skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust just recently got SIMD support in stable and they have been working on applying it to benchmarkgame very recently, so it should be improving more soon.
Right. And famine is just a location issue.

the 1980s called, bro-- it wants its shoddy Neoliberal think tank talking points back.
I'm skeptical of the idea that its the same kind of "abstract art" as Pollock and Mondrian. This book[1] provides clues to another possible interpretation. Symbols and patterns have been used to encode knowledge systems in oral cultures since prehistoric times.

[1] https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/pop...
Better ask the citizens first if they are cool with how the "stand up against" is done. For example, most of the time, most Chinese will perceive those actions/voices with anti-China/Racism sentiment.
nobody can stress enough how fundamentally antithetical china's censorship is to the very concept of the Internet.

that google, who's mission is to make the world's information "universally accessible" would participate in it is a travesty.

i applaud mr paulson for standing up for his virtues and for the human race
> it will just leave the door open for new Chinese tech giants.

Baidu already exists.
US lawmakers warn spy chief that “deep fakes” are national security threat
Who's pretending that? I said Bezos and Amazon play a direct role in creating poverty and homelessness, not that they alone are culpable; obviously there are many factors. Let's also not pretend that homelessness has nothing to do with our economy and political systems.
I have read a history of the origin of LA. It didn't agree with you.

LA sprawled from the start. This likely made it well suited to developing their cult of the car, not the other way around.
This is reality of capitalism in America, Money is the only religion we have here.
Then a question for you, as I don't know Julia the Language, how much is required from Base. In other words, if you didn't have the import from Base, what can you not do?

In a language like Unicon/Icon, I can "$include" a source file, I can "link" an ucode (compiled source, unlinked) file, I can "import" a ucode class file, I can put all the source in the same file or I can get the compiler to bring all the files together on the command line and it will basically end up with the same result.

Does Julia provide Base as source to allow you to do anything like the above?
Homeless, but not shelterless. Worse than apartment, better than a tent.
Yes. Perhaps consider reading comments in the light of, rather than in order to snarkily make, the obvious points.
also GraalVM
While slow, its free and comes with the OS, I used it this week and it cleaned almost 5gigs of old updates on a vm. After all the security fiasco with ccleaner, not sure I'd want to install that ever again.
Sure, when you're building in 2018 with all the luxuries the modern world has to offer. Not so a hundred years ago.
Places that get cold usually have less homelessness.
Why whenever some software service goes down is there somebody chastising everyone for trusting a third party? That's how the world works. I trust the cities to keep the roads open. I trust the province to keep the hospitals staffed. I trust the farmers to produce my food, the engineers to inspect the buildings I'm in, the mechanic to keep my car on the raod, the police to keep my neighbourhood safe. Why is it when all of a sudden it's software, I'm not allowed to put my trust in a third party? I delegate responsibility for things in my life. I don't see stopping that as improving my quality of life.

If you want to maintain your own email server as a hobby, go for it. I have different things I want to do with that time.
Show HN: Clean up images damaged by noise / JPEGing. 100% in-browser
New car insurance API for FinTech companies
Do not trust anything Tesla says.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...
wow, that is useful. this is the first time I have seen this type of query capability in a spreadsheet
There's a reason why Roberts Rules, and other parliamentary procedures exist.

Once you get to ~10 people who all want to input something into the discussion, its completely and utterly impossible to move a discussion forward without a set of rules. Normally, one person who yells the loudest and ignores the most people eats up the entirety of conversation space.

As such, basic rules are invented. In Roberts Rules, its one-at-a-time, and at most contribute 2-times per any particular subject, at roughly 10-minutes maximum per person. The "Chairperson" controls the discussion to ensure the rules are applied equally to everyone, so that everyone gets a turn. If possible, the Chairperson is supposed to choose an order of people's speaking turns so that both sides of a discussion alternate back and forth (pros, then cons, then pros again. Etc. etc.).

Its slower, but it scales better. The unfortunate effect is that most people don't understand the point of Roberts Rules or Parliamentary procedure (there are many sets of rules, Roberts Rules are just the most common in the USA), so most people just see it as unnecessary set of rules that slow down a conversation.
I’ve maintained again and again, the current trajectory of American business and finance looks a lot less like capitalism and a lot more like feudalism.
you should be more specific. alternative in what aspect? alternative java framework (like spring) or alternative microservice stack or something else? what do you mean.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of this tool, happy to answer any questions.

