skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what your evidence is for this, but I find C++ to be used far more widely than C in nearly all the companies I interact with that do critical low level work. And there is indeed plenty of information in the industry about flight control software in particular in C++. It's also very popular for embedded work, because C++ allows you to offload quite a bit of work to compile time that can only be done in C at runtime. And I've attended talks for security systems in C++ specifically because of control over exceptions and how to track unexpected events, which is something security professionals are very interested in.

With regards to tooling, the windows visual studio experience for C++ is widely counted as one of the best development setups in the industry for any language. I know lots of people working in other languages that envy what C++ developers get.
I play World Of Tanks and tried every one of their mappings (forget what they call them). Even the one I can tolerate makes the tanks look like toys in a sandbox. Never feels like a real tank.
This is slightly misleading, that is only for their monitoring service. You can make (and I do) as many manual requests as you want.
I hate non-native apps. VS Code is so good it's forcing me to grudgingly admit that there can be good exceptions.
So if population keeps growing, and the planet remains finite, the result will be scarcity of resources. Scarcity of resources produces wars.
Yep, just like C# and VB.net. Basically no code duplication between the two.
Huge Hole the Size of the Netherlands Cracks Open in the Antarctic Ice
Thanks for linking to https://docushow.com
Also a work in progress, but PDF reflow is a hard problem so you never ship if you want to solve all cases :)

Your solution using the LaTex source generates really nice HTML, congrats!
I live near the old Guinness factory. Same. :)
hifi fails to get traction. I 've been watching that for years the number of active regions is 90. And there are lots of complaints about the project at the moment (and about SL's own VR world wannabe, project Sansar).

OTOH a lot of people fed up with SL's limitations and extremely expensive land fees have moved to the open source opensimulator platform.
Your combined interest on both roughly tracks 4.1-4.7% overall.

See my comment below.

“so 900k mortgage at 4.1% interest is ~3k of interest and 1.2k of principal for first month.
Now you have 1k/month of property tax, 0 HOA (i was not talking about a condo), and 180$/month of insurance. I've been quoted 80-10-10 which have 0 PMI fees.
Let's be safe and assume that you're taxed at 30% at your highest level. Its likely you're being taxed at 40% though.
Now doing some math....
3k*0.7 + 1.2k + 1k+0.7+.180k = 4180$/month. Obviously there's maintenance and other costs but that's how much its actually costing you.”
Nothing is sustainable in the Universe. Heat death seems to be inevitable.
Paw has better UX. Just feels better than Postman. I'll always support native apps over Electron. Electron can do die in a ditch.
As a practical matter that means no one except the very richest could live anywhere and have any control over arbitrary construction happening next door or their neighborhood as a whole. There’s plenty of precedent throughout history of groups taking collective actions based on the will of the majority.
"Will be"? That's the current situation. Are people not aware of that?
Don't get me wrong, I've tried VR and I liked it. I was surprised at how much further the immersion could go than on a distant flat screen when I'm standing still and watching the experience unfold around me; this would be particularly fascinating to see applied to a live sports match. But every time I've had to "walk" I am reminded that I am actually within a bounded box (and because my experience was at the home of a small child, I also ran the risk of tripping over an invisible toy at any given time), which made me feel even less immersed as I would be laying sideways on a couch looking at a screen that barely covers a quarter of my field of vision.

AR is a completely different beast. I don't need force feedback for apps like Measuring Tape to be astoundingly useful. I am quite hopeful at the near-future utilization of AR.
Our team of ~30 mixed roll engineering types are using httpie and dig it

We collaborate in shared tmux sessions quite a bit, though, so being able to open a pane and run it for others to view is legit.

Having used Paw, it is for those that must have a UI that looks like a traditional Mac app.

Nothing more of value there.
I would also think about how you present yourself. Some things to consider:

1. Would you want a contract gig or a salary position. If later, be sure to make sure you don’t sound like a drifter. Employers don’t want to invest time in someone that doesn’t plan to stay around at least a little while.
2. Can you do some contract gigs now to keep up skills and resume?
3. As for developing your own “hit”, I think the idea is more important than the tech stack
Philip Caputo on the Literature of War
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Speaking of "moon tunnels" why not send TBMs up thete and mine whateveratetials are in the crust while building fused wall smooth habitats and transportation and hydroponic garming areas, etc. Id build it at the poles so that sumligjt is fairly readily available all "lunar day" otherwise you need some nuclear power up there or solar power station at the poles beaming mw power.
I still think this might hold true. But for me mouse (and touchpads, trackpoints) trigger repetitive stress syndrome - so acme isn't really an alternative - yet.

But I have some hope for merging the ideas of acme with proper touch screens/digitizers.
> But all of them feel videogamey and none of them would pass for a film or a photograph.

