skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What i dont like is how trump is looking to (or is being manipulated to) move a lot of public spending into private entities.

Hey you finally found the Bailey. The DEI arguments were just to win your vote. Aka the Motte.

He woulda said he'd fix whatever you hated to get your vote. Now we gave him the keys to the castle and gets what he's always wanted. What the richest people who donated to him always wanted.
pretty sure they already do this.
Heh, it just so happens I'm also a left-handed Latin language learner and enthusiast who has been on HN since 2009. Are you me? Drop me an email (it's in my profile) I bet we'd both really enjoy corresponding a bit more.
"Who's that?"

"That's Beaumont."

"Who's Beaumont?"

"An employee I had to let go."

The rest of the perfectly rational explanation will be left out, as it contains strong language not suitable for a website such as this.
The compensation and personal liability for leadership is more expensive to their bottom line vs cultural war shaming, etc. (Which most companies have likely never cared about to begin with)
> sales are down

What metric are you using? https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/5748/sp-500-re...
If you're on this site, surely you know the difference between a stock option and a stock grant? Elon's pay package was options, and was only evaluated at ~$2bn over many years in 2018, and even then assuming significant growth. At the time of grant, the options were worth $0.

The only reason the pay package is so astronomical now is because the Tesla stock has risen astronomically in value. Which benefits the shareholders, no? This dilution in shareholder value is already factored into the rising price.
> I'd first have to buy a new Mac for that

Which means you are running Mojave and your Mac is at least 6 years old.

I wouldn't expect anyone to support developers who are running a two generation old OS.
I certainly meant the regulation to cover those. To be able to sell data about user behavior, you have to track it, regardless of whether across several sites or just a single site.
Don’t all fabrics already absorb IR and heat up?

This new fabric would need to be the outer layer of a garment to receive light, so no insulation and no layering. Most of the heat would not be warming you up. Seems kinda useless?

I would be more interested in a fabric that cools down under the sun.
More like Zig is Modula-2 with an updated syntax for C folks, plus comptime.

It is the almost safe path we could have taken if the likes of Modula-2 and Object Pascal, among others, had stayed in the mainstream.
(This was originally posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849281, but we merged that thread hither)
I tried therapy for a couple years and it seemed like any time I brought up anything, I was being pushed to blame my dad. I felt like it was going to drive a wedge between us and my opinion of who he is today would be colored by who he was 30-40 years ago due to all this blame. He has changed a lot in those decades and I think his heart is in the right place, even if his actions sometimes call that into question.

Keyed off by a YouTube video, I thought there is a good chance I have autism and ADHD. I brought this up to the therapist and it was mostly dismissed, while my dad shouldered the blame. I went and got tested anyway, and it turns out I was right, and stopped seeing the therapist.

When I told my dad about my diagnosis he almost instantly started to question if he has the same things, and started opening up about how he feels, that he works hard to hide/mask. The more he’s looked into it, the more he believes this to be true. Looking back at where we had friction when I was a kid, they can pretty much all be explained by his own neurodivergence. Even issues today make significantly more sense.

While it is easy to say the parents should have done this or that and we need to have empathy for these kids with “bad” parents. I think we also need to have empathy for these undiagnosed parents who were doing the best they could without any tools, support, or even knowledge of what was going on… as the diagnosis criteria was either non-existent or only recognized extreme cases.
> If you sound like you're attacking trans people, that's going to end badly. If you sound like you're supporting them, especially as this new US administration takes off... that's going to end badly.

That’s not true: 99% percent of news outlets have absolutely no fear supporting trans activism.

It’s trivial to find hundreds of such cases from sfgate with a google search.
Where in nature, outside supposedly, black holes do we see singularities? Humans and all human technology are a product of nature, why should we expect abstract "intelligence" resulting from human technology to accumulate into a singularity (unregulated positive feedback) instead of being subject to limiting constraints like every other natural phenomenon?

Belief in a singularity is the most irrational thing I have heard of. Supernatural things like the resurrection of Christ seem more likely than the Kurzweil/Yudkowski singularity.

The idea appeals to people who don't understand what intelligence is. I first heard of it and rejected it in high school more than 20 years ago.

Yudkowski didn't graduate highschool or go to college so he spent his time using his verbal skills to convince people he knew what he was talking about when in fact he is less of an authority in his field than even a moderately educated, intelligent person.

The fact this stuff continues to appeal to silicon valley types just goes to show they are not in fact much different from populist conspiracy believers in fly over country.

