skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Activists are long on ideas but short on technical know-how. Someone like you, willing to volunteer your skills even part-time, would be a God send.

I would suggest focusing on work that motivates and scales, just as people do in the for-profit sector. Activism that puts political and economic pressure on the large corporations who are the worst polluters provide the biggest bang for the buck. As just one example, there is a movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. Better software might help activists reach more people and mobilize them to pressure the boards of the universities they work for, etc.

Another issue we currently have in the country is that corporate interests collect huge amounts of data to sway elections, while activists without those same deep pockets are outmatched and outgunned. So any software that helps support voter turnout, voter equity, etc., would also indirectly help address climate change and other injustices.
The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
Go nuckelar, and carbon extraction
The second example is avoidable by forbidding mixed use of tabs and spaces, as in the two directly following each other. The first example doesn't do what you want really as x and y are part of the commented out code.
It's no different in most of the EU and North America.

The dollar and euro are IOUs, the the debtor (the state) is insolvent. As are 20-30% of all employers.

Bitcoin is 10% down in the past 24 hours. So much for that store of value.
Waiting for ipv7
US Covid death toll surpasses 1918 Spanish flu
The latter will probably win due to high time preference and soft money. My standard is basically an admission that I'm not going to be able to use any of this hardware, unless there's a separate market for power users.
Not having kids would help a lot in reducing future emissions and pollution though. Would reduce consumption.

Bill Burr put it quite succinctly: “that’s not a family photo; it’s an environmental disaster and you’ve framed it!” [0]

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wq_edHqpdA
Some are more disinclined to work though. It is why ADHD exists. Stimulants helps you become more inclined to work, so laziness is at least partially dependent on chemicals.

I mean, if taking a pill can make someone less lazy then laziness must be a thing, right?
You can have the same flow in python raising and catching an exception.
Oh can Ubiquiti do 20gbit now? That's what they're able to do here and their advanced alignment system helps

> Imagine pointing a light beam the width of a chopstick accurately enough to hit a 5-centimeter target (about the size of a US quarter) that's 10 kilometers away; that’s how accurate the signal needs to be to be strong and reliable.
That's right! The less pithy answer: objects are the things that stay invariant under a transformation. In that sense then car length and gas are somehow MORE than linearly independent - they are "geometrically independent".

(Note there is a relationship between the length of the car and the gas tank when the car is moving fast (close to c) in your reference frame - but AFAIK there aren't any useful geometric transformations that depend on that fact. :)
As consumer you have an impact, at least it sets an example and gives credibility. This reminds me of "climate activists" who fly around the world in private jets to preach!
Does this kind of app distribute easily? As in, can I package up the runtime and the app into a single exe? I see this, but does someone have experience to share?

Edit: Found it!

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/blob/master/docs/...
Thanks! I will check out
As someone who also dropped out, I think college will always be there for Simon. You go to college to become employable. I learned far more on the job than in school—and dropping out didn't hinder me becoming a good engineer—it expedited it.

Go back to college when you're older and then study something you'll appreciate learning. Hungry kids like this who want to start making stuff in the real world should do just that.
Thus begins the slide from RISC to (what POWER/PowerPC ended up calling) FISC. It's not about reducing the instruction set, it's about designing a fast instruction set with easy-to-generate, generalizable instructions. Even more than PowerPC (which generally added interesting but less primitive register-to-register ops), this is going straight to richer memory-to-memory ops.
This is what pisses me off the most. America's housing is being sold to the wealthy, who then just turn around and siphon the rest of the wealth out of the middle-class and younger generations by forcing them into renting because the barrier to break into homeownership simply eclipses them.
Lua has `goto` since 5.2; you don't need a continue keyword. e.g.