Until graphics and animation are photorealistic I prefer my games to look videogamey. All those 4 screenshots are beautiful and I wouldn't want them any other way.
Still the best option is the unix philosophy: "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." - Peter H. Salus in A Quarter-Century of Unix (1994)
Exactly my point -- if we were really overpopulated, then those desires would have stepped aside for the dire need of housing.
For me, considering how this is a tool that I use many times each week and how tiny of a cost it is vs the average salary in this industry, $50 really isn’t extravagant, particularly if it means I can avoid piling on yet another subscription.

I value apps that try to be a good citizen on the macOS desktop, though, which puts Paw above Postman in my view. It’s likely that many don’t care about this aspect at all so I can see where overall value stacks up differently for others.
> Poop, bone, leather, wood re-enter the system very quickly.

I suggest you study the River Ganges and then reevaluate your position. Poop alone can destroy a river on the scale of citywide human populations.

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Plastics are actually INCREDIBLE for preventing waste. A plastic bag for groceries is composed of roughly 13mL of LDPE, or roughly 260 "drops" of plastic! LDPE is so incredibly efficient at manufacturing that there's much less waste in its creation than textiles or other materials.

The issue with LDPE is that it doesn't biodegrade very gracefully and thus becomes a pollutant if its disposed of improperly. But from an engineering / manufacturing perspective, its one of the most efficient materials to make and manufacture.

In contrast, a leather bag required you to raise, feed, and then kill an animal. Indeed, the mammoth was likely hunted to extinction by primitive humans, and demonstrates that even at the small scale... humans can affect the environment.

And sure, the leather biodegrades gracefully (at least, more gracefully than an LDPE plastic bag). But you have to consider the environmental costs in creating the leather (water, food, and waste created by the animal before its leather was harvested)
We'd be in pretty good shape if heat death was the obvious catastrophic horizon.
Doesn't the inflation theory contradict this? If expansion (or contraction) of spacetime can occur faster than the speed of light, then it could theoretically enact causality faster too right?

There is no theoretical limit to the rate of metric expansion, but unfortunately metric expansion doesn’t allow for FTL communication. Let’s put aside issues of lightspeed in an expanding universe though because we don’t even need to go there to address this basic issue of why you can’t have a brain past certain limits.

At some point limited by the speed of light even in a static universe, your “thoughts“ would be incredibly slow. What would it mean to have a neuron the width of the galaxy? Would you be particularly intelligent just because you had a lot of individual parts from a certain distance? There’s probably some theoretical upper bound on the optimum size for a computing body in a universe bound by c, based on the total amount of entropy which could ever be contained in a given region and the rate of signal transmission.

As to adjacent dimensions and that kind of thing, who knows? In current physics that would be like magic, and magic can be whatever you want it to be after all.
Microsoft Stream might meet your needs:

https://stream.microsoft.com/en-gb/
They still could be shared on a job by job base. For jobs that need the ridiculously fast interconnects (large datasets to be worked on by thousands of cores) you go Cray, when they don't, you go commodity Azure.

Think of it as a rack-sized GPU.
Intel vs. NuFlare in multi-beam race
Amazon, Facebook and Google beef up lobbying spending
Another useful thing is ability to put comments/annotations - I'm reading on iPad, and annotate quite a lot
There is a way to tastefully do it though. I often upvote answers that try to provide some kind of value before mentioning their product, as long as they do it in such a way that it isn't irritating or salesy...
Bought from government (Oak Ridge) and sold to customers. Some are governments some are companies which use it for diagnostics like say detect structural issues in concrete. I think there are medical uses as well.

As far as who can buy it and what the approval process is? I imagine there are controls in place. I never inquired about that.
This is my first time hearing about `SetApp` but it sounds like an interesting concept.
How do you feel about it? How many apps from it so you use often/daily?
Worth the $10 a month?
Is there "growth" without consuming physical resources? If not, we have to accept OP's POV that economic growth is by definition unsustainable.

"Anyone who thinks exponential growth can continue forever is either a madman or an economist"
Either you believe the election was unfair or you believe it was fair but we, the U.S., have the right to undermine it. The latter is trivially an authoritarian, anti-democratic stance, although unfortunately par for course in U.S. - Latin American affairs.

If you think it was unfair, you're going to have to cite some evidence. I've cited independent observers who noted the very high transparency of Venezuelan elections, to which you really had no response.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15536102
Radar vs. LiDAR in cars
It's a well-written and informative post, it deserves a little more praise than "does nothing in terms of educating readers".

What he is discussing is about aesthetics. There are two things at play here: the big studio business model relies on making blockbusters, so you pack together a few hundred devs and artists and try to pop out the biggest game you can. The other is that many devs are technically trained but not especially artistically educated. They have a limited understanding of lighting, color, framing a scene, etc.