It is kind of funny actually to me, especially how these folks call themselves "rationalists..."
I really don't think "Trump can't do it, if it's illegal" is going to fly this time. I hope so, but I'm not very confident.

Of course, he can't get away with too much alone, but with the right appointees, judges, etc, who knows.
I would love to see this kind of thing for hn comments.
Hmm, looks like https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40720 is just lengthy explanations of how the unicode issues are hard to fix in the current code base; savannah doesn't seem to have bug search, but I didn't see any more specific tickets for the other unicode problems mentioned. (On a whim, I tried eqn -T MathML -d'«»' but it failed in a goofy but unsurprising way.)
There were literally dozens of companies selling digital paintbrush software in the 80's, for everything from your PC, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, PC or Mac, right through to more advanced or specialist computer systems used in gaming, 3D rendering, simulations, military etc.
> almost all the members of this group are trans.

The Zizians.info site (linked by one of the HN posts re: this story) mentions that the Zizians did target people who identified as transgender for indoctrination, so this is not really surprising. People who are undergoing this kind of stress and marginalization may well be more vulnerable to such tactics.
I wonder what would be the technical challenges of a railgun powered rocket/capsule to launch small payloads to space, technically the remaining concern would be the G force from the acceleration.
Yes Colombia is a country but it also refers to the land that is credited to being discovered by. Columbus. Which is why there are many places named with Colombia outside of the country that has it's name.
It seems there are a lot of heightened emotions everywhere. But one thing to note is that Trump laid out this vision while he was campaigning, and he got the popular vote based on it. A lot of non-white, non-male, and non-European people voted for Trump.

There’s clearly an ideological tipping point for some people that’s essentially a point-of-no-return, whereafter they view anyone who differs from them, however slightly, as an existential threat and an enemy to be dominated. It doesn’t matter if your ideology is left or right, if you think that way, it’s very aggressive.

In general, I think people should try to borrow their ideology from all parts of the political spectrum as what fits one situation, doesn’t work for another. The overall goal, I think, should be to optimize for both social stability and individual liberties, as both of those facets of society have historically shown to result in the most productive and effective societies and economies.
Not really. The 978 prefix, or previously ISBN-10 namespace, in addition to a recalculation of the checksum, makes most books go into the EAN-13 namespace. EAN is meant for unique identifiers (“Numbers”) of “Articles” in “Europe”. Later that got changed to “International”, but most still prefer the acronym EAN.

So 978 really is Bookland, as it used to be, and Earth, but the EAN-13 namespace as a whole really does refer to Earth as well. That said, the extraterrestrials can get a prefix just the same?
Formal species are focused in the regions where formal biologists work. Outside of those regions, people don't care.

This paper appears to define the new species by physical characteristics, although it also remarks that differential characteristics within the new species "are regarded as intraspecific variation for the time being".

This isn't a question that people approach with any kind of rigor.

Compare the recent paper ( https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%282... ) finding that, despite obvious phenotypic differences, snail darters are "not a species but a subpopulation of the Stargazing Darter" because the authors couldn't find an obvious genetic difference.† Whatever your view of speciation is, it can't accommodate both papers.

† The claim that they must not be a "species" loosely implies that a genetic difference doesn't exist, or that what difference does exist "doesn't count". That second option is not a scientific claim. The first option is possible - it might be that, if you dropped eggs from other stargazing darters into the waters inhabited by snail darters, those eggs would develop into snail darters, with the phenotype being driven by environmental input. But I don't think that's especially likely. The phenotypic difference is more likely evidence that there is a genetic difference, and we just can't see it.
You have a stack dump, which means you will get all the information if you symbolicate your crash report. Xcode can do it for you automatically, but some manual methods also exist.
If you find yourself in a situation where you feel compelled to quibble over fine details of the definition of terms like " concentration camp", this is an indication that you are desperately compromised in some way.
Ad I understand it, after the initial ruling, the shareholders voted and passed the package again. The judge still disallowed it.

She appears to be ruling based on ideology instead of law.
The recent news items about them have the "someone please buy us" desperation vibe to them. It was an exciting startup 10 years ago or so, then everything went quiet, then all of the sudden there were some items in the news but nothing really substantial - "we hit orbit" or something like that. Just a nebulous "Oh, there Spinlaunch, remember us?"
Nevada has long been an alternative to Delaware for C corps. Any ideas what advantage Texas has over Nevada? Or simply: why not Nevada?
Simple, because we keep making tax cuts for the rich, so someone has to fit the bill.

