skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely once caste is established intelligence can't be selected for any more strongly than under any other conditions - the rules of the game are fixed at that point.

Your final point about selection via coercion holds more water, but one has to believe that the subjects would be explicitly chosen for their intelligence, rather than for any other features, which seems difficult to support.
I like this but there's a trick: reversing in blocks makes the last 300M "lines" not exactly the same as the first 300M lines of the source file.

But the basic idea still works: You could read the original file forward to find the index of the 300M'th line, and then just halt the stack reversing bit when you get there. Delete the whole original file and then stack it back.
I've done this, but the performance tanks over several large projects --- this doesn't happen in separate windows.
Population densities are largely meaningless at that level. Sweden has a low density only because most of the northern part is wilderness. Most people live in the south, in urban and suburban areas where density is similar to other European countries.
Grade inflation for everyone is an issue at most colleges. Grades should reflect your credibility in a subject, and should be roughly normalized across subjects. But because they are so important for the rest of one's career, they end up being heavily pressured towards A's -- which results in careers not paying as much attention to them because they're widely understood to be not meaningful. A better world would see the degree itself as marking credibility in the subject, and grades + GPAs not mattering outside of admissions into higher-education or honor programs -- and 'blow-off' degrees removed entirely.

and --

Lots of people care about sports but that's partly cause lots of people in the past cared and baked it into our culture. It's still a perverse misalignment of incentivizes -- education should be about education; university should be about education + social development + various other forms of development. The American university system is largely about sports and partying for lots of people and I hope no one thinks that's healthy. I don't necessarily think the big sports should be cut, but there's no reason in 2020 that a university should regularly have people who are there on, like, golf scholarships. Universities should certainly take remarkable people of all walks of life -- but the emphasis on sports is insanely beyond what is appropriate.
"Providing an education" and "selling prestige" are going to decouple more and more as remote education gets better, which it will since right now there's no choice but to invest in it.
I am picturing the same thing but 14k vs, say, 500k.
In some sense yes, but the bill doesn’t come until much later. A city can run a deficit for a long time before its debt payments become its biggest budget item (or second after its police department in many cases). This leads to cuts, austerity and the usual contractions to a more manageable budget.
And yes, in many cases the infrastructure for suburban development is initially paid for by someone else. Often some combination of federal and state programs to build roads and other public works projects along with subsidized loans.
ZGC – What's new in JDK 15
Lol , even today basic literacy is in the 70th percentile.

I can count in fingers how many from my village in south india from my grandfathers generation went to school or could read/write.

The reason congress first lost power in tamil nadu was partly because of caste based education proposed by rajagopalachari. Mid day meal program was pivotal in MGR's continued popularity . Education has always been key factor in politics since at least independence.

Sure there were exceptions and few kings could seize power with support from their powerful communities . They still remained illiterate though.

Education was only given to favoured few. Only few had access to God. A king could perhaps come from some random caste never the priest. he still comes from brahmins. Access to God and education was and still is weaponized to discriminate

The discrimination against women is the same, sure there were rare exceptions for women queens with power. never a single priest though.
If you're a Brahman, lower caste starts at Kshatriya on down. If you're a Kshatriya it starts at Vaishya on down...
And for jdk 16:
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376
OK I misunderstood your ask then. In that case Xamarin.Forms does that today
Typo! I think you mean Cowboy Neal! ;-)
> Edit: With my wording, I was referring to this old pro-copyright ad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

Or the better version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXkxSl4f6vw
SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics
The college admissions process is actually moving away from weighing the SAT or ACT as heavily as it has in the past -- for this year's admissions cycle, most schools are going test-optional. The best correlation for American standardized testing scores isn't study habits, but zip code.

I personally don't believe that moving to a system like China's gaokao would solve any of the issues to do with wealth, because the American university system is more than an academic system. It can't simply test for academics (although GPA is the #1 factor considered in admissions across the board), because the strength of American universities is also in community and intellectual diversity. Most applicants to top schools are academically qualified to attend.
If you don't comment your code you're doing a disservice to yourself.

Code comments allow me to understand how I was thinking about a particular problem when I wrote that solution. Without that context is way harder to re-establish understanding of my own code if I need to change or refactor something.

Something that I respect deeply, it's when I see a comment like "Here we use a global variable for this xyz reason. Global variables are bad and are discouraged but we used it here to get around something".

That level of self-awareness and scrappiness can only be achieved by contextualizing your decisions with a comment.

Sometimes bad code becomes decent code just by the merits of a comment that explains it.
Americans don't feel they can get justice. ftfy
This is the top voted Battery Day thread? Weak, HN...

