skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The movement has been led by scientists for decades. They have been ignored.

If it's shameful that a 16 year old is being forced to lead a movement, the shame is on society and the older generations for not doing anything about climate change despite manifest urgency.
The greatest lie Propaganda ever told is that a certain group of people are not as susceptible to it as others.
> The 16-year-old Swedish crusader single-handedly launched the climate strike movement last year

Yes, single handedly, just her, her famous parents, a PR team and millions of dollars worth of support from the likes of George Soros et al.
Typed Lisp, a Primer
I did not blame the victim. I specifically blamed the many adults and organizations using her to try and score political points.
I think personal automation is what will finally make Shortcuts useful. Like you, I've got a ton of flows that could benefit, but without triggers a lot of the shortcuts were just saving me a few button presses. To me, that's just not worth cluttering the Shortcuts UI and having one more thing to maintain.

As you point out, there's unmet potential. So many times I go to create a shortcut, "surely they have an action for $FOO, it would be one of the first things I'd implement", and...no. But it's getting there. Maybe not this year, but I hold hope that Apple will keep at it and in the next year or two this feature will start to open up.
In line with the market means in line with other workplaces at the same shittiness level.
People who tolerate worse conditions should be rewarded with a higher pay; they can want to work somewhere else, but prefer more money and other rewards.
In the states, a lot of leftists (specifically the coastal elite types) have disdain for working class people who are not like them or who live in the south/midwest/rustbelt/redstates/somewhereelse. They favor some policies (e.g. lax immigration laws, sometimes to the point of open borders) that do not help those working class people they claim to care about, and accuse these people of being racists for disagreeing with their opinions.

At least, that's how some people see it.
Exactly. This whole child thing was invented by the Nazis to gain popularity. Now they use the same tactic for climate in the UN. Madness. That child will grow up and must face the consequences of the action of her parents.
Calling areas that can't afford the construction of sea barriers unimportant is a very cavalier approach. Maybe "human ingenuity will pull through" but how long will it take, and how many "unimportant" people will die or experience extreme hardship first?
I am also of the mind that all the social media platforms do this.
I hardly ever use Instagram, but whenever I get a notification from someone I know is obviously fake I always get caught in the rabbit hole of my feed.
You're correct, and I think "patterns" would be a more straightforward term.

I believe the confusion probably stems from the word "idiomatic," which means "using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker."

i.e. "idiomatic English" simply means that it sounds like a native speaker. Likewise, "idiomatic python" would be code that reads like a fluent python programmer.
No just dont amplify them so incredibly much. They are children in the end, they deserve protection

Trolling is a fundamental right , not being trolled is not
Has anyone tried to do an analysis on these trolls? Who are they and why are they trolling? I'm concerned that these aren't normal people and instead people interested in maintaining the status quo are coordinating these activities.
> Although, honestly, the parents shouldn't have allowed their kids to put themselves in these 'activist' positions to begin with.

Oh, fuck you. Greta is taking better care of your kid than you are.

Ppl ignored the adults. This is what you get.
A number of persons have been hit with large bills for sending their children to District of Columbia schools while not residing in the District. In many cases the city school administration did a really bad job of following up information, and the parents have been or will be cleared. In other cases, the parents really did live in Maryland or Virginia.

And then there is gaming addresses to get one's kid into the best non-magnet high school (Wilson).
Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers
"Selected" by who? George Soros? Young people are going to start speaking out disproportionately about gun violence in school and how it relates to pathological communities like 8chan and Gab, and climate change because it's their future. Half of them will be female.

"Young girls not being able to express an opinion because of trolls" is a totally ass-backwards way of looking at the situation. Society in the age of social media just needs a way of shoving trolls back under the rocks they've historically sleazed around under.
> That’s because most cities have poor quality of life

And the ones that don't have incredibly expensive properties.

Of course, if you live in the bay area there's a good chance you're exposed to both expensive prices and a poor standard of living, which I'm sure explains a lot of the horrifying experiences I read about here.

Personally, I live in Cambridge MA. Despite this city being the world's top biotech hub, the part of Cambridge I live in is incredibly family-friendly. I don't see needles or crime unless maybe you get close to the "main street" but that's a 15 minute walk away. The cars drive slowly, there's kids and parks everywhere. I would love to raise a family here. But, a single floor in a 3 family building (which was working class housing just a few decades ago) now sells around a million bucks. It's just not feasible, so my wife and I rent and will probably move out to buy somewhere else if prices don't go down in the next few years.
I would be happy if I could find an appropriate way to get more visibility for one of my open source projects (a snapshot backup system, called Snebu). My problem is that I don't want to feel spammy by throwing out references whenever an opportunity comes up (like I just did here), however on the flip side the more people that use it, the more support tickets that will come in that may ask for things that are outside of the design scope. And I would feel bad if I can't make something work for everybody.
I've been at companies where I spent perhaps 7 out of 8 hour in a day pair programming, and it was the most productive I've ever been.

