skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Medicare is required to cover a number of classes of drugs. they can't say "no, we're not paying for it."
> As a result, Medicare has no negotiating power. Unless you can walk away from the table, why would drug companies budge?

Those statements are only true for drugs with no alternatives - which doesn't apply to all (most?) drugs. And, even for those, couldn't the government say "we're not going to pay $(RANSOMPRICE) for drug X. If you insist that we do, we will not buy any other drugs from you but will instead source from your competitors at all times."
I think it's a bit disingenuous to say they're totally orthogonal. Presumably you understand that if Apple supported Vulkan natively, then "WebVulkan" would be the obvious choice for a web API (just as it was with OpenGL/WebGL).
ESR commented: ICEI is indeed rebooted. The reason for the long hiatus was that CII spun up just as the first version of the org was about to go public. That sucked all the oxygen out of the room for a while.

So CII definitely competes! In addition the CII report linked upthread has an NTPD section in which the director of the NT Foundation is quoted praising Harlan Stenn, right after the NTPSec section. So not only does CII compete with ICEI, but NTF competes w/ NTPSec within CII.
The problem is that it is hard to pull off in a bigger population like India's. Social stigma doesn't work if all your friends are doing it too.

My perspective is that the problem runs way deeper than this and any kind of social welfare scheme will be abused in India. This is because majority of the tax paying population thinks that they don't get enough for their taxes.

This might be somewhat justified because taxes in India can jump quite high (up to 30% of income) without seeing much increase in your net savings in major cities. This is compounded by the fact that a very low fraction of the eligible population actually pays taxes (this is due to most people being employed in the unorganized sector) which leads the government to try to maximize whatever it can get from the ones who actually pay.

This is evident in how so many relatively well off people haven't given up their LPG subsidy even after repeated requests by the government.
Apple supported Blu-ray and even took a seat on the Blu-ray board. How many Blu-ray drives did Apple ship?
Why come up with a new API for this? Why not use the one supported by Google, and MS, Vulkan? We dont need another (a fourth!) API for the same thing.
Introduce a web variant like Khronos with with WebGL (its almost like OpenGL ES, which is almost like OpenGL).
I'm not so optimistic.

I don't believe people will ever get their liberties back when they are finally all taken away. :(

Our naive and apathetic population will find out eventually.
Vulkan on Windows is all based on unofficial drivers that don't come with Windows and aren't supported by MS. We don't think it's right to depend on this even if it's theoretically possible. Likewise for unofficial macOS/iOS drivers.
1) Cats hunt alone but in the wild they live in colonies, and there is a pecking order. Much of cat behavior stems from colony life; for example, cat feces are a scent-marker of who's boss in the area. Cats bury their turds to disguise their scent, so that the dominant cat won't see them as a challenger.

2) Dogs have an instinctual tendency for symbiosis with humans that cats do not have. Accordingly, if you want a cat to stay with you, you have to earn its respect. For this reason a human-feline relationship can be extremely rewarding.
> I'd seriously question the judgement of any senior engineer who picks it for a new project over rethinkdb or Postgres.

... you mean RethinkDB, whose future is still uncertain? Regardless of technical merits, the currently unstable future of RethinkDB means a senior engineer should be extremely cautious about selecting it for a significant project.
I sincerely don't understand what you want. You claimed it was impossible for him to find an exchange, and then he revealed his exchange. You claimed it was impossible for him to find data sources, but then he revealed his data sources. You claim that his system can't possibly be as good as it appears, but even Sebastian admits that he had to manually intervene and has also gotten lucky.

What extraordinary claim is being made that requires proof?
If Apple supported Vulkan, all major platforms would support the same API. Exposing this to the web would be relatively straight forward. So, I don't think your assertion that they are orthogonal goals is correct.
For various reasons: you probably have more endpoints on your network than proxy servers and thus a bigger attack surface. Keeping the endpoints up-to-date is harder (e.g. laptops that are not permanently attached to the network to receive updates). If your endpoints are workstations, human interaction (e.g. installing malicious software, opening malicious attachements) and the overall complexity of the system (e.g. GUI, multiple users) makes it weaker than a central, dedicated, isolated, stripped down and locked down set of proxy servers. And finally, process isolation is really, really hard (if your countermeasure _only_ runs on the target (endpoint), you already weakened your position).
I do not understand, it took only one input to put it in a dive with auto pilot engaged but two inputs to cancel auto pilot to get it out of the dive?
psssssss..... come here.....

multisignature wallet. shame an early adopter don't use it.
Instead you get "stupid prompts from mobile Safari" to install apps, which websites mostly do so they can send you push notifications: same prompts, even more annoying (as often the "carrot" is that some of the content or UI requires the app).
Logistics companies fear the return of hard borders
> a potential confusion between event-sourcing and CQRS

IMO this comes up a lot in HN/Reddit discussions about either term. Event-sourcing implies CQRS, but the reverse is not true.

