skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If Ada was all that, everyone would be using it"

Argument for popularity = superiority. By your same logic, we shouldve stuck with COBOL for important apps since all the big businesses were using it. I have a feeling you dont write new apps in COBOL.

"the complexity of dealing with it will be more or less the same as dealing with the errors in the first place."

The best empirical comparison of C and Ada showed the opposite. All studies showed the safer languages had less defects with usually more productivity due to less rework later on. Evidence is against your claim so far.

"I would much prefer a focus on more powerful tools that fit into the current "unsafe" ecosystem while offering a more gradual and flexible path to improved safety."

Me too. Rust and Nim are taking that approach. People are finding both useful in production so far.
I don’t like being critical, I will usually just be quiet when I don’t like something. But, this article is so over the top. Every first world country would like to achieve something like ‘world domination’ in tech. In addition to China, how about discussing USA, UK, Korea, Japan, Rusia, France, Germany, etc.? All countries want to come in first in the race for AGI, quantum computing, drastically cheaper renewable energy, etc. I found the article to be rich in hysteria.
"Educated" — Tara Westover
Boost is not high quality. It massively balloons the compile time, and there's random incompatibilities between minor versions. It's also a hunt to figure out which header I need to include for certain libraries. There's no consistent feeling to the library. My biggest gripe is that it makes vims completion stupid slow by bringing in a large number of headers.
Typical programmer. Off by zero as always.
Every minute "over 400 hours" of content is uploaded to YouTube. It's a serious challenge to moderate a community at that scale.

If only YouTube had a large parent company with a significant portion of a trillion dollars that could be spent actually taking care of this problem.

Instead we get, “Let the bot script handle it. Oh, the system doesn’t work? Too bad.”
Proofs please. And case law doesn't disprove the validity of state of law principles.
>although typically the opposite claim is made. That people named “Joshua son of Joseph” lived at that time, that various revolts and religious upheavals occurred is pretty certain. That one guy fitting the rough description of Jesus was behind it is not

That doesn't seem quite fair because it's almost certain that the guy named Jesus was not behind the upheavals of that time. That was about the Jewish revolt against the Romans which Jesus was not involved in at all. Also, while Christianity didn't start in earnest until about two hundred years after Jesus' death, stories of his life were written down as early as 60 years after his death.

It's very difficult in a society like ancient Israel to fake the existence of a person, people had clan allegiances, they kept track of genealogies and would be able to tell right away if the writings concerned someone who didn't exist.

There were translations but that's irrelevant because we have the original dead sea scrolls with the earliest ones dating to a few decades after his death. A time when wealth and power did not hinge on this. We're not solely working with edits and re-translations.

I think there's a bias against religious figures that inform people's arguments when they say it's all uncertain - when in reality the evidence is pretty good that he did exist.
I watched the video (and PDP's apology) and I was outraged that either

a) A person with an incredibly impressionable, young, and naive viewerbase would shout out an obvious, virulent bigot because he shares their views or

b) A person with an incredible impressionable, young, and naive viewerbase would shout out someone that is an obvious, virulent bigot because he's so divorced from reality outside of video games that he didn't understand that they would be offensive.
Holiday tech support, the gift that keeps giving
Were those Content ID or manual claims? If manual and you cared about the fight it seems like there might be avenues....
It's a serious chicken & egg scenario. I know. I watch youtube far less than I did 2 years ago. But the other video publishers need to really focus on getting creators over to them. Or making it easy to aggregate content between the options (I have no idea about this, it could be stupidly easy right now).
I wonder if this guy is just a compulsive liar who happened to fake his way into a journalism career; I wonder if we'll hear stories from his acquaintances about this.
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.
Effective bug tracking illustrated with AT&T
Isn't most of Canada known for low (software) engineering pay? Or is this relative even to other Canadian companies?
I've never seen noise generators used as GPS jammers, that would be hugely inefficient. All boards I've seen so far, although not emitting a single frequency, jammed the target using sweep generators operating on the desired GPS frequencies. Some even do that simultaneously, which is why they use multiple antennas; if they transmitted noise they could do that using a single noise generator and a wide band antenna.

Example: http://jammergroup.quality.chinacsw.com/pz66df87e-handheld-6...

And by the way, Boeing had jamming resistant GPS back in 1998.