for z=1,10 do
for y=1,10 do
for x=1,10 do
if x^2 + y^2 == z^2 then
print('found a Pythagorean triple:', x, y, z)
print('now trying next z...')
goto zcontinue
end
end
end
::zcontinue::
end
I posted in one of the earlier threads that I am an Epik customer, and unfortunately I am caught up in this mess. I have never hosted political content of any kind. The domains I own on Epik were related only to technology. I registered these domains with Epik for no other reason than they had an affiliate deal going, and a friend of mine was already a customer. I am not a white supremacist, I am not even white. My credit card information was part of this leak, and as a result my card was used for multiple fraudulent transactions. I am in the process of dealing with the financial and legal impact of this right now[1]. I don't care what justification the people responsible think they had. Their actions have wronged lots of ordinary people like myself. This extends to DDOSecrets as well. I don't care that these people think they're doing the lord's work. This action was nothing short of just irresponsible, and downright malicious. Emma Best is a bad person for hosting this information. I hope the people responsible are brought to justice.

[1] The matter is under investigation, which is normal procedure for financial institutions in these instances. I'm still waiting for the return of the funds.
I think of economics as having the classic two sides of theory and practice, but with the quirk that the practice is grossly inefficient because it's a dynamic feedback system based on itself.

Engineering takes theoretical principles and pits them into practice. Here's what the free body diagram of a structure might be, but how do you ensure it stays up with abnormal conditions and a client who's going the extra mile to cut costs?

Imagine if in engineering, constants changed the more precisely they were measured. pi is different in the USA because China measured it more precisely yesterday. Or if weather patterns changed to exploit the weaknesses of a building to maximize damage.

I don't think econ is theoretically irrational, it's just that the application in the public eye is seldom isolated to simple, static systems. When applied to simple systems, I think econ is quite reasonable and makes accurate predictions.
Thanks for building this, it's useful and well presented!

Replies to your pinned top comment seems disabled, so allow me to ask here (sorry for the hijack):

> used a custom NLP-based ranking function to sort the comments

Can you expand on this function? (I'm familiar with NLP and most SOTA models)
I've heard this "no more than 3 levels of indentation" thing before, but isn't that somewhat language specific? If in coding in python, I have 1 level for being inside a class, 1 level for being inside a function, and that gives me only 1 level to write actual program flow with. I find it hard to believe that a double nested for loop, having 4 levels of indentation, is in-itself a sign that I have to "fix my program".
No, it goes into your lungs and provides buoyancy for as long as you hold that breath. Some of the oxygen gets taken into your bloodstream, where it no longer provides buoyancy, but that's compensated by an (approximately) equal amount of CO2 that you exhale. But unless you blow it back in the bag, it ceases to provide you any buoyancy because it goes back into the atmosphere. (And if you do blow it back into the bag, your next breath will contain rather a lot of CO2...and the next one after that, even more.)
Eggs, really? How does a significant portion of my food coming from grazing backyard chickens, and not transported thousands of miles, contribute to greenhouse gas emissions?
What do you guys know about lucid, or at least intense, dreaming?
The Cells example is super interesting to me, because I've longed for an open source, liberally licensed, spreadsheet component for the web, similar to what exists for rich editing (ProseMirror, Slate, Quill). Some UI frameworks like Material UI have a neat table component, but the pro version gets the fancy data grid, and it isn't designed to be able to function as a spreadsheet anyway.

Besides lacking an open source version, spreadsheets and data grids haven't been studied as well as they should be.

It is also difficult to build one using just the DOM. For instance, you can't have a table be horizontally scrollable with the scrollbar fixed at the bottom and also have a fixed header.

Here's something I played around with a while back that has keyboard navigation between cells. Going between pages isn't great. The default focus scrolling in Chrome skips a few rows, and it doesn't respect the fixed header when scrolling up to the top after scrolling down. https://table-edit-20210409.vercel.app/ https://gitlab.com/ResourcesCo/table-edit-20210409 I tried making it with CSS Grid just to see if it could be done, and it turns out, only with Firefox. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La... I'm thinking of drawing it with JavaScript, perhaps with a combination of canvas and DOM elements.

