skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally also dislake C++'s standard library, lack of standard functionality in it and the difficulty of maintaining dependencies and the whole resulting build process with crosscompilers. GNU Make was not enough, CMake was not enough, GN is almost rocket science, then there is Meson. And choice of clang or gcc. Chrome/Fuchsia is an example of how complicated it can be. But does it have to be like that? There are definitely good reasons to use C++ or C in some cases (system, low-level, games etc) but C++ is a difficult language and it's not necessary for lot more other cases. Rust is yet another story, solving some problems but making new ones.

Go made me enjoy the programming again. And of course, managing modules is a very difficult task so it had to be done somehow and somehow really, really good and I think they delivered the working solution. Various previous attempts were bad for various reasons (Kubernetes can tell you).
To be fair, it's not discrimination if he simply blanket ignores proposals from contractors located in India. It is if he blanket ignores proposals from any contractors who were born in India, but may be located elsewhere.

It's not as clear cut as you are trying to make it out. Perhaps he simply wasn't clear in his wording....
Yeah, I got the same impression. The story reeks of bullshit.

Would be a good /r/thatHappened/ post though.
AI assistants like Siri and Alexa are perpetuating sexist stereotypes, UN says
We need to be careful about where this line of comparison will take us. X is a problem, blame group Y.

This sounds a lot like something Hitler would say: he used the Jewish community as a scapegoat for many problems the country was facing, so some citizens were all too happy when they were quietly being taken away.
Any floor sleepers out there?
NIMBYism is a problem in all American cities.
I wonder if past generations felt this too -- this feeling that the as you get older, popular culture seems to twist itself to pander to your tastes and attitudes. I had assumed that I had this feeling because I was in the most sought after advertising demographic. Now that I'm into my 50s though, it seems like it's still happening, and perhaps even faster than before.

As we enter 2019, celebrities are rushing to play Dungeons and Dragons, The Big Bang Theory has better ratings than NFL football, Game of Thrones is the top HBO show, and the most popular movie in America is from a comic book. It's a weird world.

Nowadays I'm a bit saddened that my attitudes have shifted to become more close-minded, like my fathers. Adults playing Dungeons and Dragons are somewhat pathetic, comic books are boring kids stuff, and "fantasy" is for people who have dull lives. I don't subscribe to all of that, but remembering how angry I was at my father for belittling the fantasy escapism that I was so wrapped up in, it's odd to find myself agreeing with some of his sentiments.
There's No Such Thing as Different 'Learning Styles'
I thought "Green Burials" have been allow in many states for years. It typically involves minimal embalming, with some sites not even having tombstones or markers, instead getting state approval to bury the bodies in nature restoration sites/parks.

I guess that's more passive though, because you're letting a human decompose like any animal, versus active industrial composting like we do we paper towels and food waste.
If airlines have to pay more in insurance premiums or they have to pay millions of US dollars a pop for each dead passenger, they'll demand a safer plane.
congrats to the team on this monumental release!
The best part is when they have so polluted one area that they start to flee to greener pastures, and they turn right around and start instituting the same policies in the new place.
> The Soviets were militant atheists and oppressed homosexuals. It's not clear what Putin's religious beliefs are, but he didn't start the oppression anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Russia

Do you see any major errors in that article? And if not, can you honestly say that you see no significant connection between religion and the oppression of homosexuals in Russia, neither historically nor today?

> But sometimes I'm able to defend beliefs I don't agree with.

So, you don't agree that religion is the primary factor behind oppression of homosexuals in Russia? Why are you defending the position, then, and so badly at that?
Just completely inaccurate. San Francisco - an uber democratic, liberal city, is the polar opposite of everything you blamed Republicans for. It has extremely high taxes, one of the largest budgets and income for any city in US (normalized per capita), and it still flounders on basic promises to it's citizens.

Sky High Taxes + Democratic govt. still doesn't deliver good, nay half-decent results.
*Blame the wealthy.

