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so the one person that reads the article gets down-voted to oblivion, thanks for taking the fall mate! Your altruism will not go unnoticed

I was going to comment about the preschools and how that idea came from ideas solicited by the public because everyone was just assuming it was just arbitrary helicopter money exclusively for PR
I think the answer is aluminum. Note that I'm not an engineer, just a physicist. As I understand it, aluminum has different mechanical properties such as strength to weight ratio, and how it behaves when flexed. So it may require a different design approach to produce a strong but light frame. At the same time, it's easy to hydroform aluminum (blow it out into a mold using high pressure fluid), so you can in fact design a wider variety of shapes at a tolerable cost. And if you're going to engineer the shapes of the tubes, then why not make it look cool too.

I own one aluminum bike, relatively low end and not super lightweight... but it does look cool. ;-)
Palantir Launches Strategic Relationship with United Airlines
How is Amazon creating more homeless people?
What makes you think consumers are becoming more rational?
Look at that person's criticism of the Common Core and tell me you like to read such essayists, including that sparsity of facts...
C++ templates are weird. They are kind of like a mix between macros and the kind of generic types you would see in other languages. As a macro system, you can use templates to "generate code" but in a very limited way, it's nowhere near as expressive as a full macro system like you'd see in Lisp, Rust, or Haskell. As system for creating generic types, templates are too general-purpose... they give you a lot of power to underspecify things, and you can't typecheck a template until you instantiate it (like a dynamically typed program).

It interacts in strange ways with operator overloading, namespace resolution, and other language features like constructors. There are all sorts of template helpers that are necessary but leave you scratching your head until you actually see them in use and find the corner case that they're needed for, like std::declval. There are also all the rules about ADL that interact with templates, and then the cherry on top is SFINAE which lets you control whether a problem with a template is an error or not.

Simple templates are not too hard to grok, but writing actual generic types ends up being painful due to the proliferation of corner cases you have to consider, and there are a lot of things that you could do with a macro system that are frustrating and difficult with templates, but since they're "almost possible" you end up contorting the code a little bit and sprinkling on some ad-hoc helper definitions until it works.

It's better than the C preprocessor but worse than almost everything else.

Languages like Lisp have proper macros, so anything you want to do with a template you can just achieve by defining it in a macro... you have more rope to shoot yourself in the foot with, but the rules for Lisp macros are straightforward and easier to understand (you just write a function that spits out code, basically).

Languages like C#, Java, Haskell, etc. have better generic types, so you can do something like say "this function takes an array of type T[], and T must implement the Widget interface, it will give you back a single T". In C++ you can accomplish this goal but you can't as easily encode the constraint that "T must be a Widget", you have to do something weird like put a static assert in the function body, or put a std::enable_if in the type, or accept that there will be template substitution errors with possibly long and difficult-to-read error messages.

Mind you, this has really underscored (for me) the amazing developments in our understanding of language design over the past decades. C has preprocessor macros which are barely serviceable and impossible to use for anything complicated, C++ has templates which are more powerful but complicated, Java generics with type erasure are very clean but interact in subtle ways with e.g. covariance and contravariance, C# addresses the covariance and contravariance problems but interacts poorly with operator overloading. TBH I think Go made the right decision to keep both generics and operator overloading out of the core language at the beginning, since not having it at all is in many ways preferable to having a bad version.
Probably well-calculated. As many others have observed, with the iPhone SE leaving the market, the only remaining options for small phones are underpowered and low-quality Android models, and feature phones.

As still others have observed, this duopoly situation in the smartphone market is maybe not the best thing ever.
Data Deletion on Google Cloud Platform [pdf]
I just finished reading the book "human universals" which mentions that we're neither in a full democracy nor a full autocracy, so we're in a de facto oligarchy.

So where as I've often sneered at Russia for it's oligarchs we clearly have the same issue. Perhaps the Western oligarchs have earned their money more transparently, but they're still oligarchs.

Also one of the human universals is that we admire generosity in leaders, so these grandiose gifts are what oligarchs love.
I don't think the Senate Intelligence Committee handles matters related to college or healthcare costs.
I don't think there's any proof yet that Bezos' promised contribution is any more real than the ludicrous Zuckerberg foundation.
5 million, typo edited. The second is easily Googlable and not under dispute by anyone.
Right, rare earths are in motors, not in batteries, as the quote you cited says. And indeed China controls large parts of the global market, as they flooded the market with cheap rare earths, which caused mines in the west to shut down. They can be reopened as the market price for rare earths rises.
Sure, after anti-trust, which isn't a thing in the United States anymore.