It's basically a little image processing algorithm for restoring rasterized vector art that's been degraded by various forms of abuse (noise, JPEG, print & scan), packaged up in a simple single-page application (sSPA? ;)

There's also a photo mode for de-blocking heavily JPEGed photos.
The world is much larger than just the US, and the interests of one country are rarely the interests of all citizens of the world (e.g. human rights).
NYC has a homeless problem that's actually worse than San Francisco [0]: Their homeless population in 2017 was upwards of 76,000 people.

Where are you getting the information that New York's problem isn't as bad?

[0]: https://www.wnyc.org/story/more-homeless-people-live-new-yor...
Thanks. Changed from https://stratechery.com/.
How to Send Data from SQL Server to RabbitMQ
Ok, I guess it would be nice then if code which is unsafe but still thread-safe can be marked as such, and Rust should give a warning if used incorrectly. That way, you can parallelize any piece of code without having to think about it.
The richest people make their money primarily from capital investment, which has returns proportional to the capital invested, which in the long run is exponential. Laborers make their money primarily from effort over time, which is linear. So it makes sense for their taxes to be different. Additionally the amount of money someone needs to live comfortably is more or less constant (regional differences apply), so it's less harmful to tax someone with more than that than someone with less.

An economist will tell you that a handful of taxes are inherently helpful and getting money is a nice bonus (externalities taxes, some amount of LVT). If you need more money than what you can get through those (and you do) then the least harmful tax is a wealth tax, but those are unpopular and difficult to administrate. Income-based taxes are less efficient but still okay. Sales taxes aren't very good at all.
Because he's contributed much to the problem, especially with the wages he's paid to his warehouse employees. We'll see if he's actually able to contribute to the solution.
Avoiding the cameras is the best way for Page & Co to escape politically dangerous questions like "Isn't Google actively censoring queries and web content in China?" and "Where else is Google doing this? In India? In the UK? In the USA?"

I can see why Google sent a lawyer instead of Page.
We look at how we can send data from SQL Server to RabbitMQ via an SQLCLR assembly.
Read that last quote as you simultaneously hold a picture of Paul Ryan in your head. Ayn Rand is a joke.
Advice Is a Gift Treat It That Way
I consider it everything up to the level of participation in democratic politics and civil society. Different people may put different needs and functions above or below their line of demarcation.

breathable air
drinkable water
nutritious food
safe shelter
quiet and dark sleeping area
secure property storage
equal access to the commons
basic education
job skills education
scientific/analytic education
access to communication
access to markets
personal mobility
medical care
social contact
family formation
social organization
political influence
.------------------------------
< this is where I draw my line
'------------------------------
mercantile education
philosophical education
luxury goods
psychological individuation
independent exploration or introspection
artistic and aesthetic pursuits
finding a meaning in life
spiritual enlightenment
Veblen goods
Coca-Cola uses phosphoric acid. Here's a Coca-Cola bottling plant receiving a delivery of phosphoric acid.[1] It's marked with a 1805 (Phosphoric Acid, Corrosive, Class 8) placard. Of course, it's diluted as the product is mixed. This video shows the ingredients - tap water run through an de-ionizing plant, high fructose corn syrup in tank cars, phosphoric acid by the pallet load, flavoring (the "secret ingredient", in bags), and CO2 as a gas.

[1] https://youtu.be/7V6JO0Rfgas?t=189
I think the thought is that Google is part of American “soft power” and staying out means that soft power influence/projection effectively is neutralized.
Surely a few people in the French aristocracy knew they were sitting on a time bomb. But nobody had the will, the skill, and the charisma to defuse the damned thing.
> From my perspective, most people who "stand up for whats right" have enough money to do so.

Those with significant assets may be _less_ inclined to upset the current order; war resisters, peace activists, and protesters of all stripes are often not from the moneyed classes.
Can you expand on how staying relevant in China (acquiesce to the demands of the Chines Govt.) helps the human rights concerns long time? And why should a private company act on behalf of the interests of the US Govt.?
Back in 1996, I lived in Columbus, GA. There are a couple companies down there that used Mainframes for their processing. Synovous/TSYS, AFLAC and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Those companies teamed up with Columbus State University to provide a program for people to learn how to program in the technologies they used:

- Cobol, CICS, Rexx
- DB2, IMS, VSAM
- JCL

You got paid to go to 6 months of school, and if you already had a Bachelors degree, you got a second one for the classes you took. You went from 9 - 5 each day, and you were guaranteed a job at one of those companies, and if you worked for at least 4 years, you didn't have to pay back the loan you got to go through the training.

I was part of the second group of people that trained, and it started my professional career as a developer. Once Y2K was done, I moved on from mainframe programming to Java and .NET.
Almost all code ends up going through unsafe, as calling into the OS to do any I/O ends up being unsafe. A warning like this would warn on almost all useful programs, making the warning useless.

