skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were located "next door" to The Brewery, the world largest freelance artist community (35K freelance artists living and working in a former brewery compound near downtown.) The artists used us far more than the geeks we were tying to attract.
There's no reason not to have one, but there isn't one. There are a few build systems for C++, but none of them are perfect, and none has won out.
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I'd rather have people decide for themselves what they do or do not read.

If your arguments lose to fake news, then you should get better arguements.
Well, you are wrong about that.

> Mitochondria in oocyte aging: current understanding

> The oocyte is the largest cell found in multicellular organisms. Mitochondria, as the energy factories for cells, are found in high numbers in oocytes, as they provide the energy for oocyte maturation, fertilization, and embryo formation via oxidative phosphorylation. Failure of assisted reproduction is mainly attributed to oocyte aging and increased aneuploidy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506767/
Was not talking about that library, just memory mapped files.
I'm all for well-researched cost/benefit analyses.

This ain't it, though.
In many situations - including DLLs - you can rename the open file and create a new one with the original name.
I work for a large corporate provider of heating oil. Here are some of the major expenses I can think of based on their public financials.

1.2b in revenue

700m spent on purchasing oil using various hedges and supplier contracts

~450m spent on salaries, rent payments, other opex/capex, interest payments and taxes

~50m in yearly corporate profit

Some of the largest line items on the company expense reports almost certainly are:

1) Corporate real estate

2) ADP payroll

3) Whoever sells them off-the-shelf trucks and vans for delivery

4) Salesforce CRM licenses and cloud storage backup for all customer data and recorded calls

5) Citrix remote desktops

6) Cisco phones

7) Plantronics headsets

8) Whoever sold all the office furniture and the janitorial service contracts

9) Whoever sold them loans

10) Whoever sold them background checks and etc which I think is also ADP

11) Their insurance broker(s) and carrier(s), so figure like Aetna and Aon
I personally prefer fully object-oriented languages, as long as it's an option and not a must like in Java.

Replacements for OOP are just another fad, in twenty years from now people will come up with new fancy object-oriented languages, maybe functional ones with immutable objects, or with some other paradigm that replaces traits, mixins, interfaces, etc.

OOP is good for domains that naturally give rise to a clearcut inheritance structure, such as stateful GUI frameworks or ontologies that directly mirror real-world objects. It's not a magic pink unicorn, but that's true about all other approaches.

If you want everything but small, compact executables, you can already have that today in CommonLisp. It can be used to write functional programs or object-oriented styles and has almost all other programming language concepts you can imagine. Still not many people use it. The choice of the latest programming languages has almost nothing to do with their features and more to do with the availability of tools, libraries, and programmers.
Sadly, when one gets away from open source development and sees "enterprise" and/or "government" (a subset of "enterprise") development, what one finds is that everything is almost exclusively "deadline date" driven. The PM's and/or upper level managers pick dates for deliveries (seemingly often without regard to ability to achieve deliverable X by date Y) at the start of any dev. cycle. The end result is the low level managers get pressured to "meet the date" and so the developers get pressured to go faster to "meet the date" with the result that often the deliverable X "meets the date" but is very buggy, hacky, ugly, hard to further extend, etc.

And then, of course, for the PM's and upper management layers, the fact that their project "met the date" is what is measured and congratulated all around. The product could be a stinking pile of XXXX, but "it met the date", so they get their kudo's, their bonuses, and the devs. and users are left with "stinking pile of XXXX".
In the BC interior (say the Okanagan), where houses are cheaper, a $750K house would rent out for $3000/mo. In Vancouver proper, it's common to pay $3K for a nice 800 sq ft condo.

I understand it doesn't scale linearly and these are mostly foreign investors moving money out of their country, but still... I have a hard time believing you can rent a $3M mansion for just $5K a month anywhere near Vancouver.
Why, why do they make it header only? Is it so difficult to integrate a couple source file along with the existing headers?

We should not forget compilation times. A project I use depends on spdlog, a header-only C++ logging library. The thing adds almost two seconds per compilation unit to single threaded build times. And since logging is kinda used everywhere, the whole project takes forever to build (trice the build time it would have had without spdlog, I've measured).

