skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been bashing MS, Apple for decades (for the same tired reasons), and now FB, Google too. What is wrong in expressing displeasure? Its a normal human trait to do so. If you wrong someone enough times, they're going to spend their own free time and energy telling people how much they dislike you. I suppose taken to an extreme, it might become unhealthy.

To be clear, I don't like Google any more, and I'd be happy if more and more people stopped liking them too. An advertising/data-mining/surveillance company controlling access to information in a digital age is about as dangerous as you can get. Even so, I can still objectively praise some interesting cool tech that they produce...
What's broken is what you said in your first statement: even if I pay, they tend to also advertise. I also used to pay for a number of local / regional newspapers, but me paying them didn't get me quality journalism in a single transaction, it just got me better access to click-bait a lot of the time, and I got to feel good that maybe I was kinda supporting good press. (I also had a big problem with the fact that despite only wanting a digital subscription, I still got paper copies at my house, but because I wasn't supposed to, I had no way to stop it when I left town and I was stuck with a dozen papers on my driveway when I returned - nice and safe for me. I had to resort to borderline illegal harassing behavior to get them to stop.)

There are high quality publications that I think do consistently do the original research and due diligence behind their reporting, but they're mostly just not of interest to me anymore because they're national. I'm overloaded with political stuff in my face from other sources anyway - I'm happier just not reading good commentary on it in my spare time. I find BBC is a good source of world news, but they never ask me for money..
I launched https://www.anim8.io earlier this year.

It's an alternative to YouTube/Patreon for animators. It has better monetization options for them, and will have easier sorting/filtering of animations + I am working on some tools like in-browser frame editor.

No advertising, all word of mouth and about 40k people are using it each month which is cool. Our Discord should hit 1,000 animators and fans soon too!
No, it's particularly striking that a high-school age girl has taken the initiative to start such large protests and raise awareness about the issue and about the fact that something needs to be done yesterday. More generally, we find young people protesting and taking action against irresponsible, greedy, amoral "45-year olds" (as you put it) that yield the power and use it to enrich themselves at the cost of a trashed planet for the next generation.

I think it's pretty obvious what the message here is: the (older) politicians and business men are incompetent or corrupt, the powerless youngsters are showing themselves to be infinitely more responsible. It's a striking image.
> the scientifically-inclined minds fed her

Oh come on, this is blatant trolling. Be more subtle or you lose your target trollee audience.
"I don't care about cookies" extension, and Dark Reader. I've donated to both of them, multiple times. Well worth it.

Upon request, the creator of the "I don't care about cookies" extension will provide you with a receipt. That way you can write off your donation as a business expense or be reimbursed.
I do not understand the hate she consistently gets specifically in the anglosphere. Even the reddit thread about her the other day was full of hate. I honestly don't understand, can someone explain?

Of course she's can't save the world alone, but she's generated a lot of attention for an important issue that a lot of people are ignoring. What's so terrible about that?

I really like her. She's got this highly logical, consequential way of thinking that I've only seen in much older, highly successful people before. All she's saying essentially boils down to: If A leads to B, and you don't like B, you can't support A. She's not a figurehead, she's way ahead of the adults around her.
Fair enough. I try to spend as little time as possible on the bot and more time on the game itself :-)

The bot you describe sounds cool -- would love to see it!
The distinction isn't against protected words, but against more descriptive names (like "buffer" or "receiver"), and the issue is more complex functions, not one-liners.

Anyway, didn't mean to put you on the spot, since you don't speak for Go programmers and weren't planning to justify the argument, I just wanted to clarify why these wouldn't satisfy the challenge.
Do you know what the ingredients were? I know some people who have creams from a Chinese medicine doctor that seem to work for them.
I'm including indirect kills over their lifetime, not just direct kills over the childhood (kittens aren't capable of killing that much either), but otherwise, it's a fairly 1:1 comparison, nothing to do with whether the human population is rising or not.
From their own CEO, no less: https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-ceo-adam-neumann-offi...
A nomadic plumber found mysterious stones on his land
Is paying taxes optional? No, it's not an agreement but an imposition.
> Either advertise and make it free, or have a paywall subscription model.

