skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments, politicians, business leaders, etc. regularly say things out loud to generate a desired perception among the public, when the real underlying reasons are actually different. This is not rare or exceptional — it's the norm. It's called PR. Every public statement is crafted this way.

Thus, every statement by an official should be looked at with a critical eye, and we the public should be analyzing the pieces on the board and the incentives at play to try to deduce the truth for ourselves. Again, this is not rare or exceptional — it's the norm, especially on Hacker News. I'm not sure what you find so insane about this.

What's insane is just believing everything at face value with no understanding of the reasoning behind it. If Yahoo announced a partnership with Facebook and talked about how great a guy Zuckerberg was, would you expect everyone on HN to roll over and say, "It must be true"? Doubtful.

"Trump helped," is not a convincing statement alone. It doesn't imply anything more than, "Trump told us to say he helped." Rather, pointing to specific differences, concessions, deals, etc. that Trump made vs his predecessors would be convincing.
How is America preparing for the future of work?
It does have exactly that (dynamic loading of extensions).
> Investments in shares can go down as well as up.

So instead, homeowners vote for policies that make sure that they somehow get an asset that is guaranteed to go up. That's an unearned benefit, it's one that comes at our expense, and it's an expense that they sure as hell didn't have to deal with when they were getting established in the world.
There are far too many new questions each day for the people who are capable of mentoring an individual into asking a good question for Stack Overflow to scale.

Lets say that it takes 15 minutes in chat to help a person (who wants to be helped in asking a good question rather than getting the answer now).

Next, lets apply Sturgeon's law to Stack Overflow. There are 8000 questions a day and 90% of them are crap. Thats 7200 questions that need work. This is 1,800 hours of mentoring per day.

The close (and down vote) is such a minimal amount of work that it allows the group within the site that is striving for a particular vision of quality that it allows them to do the most they can. Furthermore, it is not infrequent that a person who provides assistant for trying to unravel a question from getting a "why can't you just help me now?" with assorted vulgarity interspersed.

On smaller sites, with a greatly reduced amount of questions per day the group capable of mentoring as well as moderating is able to spend the 15 minutes of time without significantly impacting the time taken to moderate and curate the rest of the questions.

With 8000 questions per day, its really hard to look at all of them. As I write this, there are only 16 people who have exhausted their close reviews for the day ( https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/stats - only 16 have 40 reviews). That doesn't show the people who are doing new questions, but it does give an idea of how shallow the bench of people who are spending time to moderate the site actually is.

Getting more people to help out would be great, but most people aren't doing anything to help.

There are also people who believe that up voting a newbie question and saying "welcome to the site" in the comments without improving the question is helpful.

The first post review and triage queues are intended for providing this help. You can see that this doesn't always work well ( https://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/19570266 or https://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/19569647 - note the not even trying to fix the grammar of the question or asking for the necessary information or providing help on how to improve the question, just no action needed)
I use the console to manage S3 buckets and credentials in IAM. EC2 instances are provisioned via Rancher.
Because it imposes costs on others for your own benefit. It's rational, but it's still selfish.

If you don't want me to live next door, buy the land. As it stands now you can forbid me from living on land you don't own.
That's the worst possible typo for this conversation.

Pi is provably irrational, and probably normal!
Where I live(d) government owned land is rarely sold because it has 'protected' status either because it a wilderness protected area or future/previously farmland. That means land is not for residential/commercial development.
I’d imagine the smell of decay is taking creative liberties with the truth. Any damp forest will have a certain smell of decay to it, more likely due to the fungus and rotting wood, than the smell of rotting bodies. That said, I’m sure being in the area will amplify this, given the gravitas of the event. I visited Normandy a couple of years ago and seeing the beaches, the American cemetery, the bunkers... it was like a punch to the gut. I’d imagine going to Verdun or Somme has a similar effect, even if you’re only slightly aware of history.
Sometime in the early '90s I remember my GF's dad boasting about a 5-year CD he got with a 15% rate. Yeah. It was a weird time and I don't feel like it was a very prosperous time.

California had a major housing bust in the early '90s. The Clinton years kinda sucked, honestly.
”However, there are some big ammunition depots in north of France with all these WWI shells collected over the years”

Normal shells are fairly easy to dispose of using explosives, so those might be poison gas shells. I know Belgium had an enormous backlog in destroying such shells in Houthulst even as recent as 15 years ago (http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-houthulstn.html), but don’t know what happened with it (at the time, there were talks on the urgency of cleaning it up)
It's too bad there is no transistor-level model of the 8088 yet (at least a publicly available one). There have been some detailed die shots of the 8088 but only of the top layer, which misses out about half of the data in the microcode ROM and probably a lot more besides. So I've been having to rely on running the testsuite on a real IBM 5160, which is pretty slow. I'm saving the results into a database which as of now is up to about 313MB. That allows me to test changes to the emulator much more quickly (at least on the tests that have already run on the hardware).
For tasks like that I'm not sure why you should restrict yourself to no GC and no runtime. As Rust develops more libraries and advanced macros in those libraries you should be able to get more done quickly, but I'd think Go would be a good choice for the above task if you wanted the script to compile and deal with tons of data. Otherwise I believe Python really is the best choice here for both being very expressive and having libraries written to do most of the heavy lifting for you.