Back to the 7 GUIs - what's great about it is trying to build stuff from scratch. So much of web development is just putting components together and customizing them, but there is a lot of lower level work to do, and the more developers that attempt it, the more progress will be made.

Edit: found this, pretty interesting: https://github.com/TonyGermaneri/canvas-datagrid
To those who suggest "don't have kids": if everyone who cares about saving the planet followed your advice, what would the voting population look like a couple decades from now? I say instead, have children and raise them to be the kind of ethical, courageous, well-educated leaders our future so desperately needs.
Nobody ever mentions profits. That hasn’t changed
It's a ludicrous standard, fortunately in decline.
Don't they what, port their models to being on-device?

I'm not Google, but just look at why they did it for voice: The hardware caught up, the UX is better when it's done locally, and I think they mentioned better power consumption?

Presumably at some point that might happen for image recognition. They already started in Google Lens with porting OCR + translation onto the device
What the linked thread doesn't mention is that github respects editorconfig files. If you create one in your repo and set the number of spaces a tab should represent, it uses that as default for the repo. Maybe the feature hadn't been launched yet in 2018?

https://editorconfig.org/
Pay wall, can’t read
People could try books instead of stack overflow.
Not the OP but I'm guessing he meant in the day time. Yeah, having your high beam on at night is pretty anti-social...
An example of a modern bike with a valve lifter is the Kawasaki KLR-650. Generally any large-displacement motorcycle with a kickstarter, or that can be fitted with a kickstarter, has one, because otherwise the engines are impossible to start. These days, most of them are automated (some mechanism does it for you if the engine speed is very slow).
Tito can’t be on HN 24/7, I suppose.

Join Airminers! Carbon capture is really the only solution at this point. https://airminers.org/
Honestly, first coronavirus, then this. It's like they want to self-destruct and take us all down with them too.
If you're shooting, or dumping burning oil on your enemy, or even throwing rocks at them, being a bit higher than they are is a significant advantage, if for no other reason than the fact that you can see them better than they can see you. It's like the high ground in land battles.
> We can discuss where the threshold is,

It doesn't matter what arbitrary threshold we pick. Relative to the USA, they are poor. Having half as much productivity per person is relative poverty. I'm not willing to give up half my income (probably actually more for me, given the industry I work in) for some relatively minor putative social benefits like explicitly nationalizing health insurance.

> not by the 2-5x

I was talking about dev salaries, not median income (although median income is also quite different).

> Canada, Austria, Australia and Sweden.

GDPPC:
Canada: USA 38% higher
Austria: USA 28% higher
Australia: USA 10% higher
Sweden: USA 15% higher

I'll admit that AUS and SWE are reasonably close. Canada is quite a lot poorer...
In all seriousness, one of the sure-fire tests whether impotence is caused by physical (very rare) or psychological (quite common) reasons is to tie a thin string around your penis before sleep. If you wake up and the string is broken, it's a psychological problem, because every man experiences unconscious tumescence several times a night. "Morning wood" is just when you happened to wake up during one of those cycles. :)
I thought Pinot and Druid are direct competitors
This is brilliant. Thanks for doing this. One tiny request -- can you please link the primary title to the homepage. I want to be able to click somewhere to come back to the home page after browsing around a bit.

After packing/archiving my library of physical books around 2010-11, I went all digital. However, I came back and try to stay roughly at 1:4 (physical:digital) book ratio when my daughter complained that me reading on the Kindle, "Are you really reading a book."

I re-started buying physical books in 2018. I have a knack of buying books recommended by Hackernews comments and the curated list of people I follow on Twitter. I re-started with less than 10 physical books around mid-2018. Between me and my daughter, we might have crossed 200+ physical books. I need to figure out a better way to deal with this.
> Seed rounds are bigger: At Heap, we raised $2M on a $12M cap after having a working product and some early traction. Today, it's not uncommon to see a pre-product company raise $5M on $25M or even higher. However I think there's still a ways to go–SaaS outcomes have grown in size more than 10x in the last 8 years, but seed valuations haven't climbed 10x.