As the parent comment said, it's not for everyone. Nothing is for everyone--there are many different work styles.
Definitely a good refresher video. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that its important to re-visit what we take for granted every single day and at the least be appreciative of all the amazing value open source software community brings.
iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max review: High quality for high prices
For some reason everywhere I’ve ever worked the POs get offices and devs don’t. Why are we treated like sweat shop workers? Why don’t devs get their own offices? We are paid so much money but have to sit in open offices or cubes like call center workers.
You linked a performance analysis of RTX cards in Control, a general overview of ray tracing and how it applies to gaming and some youtube video from almost a year ago about DLSS not being implemented very well in one game (which has since been much improved).

None of these corroborate the idea of RTX effects being aesthetically inferior, or that this is a widely held opinion.

Consider watching these for an up-to-date take on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blbu0g9DAGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5NLl85pPo
How long until we get messages like:

> Hey!

> djdjrntbdjc
If it’s the perfect job why do you want to pad your CV with junk? Why not pick some stable tech and take the opportunity to get really deeply into it? The only reason to chase buzzwords is if you plan to leave soon!
The OnePlus 7T packs a 90Hz display, Snapdragon 855 for $599
List of Landings on Extraterrestrial Bodies
I was trying to conjure up an image of how most island economies are glad, at least initially, to see development that brings jobs.

I don't know how to flesh it out better.
Re-inventing the wheel is a funny idiom itself.

In 99.9% of cases it holds true, it's easier/ cheaper to use existing/ off-the-shelf solutions.

The other 0.1% (not absolute numbers), it makes sense to innovate.

Quite a few idioms fall into this category, like premature optimisation being the route of all evil. You really don't want to be on either end of the scale.

I don't think the website is redundant. Something I think is useful to be able to compare languages, especially when using a new language. Plus, languages are interesting, they're not just a syntax, they often bring a different way of thinking.

One issue with the website is that there is no indication of example quality. For instance, the B-Tree* in C# has some issues[0]. Using classes instead of structs is horrible for memory management and garbage collection. As does not constrain the generic type to structs ("where T : struct"), this continues on from the above. None of this would be apparent unless you understand .Net's memory management, inheritance, garbage collection, and spent some time with generics. Many of the other languages have got this right.

[0]https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/9/create-a-binary-t...
*I have often wondered why trees aren't standard collections, inserting nodes and tree rotations etc are common use cases for B-Trees. This does feel like re-inventing the wheel, giving developers plenty of opportunity to screw things up. Tries are another structure I think they have left out, there are times when tries are often a better solution than dictionaries (urls spring to mind).
All it's likely to do is irritate people and that really won't help the cause at all.
Almost none of the orbital sweeping effect comes from collisions. Even Jupiter is tiny, in the scope of space. The majority of orbital sweeping comes from repeated gravitational deflection.

Having a tiny radius will reduce the amount of of collisions, but it won't have a significant impact on orbital clearing.
Artificial art: How GANs are making machines more creative
I think the field has a cultural problem that's causing their data problem: impact is valued over empiricism.
By the media
If you listen to the transcripts, this is essentially what they're campaigning for - for the adults to take charge. And these kids are being congratulated for speaking out while the contents of their message are ignored. It's frustrating to watch.
I also don't recall any particular preparation that I did for the SAT - I may have picked up a second-hand prep book somewhere.

But it was not like it was rocket science to know how one is supposed to take these kinds of tests. I graduated from a very unremarkable rural school system in New England. From 2nd grade on, we took a standardized scantron-type test (the CAT test, if I recall correctly). In 4th and 7th or 8th we took a state-wide standardized test that was more of the same multiple-choice sections, with an additional writing component that was a watered-down version of the now-discontinued writing portion of the SAT. Then I believe that they had us all take the PSAT in 10th or 11th grade, and they also encouraged people to take the ASVAB, as we had a large percentage that were planning on the military anyway.

By the point it was time to take the SATs, all of the strategies and gimmicks that are covered in test prep for the SAT were pretty old hat, and we'd been through that wringer at least a dozen times over by then.
> 1. Some places are going to be flooded. The important ones will construct sea barriers. The others: oh well.

Most valuable places will be flooded. Sea barriers won't stop it. You're going to be able to sail over the Guggenheim. Maps of the US will have to be re-drawn to remove Florida.

> 2. Some places will become infertile while other places become fertile: sucks that the Midwest will become a desert but Canada is going to be a great place to grow things in 100 years.

