. Cable TV. VHS / DVD. Usenet. Email. The Web. Online news. Smart phones. Streaming video.

It is a watershed decision to have ads or a subscription model. Ads will doom your platform / media. A subscription can create high quality content, if there is market demand for your content. Do not do both subscription AND ads. That devolves quickly.

Just IMO.
We do not; but why would her opinion matter. Or more exactly why would it matter more than that of some random guy commenting on the Internet?
As a rule, nothing published in HBR is relevant to startups. (Or most likely anyone.)
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Have shared hosting providers finally got some competition?
This is a great start - an annual reminder to care about your fellow humans... and actually express it.

I challenge HNers especially to express care and compassion in this way more than 1x/yr. it costs nothing to indicate you care about the other humans you share your oxygen with, no matter how jaded you may be about their beliefs, behaviors, work output, technical expertise, or whatever it is that might normally put a person at the top of your proverbial shit list.

At the end of the day, we are all human, and sometimes it’s nice to remind yourself - as well as others - of this fact.
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Strfry() gives skewed distributions (2007)
Linemen in PHX make upwards of 95k plus shit loads of overtime.
Sounds so glass-half-empty. In my book you succeeded at one of your goals. :)
Can you just let people prepay a certain amount and deduct from that every month? You don't want to charge 30 cents a month, but I'd happily prepay $10-15 and have it deducted from the total every month.

If the problem is not wanting to support a bunch of small accounts, I totally get that, but if the problem is credit card fees every month, there are lots of ways to avoid that.
Ugh. Build dedicated lanes, then, Atlanta. A scooter-pedestrian collision isn't pleasant, but it has a far, far better outcome for the pedestrian than a car-scooter collision does for the scooter.

I speak as someone who bikes and walks, and is as annoyed as everyone else by scooters -- they still have a right to personal safety.
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> what can scientists do with this?

Scientist's things. Increasing knowledge, conservation of extant species of endangered rhinos, understanding how Europe lost half of this big mammals fauna... Things like that.

An antiweather sweater made of wool of european woolly rhino looks badass on the other hand. If they have it in orange, I want one.
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* Facebook has been the best dating site for the last 15 years

* Sites like HackerRank, Codility, etc. So fun.

* https://teachyourselfcs.com/

* Loop Habit Tracker (Android app)

* raylib

* Anki (thanks, HN)

* Queal

* Virtual desktops, took me way too long to start using them, lolsob

* The secret clouds area in 6-2
The basic idea is that there is fact and there is truth. When fact is communicated it is intended to build truth in the audience.

When truth is communicated it is the product of the system that produces it. In our system, that truth serves a specific set of individuals, insitutions, and social relations. This isn't an explicit process it is inherent in human relations.

There is no way to "fix" the production of news and truth. What we can improve is how people consume the news

On this specific issue, the original question wasn't "is this speculation" it was "are they presenting this statement as fact". They are not presenting it as fact, it is clearly identified as a quote from a government official.

However, someone with poor reading skills might interpret it as such, which gets back to the original point that the focus should be on improving how people consume the news, not in trying to fix a problem that (imo) cannot be solved.

edit: can't reply to your latest comment. It sounds like your position is now that no one should be allowed to voice opinions about hypothetical situations because that is not a fact. Is expert opinion not a legitimate part of a news story? Or are you saying that the way they presented their opinion made it seem like a fact? I don't agree with either intrepretation.
You are correct that the US needs a multi-party system. The lack of recognition/appreciation of the extent that the two-party system shapes and constrains every single public discourse such as this one is frankly amazing.

The current dynamic is akin to children playing one feuding parent against the other in a broken overly-adversarial marriage. You need a minimum of about 4-5 independent voices in order to facilitate civil public discourse.
>The speed of light is only constant by convention.

I don't think that's true. If someone wrote a paper where the speed of light is different in one direction than another, then that's in clear contradiction with experiments. Yes, there are some legitimate searches for anisotropy in flat space, but they have all come up negative. So, I wouldn't say that it's "constant by convention."
Doesn't look like this does anything clever/special; it just randomly spits a finite set of handwritten commands to the socket that the author's target MUD happens to accept.

Was hoping that this was something more like AFL for TCP clients, discovering all the commands the MUD supports, and through it, the entire state-space of the MUD's world-model.
Dermatologists and radiologists will not be replaced by AI any time soon - for precisely these reasons.

Geoffrey Hinton personally saying "we should stop training radiologists" just reflects a complete lack of understanding about what a radiologist does.
we got 503s in multiple AZs in us-east-1 and are still unable to start a specific instance in us-east-1b :(
That's a pretty limiting article starting off with the premise that tech companies are companies that produce goods with a marginal cost approaching zero and then illustrating that with those companies for which this is true. But there are plenty of tech companies who were not IBM (Xerox, HP, Tektronix etc) who did just fine while still having quite a bit of cost on their purchasing side and enjoying substantial returns on their investments.

This article is similar in nature to the one where Paul Graham claimed the word 'startup' to mean some narrowly defined entity that somehow embodied the ideal company to invest in for YC.
The problem with (some) paywalls is that they also advertise.