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/1998-04-23-Boeing-Anti-Jam-GPS-...
He's been in the news almost constantly talking about both those projects and just announced a milestone with the Boring company, so I don't think it is completely out there to believe the author might have been referring to Musk's efforts. After all you think both those projects by Musk are outlandish and would use the word "fantasy" to describe them maybe so did the author, but forgot to mention Musk specifically or chose not to for whatever reason. Suffice it to say I don't think they are fantasies at all and not sure why people keep characterizing such Herculean efforts that require so much will and drive as such and are so keen to so easily dismiss them instead of admiring them.
Yes, "being careful" refers to a variety of different techniques, not just better software engineering. What has ended up being publishable in my case wasn't related to better software engineering, rather, being more careful about model derivations and more rigorous about the available data. But it could have been software improvements.

To be clear, I don't think everyone needs to be as careful as I am. A few researchers in a particular subfield spotting errors can have large benefits for everyone. And those few may catch the vast majority of the errors. There are diminishing returns to adding more people focused on being rigorous.
People were right in the previous discussion [0] to criticize Der Spiegel's self-serving sanctimonious tone in their writeup of the scandal. It's impossible to read the allegations by the Fergus Falls residents here and square them with Der Spiegel's purportedly high-performing fact-checking operation. It's not just only that they failed to detect their reporter's malicious deception. But they failed to do the most basic kind of fact-checking. For instance, I could see them failing to get to the bottom of an ephemeral fact like whether someone had put up a sign saying "Mexicans Keep Out". But calling the city to confirm that the official city sign says "Home of Damn Good Folks", and the theater to confirm that they were playing "American Sniper" in 2017? Those are the kind of facts that at a bare minimum professional fact-checkers should be double-checking.

Even something like the claim that the city administrator was a gun-toting virgin is something that a fact-checker is expected to call and independently confirm. And even if the guy gives a non-committal denial, e.g. "That's ridiculous, I don't want have anything to do with your left-wing fake news article!", the fact-checker should be prying the reporter for all the documentation/notes that support the claim. In fact, in this scenario, the fact-checker should be highly suspicious that the city official is so standoffish, if the reporter managed to gain his trust enough in the first place to reveal that he's a virgin (and is ostensibly embarrassed about it).

Der Spiegel has a lot of questions it has to answer for how it failed so thoroughly for so many years here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18716613
Wonder what the 1900ish single Canadian flag was about.
> The history of Christianity doesn’t really start in earnest for hundreds of years after the supposed death of Christ in any case

There are several Christian writings dated from the first century after his death. Paul's letters, the didache, Flavius Joseph, some talmudic writings, John's disciples writings to name a few.
They banned them on aesthetic grounds.

There was a move in the 1960s led by the wife of President Johnson to get rid of them. One success was, I believe, a freeze on erecting new ones on interstate highways. I don't know how well that worked, but they don't seem to be the worst offenders.
> No single point just does a single thing. They all interact with each other.

Some parts have a very straightforward meaning. For example the DNA code for insulin is well known and understood, you can copy it to bacteria to make them produce a 100% accurate version of human insulin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin

> The human insulin protein is composed of 51 amino acids, and has a molecular mass of 5808 Da. It is a dimer of an A-chain and a B-chain, which are linked together by disulfide bonds. Insulin's structure varies slightly between species of animals. Insulin from animal sources differs somewhat in effectiveness (in carbohydrate metabolism effects) from human insulin because of these variations. Porcine insulin is especially close to the human version, and was widely used to treat type 1 diabetics before human insulin could be produced in large quantities by recombinant DNA technologies.

Many enzymes have also a similar straightforward DNA->protein->function story.

(The regulation method to decide what enzymes to produce and how much of them is more complicated, but some are well known.)

If you want to identify the genes for more general traits like height or intelligence, then you will get something like what you said, that is a very complicated interaction on many genes that we don't understand.
I'm not convinced by the argument that it's fine since most people can just use a library someone else wrote. Requiring complex code to do something simple doesn't bode well if you want to try something complex. And when judging a programming a language it's a bit weird to reason from the perspective of someone not writing the code.
I remember back in 2012 when he started to get big he was roundly mocked for being overexcitable and cringy on his videos.

It was only after the WSJ articles that I found out that people actually defend him unironcially. Not sure if that's just him evolving or because of some other factors..
I'd be in favor, but it would be hard as some public things are funded that way (e.g. toilets and bus shelters) which would cause some resistance.

Still it's a good cause.
I got minus 50 points for suggesting that not all violent homeless people are mentally ill, and that mental illness is a poor predictor of violent behaviour, and that you shouldn't assume a violent homeless person is mentally ill.
Plaid.com API flaw and major security concern
Because people will do anything for even trivial amounts of money while upvotes are controlled by users which is self-correcting when the community and controls are well managed.
All-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand
1. Who said they would?

2. Also, it appears that many states already get a lot more than they contribute. That subsidy probably isn’t going in the direction you think it is.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
> Al Gore's hypocrisy and profit seeking were the cause of whatever harm was done to climate change awareness.

