skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a stickler for any specific features: it's more about having a group of features that synergize with each other. So far I've not found a language that does this perfectly, but I've found a few that I think do better than Go:

1. Elixir: Pros: Erlang threading model is clearly the best I've come across, expressive syntax, strong data structures and algorithms in standard library. Cons: Slow for some things, anemic standard library for common problem domains, small community.

2. Python: Pros: Strong standard library for common problem domains, supplemented by a strong community set of libraries. Generally intuitive. Cons: Slow for some things, poor threading, inconsistencies in syntax, general dominance of configuration-oriented programming frameworks rather than libraries in the community, types are just not quite strong enough.

3. C#: Pros: strong type system, speed. Cons: dependency injection hell, MS walled garden.

I'd like to add Rust and/or OCaml, to this list, but I don't know either well enough to be confident.
Calling it a tremendous risk doesn't seem warranted given that it will not produce a significant drop in the earth's total population this century (see my comment above). A top-heavier age spread may strain political and economic systems: these are the social effects you mention. But from an ecological standpoint, not much will change for some time.

There is tremendous risk in covering the planet with ourselves and our waste, though; imho the more relevant risk, especially since we're pretty much locked into the pattern now.
Should have created an open YikYak protocol and merged them all into one herd.

YikYak was for those a little younger than me but I found it really funny to watch and vote and it had the feel of the old internet where no one knew you were a dog.
How about Facebook?
I could never see buying something like this even for $2k because by the time the investment pays for itself the tech would be outdated.
Bribery always works at suppressing outrage and information dissemination
> The general assumption of independence among columns/attributes is pretty universal (as the paper actually says).

So, the paper definitely talks about how independent column statistics are a problem with big tables in the default stats configuration.

...But the option of creating correlated, non-independent column statistics did not exist in PG until after this paper. Which was my point.

In my experience, flat out increasing statistics sample rates fixes 80%+ of the problems in this paper, with basically no downsides. (You can push that computation to downtime when no-one cares.)
At least in the US, expenses in later life seem not too bad, until the last 3-5 years--at which point healthcare cost absolutely blows everything out of the water. Like, more healthcare cost in one week at 85 than an entire year at 50. Especially once a person is unable to safely walk to the bathroom or prepare a simple meal without falling. Meds, ambulance transport, non-emergency wheelchair transport, rental of various equipment, home health aides, physical therapy, speech therapy, rehab or nursing care, palliative care. The costs are just stupefying.

Edit: I've replied mostly along the lines of the financial costs, but the human service component is by far the largest part of it, that's the main resource consumed.
> "A society where younger workers having to pay taxes 2x higher or more than they do today..."

Most likely social welfare programs for the elderly will simply be allowed to collapse. Nothing will motivate the young to vote like having their paychecks eaten away.

I feel bad for young people graduating now; if they're not able to save the _entire_ cost of their own retirement over the course of their career, they are just plain screwed.
I find it absolutely infuriating that this cartoon villain can just decide to gunk up the sky for a commercial venture. This is like Nestle bottling public water.
Here are two scary storylines that get discussed pretty regularly here on HN:

a) AI and machine learning will raise productivity so much that they will steal millions of jobs from people.

b) Global population will eventually go into decline, which will crash the economy by killing growth.

But, these two stories look far less scary when considered together. In fact they seem directly complementary, although the timing is not likely to work out perfectly, so it won't necessarily be smooth sailing along the way.
Anecdotally, I was homeschooled and experienced all of these above, in addition to my ADHD which was ignored by my parents, who didn't have enough experience to diagnose common symptoms.
Just having people in your country doesn't equate to economic productivity. Western nations will want highly educated young people doing hard mechanical labor that often takes two decades of training to get proficient at.

And yes, we will reap the most educated and skilled from less developed nations throughout this century. Which.. just condemns said countries to perpetual destitution. If the best and brightest you invested in leave to go to other countries you both have no incentive to invest in them in the first place or you wasted your economic surplus that is needed to progress your society towards becoming industrialized in itself.

The uneducated poor of the world are not useful to industrialized society. Its why every industrializing nation always adopts universal education to at least make capable laborers out of the poor. Its unlikely to change without world powers deciding to be way more altruistic about their economic exploitation of the poorest regions of the planet.
I am sorry you find my wife and I's decision selfish, sad, and misguided. You needn't think about it, really, as our decision doesn't concern you in the slightest.