I don't understand this fundamentalism. Newspapers and magazines that charged subscription fees have also carried advertising for literally the entire modern history of newspapers and magazines. Why is it suddenly a Fundamental Rule that they can only do one or the other? Who made that decision?
Wow so intuitive. :)

Thanks for the info!
Discuss climate change without discussing politics? Um ... how?
Show this to someone at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
There was a walking logging machine developed by Finnish company Plustech Oy in the mid-nineties and later bought by John Deere who tried to commercialize it but it didn't meet much success.

"[It] was designed with sensitive or by other means harder to reach terrain with minimum impact on the environment in mind."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJwDZXasKU

http://www.theoldrobots.com/Walking-Robot2.html

http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/pages/museums/museum-of-lus... (Near the bottom)
A lot of vegetarians/vegans I know think eating vegan food is automatically healthier than eating animal products. Of course, none of them are scientifically inclined.
Not really related to the article, but this short speed story with SR-71 Pilot is so fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILop3Kn3JO8
Her short interview with Trevor Noah two days ago is simply brilliant:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ed6ma7/the-daily-show-with-tre...
Pen-testers nabbed, jailed in Iowa courthouse break-in attempt
Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of “Sharenting”
It's OT anyway. There's so much mainstream news being posted the last few years here, it just keeps getting worse and worse.
First user for an API I recently went live with.

Pushed out an app today that makes it significantly easier to do a part of my job.

Two academic papers in the pipeline.
Only context this makes sense in is research paid for from public purse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita#Animal_welfare_contro...
Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein
> the fact that this girl has been launched into stardom practically overnight is a sign that she's not "in charge"

Why?
that source is from
Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) is a Canadian economist, author and conspiracy theorist.

Not looking great for credibility.

The Centre for Research on Globalization promotes a variety of conspiracy theories and falsehoods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
This site perpetually amazes me. There has to be a psychological effect for when a group of intelligent people discover a problem, and then intentionally propose overtly complex causes of death before they start ruling out basic points.

Even if this site knew that Islamic immigrants absolutely -HATE- dogs and thinks them evil, you would spend all your time ruling out the remote possibile cause of exotic bacteria in the atmosphere suddenly falling on Norway.

Correlate acid attacks to dog deaths. Be horrified. I'm going to call this psychological effect "HackerNews bias".
> the original NES does not work with RGB, but with analogue NTSC signals

I mean, the video hardware (video DAC? rasterizer?) in a NES is for NTSC/PAL, but that doesn't mean that NES palettes are specified in a YIQ colorspace or anything. The palette data is RGB; you don't have to do anything special to fill a NES-emulator framebuffer beyond what you'd be doing to render a GIF. (The gamma transforms mentioned in the article can be done during blitting with a LUT, but they could also just be done by applying a real gamma-curve transform to the framebuffer texture during screen compositing.)
You are surprised by vitriol toward young women on Reddit? You must be new.
I'm in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program: in my Knowledge-Based AI course, my final project that created an agent to solve Raven's Progressive Matrices performed in the top 10 of all submissions and hence earned bonus points for my overall grade (the performance boost was a surprise).

> Coures Page: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/

> Project Overview: http://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/summer-2019/project-overview...

> RPMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
This is great. Thanks.

I’ve also become quite fond of Icelandic band Low Roar, notable for making one of the songs in the Death Stranding trailer
One investor paid that price. That's the issue with illiquid assets that suddenly become liquid: What one person is willing to pay may not represent the market consensus.

A house or a piece of art is a bit different because you always only need to find one buyer. But a company's shares traded on the open market are extremely liquid.
Hi HN!

I'm Trevor from Parabola.io. We're excited to show off Discover Local.

Music is really important to our team, and we look forward to helping others discover new artists and see more shows.

If you want to know a bit more about how we built this, I linked a post that goes into more detail down below. In short, we pull in concert data from Songkick, then compile song data and create playlists with Spotify before sending it all on to Webflow for display.

The best part is that Discover Local was built with absolutely no code over the course of a few afternoons!

Feel free to ask us any questions you might have!

https://medium.com/parabola-labs/discover-local-playlists-5f...
I've definitely noticed that there's something people find uniquely infuriating about an intelligent, well-spoken child that makes good points they disagree with. I think it's because suddenly all the usual excuses to dismiss arguments-- they're a paid shill, they're a political agent-- sound ridiculous, and the people don't know how to cope with the fact now that they have to argue for real and they're losing to a kid. It happened with Malala and it's definitely happening with Greta Thunberg too.
> in the Midwest in a fairly high taxed state

Just curious, if you don't mind sharing, which state is that?
Thank you for sharing this. Great reading!
If you want static typing (mostly) on your TensorFlow, and are willing to explore a new language, I am making https://losttech.software/gradient.html - basically .NET binding to the entirety of TensorFlow. If you want functional, it works with F#, but syntax is a bit worse due to the lack of DLR support.

