skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a tendency in some to add a bunch of hedge words to statements like this. "Humbly, I think -- and this is just my opinion -- that Jeff Bezos may want to -- I mean, it's up to him, but if he wants to! -- consider putting his money into libraries."

This is a misguided pursuit of modesty. It's less clear and reads as false, anyway.

Just say what you mean. We all know it's just your opinion without all the weasel words. Nobody is going to mistake it for anything else.
I think rethinking healthcare would start with better nutrition education and a focus on preventing disease. Med school has almost no nutrition education and doctors are largely ignorant of food's role on disease. Most cases of heart disease and diabetes are largely preventable.

Preventing those 2 diseases alone would save the country billions, if not trillions, a year in medical costs.
I work for Ocado, and I've spent some time working on the routing system (although I don't work on it any longer).

Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer them as best I can, without revealing anything I'm not supposed to reveal :)
OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits
Ikea still works this way with larger items.
I find your comment very off-putting. First of all, Bezos asked for advice on philanthropy. Second, most wealth generated by the property owning class (including Bezos) is through extracting the surplus value of their employees. Those billions were made through force (by the state monopoly of violence through police defending the so-called "right to property") as his employees never had a fair shot in getting a reasonable share of profits because he had the luck or inheritance to obtain the wealth producing tools (business infrastructure) first while his employees, many of whom are probably more intelligent and hard-working than he, did not. So while his employees work 9-5 making minimum wage to $50 an hour, he gets to enjoy billions and not have to work.
> For many iPhone and iTunes users, there’s a nagging issue that has plagued their daily commute whenever plugging in their device to their in-car sound system via aux. For most of these users, there’s a really good chance that they’ve had to bear the same song automatically playing every time their device is plugged in.

Oh my God, so that's why I always hear "Andrea Bocelli" when I plug my phone into my car. That was always bugging me, but not so much to actually look it up. Turns out many people have the same problem and this 'song', cleverly named "A a a a a Very Good Song" somewhat solves the problem, "effectively giving users 9 minutes and 58 seconds to choose their desired playlist and songs before starting their journey by car". Simple, yet brilliant.
> cites exactly one supporting scientific study

I counted 10 supporting scientific studies, and a whole bunch of other articles that all included lots of references.

> thereby gloss over the actual question at hand (namely, was he right?)

I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. She quotes what he wrote, and then shows why he is wrong, over and over again. She doesn't juke around the issue at all.
I think a hacker randomly shuffling which cooking script to use could cause quite the chaotic / dangerous experience.
I can only agree with you. I don't like some of the syntactic choices of Clojure, and sadly some of those are in Hy.
These numbers are in the ballpark, but the tweaks I'd make are not in the OP's favor. I don't think you're going to be able to find a 900K townhome in a good school district here unless you mean a 1 bedroom or studio. A year ago I was looking at the market and a 2 bedroom in a good school district was 950K but that was a 40-year-old building. HOA around $300.

Note to OP at the prices divyekapoor mentioned for rentals, you likely won't be in a house in a good school district, you'll be in an apartment. Or in a house or apartment in a bad school district. Alarmingly, even the options that you can't afford will still seem not good enough. Depressing, I know. If your Priuses are the plug-in type and you want to take advantage of that, your selection is further narrowed.

Other than that I agree with the above.. my comments are just tweaks.
If anyone is interested in learning more on this topic, Mykel Kochenderfer's "Decision Making Under Uncertainty" offers a stellar treatment of reinforcement learning from the ground up. https://mitpress.mit.edu/decision-making-under-uncertainty
More than most companies, Amazon seems like it's actually worth what people say it is. It's the world's largest e-retailer, with a huge percentage of happy customers (due to their great customer service), with a booming membership program, making strides into local deliveries (Whole Foods), with the largest cloud computing infrastructure in the World.

Much better in my opinion than Apple, that is almost solely valued off of a popular phone that the majority of users could replace with a phone 20% of the cost and be just as happy.
What's the point of libraries these days? We literally have the possibility for everyone to have a "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in their pocket with all books that were ever written.
> like space flight

Like NASA? Elon Musk is building on top of decades of government funding.
Microsoft acquires high-performance computing startup Cycle Computing
In the best case, you can think of it like regenerative braking. You're recovering some of the energy that would normally be wasted on exercise machines in the gym.
It's easier than that - just allow two setup options that generate different config files: "development (insecure)" and "production". First one is quick and easy and relatively more unsafe, second one is fully secured based on whatever best practices. "People will find and set all the configuration options correctly" is what got us into this mess.
Yeah doesn't the mother in Edward Scissorhands sell Avon?
Yeah I'm afraid to try this with my book which came out around the same time XD
What?! Thanks for the insight!
So the books have link rot but what of the webpages? They are gone, yet the books are still around.
Yup, jasode has got the right idea.