Unlikely. Soil erosion is accelerated by climate change. There are roughly 60 harvests left. Fresh water is going to become extremely scarce. Constant, slow-moving storms will basically reduce yields on land that is still viable. Did you notice how much of this year's harvest was off because of the torrential rains?

The tundra isn't going to become fertile. It's a bubbling mass of methane and hyrdrocarbons. It barely has any soil. Who wants to try and grow things on a mushy field, full of mostly dead things, that might explode or re-introduce you to ancient diseases?

Plus you will have vast tracts of densely populated areas with people that need to migrate because the wet bulb temperature there is lethal to all humans. Mass migrations of billions of hungry, thirsty people.

> 3. Technology will improve if things get really dire but I'm sure human ingenuity will pull through.

Not fast enough. I wouldn't rely on it, "sorting itself out." We're already in the 6th mass extinction. That's not activism, that's just science. We're on the roller coaster and the time to get off was about 30-40 years ago.

If you look into any carbon sequestration technology out there it's simply not feasible at scale. Maybe it will be in 30-40 years but we'll already be into the worst effects of climate change by then.

If we do nothing now it will be worse later than if we try to do better.

The likelihood that you or I will make it to our twilight years in comfort is very low. It gets lower the more that we delay action to reduce our carbon footprint and try to slow down or stabilize the feedback loops. Things got this way because the generation before us didn't do anything about it knowing full well that this outcome was likely. It was known in the seventies that this could happen if we didn't reign in emissions. Well... guess what? It happened. And here we are. It's not the predictions of one person -- there are thousands of corroborating studies over decades of research.
That's the whole idea. Adults, and politicians, are not doing what we should be doing.

The "kids" will inherit our poor decisions so they're making a stand.
> Although, honestly, the parents shouldn't have allowed their kids to put themselves in these 'activist' positions to begin with.

Why? If your child is passionate about something, why would you disallow them from pursuing it?
In grad school, we took an unofficial survey of GRE verbal and quant scores. Far and away, the non English speaking students scored significantly higher than natives. Anecdotally, The non native speakers actually studied in that way you describe, and the native speakers assumed the fluency would carry its weight instead
The solution is not picking children from the crowd to use as your political shield.
>In the US this has become increasingly frowned upon by (perhaps) well-meaning administrators who feel that to do this is unconscionable.

Because it is unconscionable. I dropped out of high-school at 16. I was able to go back and earn a degree in computer science at the age of 28 at a Canadian school. Under the European system where your life path and career trajectory is decided for you at 14 years old, I wouldn't have been able to do this.
Hi. Thank you for sharing your experience. I am about to take a GRE myself so this type of insight is very helpful. I too remember making a lot of flashcards for the SAT. I had a rather relaxed approach to studying but the consistency over time made it seem like everything I learned showed up one way or another on the test, especially vocal words.
Patents are written in an intentionally obtuse and difficult to parse way. They're pretty much written in the style of an 11th grader who is overdoing the thesaurus to try and sound smart while conveying as little actual meaning as possible. It's not like you actually want your competitors to be able to reproduce your idea -- you just want the protections.
Day 1 Dinner: Canned Corn (Giant brand) is considered "ultraprocessed".

Wow. I appreciate the link. Honestly, seeing the menu makes me think it is somewhat quackery. But it seems like Scientific American really did represent this study correctly.

The main thing I've noticed is that the "ultraprocessed" foods are low in fiber, and they try to make it up with large doses of "NutriSource Fiber" pretty much every day.

There are exceptions: Canned Corn (wtf?) makes it on the list of "ultraprocessed", and has decent fiber from my memory. A few days later they have beans + beef. But otherwise, the primary source of fiber in that diet is artificial Nutrisource Fiber.

Dietary Fiber is core towards feeling full. Its no secret to me (at least) that more fibrous foods (even when low in calories) fill me up quicker than fiber-free foods. I can eat 2 or 3 500+ calorie donuts for example, but trying to eat 800-calories worth of "ultraprocessed" canned corn (that's 1.5 kg / 3.3 pounds of corn) is simply infeasible in one sitting.

Or to put it another way: 800 calories in corn is roughly 3x 8.5 oz cans of corn. Still "ultraprocessed" (lol) according to this study, but its going to be way healthier than drinking diet lemonaid with Nutrisource Fiber.
Presumably pay should / can be lower in a place where you actually want to work for than in a shitty work environment?

My major want is to get money deposited into my account. I'm at an age where I need to focus on building wealth. But that's the other dilemma -- I could go into working for a consulting company as a "digital transformation consultant"/"cloud consultant" where I would be travelling or working from home a lot, but that doesn't excite me either -- thus I stay where I am until I can make up my mind.

