skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem is in the asking. If I see an attractive woman shopping and go speak to her it may be the 10th time she's been stopped in this one trip.

So what?

Do people really rule out meeting a partner and having a family because of a fear of maybe inconveniencing someone?
2004 and 2005 had a gigantic spike in deflorestation that is pulling the average up. So the data is a bit skewed.
I don't think anyone is arguing that, say, Standard ML isn't a functional language, and if anyone did, they would probably be laughed out of the room.
So if China, by those methods, cured cancer, you'd go "fruit of the poisonous tree" on that knowledge? I believe it's one thing to condone unethical experiments, and quite another to reject its findings alltogether.

Btw, China does so not only with Uighurs, but also with Han-Chinese, regular prisoners, political prisoners etc. The Chinese aren't ethical, but it's not a religion/race thing.
Very cool!

I have to admit, I couldn't help but think of the comparable part in KSP.
REALLY hard.

What you might be seeing a lot of these days is that app dev companies go around buying up other well-established apps and/or their development companies just because they can't find an app to make or get traction with apps they make at this point in the game. Even with great teams and money coming out their ears, they're having a hard time getting established with new apps.

There are 20 apps all doing the same thing competing with each other and all of them have had years head start, so having zero reviews compared to hundreds of favourable reviews can almost be insurmountable for a newcomer. Having said that, if you have 50 subscribers for your possibly obscure app, you can still eke out a good living.

Keep in mind there's a review process though, so just because you make it doesn't mean it will be published in their marketplace. Shopify tries hard to maintain an air of fairness but a large part of getting visibility with your app is who you know, too.
The popular Mission style burrito was invented in 20th century California, but people have been rolling meat or beans or veggies into tortillas for a very long time. And they were called "burritos", in Mexico, as early as 1895.

Quoting the Diccionario de Mexicanismos, which says "burrito" is a term from Guanajuato state:

Tortilla arrollada, con carne u otra cosa dentro, que en Yucatán llaman cozito, y en Cuernavaca y en Méjico, taco

(rolled tortilla, with meat or something else inside; in Yucatán called "cozito", and in Cuernavaca and Méjico "taco")

https://books.google.com/books?id=u2xQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98
> Can you write good code in any language, though?

Yes, absolutely.

> At least, good enough?

I think the better question is, can you write good code in a particular language and still make deadline?
"people" is "most users of the platform". A consistent native platform experience has been one of the cornerstones of macOS since even before OS X came along.

If you ask most people, they probably won't know to identify this as a desirable trait, but what they do know is that if they launch a non-native app it will likely not look or behave according to their expectations. For example, I'm an expert user and even I'm still tripped up by the fact that Slack has a rather anemic menubar, and Discourse's is even worse.
Yeah, it's not too hard to deal with 90F without AC, but we often get 99F (37C) during the day and 86F (30C) at night, so no amount of ventilation will save you from feeling overheated day and night.

What we really need is solar-powered AC. Ideally DC-driven air conditioning.
This is already being done. Germany and France are paying Brazil 1.5b to keep the forest safe but Balsinaro is unwilling to curb the illegal logging. This is making the Europeans wonder why they should be investing this 1.5b into something that will clearly not be respected/carried out.
> If the entire rest of your team accepts such nonsense, and you are the only one pushing back, you will soon find yourself out of a job.

If a team keeps accepting such nonsense - and then keeps slipping on the deadlines as a result (they were unrealistic deadlines after all, right?) - they lose the trust and confidence of management, ruin marketing plans, and can find the entire team out of a job if things get dire enough.

And if you're bypassing your manager, making them look foolish, undermining them in the eyes of their boss - sure, they might fire you individually, in self defense, before you get them fired. Or if you're being a jerk in how you push back, because nobody wants to work with a jerk.

But I've been the only one voicing concerns more than once. Sometimes management is aware the deadlines are unrealistic - treating them as things to aspire to, rather than hard requirements to meet. Sometimes they didn't realize how much work they'd signed up for, and were able to negotiate to change requirements around for that deadline. Sometimes their hands were tied - but they at least appreciated the heads up, and we were able to get on the same page about priorities, and cut away as much of the unnecessary fluff as possible.

There's one occasion where I've probably gone a step too far. A ~50 person all hands, where we were given the choice of betting everything on a hard deadline - or taking a safer, less lucrative option. I answered in earnest, that I didn't think we would be able to hit the deadline. I was the only one to voice that concern.

I survived the first round of layoffs when my concerns proved right. I wouldn't have accepted the terms necessary to survive the second round of layoffs, so I suppose I did "soon" find myself out of a job... as did most of the rest of the company. Took some time off to relax when that happened... and when I was done with that, the first company I applied to matched my asking salary. Clearly I didn't raise it high enough!
Clearly the UN should be funded and buy this to set aside as a global reserve.
I am from Brazil

Amount of fire is... normal.