> I'd love to write some definitive treatise [...] Sadly I don't have the time to do it.

The "Fermat's Last Theorem" approach to computer architecture :P
So... There was another post up not to long ago about a programmer's union. The comments critiqued the need for it, but were talking generally.

Is there an opportunity for a financial programmer's union, so that the value those engineers bring is better shared with the people bringing them?
> Now compare that to the number of applications or libraries (in any language) that directly or indirectly depend on a library written in C or C++.

Every significant C++ library I've ever used had its own stupid intransparent memory use conventions and invariants and segfaulted on you if you unknowingly violated them. The only difference is that you call some libraries "libraries" and other libraries "runtimes". I don't think that divide is all that sharp.

> a GC probably won't have a positive effect on most programs written in idiomatic Rust, therefore there's no need

It would allow new idioms that many people would find useful because not all code is code where performance is more inportant than clarity.

> (contrary to what you claim)

I didn't claim that Rust needs a GC to be Rust, I claimed that Rust needs a GC to be a more popular, more-widely-regarded-as-useful language than today's Rust.
I don't remember now to be honest. I should have written it down :D It was an early interaction with them, and I didn't seriously think he would be right.
Especially back then, Krakow was extremely polluted.
As an outsider, I'm very curious as to why this was downvoted. Is it incorrect? I know nothing about 3D platforms.
> Lots of design work needs to be done.

So support Vulkan and then let's do the design work! The choice of underlying system API has effects on the design of the upper layers. Your refusal to support Vulkan is blocking progress.
Turns out that you don't have to bend over backwards if you're already supporting Vulkan and DirectX 12. But still, the ability to run your awesome 3D web apps on Apple platforms seems to be a good reason to support a Metal back end.
Human: "Siri, I need to sell $2B of bonds to finance my renewable energy project. When your other renewable energy clients met with PIMCO recently, what were PIMCO's main concerns?"

Siri: "I'm sorry"
Most of your arguments comes down to "this doesn't fit in my world where windows is king, so it won't work for me". That however, is not a problem of containers.

While I don't consider myself to be a pure DBA, I do know Postgres quite well, and manage quite a few both "classic" deploys in a VM and containerized instances. I was the one who created a default Postgres setup/image/config that our devs use, which when it's used correctly and as documented, when it is deployed to production, it is exactly the same as managing a normal instance.

For the devs it's simple, their local env is a checkout of a sample env, copy that to their new project, docker-compose up, and they have a database running with pretty much the same config they would get in test, acceptance and production. No surprises, we both know what to expect.

Backups? Still the same. Patches? I tell my config management to a pull a new postgres image on the servers and restart the db images during a maintenance window. This makes it actually a lot easier than updating the non-containerized services.

> and the business suffers a massive loss of data

This scenario should be recoverable in the first place, and should be tested on regular basis. I'm actually setting up a process to automatically verify database recovery using containers, which makes stuff like this a lot easier and more convenient. Spin up container, restore backup to it, full vacuum analyze, pg_check, select counts from every table, select random records from every table, and if possible spin up a test instance of the application (again, very easy if that also runs in a container) where we can run unit tests against the restored database.

> who are they going to sue? A liability-free open source project?

So when have you last heard about someone suing MS or Oracle when they had data loss? I suggest you read your license agreements... Our entire business runs on such "liability-free" open-source projects. Linux, Postgres, GNU userland, Python, GCC, clang, Boost, Wildfly, Java, ... and it worked out pretty well for us. We're not some hipster startup with nodejs, angular and mongodb "cloud" apps, we provide some mission-critical services for clients that are banks, oil companies, governments, ... with corresponding SLA's. The attitude of our (very tech-focused) management is simple: we don't need liability umbrella's when we _own_ the technology and know what the hell we're doing. If something does go wrong, this would mean that yes, we would be responsible, no point in hiding.
"1) Smarter calling, and messaging"
This is app specific.

"things like the ability to download torrents, which is near impossible to do on an iPhone."

"2) Backup to Google Photos in the background"
So what?

"3) Run two apps at once"
So what?

"4) Record phone calls
This is yet another thing that you can’t do on an iPhone - record phone calls."
Yes, you can, and it's not a huge kludge like he indicates.

I suspect most people don't care about this.
"Lastly, and this is just a pet peeve, for clearing notifications on an iPhone, it’s a two-step action - a swipe and tap on the ‘clear’ button. Just imagine the number of times you have to do this daily. "

No it's not. Long press "Clear" and bam, they're gone.

Now I'm reminded why I usually just skip articles like this.
Their price tag is interesting. They initially display $250 to get you start thinking about its value, then about a second later animate its drop to $199.

