skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as I saw the picture, I thought there will be a load of flat earthers saying this just provides them with more evidence... But TBH I didn't expect to see it as a comment here.

I find the whole FE thing fascinating but disturbing, so I'll anticipate new videos on YouTube trying desperately to show that this backs up their argument despite (as another commenter here says) only the top being visible.
Can confirm. I have seen this happen from very up close in the European research arena. The big corporate labs were either completely gutted, or severely constraint and reoriented towards very short term practicalities, basically just development centers fulfilling contract research.
Is that because more cores for a given transistor count better addresses today's computing needs or because we've hit a limit where adding more transistors to a single core doesn't give us more performance anymore?
No, it's not a matter of magic cultural mojo. Japanese tech was ascendant for a long time in the 1970s and 1980s, and arguably even today beats the pants off American tech in many areas like automobiles (until Tesla came along, at least). And while Japan has adopted/had some American values rammed down its throat post-WW2, it remains very different culturally: there's very little in common between a Silicon Valley startup and a Japanese megacorp.
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Great post :) This reads like a History Channel Documentary !
Ignoring the flawed comparison, the Java ecosystem is better. However, recently, I see first class providers for .NET popping up with most project and the ecosystem growing dramatically. It is no longer a showstopper, it is more a reduced choice situation.

What .NET still is not really good in, is first party apps. There is no Kafka or Kubernetes programmed in .NET.
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Cool, you could make it faster by preloading images.
Welcome to nature. We've civilized misery, but it's misery nonetheless.
Been to Kathmandu several times and I wouldn't say Nepal is industrialised in general, but not even remotely at the level of China.
What makes the air really bad in Kathmandu is the amount of old trucks and buses on the very dusty streets of the city. It's a different kind of air pollution to what you might experience in an industrialised nation.
When I'm there I always wear a mask, otherwise a cough will develop almost for sure in a few hours. If you go a little bit outside of the city the air is very clean and the views are amazing.
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Kind of. A theme in programming since the beginning has been automation. You're using a computer anyway to do a more or less well defined task, naturally programming itself is one of the prime targets for automation.

Programming languages are automation tools. Libraries. Frameworks. It should be pretty clear this is a lasting trend, and doesn't necessarily mean programmers will have more or less jobs (due to well known effects of automation such as enabling new applications and increasing demand from increased productivity). It does mean you probably need to keep learning to stay relevant, and use those tools to your advantage!
Then how is human population still skyrocketing?
You might want to give the latest fedora a try, we've got the same model and it's flawless for me.
That's called 'long polling'. You can also leverage HTTP 1.1 chunked transfers. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
So you made me curious and I googled. Not quite most everyone, it rather seems to be regional: under 20% in Northern Europe, 30-60% in rest of Europe, up to 80% in Middle East.

Source: https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/180/4/EJE-1...
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Hacker News is a funny thing. I see you made the same submission way earlier, and almost no reception. Now, it is exploding! Congratulations on that!

I am not going to hide that I am totally jealous, being a competitor to you (just in the managed and hosted space, instead of the on prem solution you offer), and launching my version of the same service as yours, Pull Dog (https://dogger.io) just a few days prior to this, with almost no reaction like your first submission.

That being said, I still can't help but think your project is exciting and share your excitement for this. I'll definitely be following the development as you evolve!

Best of luck!
Every time I see discussions like this I never see thoughts on what to do with all those animals.

What do you do with the 70B animals we're no longer consuming?
I saw that photo a few days ago. It's honestly one of the most beautiful images I've ever seen in many years. That contrast between the city at the front and natural elements at the back, with that lighting (the Everest is at the north of Kathmandu, so it looks like a sunset), creates an incredible scene.
And neither will even approach within several orders of magnitude of Chinese shipping and factories.
Microsoft open sourced all of dotnet. Runtime, class library, everything.
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The problem is that Wikipedia masquerades and is portrayed as though it’s just an online encyclopaedia that can be trusted by one and all.

Most HN readers know otherwise and have a pinch of salt on hand if they use it but your average high school student isn’t going to be aware of the systemic flaws of Wikipedia and I doubt their teachers do either.
A polluting factory has to exist somewhere.