Why would the valuations climb 10x? This makes sense given the author's second observation:

> There are way, way more SaaS companies and getting initial traction is harder

The rounds are bigger because more money is needed to compete. But investors would lose their shirts if they multiplied the valuations by 10-fold.
Climate change can't be fought on a personal level. That's just propaganda to shift responsibility onto the individual consumer and there are plenty of bleeding hearts out there that eat it up and conjure up guilt for something out of their control on a macro level
Brave, Firefox, and I believe Opera all do this also. I use Brave everywhere for the adblocking, but same gist. I get aggravated anymore when I find a site that I don't have credentials stored, or that refuse to work with Brave(looking at you, US Bank).
This suggests that spaces are more popular.

https://hoffa.medium.com/400-000-github-repositories-1-billi...

The only exceptions being C, where tabs are slightly more common, and Go, where tabs are the official style.
The reality is that the confederate flag only represents racism to the side that doesn't wave them.

The reality is that it's possible to "throw around the n-word" and still have respect for black friends.

The reality that we are forbidden from acknowledging is that those rallying the hardest against racism don't actually understand racism. Its not binary.
> don’t procreate

This is stupid. Choosing to not have a kid will have absolutely no effect on climate change and would make life less fulfilling.
How to Trick Your Computer (and Your Boss) into Thinking You're Still Working
Working at Tesla, or another car company working on EVs, is one of the most direct ways to immediately have a big positive impact.

But working for "the next Tesla" would be the most potential positive impact, given that Tesla has already achieved its goal of forcing the car industry towards EVs.

You could make a list of the most harmful industries and work at a company trying to force them into change, like Tesla is doing with the auto industry.
Cloudflare’s analytics have been powered by Clickhouse for a long time. And I was an early investor in Timescale. They’re both excellent products.
nice news!
Whoop: We left a msg for AMZN etc. on circuit board&every engineers’ initials
Ending your own life would be even more helpful, I’m surprised no one has suggested that yet /s
I don’t know why there would be a “the” contingency, but we know they’re also hiring for active RISC-V engineers. It’s definitely not obvious the field is as limited as that.
> To those who suggest "don't have kids"

I would also accept "pay people to not have kids", similar to how some countries pay people to have kids [1] [2] [3] [4]. Not having kids has value, and hence those who choose not to should be compensated appropriately.

EDIT: @EForEndeavour: People who have children receive tax credits and benefits simply for having them (US centric) and their future impacts are externalities.

[1] https://qz.com/200728/what-countries-around-the-world-give-t...

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_famille_nombreuse

[3] https://www.france24.com/en/20130611-why-french-women-make-m...

[4] https://www.vhemt.org/bbbounty.htm
What I love about Teams the most (/s) is how it forces you to take that little "tour" when first launching the app (and at random other times) where it makes you click to acknowledge every stupid little button in the entire bloated UI... See this here? Click and share your inspirational thoughts with your teammates! And see this little widget over here? This is where you go to tell Jenny at the front desk what you'll be having for lunch. FFS.
I suppose if targeting the web backend you could package into a docker container. I wonder if golang embed could be an option for packing python for native ui
An alternative is to use soft tabs for anything that needs to be aligned, especially if the things appears after other code which is already indented. An even better alternative is to not use align code like this, as it invariably leads to soul crushing diffs and merge conflicts when you have to change the size of the longest line.
Headlines like this give me a knot in my stomach and make me really anxious. How long until my working solution no longer works thanks to the masses of tech-illiterate animals without password managers? Or should I be more upset that I, a free man, should be forced to manage passwords?

There are two issues here:

1. Unified and standardized password management must become a thing

2. Fewer sites should require a permanent account to make a transaction
When Michael Arrington finally called it quits.

You could also make the case that it's always been a mouthpiece of PR/VC companies, since the beginning.

