skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if definitions of "tolerance" and "equality" were that simple. Not all people on left are tolerant. As a Hindu I have found that the left is far more intolerant of Pagans that Christian conservatives in USA. Libertarians are easily one of the most tolerant of them all but the left does not like them either.

Painting people you don't like as "intolerant" and "deserving of persecution" was precisely how Hitler convinced Germans that it was okay to kill Jews.
> I don’t understand people on here complaining about the Senate demanding that the leaders of a business answer for its actions.

The Senate didn't demand anything.

Some members of the Senate are just engaging in theatrical complaints about someone declining a voluntary invitation.

If they wanted to demand compliance, they have the power to do that. That they chose not to indicates their real view of the substantive importance more clearly than their fake drama does.
Slightly off-topic, but David Silver did work on this project and discusses it briefly in his really great reinforcement learning course [0]. It's worth checking out if anyone is looking for a well-paced, well-explained introduction to some of the basic reinforcement learning algorithms and theory.

[0] http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

Edit: The slides are fine but the gem is the YouTube lectures playlist!
One pretty good barrier that Apple has built and defends well is the phone as a status symbol and object of desire.

But, as a phone, I think low end disruptors are here, and I can't understand why people would pay 3 or 4 times as much as needed for a phone - other than that they have the money, and they want the phones for reasons unrelated to performance (aesthetics, perceived quality, privacy, etc.).

Xiaomi in particular is trying to erode that particular Apple barrier, their flagships are already objects of desire in India, China and in my country (Uruguay).
Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
disagreement and people being wildly wildly wrong in good faith [and other people pointing it out!] is an essential part of the scientific process. it is difficult because academics often closely associate themselves with the status of their scientific contributions.

No one really likes killing your heroes but sometimes it must be done.

If psychology claims to be a science it MUST collectively accept this. However we must be sure to deal kindly with the people behind the ideas.
Would love to see the list order visually during the questions phase.

But regardless, this is useful for teaching sorting to help understand the comparison function's role that is passed into a sort routine.
> - exploding drug addiction and related mental health issues

Unless there's another reason we would expect mental health issues to increase I don't see why this would lead to more homelessness.

I also talked to one of the people in charge of a non profit for providing housing to the homeless and he was saying how the longer people stay homeless, the less likely it is that they will ever be able to integrate with society again.

I am much more inclined to believe homelessness is causing the mental health issues than vice versa. Or at least I don't see why Seattle's homeless problem would be caused by greater rates of mental illness than previously seen and compared to that of other cities.
> Sending your lawyer or an underling is (1) a show of disrespect, (2) it shows you’re not taking responsibility for your company, and (3) when the person answering the questions isn’t really in charge, they can’t answer properly and they can’t commit their companies to behaving differently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Walker

"Kent Walker currently serves as Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google"

"He served as an Assistant U.S. attorney with the United States Department of Justice and advised the US Attorney General on technology policy issues"
Stop Trying to Violently Separate Privacy and Security
I suspect Phoenix.LiveView will end up taking care of lots of the common use-cases with a relatively small client-side API, as much of the specifics would be handled on the server (including the code that gets triggered by an event). For the bits that really do need it, one would fall back on the 'regular' approach of writing client-side js.

In my experience at least, a ton of the React work I do is quite similar within and across projects, and with many of the 'special bits' I'd be happy to resort to a more standard approach if it allows me to avoid React altogether (not that I hate React, I just love how much simpler everything would be if I can avoid it).
It is really frustrating when a man makes that much and does so little.

Like, I don't think/know if it should be law. I'm not talking about being Robinhood with our taxes or whatever. I don't know any of that.

All I know is it's frustrating. Look at all the good Gates is working towards. There's just so much room for people with that much wealth to strive for.

Honestly.. I think what's most frustrating is I can't even imagine what you even do with that much money, aside from watch it get bigger, if not helping people. These people have so much money that they can't even spend it. Short of trying to personally buy a company or a country, there's just nothing you could spend it on.. it grows too fast. So it's frustrating that the human condition so easily falls towards hoarding.

And yes, I'm largely ignoring the idea of liquidity, but for this discussion I think we can.
That's actually an interesting point - TAS tools should make it possible to make any game into an AI training environment.

The one thing I would say about that is that speedrunning is a really, really difficult thing to do with a gradient descent approach; you can get really optimized with a particular strat, but getting substantially faster often requires drastically different strategies - which can only be discovered with a very broad knowledge of the game's systems, in areas which you will likely never see if your only experience with the game is speedrunning one particular strat exclusively. And exploration of the game's space during a speedrun would kill your time.
What Water Shortages in the Western U.S. Would Mean for Craft Beer
The ban has exceptions for, for ex. students; there are still ways.
Where'd you get that number? Google made 109 billion last year, not 800. Alphabet made 110 billion. Amazon made 177 billion.