Where should I go for geeky insight into it?
I thought that until I realised IntelliJ Ultimate is really IntelliJ + WebStorm + PHPStorm + RubyMine + PyCharm + Goland and with plugins you're covered for most major PLs except C,C++ and C# which require 2 separate IDEs.
I’m not sure the incentive is really wrong, although it sucks for the users affected. It’s sort of like how VCs want startups to reach unicorn status or go bust trying. Google doesn’t want to waste engineers running a lifestyle business.
The episode is called "The KGB, the Computer, and Me". Here's one on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I
I have a special distaste for their advertising scheme. Daily I will see ads claiming "Blinkist is the new hype in Berlin", "The app that all CEOs use", "The company that's harder to get into than Harvard", etc. We get it, it's Cliff Notes in an app.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is dependent on the country of origin. Some countries have seen large increases in life expectancy, others not so much (the US, though this depends on where, people in some states are much more active than those in other states) or are even seeing declines (Russia).
There are many things in Visual Studio that run out-of-process, and coordinate via IPC. It's an implementation detail, and does not change the fundamental approach.

Also, many things in VSCode can be done in-proc as well if one so desires, including debuggers and language servers. Most extensions do them out-of-proc because it gives them more flexibility (esp. wrt implementation language for those components), and because it's easier to test such isolated components.
Firefox is my main browser on Linux, but sometimes I browse using Chromium. Both feel equally snappy to me -- even though I have hundreds of tabs open in Firefox and several add-ons, and none on Chromium.
I only want to marry people of a particular gender, but that doesn’t make me problematically sexist. Religion is a similar desiderata. Perhaps you can argue that people can convert, but as a Jew who seriously dated a Catholic for almost two years, I’d argue that boundary isn’t particularly fluid.

As an example, what if they decided against the marriage not because they cared personally but because their family did, and satisfying their family’s preferences was important to them? What’s the harm? Nobody has an obligation to marry you.
This is how quite a few high school football teams work... It's usually done through booster clubs.
Is NY commercial real estate a foundation for another CDS scam?
You borrow money to make a bet, you face the consequences.
The big question is: are they privileged, or are they discriminated against? I've heard of rich black people in the US getting stopped and investigated by the police for driving a fancy car that they bought with their own money.

There's different kinds of privilege of course. You can be rich but still discriminated, you can be white but poor. And the way you need to help people who are poor is different from the way you help people who suffer from discrimination.

If poor people have a hard time getting access to something because it's too expensive, and you want to help them, then that money shouldn't end up with rich people. If a demographic group is kept out of universities or other opportunities because of their caste or the colour of their skin, then you correct that by giving them better access, maybe through a quota or some other form of preferential treatment that compensates for the effects of discrimination. And that shouldn't apply to people who don't suffer from that discrimination.

You need to address the thing that's going wrong, and not something completely different. Rich black people don't need money, they need to not get arrested over nothing by the police.
The difference between VSCode and Emacs is the difference between an extensible text editor, and an editor that was designed to be extended, molded, and shaped as you work. At any time within Emacs, you can evaluate Lisp code to extend or modify its functionality. What's more, the always-on presence of Lisp turns Emacs into a computing environment with strong editing primitives, rather than a text editor with stuff bolted onto it. I use it to automate tedious tasks, where it serves as a sort of Lisp-programmable super-shell that can ingest data from processes and network connections into buffers, as well as the inverse, all under the control of a powerful programming language.
They'll sneak in the odd question here and there. Maybe they'll find out from the surname, or perhaps the locality of the town/city you're from in India, or the kind of food you eat (upper-castes are mainly vegetarian), or your dialect. Heck sometimes the deity you worship will reveal one's caste.
Not OP - every caste has its own unique cultural aspects. So a person could disregard caste in most avenues of life, but still give it a thought while considering a prospective spouse to find an affinity through shared cultural values. That's one reason that came to mind.
The last demo i saw was a car atop an electric skate.

And this is a serious question but I don't know how to put it nicely: Do you think you are the only person out of the 2000+ people working at the boring company to think of these things?
His website is where I first learned the term "dihydrogen monoxide". https://www.kleinbottle.com/why_acme.htm
> I'd like to include internal tools where possible, but I think the main obstacle is finding sufficient info...

But why? What's the purpose of a public website with a catchy domain that chronicles when internal-facing tools were killed (usually because they were replaced with something better)?