Well clearly Matt & Trey disagree now.

It is quite funny that very few people are actually able to come up with valid criticisms for his climate change advocacy, which wasn't even on the more alarmist side of climate change in 2006.
I wonder what year it will be before the entrenched valley VC types realize that refusing to meet with people unless you have a mutual friend has profound consequences regarding the social and economic class and ethnicity of the people you do business with, and feel compelled to at least pause a moment to contemplate that fact before espousing the practice.
Can't wait for this to be discontinued!
It actually has 14 apparently.
More than anything I want a search engine I can blacklist domains in.
Can someone tell me a mechanism that would fundamentally halt the production of new neurons in adult brains? If you can't define that edge well, then it would seem very likely that new neurons do form in adult brains, given the scale of neuron to brain, even if many fewer of them do in comparison.
If the producer is ready to produce one/more values prior to the Observer's being ready to consume them, do those values go into a queue?

If there is more than one Observer of the same AsyncObservable, is there a separate queue for each of them?

I'm thinking of AsyncSink[1] used by AsyncIterableX[2] (both of IxJS[3]) and how they might be conceptually related to implementations of AsyncObservable.

[1] https://github.com/ReactiveX/IxJS/blob/master/src/asyncsink....

[2] https://github.com/ReactiveX/IxJS/blob/master/src/asyncitera...

[3] https://github.com/ReactiveX/IxJS
I had a video up once, and after a bunch of issues with background music on other videos, I decided to use one of the royalty free selections youtube offers up in their editor/upload tool. It still got flagged.

Past videos I made my own simple drum loops etc, and those got flagged.

I just don't really bother with creating content for youtube anymore. In part because it's a pain, but equally just because I'm ADD and have moved on to other interests :)
> Jesus said “follow the Law”. He always taught to follow the law, and never once said it would be obsolete after his crucifixion

He said the law would not change until all is accomplished. After drinking the vinegar, before dying, he said "all is accomplished". Paul's teachings are thus consistent with this.
"It's just a heated gaming moment, over the course of several years!"
I've never got the importance of HSR for the US. It's to sparsely populated. While europe can have trains going from big cities like Berlin to France you'd have to go from NYC to Chicago, NYC to LA, LA to SF, Chicago to Houston. The routes would be huge. It makes no sense.
Do you know of any good replacement sites? (If you were to answer longform somewhere now, where would it be?)
Why We Choose to Homeschool Our Kids
I totally agree. It's stuff like this that will usher in the rust revolution

Edit: also wanted to add - what a disaster
This question reminds me of an interesting exchange in an episode of Daria:

Ashley-Amber - How do you think they make glitter?

Brittany - Hmm. I don't think we've learned that yet in science.

Salesman - Can I help you, ladies?

Ashley-Amber - Yes. How do they make glitter?

Salesman - Why, they capture a moonbeam and crumble it up into tiny little specks of magic.

Ashley-Amber (to Brittany) - Then we can save a bunch of money by doing it ourselves.
Finally! It's not just me.

But...I will say some good ideas made it into the standard thanks to a first implementation in boost, though what ended up being standardized is typically much cleaner and more orthogonal.

Then again this is how we got the standard containers and so much more standard library goodness -- via Stepanov stepping up and writing the STL.

The best way to think of boost as the npm.
Muhammad's first wife had a Christian priest in her family.
I think you missed the point. GGP was saying it’s hard to prove legally or otherwise in specific cases despite it obviously happening at scale. The point was not that when you look at the trends it’s hard to prove. The juxtaposition was intentional.
There was live footage of what looked like a thousand people marching with torches the night before, chanting “you will not replace us”, which is part of the racist “white genocide” theory. I live in North Carolina with a lot of folks who have confederate flag clothes or complain about how bad it is that confederate statues come down. I don’t know that any of them expressed sympathy for the Charlottesville groups.

Your general point about movements being messy things is right. I’m just not so sure it applies here.
The difference is population density. It make sense for china because popution center need to pipe huge amounts of people around. That doesn't exist in the US where cars are more efficient.
In thinking about an answer, you made me realize one of the things I love about HN: trolling or negativity for the sake of being negative isn't allowed to accumulate attention (in general). It is dealt with swiftly and the discussion moves on.

Sure, there is negativity in the form of criticism, but that's part of a healthy discussion, IMHO.

It's not perfect, but does it a lot better than other discussion forums where people discover that negativity can give them a higher profile.
>>Programming is generally considered more challenging than most professions, and it has a transformative potential that must other fields don't.

Or, most other fields have already transformed the world. Programming is in the process of transforming the world. So it looks to us as if it is unique.
"If only the world had a significant portion of several trillion dollars that could be spent curing cancer".