About november (remember Brazil is south hemisphere) the humid season starts and the fires stop (even if people WANT to set stuff on fire it doesn't work, my SO is from Amazon state, according to her family except those months where the fire is possible, it is normal for it to rain every single day, sometimes multiple times per day... my SO misses the rain so much that she often opens rainymood.com )
I suggested this somewhere else, but Ullman's old book 'Elements of ML Programming' is still a truly excellent introduction, and Standard ML is a much less exotic language than Haskell for someone coming from the OOP world.
「お前だよ」明仁の大罪を大勢の方々が糾弾するという素晴らしい映像を拝しました（祈）†
I believe saying ‘this survey is anonymous’ should be illegal if it really isn’t.
Perhaps by generalizing to the point of futility
My degree in the mid-90's used Pascal on the first year, than moved into C++, which back on those days meant 2nd year students would all be implementing their own string, vector, list, double list, priority queue, ... classes.

C was never though, it was thought to be mostly relevant for UNIX coding and students could anyway get into it via the C++ lectures.

Then there was Prolog, Smalltalk, Lisp, Caml Ligh (OCaml's percursor), Algol, x86 and MIPS Assembly.

Those that opted into compiler design/software engineering lectures also got into a myriad of other programming languages even if only as overview of what used to exist out there, namely Ada, Eiffel, Sather, Oberon, BETA, PL/I,...
Yes - Matt Levine!
If we are going to take control of capital why not directly take control of the land and build more homes rather than firing money at some collection of small towns and hoping that solves a housing crisis somewhere else?
Building Reliable Events Systems
Creating stuff will definitely give you more of a sense of self-worth and satisfaction than just consuming things will.

On the flip side, I create stuff all day at work, and sometimes when I come home I just want to relax.

There is room for both. If all people did was consume, then the world would be a boring place with nothing new. If all people did was create, then you would have a massive glut of stuff that nobody actually appreciated.

I feel like video games are kind of in that space right now. There are just so many video games coming out every day/week/month, and they all rehash the same tropes. It's rare to find something really unique and "new". Sometimes I like to go back to an old game that I haven't played in a long time and just get caught up in it. Consumption doesn't always have to be of the latest and greatest thing.
We're bombarded with it 24/7. It also seems weirder and therefore more notable. Canadian politics is boring by comparison.
As I stated before, its been a while since I've seen white-nationalists. But I have seen it for sure.

But about 5 minutes of search gave me this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e811xgRlZYE

Iranian propaganda against "Zionists" (keyword: anti-semite language) who made 9/11 an inside job.

RT Today still has a prominient mouthpiece on Youtube, not white-nationalist, but conspiracy driven nuts in any case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyA-sCE18hY

Play around on that side of Youtube long enough, and the white-nationalists eventually show up. Last time I went down hunting for white-nationalists, they were somewhere around that area.

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EDIT: Here's a doozy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVE12id-X4Y

Plenty of pro-Great Replacement ideas here.

Yeah, I'm finding more and more stuff the more I look. As I stated before: the more you fill you search history with this stuff, the easier it gets to find.

"Normal" people aren't able to enter the black hole, because after seeing one video, they click on something else. Conspiracy-nuts continue to click into the hole, filling up their history and getting drawn in more and more. Its just how Youtube's algorithms work. The more you click on these things, the more Youtube serves you this kind of content.

That's enough conspiracy / white national hunting for me though. I think I've proven my point now and don't feel like dirtying my history anymore.

> It's funny how these basic nationalist thoughts are now "far right-wing" In the past these were beliefs that most of the population understood. You dont let your own nation be ethnically and culturally replaced by outsiders.

> I love how Jewtube welds the Wikipedia article to the Great Replacement and tries to dismiss it as a "nationalist right wing conspiracy theory".

> Europe taxes it’s citizens to import Africa
Whilst Africa kicks out europeans

Found em. Took about 10 minutes but I'm pretty sure I found what you were looking for. Do you believe me now?

So now I've shown you what's out there. Now I ask you again: what should we do about this? Should we just... let these people continue to collaborate on their mission of hate on Youtube? Or should we like, do something about it before they decide to shoot someone else (El Paso / Christchurch)
To reply to your nested comment: Often the initial stage in flirting if done right should not be annoying, no matter what her recent experiences with guys were. Think "passing a comment about the weather in the checkout line" not "going up to someone and saying you like their shirt".
first of all, the rest of the world is in recession (including your homeland Europe). US's economy is healthy and growing, and US has record low unemployment rate. The rest of the world want to emigrate to US if they could.

second of all, Clinton is a horrible president that let China stole all the jobs and factories from US, lied about extramarital affairs, and associated with the rapist Epstein. Trump talks crap about alot of things, but that's it. NOBODY stood up to China until Trump came along.
>How do you avoid encouraging the rest of the world to also threaten to burn their resources?