I understand the agenda behind Killed By Google, but right now your site just leaves me scratching my head.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla on the ops team that ran many of these services)
> but it doesn't follow you around for life, tied to your surname, determining who you can marry or what jobs you're allowed to get, or if you'll get beaten simply for walking into certain buildings or touching strangers

I am glad you’ve enumerated all those aspects because class definitely follows most Americans around, tied to their FICO score, their debt, their education credentials therefore the jobs they can get into, their neighborhood therefore surrounding crime levels, law enforcement and justice system attitude towards them, incarceration rates etc. It even determines who they can marry based on their gender (e.g statistically men don’t get to marry “up”).

We don’t like to call it caste because it probably offends some sensibilities, but class is definitely sticky in the US.
I did a bit of research work at the University of Ottawa, which by necessity ends up having a sizeable contingent of diplomats' offsprings.

A guy walked up to me and straight up offered to pay me to do his senior project for him. I reported him to his academic advisor. She told me "Thanks for telling me, but there's not much we can do about it without causing an international accident." So next time we saw each other, I agreed to help him with his senior project if I got to go a few rounds with him. He didn't take me up on it.
If you had seen the recent CISCO case, then you'd know it is definitely the latter.
I see no reason for the compile times to be different. Windows is known for slows file system access though.
Surprising that we can still find these things in 2020, and this site isn't buried at all
Growing up in Canada, I was taught that the US entered WW2 well after Canada, and it was inferred that Canada stood up against Hitler before the US.

Then I read about the Canadian Conscription Crisis (WW2)[1] and learned that MacKenzie King was very opposed to going to war and preferred appeasement. His rationale was understandable - it was basically that any war would result in massive upheaval across the world, including Canada, particularly straining English-French relationships (as it did in WW1).

Canada ended up sending a volunteer division early on, comprised almost of entirely of English speakers. The French army ended up being called "Zombies" - trained, but never deployed. The one English division was run ragged - huge amounts of PTSD since they couldn't be relieved (there were no other soldiers to replace them).

Of course, conscription was eventually pursued (after a referendum) and Canada played a very large role in the European theatre. But the first few years were quite the cluster.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944
Life expectancy as usually reported is a mean, and is typically affected more by reduction in things like childhood and childbirth mortality than a meaningful shift in longevity.
I mean, Plato did always complain that writing makes people stupid and kids these days are ruining society because they can’t speak well or remember anything.

And I think books were ruining kids these days in the 1600’s

In 1800’s it was populist flashy newspapers with clickbait headlines

1900’s was radio

1950’s was TV

Now it’s social media

There’s always something. People who want to escape their lives will find a way. The solution is to make the world better, not to gripe about coping strategies.
Twitter Let Dozens of Tweets Doxing Interfaith Indian Couples Stay Up for Months
> It removes "managed code tax" for calling into dynamically loaded OpenGL/Vulkan methods

Interesting, never heard of that. Do you have a source?

I haven’t noticed much overhead when I measured, take a look: https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop#how-it-works That library compiles and runs with .NET Core 2.1.

Update: also there https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/calling-native-f... they wrote “PInvoke has an overhead of between 10 and 30 x86 instructions per call”

It roughly corresponds to my observation, and I find it fast enough for all practical applications, including GLES rendering on ARM Linux: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/
I've used almost all popular editors for years, Vim, Emacs, Ultraedit, Sublime and of course VSCode.

But I switched back to Sublime about six months ago.

VSCode is mostly impressively good, it is even quite fast for an electron app. But still, not as fast as Sublime, and I think it degraded at some point, and I could sense it during work.

And then, I might be a bit paranoid but I think that VSCode could be used as a kind of trojan horse by Microsoft.

I don't want a future where everything is on the cloud, including all my tools and files.
As far as developer productivity, the desktop-oriented IDE's were indeed better. Yes, you had less choice, but that didn't matter much if tried to think like a plumber instead of Picasso. The problem was that deployment and installation was a pain. Microsoft actually improved that for its products, but I believe if we had a stateful GUI markup standard, we could have very similar tools without desktop installs (other than installing a GUI browser).

Oracle Forms kind of worked like this (mostly before Java era), although its GUI control language was proprietary and not XML. Oracle Forms had its warts, but was a good proof concept for the GUI browser. Developers got a lot of work done under it.
> They've replaced the open source Python language server with a closed source one. The C/C++ was always closed. Their remote feature and collaboration tools are also closed. They're slowly making people depend on MS services without even realising it.

So, what you're saying is that the absolutely enormous number of Python and C/C++ people can't produce a decent open-source plugin while tiny communities like the Rust folks can?

I don't like what Microsoft is doing here, but, let's be honest, the "open source community" has also spoken and what it has said is "We are a bunch of cheap, selfish jerks."

You don't have to fund very many programmers to create these plugins. Full-time funding for maybe 5 or 6 programmers per plugin can pull it off (and maybe not that for something like the remote development plugin). And not all programmers around the world cost $200K per year. However, even if they did, that's $1 million per year to support a plugin.