Someone who has made some great criticisms of this as well as provided real solutions is Eskil Steenberg.
This (maybe) addresses the technical side of the problem while ignoring the economic side of the problem: you can't have a discussion about changing the blockchain without discussing block rewards and transaction fees.

Does each branch of the tree get the entire block reward? If so, then you've going to have an explosion of branches.

If not, and each mined block earns, say 1/Nth of the reward for N branches, then you most likely go back to a single chain of single-block merges, because each miner is going to try to force N back toward 1.

You also need to address the incentives around mining the merge block. If these incentives are not drawn from transaction fees, then you are forced into an inflationary currency.
Nationalisation of Carlisle Pubs During the First World War
Website by a dentist to help anyone with dental problems
Hi everyone,

As you probably already know, most cities are saturated with dental offices yet so many people who need dental care do not seek professional help right away. As a dentist, I realize a dental clinic is not everyone’s favorite place to be. Many people fear the anticipation of pain or even dentists in general, and certain treatments can be quite expensive without dental benefits.

Having these facts in mind, I created a free self-checking tool (www.dentalchek.com) for anyone with dental problems. This tool can give an idea of what could be causing the symptoms. By providing some relevant information, I hope to reduce public’s fear of dentists and teach the importance of seeking help before a problem gets worse.

Please keep in mind this tool by no means substitutes an actual visit to a dentist. I strongly recommend going to a clinic for ALL dental concerns. But if you must postpone your visit, at least learn about your symptoms to understand possible consequences of leaving the problem for later. Hopefully using this tool will encourage you to seek help and maybe even make your dental visit more pleasant with less surprises.

Lastly before I finish off, I want to make clear the following points:
-I am an individual dentist. I spent a year (~400 hours) to make this tool on my own. I am not part of a corporate and have no interest in marketing my office.
-Dental treatments are expensive and I do understand this is unfortunately the biggest issue. I wish there was a way to make it more affordable for everyone but I do not have an answer for this one. Best advice I can give is to prevent problems or treat them early before they get worse.
A case for outside-in development
What Steve Jobs Thinks of React Native
This will obviously make some people think of Postman so I wanted to give my take. I, along with my team, currently use Postman (without team sync). I'd love to switch to Paw but I think we are close to getting the company to pay for team sync and I'd hate to pay $50 then have to constantly be exporting/importing into Postman<->Paw.

I'd jump on Paw for the whole team as the $10/mo for the entire team for syncing is very attractive vs Postman Pro $8/user/mo (hell, I'd pay it myself) but I am the only macOS user (the rest on linux) and while we can debate the value of electron apps all day long they do serve a purpose.
How's that working out? I installed the client once, wandered around a bit, found it boring, and quit. Here's their promotional video.[1] The graphics are lame. It's like a video game from about 15 years ago. It looks worse than Second Life. Why isn't this thing up to AAA title graphics quality? What's the advantage over Second Life?

High Fidelity starts their world out as a boring flat plane. They should have started it out as good-looking natural terrain, with trees, shrubs, and grass. Use SpeedTree to generate a realistic looking world. That would set the standard for how good things should look.
If people buy land and build things, the good-looking natural features will push them to do better work.

As people move around, they should wear the grass down a bit, and when there's enough wear, an NPC road-building crew moves in and builds a path. There should be an automated Department of Public Works which gradually installs public services.

And if an area is abandoned, grass should grow through cracks in the roads.

Amazon is coming out with a "Snow Crash" show. Somebody should have the Snow Crash metaverse running before it comes out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=-ivL1DDwUK4
Hackers Steal Photos from Plastic Surgeon, Claim Trove Includes Royals
InfoSanity – a resource for anyone struggling with mental health issues
"Paper"? There are lots of pure/applied math journals packed with papers. I touched on the fields of statistics, probability, optimization, and stochastic processes, and each of these fields has their own journals.

Usually a start better than papers in journals is books. A first list of books would be for a good ugrad pure math major. There get to concentrate on analysis, algebra, geometry with some concentration on topology or foundations.

For grad school might want to do well with measure theory, functional analysis, probability based on measure theory, statistics based on that probability, optimization, stochastic processes, numerical analysis, pure/applied algebra (applied algebra -- coding theory), etc.

Then, sure, work with some promising applications and then dig deeper into relevant fields as needed by the applications.

One key to success is good "problem selection". So, with good problem selection, some good background, and maybe some original work, might do really well on a good problem, publish some papers, do a good startup, make some big bucks, etc. That's what I'm working on -- picked my problem, for the first good, an excellent, solution did some original applied math derivations, have my production code in alpha test, 24,000 programming language statements in 100,000 lines of typing.

It's applied math; hopefully it's valuable; but I wouldn't call it either AI or ML.

