skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> API Gateway has a hard limit of 500 WebSocket connections per second

That particular limit is new connections per second, not total connections per second. Starting from zero, you could have 1.8M connections after an hour (per account, per region).
How is it different from Studyguide... your other app...?
The corresponding author to be fair did say unmanned aerial vehicles.
We share knowledge (in general) via pair programming and lunch-and-learn presentations. Emails and code review also facilitate this sharing to a lesser extent.
Do they take plastic?
This is a relatively simple concept, but saves so much time.

There must be libraries for this already.
Hah, now I have a vision of one of these things hooked up to every air conditioner in the world to claw back some of the electricity that the air conditioner uses. I imagine the heat would need to be a bit more than what an air conditioner generates though, but I know nothing about the topic, so who knows.
Jeff Bezos and the United States of Amazon
We should start to run Infer on all open source C and C++ code in existence.
But every change of ownership is a potential mass security compromise.
my memory is the clear winner there.
> UIs are expected to reflow to devices with different screen sizes and dot pitches

> Users expect their programs to give them up-to-the-minute information from the internet, with slick animation and nuanced typography.

Do these requirements really come from the users? Or do they, in fact, come mainly from tech people? I never understood this mentality that mobile devices must be considered at all costs for all cases, and it seems to me that this mentality comes and always came from industry people, not users. I suspect this is related to three things:

- The laptop/PC market is "saturated", in the sense that it can no longer hyper-grow, so it's not so convenient to make a billion or two;

- A new zoo of careers paths has grown out of mobile and the startup era: UX designer, Product-Whatever, Growth-"Hacker", Agile Wizard, Evangelist Something etc, etc. It's very hard to convince someone of something when they salary depends on them not believing it, says the cliché but is true;

- It is more lucrative to show ads to passive consumers than to sell software to creators.*

This is a situation where the current game of Silicon Valley capitalism (copied everywhere) configures a race to the bottom in terms of the expression of human potential.

* This is why, even when you want to buy a tool, you now have to "subscribe to a service", with the loss of sense of ownership and control that comes with it.
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>by forcing the non-technical to become technical

Could that be where the actual magic is?
We, humans, will be long gone before we reach pollution levels required to change Earth to Venus.
I'm not a fan of click bait titles. You're very hireable.
std::map is incredibly slow (and allocates willy-nilly), see https://martin.ankerl.com/2019/04/01/hashmap-benchmarks-01-o... for a comparison of modern hash maps. Or at least boost::flat_map if you need ordering but don't do many insertions / removals and care instead for fast iteration on the map.

Note: when I say "incredibly slow", it is relative to what is possible to achieve in C++ - it will still roll over many other languages's map implementations.
"News" is mostly bad news. We've been hearing since WW2 that we are on the verge of wiping ourselves out. We are still here.

If we are right this time, why worry about it? If we are wrong this time -- as we have been for the past 70 years -- why worry about it?

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19843507
Yeah, I just skimmed through the proposal, and it sounds like the post is wrong, and it works the way I think it should work.

You should get == behavior if you only define a reasonable <=>, and if you also define ==, then that definition will take precedence.

Edit: argh, no, I'm wrong. I was looking at an earlier draft. So you do have to define == as well as <=>, for mostly technical reasons. Fine, I guess that answers my question.
well, you sort of have to wait.

There is no guarantee that the check you made while building was exhaustive.

People may not have payed attention, officers may have been bribed, certifications may not have accounted for problems that were not known at the time, unexpected geological activity may cause disruption etc.

We have a few thousand years of managing construction, and we still have bridges that collapse all over the world. Sure, it's a small percentage of the bridges we build, and we should not stop doing that.

I am not against landfills a-priori, they have their role, but considering them without issues is oversimplifying.
If we're right this time, we can still do something about it.
Great idea to hold restaurants accountable for transparency with their clientele, especially in a country that as the article mentions, has a high amount of tourism due to their food.
The parent didn't mean to say whether cyclists or drivers were more or less at fault, but for every minute/mile spent on a cycle instead of a car, the likelihood of injury is probably higher.
I know that at least in the midwest, areas like Detroit and Ohio had factory jobs that supported that kind of income level. This was without a college degree. I know this because I have family members from the midwest. They also retired quite early, with a very good pension, low stress, etc. But that was a blip in time, not something could have lasted forever. But then again, could certain economic policies have extended that economic period? Its a contentious question
Not only Infer, but other static analyzers would also be useful.

Hopefully Software Heritage (https://www.softwareheritage.org) will help with that.
The issue is that there is no legal contract. If I pay someone $400k in cash for them to build a building, but they don't do it, I cannot sue them to get the money back since it was illegal to pay that way anyways. Alternatively, if the building was built first but they were never paid then the builders cannot demand payment through court.
There isn't really any research either way that I'm aware of. Without knowing the likely cause of gender dysphoria, we can't really know if the factors I listed would be relevant.