Liberals at the levers of power are certainly part of the problem (or at least their neoliberalism is) the problem is the wealthy of all ideological stripes.

Blaming nimbyism is just a roundabout way of blaming government regulation, which I find nonsensical.
Looks like it’s that final possibility. Yikes!
Gates/Jobs are the biggest factors for sure.
There's probably a mens rea (intent) requirement, which arguably wouldn't be satisfied if he didn't know (or have reason to know) that the heroin was in the van until he was in Oregon (where he sold the heroin). And there a good chance that the statute for state level crimes would have run already. Hopefully he talked to a lawyer before writing this up!
The bay area is the most obvious example, but the problems of exclusionary zoning in America are extremely widespread. In practice, this means the booming, high-income metros (which are largely liberal, like SF, NYC, Boston, and Seattle) are suffering the worst of high housing prices.

More conservative metros will at least build outward to deal with housing supply problems. Yeah, that's not really good for the environment, but it does help with prices. But not liberal cities: they don't want to build out OR up.

Instead, you get a plethora of excuses as to how they really shouldn't be expected to host any more human beings: why can't another city in the metro build more? Why can't those people move to another state? Why can't those companies hire more in another state? What about my god-given right to free, abundant car parking? Shouldn't we build more infrastructure before more housing (also let's not build that infrastructure please)? Why can't we freeze my neighborhood in amber? Etc.
I recommend taking a look at http://container.training - it has a nice long self-paced intro to containers&docker that is quite thorough.
Anyone have an a average monthly fee for using these as hosting solution? last time i ran the numbers using all that services go from 5 to 10 USD per month and was better to use amazon lightsail (3.5 per month) or other cheaper alternatives at lowendbox
I see nothing about grounding all planes unless " doing things to make it unnecessary" is what you mean. That is quite a stretch.
Keep in mind if we go down our current path the result is potentially human extinction.
Wait just a second! :-)

1. Yay!

2. Yes, native libraries would be difficult. Or impossible.

3. Could you elaborate on the "-sys pattern"?
IMHO: There is a good chance that Lisp is pretty close to expressing "natural language" in code. I would argue that written text / prose is even a bad starting point. I'd rather think about having an UML Activity Diagram, add a way to add parameters / variables to it. Then visually imagine that you take away the full bubbles around the commands and just leave the sides. They look like brackets, right?

Now fiddle in a syntax for having parameters, maybe place them next to the text that describes what the program wants to achieve.

The next step is to define what the program or routine is actually doing, so think about step one again.

... Every time I think about a non-graphical way of writing a program as intuitive as possible I usually end up with some sort of Lisp.

EDIT: several edits for wording
If I can't afford to be frozen, then I would like to be sealed in clear epoxy with LED lights and put on display. That should be quite sanitary while not emitting much Co2.
San Francisco's budget for homeless is over $300 million per year. If you add the additional $300 million they got from their tax on companies, that's over $600 million per year.

Even at $300 million, we have no idea how that money is being spent. There are 7500 homeless people in San Francisco, and yet Market Street looks like something out of a 3rd world country.

San Francisco is mishandling the budget, plain and simple. They have more than enough money, and yet they are completely opaque and they have zero accountability.

This is the government that we want to give MORE money to, because somehow more money is the solution to this problem? Hell no. Hold the politicians accountable. Get a proper budget that will focus money on where it will most help and make people accountable. Fire those in charge and put people who are willing to help without wanting to suckle from the teat of public funding and taxation.
Apologies if my example was too beyond the pale, and as you mentioned, even less effective due to the freshness of the flesh.

iirc the carrion-eating animals have evolved particular mechanisms such that eating dead flesh doesn't harm them; they can eat a lot of stuff that would kill us. What is deadly toxic for a human may be nontoxic for a vulture or cockroach.
I am quite surprised by the amount of anti-capitalist propaganda on HN.
Sure you can! The corporate and income tax burdens in the U.S. are already at similar levels to Germany, France, the U.K., Spain, and Italy, but they're paying for just apples, versus apples + oranges. If we want to also buy everyone oranges, we should probably pay for those oranges by looking at the tax-revenue sources where the U.S. burden is much lower than in Europe.