It may help you to travel. Some time in other continents made us realize -- we have plenty of people already. The planet will do just fine without one or three more from us.
Fascinating, I’ve suffered with insomnia for many years and haven’t even heard of this
Remove the emojis please
Are you saying there are no mechanisms that allow wealthy people to influence human behavior on a large scale? Please read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays.
Thanks a lot for your article. I think,for me it will be a perfect start for understanding JPEG decoders & making one too. :)
Google is banned in China yet still has a decent sized office there.
Hugely inefficient and expensive, but if the energy used is renewable I guess there's no downside. Certainly seems to be more environmentally friendly than desalination which disrupts sea life in coastal waters.
On a slightly different but related topic, check this out: from Alfred Yarbus, 'Eye movements and vision'. Springer; 2013 Nov 11. p.107

"The drift of the axes of the eyes was first discovered, and on the whole correctly described, by Dodge (1907). He considered that there is no constant point of fixation and suggested the term 'fixation field."
Subsequently, nearly all authors studying eye movements confirmed the presence of drifting movements of the eyes (Glezer and Tsukkerman, 1961)."

I did a bit of work on a project that examined the difference between the way that artists and laymen look at images. For this we used eye trackers. This is where I first saw how restless normal eye movement is. The figures in that chapter and preceding it bear this out.

So... attention drifts from one eye to the other, though one eye is dominant, and defines the 'pan' angle of the other. In addition, generally the eyes scan points within an object rather than look directly at the object as a whole. As someone who teaching drawing (and therefore perhaps analytical looking) this was an 'eye opener'.

Edit: link to referenced book:
http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/yarbus%20(1967)%20eye%20...
I think that it'll alienate even few remaining loyal workstation Apple customers.

Alienate them like every major transition Apple has ever made has (Classic MacOS->MacOSX, 68K->PPC, PPC->x86, NuBus->PCI, mono->color, all-in-one->expandable, etc., etc., etc.)?

The thing about predicting the end of the world is that if you say it long enough and consistently enough, one day you'll be right. Be so kind as to let us know when Apple goes out of buisiness, will you?
"It doesnt follow they would emit less CO2 if they happened to have children."

Except that it does. Literally from the article, they state "women entering the workforce, education jobs etc" - which increases income, and this is 100% correlated to increased consumption of all forms. It's consistent everywhere.

FYI this is the de-facto neoliberal plan (not being conspiratorial here). It's more directly apparent in China's ambitions i.e. Belt and Road: "The stated objectives are "to construct a unified large market and make full use of both international and domestic markets" [1], but it's not like it's their 'new' idea.

The objective of the wealthier nations is to get the remaining 4 Billion people driving cars, eating Cheetos, wearing H&M (fast fashion, ie 'disposable') and living in IKEA (i.e. trendy, but generally low-quality furniture, that can be replaced every several years).

This is effectively 'the plan'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
But without the extorsion racket that Yelp runs?
> It's loses meaning when directed at large swathes of people who have never hurt a person in their life

You are talking about people that want to establish an ethnostate and quite literally kill anyone that is not their favored race. This is about identifying the threat of violence before it becomes violence.

This is a talking point I have frequently seen by modern white nationalist apologists across the web. It is extremely distressing to see such things here on HN.
Python also lets you read bytes off the stream directly.
You're getting downvoted but I think there is some truth to this statement.
"Are you sure the inclusion of The Bible ... has nothing to do with your own personal faith?"
Yes. Much of Western culture has been deeply rooted in The Bible, from its stories to its values.
> migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option

Looks like the projections contradict this in at least two ways:

1. The population of the United States is projected to grow slightly, so it's not "all nations"

2. The population of two of the most currently populous countries, China and India will drop so precipitously that I'm not sure where they expect the "migration" to come from.
There is a ludicrous amount of wealth in almost every industrialized nation. Every single one has way in excess of the ability to guarantee minimum income to all citizens without exception let alone just a social security equivalent for the elderly. Its just a question of if they will be interested at all in keeping said people alive in the future.
Why doesn't the same idea of adding a type keyword work there too?

a, b := w<type x,y>(z)
Right, which is still Apple complying with the Chinese National Intelligence Law and giving up private customer data to the Chinese government.
Short answer - no. Where is the explanation for how the predictive queries work. Is it some sort of bayesian model? It's not too hard to quickly fit some NB or regression model on some dataset on the fly given the simplicity of those models. However just throwing random features at it without consideration of bias vs variance, i.e. whether the model is either over-fitting or is not powerful enough to answer the question can easily result in a useless model. To make this useful you would need to build in all of the functionality regular data scientists use to build regular models. In doing so you would lose all of the speed and flexibility of the tool you are pushing. Also given the prevalence of deep learning models for unstructured data, and also search and recommendations, such an approach would not work given it relies on structured data. A lot of modern data science work focuses on those kind of problems as learning from structured data is mostly quick and easy with today's ML tools. I don't see how this framework would solve for these more complex and more typical business problems.
I lived perfectly fine without Netflix and Youtube for most of my life.
The site isn't apolitical; it's explicitly a hiring board for "conservatives [and] libertarians".