You already don't need to think about it. If you're not calling unsafe yourself, then it's not your job.
You'd have to be extremely biased in your sources, to not believe that Trump said some variant of the above.

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/12/16885312/trump-shithole-countr...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told the Post and Courier that his South Carolina colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham, who attended the meeting, told him Trump’s reported comments were “basically accurate.”

And Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who also didn’t attend the meeting, told the Washington Post he heard about Trump’s comments before they went public, and they matched the later reports.

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897016/trump-shithole-shitho...

Anonymous Republican sources have pushed the story that Trump in fact used the phrase “shithouse countries.” According to the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa, and Ashley Parker, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) told the White House that’s what they remember Trump saying in the meeting.

Trump has apparently decided that the controversy is hurting him politically, so his allies are using this minor discrepancy to justify public denials that he said “shithole.”
Honestly I just don't understand the short-term thinking by the West in general and companies in particular when it comes to China.

It is 100% abundantly clear that the Chinese government has no interest in "surrendering" industries to foreign competitors. If any foreign company gets reasonably successful I guarantee you the Chinese government will do something to hobble it in favour of a local competitor.

So by doing business in China Google is undermining its own values and alienating a not-insignificant number of employees who feel pretty strongly about censorship and human rights to chase a buck that they will never get because the Chinese government will make sure that they don't.

The lure of a market of a billion people is an illusion. The game is very much rigged. I don't necessarily blame China for this either. But perhaps its well past due that the West restrict access to its markets to Chinese companies in some sort of reciprocal fashion.

If the Chinese government wants you to store data in China to do business there then require Chinese companies to store their data in the US to do business there. And so on.

This is the country that starved millions of its own citizens (the Great Leap Forward), annexed Tibet (and now pretends Tibet never existed) and killed thousands of its own citizens in peaceful pro-democracy protests (Tiannemen Square), the last only ~30 years ago. How quickly we forget. And now Xi Jinping (aka "Winnie the Pooh") has abolished term limits and seems set to install himself as dictator for life in the model of Vladimir Putin.

I can't hope for much more than enough people take such a stance to wake up the leadership of these companies but I'm not holding my breath.
1. Under doctoral level, I mean doctoral level equivalent in Soviet system. In China, it is a postdoc researcher 博士後研究員

3. There are people with perfect scores who don't get admissions, and people who do chose tech schools on their own volition. In many places, a graduate of tech school will be preferred over a grad of a weaker university. A graduates of top tier tech schools are being taken faster than hot cookies - on employability those fare way better than university grads.

For a progressive part of society, that's not a stigma in any sense. For reactionaries, it is.

4. I can't agree, see my comments how Western entrepreneurs fare in China when they hire random people.

5. Can you actually tell where you studies took place? Real academia is there in China, but to some extend it did get sidelined by the credential-inflated undergraduate studies. As I said above, anything below 博士後 don't really involve genuine research activity. The grind shop, and actual research that universities keep in great care are a world apart.
Evil is almost without exception, not a bunch of comic book villains out to cause harm, it is a product of a broken system where most every individual person feels fully righteous and justified in the role they play, both by themselves and society.

Look around you, you see evil every day, how much of that is from the plotting of evil men, truly?
This "influence" seems rather abstract. What does it really amount to? Any search engine in China has to operate under heavy restrictions.

Spending a lot of political capital to do the same thing as the other search engines in China doesn't seem like a good trade, politically. It makes a bit more sense as a way to make money, except that this doesn't seem like an area where China will let a foreign company win.
The people I know to whom DFW appeals tend to be those who think they’re smarter than they are. There is no judgement inherent in this observation.
Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
For me it was this very old book, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
You have it go the other way, as well. We were running some accounting software on an System i (AS/400, iSeries, like you said whatever IBM calls it this decade), and recently switched to something that runs commodity hardware.

Another company that I knew from our user group meeting also switched - the batch processing was so slow, they had to go back to the IBM. Their shipping process just wasn't fast enough otherwise. This wasn't a small company, either. If you're familiar with firearms you've probably heard of them.

You can run the 5250 at 27x132, and if you really need screen space you can run Eclipse/Visual Age on your desktop and have a 'real' environment to code on.
7 years is a long time and credit is necessary for many more things than just buying a house. People will also need cars, many apartments will do credit checks, as will many jobs.

If what you say is true, why don't people graduate college, live large on credit cards for a few years, and then just declare bankruptcy? There's zero consequence to it right?