In comparison, Facebook made just 40 billion in revenue, but more people get their news from Facebook today than anywhere else. So really it's Facebook that's let the genie out, and they didn't need to be the wealthiest corporation or a monopoly to do it.

These are large corporations made up of lots of people and represent a wide array of shareholders' concerns. But individual billionaires also own media companies, and thus can have greater personal influence on what is expressed through those companies. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-...
In anticipation of many of his employees, sorry contractors, being unable to afford 24/7 rent no matter how many bottles they piss in.
Org-mode and Magit are the killer apps in emacs, for me.

I also extensively use org-mode to publish static sites and, well, organize essentially everything in work and my private life.

Learning org-mode is quite a valuable activity, in my opinion and experience.
Why is he not wearing gloves?!
Such a great read.

>I tell my students that, in the first place, they need to get over the fear of making mistakes.

>So my answer to the question “How to be wrong?” is: “Early and often!”

>And if you can’t be genuinely modest, fake it. Develop a habit of always acting in such a way that if you prove to be wrong, it won’t make you look really really bad.

>certain truths may be denied to us unless we pass through a preparatory stage of error.

>For now, I’ll skip ahead to the moral: Sometimes, when you find the right hole, you shouldn’t just put one foot into it. You should jump in with both feet the way Alice did, and see what kind of wonderland it leads to.
Hopefully it does better than Mark Zuckerberg’s 100 million dollar gift to Newark schools. Oh brother!
>Getting government and NIMBYISM out of housing policy will lead to affordable housing and is paramount to fixing this.

The trick is getting government and nimbyism out of housing policy while getting them into drug and mental illness treatment at the same time. These days it doesn't seem like there's a political party that can handle that kind of nuance. It feels like it's either expand government on all fronts or retreat on all fronts and that's not what's needed here.
I always thought it just meant "fourth generation". Never until now did I think 4G would be a 33% increase over 3G
Ok, but if one function you call uses unsafe Rust, then it might break down. Which isn't a problem, except if you don't know that it happens. Would Rust warn about that? Just curious.
the problem is that the "market wages" generate both humanitarian disasters of poverty and also demand gaps wherein people can't afford to buy goods, which puts a drag on the economy.

#2 is an issue because government transfers nearly always have terms attached. people get food stamps for food, housing assistance for housing, etc. so demand gaps can still occur because people still don't have the "right" kind of money. plus, it's less efficient because the government has to be involved.

i'm in favor of a wealth tax, however. implementation issues aside, it's the most realistic chance we have of making businesses pay up.
I personally don't mind abstract art and believe that it's fine as an art form.

The only issues I have are the proponents of abstract art doing 2 things:

(1) Presenting abstract art as a worthier pursuit than illustration, as if somehow abstract art is harder or more unique than all other art forms.

You can feel the vibe from fine arts professors who look down on illustration majors.

(2) As a subject of study, it feels like they're not willing to learn techniques like perspective, anatomy, etc.

There is no progress on actual learning. I think if you want to be truly creative, you should be willing to learn techniques and then seeing how to break them, so that you KNOW why something feels like X.

Instead it feels like they "look down" on it without ever trying it.

I think people have connected the "we are superior" vibe with the lack of development of skills and started to feel what this connection is called: pretentiousness.

Unfortunately people have also connected the actual art styles to that and dislike the works just because of the art style as well.
That’s very possible. Altho this is from his own money and not the corp. Though I agree he should try and follow the example of CostCo and maybe outdo them and set an even better example.
'Master/Slave' Terminology Was Removed from Python
Very funny indeed. NOT
I don't see Cambridge Analytica as a "stupid media freak out", it exposed a concerning and far reaching privacy issue with the Facebook platform.

Concerns about Tesla's solvency have been building for months. The departure of several high-level executives is a big concern and what moved markets. It might signal that people are jumping ship.
Having a higher base-line sea level is never going to help with flooding. Remember a component of the rise is that the water is warmer, and warmer water takes up slightly more space, but the real problem is that the increased temperature makes storms more aggressive and from there increases storm surge.
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How is it ludicrous? They are counting part-time workers among the "benefits" total which is disingenuous and not apples to apples at all.
Yes and no. It's more a question of degrees and developer culture. I think JS just has a stronger "glue stuff together" mentality combined with the lack of a thorough standard API.

