skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things are true, but it wasn't long-distance trade or scientific progress which made English people richer in 1400 than in 1350. It was more land per peasant.

That things did not completely fall apart when the plague hit may be due to having relatively strong institutions, but again I'd argue that what mattered here was at the parish level, not Rome.

Ethiopia was also quite a centralised state in medieval times (with a uniting church language playing a role like Latin's). But we don't actually know whether it suffered a larger or smaller plague at that time, it seems. We do know that it did not suffer collapse on the scale of pre-Colombian American civilisations, that we would certainly know about already.
Reddit's rewrite was done "pretty much done in one weekend".

Things that can be rewritten in one weekend are trivial; they don't speak to anything.

A Lisp site that can be rewritten in Python in one weekend can be probably be rewritten in shell + awk + CGI in two weekends.
C++ supports more complex inheritance models.

Operator overloading

The const keyword

C++ can guarantee stack allocations

C++ has faster boot times

C++ templates are more powerful than Java generics

C++ latency is better, which is important for some applications such as audio

C++ can manage external resources better using RAII

Not saying C++ is better in all cases, but it does bring things to the table that Java does not.
Why can't we just invent a virus that turns everyone into hermaphroditic futanarias.
If there's only 1 gender, that'll end gender discrimination.

On a serious note: The identity politics culture, in particular third wave feminism, was a psyop instigated by the CIA (for further information look up e.g. Gloria Steinem) in order to exactly prevent organizations to give people power/reward based on MERIT. This leads to a failing and dysfunctional power structures and subsequently to the failure of the attacked organizations.

Why High-Energy-Physics is under attack and who would be the attacker is totally unclear to me. The result however will be a inefficient non functioning institution doomed to fail. If CERN were to be publicly traded I would sell now!
Seems a bit complex. How about the remote server adding the immutable flag on the uploaded files?
Is that figure subsidized? Landfill disposal often is, to reduce the incentive for illegal dumping.
I'll bite. Amazon Pittsburgh office inside joke?
Abusive people act abusively because it often gets them what they want at the expense of everything else. An abusive boss might get increased productivity from their subordinates in the short term at the long term expense of the organization itself.
From what I can see the largest source of inaccuracy with this machine would be in the bed rails. Angle iron has wild tolerances. Still impressive work, more than I can do.
I run a company doing hardware R&D in China, after only basic shop experience in high school (my grandfather was a successful metal factory operator). It's a privilege being here because you can literally summons any component with a few clicks and a couple of days waiting, and costs for precise external fabrication in a wide range of processes are low. So far it's surprisingly hard to find competent multidisciplinary mechanical designers capable of working across processes. We offer a pleasant design office environment as an alternative to a shop floor, which means real estate is more central and quality of life for design engineers goes up. We find this more effective than a self-run shop and it means any design fabricated is known reproducible via outside parties. It has been such an education getting to grips with the production costs and prototype iteration expenses (time and money) on a range of materials and processes. I wish there were an up to date book on this, if there is I haven't found it. As an example, we don't use our own 3D printers because having someone else print, pack, and deliver guarantees engineers stay focused. When you see the big metal shops here, each aisle of machines is often 20 machines and 100+ meters long. They have enormous presses, sheet working areas, laser cutters, many CNCS (Italian, Japanese, German, Korean, etc.) ... it's awesome. Then there's the plastic factories ... massive injection gear sunk in to subterranean concrete grottoes and staggering galleries of client molding stretching hectares.
In my experience in the aerospace industry working closely with USAF, it depends entirely on the program (as in military/civil program, not computer program) as well as the systems being targeted for deployment. I worked on projects that allowed Python 2, but not 3, some that only allow the Python that ships with Anaconda or Canopy. Many programs and classified environments are barely getting approval for C++11 and some unfortunate teams are stuck with uncompiled VBA macros behind Excel UIs because the security personnel for their target systems is unable to review compiled code in fewer than 6 months... it is a mess.
This is exactly why.
It has destructuring in value binding and lambda parameters, as well. Pretty handy when you're dealing with a lot of pairs, triples, and data classes, though not quite as powerful as true pattern-matching.
There's nothing about the scrum process that helps me, as an engineer, to work more efficiently. I work at the same pace regardless of what fictional story points are assigned to a task. The entire charade is only for middle managers to communicate up the chain what is happening. Velocity can be massaged so easily that it is a useless metric.
You are correct that a set of people are unwilling to accept that, but it’s actually the same set. Those who bring up male variability pretty frequently take great pains to state, gratuitously, that it applies to populations in a general sense and not individuals. Damore called this out as well, but the mob rewrote his words for him to omit anything like that.