What do you mean "up to date with technology"? IMO most "recent" technology is mostly hype and/or vaporware, and as I get more experienced, I see more and more value in old, reliable, well-supported technology. I mean, I'm not dissing on all new tech (Rust?), just saying that just being "new" doesn't make it also "good".

"Up to date with market" and "resume building". The only "value" I get out of any technology is the ability for it to get money deposited into my account. "Old reliable, well supported technology" doesn't get recruiters beating down your door. At 45, I can't afford not to be competitive and keeping up with new technology and then whine about "ageism"

I don't care about Rust or any other new technology until I see it appearing on a lot of job reqs.
Show HN: I build a website for picking Chinese names
The question should be how US created ISIS
Things are more complex than that. People will pay for a standing room only flight because the cost is so high. If I could fly standing room for $5 instead of $150 I'd be more interested in paying $20 a seat.
Even if it's wrong for parents to expose kids to toxic online environments like Twitter, surely you'd agree that someone trolling kids online (like with "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!") should be ashamed of themselves and driven out of polite society, yes?
I wonder if I would be successful today, were I looking for someone using an online service. 11 years ago I met my wife on Match, and I had had dated a few other people from the site before I met her. I am just average looking for sure, maybe these days I wouldn't get any responses at all.
Announcing the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
This is hilariously accurate and reasonable from my experiences. Being surrounded by hard working people tends to help some work better.
Who are "they" here?
This goes back a long way to the internationalist/"socialism in one country" debate. What is the boundary of a "class"? Are the interests of working class people born on one side of an invisible line fundamentally at odds with the interests of people born on the other?
Hello, I notice that many people like to have Chinese characters tattoo on their body. However, they don't know the real meaning and the culture behind those characters. Therefore, as a native speaker, I build a website for picking Chinese names called Pikaname.

Behind the scenes, we have native Mandarin speakers pick the most suitable name for you base on your preference. We pick names from traditional chinese characters, which we think has kept the beauty and full meanings of Chinese culture. Thanks for reading and we hope that we could pick a great Chinese name for you :)
Machinery made of... plasma \o/

Because anything in close orbit is by definition plasma.
Yes, most browsers treat password boxes as sensitive input which has implications to a lot of things. For instance if a blind person types in their CVV using assistive tools on Firefox on macOS, making it a password stops it from being read out loud like other input (it's probably the same on an iPhone, and in some cases this would be annoying if you're in public, etc).
The girl is autistic (no really, she is) and they're just taking advantage of her. It's just the new David Hogg.
Yes. Not only are the videos[1] straight talk and actionable, they're super entertaining. Terry Crews is the real deal.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4krRkO4sHc
So the idea is that children will succeed where the scientists have failed? It certainly doesn't seem to say much for the scientists.
Ah shhgit Find GitHub secrets in real time
You can see the transition they are making to other energy sources in their advertisements. BP even changed their logo in 2000 to a green sun they call Helios.

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/who-we-are/our-brands...
That wouldn't get anything up to relativistic speeds. The universal rule of slingshot manoeuvres is that you depart from the slingshotting body at the same speed you approached it, just in a different direction (in the slingshotting body's frame of reference). Therefore, the maximum velocity gain you can achieve with a slingshot is governed by the velocity of the slingshotting body - the black hole. Which, as far out in the extremities of the solar system that it is, is not very fast.
Also even if you are collaborating, do you really want to disturb others?
That's not odd at all!

It's entirely predictable that people have different work styles--some will thrive in an open office, and some will thrive in private spaces.
Except, that fear is well founded and they know that it's ultimately up to their generation to do something about it.
The app should create a fake account listed as a woman, but with a picture of a man and the text: Fake Account

Ban anyone who swipes right on it.

Or limit the amount of right swipes allowed per day.
You can change the whitepoint. Not the same, though, but something.

https://www.iphonetricks.org/the-ios-reduce-white-point-feat...
It is a feature. The devs worked to spec, it is PM who is to blame.
This isn't about politics, it's about survival.
Surprised they are using American weapons (looks like M4 variants in the photos).

I would have thought the FARC would have historically held onto Russian / Chinese AK platforms due to their reliability in Jungle environments.

Unless they source most of their weapons from cartels?
It’s a valid complaint. I haven’t used android in 5 years and I still miss tasker. It’s the kind of basic, important tool that any personal device should have. It isn’t difficult to implement well. There really isn’t a good excuse that it took so long and it is nice to finally have. Every “reason” why it took so long is simply someone imposing their personal opinions onto a wide range of users.
I understand why maxlength would be appealing but it takes the hacking skills of a fourth grader to change it in the browser's html and submitting any number that they'd like.
Gotta start the indoctrination while they're young!

https://www.amazon.com/Activist-Innosanto-Nagara/dp/16098053...

Yes, that's an activism board book for 3 year olds. Yes, there's an entire genre of these.