Edit: Just checked out older TC versions, check out what was hot in 2005:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051124000642/http://www.techcr...
It’ll be interesting if Cloudflare or someone else can release numbers on how many hits they’re getting from Private Relay. I’ve always been curious how many people pay the $2 per month for iCloud.
I have the vague recollection that there's some case law about this. Basically, asserting your rights doesn't create probable cause. Only useful after the fact, in court tho.
It seems from article that the big change is how VCs now accept product-led growth today versus the past.
I didn't ask Best Buy which one they wanted to sell me... I simply bought one at Best Buy explicitly after deciding which one would be the best (and I had to drive two hours to find a Best Buy that carried it).
Just tab in under the function definition on a new line. Done.

>The most productive thing is to just ban tabs.

There are valid accessibility reasons to prefer tabs to spaces.
Eh I don't think that's entirely true. Not all traits are so circumstantial. Some biologically inherited or genetic conditions (eg. ADHD or Aspergers) correlate highly with personality "traits" that can hold pretty consistently across different environments and circumstances. There are people with brain damage that are observed to be consistently more aggressive, consistent enough to be identifiable as a trait. In some cases, purely physical medication on its own can substantially alter or eliminate certain behaviors and "traits".

They're all dependent on something, but they're not all highly dependent on the surrounding circumstance like the article suggests laziness is.
I found that even the concept of doing the "binary search" when debugging is an acquired skill. I often see people facing a vague (in a sense that it could be anywhere e.g. among multiple components or services) issue either think by analogy to previously seen issues without verifying; or offer various hypotheses that are random and unlikely/unwarranted (from "what if we just restart it" to "maybe RAM is defective and is corrupting the data"); or jump on a random correlate that may be spurious or actually a side-effect of the issue itself, without verifying it; or just get stumped. Just forcing yourself to think "how can I narrow it down [whether it's to one of many distributed services, or to 20 lines of code out of 200]?" / "what is the next piece of information I need?" greatly improves your debugging/live site skills.
Sigmoids Behaving Badly: Why They Usually Cannot Predict the Future Well
passwords ain't broken but the thinking here is at HN :(
passwords are going to be around for a good long time as i suspect WebAuthn and others will discover. the author is correct that hackers are smarter than companies and developers about human psychology, which, like, matters. databases want identity data and a simple 2FA on top of passwords is winning because marketing can get your phone # too. and on and on...
I've replaced my iPhone 6s Plus battery 3 times since 2015, it continues to be my main daily driver.

The cost of a new battery is around 10 bucks and some patience to install it.
> Someone like you, willing to volunteer your skills even part-time, would be a God send.

Lots of people have this idea, including me in the past.

It doesn't work. Nonprofit professionals aren't stupid. They know volunteers disappear as soon as something else comes up (paid work, kids, just wanting to relax, etc.) Most of them won't waste their time with "skilled volunteers."

If you want to help a cause, you have to get into the mud. It needs to be your focus. These are complex problems with lots of stakeholders that are highly tuned to whether you actually give a shit or whether you're a tourist trying to make yourself feel better about working for a big corporation.
I don’t think I will ever feel that genocide is a appropriate answer to any problem, no matter how strongly you feel about it. So we will have to agree to disagree.
That was my guess too.

Anecdotal, but I've noticed when I had someone not see me riding, the majority of the time I forgot to turn on my high beams. It's a huge win and I don't think it's bothersome to others before the sun sets.

Also, the OPs advice is great. If you want to get technical the "Twist of the Wrist" books and videos are really great. Here's a clip on counter-steering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWuTcJcqAng
Wow - I hadn't even considered the Electron "app" angle! That is such a disaster re: memory on my Mac that I certainly don't want every app on the iPhone to become Electron. Apple has gotten away with comparatively lower memory on the iPhone than Android - and it makes sense this'd be a key reason why...