skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gates is more knowledgeable about the areas in which his foundation operates than the heads of most well-known non-profits and relief organizations.

This is laughably absurd. Come on.

Edited because I was still thinking about this

Who do you think knows more about Malaria, Bill Gates (who is incredibly knowledgeable about Malaria) or Dr. Pedro Alonso who runs the WHO's malaria program?

> His professional career began in The Gambia in the 1980s. A study on the validation of verbal autopsies was followed by the scientific assessment of the efficacy of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) as a preventive tool against malaria. The utility of such nets was, at the time, controversial, and the publication of new results in The Lancet[1] was critical for the launching of subsequent studies confirming first evaluations. Based on this evidence, WHO recommended the universal use of ITNs as a vector control tool, since a pillar in the fight against malaria. It is estimated that extensive distribution programs of ITNs can claim responsibility for 69% of the 663 million of averted malaria cases in Subsaharan Africa between 2001 and 2015.[2]

..

> With the support of the Hospital Clínic and the University of Barcelona, he founded in 2006 the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB). In this institution he accomplished one of his most renowned works, the contribution to the clinical development and impact assessment of a new malaria vaccine: RTS,S. In collaboration with the Manhiça Health Research Centre in Mozambique, he implemented two proofs of concept that established for the first time the efficacy of the vaccine in infants[3] and children aged 1–4 years.[4] These results opened the door to subsequent assessments and to a Phase 3 clinical trial performed in 11 African research centres. Ultimately, this vaccine received a positive assessment by the European Drugs Agency, in 2015,[5] while the highest expert committees at WHO have recommended that it starts to be utilized, as of 2018, in pilot programs in three African countries.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L._Alonso
Sentient Investment Closing
Taken to its logical conclusion, this idea means we shouldn't have any government at all.
It's generally accepted that Science increases accuracy over time, but I don't think people understand what that looks like.

Intuitively people tend to think of random ideas to be 50/50 true or false. But, the space of possible vs actual means random ideas are almost always false. So, fields like medicine demonstrate you can spend generations looking into something and still be wildly wrong.

Freud like all early researchers had no idea what was going on. But, as a baseline to be improved upon he still provides part of a useful foundation for the discipline.
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I've never heard of Pale Moon until now, but if Google is so evil, and Mozilla is evil for using Google too, I can't help but notice Pale Moon still run Google Ads on their site. Just seems a bit hypocritical, especially with "We use responsible ad services to keep your visit to our websites a
safe and uninterrupted one." on there.
If you make student loans dischargeable via bankruptcy you will basically eliminate lending for college. The issue is that the vast majority of people have ~0 assets when they graduate from college.

There would be a huge incentive for all of these people to declare bankruptcy, discharge the debt, and then wait around the ~7 years for the bankruptcy to disappear from their credit report. As long as they don't want to buy a house during that period it wouldn't even be much of an inconvenience.
> The mangled road network

Have you ever been in Pittsburgh? I cannot fathom many cities have a worse network between the myriad of bridges, triangle shaped downtown and geography.
As the page says, that license and exception apply to libstdc++. I don't know if they apply to libgcc.
Didn't really read my last sentence, eh? Who invented the iPhone? Apple. No, not even an individual (even if a name is on some patent), a corporation. Not all of the ideas that make an iPhone an iPhone came from one individual. Who invented the multitude of little parts that comprise an iPhone? People like you.
AI Chip Duel: Apple A12 Bionic vs. Huawei Kirin 980
Los Angeles is a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit.

That being said, the revitalized downtown, the slowly growing metro system, and uber/lyft to fill the gaps have made it better than it once was. It still is a massive monstrosity of a city, so it's never going to be as "walkable" as compact city like SF.
Don't discount multiple years of "odd optimizer improvements". They add up.