Edit: This would also put further pressure on banks to make sure the loans are not so burdensome that this becomes an attractive option. Theoretically, anyone could do this with any loan (although taking out a loan with the intention of declaring bankruptcy is fraud and would go badly), but most people don't, because it's easier to just repay the loan than deal with 7 years of hassles b/c of bankruptcy.
It really depends on what you think of as "The USA"

Google is building infrastructure for the powerful to control the masses' ability to communicate ideas.

Do you think the USA is "The People"? Then this is bad for them, because one of our most powerful companies is beginning to develop tools of direct social control.

Do you think the USA is the government & associated bureaucrats? Then this is good, because this technology will allow them to suppress threats to their authority.
There's something to be said for increased contact between the cultures, as well.

Xi's trajectory is making me nervous right now, but then look at our current leadership. And their government DID lift a few hundred million people out of poverty over the last 30 years. Maybe we can work with that.
Building vertically instead of horizontally would make the infrastucture even more cost-efficient.
Does this avoid asking questions that would make the relation not a partial ordering? Is it even possible to implement that?
Addiction is absolutely a major cause of homelessness.
This is not pyschology's replication crisis. Every field has replication problems, psychology is just one of the only fields taking it seriously.
Maybe people also get mentally ill from being homeless. Then one gets physically ill from living in a physically hostile environment...
Ayn Rand on Pragmatism:

"[The Pragmatists] declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness (between the perceived and the perceiver), there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,” and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, provided it works or makes one feel better."

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pragmatism.html
To be clear, I have volunteered with a number of organizations that help the homeless in Seattle. I don't know where you're getting 25-30% from, but that doesn't match with my experience -- I'm inclined to believe it's much higher, but it can really depend on what neighborhood you're in.
States are distributed in each users browser and are being updated by users as they modify the document. We then use operational transformation to ensure that states converge.
Shhhh, stop telling everyone!
Well, this seems like an interesting project. Although very ambitious, the author seems to know what he's talking about, and has been going at it for a while, so kudos for that.

I find the design principles interesting. We might talk a lot about syntax abstraction, but I feel like that's not even the most interesting idea (it's very likely that many people who thought about making languages thought about it).

There are a few trends I find interesting, though. Programming languages are pretty tricky. You need to think about style and readability, performance and optimization, scalability and maintainability, data types and abstractions, algorithms and data transformations, parallelism and concurrency, etc. It seems to me like we have been introducing systems that progressively try to modularize and isolate those issues, sometimes completely hidding them from us. Syntax abstraction shouldn't be so surprising if we follow this idea. We got garbage collection, most optimization is done by compilers, we got dynamic typing, endless discussion about models for data representation, even visual languages, etc. The idea that programming languages shouldn't be limited to text in a single source file is very important in my opinion. I often envision future programming as "powerful IDEs" (and I never use IDEs nowadays) that can represent different properties/aspects of programs/code in different ways/views, isolating them or showing relationships/interaction between them. The complete opposite of what we see in movies, as always happens in reality, hahaha. Well, went a bit off-topic so I'll stop here.
For "some" reason quoting Ayn Rand on HN gets you instant downvotes.
This vid has some good photos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk (also discussed on HN previously).

You don't want one if you ask me.
But human drivers kill a lot of people. It would be a shame if that's the best we can do. And some car tech improvements have saved lives, so it's not necessarily chauvinism it's just extrapolation.
Maybe people like to work on things that have a big impact?
Plain and simple, they are the biggest servers available. Built to be highly reliable and to have high IO throughput.

There are also many features in z/OS (the flagship OS) which are not available elsewhere. Things like workload manager or instrumentation facilities.
Or they just have a less visible homeless problem because more of the homeless are sleeping in shelters instead of on the streets.
The city whose road network was designed by a spider on LSD.
As I see it the choice is to either do what Google is doing

It's more than just a situation of, "Someone else will do it eventually, so I might as well" and then as you put it, make a few bucks along the way and stay relevant and so forth. The difference here is that Google is offering elite levels of brainpower/research and resources. Not everyone can do that.

And I think you meant realpolitik, the concept of viewing the world in terms of true/material interests.
What an idiot. He wanted to do the right thing but failed in the worst possible way: if you want to attack power abuse by the religious mafia do it rather the George Carlin way: make it creative, brilliant and choose wisely every word so that anyone who is feeling offended by them would also ridicule themselves just by replying with outrage.
In other words, "Putting your money where your mouth is."

Even though I don't necessarily agree with him, I see where he's coming from and I commend that he's actually willing to put his money where his mouth is on the matter.