Which kind of makes me wonder if a language like the one you wished for existed would it not be better to pick one of the existing languages instead and maybe use type annotations to help in Node or Python?
Been a Java developer since 1999 and have used everything, MS Visual J++, JBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ. Sadly I just got the "joke" :( Never put two and two together, I just thought it was a cool name...
How is working to pass laws and polices screwing other people out of affordable home ownership not selfish?
Were they founded as a Christian college? If so, it's possible that they changed the curriculum at some point and just kept the name of the department for historical reasons. E.g. Harvard has a theology program, but my understanding is that what you're going to get there is a modern liberal academic perspective on religion.
I think people are going to get rid of Social Security at some point. I own my apartment in Manhattan, but my family is very lucky in that we had an extremely motivated seller in a very underappreciated area, and that I have a good job. The traditional paths to adulthood have been broken by NIMBYs and a complete lack of investment in infrastructure after it was good enough for the Boomers.

Something is going to happen - you can't pull the ladder behind you, keep everyone you don't like out of your neighborhood, and reduce mobility to protect your assets without serious backlash.
> ...which is no harder than all the other problems in programming.

Well but for almost all of those problems you have something to help you. Yes manual memory management is hard, thanks GC/lifetimes. Yes error handling is hard, thanks exceptions (kind of). The point of OP is that practically all of the things we've built to help us with parallel/concurrent programming are still very low level, and your program still has to deal with the fallout in a way that it doesn't with GC or exceptions or other helpful abstractions.

> The issues related to sharing state can be easily avoided by, for example, using a CSP-style paradigm (channels in Go). In Go, this only leaves behind a deadlock, which are automatically panic, making it incredibly easy to debug.

There are only a few languages/platforms where CSP is feasible, and very few (none?) of them achieve the performance of CSP in Go because they don't/can't use segmented stacks. And even when using CSP you still need synchronization primitives. Parallel Go code uses mutexes everywhere. CSP in Go helps with _implementing_ parallel programs, but the Go team provides a lot of extra tooling to help _debug_ parallel programs that's well outside the definition of CSP --> the deadlock panic you cite is a good example actually.

> Overhead of scheduling and effects on optimizers are not related to concurrency/parallelism.

I disagree; mostly my evidence is "just google for volatile in C".

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In general I still think parallel program is in a separate class of problems, but even if we stipulate it's just as hard as other problems, I still think we have much better tools for dealing with the other problems. I think we're getting there -- and CSP is part of that -- but it's definitely not the case that we've settled on a solution for 99% of problems.
It's like the old joke to the effect that most non-UNIX operating systems basically are just trying to reinvent UNIX as if it didn't exist already. These modern extendable editors like Atom and VSCode seem to be trying to reinvent Emacs.
Yawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling along
> This week I wrote a little script

I think a lot of proponents might argue that Python is better than Rust for very, very small scripts like this, but as your program grows, Rust pays its dividends quickly. This hasn't been my experience with Rust in my 4 years with it; it makes certain classes of errors harder, but I've not yet gotten to the point where the compiler is actually saving me time--the time I spend pacifying rustc is more than enough to write it in Go (or even Python) and get my extra confidence from tests. I like the idea of Rust, but it's hard for me to justify it for the applications I tend to write.
Yeah, I read the headline as a call to action/complaint directed at VSCode developers.
It still does, if it means they get married earlier, at the immediate college/post-college time.
The YIMBY movement (Yes, in my back yard!) is starting to be visible. And about time. (And, I'm a boomer, fwiw.)

Check out this article. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/04/where-yimbys-can-win/...

The idea that the "tech industry" created this problem is just plain nonsense. Sure, the tech industry attracts young folks to creative urban centers and pays them a bit of money. But their parents (my generation) gave them birth and gave them expectations of prosperity.It's selfish to then blame them for wanting to live where the good jobs are.

This problem was created by restrictive zoning. And it will be solved by changing zoning laws.

And the restrictive zoning laws come from people who say, "Oh no, those people moving into new apartments will crowd our schools and our streets. We can't have that!" Whose schools are they? Whose streets are they?