See samples: https://github.com/losttech/Gradient-Samples
I also thought it was common knowledge big companies tax evade routinely.
A great example of scandal would be the "very fine people" scandal.

A plain text reading of the transcript and a fair viewing of the press conference has the President saying that he was not talking about neo Nazis should be condemned totally, and that there were also very fine people on both sides of the statue debate.

Jake Tapper of CNN has clarified this multiple times on air.

As for agenda, I'm an Indian citizen with no business or personal interests in the USA other than following the news as a hobby and enjoying the reality TV aspect of it.

Googling it gives you essentially fake news. Try it out.

Vote the man out of office but don't destroy your society and potentially others by looking the other way and allowing a company like Google to do this.
Totally fair, if the list of opinions rejected includes 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists, you're already rejecting the authority of those who have the ability, education, and training to speak to the problem, so a random girl nor internet user won't change one's mind.
That was my takeaway as well, based more on the twice-fired history than the high school performance.

Some people just don't apply themselves. Some just have bad luck. Some have a combination of the two. It's unfair to Orry Carriere (the individual in question) for us who aren't better-versed in his personal history to assume which of the above cases (or perhaps others unmentioned) he falls into.

But regardless, the article seems to have cherry-picked Mr. Carriere. Alternatively, how would someone who graduated in the middle of his class (or near the top) and never was fired from their job have done as a welder?

I'm quite open to the argument that the "wealthy welder" is truly a myth.... but this article was not the most compelling, objective way to make the argument.
Operation Plumbbob
This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths
"Tech" is a label which can obviously mean anything as broad was "builds skyscrapers" but in this context means companies with very low marginal costs. That is specifically what WeWork is not, as every new customer requires the acquisition of physical office space.
While I agree with your sentiment, he does fit the description:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist
1.b: a writer who aims at a mass audience
Those who hate her either wish they could be as influential as her or hate the threats to their way of life that they believe will be the inevitable result of seriously addressing climate change.
It's obvious that Soros controls her mind via implants and satellite links.
> I honestly don't understand, can someone explain?

She's a woman, she's young, she's autistic.

She faces a triple-whammy of discrimination because of that.

She's also calmly reminding people that climate change is real and poses a risk of harm to the world, and she's actually doing something to stop that. For some reason climate change is absurdly polarised.
Catalog of Unusual Off-Road Locomotion
You're a legend byuu, thanks for enabling me to have so many countless hours of entertainment. I look forward to your posts!
Would you care to respond about paying students to post reviews?
Stench on toxic substances is a feature, not a bug :)
I honestly don't understand the point of this reasoning, and I'm forced to conclude (because it transpires in every word you say) that you are somehow massively jealous of the attention that is being given to her.

So what? I don't get it, is she supposed to produce original research else she can't speak at all?? Well no shit she is not saying anything not already published in peer-reviewed papers. She is selling it to an audience that did not care but may begin to care because of all the publicity, and crucially, to an audience that needs to be on this side for any meaningful change to get done. Not new? Not particularly intelligent? But what, is she speaking at a climatology symposium? No, she is speaking to a general audience, she is speaking to be heard in the news and by word-of-mouth.

Really, what do you actually want of her?
You separate it from politics and treat it like the scientifically-backed issue it is.
> I'm no fan of for profit boot camps, but also, we need to compare them to the alternative of 1/2 year CS or "data science" masters degrees from accredited universities:

I think that's perhaps the wrong comparison. The whole idea of bootcamps is that they are directly comparable to a four-year CS Bachelor's as measured by employment results.
> Do people have a choice to opt out of those services and therefore their corresponding payments?

Yes. Move yourself out of the country somewhere else (and in the case of the US give up your citizenship). My go to recommendation here is Somalia for the "taxation is theft" crowd
Thanks for asking this question :)

Couple of them for me

1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database)

2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry):

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check...

3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it for 9 months straight.