In case my view is not obvious, it is that the best help for the future of computing is pure/applied math and not much like current computer science. Computer science could help -- just learn and do more pure/applied math.
Seriously. I can't go a week in HN without reading someone's complaint about not being able to read a quote, probably on mobile. If users keep complaining regularly, it's a problem with the software interface, not the users.
>No real cities

Erm...guess you don't count some of the largest metroplexes in the country as "cities", do you?

>when it comes to recreations, vacations, day trips, road trips

That's fairly accurate. We don't have a ton of touristy crap, but that's no big deal for me.

>Acceptance of LGBT lifestyles

Did you live in the country or something? Never seen a problem with it here. In any of the urban/metro areas it's no big deal.

>Very church oriented

So? I'm an atheist and I've never had any problems with it. You'll only find a problem if you're actively combative with people about it. Otherwise most people don't care.

>Low salaries, tech opportunities

Houston I can understand. But not Dallas. You must not be looking very hard is all I can say. Even when I haven't been actively looking I get hit up by recruiters all the time. Either that or you're in a very, very specialized field with very low overall demand. My salary has also been going up constantly, and with the cost of living I can live very comfortably with what I make (and I'm not even in the top parts).
Just had flashbacks to writing PHP. Considering this is still an idiomatic style of writing PHP speaks to the problems of the language. That SQL injection venerability is also plain as day.
Biggest difference continues to be the complexity of the client required. For HTTP webservices, its still a massive step forward.
Yes, it works on Mac, but not on Linux...
Superaccurate GPS Coming to Smartphones in 2018
I can't help but get an embrace, extend, extinguish vibe from keybase. It was a nifty key discovery service initially, but more and more feels like a closed platform, and gives me a sense of deja vu akin to XMPP on GTalk.
Statistics routinely prove the majority of people feel they are an “above average” driver. I imagine the same is true of being “above average” in life for their situation.

OP’s post is about those times when your feeling that you’re “above average” is questioned, by those times when facts strongly suggest you’re not.

What then? Quitters quit. That’s not good, right? Persistence wins, graft often beats talent.

But statistics also show the majority of investors (amateur & professional) hold their losses too long and sell their winnings too early. They failed to learn when to quit.

It’s complicated, for sure.

(“Fail fast” - is that quitting?)
As of right now there are no plans to integrate this app with others. Thank you for your feedback! Means a lot!
This Is What a 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like (Xinjiang)
You sound like a phycisist who thinks he can explain the world in terms of spherical cows, asserting a shit-ton of stuff without clear back-up as to why what you state is true, acting as if all kinds of nuanced issues are simple and/or solved problems, and assuming authority over a field you do not seem to be part of.

For example:

> Currently we already have a classification system for cell types that is used to distinguish between different types of cancer. They should use exactly that same system.

Why? You don't give any reason why this classification system is any better than any other. Why would a system of classification of cancers be useful for classifying all other cell types? Actually, asking this question is already giving this statement too much credit: which of the various classification systems are you even referring to[0]?

[0] https://www.news-medical.net/health/Cancer-Classification.as...
That would still be consciousness--or call it 'perception' if you like. But yes, objectively speaking, this is as likely to be the case as any other explanation.
If you consider Chavez's presidency as dictatorship, you are very mistaken. He was a populist, but never a dictator. I know Vox is not always the best source of news, but this article is spot on:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/world/2017/9/19/16189742/ve...
Assuming the companies don't increase wages even higher then they will just open up remote offices in Sacramento or surrounding areas.
I actually did not even need to read the last sentence to get that he was being sarcastic
This is so good. I do prefer the HTML over PDF in this scenario.
I love this, thank you so much!
New York advances drone industry with testing corridor
Most wealth is material, but that doesn't mean you need ever more material for ever more wealth. The obvious common example is electronics. Shrink a computer or smartphone to use half the materials while otherwise maintaining the same capabilities, and you've increased the amount of wealth it represents.

Raw materials aren't worth much. We mostly pay for the arrangement of matter, not the matter itself. A person who owns a few dozen tons of lumber and plastic and metal is not equally wealthy to a person who owns a house of similar mass. The average human today is far better off than a few centuries ago, not because the average human has more material, but because they have access to material that's better arranged.

Population growth is one thing that needs to be limited. People need space. But there's no inherent requirement for economic growth to be the same. We "just" need to grow through more efficient use of natural resources rather than through greater use.
>parks,

Been to a lot of very nice parks out here, nearly every city has one or more. Some of which are huge with large trails.

>transportation,

You might be confusing the Bay Area (or perhaps even LA) with all of California in general. I'm from San Diego originally. Public transportation there is a joke, plain and simple. BA and LA are both special in that regard.

>and publicly available goods

What is this?