The political question is: how do we go from taxes being 27% of GDP to taxes being 37.5% of GDP. (That's the level in Germany, and there is no way we do a welfare state more efficiently than Germany.) That's like $2 trillion. If we raise that money through higher income and corporate taxes, we'd be departing substantially from the norms established by the big EU countries. If we raise that money instead through higher middle class taxes, we'd be keeping within those norms. Not only that, the actual tax increase would be offset to a large degree by the savings to the middle class from not having to pay health insurance premiums and tuition fees.
Yup, just Swift right now, but collecting requested languages here: https://forms.gle/Yfgxn3yi4JHvjmD17
It normalized the stereotype of nerd culture.

Aside from being incredibly unfunny it completely misrepresented nerd culture and that's why it was so popular amongst the largely nerd-free network tv audience.

For a more accurate picture still taken to absurd extremes watch Mike Judge's silicon valley on HBO.
I find this piece on toxic masculinity in The Big Bang Theory much more interesting than the show or this article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs
(The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory by Pop Culture Detective)

I'm happy for people who can enjoy The Big Bang Theory but I find it difficult personally.
Uh... if CC is a money grabbing ploy, they’re doing a terrible job of it. I have spent a total of 20 bucks for a book with a few years worth of training exercises. The ebook is available for free online with a minimal search. Same for CC 2. I’m down to hear specific critiques of CC, but accusing them of ripping people off is absurd.

Everything else you say sounds reasonable. All the best on your journey, may the strongest strongman win, etc etc
I wish I had known this advice about serratus anterior a year ago! I started lifting again about a year ago for the first time since I was a teenager, and started getting some shoulder pain after a few months. Strengthening my serratus anterior has helped so much, plus I can just feel my scapula moving so much more comfortably now when I reach overhead. Definitely good to strengthen these supporting muscles before going overboard with compound movements.
> Sports are filled with numbers and any teams/players who can afford it has such a leg up, its not even a joke

I remain unconvinced. There are a lot of numbers and anecdotes thrown out. But how much is confirmation bias? And does it withstand robust hypothesis testing?

The A's have been in Oakland since 1968. They've been to the World Series 6 times and won 4. None of those World Series appearances occurred during the tenure of Billy Beane as GM, 1997 to the present day.
ah, now I understand. sort of like the "safe withdrawal rate" for normal people.

also sorry, didn't realize both of my questions went to the same person.
Our ancestors didn't have microbiology. As long as we pay attention to the science, we won't be repeating history.
I've never laughed so hard from an HN comment. It's funny because it's exactly what will happen as it has in the past
I'm also concerned about PureScript's JS output so I looked into ReasonML and has been quite impressed. The type system is a bit less powerful (no type classes yet) but the JS output is very readable and maps almost line-to-line to ReasonML code.
Seems to mostly be "get out of my neighborhood" more than city, though the city part comes from not allowing growth in neighborhoods.
I take away that they do NOT put lives above numbers. Revisit the ford pinto case.

They knew there were problems with the design and flew the planes any way.
Interestingly, compilation time was one of the motivations for Go.

Can you create a Haskell compiler that is faster than GHC? Probably. Can you create one that is fast? I'm much more skeptical of that.
And "Friends" normalized NYC.
It can't all fall on the shoulders of wealthy corporations here. Corporations operate throughout the entire country, not just SF.

The problem with some "progressives" is that they're not willing to make the necessary sacrifices to elevate the quality of life for others. The same thing is happening in Austin, TX, another liberal stronghold.

Most of the new construction going on in Austin is high-end, far out of financial reach for many. Neighborhoods are denying requests to build denser affordable housing because they want to have their cake and eat it too.

