skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you again for sharing these questions about me about wearing two hats in the family and the parent/teacher balance.

I thought about what you said quite a bit and wrote a blog about why I feel that parents are the best teachers for their child.

We are teaching our kids many "non-academic" skills all the time but don't see that as stepping into a specific role. I don't think that this needs to be the case either in homeschooling.

I've also included some resources which I think will address your concerns about expertise in certain speciality areas like math/science.

I didn't directly address assessment here, but there are some great ones you can use such as mobymax, cogat and others - as well as mastery-based digital learning apps that have built in assessment.

Here is the blog:
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/parentsarethebestteache...
Common Lisp has several compilers generating machine code AOT. See for example http://www.sbcl.org
https://archive.is/KgRnB
I worked on Python almost exclusively for maybe five years. Then I tried go. Each time I wrote a go program, I am giddy with excitement at how fast my first attempt is, scaling so smoothly with the number of cores. I also wrote a lot of fairly performant C in the 90s, so I know what computers can do in a second.

I still use Python for cases when dev time is more important than execution time (which is rarer now that I'm working adjacent to "big data") or when I'm doing things like writing python to close gaps in the various arrays of web apps provided for navigating the corporate work flow, and if I went as fast as a 64 core box let me, we'd have some outages in corp github or artifactory or the like, so I just do it one slow thing at a time on 1 core and wait for the results. Maybe multiprocessing with 10 process worker pool once I'm somewhat confident in the back end system I am talking to.

(edit: removed my normal email signoff)
It can fly at an altitude of 76100 feet which is not far from the altitude at which spy planes like the SR-71 were flying. With its small size, I wonder how detectable it would be flying over a hostile zone.

Given that they seem to have troubles spotting consumer drones flying at a few hundreds meters spotting for artillery in Ukraine, I imagine it might be hard to spot such a UAV at 23km high.

I suppose it could be a great military asset: able to stay undetected hovering above an area of interest at an order of magnitude lower altitude than common spy satellite.
They can search your phone at the US border. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276183/us-appeals-court...
the antiscraping thing is a good idea. Hell, you could poison it very lightly using homoglyphs (greek capital Epsilon instead of just an E) just to see where else on the internet your data ends up, too.
>how stupid trying to Nord Stream 2

No. In fact, soon they will see how stupid cancelling it was and reopen it willingly.

Look around at all the industrial heads telling you their production will collapse soon without oil and gas imports. This was self inflicted from sanctions and confiscating Russian reserves.

>because the other would invade and murder them

Russia is incapable of invading the rest of Europe. They don't have enough troops or power to do this. And they don't have any national interest in pursuing this. Invading half of Ukraine is difficult enough. Encroachment of NATO forces and weapons along a strategic position on Russia's border (they said for years Ukraine was existential and could never align with NATO) was a terrible decision that Europe went along with while it was only in US's interest to cause chaos and threaten Russia's security interest that way.

Now all of Europe pays the price.

This is real politik. No I do not think it was in Germany's interest to destroy their own domestic economy by backing US's NATO schemes.

It is in Germany and rest of Europe's interest to have good relations with Russia and stop NATO expansion on their border. To have a cheap plentiful energy supply right nearby not import expensive gas from far away.
Surely there should be something between gigantic monolith and micro services. I would call it service.
Not in the case of an obvious attack. Anonymous cowards I have a problem with, anonymous people who share important information because otherwise their lives are in danger is a different story but this is - contrary to the claims of the author - not one of those, it is simply a very thinly disguised hitpiece. And I'm saying that as someone who has been pretty critical of YC when it comes to certain ethics issues, which - for the most part - they have worked on to improve.
This has me wondering if there's an opportunity for an online retailer that doesn't take returns (except where required by law) in exchange for reduced prices. Maybe their platform could include an integrated eBay like marketplace for selling what would have been returned.
I travel with a HP Spectre x360 for personal stuff. It is barely a weight or bulk addition compared to my work machine.

When I was on the road all the time I also had separate phones to ensure I never got stuck with a dead phone.
You said "If you are a deontologist, “the ends don’t justify the means” and it’s rarely ok to just kill someone to save someone else. If you are a consequentialist then the choice to live in the better world is obvious." and I took that to mean that killing someone to save five people was what you consider the consequentialist 'obvious choice'. From there you now clarify that the people are all the same so all we have to go on is quantity of living people, it seems. If "more people alive" is not what you mean by "the better world", then what do you mean by it?
Chess, have played it on 2 dollar sets with grandmasters, and antique sets older than the US.
Holodomor was literally caused by mass confiscation of grain for export. Proceeds were used to finance industrial projects frequently run by western enterprises. Collectivism came later. This is actually a pattern throughout communism countries. That’s why ppl in Cuba and Venezuela are suffering from malnutrition while food literally grows on trees
Yes, I think people miss the genuineness more than the fun. Everything happening nowadays seems to be geared towards selling you something. It seems to go further than the internet too. Reading the discussion on pubs closing on this site, some people seem to genuinely have internalised that they themselves are a product which should be optimised in some form of globalised meat market. Late stage capitalism is a bit depressing.
I think even if we all agree that there is a price, it’s hard not to feel discomfort about that.