When I first saw it, within a split second I judged it was probably worth $250. The drop to $199 left me feeling like I just saved $50. Somehow it was more effective than the "but wait, there's more" bit you always see in infomercials, perhaps because it was unexpected.
Actually, his name was always Iohannis, because in the communist period (when he was born) the state would try and romanize all foreign names. I know quite a few Hungarians in my home town who were given untranslatable Hungarian names just to avoid having their name translated to Romanian. The same happened during the Austro-Hungarian rule of Transylvania (<1918) but, of course, the other way round.
Back to the President, indeed he used Johannis before the election because his family has always been called like that. Since going into the election campaign he switched to the official spelling that would appear on the ballot and in all the documents that he signs.
Sounds like you're focused on what is best for Vulkan, not what is best for the web.
TensorFlow Fold provides a TensorFlow implementation of the dynamic batching algorithm (described in detail in our paper [1]). Dynamic batching is an execution strategy for computation graphs, you could also implement it in PyTorch or Chainer or any other framework.

Our particular implementation of dynamic batching uses the TF while loop, which means that you don't need to make run-time modification to the actual TF computation graph. At runtime, we essentially encode the computation graph for (let's say) a parse tree as a serialized protocol buffer (tf.string), so instead of varying the computation graph itself we vary the input to a static computation graph instead. This particular implementation strategy is very much a byproduct of how TensorFlow works (static computation graph, heavy lifting happens in ops implemented in C++).

[1] DEEP LEARNING WITH DYNAMIC COMPUTATION GRAPHS, https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ryrGawqex
The link I posted is the only good technical summary, but there are plenty of others about the pilot's ongoing military trial, eg: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/06/bored-raf-pilot-s... 'Bored' RAF pilot sent 187 passengers into a nosedive 'while playing with his camera'
That actually sounds really impressive. What did you gain from having a C compiler on an PIC? Was it used as your commandline interpreter?
From the same show, I´ve been remembering the line "I heard you're a racist now, father" quite often these days...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkL91LzCMc&t=1m14s
You're trivializing what is actually a very complicated economic issue. Medicare negotiating drug prices raises a serious buyer-side market power concern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony. You can't have a "real market" where something like Medicare exists. So you design the rules to try to mitigate various exercises of market power. That's really hard to do.

Of course, you can say "who cares if Medicare drives prices too low, the drug companies will just have to deal with it." But in the long term, that's bad for the customer. All around the country you can see regulated rates that are too low and drive out investment. A great example is water utilities. Almost everywhere, water rates are far lower than they should be, and as a result water infrastructure is crumbling, customers are drinking water through lead pipes that haven't been replaced in a century, etc.
I'm sure Microsoft has an interest in a 3D web API working on top of D3D, even if NVIDIA and AMDS are putting out Vulkan drivers for the platform (Microsoft is not supporting Vulkan themselves as far as I can tell).
I understand and see some merit to your angle, but at the end of the day, I don't think Apple will be taken seriously in that area until they support Vulkan.

Go ahead and do that, then we can talk about going up the stack and judging the API you're proposing (and let's be honest, it's really Metal-for-Javascript).

Show some good will.
Pretty sure AWS has most of their core engineering talent in Seattle.
> with a maximum indicated air speed of 358kt (662km/h), or Mach 0.9, recorded

What? 358 knots is much closer to mach 0.5 in air. 358 meters/second is close... 662 mph is close.
We haven't yet solved all the security problems, but we're aware of and thinking about them.

We expect threadsafety, memory safety, data validation, and memory protection for the shader language to be the big issues.
Personally I don't think mod_perl was the issue. It was the lack of a decent lightweight framework for web apps. They did appear eventually (Dancer, Mojolicious), but too late once they were mature enough.
Housing costs in a large percentage of cities has also risen sharply as a percentage of take home pay.
@devopsproject I don't think users/companies value colo & support ^until^ bad things happen and the costs of not running critical business are evident.
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People may not know exactly what data they are giving away or the mechanisms by which is can be harvested and exploited, but they're constantly reminded that hackers/ corporations/ government have magic powers to find out anything they want to know.

So my argument is that most people figure it's a lost cause anyway and choose not to invest much effort in learning about computer security, relying instead on the legal/regulatory system to oversee that like any other complex public policy issue.
I hope it will be as successful as Quickdraw 3D was!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw_3D
Except all the mobile browsers. Which makes sense since nobody wants notifications on their phone from a website.
> So how come they didn't manage to have the same idea for touch events?

I have no clue. You'd have to ask them. But they have had this idea for WebGPU. If you think it's better than what they did for touch events, let's hope you approach it with an open mind and-...

> I'd say design and its roots matter. If they base it off Metal, and use Metal like technology, while Metal itself remains a closed Apple only API, then W3C should reject it.