Most men advancing this argument have no problem whatsoever with the idea that there can be women who are better than they are. For some reason it’s impossible to utter words like (downvoted, wtf? See...) GP did without a lot of people putting extra words in your mouth and assuming you’re using population generalizations as a thinly veiled charade to attack individuals.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Man on Wire

Both redefined for me what it means to be mission oriented and committed. And I have a Guinness Record, so I thought I was obsessive already, but I’m nothing compared to the commitment of the two men in these documentaries.
Yes and no. As others pointed, Larry Summers wasn't provocative and suffered a similar backlash. And when you have a strong political pressure on a topic, it is logical that the only people who will speak up will tend to be the more provocative, anti-establishment outliers.
a formal presentation in a 'women in physics' workshop, not a physics workshop. you're implying it was entirely out of context
What is the point of the OSI layers. It feels like some academic come up with them and everyone has been going through mental gymnastics trying to work out how to fit the real world on to it. The proposed new model doesn't seem to make much sense either. How is IP integrity?
You've failed to show whether there are any government funded domestic violence shelters for women in London.

And reading your link it seems the government funding is clearly for both men and women:

> “Tackling domestic violence is a key priority in the Mayor’s Policing and Crime Plan. He has provided £2 million of funding for the Pan London Domestic Abuse Service – the biggest of its kind in London – which is open to men and women.

> “Through Survivors UK, the Mayor also supports male victims of rape and sexual abuse with funding to help them receive counselling through one-to-one support and advocacy support should they wish to report to the police and proceed through the criminal justice route.

Domestic violence shelters in the UK are almost entirely provided by charities.
A store in the UK (sainsburys) briefly experimented with selling milk in bags. You bought a big jug which the top-up bag clipped into. Ostensibly it reduced plastic waste. Pretty sure it was cheaper than buying bottles. It never really caught on though and they canned it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenerliving/7307719...
The editor is used by design and art lots, bit lots of programming in UE4 involves exposing controls for people who are using the things you write. There's also blueprint which is a visual scripting language which you can use for behaviour.

I think tarring unity as overly simplistic is unfair. Unity let's you write code ( in as a game object) and use them, it's not really drag and drop.

(Disclaimer: I work in games, for Epic)
It is relatively useful for understanding intentions and make sure that people are talking about the same thing, but overall I agree.
> His analysis was quickly dismissed as being unscientific and incorrect by experts in the impact of research.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47478537

Racists and misogynist have been using bad science to justify their views for centuries. (See, for example, phrenology.) Once identified as such, we are under no obligation to continue suffering such fools.
It's disappointing they don't specify which funding call this was. This would give us an insight into what really is behind this.

Having been deeply involved in EU funding I am 95% certain they are overstating the "checks". Yes you have to provide financials, but it's not like the EU staff are auditing the company, they do a few basic checks based on the documents provided by the company to check that they are not in debt or going bankrupt soon.

Horizon 2020 has various angles but principally is about research so they must have requested funds for that, not directly for product development.

Even with closed source, still a nice thing to see this kind of company supported.
$ cat ~/.clang-format
---
BreakStringLiterals: 'false'
ColumnLimit: '0'
IndentWidth: '4'
ObjCBlockIndentWidth: '4'
ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: 'false'
PenaltyBreakComment: '0'
SortIncludes: 'true'
TabWidth: '4'
UseTab: ForIndentation

...

Otherwise, whatever the project I'm working on uses.
Airbnb and Miami Beach Are at War. Travelers Are Caught in the Crossfire
This sounds terrific! Thank you for building it!
Amazon’s The Grand Tour made it a big plot point in their Colombia special too.
Meekerplace
My mistake. It appears that Github still doesn't have any first-party CI offering. I must have confused it with the other two.
Is there a white paper for FoundationDB's consistency guarantee implementation?
I do not mean a white paper about their layers, like https://www.foundationdb.org/files/record-layer-paper.pdf

I mean a white paper of how they implement the core of foundation db. For example, this is spanner's implementation https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf

I have looked all over but I only see their technical overview here https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/technical-overview.html
Dunno what to do if you can’t accumulate.

But if you can, just post an ad on your local classified.

Some Ebayer will gladly jam garbage bags of them into their car.
It’s Only Natural: An Excessively Deep Dive into Natural Gradient Optimization
Hi, can you provide some further info on the funding call or even the project page on the EU research portal, if it's up yet? I'm very curious which call this was, especially unusual as you don't mention any consortium partners! Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Awesome! This opens the door to so many possibilities!
This is super cool.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand a lot of the complexities or issues with this, but from what I do understand it seems like he's thought through a lot of issues and provided cool solutions for them.
that's pretty good.