What benefit is so great that it is worth killing compilation times?
What bullshit. So sick of these worthless "studies" and the media that peddles them for money.

My grandparents didn't "exercise" a single day. They were the healthiest people I knew. They were just active. Walk a lot. That's it.

Was the study funded by gym equipment association of america?

Really? Worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease? Why CNN isn't labeled as a source of disinformation is beyond me.

Anything with a ? or "study finds" by any "news" organization should be discarded.
> In fact, with linear models it is mathematically impossible to make a "worse" model (in terms of mean squared error) by including more variables (like gender, age, race, etc...).

That's only true if you mean the mean squared error on the training data, which is not usually a good indicator of model quality. Instead you should use the mean squared error on test data, which gets worse if you add non-predictive variables to the input.

If there are non-predictive variables, the linear model with the lowest expected square error should assign exactly zero weight to them, equivalent to the situation where those variables don't exist. But training on a finite sample, that "exactly zero" outcome is extremely unlikely (as in, the probability is 0) if the non-predictive variables vary at all. That variance allows identifying individual data points, even though the relationship is completely random and doesn't help generalize to unseen data. In other words, the model overfits to noise.
Seriously! It would be much easier to get an effective ak47 from black market than printing sub-par plastic useless gun.
> "Detroit" meant all of the Midwest

Not entirely sure about that. Most of the midwest outside the rust belt was not under the influence of Detroit. Chicago for instance was fairly decorrelated to Detroit.
I always wonder - is it really worth removing jQuery. Idealistic side of me is envious of their feat. However pragmatic me says that I have 99 features in the pipeline and removing jQuery is not one of them.

The mentioned 150GB bandwidth saving surely sounds good however when I contemplate about ROI somehow I still endup thinking: it’s not worth it. Or maybe I’m just too old.
Manufacturing locally may become a thing though. Kind of nonsensical to manufacture stuff on the other side of the planet and then ship it across when robots can replace the cheap labor that made that economical to begin with. That's an opportunity for places like Detroit to make some kind of comeback.
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That report sounds interesting. I have not read it but I would be suspicious of any report from a government. In my opinion government report tend to only look at people as economic units. If a certain type of upbringing does that translate into a higher producing unit then it must be less desirable.
To be fair though the more kids you have the more it will cost to feed them so the argument does fail at a certain point. I have four daughters and it does cost a lot to feed them. However the cost is not too bad because we can just use "hand me down" clothes, toys, etc for a long time. We just have to be more frugal than we would otherwise.
Here's a selection of homes from East English Village, which has won the Detroit Curbed Cup competition 2 years in a row (for what that's worth):

3 bd / 1 bth / 2 car garage: $90k [0]

4 bd / 2 bth / 2 car garage: $190k [1]

3 bd / 2 bth / Garage status not mentioned: $120k [2]

[0]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/5257-cadieux-rd-detroit-...

[1]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/4800-bishop-st-detroit-m...

[2]https://www.trulia.com/p/mi/detroit/5042-grayton-st-detroit-...
I've always disagreed with pg's contention that objects are the poor man's closures, at least w.r.t. Common Lisp. I write a lot of Common Lisp code and almost every one of my programs uses CLOS in some way (and many of my programs use closures too; they're complementary). I'd probably never use CLOS if it limited me to single inheritance or single dispatch or prohibited reclassification like most OO systems do, but it doesn't. CLOS is OO without the arbitrary restrictions.
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMGtwfiXMo
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My experience was:

You say, "I already know this stuff, can I just take the final?"
Uni says, "Yes, you can test out of it and get credit for the class."

I was allowed to take the final for any class I wanted to and if I passed I would get the grade I got on the test. I thought this was pretty standard as I've seen it at multiple universities.
My comment doesn’t imply that google are biasing their results.
Microlino – small electric car at 12K Euros
Easy integration into projects and you can always make a precompiled header.

Personally I love being able to test something out with ease and then make it work with the build system if I like the results.
You could try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157968

The settings I suggest don't disable it entirely - though I think that's an option, if not one I'd use myself - but it does let you choose when things get installed, after downloading them in the background.

I've been quite happy with this; I generally do want updates when they come out, but also want the option to potentially reliably defer them (or, more precisely, the potential reboot...) for a day or two.