Edit: I am getting a lot of down votes so let me clarify: if external costs are not internalised, humans will ignore it.

Internalising the cost does not even need to mean tax. Many clothing brands in my country, even the budget brands (think Walmart), have been pressured by consumers into using more ethical factories. The same could be done by forcing companies to disclose what factories they use and the factory carbon footprint.
This only shows that, while CO₂ concentrations are the dominant control variable in the question of our long-term survival, the overall health of the environment is influenced by many, many more things, especially short-term. Now it is especially clear that protecting the environment and mitigating the climate crisis are two different, and only partially aligned efforts. Frequently, they're in opposition - which is why it's extra important not to confuse them.

The example I tend to use is plastic pollution. Interventions like switching from single-use plastic bags and bottles to reusable woven bags and glass bottles may very well help with the amount of plastics (and microplastics) present in the environment, but they're also a climate disaster, because plastic bags and bottles are ridiculously efficient to make at scale. And so here, I also worry that despite the environment taking a break from us during COVID-19, this will turn out to be a huge step back climate-wise - as soon we'll have to start rebuilding, and there will be less money and will around to fund R&D and deployment of less carbon-intensive solutions.
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Pharmaceutical companies largely focus on the mechanical bits of clinical trials, logistics, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, etc because those are much more predictable at the scale of a large multinational. They're not the R&D powerhouses they once were because they have run out of easy small molecule drugs.

Since the market size/fit/price sensitivity is extremely predictable and there are so few customers to negotiate with (insurance companies, nationalized healthcare, medical purchasing groups, etc.), this is far more efficient for pharmaceutical companies than having a broad and risky drug discovery pipeline. Instead they acquire early and mid stage biotech companies with promising pre-clinical trial results or phase 1/2 successes - in essence externalizing the risk of early R&D even further to academia, venture capital, private equity, and retail investors. With the increasing availability of easy capital of the last few decades, this has become even more of a win-win for investors and the pharma giants recently.
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Great to know such a tool exists ;-)

Thanks @2bluesc for creating the AUR for Arch (Yes, Arch + Manjaro user ;-)

NOTE: what surprised me was that Fedora 32 has dropwatch in its official repo (so simply dnf install dropwatch worked without fuss). It all made sense when discovering the author works for Red Hat when looking at the GitHub repo, well done.
> Since the fall of the USSR, the global zeitgeist has been that if you want to be a developed country, adopting American values in some form is necessary sooner or later. China is challenging this assumption and many developing countries will be watching the outcome.

Imitating the leader is just common sense if you want to emulate their success. China has been doing it bigtime also. Central planners can do a fine job of catching up once the path is obvious. Train people with these skills and have them build these products. Just watch the news to learn how. But even if they take over their targeted fields, US tech will move on to new ones. To lead means to figure out what to do next, before it's the biggest thing in SV already.
Wrong thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
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Birth rates, at least in the US, have been on the decline without needing to enact laws limiting reproduction. I'm curious what the people suggesting such thought about it when China did it.
Impossibly best case scenario, two months and change? A drop in the bucket.
It was a running joke that every year in our school another student would start its master thesis journey in " visual programming for the masses, but that works! ".

Can you start with using an WYSIWYG HTML editor and do a really good webpage to see the benefits and drawbacks?
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All it cost was a total collapse of the western economic system... war is on the horizon.
Cancellation is always such a big issue regardless of language or environment, and whether it's due to a timeout or some other action.

In C, when using threads and thread cancellation there are a lot of subtleties involved: https://ewontfix.com/2/

Even in Haskell where there's generally a focus on well designed abstractions, asynchronous cancellation can fail due to badly written code that wants to catch all exceptions.
China takes the precise opposite path to the US. While the US pumps trillions into private hands to keep private enterprise afloat, China spends an equal amount on infrastructure, largely financed through debt. This is a smart move because your countries economy could collapse but the nation's financiers aren't able to repossess poured concrete, AI knowledge or wireless access points.
As for kids: changing schools can be a hassle but I'd hardly consider it a reason not to move to a much more liveable location.