For what it's worth, it's also seemingly run by a malformed entity; despite claiming a Delaware nexus in their terms of service, the company, "Unwoke, Inc.", isn't registered in Delaware; in fact, the name isn't even reserved for a pending registration.
The x87 FPU finds an interesting niche application in size-optimised demoscene productions, where the stack-based architecture and scientific-calculator operations allows for some impressively compact 3D demo effects. For example, this one is 256 bytes:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816
> Voters consider the paralysis a feature when it is presenting a hostile legislative majority or executive from realizing their agenda, and a bug when it is preventing a friendly one.

Yes, that's what they said: paralysis is always a feature, because the legislative majority is always hostile to the people.
I have read both versions. My personal interpretation is the killings definitely happened, however there are a lot of grey areas and unknowns around what exactly happened there: who did it (the VCs/the armed civilians/the South Vietnam army/the US), who died in those graves (militants/civilians), the circumstances of the killings (military executions/mob justice/lynching/casualty from fighting/bombing), etc. Perhaps the truth is a bit of everything.

This will unfortunately remain as one of the tragedies of war that we will never know the full picture of.
SpaceX does have a smallsat ride sharing program. The Starlink-8 launch was the first one (with 2 smallsats from SkySat), and the upcoming Starlink-9 also has 1 (BlackSky Global).

https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/
SF MoMA Curator Resigns After He Is Accused of Racism
Where Is the Outrage over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?
Ehm, those are different species? Are you suggesting that humans are made up of different species?
Tech stock bubble warnings rise amid coronavirus rally
"not much will change for some time"

If you look at it from much longer term perspective, it's scary because it's happening extremely fast (1 generation) within nations that have reached a certain level of material prosperity and stability.

It's also 'scary' because it's never happened before.

'100 years' when we will really see the effects more globally, is not a 'long time', it's a 'quite a short time'.

We only ever knew 'one natural direction' and though it's exploded since the industrial revolution, it was at least, in normal times, 'up' to the extent the system could support it.

So yes, it's not 'scary' right now, and as you point out, Mother Earth could use a break from all of us. But thinking about the next 'few hundred' years, it's spooky.
Totally feels like the Dune’s Fremens!
I imagine that the risk of death from enemy fire was a bit higher up on their 'what will kill me' priority list.
One aspect this article does not address at all is the massive sex ratio imbalance in India and China (for different reasons) at around 1,100 men for every 1000 women.

This means there are 100 million girls less today in these countries alone, finding a suitable partner becomes harder and there are lesser number of couples will be there in the first place who can have kids

The 2.1 replacement is perhaps not adequate at all. The models are outdated and largely considers IFMR and few other factors, it does not factor really in issues such as the gender imbalance, hikikomori, much later age pregnancies ( higher chances of miscarriages etc?) and slightly more controversially also same sex relationships / marriages .

I do not mean to imply same sex relationships are bad or anything like that, What I mean to say is that everyone needs to have more kids as it is harder for same sex couples to have biological children ( while adoption is great and purest expression of parenthood it does not increase the population)
Perhaps the "premodern societies" that are emphasized in educational settings had those qualities. Maybe that says more about our educational values than about premodern societies. Many ancient people didn't emphasize property in the first place. Many others were more matriarchal than patriarchal. Sure, Catholicism was fairly irredeemable...
The problem with your thesis is that it overlooks the centuries-long advancement of feminism in favour of a conspiracy theory.
So, what elements of Python do you consider boilerplate?

I say this not as someone defending Python, but as someone writing a programming language.
I was trying to make the point is that “1%” doesn’t sound like a lot, but is actually a huge number when you’re dealing with a commodity as supposedly important as human lives.

There are certainly all kinds of nuances and unknowns to the survival (and partially-survived) rates. Those idiots sayin “only 1% of blah blah” are the ones I take issue with.
> Manipulating someone's information in any way is irresponsible.

I agree. But what about advertising, filter bubbles, curated feeds, aggregators? Is it OK if done algorithmically to make more money?
Awesome - first best of luck on your transition!

1 Yeap! We can do that.
2 hmmm we don’t support this out of the box - but I’d love to know what you expect out of this. All your services spun up and infra?
3. Check!
4. No blue green deployments yet :(
5. Yea! We support this via a pipeline.
For security, you don't care whether random numbers are "truly random" or not; you care whether they're cryptographically secure. Your mental model should be of a stream cipher, which is a tool that stretches a short secret into a very long secret. The question you should ask yourself is, "have I fed this generator 16-32 bytes of unguessable material, and does it use cryptographically sound tools to spool out random bytes from that seed?"