That said, I think it's worth investigating. Here's a paper from Scott Kerlin, showing the results of survey from DES sons. It's a group of people born as male to women given DES, an estrogen affecting drug.

http://worldaa1.miniserver.com/~gires/assets/Research-Assets...

"More than 150 network members with “confirmed” or “strongly suspected” prenatal DES exposure status indicated they are either transsexual (pre- or post-operative, 90 members), transgender (48 members), “gender dysphoric” (17 members), or intersex (3 members)."

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A strong caveat to this would be that people don't just join a group called DES sons on a whim. A large number of women were given DES. Many more than 500 sons were born to them. People who joined the group are self selecting as having had some sort of problem or concern to discuss.

And that's almost all I could find on the topic. The only other thing that seemed notable is that the brains of transgender people resemble those of their chosen sex, not their birth sex. I.e. a MTF person had a brain typical of a women, not a man. But, this difference may only appear in adulthood, so it isn't clear if it is physiological or social.

If someone wanted to investigate this, investigating the testicular and endocrinal health of MTF people before transition would be a good start. If endocrine disruption had anything to do with it you would expect to see much more testicular cancer. The DES group had 5 out of 500 with this cancer, incidentally, while having a low cancer incidence overall.

I would categorize the published research on this topic as extremely slim. It's not even at the hypothesis stage, and your question isn't answerable without much further research.

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Oh also, while traditionally there were more MTF, recently gender dysphoria clinics are reporting more FTM.

Here are some numbers from the UK: http://gids.nhs.uk/number-referrals

The year on year referral increase is very large. So social acceptance/awareness must have a sizeable role. Endocrine dysruption can't explain a ~4x increase in 5 years.

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Edit: I should have included this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality

Doesn't touch on endocrine disruption in terms of estrogen exposure though.
interesting, where do you live?
I have seen pasta packaged in plastic, but I've literally never seen flour packaged in plastic.
Total Recall / P.K. Dick "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale".
It seems to be a matter of propper balance. You can elevate patterns, idioms etc. to language features and you can add entirely new features that enable entirely new solutions. Java and Python are doing this sensibly. But burying devs in an avalanche of new language features that change the way you are supposed to do fundamental things is going to make it much harder to keep up. Especially when this happens every 3 years.
"Show lines" for Border collies have been long opposed by those who work Border collies, fearing inbreeding and health problems.

Unfortunately, when things become popular (who wouldn't want the "smartest" dog?) they become lucrative, and the "working dog" heritage that protected them from genetic deficiencies now became a point of sale for them, leading to the inevitable inbreeding.

Whereas before what constituted a Border collie was general physical ability and endurance combined with "the eye", now many regions have show standards for Border collies as well.

So, simply getting a Border collie is no longer a guaranteed way to get away from the "pure breed" mentality and all the problems associated with it.
> Again, maybe I've missed something, but this seems like a mistake. They're removing all of the footguns except this last one. Why?

originally they weren't separated, but the risk for bad performance due to that was too high.
The complete rationale is described here : http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p118...
Gather as much detail as you can and tell a journalist. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Project I am working on that may be close: https://diasli.de
I just looked at the original paper again and I see that in some of the tests the researchers asked participants to estimate the raw number of questions they got correct, in addition to the percentile relative to their peers. Even in raw numbers the bottom quartile overestimated their ability significantly. So I'm less confident in my theory than I was before.
This is a good question for several reasons.

We know that alcohol and drug misuse is a risk factor for death by suicide, and that providing drug and alcohol services is a useful suicide prevention measure. See page 17 of this UK document: https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=40697 (which also links to their evidence)

We know restricting access to means and methods is an important suicide prevention measure. We know this from some natural experiments. When the UK moved from coal gas to natural gas in the home one very common method was removed and we saw a reduction in suicide rates. We again saw a reduction when we introduced catalytic convertors in cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPEVhrWZS0&t=415s

It touches on how we define a death by suicide? What is counted? What is not counted?

In the US a death by suicide should be defined as: (page 21) https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/self-directed-vio...

> Suicide -- Death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with any intent to die as a result of the behavior.

The US data is complex and confusing because: (page 12) https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/self-directed-vio...

