skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You WANT that

I don't want bugs in the house, so I clean the dishes every night before going to bed. That doesn't meant I WANT to do the dishes, only that it's the best solution I see to the problem.

As I understand it, what she wants is to get people to take action against the very real dangers of global warming. Becoming a well-known activist is a means for that end. That doesn't mean she WANTS to be a well-known activist.

> using her as a political tool blew up in their face

Who is the "they" here?

> "My child has mental illness issues,"

I was unable to find that quote.

> "Not a doctor!"

Am am unable to find that her parents refused to find a doctor.

> "She needs to be mocked and abused by political ideologues"

The same Wikipedia you referenced says "When she started protesting, her parents did not support her activism".

> Her parents are minimum 99% at fault here

Quoting https://themighty.com/2020/01/greta-thunberg-depression-envi... :

] Many comments are as shocking as they are tasteless. Reacting to an opinion piece by this author syndicated on Yahoo! News, Greta’s critics spared no mercy.

] Although she has dealt with bullying, along with the ableist and infantilizing assertion that the 17-year-old is a “child” and a “pawn for her parents and progressivism,” the latter being this author’s summation of detractors, Greta Thunberg has been unfazed by the criticism.

That would include you.

> Al Gore predicted Florida would be under water in 2014

Right, so you're doing the standard hearsay criticism of boring climate change denialism.

No, he did not. In "An Inconvenient Truth" he 1) talked about a 20 foot rise - most of Florida is above 20 feet elevation, and 2) he never said when it would happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmock_v_Secretary_of_State_f...

] '"If this [West Antarctica] were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet. Greenland would also raise sea level almost 20 feet if it went. If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted, this is what would happen to the sea level in Florida:"

] Other scientific views: Gore does not say that the sea level would rise 7 metres in the immediate future, though he says that such a rise is a possibility (without specifying the timeframe). The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report predicts that the sea level could rise up to 59 cm by 2100
So the first part one only has 10k cases, and takes 542µs for Python on my laptop to find the two solutions that exist. (There's the 9,139 soldiers in the article, but "the enemy camp was abandoned", i.e., 0¹ also fits the given constraints.)

Part II only takes 73 µs for the small example, and 6.77s for the large one (the one in the title).

¹ah, I re-read the article and "The lower bound is 1 since we know there's an army" … but that's not ever established in the math parts. Do we know there's an army? Our scouts seem … eccentric. Of course, while the prose claims a lower bound, the math immediately below that paragraph contradicts it with "0 ≤ army ≤ 10000"… (given the waffling in the article on this bound, I suspect the author's initial implementation of a constraint solver probably returned 0, at which point they updates some parts of the article…)
Consider avoiding Amazon and similar behemoths to help maintain a healthier market.
What is it too locked down to accomplish? There are many knobs to unlock it.
This really depends on the company, at least in tech. In the US, I've never felt awkward using the work "fuck" in meetings but I've also only worked in less uptight cultures. We also would prefer the direct phrases instead of the passive "polite" ones in the posted site.
Why it's simple: evolution! Because if you sleep less you have more time when you're vulnerable to enemies, more time to hunt for food, more time for work, etc..
Contract has been blacklisted, what kind of role this contract have to address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x175BA1D4B793Bdb180E6e8c28F578...

The above address can still move founds arround? Who was the creator of this contract? Is it possible to see when the contract was blaclisted?
The downweighting in the case of ushakov's comment wasn't done by a mod. It was done by a regular user who, along with a small number of other longstanding HN users, has the ability to downweight subthreads that are either too generic or offtopic. This is an experiment that we've been running for several months now. Actually the experiment has been quite successful—this sort of downweighting is the probably highest-leverage thing we've ever discovered for improving thread quality, and I'd like to find a way to extend the experiment to more users.

IIRC, the downweight was correct in principle, because the subthread wasn't about the particular story, it was just a generic complaint about the general topic. We want those downweighted because, regardless of topic, they have a strong tendency to sit at the top of a thread, accumulating upvotes and choking out more specific and more interesting discussion.

It was a mistake to downweight it, though—not because the subthread was good, but because the topic was a YC startup. By far the most important rule of HN moderation is that we intervene less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the topic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

The user who did the downweighting didn't know that Fig was a YC startup, so it was an honest mistake. Certainly none of this has to do with trying to suppress criticism of YC or YC-funded companies. We know how to take our lumps and do so all the time. We also know that community good will is the only value that HN actually has, so doing anything to jeopardize that would be really dumb.
I've been thinking to start a podcast about how to improve the quality of our communication, especially in different cultural contexts.