That said, yes, re-writes are probably a bigger thing here. Especially lately: https://llogiq.github.io/2018/09/06/fast.html
I think Musk notwithstanding, folks who are actually developing ADAS technologies are not* really touting driverless capabilities – that's the ultimate goal but the genuine projects today are focused on HD mapping and image recognition from cameras to overcome the LiDAR price hurdle.

OEMs are very interested in startups working on those specific issues, but for various reasons these incremental steps aren't as widely reported so all we get left is the hype that self driving cars "are here" and things like Tesla Autopilot
Giving billions of Amazon's money away would probably upset shareholders.
AS/400 is more a minicomputer. The line was developed specifically to take on the DECs and Data Generals that were starting to appear in businesses.
Sure, but that doesn't make it capitalism.
Have you donated more than 1.2% of your net worth to charity?
> - keep in mind you need a privacy page. GDPR is a real thing by now.

If you're in the US, it's also not applicable
Thanks. fullwsj.com links you to a facebook redirect which is not paywalled, so YMMV depending on your treatment of facebook
I agree that both are problems worth solving, but one is pretty obviously a more urgent public health problem, and unfortunately, the more difficult one to solve.

When people are talking about Seattle's worsening homeless problem, they're talking about the presence of needles and fecal material on the sidewalks, and being harassed, and sometimes even attacked, by clearly mentally ill people, not about people living in trailers in non-urban areas.
I'd argue that what Google is doing is in the US's interests.

As I see it the choice is to either do what Google is doing, which means being involved, staying relevant, and making a few bucks along the way, or to stay away. In the latter case the only result will be diminished influence for Google and by extension the USA, as that won't damage China at all, it will just leave the door open for new Chinese tech giants.

It's called realpolitik.
You don't have to be a drug addict to be homeless, the majority of homeless people are not, nor are the majority (or even a substantial minority) seriously mentally ill.
>just don't be rude to patients

I wasn't.

> Finding some half-assed study that might apply is no excuse.

You're clearly not worth arguing with if you can't even be bothered to read the things you're commenting on. The only thing half-assed here are your arguments.
For Apple, sustainability is a growth business
World needs more people like Jack Poulson. We all need to stand up against governments which treat their citizens like the Chinese govenment does.
No blurring for me
If you're looking for an alternative to Google Inbox, you should give SaneBox a try. You can train it so only the emails you want to see end up in your inbox. Here's a $25 off code: www.sanebox.com/inbox
I wouldn’t say speech recognition is solved. It’s still quite error prone.

Self-driving cars need to be even better or people will die.

Perhaps self-driving cars can be deployed in a limited way, as taxis, for example.
We like the idea of technological solutions that don't require us to change our lifestyle or make hard choices. Driverless cars are appealing because they would allow us to largely maintain the status quo (as opposed to, say, reorienting toward public transportation). It's like an obese person who says, "I don't want to eat healthy and exercise. Why can't scientists just invent low-calorie versions of the food I like?"
Giacometti Renewed
>researchers run climate models using real-world climate conditions—in this case, air temperatures, moisture levels, and sea surface temperatures—and then re-run the models with the values that would have been seen had the climate not artificially warmed.
It is a common misconception that high income tax rates would affect the ultra-wealthy to any significant degree. It would not, because their wealth almost never appears as ordinary income.

High income tax rates (such as we indeed used to have in the United States) affect people like dentists and pediatricians, not people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Note that Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Mitt Romney, and Michael Bloomberg, among others, have all "taken a salary of $1/year" as a publicity stunt at various times, yet somehow managed to wind up billionaires in spite of that. Harry Reid never had a real job in his entire life, and never had any ordinary income outside his congressional salary, but wound up massively wealthy nonetheless.

Try proposing a tax on net worth/assets and see how many of the Pelosis, Feinsteins, Heinz-Kerrys, Warrens, Obamas, or Kennedys sign off on that.
That word “failed”, I’m not sure it means what you think it means.

They may have been delayed from overly ambitious targets, but Tesla is shipping three different models of all electric cars, residential and large-scale energy storage, solar roofs (barely), and is building out the single biggest factory in the world.