The phrase "affordable housing" has come to mean "cheap housing for poor people." That's stupid. Affordable housing is good for everybody. The basic law of supply and demand teaches us that increasing the supply of housing will lower the price. To address homelessness, build homes.

Government (who exist to serve people) can start to approach this problem by partly assessing property based on nominal beds per square foot. Higher taxes on lower density housing will give an economic incentive to build more housing on existing land.

Powerful companies should unapologetically press politicians, hard, for changes to these NIMBY zoning rules.
I mean Facebook uses PHP and that doesn't mean it's any more scalable.

I suppose they call it hack now though.
Yes, I haven't got around to reading it. Oh, well.
That quote was a sarcastic comment on the state of this thread. If you look at my other comments on this thread you'll see I am crediting President Trump.

Look folks, no one has to like DJT, but we mustn't deny his successes -- we mustn't twist ourselves into pretzels to deny that he caused NK to sue for peace.
Specifically, if pi contains itself, that means "pi - pi/b^k" is a terminating fraction N in base b", where b is your choice of base (like base 10), and k is some positive integer. So

pi = N/(1-b^k) which is rational.

(And if you set k=0, you get that pi "contains itself" in the sense that pi from the 1st digit onward is of course pi)
How can you consider Signal “open” if the only way to message Signal users is in the Signal app?
I think the point wasn't that you could search for the term - of course you can search for anything.

The point was their search result led you to a lot of very respected institutions where these professors have chairs. Your search result does not.
https://crates.io/crates/gcc is even more amazing, it will cross-compile your C dependencies(assuming you have the right compilers setup, which is mostly handled already via rustup or base install).

For Android all I had to do was point it to the NDK(for both Rust and the crate) and I got all my C dependencies for basically free. Anyone who's had to work with the NDK knows how nice that is. That's also with zero changes to my build script/code/ifdefs/whatever.
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City dwellers can see the effects too, even if they only drive between cities on motorways, their windscreen won't have nearly as many dead bugs on it as in previous years.
Can I use rust as my higher level language of choice? :)

In all seriousness though, I wonder if once Moore's law really stops we'll see a surge of innovation in compiler and language paradigms, born out of necessity. It seems to me that the revolution in higher-level languages and paradigms came because we could (computationally) afford it, so it makes sense that once the incentives change we'll see innovation in other areas.
There's a few master planned towns that spring into existence, Seaside, FL, Jakriborg, Sweden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg
Even without the key, the software is still copyrighted material.
Early 20s figuring out career options here. I’m curious, what is your job role?
Marriage is more than sexual abstinance though. Commitment, friendship, shared passion and life interests are the biggest bullet points for me.
Have you tried open-bottomed hives? The mites that get groomed off the bees fall to the ground where they're vulnerable to predators and can't crawl back up to the top of the hive to re-infest the bees. Supposedly solves the problem. I confess I have not tried it myself yet, but I'm still learning, working on a very small scale in a very benign climate and have not yet experienced any significant mite problems, so ymm(likely)v.
guess: because the government used to give land away in the homesteading act, to encourage people to settle the west https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts
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The irony is all the people piling into the west coast complaining about the problem are causing the problem they then are complaining about.

Instead they should all move to the midwest, south, or NE, where cost of living is a small fraction of the west coast. They can pay off a very nice house in full for less than the cost of a downpayment in any trendy west coast city, and they can easily afford to live a stereotypical middle class lifestyle - house, cars, kids, vacations, a stay at home parent - on a reasonable income, something which is now increasingly difficult on the west coast where cost of living is extraordinarily high.

I sincerely hope that various companies start aggressively opening offices in middle America, the south, upstate NY, etc. Maybe someone should produce a few goofy TV shows about how 'quirky' and 'cool' and 'hip' those destinations are, turn them into the new cultural mecca for all the flighty trend chasers, and let the west coast housing mess take care of itself.
that's nice it hooks back into your system. I might just have to try it :)
For a similar chart (that is potentially even harder to read and visualize somehow) this came out a couple years ago wrt people actually in certain occupations rather than for graduates in certain disciplines. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/
A government can be defined as "a public organization for the systematic and systemic persecution and elimination of minorities"

The only major dispute between governments is which groups of minorities to target.
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Varroa are the big problem for /honey bees/. Honey bees are not the most significant pollinators (they’re technically fairly innefficient pollinators compared to other bees - bumble, carpenter etc)

The vast majority of pollination is via non-bee insects, but just reducing the destruction of wild bees will help at least.