All hail the ever increasing stock and housing market, the savior of the boomers, the one true political goal.
This is just a PR move and isn’t going to help Seattle’s homeless problem at all.
I've rebuilt old Sturmey Archer 3 speed gear hubs. It's not all that difficult. I've never tried ones with more gears, since 3 speeds are the sweet spot for my riding preferences and terrain.
That yagi-uda in the image makes it plausible that some form of sigint could be conducted there under the cover of mountain telescope operations.
Jeff Bezos launches $2B fund to finance preschools and help homeless families
For reference, 350 lbs is about 3 gallons of liquid mercury. Mercury is heavy.
I dont't care if this is a PR stint to ward of recent criticism Bezos is getting from Bernie et al but if this fund goes and actually help and make a real life impact on the lives of homeless people, then I am fine and I will hold back my criticism of Amazon. I mean clearly I have not done enough to mitigate homelessness in this country who am I to question others motives trying to solve the same problem?
> bunch of fairly neutral
> Seattle subreddits

Seattle subreddits are extremely right-wing/libertarian and pro-business.

They aren't neutral. They spread massive lies.

> Passed with a 9-0 vote, repealed extremely shortly after with 7-2.

after a massive campaign by Amazon and Starbucks, among others.
The conclusion that there are many former mainframe developers who no longer work as mainframe developers in the US might be anecdotal but fits what I've seen in the Chicago market as well.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/how-a...

In case you don't care to read an article they're just coming off an effort to kill a tax that would have affected them and which was specifically designed to combat homelessness.
What do you consider living to be?

Should Amazon workers only barely be able to afford rent and food. Should they have $0 left over after rent+groceries? $1? What amount is reasonable, vs what amount becomes excessive? What if they have a child? Or an elderly parent? Or student loans?

> but it has now extended to so many other things that I wouldn't really call necessities.

What ridiculous lavish spending do you think Amazon warehouse workers are capable of buying with their (on average ~$12/hr) wages?

The general argument is that a living wage should cover life. All people are entitled to enough money that they can pay for rent, pay for food, pay for healthcare, pay for basic transportation, and have some amount of discretionary money to spend anyway they want (like say, raising a family, or continuing their education, or having a hobby, or volunteering for a cause their passionate about, or whatever)
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And conveniently the definition of 'rich' for almost everyone is anyone who has more money than me.
LOL, I got a downvote. I didn't know there is a "Party against Grammatical Cases" on HN :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
I am surprised that this is still a thing.
I know, but they (and everyone else) has to know that sending their top lawyer would piss off Congress just as much.
You certainly would not have to look very hard to find people who would argue that
I was searching through the comments for this one. 100%. I would even go further and say that an invention is more than the sum of the parts. There is a specific mixture that makes something cohesive and ring true. Early PDAs had versions of many of these technologies in various combinations. But Apple got it right as a product. The devil is, as they say, in the details.

It's distressing that Scientific American's editors think pointing out that the iPhone was built of extant technologies is relevant, especially with respect to the topic of invention.
> The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings are usually pretty facts-first

Granting, for the sake of argument, that SSCI public hearings are on average more substantive and less grandstanding around pre-set narratives than other public Congressional hearings [0], there was ample advance reason to believe that this hearing was not going to further that pattern.

> Yeah, some politicians will throw in their jabs, but that's not the purpose of those committees and it's a fractionally tiny amount of the dialog.

It may be a tiny amount of the dialog, but even then it's often the tiny amount that actually is decisive in motivating the hearings, in much the only way that advertising may be a minority of the airtime on commercial TV networks, but it's 100% of the purpose.

[0] I don't think it's true on balance, but I do think it seems true based on the selection of public hearings that get major media attention, because substantive, non-showboating hearings of other committees rarely get attention.
Ultimately the names don't matter that much and people place way too much importance on it.
I think "make GDPR compliant" should come much later. Most new businesses fail. In that case, any time you spent on GDPR will have been a waste.
Man-made climate change is boosting hurricane rainfall by 50 percent
I see some parallels with aid sent to Africa. Charitable giving can alleviate suffering short term with the side effect of perpetuating suffering long term.

> Aid [to Africa] is an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123758895999200083
Most European migrants are financial migrants rather than refugees. A journalist went to Calais during the supposed 'Syrian refugee crisis' there and found 0 Syrians.
Sure it does, we're just making it more complicated for lofty ideals that don't really matter in practice given absentee voting exists and is popular. I think we have the technology for what is essentially a form submission app tied to a database.