In my experience, C# libraries tend to be more averse by default to taking on extra dependencies, but that's in part because .NET already does so much work for you. Python is a bit less averse, but certainly not to the level of JS where you can easily end up with hundreds of nodes in the dependency graph. But then Python isn't used much for client UI code.
She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer. She didn't win one herself.
The new Apple Watch 4 face is a design crime
Yes, but to Google, the proper representation of facts is related to their economic activity.
I'm a clueless foreigner [0], and HN is my only window into the Bay Area (and, in a more general sense, into America), so I appreciate your writeup. On HN my impression that absolutely everybody agrees that SF and the cities near it should just build more and higher. It appears to solve all the problems (insane rent, extreme commutes, homelessness, poo), so why is it politically untenable? Who exactly is pro insane rent, extreme commutes, homelessness and poo?

I mean, the home owners can't be the voting majority right?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932484
Not every hobbyist had access to 1m+ mirrors, though. I imagine you could take a reasonably revealing picture of eg an Orion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
A question about Cargo Fix. Is that only on warnings, or can/does it currently fix errors it knows the problem with as well?
Do we need to bridge the gap? Or, to be brutally direct: Do mainframes deserve to survive in the coming decades?
We are talking about sentient people. Wages and housing prices may be an excuse, but they don't shove drugs down people's throats.

Mental illness - may be. But one needs to know if it's the cause, or simply an exposing factor.
cargo doc --document-private-items

This is going to be excellent. I often find in Rust, more than other languages, that the documentation really helps fill a mental gap around the types that you expect a type to implement, vs. what it actually implements. The compiler always catches this, but the docs are also a great way of discovering this.

It's going to be a huge help when working on internal interfaces in a library. cargo doc is such an excellent tool, and while the UI took a minute to learn when I first used it, it's really an amazingly helpful tool, and feels more integrated than similar tools in other languages.
I think the point is he could just offer full-time jobs instead.
That is a completely false sentence. People develop PHP sites, launch them and expect them to work, even if the server is upgraded to the latest PHP.

Breaking their code on a PHP upgrade is a great way to strand them on old unsupported versions of PHP. Not everyone has resources to change things that used to work because of some "array function" change that doesn't really make any difference.
The first time I added rayon to a project and switched my main `iter` to `par_iter` and it compiled with no other changes was decidedly creepy. That particular code didn't run any faster, but the fact that it was still guaranteed to be safe just felt so counter to everything the last 10 years of programming had taught me. Rust is not a perfect language (whatever that means), but more so than any language I've ever used it gives me these strange sort of mind-blowing moments.
Seattle's homeless camping problem has gotten really out of hand in the last 2 years.

I moved away about a year and a half ago, when homeless tents were pretty common. When I visited recently, it was stunning how much worse it is. Almost every green space in the city (except for popular parks) is filled with tents. It's really crazy.
It would not warn; that's not how unsafe works in Rust.

Or rather, if you are calling something unsafe, you have to write "unsafe { }". That's a sort of "warning" in a sense. But if that unsafe code is wrapped in a safe interface, it's that code's responsibility to be correct. Bugs do happen!
Speed of running the code was likely why C++ was retained, Erlang is a higher level language that uses more resources, and depending on your platform target there may not be enough CPU resources in your average base station to support a software stack in Erlang doing packet forwarding, QoS or especially DPI.

That being said, for communications platforms it has some very useful properties when code starts to break, hence WhatsApp and 2600hz using it for their respective projects.
Due to the short lived nature of PHP requests JIT compilation wont be as effective as one would expect. Still though since php 7,every point release saw a measurable performance improvement.
AI/ML? Too much hype to ignore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bits vs. Bytes Podcast: Revolutionising Buildings with Technology
Made a short story on how to deal with Machine Learning if you're just a Developer.

No rocket science, just a few facts.

Hope you'll like it :)

ps. even Apple features Neural Engine as a new big thing — you just can't stand apart ಠ_ಠ
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.

Probably because nobody notices the clean, sane person living out of their car. We probably need better terminology, like functional vs. dysfunctional homeless, or something.
You might be right about universal healthcare, etc., but the reason people call it the greatest generation is because it recovered from the worst economic depression in economic history and saved the free world.

> In the book, Brokaw wrote, "it is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced". He argued that these men and women fought not for fame and recognition, but because it was the "right thing to do".

That title doesn't have to do with their post-war fortunes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation
Recall that Bezos effectively undid a Seattle tax, already passed by the democratic government there, to fund affordable housing.[0] This is not a substitute for that tax and policy. Instead, it part of a dangerous trend where an aristocracy substitutes for a democratic society, seizing power and decision-making from fellow citizens.