A lot of these problems wouldn't happen if we just had the 35% capital tax not lobbied down over the decades. Now we're going to 15.
> a judge vetoed Elon paying himself an absurd amount

Not technically correct. Tesla is allowed to gift Elon everything it owns. The problem was Tesla didn’t follow the rules in how to do it such that the shareholders were ensured an honest negotiation between themselves and management. The Board was not independent, and the shareholders at the time of the grant didn’t approve it.

A later cohort signed off on it, but it was still backdated. The only downside to making a new grant are the tax implications.
As I said here a few years ago, I support this sort of company. VCs are basically stupid, especially for companies that are more complicated than gluing javascript together, and so it’s only just and right that some actual engineers have some fun in the desert for a few years at their expense, and get some experience putting ambitious, if ultimately silly, machines and prototypes together quickly and scrappily for a few years. Then when spinlaunch goes bust, which of course it will as its idea makes zero sense from an engineering pov, there will be a bunch of hardened and experienced engineers who can go and work for people with more of a clue and do something useful. It’s like a well funded extra-curricular student project.
At this point only 2 of the top 8 companies by market cap will be incorporated in Delaware. As Tesla and Meta move, investors in startups will need to be more open to investing in companies formed outside Delaware.
Does windows have a (non registry tweak) setting to invert mouse wheel yet?
Individualized compensation and treating everyone like expendable faceless factory workers instead of teams of professional hired to work together on solving problems seems to me to be the real problem today, not a solution. We're supposed to work on really difficult problems, but we're not given the freedom and resources to think and collaborate in meaningful ways to solve problems. Instead it's a constant push for individuals to sit alone and display how productive they each are, alone, at completing jira tickets.

Managers care more about being able to measure individual performance than about actual results. If they cared about results they would allow teams to work as teams. Agile had a lot of good ideas, but I never saw any of it lead to anything good in reality.
That article states:

> Although some scholars and practitioners have long argued that officers should or do owe a duty of oversight, and as a practical matter many officers likely assume that they have such an obligation, McDonald’s marks the first time this duty was explicitly acknowledged by a Delaware court.

To me this seems to imply that the ruling was incorporating the already existing practice into law, which would seem to imply that it isn't a big shift.
It strikes me as a strange that not one comment in this thread supports RTO, so I will weigh in with my unpopular opinion - I really wish all our employees would work from the office 3+ days per week.

I like the energy we get when we work in the same space. I like being able to look people in the eye when discussing challenging or emotional topics. I like being able to brainstorm together at will, and use the whiteboards. I like seeing our office space we pay for being used by more than just 2 people. I enjoy our staff lunches and getting to know each other socially. Most people have a <10m commute in our small town, so travel time isn't a big deal.

Half our company is remote, and the other half work from home most days. But I'd prefer we all be local and in the office ideally. There, I said it.
Automotive companies have been building PoCs like this for the past 30 years. They are not doing anything new here.
> Unitedstatesians

Frank Lloyd Wright tried to popularize the name "Usonia" for the United States of North (Independent) America:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia
Literally the comment below you.
How much does that matter? All currently supported releases at least.
Do I have a treat for you https://youtu.be/G8YBV7GoF_s?feature=shared
The API has a different pricing structure than using the app. This cost seems high to me compared to previous models I’ve used large data sets with.
That's a pretty broad statement.

Obviously you need to gauge whether your child is engaged in what you're saying. Maybe you have some experience that leads you to believe this, but I would encourage you to stop speaking for all neuroatypical people. Your experience is limited.

My personal experience with ADHD is that my focus latches on to certain things, which may not be the thing I want them to latch on to, or the thing that is most urgent to focus on. But often a conversation, particularly a conflict, is the thing my focus latches on to most readily.
I should be clearer. I believe in the value of hobbies - but perhaps because my childhood hobbies were geekily technical.

I also perhaps shouldn't use absurdity to argue against illogical statements.
What do you mean by "still" posting? Are you monitoring my account and following me around?
Meta is one of the biggest companies in the world and responsible for a significant chunk of S&P500 returns.
(To answer that last procedural question: there have been assorted submissions, but none spent much time on the front page. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901777)
> why not Nevada?

Texas gives out goodies. And fewer people want to live in Nevada than Texas.
"Based on McDonald’s, officers, like directors, now have a duty of oversight. Officers will be liable for violating that duty if, within their area of responsibility, they consciously fail to make a good faith effort to establish information reporting systems, or they consciously ignore red flags that arise from those reporting systems or otherwise come to their attention."