(As for Windows versions, I use Windows 10 Professional.)
>3D-printed guns are not a problem that needs solving.

Agree.

>They're mostly dangerous to the user.

Kinda disagree.

Several reasons why:

1) On the AR-15, the lower receiver is the "gun" portion that is serialized. It actually doesn't take too much abuse - you can 3D print one without much difficulty and have a firearm that is not traceable.

2) FDM materials that are basically just enough plastic to bind metal powder in place exist and can be fired in a kiln after being printed on your 3D printer, and you get a metal component.

3) DMLS printers will someday become cheap enough for home use. Patents are starting to expire here, so this will likely happen soon - over the next 10-15 years.

But guns also aren't particularly difficult to build at home with more traditional means either, so I don't think it makes much sense to worry about the 3D printing aspect.
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I too would love to see something detailing the rationale for their choice of file locking defaults. If one could request a Raymond Chen insider explanation blog post, this one would be on my list of "why did they pick that default?".
The rest of Vancouver, and the downtown is quite a different thing.

In 2011, I did an occupancy survey for a college group study, and yes we counted 31% vacancy in Coal Harbour
Walking a lot = exercise
>It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible.

I think your number one priority should be to avoid suffering.
> It's crazy how people will deprioritze their health.

> Also, if you're struggling with getting fit, GET A PERSONAL TRAINER AND NUTRITIONIST.

There are tonnes of people out there who are just scraping by, who have to work two exhausting jobs, who have to spend all of their free time looking after kids, etc., who can't afford the gym, let alone a personal trainer and nutritionist.

If you have the time and money to do those things, then they are very good ideas. But they are out of reach for an awful lot of people, so perhaps try not to view the people who don't do this stuff as people who are making insane choices.
Comparing them is what this article is about. By the measure of all-cause mortality, exercise is more important than not smoking, according to these researchers.
100% agree.

People hate farrrrrr too much on jQuery. Sure, you should remove it when you can but the library size plus the fact it’s likely already cached on the browser from a common CDN makes it seem quite silly to go out of your way to remove it.
For the last 20 years Vancouver has been adding housing stock, mostly in the form of multi-family dwellings, at one of the highest rates in North America. We're adding as much as we can as fast as we can. The situation now is worse than ever, so "build more housing" is clearly not a solution, and in fact may be making things worse by adding a lot of investment vehicles that attract foreign capital.
A Japanese satellite radio company called 'St.GIGA'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview
People don't do a whole lot of welding in many areas of manufacturing including automotive. It's all robots.
I don't buy this, am on a rolling-release distro and have pretty much the same experience as the OP.
You’re not wrong, but I know a lot of people who just don’t prioritize it in even though they could. Sure, people scraping by to make ends meet don’t have this luxury. But the people that go to happy hour all the time and then complain about not having time to excercise just don’t have their priorities correct in my opinion
> you can 3D print [a lower receiver] without much difficulty and have a firearm that is not traceable

I thought it was the barrel that added traceable marks to the bullet, through the rifling?

How does changing the receiver, which does not change the rifling, make it not traceable?
boosts quality varies

I've seen parts that weren't much better then someones lib on github, because essentially that's what boost is.
I'm not an English native speaker, but I though "foo can be bar" was equivalent to "some foo are bar".
Oh that makes much more sense. Thanks.
People that are fit tend to take care of themselves in more ways, like for example, eating healthier food consistently. So I doubt it can all be simplified to exercise like the article claims.
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Really cool,- I'd like to see some discussion on safety too- something I wish car manufacturers talked more explicitly about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternaut

It’s not an association free name
Wouldn't any B360-based MiniITX with an i3-8100 fit that description?
"It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible."

Living as well and as beneficently as possible might be higher priorities. The older folks with the desk jobs are often quite literally sacrificing their own well-being for their family's, "deprioritizing their health" for another priority.

"You could not do more with your money than get professional help in steering your body"

You could donate to help poor people survive, to help sick people get well, to heal the natural environment, to educate children, to encourage peace and justice, to strengthen your community, or to advance knowledge.
It's real. It started in June. Inventory has risen every month since June and sales have stayed the same or declined. Seattle was insane before June though. Homes were receiving multiple offers within days of being listed and going between 10% and 30% over asking price with sellers throwing in all sorts of crazy contingencies (no inspections allowed, rent from buyer for 2-3 months at some ridiculously low rate, etc.)