The meter-stick to compare all charities (or hell, government programs? Personal spending?) is that we can donate $3000 to the Against Malaria Foundation and save a child's life.

I might be a numbers-first globalist nerd, but $3000 per life? It makes me want to defund most welfare programs in the states because by comparison, they are horribly inefficient. And inefficiency of resources, in this scenario, results in dead children.
How is that paranoid? You think there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for asking for more experience with a technology than is physically possible?
In my enterprise niche (logistics) it seems that PostgreSQL is the go to solution for essentially every new project (and surprisingly often is proposed by customers themselves).
not paying for a $5 coffee hurts the official GDP metrics. Reading a book in a library contributes $0 to official GDP.
An excellent point, there's always the possibility of something better: but there's time and energy invested in finding the better too, not to mention risk. Libraries are most certainly not going to result the highest utilization of that money but I would argue that they should form a stable, low-risk, immediate, guaranteed ROI core to his philanthropic efforts.
Since you think government action is warranted, and since it can be argued that HN seems to have an anti-trump bent, I'm assuming you'll be fine if the government wants to know about every single interaction you've had here so that you can be identified ?

...any government? ... Including the inevitable non-trump one?
They spent 13 months in a trailer. Now, they've returned to a charred ghost town
If you maintain the forest, that is re-plant trees that die - which the forest will normally do itself once it is established, it is isn't temporarily.

It will be a buffer for CO2 that is bound in the forest as long as that forest stands, which could be for many, many millennia. Not everything will be released back to the atmosphere either, the forest will establish soil that will also bind a lot of carbon.
Of course. The hardware watchdog is just one of many things that should be taken into account. I picked it as an example, specifically because a lot of people don't know such a thing exists on many embedded systems.
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Thanks to the march of progress, it's cheaper to deliver new tablets and keyboards than to wrangle ad-hoc used hardware.
I just miss that it was mainly text and could be used in a terminal without missing much.

More content density, better S/N ratio.
What kind of talk are you looking to give?

I'm actually working on a solution for this... email me please
Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski
Only if you ignore the exchanges, who have been marketing them to people.
3 months and whatever I could drum up contracting part/time
Bit of a stretch to say it's only down to Twitter.
Whenever a topic like this gets posted, it feels like the majority of commenters feel 'entitled' to other people's money and think they know best how to spend it. Or the notion they have to 'give back.'

I'm not rich in the popular sense of the word (besides having the fortune of being American middle class), but I do have investments by virtue of almost never spending on consumer goods. And having no wife or kids. My coworkers realize after years of seeing me drive the same beater correctly assume I'm in better shape financially, and some have the audacity to jokingly ask me to put them in my will.

Now, I will not deny that I am an extremely fortunate person who is cognitively able, like Bezos or anyone well-connected with material wealth, but what's with the 'he should donate to this cause instead'?

It's his money. He could buy a fleet of yachts, set them on fire, and upload the video footage - why shouldn't he be allowed to do that? At what arbitrary level of wealth does 'his' money become everyone else's money?
Infinite. I did contract work part-time while I worked on the business. This was a blessing and a curse. It made sure that I didn't fail due to lack of money but also probably made things take longer than they should have.
Did a master's in maths with the internet in front of me the whole time. Learned almost entirely from textbooks on my desk. The internet was useful for discussing problems and ordering books from the local library.

The secret to my success was reading the textbooks and working through them. Had perhaps twenty days of formal instruction throughout, but when I added up the hours spent it was effectively me and the books for a time equal to eight months' full-time. Couldn't have done it without simply hitting the books. Can't speak for your chums. Maybe they learned in classes or lectures or practical sessions or some such. For me, it was hitting the books.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/#we-are-giving-what-we-can

(The web design is a disaster, but the content is fine once you dig it up)
Most Go programs can benefit a lot from smarter memory management, which puts less strain on the GC and allows for certain optimizations. Things like refactoring your function to write into a pre-allocated buffer instead of returning a newly-allocated object. Or using a concrete type like `*os.File` instead of `io.Writer` so that the compiler can eliminate a heap allocation.

You can also eliminate some slice bounds-checking by "asserting" the size of the slice outside the hot path; see http://www.tapirgames.com/blog/go-1.7-bce

Go also has a great profiler for discovering exactly which functions/statements are causing slowdown or allocating excessive memory.

At the end of the day, though, I don't think most Go programs can be optimized to run as fast as their Rust equivalents (without dropping into asm, at least). There's just too much overhead that you aren't allowed to disable.
That is very cool

I need an endpoint that gets me all address holders of a contract, its fine if its a little slow

etherscan used to have one but they deprecated probably for the performance issue
... with all books that were ever written.