As for mite treatment you may want to look into oxalic acid, although it’s not technically approved for use in hives (despite being less harmful than regular mite pads)
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:( I was rather hoping for an all-in-one device (Airpod, AirPort, and Apple TV)
I can forbid you from polluting upstream of a section of river I own (hypothetically, I don’t own any). That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
I misread your comment. Sorry about that! Edited. The link I posted is still a good one.
Who, ever, anywhere, has claimed that "Rust fixes all possible problems"? This is a straw man. As for bad code leading to overflows and crashes: yes, bad code causes overflows and crashes, definitionally. Rust does not, and has never claimed to protect against logic errors in this way. How could it?
Every client has different requirements so it varies. CloudFormation is common but strongly prefer Terraform when possible for creating infrastructure, and use Ansible or chef-solo for config management, pre-baked AMI method and deploying to ASG Launch Config for deployment. Use Python and Lambda for scripting out things like backups and common security tasks or anything else that may need to be scripted out.
Replace references with Rc's and you'll get a (slightly) slower version with no mental overhead of borrows.
That's a gnome option you can change by e.g. using the dconf editor. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/464946/ubuntu-gnome-force-al...
I use the serverless framework CLI (http://serverless.com/) 80% of the time. Does all my config + deployment for me.
But it does, if you consider the evolutionary perspective. Biologically, women are far more careful about sex, for the reasons I described. Sexual orientation is not hereditary by definition, so the evolutionary imperative and cost benefit analysis both stand. This is also why women prefer older and wealthier men.
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On the other side, as a person that prefers keyboard control[1], I find many GUI editors to treat my keyboard as second-class, requiring the mouse to do basic operations, such as setting preferences, or enabling plugins. I would welcome efforts to bridge this gap.

Also, both emacs and vim have non-terminal versions. I would imagine those are more mouse-friendly, but I have not tried them.

[1] For years my workstation mouse was a trackball in a drawer
20 years ago, Craftsman houses in Seattle were already unaffordable unless they were totally trashed, far north, or in a 'bad' neighborhood. They were, size for size, the most expensive form of housing on the market. Generally 1000sf, 2 bedroom, and 1 bath, I don't think I saw one under 225k. I wound up buying a skinny for 20% less money and 20% more space. (Observations from 1998-9, when I bought a house a mile or so from there).

Since then, prices have doubled at least twice. I could never afford to move back to my old neighborhood.
I believe the commenter above is being historically accurate when it comes to human wave attacks (specifically in terms of infantrymen operating in fire teams that shared one rifle among several men attacking the enemy in enfillade). I mean, the necessity of doing this in battles like Orel and Stalingrad is described in Zhukov's memoirs which are not exactly anticommunist propaganda.
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The map is not the territory. The mathematical model for reality is not reality.
In the embedded world I keep getting run over by vendors peddling Eclipse IDEs that look beautiful and support a nice dark theme that I really miss but not enough to say goodbye to IAR and a fast development environment that avoids most of the java overhead. Can't ever seem to have a powerful enough machine to run Eclipse satisfactorily.
>If we have a good idea and a poor implementation, then the correct response is to fix the implementation, not throw out the whole idea as fundamentally broken.

The point is, nobody wants to fix it, because CAs are still making money.
Opposite of my experience. Seemed like every math major was single.
Mostly red does not mean fewer marriages, since the table only shows the ratios for people who married.
Based on your profile, you're in the UK.

Now, since this website has plenty of international visitors, we should probably endeavor to be more specific and aware of potential differences, but there's definitely a heavy American bent to the visitors.

And, in America, Theology and Religious Studies are quite different.

http://www.ats.edu/ is one of the larger accreditation programs in the US for Theology, and you'll notice two very important bits right on the front page:

"The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) is a membership organization of more than 270 graduate schools that conduct postbaccalaureate professional and academic degree programs to educate persons for the practice of ministry and for teaching and research in the theological disciplines."

and

"ATS membership is open to schools in the Christian and Jewish faiths."

Practice of ministry, and open to Christian and Jewish faiths. This is very different from the type of theology program you are talking about. Your theology programs are our religious studies. Our theology programs are primarily focused on Judeo-Christian beliefs and preparing people to work as ministers in that field.
There are actually a few such programs going on in America. I’m aware of strains where the bees bite off the limbs of mites, and some that are more aggressive towards them.

There is at least want breeder that has managed to get queens that seem to result in mite free hives

(Edit to clarify: resistance to mites isn’t really the problem - the problem is that the mites are very effective at spread more or less all viruses that harm bees, and the feed on the larvae just for good measure. Basically you want bees that actively fight infestation so that they don’t have to become resistant to every single disease)
A company that doesn't pay it's engineers to think is surely doomed from achieving any significant innovation.

Doesn't seem like viable strategy at all, I'd run the other way if I were approach by such a company.
genetics and microbiology are the focus areas you need to understand this paper on a deeper level, but mostly microbio imo.