I'm not sure how it is in Australia, but the US is very racially/culturally diverse on the coasts (where it is expensive), and more homogeneous in the interior (where it is cheap). My daughter is in a great school with a diverse student body that would be difficult to find in other places.
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A good example would be Max/Msp. It's used by a lot of musicians creative coders. Visual representation abstracts the boring pars of programming and enables experimentation much more rapidly. Quickly rearranging nodes is more intuitive than changing how you pass around objects.
It's pretty main stream in the CG industry. Houdini is a great example of a very interesting take on visual programming in a non-destructive procedural workflow.
Visual programming is a staple at Pixar and features heavily in all their internal tools for shading, animation, set dressing etc.
At Pixar they push it to its limits, expressing all manners of development patterns through these tools to artists who don't know any software development at all.
I often think of a modified version of your question which is "Why isn't visual programming a bigger thing for trained programmers?" What needs to improve for that to happen? It's already a big thing for visual artists in the CG industry.
Fish does something like this (it scans manpages) but generated completion is mostly useless in more complex cli programs (for example: kubectl, docker). So fish is shipped with a bunch of manually written completions for many commands.
There is also no pulse on their website; https://boostedboards.com/
Alternative answer:
America's geography makes all the important things easy, leaving us the resources to take risks and innovate.

We have some of the best farmland in the world. With a river system to feed it water and easily transport goods. As well as a relatively flat landmass to facilitate transportation of people and goods.
Add to that the largest energy deposits in the world, and nearly every other natural resource needed to run a modern economy.

We have it pretty easy. A highly inclusive democratic society is just the cherry on top that pulls it all together.

And BTW- Chinda does not come out very well on any of those metrics. They are a massive net importer of food and energy, for instance. That makes it much harder for them to come out ahead in a global economic shock. Say one brought on by a global pandemic.
It could have been non-polluting, but instead of redesigning, it's easier now to get nations to compete against each other for the location of that plant - and as part of that competition, relax the environmental protections. The "freedom of movement" for corporations (freedom of movement of capital?) has plenty of benefits, but this is one of the negative side effects.
It's not even necessary to remove New York. Without removing New York at all:

US Tests Per Million is 42k.

Netherlands: 17k
Sweden: 20k
France: 21k
Finland: 28k
Switzerland: 41k
Germany: 42k
UK: 43k
Italy: 52k

So the US isn't uniquely low, it's actually above average.

The US Deaths Per MIllion is 287

Finland: 55
Germany: 99
Switzerland: 219
Netherlands: 336
Sweden: 380
France: 431
UK: 526
Italy: 535

Below average in that regard, too.
>Every time I see discussions like this I never see thoughts on what to do with all those animals.

[until the aliens bring tomorrow the mass production lines of cheap lab meat] Because of naturally gradual process of lab meat quality increase and price decrease there will be no point in time when suddenly "we have 70B animals we're no longer consuming "
"Because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right" The birth rate is falling in the West. Seems thinly veiled to me!
I think you’re really not giving L’Oreal the credit it deserves. It’s much more than just a lipstick vendor. Sanofi, Europe’s largest pharma company, has its roots in L’Oreal (L’Oreal previously was the parent company of Synthelabo, which used to be the #3 pharma company in Europe until it merged with Sanofi).

L’Oreal also does research in things like methods to regrow human skin/hair, which aren’t on the same level as cancer treatments, but they do involve clinical trials and medical research. Hell, even something like launching a new facial moisturizer requires testing akin to clinical trials.

Aside from that, Emma Walmsley wasn’t CEO at L’Oreal, and she left there in 2010 to join GSK, where she worked for 7 years before being promoted to CEO in 2017. It’s not as if she went from being some business bean counter straight into being the head of GSK; she had 7 years to build GSK domain knowledge before taking the helm.
IntelliCode Compose is built around a multi-layer generative pretrained transformer model for code (GPT-C), which is avariant of the GPT-2

GPT-2 is built by OpenAI
Who supplies the demand for the shipping and manufacture?
for linux there is scanmem and it's gui gameconqueror, which offer the same core functionality of memory scanning

https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem
This specific type of vulnerability and the tens of thousands of similar ones like it would absolutely have been prevented by a safe programming language.
This is a USA Today article, and it opens with:

'Kentucky’s “stand your ground” law allows its residents to use deadly force against intruders they believe are breaking into their home.'