If Bezos or his company would pay their share of taxes, then society could make a joint decision and investment on how to help the homeless. Instead he does not pay, undermining democracy, and then he has power over the homeless and over the policy of his country.

(In fairness, not all charity is aristocracy, but I'm talking about charity in the absence of democracy and as a substitute for it.)

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/technology/seattle-tax-am...
Normally I would say let's look at thing that matter, however Tesla stock always was a hype animal. Thus what affects it most are big splashy news.
Military spending is only 16% of Government spending, you'd think we could cover the homeless somehwere in that other 84%.
This is RISC vs. CISC all over again where there was no winner, they just cross-bred and mutated so much you can't tell them apart any longer.

Dynamic languages get statically compiled. Static languages have dynamic features. The line is far from clear.

If there's any greater cycle it's that in the end all the good ideas get shared and successful strategies get cross-pollinated.
>> While the dosages were small, they were certainly habit-forming, and soda fountains stood to profit from such consistent customers.

> People typically eat breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. You might even say habitually.

They're talking about straight up cocaine and opiates. A glass of Coca-cola contained about 1/4 of a line of coke in it originally.
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duplicate, please check before submitting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17954823

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17975989
The Secret to Finding Lasting Career Satisfaction
I just noticed that I never responded to this. @coldtea, I hope you still read this: thanks for your answer.

I am indeed from abroad and my only contact with the USA is through HN. I vaguely know some people who work in the Bay Area but they all have good jobs so which parts of their job benefits are perks and which are law or norm was never clear to me. I truly believed all civilized countries had at least some sort of government mandated paid maternity leave. Basically I imagined that in the US it'd be 2 weeks instead of N months. Thanks for elaborating.
This statement contradicts parent's. What is your source?
On purpose; remember they whitelist UAs. Hangouts and Meet both supporting Firefox now was a deliberate move, enabled by Hangouts/Meet moving to the current WebRTC draft protocol (versus some much older one) and by Firefox introducing supports for some further JS APIs to monitor the WebRTC connection.
"Government" is just a bunch of people. People in power caring that the benefits of increasing wealth and technology of society is widely shared is what creates great generations. Having a whole society share the burden of fighting in a war, with basically all males of a certain age fighting together in the field, I think created bounds between classes that the US has not had since then.

I would assume your ideas on why your younger uncles did not succeed would be more likely correct than some stranger on the internet, but have you considered that a bigger factor in their lack of success is that they did not get to fight in the war, not the fact that they did not go to college. Being in that huge cohort of men who fought in the war is sort of like everyone going to the same undergrad. Being able to form strong bonds quickly to millions of people would surely be a great advantage in life.
I would say the same is true here in Toronto. Almost all the homeless I see appear to fit either of those two descriptors, either clearly mentally ill, drug users who are tweaking, or they have the signs of extreme drug use (visible scabs where they repeatedly inject), or are day drinking right there on the street. I'm not implying anything like they don't deserve help or whatever, I'm just agreeing that affordable housing or subsidies or something of that nature would have almost zero impact on homelessness IMO.
Another question to ASCII is whether millennials can learn EBCDIC.
I always repost this link to this excellent essay when someone asks about becoming a senior engineer. Good luck!

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
Great, this is just the revival of the charity of feudal masters.

Things now are so dire that charity became more than needed.

Your comment is proof that it is a good way to clean one's reputation even if you do horrible things in a daily basis.
Often the addiction comes after the homelessness as a mechanism to combat boredom and cold.

Mental illness, financial circumstance and relationship breakdowns (family or spouse) are indeed common initial causes. Especially PTSD in veterans.
You're not seeing all the other homeless people though who were displaced by high housing prices and who aren't spending all their time drugged out in highly visible urban areas. There are many homeless people living out of cars or shelters, or in tents. Many of them even still have jobs, they just can't afford housing.

See: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ucla-anderson-forecast...
IMHO the key is your student has programming skills mixed with humility. When I'm hiring, that's all I'm really looking for, and I think that's true for most coding jobs, mainframe or not.
Most likely this is a "Senior Research Scientist at Google" rather than a "Senior Google Research Scientist", i.e. "Senior Research Scientist" is his title (the equivalent of Senior Software Engineer on the research ladder) and he works for Google, rather than he is a high-up at the company. He's only 32, has been with the company for 2 years, and his previous job was an assistant professor, all of which are credentials that would be roughly Senior SWE level rather than an executive or department head.
The adult industry is another major player using php, pornhub for example is php based.