Depending where in the world you are, you may have grown up to believe that humans are more worthy than animals because we have “souls” or whatever that means. A lot of our culture and religion deeply reinforces the “humans are special holy magic” feelings. I won’t develop this thought to great detail unless someone wants me to.

But in addition to that, you’re absolutely correct in saying that oftentimes the price we put on life is too low.

In addition to that, even if the price is correct, it may be difficult for us to have a good perspective on that, simply because we are talking about large numbers (we’re really bad at large numbers), and because pricing stuff is hard. Even stocks are hard to price, and people argue with each other about wildly different price targets.
I tried to return a king size mattress to Amazon, now I have an extra mattress I got for free.
Don’t know enough about iOS to say for sure about persistence, but recent Pegasus (NSO Group spyware) versions don’t bother[1], instead repeatedly exploiting bugs starting with “features” like background Messages attachment parsing.

Those are the kind of threats Lockdown Mode finally acknowledges — targets (well IMO everyone) would need it permanently enabled.

Otherwise the temporary protection before clicking a link can be had today in other ways, like disabling Settings > Safari > Advanced > JavaScript.

[1] Lack of persistence likely an attempt at making it harder to analyze: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...
Recently I bought about $2.5K worth of credit card readers from a credit card processor. During the integration process it turned out the processor was untrustworthy and a terrible partner (that's a whole other story) and so I looked into returning the equipment. I saw on their website they were going to charge a 25% restocking fee which really sucked (this is for a side-project) but it was worth it to drop them as my processor. After waiting 3+ days (and multiple calls/tickets) they finally replied to me "We've refunded you, please take the equipment to the nearest electronic recycling plant". I was very surprised (and a little happy I got back the full price).

Just to make it clear, these were battery-powered card readers (VP3300's [0]) that were still in their boxes with the original cords. I was shocked they wanted me to just throw them away. They are also very small and the box that held them all wasn't big or heavy.

[0] https://idtechproducts.com/products/mobile-payment-solutions...
10+ applications. Never worked with a recruiter before but will give it a shot
SEEKING WORK | VARIETY OF TIMEZONES | REMOTE
Double Ibis (https://www.doubleibis.co/)

I run a small agency with my brother and help developers in the US, Europe, and Latin America find work. If you need to hire or augment existing staff, odds are we can help.

Shoot me a note at elliot@doubleibis.co with the role(s) you're looking to fill and we'd be happy to help!
But perhaps your wealth would put you in a better situation to save additional lives in the future. It's a tough moral question.
That seems like a waste of headcount if you have middle men just to "do the translation" between different people. It sounds like the marketing person needs to understand their audience better and make a better-crafted presentation for the audience.
Just FYI, Go's GC mantra is "GC latency is an existential threat to Go."
Being fast requires effort. It's not always about raw performance of the language yo use, it's about using the right structures, algorithms, tradeoffs, solving the right problems, etc. It's not trivial and I've seen so many bad implementations in "fast" compiled languages.
Thanks for your very reasonable reply.

You say, "Exxon-Mobil could, by making just a few carefully calculated decisions, reduce the total carbon footprint of our society by an appreciable fraction".

What decisions are you referring to? If you are referring to extracting oil as efficiently and environmentally friendly as possible, then my answer is I'm sure they are trying (due to consumer demand by the way) but operation efficiency is a drop in the bucket to the consumer burning the end product.

Now discussing oil consumption, you say "Consumers support the fossil fuel industry because there's effectively no choice" and "it would be deeply personally irresponsible of them to make the expenditures necessary to minimize their personal carbon footprints, because they would then be in vastly worse financial state".

My response is: crushing the companies that produce the goods that consumers rely on just hurts consumers. Look at what trying to cut of Russian oil is doing to gasoline prices at the pump. How can you demand oil companies to stop producing oil, when you also want oil companies to produce more oil to help consumers.

The solution is, as you alluded to, is to provide consumers with more choice, more alternatives... and that is at the consumer level. Consumers have to make the change. It's consumer demand that companies are trying to fulfill.
According to which clause? (Pretty hard to believe.)
> Anonymous because I worry about my and family's life.

I would be far more ready to believe you if you had stuck to the facts.
War of the Ring
In addition to what everyone else wrote, note that your proposal is enormously economically inefficient. The businesses that sell microwaves are much better positioned to... well, sell microwaves... than the average consumer. They are the least-cost avoider of the social harm of things going to waste (which is what happens when unwanted item X doesn't get bought off Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist or whatever and the original purchaser finally tosses it).