In a pinch I was just choosing left/right depending on vowel or consonant, and flipping the rule every word or so. but the distribution is still a bit too tight.
Nah, at 6 they're back on the piss ;)

We probably got started with the van later than 11 actually, they were around from 11 to help get stuff out of the flat. But my point still stands.
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What did this guy do for HP that he needed to travel so far and frequently for?
Similar story where I live, but while the rubbish is separated, before it all gets thrown together again, at least it is easier for Roma people to find what is valuable and support their families that way.
Here's what is sorta amusing about this... nearly every time the topic of counterfeits on Amazon comes up here on HN, somebody posts some variation of "Amazon don't care about this problem", or "they have no incentive to ever fix it", etc.

And yet in the past week or two it appears that they are, indeed, taking rather substantive action to try and address this problem.

Moral of this comment: don't put too much faith in analysis gleaned from anonymous Internet comments? :-)
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Model Explainability is The Next Data Science Superpower
Free range cattle wouldn't come anywhere close to meeting the current demand for meat. People would have to get used to eating meat a lot less often and paying a lot more for it.

It takes around 7-10kg of feed to produce 1kg of meat. Eliminate that waste and we can easily feed everyone a healthy plant based diet instead.
PS: Longshort also used intercial confinement nuclear Fusion which we are no where near getting to work even in ideal laboratory conditions. It’s got a host of it’s own issues and is well into sci-fi territory, as in it might be physically possible but it seems unlikely.
As someone else just pointed out, this can be highly subjective.

An audio clip of Stephen Wolfram was recently posted on HN, in which he was dealing with a couple of team members on their API documentation.

Some described it as "toxic bullying", but even more said "That is incredibly tame and I take no issue with it". I fell into the latter.

Some people are a whole lot more fragile than others.
The optical scanners sometimes can’t read black plastics.

It just absorbs IR.

We should discourage them.

The scanners are cool since they’re analyzing the plastic itself; not reading codes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/restaurants-coffee-pl...
How did you get in to spearfishing? I saw it in a sailing video recently and it appeals as far more interesting and time-efficient than traditional fishing. Can you recommended any media?
I think the circumstances warrant it.

Absolutely, from what you've said.

Supervisors "rage-fire" people on the spot all the time, often with little or no direct justification -- other than the manager having a momentary break, essentially. I've seen this happen many, many times.

So really, don't even think about the necessity of extending the courtesy, in this case.
Also, looking at the reddit1.0 code, it’s not particularly well-designed. It’s very unclear whether the problem was lisp or not having the benefit of having written reddit already.
From some quick googling, it sounds like less than half of high-school students take the SAT. In which case the bottom end of the scores will probably tell you nothing about the population.

"3.8 million students took the PSAT -- the practice version of the SATs ... 1.7 million students from the class of 2015 took the SAT"
My intuition is that clustering subsequences of time series data should easily find diurnal/seasonal patterns - am I thinking about this wrong?
Having 3 or 4 kids in Japan is exceedingly rare; the average family size is 2.4 [0]

[0]https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=083db34f40f94a55a26...
Welcome to LA! (Well, when you get here)

Qualifier: been here for about 2.5 years and just got a new position at a startup after 2.5 years at [big_adtech_co]

1. Angelist.co for startups
2. Bultinla.com for startups (though anglelist is better IMO)
3. Startups around here are mainly looking for mid/senior as opposed to junior (in my experience), but obviously there are Jr positions out there
4. Look for recruiters (agencies), to help, plenty of agencies around here hungry for devs (obviously you’ll have to sift through the noise to find the signal here)

5. Avoid leetcode companies..at all costs

Happy hunting
> static typing does not prevent all type errors. Everything what arrives on the wire can blow your program up.

How?
The EU is a very open body. It allows partner countries such as Switzerland or Norway in a large number of its programmes (actually Switzerland is currently not participating in most due to the Swiss not allowing free travel for Croatians, but as soon as they fix that they'll be back in).

In return those countries participate in the pot and the organisations involved (universities, SMEs, ..) can benefit from wider expertise. Links and exchange are strengthened. All benefit. Why those countries are in the EU programmes is the same why Brexit is idiotic: the collaboration benefits everyone, reduces overall costs and builds trust and strengthens all partners.
CEO of NextPlay.ai Charu Sharma on how entrepreneurship is like dating [video]
Yep. MathML is quite similar to SVG in that it's really hard to write by hand and you need editors to make it accessible.
That's so good. An old one but definitely recommended for anyone in the tech biz. I was just thinking about watch it again this week!
The point of the OSI model is to distribute responsibilities so that people can develop protocols that work together. Otherwise you get almost entirely proprietary protocols where every application using the network has to have 10 different configurations changes to get it to talk to another machine.
Haskell and lisp are cool! But they don't let me stand up a webserver quickly and easily, find some nicely licensed libraries, autocomplete the rest of the code, and be done with the data ingestion website by lunch. express, in node, and ktor, in Kotlin, are simply much faster ways to set up whatever you need than Elixir or Rust or what-have-you. I do my throwaway coding in Java, because it doesn't matter, and my durable coding in Python, because it must be in Python for wide adoption.
A contrarian presentation about the lack of discrimination or progress towards fairness in physics? Sure. An insult-studded rant about "cultural marxism"? Not so much.
Uh...