Money isn't the answer to all the world's problems. But I'm intrigued to hear how you think they should "take care of the problem". Maybe you can share your innovative python script that solves the problem for good.
Cholesterol

Intake of saturated and trans unsaturated fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532752/

"does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats."

Salt

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/tl-tls080818...

The Lancet: Sodium reduction programmes may only be appropriate for communities with very high salt intake

A new study shows that for the vast majority of communities, sodium consumption is not associated with an increase in health risks except for those whose average consumption exceeds 5g/day (equivalent to 12.5g of salt, or 2½ teaspoons). Communities with high average levels of sodium intake (above 5g/day) were mostly seen in China, with only about 15% of communities outside China exceeding this level of consumption.

WHO guidelines recommend a global approach to reducing sodium intake in all populations to below 2g/day, but this has not been achieved in any country. The authors say that sodium reduction strategies should instead target communities with high average levels of sodium consumption (above 5g/day).

https://secure.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/action/getSharedSiteSe...
Java is generally much more syntactically straightforward.
> Sweeping it under the rug is just cowardice

100% correct. Too often though, this is the default defense-non-defense for all sorts of awful behavior. However, it's a great tactic to try to switch the conversation from a "should" to a "can".
Here's a good video summarizing what China has done with high speed rail in a little over a decade:

https://youtu.be/0JDoll8OEFE
The truth is almost nobody uses Rust.
> Drop the 10% bracket to zero, increase the 12% bracket to, what, 15.25%. And you get a tax cut for everyone whose income is entirely in the 10% and (except at the exact top dollar amount of the bracket) 12% brackets, and no one else sees a change.

Then it's not a tax cut for the middle class. You have it phasing entirely out right around the median income, so someone at the median gets approximately nothing.

You could do the same thing higher up, e.g. drop the 10% bracket to zero and compensate by raising the rates for the brackets that start at the median income rather than ending there, but then it's a much larger reduction in revenue specifically because the middle class gets it too.

If you really wanted a (more affordable) tax cut specifically for the middle class, you could cut the rate between the 25th and 50th percentiles to 10% (rather than setting the existing 10% rate to zero) and compensate by raising the rate between the 50th and 75th percentiles. That would be an actual tax cut for the middle class.
I don’t get this complains about amazon warehouse work. When I was a teenager I used to work in alaska fish factory, with much much much stricter and harder schedules and rules that the article describes. If you plan to work in a warehouse - why are you surprized that you are required to lift heavy boxes and work long hours. Maybe someone can enlighten me why is this so blown out of proportion
Former Workers Comp claim examiner here.

Every Workers' compensation insurance company hires private investigators to make sure the person is really injured and not working another job while collecting. Sounds like the private investigative company overstepped their bounds by physically assaulting the worker, but otherwise this is SOP.

Worth noting - Amazon has nothing to do with this. They simply pay premiums for Sedgewick to administer the claims. The employer typically doesn't tell the insurer to go after the workers, since in this case it is Sedgewick who's footing the bill.
> it would be unthinkable for any individual or organization to systematically attack anyone on the internet for the content they created.

It's unthinkable that you would criticize Vox for content that they have created. 20 years ago this wouldn't have happened!
It seems like such a blanket statement to say that false negatives don't cost them money so they just let is happen. First it's very clear that Youtube spend considerable effort creating content ID and not used a dumb filter which would have been so easy to create and might I add cheaper also. They also care about their reputation to the extent that it doesn't impede them in making money in a significant way. Don't get me wrong I completely think Youtube's copyright system is a joke and for instance if Kim .com was operating it, it would have been raided by the FBI out of existence spontaneously.
Well now you know the secret to get rich, go ahead ;)
> Worth noting - Amazon has nothing to do with this. They simply pay premiums for Sedgewick to administer the claims. The employer typically doesn't tell the insurer to go after the workers, since in this case it is Sedgewick who's footing the bill.

The most anyone can really expect of them is that they consider other providers, or hold their existing providers to a higher standard; and that is almost certainly what they are going to do.
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. Chapter about memory palace is especially amazing!
While the optics aren't great, I think this is the kind of thing we just have to accept as a society without single-payer healthcare. There's a huge amount of worker's comp fraud. Without some pushback in the system, there would be a lot more. And worker's comp insurance is already very expensive (at least, here in CA).

Also: We're getting just one side of the story here.
Unlike Python, this compiles to pretty optimally efficient code.
I wouldn't be too surprised to find out the fast food industry uses some form of glitter to make things look tasty. If you imagine that for example most burgers are usually precooked frozen meat that's then reheated, getting it to look like freshly made can be quite a challenge.