People would understand that voting online wouldn't be anonymous but I'm willing to bet its a trade that many many people would be willing to make because it's already how absentee voting works.
Sorry what makes you think the second largest economy in the world is by any measure poor? These countries are quite wealthy, despite the fact that a large chunk of their populations are poor.
The high cost of college here is honestly more about amenities than anything else. Whenever the discussion of making college tuition-free comes up in the U.S., people nearly always point to Europe as an example of an area where free education is the norm. What few people tend to take into account, however, is that European universities are pretty no-frills for the most part. I personally enjoyed the bare bones approach to higher ed during my time studying abroad (no stupid residential education office to overcharge me for crap housing, no forced meal plans, buying textbooks at my discretion alone), but I know a number of people from my undergrad who would be utterly lost without the amount of hand-holding and perks (gyms, expensive facilities that almost certainly are underutilized, etc) that occur in American universities.
It because the source of the money has cynically evaded tax for years and pays some of his workers less than they need to live such that they are supported by food stamps. The working conditions in Amazon factories are notoriously tough.

It's hard to take charitable giving seriously when someone has run their company in a cutthroat manner for years at the expence of some of the poorest workers.He could do better with his own businesses first.

I hope it works out and does some good but I hope this explains to you why people are cynical.
The world isn't skin deep. There's a clear historical continuity to these appeasements.

A poor person giving half their bread to a sick neighbor should be applauded, however, the Church of old providing charity from the king while still promoting the king's divine right to indiscriminate rule should not be.
Hopefully Gates and Buffet will get Bezos and Zuck onboard with the giving pledge. Those two will have a tangible impact on humanity. Page and Brin wouldn't hurt, either.
I don't think it's reasonable to disregard any meaningful explanation just to keep pushing a baseless assertion.

Tesla's finances are a perenial source of concern and if Tesla's chief accounting officer leaves the company in the middle of another row regarding Tesla's financial health, I really doubt a puff is capable of raising more concerns.
What if they were trying to draw what they're seeing but struggling with it?
2 billion dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to what he has extracted.
I don’t remember countries leaving the EU left and right. Or that 100% of the Brits voted for Brexit. I do remember your government basically admitting that Brexit will hurt the UK no matter how it is executed.
Android basically owes almost all of its usability to iOS. Before the iPhone was announced, Android looked like a junky Blackberry knockoff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#/me...)
Agree! One of he better selling points especially over things like a genny.

For that you’ll need a professional. It’s really dangerous (and illegal?) if your system backfeeds the grid.
> If you want to have another example besides this weird can completely forced article look no further to the Elon Musk interview on Joe Rogan last which made their shares drop 8% for the day because he took one puff. Everyone went berserk because you are not supposed to do something like that if you are the CEO of a large company. Instead of actually listening to the interview which was almost 3 hours and super interesting, that puff became what the media took away from it. The media is no longer in the service of the people it's in the service of the clicks that's about it because it's much more fun to be outraged and gossip than to actually try and understand.

It doesn’t matter though. Let them continue to waste their brain power on meaningless nonsense like “optics” or how something looks.

The rest of us will continue to learn and innovate. I learned a lot, especially about how an electric plane with VTOL works. Honestly, it was one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever watched in my life.
By centralizing giant swathes of the consumption economy to run through Amazon, destroying jobs at every step of the way. Sweden have banned Amazon so their local economies can flourish. I think this is good macro business logic for a nation state. https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-amazon-competition-ec...
Just until someone actually responds... I haven't watched part 2, but I remember part 1 being focused on Bill Gates as the main example to showcase their points. A big focus is how non-profit organizations aren't as benevolent as they appear to be. For example how Bill Gates' charity has more money than it began with and how a lot of what's classified as "charity" ends up being stuff like media influence and making a documentary about why private schools are gonna save education in America. They also point out how easy the media goes on Gates and other "charitable" billionaires and how seriously they take their worldviews despite not having any real education in, say, economic theory or history.

Here's part 1:

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so...

And here's part 2:

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-46-the-not-so...
And if you replace a mail-in-paper ballot with a digital form-submitted ballot on a database with audit logs does anything really meaningful change about the interaction?
Yes. We should tax billionaires out of existence. This level of wealth and power accumulation is as unseemly as it is dangerous to our democracy and economy.
No disagreement from me. However, we are talking about tweekers & cookers. They tend to be genuinely resourceful, yet not the most intelligent of peoples.