So, no company or individual out of the entire Python or C/C++ ecosystem thinks that's a worthwhile expense? No group of 5 or 6 companies think that's a worthwhile expense?

As we found with OpenSSL and other open source projects, no, apparently they don't.

Don't bemoan Microsoft's licensing when the problem sits with the "open source community" being cheap bastards.
Do you think Sutskever, Goodfellow, etc. would have joined OpenAI if they had started off trying to be just like any other company?

Which "any other company", FAANG? Both Sutskever and Goodfellow worked at Google before OpenAI.
I think Facebook did make something like that a few years ago.
Did they stumble upon a community, or did they create one?
Psilocybin-assisted therapy company goes public
Doesn't sound like that hard of a question, given you are provided the structure of the PDF header. I guess it really comes down to substring search.
University admission is for those on the margin, since the positions are limited
I didn't like that the author is sort of mixing being a Team Lead with being a Manager. The role described in there is more of a Manager.

A great resource for Managers to be (and an article that is not trying to sell you something):

https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html
Finland to deploy coronavirus-sniffing dogs at Helsinki Airport
Speaking about the new records, it bothers me that the keyword in the class declaration is "data" but they call it "record". Why not just name it record? Or "value-data" or something more descriptive? Considering it's one of the biggest languages today, I'm assuming they have ton of people working on it, so I'm clearly missing something here. And why still call it a "class" in the code? Could just have been have keyword instead... So many questions
https://archive.vn/B7RL0
Title needs (in Finland).
And Swift/Objective-C require AppCode. They all have a fantastic SQL/database admin tool built in as well.
Very cool! Quality on that scan is great.

It's birdwalking a bit, but you posting that also made me check to see if Internet Archive has early editions of Vogel's Practical Organic Chemistry, and they do!

Another really cool blast from the past.

https://archive.org/details/Practical_Organic_Chemistry_Voge...
>Side note, but why are water polo and volleyball considered upper-class sports in the USA?

Beach volleyball is more common in areas close to the beach. Beach and indoor players are also significantly taller than the average person-- in the league that my college was a part of, the shortest woman playing middle blocker was still 185cm. Height and beach access both have correlations to socioeconomic factors.

For various reasons, the US has huge racial disparities when it comes to swimming ability. Most African American and Hispanic children don't know how to swim.

As others have mentioned, football, basketball and to a lesser extent soccer/baseball tend to be the "pleb" sports. But even within a sport, you'll see class and racial distinctions when you compare different positions. When you look at pros and college, the majority of quarterbacks and centers are white. QBs also tend to come from wealthier families. Meanwhile, wide receivers and running backs are mostly black. The defense is mostly black, and I don't think there's a single non-black cornerback in the NFL (unless you miscount Tre'Davious White)
That article overestimates YLL by failing to specifically account for obesity as a comorbidity (although there is some correlation with other comorbidities included in their model). We know that obesity both reduces lifespan on its own, and is a serious risk factor for COVID-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3688902/
My problem is that I'm reading the article now, instead of the work I need to be doing.
I am uncertain why this is such a travesty. Everything else is free market. If these folks want to pay more for school... so be it. If a school is willing to accept sub-par students then they will see their own stats decline, and maybe schools with standards will excel and the free market schools will... have nicer buildings? Whatever.
Good..

Now give me the print edition!
I really miss reading LJ at the loo :)
> As Linux enthusiasts and long-time fans of Linux Journal, we were disappointed to hear about Linux Journal closing it's doors last year.

closing its doors, no apostrophe.

I take this to mean the editors weren't hired back? Refer to the closing message for proper grammar [1]:

> On August 7, 2019, Linux Journal shut its doors for good.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pu...
Good thing no nation-state would be able to come up the 12 million dollars needed to train it....
Go at Google (2012)
JetBrains has Rider for C#
Look at Paul Rudd today and Wilford Brimley in Cocoon, both the same age (51)

For sure something is keeping people looking and acting younger.
A mediocre person may also be threatened by someone they see as being more talented. They will fight against having that person on their team with them because it makes them look worse.
There Are 2 Types of Creativity and 1 Doesn't Peak Until Your 50s
The situation is similar to Google Chrome/Chromium: Most of it is open-source, but the release binaries contain some proprietary bits for telemetry, marketplace access, etc.

A FOSS build is available at https://vscodium.com/
Existential Graph
Sorry about that. I don’t have enough karma to downvote.
Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS
Launch time matters for Visual Studio because sometimes it likes to lock files that git needs to move, so it requires closing regularly.
College admissions play a central role in determining where you end up in our society, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they should be regulated.