> Despite the large volume of data on certain types of SDV, the utility and reproducibility of the resulting information is sometimes questionable. Mortality data are problematic for several reasons: geographical differences in the definition of suicide and how equivocal cases are classified; jurisdictional differences in the requirements for the office of coroner or medical examiner affecting the standard of proof required to classify a death as a suicide; and differences in terms of the extent to which potential suicides are investigated to accurately determine cause of death.18 The quality of the data on nonfatal suicidal behavior is even more problematic than that of suicides. The concerns about discrepancies in nomenclature19-23 and accurate reporting11,24 apply here even more than with suicides. Also, except for rare exceptions there is neither systematic nor mandatory reporting of nonfatal suicidal behavior in the United States at the state or local level, nor is there routine systematic collection of non-suicidal intentional self harm data.

So it's really hard to compare one state with another state.
So, this is good for Bitcoin.
"Adjacent possible" is the case of one of the weirdest possible definition for a very simple concept. I see people quoting this:

"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself."

(Whatever the hell that means.)

Even though the concept is much simpler: "adjacent possible" is the set of things within reach. Or: all the things on the border between what we have, and what we could have.
The idea that people don't worry is a bit of a myth. They do

https://news.gallup.com/poll/248027/americans-concerned-ever...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/26/climate-...
because they detect that youre not a tracking script and simply redirect you to google
Given time and if you are prepared that the end result won't be a dog anymore at least as intelligent as humans.
u sir have been around for some time
Even better, hireable in the right workplaces. Effortlessly driving away a certain wide class of potential employers is great.
Tell the regulator. I assume there is a regulator if it's illegal for the company to not tell you about a data breach?
Why even bother hosting a landing page yourself?
Use Github Pages, or S3.
I'm always baffled by the unconsidered usage of Design Patterns.
In the example, why do you use also the AbstractFactoryPattern, when there's no need for it?
Hope site works better now. Here is direct App store link otherwise: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/studyr/id1460691685?uo=4
Thanks for the FU EU Chicago Tribune.
Among other things, I've lived without a car for more than a decade. I don't worry about it in part because I'm doing all within my power.

If it's not enough because so many other people can't be arsed, my quality of life does not go up if I add sleepless nights and ulcers to my experience.
That's okay, but in my opinion you should instead hate the laws that cause that kind of behavior. (The site doesn't geoblock Asia for example.)

The law's intentions don't matter IMO -- just look at it this way: site operators not based in Europe and not targeting European users suddenly have to invest dozens or hundreds of hours of development to add significant (and most likely architecturally ugly) changes to their systems to accommodate highly unlikely requests from the occasional visitor from Europe, or risk breaking the law and risk not being able to set foot in Europe ever again.

Geoblocking is easy to implement and most likely already in place because these sites aren't allowed to show their content in e.g. North Korea.
> building production grade software

IMO Clojure is the only viable choice today (that fits your requirements)

- Common Lisp (sadly) on the trajectory of becoming "Latin of Lisps". If you seriously into Lisps, at some point you'd probably would have to learn it, but practicality of that knowledge is slowly diminishing.

- Racket is still quite "academic", not much of it is used in the enterprise (in comparison).

- Erlang VM lisps are even less popular.

- There are a bunch of "smaller" lisps, like Fennel, but they are mostly used by solo enthusiasts, and not for driving businesses.

Clojure is really nice. Clojurescript is probably the best AltJS alternative today (compared to Elm, Purescript, ReasonML, Scalajs, Kotlinjs, GHCJS, etc.). Clojure is extremely stable. And don't worry about Java. There's no need to "dig into the Java world". There are tons of Clojure wrappers.

I think among FP languages Clojure is still the best choice today, because it is "worst is better of Haskell" * . Haskell is awesome, but: a) it is indisputably hard b) it's not a Lisp.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Why just fossil fuels? Other massive contributers like the meat industry should be taxed as well.
You could just as easily adjust the axioms to require that both a god and devil must exist in perfect balance.

In any case, your argument is an informal one - turn it into a formal refutation of Goedel's modal logic proof, and it'd be more relevant to this post.
It's misleading at best to reduce differences between countries to one thing, like gun ownership. Nobody said this was the only factor affecting suicide rates. The article you cite provides virtually no information on how the availability of guns, especially because guns are generally much less available in Europe than in the US. Still, about 30% of suicides in Switzerland are committed with guns.

Virtually every country has its own culture around guns and around suicide. Very obviously in the case of Japan with high suicide rates and even ritualistic ways of suicide. Therefore it is impossible to isolate the effect of gun ownership just by looking at different countries.

And "not being the primary way of suicide" is a really weak argument against tightening gun controls to save people's lives. Even if it is "just" 10% in Europe, 30% in Switzerland and about 50% in the US. Those lives are very much worth saving, and at least in Europe, it's already the norm to take away guns from people who have these problems.

Gun advocates often cite Switzerland as a country with very responsible gun owners. Still, if you compare the rates of gun suicides, accidents and murder to their smaller population, it's still quite shocking. But those stories rarely make news abroad.
It's been around for 10 years and doesn't distribute anything you don't find elsewhere, I don't think it's going anywhere.
Very nice last line.