It took 2 years to get a blatant lab shut down on my upper middle-class street. Ex-neighbor's ex-engine mate happened to transfer from FD to our local PD precinct & made detective. He was the only reason the rat nest was disturbed.
I wouldn’t ever want to be on the receiving end of a lithium fire. I’m pretty sure it would melt the side of my house off.
I am sure you can name a handful more movies and bands. But compared to the tens of thousands of US and British movies, bands and writers that have influenced western culture (and beyond), this is still nothing more than annecdotic at this stage.
Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ‘the child is the customer’
Great!

I would still much prefer to live in a culture in which obscene concentration of wealth–not least at the expense of meaningful government checking of the race to minimize employee count and wellbeing–does not mean we are beholden to gracious oligarchs to bestow basic services, thereby distinguishing themselves from the oligarchs who invest only in consolidation of their own power.
What if their mail-in-ballot was intercepted and changed?
SmartCube – The Heroku of smart contracts
Homelessness is typically a mental health problem, not a property value problem
Asking who else has donated anything close to this is a bit silly considering most people aren't billionaires. It might be more fair to ask how many people have donated 1.2% of their net worth to charity, and I think the answer will surprise you in that a lot of people have.

A second question is whether or not this makes up for how Bezos has gotten his money and the potential damages on society that has. If I burn down a house and then donate to the rebuilding it's still a net negative. The systems that allow people to amass this much wealth need to be looked at critically to see if they really are benefitting society or are just causing increased problems.

As a final note Bezos is getting a lot of negative attention because he's made comments before about how hard it is to get rid of his wealth while seemingly ignoring a lot of really good ways for him to do so. It took years of negative attention to get him moving on causes like this.
> Apple came in and rendered the full New York Times on mobile and it changed the world

At least until websites started redirecting iPhones to their m.domain.com. There was so much initial promise for mobile devices to offer a desktop-equivalent experience that was ruined by site operators insisting on treating iPhone (and later Android) browsers as less capable.
Maybe they're getting voted down because the ECHR hasn't got anything to do with the EU.
Increasing home prices in Seattle, where the median rent is $2,400 [0]. By bringing in people from out of state with high salaries Amazon is making the housing market in Seattle much more expensive as more people compete for a mostly static stock of housing. Zoning laws, mandatory parking, improved public transportation, affordable housing regulations, and new development could all improve the current situation so local and state governments play a role, but it would be naive to assume the largest private employer in the region didn't play a role in creating the current situation either.

[0] https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
Or maybe move the servers to Switzerland :)
> - exploding drug addiction and related mental health issues

I think cause and effect are backwards here. Low wages and high housing prices seem like they'd naturally lead to homelessness and rates of drug addiction and mental illness among the homeless, although very high compared to the general population, are nowhere near as high as people would like to think.
I haven't seen any libraries using the new context API make use of the observedBits prop (currently called `unstable_observedBits`, as its not officially supported). There's a comment in this library's codebase that hints that it will be used in the future. I wrote a bit about this API bitmask-based API a few months ago while I was experimenting with it[1], so I'm curious about its current state and whether others have experimented with it or know about its future in general.

[1] https://hph.is/coding/bitmasks-react-context
> What's up with the critical comments in here? How many of the judgemental and jaded posters here donated anything close to this to a charitable cause?

I mean it's much easier to donate to charitable causes when you have more than enough for yourself and your family so that's not an apples to apples comparison, but he's also donating less than 1.5% of his wealth. Have I donated that much? No but I think I'm close and I still don't even have enough for my own emergency fund.
Guaranteed student loans did most of the damage. If we stopped doing that, prices would almost immediately fall to reasonable levels.
I can recommend watching the whole thing, but I thought this bit was a pretty cool demo: https://youtu.be/Z2DU0qLfPIY?t=41m20s
Might be hard to do all those things you're proposing when Amazon has tremendous resources to mobilize against any proposed tax.
> The point of the exercise was never to make the news, it's about governing.

Then why the empty chair theatrics; why reject, in a hearing notionally about policy, the Google executive most appropriate for policy issues; why the pretense of national importance of having particular witnesses with dramatic complaints about their absence when the committee only used voluntary invitations and not subpoenas compelling testimony?

It may not be all theatrics, but it's definitely more about theatrics than governing.
Absentee voting exists. 23 million people voted with a system susceptible to this 'problem' in 2016. I think we'll be fine.