...No, you're just going to get mad about a hypothetical.
I don't know why Apple thinks they're going to have any sway over the people working on 3D graphics. Their hardware support for 3d graphics has been so awful for so long, I have a hard time imagining there's a very big user base they can leverage to get their way. So far as I can tell, what Apple wants here is almost completely irrelevant to the industry.
If you read back the discussion was scoped to "new projects". By jospehg:

> I'd seriously question the judgement of any senior engineer who picks it for a new project over rethinkdb or Postgres.
You say "can", but unless you have a very small number of tabs, the correct phrase is "many tabs share the same process". I am currently averaging 10 tabs per process.
A complex tango between drug companies that want to maintain their margins, and European governments that want to drive drug prices artificially low to force American payers to make up the difference.
Social stigma will be real difficult to attach there. In India a lot of people take pride in being called backward or lower caste so they can mooch off some or other government subsidy or reservation to jobs/education. As the article mentioned it is almost always better offs who game the system to their benefit.
These 2 things aren't the same at all. The article is talking about tweets being excluded from search results and users being banned from creating additional accounts. Adams is talking about tweets being censored by claiming that they're unavailable when they are. He wasn't talking about either a search or a specific user being banned, only tweets being censored.
Part of the problem is politics. You can't fix that with technology or with basic income. (I mean, maybe you can fix the political problem in, say, the US, with basic income. You can't fix the political problem in Sudan with basic income, because it's a tribal and religious war.)

But, sure, there's enough food today. Then all the farmers quit. You need robotic tractors and combines. Plus you need seed, fertilizer, and pesticides, all produced (and distributed) by robots. Once the food is grown and harvested, you need every step of the distribution done by robots. You also need robots producing the gasoline, vehicles, tires, and roads that are needed for that distribution. Otherwise, if the people stop working, the food stops, and people starve.

Are we there yet? No. We're getting close enough that we can see that it might be possible to get there, though.
Didn't read the article but I've played the game. As I mentioned, I've been playing roguelikes for a long time, and I think that definitely has to do with my lack of hatred for the UI.
Okay, again, I was being imprecise. All continuous uniform distributions have support with nonzero finite measure. The discrete uniform distribution is often thought of as a different distribution than the continuous uniform distribution.

This just goes to show how much math relies on people knowing which definitions you happen to be using at the moment you say something.

The point is that not all sets with nonzero finite measure are bounded, therefore you can have a uniform distribution whose support is equal to such a set.
I don't agree with this. The web does not need a 3D rendering API. If you think "web apps" are an appropriate thing, then perhaps it makes sense. Ignoring that, the web to me is still a way to view content and as such I can see a use for having navigable 3D scenes, environments, or content, but the rendering would be left to the browser much the way rendering HTML is left to the browser. I really don't like the amount of code running in my browser and see no need to add more.
What's the advantage of this over, say, Signal?
Urbit in 2017
Alaska, a thoroughly red state has universal income.

Likewise, it is not enough to live off.
If you draw a 2-dimensional chart of low-levelness vs performance, Vulkan, DirectX12 and Metal are all higher performance and lower-level than OpenGL. Metal is a bit higher level than the others and Vulkan is probably the lowest level, but they are about the same performance. WebGPU is a bit closer to the Metal level than the Vulkan level, but it's still lower-level and higher-performance.
No, it's not a "direct quote". Look, Hans Rosling has repeatedly stated support for accepting refugees. In the interview he's not being "defensive". He's explicitly saying that "we want people who come to Sweden to have a good life", "it may cost that much [to help refugees in Sweden], I have nothing at all against that", "I'm not saying anything about [against] the cost of refugees in Sweden", "you can't make it about either helping locally or in Sweden, help a lot locally first and then welcome refugees here".

He's very explicitly not saying that "Sweden as a consequence is NOT spending the money elsewhere". I challange "kpil" to find that statement in the interview. But he/she won't, since that isn't what he's saying.

The previous speech in question isn't controversial at all. (It's been republished by several large news papers and the state television today). That speech is what made him famous in Sweden, not the other way around.

If Hans Rosling ever did a controversial interview, it's the one in Danish TV where he's in strong disagreement with the reporter over the characterization of immigration as a problem.
What if I want filtering by several criteria (on a table with 1k columns) and simple aggregations, but I don't need full-text search* ? I'm still looking :(

* I only want starts-with and contains on strings.
> Why not use the one supported by Google, and MS, Vulkan?

https://www.lunarg.com/faqs/microsoft-support-vulkan/

"Microsoft has not expressed intent to support Vulkan."
No snark intended, but it seems India is the best place to test a basic income for both durability and uptake.
I'm not sure the population of horses has declined all that much in the last 100 years. They've gone from tools to pets, but there's still a lot of them...
Isn't this the wishful thinking again of free energy, or infinite motion engine? Weren't we done with that already?