I mean, this type of extortion for foreign aid is already common among pariah states. See: North Korea.
In general, to me it seems like Amazon focuses more on other things than on refining the way their actual store and its site works.

They've focused a lot on operations and efficiency. They already had 2-day shipping but they've worked to get that down to 1-day shipping where possible. Which is impressive, though 2-day shipping was already pretty good. They've optimized the hell out of their inventory, distribution, etc. They made that Haven joint-venture healthcare thing (together with two other huge companies) to drive down health insurance costs.

Another area they've focused on is new types of business, like cloud computing, buying Whole Foods, getting into video streaming, and hardware devices (Kindle, Fire, Echo).

But the store itself, the web site design and how the store functions, hasn't changed that much. They had a lot of issues with fake reviews, and they eventually did something, but it took a long time. They have some longstanding usability pain points that they haven't done anything about. Reviews are supposed to be about products, not sellers, but people leave comments and ratings about sellers in product reviews because there's no other place to put them (or if there is, it's not easy enough to find). Something (bad UI?) seems to encourage unhelpful "I don't know" type answers in products' "Customer questions & answers" section. If you click "There is a newer model of this item", it often leads to something that isn't. Product categories and the features within them are insufficient or out of date: I can browse the cell phone case category, but under "phone compatibility", Galaxy S10 isn't listed, only Galaxy S9, even though the S10 came out 6 months ago. Similar story with iPhone. And nothing with size variations of phone models (iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR would require different cases).

All of these things would probably benefit everybody if they fixed them. And it's not just a matter of adding polish. There are more innovative things they could do, too. But the attitude seems to be that the store is basically as done as it's going to get.
So, a continuation of the same "construction of the sake of the appearance of growth" phenomena that we saw with ghost cities?
That's not how war affected your life, that's how immigration policy affected your life, nobody forced Sweden to accept those people. The UK has the same problems and most of the immigrants there are not from those wars. Hungary doesn't have those problems because they don't let in immigrants. You just want to be anti mass immigration but too afraid to admit it so you say you are anti war.
Then the UN can help put out fires, but only if fired upon.
This is correct, dry season will occur in a few months.
Makes sense - most of the food neophobia that we have as humans is thought to be evolutionary. Basically children hate new foods because the children in previous generations that ate everything didn't survive to a reproducing age. As we get older, anything goes apparently.
> I still don't have the first clue what a "Monad" is

This is the simplest way I have yet found to think about them: http://madhadron.com/posts/2013-12-05-email-about_monads.htm...
Why would you sit out the election instead of voting for the option you know is better?
> The obscure Haiku operating system is an example, they offer a "secure socket" abstraction but it doesn't implement hostname validation so in essence it's worthless

I just fixed this in https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=8d63a9060e66aa69c0....

In the future, please actually report such problems on the bugtracker instead of just randomly shaming us on HN :p
Don’t most university courses worldwide start with Java - or use Java as a mainstay? There are practical benefits: everyone knows it, it’s easy to learn (the language, while the library is straightforward too), and there’s a huge ecosystem.

...and it’s OOP.

Back when I was finishing HS and touring ~5-6 different universities - every single one said they used Java - one said they were about to switch to teaching most of their first two years using JavaScript (this was a few years before NodeJS was even released so the notion of using JavaScript as a serious didactical language wasn’t taken seriously by me.
Had a similar bad experience. We had a situation where we were running instances with short durations; AWS bills by the second, but Datadog bills hourly. We ended up having a Datadog bill that was higher than our AWS bill!

They had the opportunity to help us out - they ended up using it as leverage in their sales process, only willing to work with us IF we signed up for additional services. (I think a better word fits, but I won’t go there)

We tried to work with them, but eventually just ate the expense.
Yeah, with the problem Amazon US (maybe elsewhere too?) has with fakes which get mixed in with the real stock at the distribution centre, and the problem I have on Amazon UK where no matter what household product I search for all the results are from brands I've never heard of, many of which are obviously Chinese from the name, or I'd guess are Chinese from the weird English or the mystery chunky quotation marks all over the description, it's not so easy to know any more.

I have a new rescue cat and I was going to buy some cat toys but after half an hour on Amazon I felt increasingly unsure that any of the products were safe for my cat to sink her teeth into, so I guess all the toys she's getting will be coming from the local pet megastore, the only pet shop left on this side of town.
So much bashing on mutability. Yeah, I get it most of the time it’s bad. But there are a whole lot of problem classes which are either unsolvable or painfully slow without mutable data.
> Functional programming is just easier to grasp mentally, as it takes away a lot of the foot-guns (mutable state, inheritance, etc).