I'm wondering, would any of you want to listen to a podcast where someone helps people change how they speak, almost like a Dr. Phil meets Marshall Rosenberg (nonviolent communication guy)?
>Gone are the times

Those times never existed for the vast majority of people. Minorities, single women, most men...... None of them had this rose colored past.

Statistically, more people now have more income in the US than ever before. Each income level is higher, some more than others (and this is a static snapshot, most people move around income quintiles throughout a career), options for goods are higher, items are safer (cars especially), and on and on.

The "life used to be so easy to make a good pay and have a great life" views are not backed by the evidence.
Contract has been blacklisted, what kind of role this contract have to address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x175BA1D4B793Bdb180E6e8c28F578...
The above address can still move founds arround? Who was the creator of this contract? Is it possible to see when the contract was blaclisted?
Could you kindly avoid perversely proving your point. [:grin:]

On the one hand, ignorance of reality by avoidance just postpones the problem;

on the other, there is sufficient difference here, and from a public of comparatively discreet selection (potentially actually quite high), to show that "losing faith about humanity" is a statistical and stochastic phenomenon - facts do not show only "pure doom".
The funny thing is apple probably transitioned to their in house arm architecture in part because the intel chips ran too hot and throttled in the ultra thin ive products.
You are not wrong. But in this case there was a significant amount of contemporaneous reporting when Ive left, predating this book.
I think Forstall’s trajectory after Apple shows that he was ready to be done with being a technology leader. If he had wanted to stay, he could have.
I guess my "supposed" beliefs must be the beliefs you suppose I have. Whatever.

If you're offering me a bet, and you can easily set it up, then what bet are you proposing? You haven't been very specific. I'm no Turf Accountant[0], but I can spot a three-card-trick when I see one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turf_accountant
Well written but too hostile.
Of course the only place you can get 8% return on savings is at treasury and he already maxed that out.

He’s lucky to get 1% return on a high yield savings so he lost 1/12 = .08%/month so if it takes two months for a refund he lost $16.66 in interest from where he has it parked. My bank’s high yield interest only returns .05% so if I had acted stupidly and made the same mistake I would have missed out on 83 cents for the two months.

So he’s lucky it’s not a very expensive mistake.
Read some history books, if you haven't already. Life has always been a shit show and the state of peace and universal affluence we have now in the West is an exception and is just absolutely mindblowing. It likely won't last forver, we should try to enjoy every year of it.
But do we need these distinctions? I mean, in French we don’t even have the nuance between turtles and tortoises, both are « tortues ». So whether it’s a long neck or short neck turtle, who cares? Do you often need to use specifically a turtle (not tortoise) emoji where the sense of what you mean radically change? Even if you use a Galapagos turtle emoji to talk about your non Galapagos pet turtle, is that so important to your story?
Very nice! It reminds me of Frank Rausch‘s and Timm Kekeritz‘ beautiful chart:

https://twitter.com/frankrausch/status/966252757815570432
One little trick I use is to turn the tracking speed all the way down in System Preferences, and then set it as high as I need in the Logitech settings. This makes the acceleration pretty unnoticeable for me. Also could use something like this: https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels
If you're talking about the early marketing aspect of a product by building it in public and engaging with your users at key steps, then it's probably a good strategy.

If you are talking about building in public as to get your "personal brand" out there, I'd say it depends on your personality. Some people thrive when the social noise is minimal and they're focused on doing the important work. Others choose to build in public for many different reasons like motivation and networking.
[...] and Apple Watch has only been modestly successful [...]

It is literally the most popular and most profitable watch (not just smart watch) in the whole world.
The examples presented are probably carefully selected, my experience is that if you actually use Pandas with method chaining, (1) you get ugly-looking code due to a mixture of method calls and various different kinds of bracket indexing and (2) you eventually run into things that just can't be (nicely) chained and then you need to break the chain – even new stuff, such as DataFrame.append being deprecated in favor of pd.concat.
Hadn't thought of that!
Very well done! This was a breath of fresh air compared to most sites these days. How often do the links change and how much time do you typically spend each week curating?
Why doesn't the USDS get involved in this?