If items are going to go unused, it makes economic sense for them to be sold on the secondary market. If they are going to be sold, it makes economic sense that they be sold by an entity that is good at selling them. The original merchant has a significant comparative advantage in selling items it already sells compared to any given consumer.
There's no board, but I find that Bananagrams has the fun parts of Scrabble with a faster pace (no waiting for your little brother to figure out his optimal word).

Stretching even further, I love cribbage (hey, there's a board involved!). Of all the card games I've played, I find it's the most compelling combination of chance & skill. Lots of room to apply strategy once you've learned the basic rules.
Basically same for me. I wouldn't actively go out and destroy someone's car to reduce emissions. I'm not going to take an action to destroy something for the sake of making up for the shortcomings of our collective global leadership
In general, as you've likely surmised, demand needs to rise over time for the project to succeed.

In the long-run, our aim is to have that demand come from economic activity -- meaning people using GLO for all the things they normally use cash or a credit card for.

In the beginning, We expect philanthropists and altruists to drive demand. If demand falls, we also have a USD reserve with which we trade with our own coin to support the value. We discuss this more in the trading section of our white paper [0].

Happy to discuss further if you have questions!

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E09fdrvBr_TgsUqODq-MROfo...
Not sure if it is comparable. If the EU would ban Apple products than sure, but regulating the platform should not be only an Apple-issue. These private companies are so big that they have considerable impact on the public, so I think it is only fair that the public gets a say as well (in the form of indirect democracy, as we don’t have better).
> a shell script to tell that program to call emacsclient, a LaunchAgent to keep it running, an unholy build of Emacs with all of the GNU-unapproved Cocoa integrations that some kind soul is maintaining, and only THEN a piece of ELisp (which is also calling out to AppleScript) to actually change the theme[1]

Why isn't your Emacs session running dark-notify itself, reading its output, and switching accordingly? That seems to remove the need for shell script running emacsclient, the launch agent, and the OSA integration. (But also, I thought ns-do-applescript was stock Emacs? At least I had some ELisp using it and I only ever used emacsformacosox.)
Does anyone care about their brain performance?
That's awesome, that would be great to convert to use in real time applications.
I'm not sure if I used Edwin by TurboPower Software, or Notepad... but it worked fine building my home page.[1]

It also worked well enough at work... we had a "brochure ware" type page for the first few years. It wasn't until 2000 that someone with Graphics skills took over.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19971013164938/http://www.tsrcom...
> reasonable organization
I know that Ford takes a lot of flak (deservingly in many cases) but I've always been very impressed by how consistently the company has seemingly been run. If I remember correctly, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I don't, they are the only one of the 'Big 3' American auto manufacturers to not need a bailout.
Merriam-Webster is certainly not a reliable source when it comes to etymology of non-English words.

I'm Russian myself, and I find it extremely dubious that either of the constituent parts of the word was borrowed into Russian from English. Russian Wiktionary gives 1720 for the first known use of "материал" (material), and illustrates "компрометирующий" (compromising) with a Dostoyevsky quote from 1846. Both predate the time when English was the primary source of borrowings, so they're far more likely to have been borrowed from French or German.

This M-W article is wrong about other things, too - e.g. "пропаганда" (propaganda) is from German.
Do sensible people honestly use these sites?

Might make me seem a bit of a tin hat nutter but once you've taken a risk with a site like this, you've basically no idea what they did to your computer.

What's wrong with solely using trusted sources or direct from safe looking open source repos? (not that this guarantees safety but it's a much more likely outcome than some blackbox where they barely hide the fact they put other things in the downloads!)
So, the progression I like that got me where I am on this, ultimately silly, exercise goes like this:

1. The trolly problem, 5 v 1 with a lever.

2. The roller skater:

There's a trolly that's going to run over 5 people. Someone is skating next to the train tracks in enough pads that they would stop the trolly if they were on the tracks, do you push them into the trolly's way? Saving 5?

3. The brilliant doctor:

A brilliant doctor, on the cusp of a discovery that will save the lives of millions has a heart attack in the OR one night and needs an immediate heart transplant. Due to a contrived morality problem, you are locked in the hospital with no way to get a fresh heart delivered. In the room with you is a stranger who has the right blood type. Do you cut their throat and take their heart to save the doctor's life, guaranteeing that a million people will get life saving treatment over the next five years?

For me, once you get there to the end, it's obvious that it's not right for me to choose to end one person's life for the potential of saving others. Trying to add up lives on the balance of a scale is an impossible effort. Better not to kill anyone. I didn't tie anyone up on the tracks.

(I'm not a philosopher but I think that this is a Kant vs. Utilitarianism kind of argument, in the end.)