All that and an electronic girlfriend application to replace the real one you could have picked up at the library.
Why Form Software Is More Than Just an IT Decision
The author says the prices are too high, but doesn't explain how to get the prices down.

I can't find a policy that the author proposes to keep prices down, or any evidence of how a policy would affect prices.
But cool URLs don't change.
Synthetic cannabinoids like JWH018 are a failure , I've tried it. Nothing like the real thing. And it's reported to cause psychotic episodes. I don't think I would trust synthetic mushrooms. Regular mushrooms can already be very nerve wracking
That's pretty special - and the whole thing reminds me of a rather more minor snafu with social media a client had.

My business built and operated an ecommerce platform. At one point we added a feature that would allow retailers to populate content areas with images from twitter and instagram - they'd just pop in a hashtag, images matching that tag would flow into the CMS, and they could then choose which to publish.

So far, so good. Users are tweeting product shots, retailers are semi-automatically populating their sites with them.

Along comes a client - who is running a very successful campaign with it - but they're struggling to find the time to moderate everything, can we please make it auto-publish. We warn them of the probable abusive outcomes, but they aren't having any of it - they say that they'll reactively moderate. We acquiesce, but only after getting them to sign a release that essentially says "we warned you".

It goes live, after having languished in staging for a month where the client adamantly refuses to test it. "We'll test it live, we'll just set a hashtag on the main homepage module, and we'll see it working."

We know the change to autopublish has been tiny (a single additional setting toggle) and safe, so aren't too perturbed by this all too usual behaviour this time.

Twenty minutes after it launches the client's MD (this is a £100M brand) phones, frothing and panicking that the site had been hacked and was full of porn. A glance at their usually clothing filled homepage reveals an alarming amount of flesh. At this point I'm almost impressed that they've been attacked so quickly, so hop into their CMS to do a bulk delete for them - when I start crying with laughter, for what have they chosen as their test hashtag? Only #xxx.
Oh yes, he did ask for advice, I forgot about that. Never mind.

Not being sarcastic, to me that makes all the difference.

The rest of your comment didn't make much sense to me, however.
We already know about neo-nazi racists and gov already investigates them. However, Antifa and these Marxist Resistance groups are radicalized and dangerous groups that regularly entertain violence against Trump and his supporters. They deserve to be investigated as it effects the stability of our country.
> where people need them the most

On the contrary, even the poor have their own computers and smartphones these days and these libraries don't see much sense in upgrading their rarely used computers.
The best thing you can do is ask your librarian. Libraries are often poorly funded, very much so in rural areas. They are often partially funded with donations.

Somebody was willing to step up and rehab a local library. Had they not done so, it would have been forced to close. It is staffed entirely by volunteers. The town can barely afford to budget the heat.

Fortunately, the same person now donates regularly and there's no risk of immediate closure. They will have also left a small trust for the library when they pass away.
How about "do not use offset for pagination"?

http://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
Ubuntu has probably emulated macOS here, which translates the Desktop as "Schreibtisch" as well.
Population growth is not exponential. Africa is not special.
fp16 is usable for training and inference, so the Vega would have been good for both.

I care about inference performance too, anyway. CPU is only a (much slower) fallback if the OpenCL drivers are broken.
Haters are going to hate. naysayers are gonna naysay. Such negative sentiment. How is planting one billion trees not a good thing? In terms of energy consumption per capita, China is less than one third of the US while Pakistan is less than one tenth of the US [1]. In terms of CO2 emission per capita, China is less than half of the US [2]. You would be happy if China and Pakistan all go dark.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Need 3MB worth of JQuery and some swooping in animations.
Even a modest level of support for high quality peer review of open access journals would have a big effect.
not much considering $300 million usd worth of bitcoin was traded with South Korean Won in the past 24 hours compared to wannacry ransom that raised around $50k, exchanges have more influence than ransoms https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bithumb/
I can't speak for anyone else, but every textbook I used during a master's in maths was available on the screen in front of me. I used paper textbooks instead. They're simply much better for serious learning.
I don't want to pour cold water on someone's hobby project if that is what it is.

It is quite obvious however that website's description was written by someone who has not actually studied optimization theory or numerical mathematics (my fields of study). I worked with large-scale nonlinear nonconvex problems for over a decade, and there is much more to getting it to work for practical real-world models than this.
> What Google and go daddy did is tantamount to censorship

It is censorship (not “tantamount”), but censorship of the sort (private actors deciding on what views to promote with their own resources) that the idea of “free speech” in general, and the First Amendment in particular, exist to protect.
https://theranos.com/ :-)
Not sure about Canada and Europe, but many countries just didn't reach the level of development where this discussion can start. They are not grown up and are stuck on the lower level, having problems like absence of basic human rights and protections.
Then you'll "love" Microsoft's 1994 page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/
They've had nuclear powered electricity since 1972 and have 1.3 GW plants operating commercially.