The Treasury is supposed to be a huge backbone of the world's economy and it doesn't look good imo to have software designed this badly for it.
95%+ of SaaS engineering seems to be some form of that. I've been sick of it since day one but it's where the big bucks seem to be.
Would this potentially enable pulling secrets (eg. HSM/disk encryption keys) from chips? My understanding is that the integrated security processor on something like an AMD or Apple chip is permanent and stored directly on-chip, with the only thing preventing extraction of its secrets being the complexity in the traces that govern performing the cryptographic operations. I know Amd and Apple have their top talent involved in designing the chips are are probably ahead of the curve on attacks like this, but at a certain point we might have to grapple with a certain world power being able to pull secrets from consumer and enterprise electronics.
Modern art ended in the 1970's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

Perhaps the successor should be contemporary Pandas, or postmodern Pandas. :)
And ironically, that is the entire problem in a nutshell.

People keep voting for less government (meaning workers) but not less government (meaning scope of responsibility), so the remaining workers must handle larger workloads. That's never worked out well in any industry, and it's bizarre people think it would work any better in government.
When I was doing my undergrad at the University of Waterloo in the '90s, my first co-op (internship) placement happened to be at OTI -- a (some might say "the") Smalltalk shop. Smalltalk was very much a niche language even at the time but it opened up opportunities I wouldn't have dreamt of down the road. My last couple co-op jobs took me to Australia and from there to a customer engagement in Thailand. I bet that wouldn't have happened if I just specialized in C++ or whatnot.

All this to say that I heartily endorse the OP's strategy.
Skimming through the comments, since when does API equate with HTTP API? Aren't we always integrating some API? Standard library anyone? What is poorly documented anyway? Put it another way, what is NOT an API?
But MacOS warns you that the batteries are low several times before they run out.
Apple's Wearables business is a ~$8 billion per quarter business. That includes AirPods and a few other products, but Apple Watch is obviously a major part of it. To me, $8 billion per quarter is far more than "modestly successful". Of course, comparing anything to the iPhone's success will make it look modest.
I’m a righty and like it for the same reasons. The spine seems to last better this way too.
This is my approach almost to a T. Managing upward, be direct and take personal responsibility for saying something with friction. Only use we when taking credit. This what your bosses want; their egos are secure but they don’t have time to parse indirect communication and guess what you want (source: I was until recently in sr management)

Managing down, I use “we” and (narratively, if not always in practice) to include everyone in a decision. (Some caveats: e.g. just be direct about stuff they have no say in; no one wants you to pretend they’re included in like reorgs or something). This isn’t about tricking them into misunderstanding how much power they have—it’s about creating the safety for them to push back directly on something they disagree on, despite being objectively less powerful. They’ll feel more comfortable doing the managing upward part directly and effectively.

I’d never say most of the things on that list for fear of feeling squirmy, evasive, or, yes, passive aggressive.

In general, people want firm but open bosses, and bold but accepting staff, where this way of approaching communication works. If you don’t have that, you should find them.
Ask HN: How can I learn HPC?
What are some good sources or projects to learn high performance computing?
“Trust the experts” but “not those experts,” eh?

Keene attacks one particular model, but there are numerous economic analyses, none of which suggest a setback for places like Bangladesh exceeding more than 5-10 years of lost growth over the next 89 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch...
Yeah he def. needs the counterpart. Design needs constraints ;-)
James Hogue
Golang isn't really a C++ replacement, the performance metrics just aren't comparable. It's more of a Python replacement, for those applications where it would be just too slow, forcing you to write C or C++ because that's still the #1 way to accelerate your Python. Sure there are compilers such as Cython or Nuitka, but they just do not suffice when you _really_ need to speed up your code.
>Rather than the Apple watch being a Vogue-celebrated product for the 1%, it’s an attractive and high quality product for many people. I see it on the wrists fashion icons and on the wrists of people working at my local grocery store. Billionaires and ordinary people can have basically the same phone, watch, and AirPods. That is the true genius of Cook, reviving the “computer for the rest of us”.

Reminds me of that famous Andy Warhol quote from 1975:

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
This is kind of my experience with government (or any actor with too much power for their own good) anywhere.
"By comparing how neurons act when the brain is in different states — such as when a subject has taken a drug versus when they haven’t — researchers can create more complete and useful models of how brain cells and behavior are linked."

this reads like it was written for toddlers. "Did you know that sometimes we test drugs in things called experiments?" Wow that's incredible.

also the study doesn't explain how ritalin "works" (is "attention" something that can be dull? or sharp?). it says

"We discovered that orally administered methylphenidate... increases spatially selective visual attention"

how you go from that to "Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention". come on guys
What’s the story on error handling? This has been the downfall of a lot of structured text formats.
I think you should put this on GitHub and also make it available as a PDF.
To Combat Climate Change, Electrification Needs Compact Cities for Full Impact
That was the approach on a USSR N1 Moon rocket. And also on a small air-defense missile Gnom.
A wise investor once told me that if you own one house, you are essentially flat on the housing market. If you own two or more, you are an investor, and if you own zero, you are short the housing market.