4. Finally, if all goes well, a baby on the way in our family!
> the Sega Genesis encodes 9-bit colors, giving 3-bits per channel

I love systems that didn’t align everything on an 8 bit boundary. Are there any modern systems that aren’t 8-bit aligned?
In what way has Swift adopted Python style?
It'd be nice if editorials weren't paywalled.
It's a shame Greta Thunberg's advisors, assistants, helpers, etc all fly around getting supplies & setting up meetings. Instead of, you know, the more carbon-efficient method of traveling the ocean via maritime ships.

Great Thunberg's coterie of helpers have a larger carbon footprint than the majority of us.

But hey ... at least it's not as bad as Prince Harry, who said every action matters (when telling the plebeians to stop their commercial air travel habit), and then took 4 private flights over the next two weeks.

Gotta love Gulfstream environmentalists.
Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons
I used to see my former (non-technical) dev manager browsing HN occasionally.
There's a bit of a difference here: the staggering figures for wildlife killed by cats that they cite is for the US:

> the felines kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 billion and 20.7 billion small mammals, such as meadow voles and chipmunks, each year.

But since free-roaming dogs are very uncommon in the US (and most of the developed world), they have to jump to strays and owned free-roaming dogs across the world to make their comparison.

To be clear, the latter is on point relative to what we're discussing in this thread (eg the feral cats statistic). But there are solutions in reach that would be acceptable for dealing with strays (eg, what we do for dogs in the US), that apply to both dogs and cats. The difference is that this would cause dogs' threat to the local environment to nearly vanish, while cats would still pose a massive threat to local wildlife due to owners that let their cats roam.
My step-brother was a grandfather at 35, and in all likelihood he'll be a great-grandfather by 60. It's something of an historical aberration that most people today only have children within a very small window of time.

Interestingly, a clear, geographically distinct trend developed in Western Europe several hundred years ago, long before the industrial revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line
I'm talking about physically isolated computers connected to separate networks, not connected to the same untrusted network. The meaning of the isolation is that while operator of each network has one class of data (voice/sms vs. the internet), neither has both of them.
It says “usually”. That allows for exceptions like Alaska. (I just looked at the stats, and it looks like there is data on 510 welders in Alaska out of 389,190 total, so it’s a tiny exception.)
How kiteboarding was invented
Just to give an anecdote - Church of Scientology has been in business for 65 years.
Please email info@rsync.net. I will personally figure out a way to get you onboard at a price-point / duration that works for you.
IEEE Ranks Robot Creepiness: Sophia Is Not Even Close to the Top
If you like MUDs check out the new, excellent, and often-updated https://www.titansoftext.com podcast :-)
Getting https://baseline.red up and running. A simpler, alternative APM for Rails apps.
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People hate hypocrisy. Greta may be innocent, but her helpers buy far, far more plane tickets than us - her target audience.

Scratch most environmentalist attention-seekers, and you'll find hypocrisy. Look at Prince Harry.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495834

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541626

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20792601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20813325
She is high-profile and high-visibility now, and not because of arbitrary chance. Because, if you recall, she started the climate strike movement.
The hot new trend in Bitcoin Maximalism is eating house pets?
The article makes it sound like his ouster had nothing to do with Maria Butina, and everything to do with speculating on shady crypto ventures.

> The problem is, with just two tokens—representing Overstock’s and Tzero’s own shares—available to trade on Tzero’s platform, almost no one uses it. The company says it is aiming for 5 to 10 tokens by the end of the year.

A nearly empty stock exchange that no one uses. What a joke.

> Fumed Byrne in May, after investors bombarded him with calls and emails when he sold 900,000 shares of stock, “Frankly, I had no idea that shareholders would demand explanations of why and how I might want to use my cash derived from my labor and my property to pursue my ends in life.”

Nonsense. Every CEO is familiar with the concept of "skin in the game." You're cashing out because you've lost confidence, and that sends a signal to your shareholders.
In my particular case I work from home, and my 'commute' is back and forth from church in the morning; I give a lift to a friend who isn't terribly mobile, so the car is necessary – otherwise I'd be on the bicycle. Unusual, I'll grant :-)
Probably the most common question in applied statistics is "Does X affect Y?" To answer this, you get data and do some analysis that, from the bayesian perspective, leads you to some distribution of beliefs over how X affects Y. From a non-bayesian perspective you still have some kind of uncertainty. But you still want to turn that into a yes/no, so you come up with a rule for turning that uncertainty into a deterministic yes/no. Data in, yes or no out.