Also, I disagree about the 'lisp makes people selfish'. It may be true at first, but I dearly believe that every long time lisper on earth is totally aware of that and knows where to draw the line. It's been discussed to death early on and regularly since. We all enjoy the freedom to fool depth first into every idiosyncratic itch we think of, but we know that they're most of the time only that. And that others can give different views on a similar problem, yielding a more generic notation/solution by blending all attempts.

It does cost a bit though, for instance scheme lack of standard module (until recently IIUC) forces one to work a bit more, or maybe port by hand. But very often, lisp libs are tiny. I still remember the article from early 2ks about a guy searching for graph libraries in java. Found 3, none of them was good enough, in the end he wrote his own in CL in a day. There's a cost of sharing too.
I'm a part of Generation Z and my Wikipedia is Wikipedia. This is a celebrity database.
Nonhuman studies would almost certainly be more definitive as gender identity (in humans) is hugely compounded with exogenous societal, cultural, political, and medical factors. As an example of the latter, until recently considered a diagnosible and treatable medical and/or psychological disorder.

Disentangling those factors would be exceedingly difficult, although longitudinal cross-cultural studies (possibly widely separated twins) might get you somewhere.

Animal model populations' medical institutional bias is somewhat lower.
"One in ten thousand" is clear enough for everyone though.
The comment you linked actually suggests some things to do:

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Some things that help:

Walk more, especially as a form of transportation.

Use more daylighting and passive solar. This can be as simple as opening the window instead of cranking the AC.

Eat less meat.
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>These companies are paying their employees poorly and try to guilt customers into picking up their slack.

Well put. I haven't seen a better description of modern tipping in the US, yet.
this. I've spent my entire life (over 50 years) being told by mass media that we're all about to die at any moment. You kinda get jaded by it. And sensationalist crap like this article doesn't help.
In my circle of friends, there was a similar tragic case: Someone suicidal took deadly poison with delayed effect (5-10min), immediately regretted it and called one of my friends for help. (Sadly, the ambulance couldn't save him.)

The very pessimistic philosopher Emil Cioran (author of e.g. De l'inconvénient d'être né, "The Trouble With Being Born") who beside his suicidal thoughts died at age 84 once said in an interview, that suicidal thoughts are paradoxically the reason, why he stayed alive: The knowledge of the choice to end existence if the suffering is too much makes it possible to endure its insufferableness.

Maybe it is this choice, to live or not, that makes a lot things bearable? And it's much harder if this choice is gone for whatever reason, in one direction or another?
I wrote it, so I'm aware of what it says.
> Most suicides occur while the person is alone. Company can be a strong deterrent to attempting suicide.

This is a lot more complicated than you're making it out.

plenty of people kill themselves in front of their family. Others kill themselves when their family are in the home. Others kill themselves in public. Others kill themselves in hospital wards when they're on 15 minute observations. These are not a tiny fraction of the total number of people who kill themselves.

EDIT: I'm glad you've found something that works _for you_, but it's really important to recognise that your experience is not usual, and that many people would find it invalidating.

EDIT: Page 33. https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=38469

> Living alone -- Women: 45% Men 50%

This shows that living alone is a risk factor, but it also shows that most people who die by suicide do not live alone.

Page 55 suggests that it's external support that helps, not support by the family:

> 149. In 834 (43%) the patient lived alone. They were less likely to receive additional social support from outside the home (e.g. from a relative, friend or neighbour) as part of their care plan compared to those who did not live alone (138, 44% excluding unknowns vs. 270, 71%
I wish biodegradable polymers would take over non-biodegradable plastics in many applications. There are many interesting research avenues, I wish more money was thrown at it to accelerate the future.

Here is a good summary of SOTA - https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/searching-for-biodeg...

From the article (quote by the inventor of a biodegradable foam) - ’I see now that the main hurdle we face is financial in the sense that if you want to go large you need to have financial guarantees because you are not yet selling the product,’ he says. ‘That is still very hard to find – there are very few actual risk investments in the field of chemistry… it’s very traditional.’

I think there are VC scale returns to be made if the stuff took over conventional plastics but it seems largely overlooked by venture capital. I think regulation could help here too.
Also, the reported 29.1% efficiency have been reached at a temperature of 1,207 °C.

Another 12% and they can compete with a standard steam turbogenerator.
Isn't it realistically way too late for (ideologically appealing, I understand) lifestyle changes to solve anything? De-growth won't save you from heatwaves or rising sea levels. Mitigation at this point would probably involve extensive dam systems, nuclear reactors and at worst gambling with geoengineering.