Either advertise and make it free, or have a paywall subscription model.

I get it that news isn't free. What is strange about the struggle is that in the 21st century a big news organization can have a bigger subscriber base than ever before. So why don't they? What is broken?
The variable names are mostly from the paper, since the blog post mostly just transliterated the Pascal code in the appendix. Some of them are explained. n: sample size. N: file size / total record count. U,V: independent uniform variates. X: random variate approximating skip distance. S: skip distance. qu1: N-n+1. y1 and y2 aren't explained, they're just intermediate formulas. t seems to be a local loop variable. i and j are index variables for the array used to return the sample, introduced by the blogpost.

I'm not saying it's good code, but BLAS is similar: https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/blob/master/BLAS/.... At some point working code beats comprehensibility.
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A 45 year old accountant may not have to face the same impact of climate change as someone who's ~30 years younger.

I'm not shocked that someone from a younger generation is worried about the long term impacts of climate change and how it may change their future.
It seems to me that a larger company could use this to crush smaller competitors, keep them from gaining market share by advertising using the smaller business name as a keyword, and constantly outbidding the smaller competitor. Enabling that kind of anti-competitive practice is pretty horrible.
Cutting-edge ML and PhD data scientists aren’t essential elements of being a tech company. A traditional business with a mobile app in front of it is solving a problem with technology; it’s just not solving sexy HN problems.

The point here is that WeWork has been hyped and seen valuations as if it were solving the aforementioned sexy HN problems, when it’s really just a regular, unsexy tech company that is solving more mundane problems of office rental with a nice tech stack and UI. I’m sure it’s a solid $5B business.
Amazing what weirdos like this can do when they have a bit of daddies money to get them started.
Ooh, that's a bit much. The website dev is pushing their side.

No user of the site is forcing anything onto any other user of the site.

Perhaps we can have an HTTP header or something that says to the site, please don't mess with browser behaviour. Omit that and the site has got implicit permission.
Matrix/Riot has a lot of anti-abuse stuff fwiw - https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation has more details, and we're about to launch a shared blacklist feature in addition.
Is that true of Apple? I guess it might be if we’re tracking dollars per use-minute.

It is probably true of Xiaomi.
> out of her own will

citation needed. the fact that this girl has been launched into stardom practically overnight is a sign that she's not "in charge".
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I can’t seem to edit on mobile but I was wrong. It launched today under the ticker NET on NYSE.
I think you may have missed something in the article. It does not state that the five years of work had been continuous or at the same location. It mentions multiple places they worked and that they were fired from multiple positions.
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As I understand it, in at least some of these instances the pilots were looking down at the ground when they claim to have seen objects beneath them. /nitpick
>She is parroting ideas that the scientifically-inclined minds fed her.

Is this satire or am I missing something here?
"I'm writing this because I'm too angry to work."

This is a poor premise.

I give it a pass because RMS was probably in a similar pique when he sent his ridiculous email.

But elevating this conversation (and actually ditching RMS) will require calm.
My guess is that they are going forward with the ipo because they are desperate for money and about to go under.
Very interesting, looks the fines are tit for tat from a game theoretic perspective. It seems the headlines are dominated by fines of American enterprises but that doesn’t paint a full picture.
Scala does have some interesting applications for stress testing. I personally think that this project could have benefitted from the Akka Streams library. Akka Streams allow you gloss over thread creation while focusing on scheduling events to send to a sink. Pretty handy when you want to quickly spin up a rudimentary stress test tool.
>Another frequently overlooked problem with the 'trade school' mantra is that women need jobs too - and I'm willing to wager that the prejudice women are going to face in a welding shop is going to be a lot higher the frequently cited problem of women in engineering.

I suspect there is some truth to that however, I regularly see women with 'welder' listed on their dating profiles (mostly tinder, although I've seen 2 on Facebook dating app, within 15 miles of me, since it rolled out making matches in Indy yesterday) and personally I only know one male that welds for a living.

I see plenty of female automotive techs/mechanics around too. I think out of my last dozen oil changes there has been at least 1 woman in the bays working and as many as at least 3 and my last brake job was a woman (she called me out to do the 'well we could machine your rotors butttt...).

I'm sure there's a lot of sexual harassment and general unpleasantness still there in a random shop but I feel like there are a lot more 20-40ish women in these sorts of jobs than there were even a decade ago. Indianapolis could be somewhat of an outlier though as we have a huge FFA presence here and in surrounding towns as well as a few trade schools that just do automotive, welding and electrician training.

What I've never seen though is any women doing HVAC or plumbing. One would think women would be more inclined towards plumbing given they are generally smaller and can fit in those tight spaces better, instead in my experience I've generally seen plumbers that are built like me, like a refrigerator, grumbling and groaning while they try and snake their way under a sink or behind a toilet.
Well that's kinda cool. I didn't know there was a discord chat for mud coders. Also it appears there's a slack chat for mud coders as well https://mudcoders.com

Oh even cooler, there's a mud chat network so people can chat between muds: https://grapevine.haus (coded in elixir too!)
If you can recognize art then you can recognize posters/ads. That would remove the need for any QR code or machine readable printable element.
I find it funny that when I try to look at the replies I get a membership wall off. No I don't want to sign up for some new thing just to read some glib self-righteous twitter comments
It's bits vs atoms. Anyone who has run a company of both types feels the difference instantly and intuitively.
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It would be wrong if it was true.
> If she was a 45 year old accountant trying to take a stand on climate change I don't think she would be trotted out like this.