Most homeowners will not benefit from a higher nominal value in their (one) house, because short of selling it, they can't take advantage; most likely they'll simply pay higher property taxes.

The remedy for this situation is simple: build more housing, and relax building codes to make housing production cheaper
I thought I loved the slider for volume/brightness, and was concerned about losing them, but then realized how little I cared when I went back to no slider
Maybe therein lies the rub (a fun idiom): if one wants to say "I told you so", or whichever variant to say "I was right", then one should also say "I did not tell you so", or the "I was wrong" when that person made an incorrect prediction :-D
Wikipedia, such as simple yet effective design that's been working well for over a decade.
LEARNING COBOL IS VERY GOOD IF YOU WANNA INFILTRATE AND HACK LEGACY SYSTEMS.
Before taking it serious (which I never did) learn OpenMP. Write some fun and interesting software with OpenMP so you can see how close to linear improvement you can get. Suggestion: make parallel mandelbrot renderer. After getting used to OpenMP, learn MPI. Basically the same roadmap, but now with a few computers spare.

I think that is enough to get your feet wet and learn if it is worth for you.
One thing I've really appreciated on flights is the addition of streaming videos to your own device. If it saves fuel and maintenance costs, I'm perfectly fine with them ripping all the personal TVs out of the plane as long as they can keep a selection of movies available in case I forget to download my own and don't feel like reading.
> Are there cases where a one-person Ltd should do something like this?

Probably. You could retain ownership and rent it to your company. Sell it in return for debt, etc.

I’m guessing these are favourable (potentially) in terms of tax and asset protection in bankruptcy, but also probably have fairness rules that the HMRC would enforce so you’d need to be careful. For example maybe you sell your SaaS to the business for £20M then forever the company is repaying debt to you, instead of paying dividends. There are many issues with this but I’m sure HMRC would pile on their own ones. In general, at the scale you quote, I’d imagine you want simplicity over clever, as the tax differences would likely be small (and possibly eaten up by accountant fees to facilitate more complex transaction).

Re IR35 yes sounds like you’re ok. It’s just a constant shadow looming over you. Anyway sounds like you’re well aware of it.

Clearly, IANAA.
When thinking about AI, what does it mean to also consider religion?
Is it only copyright infringement while the information is supposed to be secret? Seems weird that once the movie or show airs, it wouldn't be copyright infringement anymore.
Fun game, but the humour feels straight out of 2013 internet culture. Also, half the new content is exactly the same as the old content except the narrator comments on an object that you’re holding.
The domain owner is _using_ the domain. There's a site there, and it's been their email address for decades.

That's not squatting just because someone with money wants it.
Theres also a lot of commercial service overhead, like apple music starting up on boot (and even being installed) and asking if you’d like to subscribe or whatever.

15 years ago apple had people on stage bragging how there was only one version of OS X while Microsoft had countless versions of Windows (Vista Home, Vista Pro, Server, etc). I wonder if there should be a standard MacOS and a MacOS Pro that would be a relatively stripped down unix environment without all of the bloat thats been added on to MacOS recently…
We've been doing experiments for many years with the intention of extending moderation abilities to broader segments of the community. Some of these experiments end up getting dropped, while others end up as official features on the site.

For example, it used to be that only moderators could unkill a [dead] post and restore it to full visibility. Then we started an experiment in letting non-moderators do that, and this turned into the 'vouch' feature which allows most HN users above a certain karma threshold to have a say in which posts get unkilled. That was the biggest success to date - it has made a big difference both in thread quality (many interesting comments become visible) and community happiness (there's less resentment about posts being dead than there used to be).

That was a great outcome, and we're always thinking about more possibilities for such things. The current experiment is very much in the same spirit. Personally I would love to find ways to extend these things to everyone (most likely above a certain karma threshold) but it's not often obvious how to do that.

Another example is the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), which gives submissions a random placement on HN's front page.
Apple Watch was an incredible achievement of hardware design given that it is essentially unchanged since launch.

The shape has been slightly tweaked and there are some new bands and sensors. But they got the basics of the design right the first time. It’s easy to overlook how rare and difficult that is.
I wouldn’t do the former, because there’s a high risk it will still atop working at some point, and you don’t want your email being down for all the time it takes to get things resolved legally and technically (possibly having to start a legal fight).

As for the latter, they will still want to use some email addresses on the domain and not want to rely on a 79-year old individual to manage it for them.