Most people would have assumed this is already the case. It's not exactly shocking.
I'm glad you place a high value on the truth. I do as well, though I come at it from a proudly irreligious standpoint.

There is a vast amount of evidence about things like medical transition improving mental and physical health in trans people [1], as well as cisgender people experiencing gender dysphoria when they are misgendered (many cis men react quite badly if you call them a girl or a woman!) It all aligns far closer to the modern scientific view of gender than a traditional religious view.

But I would just like you to consider two things:

One, that I personally have gotten objectively measurable benefits from transitioning. You are welcome to check out my body of professional work and writing. Is there any point at which any of it suggests I am deluded about anything? I am generally quite a rigorous person, and my work is valued for its careful attention to detail. It would be quite strange if this is the one thing I was deluded about—that's not how such illnesses manifest.

So I am an honest conveyor of my experiences. But I'm not special! It would be quite strange if I were the only one.

Two, that the people who came up with the traditional view of gender were functionally illiterate. They didn't even have germ theory back then, let alone statistical modeling and Bayes' theorem! Basically everything we know from before the advent of modern science is subject to rigorous questioning, and is often plain wrong. Of course the modern scientific view of gender is a much better fit to reality—it is informed by studying actual lives through sophisticated means! Modern ways of knowing are better than pre-modern ones. That should be your prior.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/154t1qq/my_...
And people saying "Congress controls spending, not the President" - there are already reports of Musk trying to take control of the system that sends out money.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190983/top-treasury-official-qu...

EDIT: apparently Musk succeeded:
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lh5ejpwncc23
Favorite case of that is Europeans making remarks like “Gosh, it’s so annoying when Americans assume Europe is all one country”.
I find it interesting that a hacker with a flip phone would use analytics at all. Can you explain why you feel this need?
I'm not comparing them. What I'm saying is despite all the differences, the end result (dogmatic and self-righteous ideology with zero ability to align beliefs with reality) is eerily similar.
What about privacy from enriching other entities through contributions to their models, with thoughts concieved from your own mind? A non-standard way of thinking about privacy, sure. But I look forward to the ability to improve an offline model of my own with my own thoughts and intellect—rather than giving it away to OpenAI/Microsoft/Google/Apple/DeepSeek/whoever.
I don't think that's a fair way to characterize the ADHD community's stance. I follow some of the 'leaders' of the ADHD community including William Curb (Hacking your ADHD) and Jessica McCabe (How to ADHD) and they are extremely focused on specific strategies and techniques that enable ADHD people to live more effectively in a neurotypical world.

These strategies don't "fix" or "cure" ADHD, but allow us to do what we want in our life, and are generally very different from productivity and life strategies that work best for non-ADHD people.

One could imagine a world where ADHD was the norm, and things would work out just fine, with a lot less stress for those with ADHD. However, that simply isn't the case, and the ADHD community is quite realistic about that.
Another parent with an ARFID kid here, though it sounds like our case is somewhat different. My kid, almost 16 now, has always had an extremely limited diet repertoire, starting at a failure to switch to non-smooth baby food as a toddler. Early on he exhibited extreme fear reactions to being presented with new foods. Nausea has never really been a huge issue, other than gagging if we tried to force him to try something new.

As he's matured, the reactions are less intense, and with a lot of therapy sessions, most recently with a dietician who also has ARFID, we've made real progress. In our case, that means he's (enthusiastically!) eating cheese pizza, scrambled eggs, and chocolate (but not white) milk, along with the bacon which has been his main protein source since age 3 or so.

Not sure what we'll do when he heads off to college in 2.5 years.

Anyway, if you want to compare notes with another ARFID parent, my email's in my profile.
Python is pretty accessible, too... Should we pay people to write it?

I had some great comp lit courses in undergrad, which exposed me to some really fascinating work that I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Especially a course on literature of the Caribbean, which looked at a combination of contemporary work and older Western lot which are typical reference points: Robinson Crusoe and the Tempest. A good course brings together interesting world, and provides some structured discussion of both history and culture. You get more out of it through discussion with both the Prof and other students.

These courses at the undergrad level also create more writing practice on diverse topics, which is critical for developing writing skills generally.

I went on to get a PhD in mathematics, and now do machine learning for conservation, collaborating with folks all over the globe. Understanding the shape and impact of colonialism has been important for my subsequent work.