P.S. A friend of mine poses a different moral puzzle: You are walking by a pond and see a child starting to drown, do you jump in and save them?

There are people metaphorically drowning all around us and yet usually I do nothing. Maybe morality puzzles aren't that useful for navigating the real world.
> Pants are too large? Use the damn fitting room[1] before buying them!

I once bought 3 identically labeled pairs of levis jeans. I tried one pair on, they fit fine.

The other 2 pairs fit dramatically different. Same size, same style, but apparently quality control at the factory was dramatically off.

> Microwave doesn’t fit your space? Measuring tapes (and AR tools[0]) exist for a reason.

I've seen (bought) appliances with mislabeled dimensions. Half an inch, not much, but the door to the laundry room wouldn't shut.

Also things like hookup placements for hoses are often not labeled on the box. Love it when those stick out way past the main body of the machine.

Heck I bought some picture hooks from Home Depot where the included nails stuck out farther then the hooks did, making the entire product useless given the purpose of it was to distribute weight on a hook and not directly on a nail. (Impressive fail there...)

> Such as my coworker, who bought 10 dresses for a wedding and returned 9 of them after a test drive.

Having a "try at home" scheme is going to be an effective solution for this problem. Amazon does this for fashion items.

"What socks/shoes/bra/necklace/earring combos go with this" is not an easy question to answer w/o having a piece to try on at home. Heck just seeing how clothing looks in different lighting. Fitting rooms would benefit from adjustable color balances in their lighting, an outfit meant to be worn outside in the sun may look very different under a store's yellow or blue lighting.

> I just wish we could move away from the “customer is always right”

Some customers abuse the rules, but I'd best that most customers just want to buy a product that makes them happy. If stores are not doing a good job matching customers up to those products, then the stores need to adjust their sales strategy.
Razorpay received a section 91 request and they compliant as per law.

Most importantly, section 91 can be issued by police office such as DSP or SHO.

This post simple some sort of revenge against razorpay.

OP on purpose didn’t mention of section 91 and giving misleading information to YC.

OP also making this about politics. This is very old law and used in a lot cases in the past.
Fascinating. We’re seeing the same thing. Seeing a few companies opt for Coda as a way to convert some sheets to processes. Here’s what we’ve done with it: https://supsync.com/squared-away/
I don’t think people are broke per say. They have been promoted to and have internalised the idea that if you are not a huge success you are a failure but in absolute term most people seem to be doing fine.
Any of the four Azul games. They are all loosely based on each other and the rules between them have similarities even though all four are a completely different experience. They fit that great middle ground of being simple to play but have strategic elements for those that want to be competitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azul_(board_game)
I wish the featured page did more of this
Extreme restomod!
I worked in a building at NYC that did this. It was confusing at first as I just immediately jumped into the first elevator door that opened since it was my first day and didn't realize there were no buttons inside. After the initial and very short learning curve due to all the stairs I had to climb that day I would say it was much more efficient than any other building I had been in.
Funny enough, this is because the PDF spec literally allows you to map glyphs like that. Some properly-produced PDFs are broken like this, but it's been less common in recent years.

You're supposed to provide mapping tables for text extraction but they are optional.

This fails pretty bad for security because you can detect the glyphs themselves in the font tables and provide a mapping yourself
Impractical? Isn't it already being done?

At least here in Norway, I can look up an organization and see all owners of that company last year. And press a button and it calculates the "true"/indirect owners up the chain as well.

I can also go the other way. Select a person, and see what they own through multiple layers of companies.
What goes around comes around.

Old saying: "Be nice to the people you meet on your way up the ladder. You'll be meeting those same people again when you're going down the ladder."

The West is going to need all the friends it can get in the next decade or so.
I see this as securing against "unknown unknowns". No software can ever be "100% bug free". If you can identify areas that are more likely to contain yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities and turn them off in advance, the device becomes more secure.
The primary countermove seems to expand the community of open (user controlled) Android implementations for existing hardware.

I am pretty sure my next pocket device will be such.
> most of our ancestors didn't live to be old enough to need delicate dental hygiene

They also didn't consume so much tooth-destroying garbage as we do.
On the other hand, what guarantees do they have that you haven't tampered with the readers? Are they able or can afford to disassemble every single one of them to inspect?
It's fine, I guess? It's not really that fun to squint at a blurry image and then randomly guess what it might be. I salute you though for a novel way to earn some Amazon commissions.

I feel like there is an opportunity here though to make something more entertaining - what about showing a few product reviews and guessing what the product is?

I also wish that it accepted my guess as soon as I clicked the button - there's really no reason to have to click "Choose a Guess" after I've already clicked on a guess.
Client doesn't care. As long as their advertising spend leads to conversion into your "slow" app, they're happy.