As one anecdote, my neighbor had arguably one of the nicest homes in one of the more sought after neighborhoods in Seattle. They sold their home in September after it "sat" on the market for 12 days and sold exactly for ask. The price was 16% less than they were estimated at in July, which is what probably triggered them to sell I guess.

Depending on which real estate agent you ask, Seattle was absolutely insane before and now it's getting back to slightly above normal levels and will stay there for a while. Others will say if this continues for a few months it's a sure sign of the bubble popping. Inventory will probably go down a little bit in the next few months mostly due to eager profiters taking a break during the usually slow winter months. Buyers will probably decrease a little bit too due to interest rate hikes. Next spring will be the real test.

Condos and rental prices don't seem affected yet, but those tend to lag homes in my experience. Seattle does have horrible density so maybe condos will stay strong at their ridiculous $550k median price.
This doesn't describe the fast majority of out of shape people. Poverty has always been an issue, but obesity and poor health from a sedentary lifestyle is a very new issue.
Proper "stb-style" header-only libs split the header into 2 parts: the declaration part that's always included and parsed but only contains the public API declarations, and the implementation part inside an #ifdef XXX_IMPLEMENTATION section which is only included and parsed in a single source file.

The same idea can also be used for C++ headers (unless it's all template interfaces).

With such stb-style headers, you can even get better compile times, because you can include all header-libs into a single implementation source file, giving the same advantages as unity-builds (merging all sources into one file).

PS: origin of the name "stb-style": https://github.com/nothings/stb (although I guess the general idea existed before)
There is no way this isn’t well done satire. Facebook might as well hire people to work on their open source just to keep them away from being productive at other companies, and that has more value to them than whatever bullshit monetary value their open source may have.
Fair point on the mis-use of rational; thanks.
This is pretty interesting, would like to apply it to other kinds of editor.

These abstractions should be in the OS really.
ya but isn't the adversarial network in this case just a more sophisticated version of the error function (i.e. verifying function) the others have talked about?
Legitimate question (I am not trolling), but is there truly a good reason to stop using jQuery? I get that there are now standard ways to do DOM lookups and so on, but what if you simply like jQuery's API? Can't we recognize that as one of the web's most widely installed libraries, it's practically a standard library module for the DOM and for x-browser JavaScript? Why are we so eager to get rid of it?
I’ve only had the opposite experience. I worked on a team that inherited a large Haxe codebase for an online education tool, and we found Haxe to be exceedingly bad, even apart fron the nature of the code we inherited. We spent a lot of time porting most of it to a mix of Scala and Javascript. I still remember the daily emotional stress of working in Haxe.

... shudders
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Is it fair to compare your daily update experience to a month's worth of Windows updates?

That's like me saying it takes over an hour to update my OctoPi instance when I remember to do it semi annually, therefore all *nix updates are broken.
> “It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible.”

Why? I personally don’t want to live as long as possible, definitely not if I develop some kind of neurodegerative disorder. I’d honestly be happy with 65. I don’t see too many people over the age 65 who I envy.

Diet and exercise are big contributors to preventing heart disease, but when it comes to things like the vast array of cancers it’s mostly luck or the draw. You can do everything right and still die at 40.

I wonder if there are any large scale, long term regressions that attempt to get at exactly how much diet and exercise contribute to extending life. I get the feeling that outside of heart disease it doesn’t contribute as much as one might hope it would.
95% is a bit of an exaggeration, it's more like 30-40% inclusive of ALL Hybrids including the Prius. The one factor you're missing here is that many drivers consider a somewhat expensive non-hybrid luxury vehicle as an investment because they're able to solicit higher tips.
In Windows 7 I had a look at it in a debugger. It seemed to be doing the topological sort using a dumb bubble sort style algorithm. Once there were enough updates it got really slow really quickly.
A rolling release is not an LTS (of which I was talking about).

Windows follows an LTS model. It can't go changing from under pros and businesses that use it everyday...
How about things like (readily available) GPIO, I²C, etc?
Why does speciation define the border of the phenomenalogical experience of suffering?