It's what happens in a society that's constantly told us that owning our home is the way to wealth generation for the middle class. People who already own homes are going to do everything they can to benefit themselves, and who can blame them? That's the system working the way it was designed to. It's just not sustainable.

On top of that, there are a lot of multi-family developers and brokers making an absolute killing it on buying and selling apartment complexes and making massive returns on their portfolio. Had a buddy who worked for a PE real estate firm in Austin that gave their employee of the year an Escalade a couple years back.
> Surely the same could be said of nearly any network sitcom involving a subculture or demographic. That's kind of the idea of broad entertainment.

No, it isn't quite the same thing. ESR actually points out the specific problem with BBT in this excerpt from the blogpost I linked:

> Bleagh. This is supposed to be a show about geniuses? It’s not. It’s a show about a dimwit’s idea of what bright people are like. The slowest person in my peer group could out-think and out-create any of these sad-sack imitations of “smart” on any day of the week. These actors are not bright, and don’t know how to fake it on screen.

(emphasis added). The comparison to blackface that someone else made, however inherently contentious (for eminently understandable reasons) is indeed on point.
Lol, flagged post. Seems like some "wealthy liberals" here on HN don't like being called out.
> You can add those quantifiers if you want, but jlawson's argument is still an obvious double standard.

Add? Put them back where you took them from, rather. You can claim that until the cows come home and it will still be true that jlawson hasn't accused you of violence.

> Maybe we could get together and talk about it over a nice frosty milkshake?

Cute, but no deal.

> Speaking of talking it out, I'm curious how you found this thread. Given it's age and moderation status I doubt it's organically.

The article was on the front page when I clicked it. You last comment was about three hours old when I commented.
> Privacy is a fundamental part of Apple's selling proposition and personal to Tim Cook given that in many cases gay and other minorities are killed due to privacy leaks.

I love the privacy aspect, but is privacy really part of Apple's core strategy or are we just seeing them make use of the good position they were always in? Is there enough drive at Apple (Cook or otherwise) to keep privacy a focus, or is the topic just going to fall by the wayside when it suits the business?
More evidence that iOS really just needs a declarative UI format. Storyboards/IB are trash and doing it programmatically is fine, but slow and error-prone.
$ nmap --top-ports 1000 -T4 -sC http://example.com
Nmap scan report for example.com {redacted}
Host is up (0.077s latency).
rDNS record for {redacted}: {redacted}
Not shown: 972 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
| ssh-hostkey:
| {redacted}
80/tcp open http
| http-methods:
|_ Potentially risky methods: TRACE
|_http-title: Victim Site
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
443/tcp open https
| http-methods:
|_ Potentially risky methods: TRACE
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=UTF-8).
|_{redacted}
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
5901/tcp open vnc-1
| vnc-info:
| Protocol version: 3.8
| Security types:
|_ VNC Authentication (2)
8080/tcp open http-proxy
|_http-title: 400 Bad Request
8081/tcp open blackice-icecap
>But don’t rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).

I couldn't help but laugh at this. Is the author trying to spin the USA as second- or third-world? We are the top global economy!
Why is it nonsensical? It's absolutely the problem.

The bay area in particular isn't even that densely populated. It's just that most of the residential land is reserved for detached single-family homes still. When you constrain supply that much and demand shoots up, the result isn't exactly surprising.
OK. Correlation does not imply causation, or something...

So, San Francisco still votes 8% Republican. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Francisco

Is it possible that there are a majority of people in SF that support changing their city and are Democrats? And, that a small minority of people (who could be Rs or Ds) can effectively block legislation to change housing laws? I'm not sure this article proves it is all "liberals" doing it, just that a) lots of liberals live in SF and b) SF has been ineffective at tackling the housing crisis ("...a place where lots of liberals live! QED!!!").

Having said this, my mom considers herself very liberal, and still has signs up on her lawn saying "Preserve Historic Houses" (which means "I don't support tearing down houses in my neighborhoods to build higher density places").