Because she inspired many other kids her age to start speaking up and do something. I can clearly remember when I was 16 and started to realize how bad the grown ups were actually at implementing all these things they thought me I should value. Starts with democracy and goes to environmentalism.

On a symbolic level she represents the generations who will get the blunt of it. The generations that will have to battle all of that mess the generations before them created.

I don't really see, why her decision to use that publicity should be any kind of valid critizism really, unless it is meant to be an ad hominem attack to avoid talking about the topic.
Do people have a choice to opt out of those services and therefore their corresponding payments? No. They're forced on the citizens, ergo, theft.

You can have a government without taxation. Fund it through voluntary contributions. It would be much smaller, which is another plus.
The first four block 1 varients deployed to Afghanistan were pretty widely publicized. After that you can find public references to test events throughout the 2010s, the manufacturing of a few block 2 varients, and stated interest from more than one agency. But no there aren't a lot of hard numbers to be found in a Google search. Presumably you could learn more by looking through the actual contracts, but that takes some time and effort.

For a completely new military program, that's close to your best case scenario. Most new programs get dropped after the first prototype.

https://www.auvsi.org/arms-armed-and-armor-lockheed-martin-p...
This "jackassery" watch (using his terminology) is one Gruber's sillier and less constructive habits.
The claim is very much not that he should have gotten a different degree, but that there is no decent path to upward mobility for this seemingly decent person (or at least welding is not that path).

Some have been arguing that skilled trades are the answer to those who are facing a lack of opportunity, this looks in depth at how one person's attempt to join the skilled trades went (poorly) and also looks at statistics for welders generally and shows that it's a mixed bag.
My bad. I did click through but didn't re-read the headline. Just assumed it was the same based on Vox's history with clickbait BS.
I did the Coursera Compilers course (highly recommended), so I implemented a toy language... but have never created one :-)
Citation needed. From a non US perspective the world looks a little different.
I think something like the following makes a bit more sense:

"If you have information that you want as many people as possible to know, it's a disservice to yourself to put it behind a paywall"

Of course, I don't think that most people read into statements the same way the 'ycombinator crowd' does. So maybe they read it that way anyway.
Yes - makes me wonder how much of the perception of time and history is influenced by teaching and testing methods such as being required to memorize the dates of events (e.g., 25-Oct-1415) rather than the chains of causation (Why were Henry V and the French fighting, and how did they get there, and what else could have happened).

Also the "near-miss" analysis reminds me of seeing smart companies requiring reporting of near-misses, not only of accidents -- that kind of more nuanced analysis is more likely to prevent accidents even before the first one happens, rather than losing at least one finger/hand/person to a problem type.
I’m curious if Paul is referring to online news, academic publications, or both.
Any actual examples? I hear this complaint but usually little to support, did it really get worse? I get bad results from time to time, but it is good in most cases.
Thank you for the book! I will definitely check it out!
What came first, the services provided or the taxation?
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It’s still a better definition than “everyone who does accounting on a computer is a digital company”.

I don’t believe WeWork is a tech company by any stretch of imagination.
ZAS is a good example of blinking backgrounds quickly to introduce more complex backgrounds:

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/16804570/21383939...
How about we listen, instead of simply disregarding, or going down the political rabbit hole bc of the age of the messenger?
That's true, but doesn't the saying "Be excellent to each other!" have more impact when Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is wrapped around it?
I believe Turkey owns those F-35s operating in the US, they're used for training. On that Wikipedia page you can see there's dozens of F-35s in the US owned by foreign air forces.

Can they just fly them out of the US at this point? No idea, but it's interesting to see what'll happen with that.

Just because Russia has S-400 advisors in Turkey doesn't mean they get to walk around wherever they want, including wherever the F-35's engines are serviced.

The concern was specifically that they'd have access to detailed radar data on the F-35, which they'd have access to in their roles as advisors for the S-400 missile system.
Dev related questions are one of the few times I still use Google over DDG. Maybe it's because I do a lot of searches for fairly basic concepts when learning something new but a relevant SO result is almost always in the top three.
Google is advertising.
Facebook/Twitter/etc are social networking.
Uber is transportation.
Amazon sells stuff.
Silicon Valley lost its tech when it lost its silicon.

You are not a tech company unless you sell technology to other companies, and that is your main stream of revenue.
I had taken the statement as referring to scientific publications. There, the publisher isn't the one paying for the work.

(Perhaps I don't view news as having something important to say)

However, your point is interesting - sometimes you do have to charge in order to say things effectively. For example, you generally have to charge for a book to cover the cost of putting it together.
That might be a software company without customer service.
Can you elaborate, would be interested to understand your concern.