Your kernel arranges to do this for you, and, for security-sensitive applications, is the RNG you should use to the exclusion of all others, "true" or not.
I mean even if you own your own private modem, Comcast (and others) can and do push new firmware directly into your modem. I don't see how this would be any different.
I wonder if there is an AI application here if you have access to the full transaction log from the exchanges. Basically something that looks for series of trades that align with previously fraudulent trading patterns.
Always include a duck https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1220...
Wawo
As a small dev team we needed something similar to passbolt, but that would primarily be used for sharing API keys and other application secrets for our code base. (Although we use it for other passwords as well) A lot of the existing tools are fairly complex to setup and are not tied to identity management systems. (i.e. You have to setup and maintain separate user accounts)

Since, we were on Keybase already for employee identity and chat, we created an extension to encpass.sh to use Keybase for our secret storage. (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/extensions/...) It has been working really well so far, as when we add someone to a Keybase team, that person immediately has access to that team's secrets. No extra setup required.
> this optimal algorithm

I'm curious - link please?
RabbitMQ Quorum Queue for distributed fault-tolerant computing with data safety
At least I can pick it apart and deduce it. I can even use the compiler to give me information about it via editor integration (all same editors have it now). So I’ve I’m unsure it might take a few minutes of investigation to completely understand the signature.

I’ve seen some JavaScript written so tersely it was nearly impossible to figure out without spending Possibly hours on unwrapping the code. That’s the value provided here.
Is it true
Not yet but we’re tracking resource importing here: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/740
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Parenting is hard and expensive, especially these days in the developed world where people have children late and most people don’t live near extended family. My parents moving near me totally changed my wife and my outlook on having a third (from “no way, too sleepy” to “hey remember when the little one was just a baby?”)
This is also a Bay Area thing. I've noticed that almost everything must have a bit of hyperbole to even be "Normal"...

Imagine if someone says "How did you like X movie?" and you say "Yeah, I liked it". In the bay area that response would be assumed negative.

Why go to a certain movie if it's not "Amazing"? Why spend $50 on sushi if it's not "Life changing"? Why wear shoes that are not "The best!" ?

This is bay area culture.

(it maybe else where too, but I particularly noticed it here)
Less than full liquidity. If you get a decent matching contribution from your employer, it's probably worthwhile. Otherwise, it may be kind of a toss-up.
Terrifying time to be a Hong Kong resident.

Hopefully they can afford to leave for the UK.
Yes, finally we get off this stupid econ, pop, and everything else growth wagon.

Too bad this isn't an intentional march to Fukuyama take 2, but a sign of the Keynesian feedback loop being broken.
> Even when this problem is recognized, it turns out the most precise algorithm escaped us for decades--it's not as simple as adding them up low to high. It's only been within the past 10 years that this optimal algorithm has been discovered.

Interesting, do you have a link for us lazy but curious folk?
What if you make your browser window narrower?
> Before vaccination, no participant had detectable 80% live-virus neutralization at the highest serum concentration tested (1:8 dilution) in the PRNT assay. At day 43, wild-type virus–neutralizing activity capable of reducing SARS-CoV-2 infectivity by 80% or more (PRNT80) was detected in all participants, with geometric mean PRNT80 responses of 339.7 (95% CI, 184.0 to 627.1) in the 25-μg group and 654.3 (95% CI, 460.1 to 930.5) in the 100-μg group ().

This does really sound good.
You risk getting beaten to the punch by someone else...
> According to Chinese law, the government can quietly demand any information they want on anyone. A warrant in China? Hah.

Which Chinese law?
It's sure ain't easy but if you take a look at the history of mankind it sure is paradise. War and famine have has been the standard, things we complain about are totally different now.
These problems are not wide-spread in most underdeveloped countries, even Muslim-majority ones.

I don't want to "whataboutism" here, but to offer a comparison: the US clearly has a problem with police violence, but we don't judge the entire country's population by it.
I hope Humanity grows many orders of magnitude larger and expands across the galaxy. The universe will be a more interesting place. Some people here are saying this is good for the environment. Having 20% fewer people won't do that. Clean energy and other technology will.

You can easily fit 100B humans on earth, with more of the earth dedicated to nature preserves. (Maybe a trillion people https://youtu.be/8lJJ_QqIVnc)
Macau has over 21,000 people per square km. There are 510M sq km of landmass on earth. This means on 1% of the landmass you could fit 100B people.

You can fit quadrillions in ONeil cylinders just in our own solar system.

We shouldn't shrink into extinction, we should ride to the stars and populate the galaxy with consciousness.
Give it a few generations.

In the past, having a family was status quo and basically required.

Now, it’s a choice.

Natural selection will heavily favor those with the “I want kids!” gene.
What year/month was this version released? It’s not in the article.
Ah, I wasn't thinking of the JavaScript flavors. I think "hosted" is how Clojure describes itself.
We really need ForgeFed and federated source hosting platforms
Uber optimizes Garbage collection performance using GCeasy