Developer outside of SF (outside of USA, in fact) here. I read blogs, have written them on occasion. Have worked with many developers in many non-SV locales. None of them read programming books, most of them read blogs.
On top of it, there's a Delphi-compatible, FOSS IDE and compiler to use instead:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

It has an active community. I don't know how big it is, though.
How can someone possibly call Jordan Peterson a charlatan? Are we redefining that word now too? Also, describing something as “telling” is a pretty strong signal that one lacks any substantive rebuttals but cannot resist throwing shade. It’s cheap.
I like to call them "strolls" :-)
His voice, particularly when he's discussing meditation puts me to sleep fast.
They filed a patent for a copy of an Xbox/PlayStation controller?
Faster than Python/Ruby. Safer than C/C++. Sun was seen as nicer than MS. No remaining languages had as many replacement developers once you ruled the previous ones out.

Then add in two decades of entrenched software and network effects.
How to Make 3D Fractals
You are making the mistake of thinking US immigration/visa laws have anything to do with sensible policy. In fact in USA any system that is 100% under government control tends to be more communist and Quixotic than Soviets. There is more of racist Congress at play rather than anything related to overstays.

Now consider overstay numbers (total overstay vs % of total travelers from that country):
Canada - 120K (.11%)
Mexico - 47K (1.73%)

UK - 25K (0.39%)
India - 17K (1.32%)
Italy - 16K (0.83%)

Bulgaria - 300 (1.3%)
Cyprus - 61 (0.69%)
Poland - 2400 (1.3%)
Romania - 1300 (1.4%)

Entire Europe - 126K
Entire Asia - 56K

None of those numbers are significantly different, in fact when people know that they can reenter easily the high chances are they leave more easily. It is a bit like those H1B try to hang to their jobs but those on green card travel all around the world and quit all the time too.
I can't think of a reason why discoverability necessarily needs to be hard in CLI apps. I think all apps, including CLI apps, should have a fuzzy search for all commands.

ZSH takes some steps in the right direction with this, with how it handles tab completion.
Right but as the article shows, there are many "push technologies"... what is this project about? Someone subscribed for notifications and then this server sends them?
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of the analogy, can you explain?
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has survived its greatest test–returning to Earth
It heavily depends, whether you want to use math as a tool or focus on math because math fascinates you.
As a mathematical comment, if these are two distributions are gaussians, and one has 120k above some cutoff, the other 78k, then the distributions above this cutoff are not the same.

They will typically have slightly different means (not far above the cutoff) and quite strongly different tails.
That's quite curious to me, since the overwhelming majority of the argument I've seen that cites the Damore memo glosses right over that distinction, or, at best, does an, "I'm not saying the thing, but, you know, the thing..." with this very question.

Maybe that's an inference I'm putting there, in at least some of the cases, but in another nontrivial subset of them, it's a serious exercise in creative interpretation to find any other read of the person's own words.
What do you mean by style? Whitespace and casing in names, chunks of the standard to use or not (unique_ptr, mutable refs as function arguments, auto), interface design paradigms (RAII, exceptions vs error codes, composition vs. inheritance)? It doesn't really change my answer (the Google style guide), but the reasons are somewhat different in each case. I choose Google's formatting basically because it meshes with the feature-set they recommend and their interface design philosophy. I choose the feature-set they recommend because their guide's coverage and reasoning are more comprehensive than those of comparable guides I've seen. I choose their interface design philosophy because it meshes with the feature-set and is better than trying to figure it out myself.

(I do work at google and got the "writes idiomatic c++" certification, but I'm writing the above from the perspective of the (very tiny amount of) c++ I write for personal projects, including things I worked on before I got past their interviews to get hired.)
I once told a competitor that we're using Javascript extensively and our TTM for new features is super low thanks to simply adding NPM modules whenever necessary.

In hindsight I should also have mentioned NoSQL databases and a microservices architecture.
This ignores that the calculation of this is really difficult. It's not 1 contract = 1 country, rather it's often consortia of dozens of institutions. One of these is coordinating and that will usually for various reasons be one based in an EU country. In many of the cases the complexity will be so high that it's difficult to say which institution/country gets the biggest share. But this might pay for conferences, travel cost and service contracts and other things that others benefit from too. In addition part of the funds will also cover the programme overhead. Swiss staff will be seconded to (and paid by) the EU. Etc etc etc.

Finally it's not all about the funds. Participation in this kind of calls bring prestige, partnerships, postdoc positions, etc.

Plain and simple Switzerland benefits significantly from being part, as do all other countries.