That's a flat lie.

"Stand your ground" laws don't even apply in cases where someone is breaking into your home; where they exist, they apply off one's property, applying almost exclusively to public property or rights-of-way, or private property where you are empowered to be armed by permission of the owner (e.g. private security).

The right to self-defense from within one's home exists almost everywhere in the USA; exceptions (if any remain; MA use to be this way, at least) are referred to as "duty-to-flee" jurisdictions. In other words, you can't use deadly force even within your home against an armed intruder if you have any way to escape, even through an upstairs window.
So if your first pregnancy is triplets you're fucked?
Isn't asp.net mvc also using relying massively on reflection?
Does the latest Google Chrome update make it safe to use?
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I mean most of this is complaining that no one is giving credence to the fairly heavily discounted Obama conspiracies, and “unfairly” detailing the behaviour of president trump.
Laws don't prevent crime.

So, then, are you advocating for forced abortions or forced birth control?

What would the penalties be for reproducing without approval?
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My understanding is that .Net 5 is a new version of .Net Core and that the .Net framework is dead.
As someone who is currently transitioning from Go to Java/Kotlin I agree with you to an extent. However, I was surprised that I wasn't able to find anything in the Java/Kotlin universe that is comparable to Go's web request context cancellation.
> these tools often use a setuid binary, which actually has more permissions than most users.

These tools often drop privileges as soon as the program is executed, in firejail, there's also an option to disalble root entirely within a namespace.
When I first got into programming, I asked myself the same thing. The low hanging fruit task it creating something like a CRUD app. Trivial drag & drop CRUD forms are pretty achievable.

Let's say you whip up something cool using visual programming, and then you have a business requirement that requires something you can't easily squeeze into your CRUD app: maybe a database join, a query that doesn't cleanly fit into your access patterns, or you just wanna make a certain thing faster.

Then you design a scripting console, and now you have something that lets you build custom solutions. Well, at that point you're basically implementing non-visual programming. And at a certain point you reach the limits of what you can script in a hacky way. or you become more comfortable with the console than they UI, and you just chuck the visual programming altogether.

As I'm writing this, I'm thinking that I actually do visual programming, except I'm doing IN MY MIND. Who needs a body brain interface when the goal of using your hands is to get it into your brain?, but it's already in my brain?! Well, it'd be nice to get some stuff out of my brain cuz cognitive load. And as much as I'd like to develop tech that makes it easier to get stuff out of my head, I'm mired down in trying to get the latest feature from the product team to work at all :)
I think this code release is to enable mods only. To make it possible to develop a MyGame.dll with custom behaviour and/or art. It wont be possible to make a total conversion, standalone.

So the talk about open source might just be marketing fluff.
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Is there a visual programming language that is self hosting? i.e. one where the entire system is written in its own visual language including the compiler and any runtime VM?
>Increasing quality of life, access to healthcare, and a strong social safety net...

I would wager that would increase the amount of people having children.
How can you be sure? There are even human trafficking rings in first world countries.
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Download size and speed matters. Disk space matters especially if you're working with relatively expensive SSDs. Of course, how much of a problem this is depends on which country you're working in, company's laptop policy etc
Why rely on bash? Windows has Powershell and symlinks, what else is needed to create a nix-style package manager for Windows?

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I don't think anyone would really want that, but it could be done.
By no means trying to be racist or dismiss the natives, but the geography of North America surely did not change since white man came.
Which clearly shows culture is probably just as important as geography.
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Docker looks like it would be totally doable to me. On every page, all the options are in a standardly structured "Options:" section, all commands are in a standardly structured "Commands" section, and --help and the Options: parser will also work on the subcommands.

It won't have typing, but it'd work. Do the most common argument parsing libraries from the standard libraries of the most popular languages and you're mostly there.

As a maintainer, I'm sick of having to include all sorts of different stupid autocompleters and think that it should be the job of an intelligent shell.