BUT: I do think she would be open to changing her mind. I'm not sure someone that lives in SF and that agrees with
Trump's approach to immigration would be open to changing their mind. Is that biased of me?
> Nerds are not a vulnerable class and haven't been in a long time.

The ones who get a CS degree and get a good high paying job, sure.

The ones still in middle school? Not so much. The ones who aren't programmers? Not so much. The nerds growing up in communities where free thinking and geeky passions are looked down upon, sometimes violently? Not so much.

And those kids will reach adulthood dealing with some rather nasty issues. Everything from not having learned great socialization skills, to a poor self image, to a lot of stuff in-between.

Stereotypes are bad, having a show that treats people as 1 dimensional disposable arch-types that exist only to be laughed at, is bad, no matter who the subject matter is.
Depends on the tools! If you're manually copying files, there are clients (e.g. Transmit, which is what I use) that just treat it like any (S)FTP server. If you're using the command line, yeah, you need to use Amazon's CLI, although it's still basically a one-liner to sync the directory you want to publish.
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' (2007)
So the title should be: Blame a specific wealthy liberal who is a state senator
Do you have any sources about those numbers or other information about where this money is going? That works out to $40,000 per homeless person, or almost double the pre-tax annual income working full time at California's minimum wage.
FWIW, I disagree with your post being flagged. While I disagree with you and think your position lacks internal consistency, it’s a common position and you’ve shown a willingness to argue in good faith, which I appreciate. So I’m sorry to see this flagged.

See you around.
This is a huge step in the right direction. Despite anyone's opinions on death and burial traditions, the reality is that the most common practices are not eco friendly.

In the U.S. each year we bury 20m ft of hardwood, 1.6m tons of concrete and 4.3m gallons of embalming fluid. [1]

An average cremation takes 28 gallons of fuel. [1]

Also, just my own opinion based on observation, why do cemeteries get all the best real estate?? Dead people can't enjoy that view.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-your-death-affects-cl_b_6....
The government had an interest in making the areas close to the ‘free world’ look better so these were propped up using resources from farther away.
Fair enough. I was just pointing out that's why they titled it as such. But I agree with you and the OP.
You just summarized the entire (very successful) career of the shows creator, Chuck Lorre.
If you're getting a predictable 10% from your investments, you're investing in a different SPY than I am.
You reminded me of the Lauda Air Flight 004 crash, and Niki Lauda pushing Boeing for an explanation [1]. RIP Niki Lauda

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004#Lauda's_v...
Bison 3.4.1 Released
IIRC, one of the major differences between OSGi and the Java modules work (Jigsaw?) was that OSGi had major.minor.micro.stringy version numbers and Java had to have giant.major.minor.micro.stringy because Java's versions would always start with "1.".

And the final Java module system is much less flexible than OSGi (which is much more than a module system, which in turn is both a strength and a weakness in this case). Or do Java modules support multiple versions of the same package?
If you're interested, this dates back decades, and Deutsche Bank has been implicated in a lot of money laundering over the years.

If you're interested, there was a great podcast on the president's reliance on Deutsche Bank overlooking his never-ending bankruptcies and refusal to pay back loans, when no other bank would touch him.

https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2019/05/09/721726619/...

If you're not interested, you're just trolling.
The causal link between obesity and low IQ does not seem to be through systemic inflammation. The research I came across suggests that people with lower IQ are more likely to become obese.

> We observed no evidence that obesity contributed to a decline in IQ, even among obese individuals who displayed evidence of the metabolic syndrome and/or elevated systemic inflammation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813310/

> Overall there was an inverse FIQ/obesity association, except in pre-school children. However, after adjusting for educational attainment, FIQ/obesity association was not significantly different. A lower FIQ in childhood was associated with obesity in later adulthood perhaps with educational level mediating the persistence of obesity in later life.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19780990