I guess Lisp and Scheme derived languages aren't functional then.
Today, Java and, increasingly, JavaScript have supplanted the Pascal, BASIC, and C kids in the past started with.

Scheme is cursed. No one wants to teach it, especially to beginners. MIT abandoned it in favor of Python for its introductory course more than a decade ago, and even the Racket folks are backpedaling hard on Lisp syntax, proposing a conventional infix syntax as the default for Racket2.
Hang in there man, these right-wing authoritarians really suck balls.
Ok so what advantage does that give you? The idea of PKI is that your identification is tied to your machine. Why are you unnecessarily conflating authorization with authentication?
Good point.
Btw regarding the theft issue, the laptops stay on a nonprofit balance (or a local partner balance). Which means that families are not the owners. They sign a document of so-called "temporary usage agreement". In reality, we leave those devices to the families forever but they don't know about it. Since the document is legally binding they still avoid selling them.
I like the old metaphor of languages that are "programmer amplifiers" (usually applied to Lisp, Forth, Smalltalk...). But the amplifier increases the noise and problems as well as the good parts.
The previous commenter wrote, "And so if you take that personal decision and instead make it about some gender stereotype e.g. they aren't physically suited then it discourages women from entering IT." I had mistaken this as your comment.

But you did make similar statement s: "He's saying that women lack the ability to work in engineering and leadership because they are biologically different." You did claim that damore wrote that women lack ability to work in engineering.

> Yes, yes, Damore is saying that women lack the ability to lead due to their extraversion, empathy, and neuroticism inhibiting them, because those are specific parts of the job that require abilities. This is more splitting hairs on semantics to apologize for Damore.

These are factors that affect all industries. Saying that this is evidence that Damore argued that women are worse at tech than men is not valid. And again, he brought this up in the context of suggesting improvements to try and make tech more welcoming to women.

> Of course he does. He cherry picked data to wrongly fit his hypothesis from the start. Naturally he would conclude with his own ideas on how to mitigate a problem that he misused data to create.

Let me get this straight: somebody does their best to try and investigate why women have a hard time in a certain field, and proposes ways to make this better. And this is a bad thing?

Even more ironic is that Google and other companies actually have used this research to establish practices that are better for women:

> Allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive. Recent updates to Perf [Google's performance reviews] may be doing this to an extent, but maybe there’s more we can do, especially in our interviews.

So he's saying, "women are more cooperative. We should make policies that help cooperative people thrive." He's not saying that women are worse at tech because they're more cooperative or more neurotic. He's saying that Google should be more welcoming to people with these traits and help them reach their full potential.
> How do we choose the right tool?

We choose the right tool the same way a painter chooses among oil paint, watercolor, etc. Step back and look at the subject, and think how well each type of paint would represent it. Also consider one's own skill with each type of paint, one's interest in exploring new paints, and the cost of obtaining and storing another kind of paint.
His argument just doesn't hold up, though, so I have a hard time thinking that it's anything more than a sales job.
Fair enough but there's a positive correlation.
Given the UN’s history of corruption, they’re the last org that should run anything. See Oil for Food scandal for one example.
This guy grows oranges in Nebraska using very little electricity. He mentions in the video the same principals can be used for cooling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
Users of multiple dispatch OOP languages (Common Lisp, Dylan, CLOS, C++ STL) would disagree vehemently with this characterization.
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Classes work well as interfaces to data. Thinking of a class as a mini database makes a lot of sense.

Putting in anything complex that isn't directly related to managing the data contained is where things start to fall apart.

Data formats are great. Simple data formats don't have to have dependencies, just an interface to take out the details of accessing it. This is how software communicates. Don't forget that the most used interprocess communication is the file system.

Classes are not modular just because they can be wrapped up between two braces. Dependencies destroy modularity and this definitely includes inheritance. Complex data transformations that communicate using data formats they both understand are how programs are made modular. Classes are a very useful way of dealing with data formats.
The politicians are a product of the media environment imo.
The blame lies in the race to the bottom that happened in news once it got competetive.

Until the innoculative meme of having an intuitive understanding of sampling (both of individual incidents and individual aspects of a thing) spreads throughout a decent portion of the populatiob, this awful situation will continue.
My wife started a school/community center is Africa and we are one of the only places in town with computers and internet you can use for free. It was a rare occasion indeed that anyone wanted to do anything except watch youtube videos. Now that we banned youtube, people honestly aren't really that interested.

I'm not saying internet is bad or whatever, it's just that it's not going to change people's lives without a lot of groundwork first. Educating people so they have questions to ask, or things to produce, or knowledge to acquire. We both really thought having free internet access was going to be a paradigm shift for these kids, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be making much of a tangible difference at all. You could make the argument (I personally don't), that it has actually made things worse.