Two additional plants at 1.1 GW each slated to add to the grid by 2021/2.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
Ironically, I think linear types are really cool. But I also think it's going to be years before benefits are seen in average programs.
c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
Exactly. And then the trick becomes scoping and problem selection. You can't solve everything after all!
Scott Paul Resigning from Trump's Manufacturing Jobs Initiative
Or they could have all three: coal-fired power plants, trees, and nuclear reactors.

Granted, in the long run coal is neither a healthy, environmentally friendly or sustainable option but in the short term it may be one of the few viable options.
Related blog on requirements and tips:

https://medium.com/@anil789/platforms-for-building-enterpris...
if you give away your large sums of capital, then it isn't the accumulation of large sums of capital anymore, and therefore isn't capitalism.
You're missing the point. Bezos specifically tweeted requesting ideas for philanthropy. No one is saying he can't spend the money how he wants.
> Yet another option: Remove patents altogether

Another option: free market, but create a streamlined process for removing patents in a punitive fashion so bad actors like Shkreli can lose their patent within a very short time for price gouging.
> Saying "there's a correlation between the refugee crisis and a rise in crimes" is protected speech in Germany. Saying "those donkey fuckers crossing our borders must be shot on sight and their children too" is hate speech.

Which part of that offensive statement is 'hate speech':

a) Donkey Fucker

b) must be shot on sight

c) [their children] must be shot on sight

In US, a) cannot be restricted by the govt. b) and c) can be, provided the govt prove that it was the same thing as asking your right hand to pull the trigger (as it's a clear and present danger).

Moreover, if someone does shoot kids and immigrants, and it was shown that this someone was motivated by your statements, then you can be sued under a civil lawsuit for millions by the family of the people who died.

> In Germany this kind of rhetoric would land you in jail for inciting violence and instigating criminal behavior.

In US too, inciting violence and instigating criminal behavior could land you in jail, except American definition of 'inciting violence and instigating criminal behavior' is a lot different than European definition.

A politician calling drone attacks on Snowden or Assange isn't 'inciting violence and instigating criminal behavior' in US.

A politician picking up the phone and asking his brother who is a drone operator to do a drone attack on Assange or Snowden, would be.
> the rearguard was almost exclusively French troops

Bit of a stretch for "almost". The entire 51st Highland Division stayed as part of the rearguard, and few if any of them made it home. [1]

Possibly apocryphal: "One Highlander on the beaches of Dunkirk was overheard telling a comrade: 'If the English surrender too, it's going to be a long war'”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_(Highland)_Division#Franc...
Please do. Where is that not the case.
What is it about the theater experience you enjoy? It's not too expensive to set up a theater-like setup at home. A home projector and decent screen are around $1k. I've been watching Game of Thrones (and others) on a 110" screen for a few seasons now and couldn't recommend it more.
Except Avon is predominantly sold by women ("Avon Ladies"), so there's a "your da's a lass" in there too.
Is 4'33" out of copyright now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
As much as I hate books, I love public libraries. Our local library (Northside branch santa clara) gives a big conference room every saturday to a team of passionate locals trying to teach themselves programming. My friends and I go there every Saturday to help people who are stuck and give them guidance (what to learn next, how to prepare for interviews, what language is best suitable for what they are trying to do, etc).

Talk about diversity, the library is a place where you get to see people from all walks of life outside the silicon valley bubble (different race, age, handicap). It builds a learning community where people have the opportunity to help each other at a more human level.
It's much more efficient to move people from rural areas into the cities, than to build micro-cities all across the country.
Why TV newswomen look like they’re going to a cocktail party
As other users said above, libraries are a huge deal in poor communities. People use them to search for jobs/fill out job applications. These are tasks that are onerous to impossible on a low-end smartphone, if you have one at all.

I live in a gentrifying area of NYC. There's a public library branch a few blocks away from me that sees lots of visitors every day. I rarely walk by it and don't see people coming and going.
They still need a job to pay the bills, don't they? As long as that job pays over $50k, I'd assume they'd have to pay the commission.
No, I'm making a point about white supremacy and you're being pedantic about something tangentially related. It doesn't fucking matter how similar socialism is to communism when white supremacy is the outcome.

The Titanic is sinking and you're arguing with me about the difference between row boats and sail boats.
Any picture of some of these billion trees? We get a picture of Imran Khan but I already know what he looks like :)
Are you suggesting running an entire web browser on the server-side just to render each client request to HTML?

That VC money must really be flowing...