Now we’re hearing that Tesla is hitting $100/kWh for their battery cells. That’s a milestone that as recently as 2017 the DOE expected to be hit in 2020, and back when Tesla launched in 2003 was a compete and utter fairy tale.

$100/kWh has for years been predicted to be the tipping point where long-range electric goes mainstream. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that is literally Tesla delivering on its core mission statement.

SpaceX literally owns the orbital launch market and is a private enterprise trying to get humans to another fucking planet.

How irrational can Elon-haters possibly get?
I'm wondering why homelessness is not as large in NYC? The prices here are as high as in SF. Is it due to the slower rate of a price increase? Colder weather?
The American system is a money making machine that uses education merely as a lure. Everything is constructed around maximizing income for the administrative staff: Pay the teachers as little as possible with no promise of tenure, attract as many wealthy foreign students as possible, raise the tuition by many multiples of the inflation rate, use athletics to create prestige.
Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature
I'd say that's part of the realization phase.
If any European is able to use the page, it needs to be compliant.
Player.me and Evolve Have Merged
What were the actual results?
Ask HN: As a Julia developer, what do you think is special about Julia?
This is a really good talk. The name undersells it: it's really "how to stop fighting the borrow checker" in general and not specific to games.
My god! In the end I was the monkey.
Well, there are a few but they’re either to busy writing code or being a to be a CEO/CTO to be a celebrity spokesperson for the computer science community.

We do have a few already if you want to count Elon Musk, The Woz, and the late Mr. Jobs

There of course is the likes of Linus torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, John Carmack, etc... but they really are just busy doing their thing.

Really I think it boils down to comp sci not yet having a media outlet like the show “cosmos” was for Astro-physics getting the mainstream public’s attention.

We just need a prime time must see tv show, with a charming host.

The problem is Comp Sci isn’t very exciting for those who aren’t already comp scientists.
Discussed three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531822

and two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12232385
Agreed, there are many problems worth solving in Seattle, but some are more clearly urgent public health problems than others.
Preparing for Elections – Mark Zuckerberg
> Sac Peak [...] is a daytime observatory [...]

A nighttime solar observatory would have certain... observational challenges.
Next model will use rotating variable length strings in place of the hands.
Setting aside the validity of Popper's Paradox, you might actually consider that you're on the wrong end of it: meaning, you're the intolerant one. I'm serious. Because you slander people who hold views opposite to yours and look to silence them once you have taken hold of power.

A person can be for immigration enforcement and NOT be an ethno-smethmo whateveryourecallingit. If you don't control your border, you're not a nation.
A head tax affects people other than Bezos too. It was not a popular tax, not surprised it was repealed.
Introducing Oak: An Open Source Scalable Key-Value Map for Big Data Analytics
From what I have seen I'm the most optimistic about either ranked choice voting or leveling seats to help promote more diverse opinions in politics and I think that publicly funded elections are going to be a must either way - the corruption and elevation of corporate interests are getting too extreme.

How we get to that point I'm not certain of.

But one hilarious thing in the US is a trend lately of people submitting ballot measures, those ballot measure passing, and then the conservative held government refusing to honor those ballot measures. I don't personally thing direct democracy is a good general solution, voters generally won't have the expertise to decide intelligently, but when an issue is prominent enough that a plebiscite is called going against that is incredibly undemocratic.
> There are much simpler explanations.

FYGMism.
Microprofile
What's the alternative to Microprofile? microprofile.io
Not as easily if they're equipped with this:
http://www.bisbos.com/space_misty.html
I'm _specifically_ hoping to use it in React-Redux v6.x, and wrote up a very extended description a couple days ago of why and how I hope to use it:

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1018

I actually referenced your blog post as a good overview of how to use the bitmask API, so thanks for writing it!

I also filed a React RFC to make the API a bit more flexible by allowing us to pass a `calculateChangedBits` function directly to a `Context.Provider` instance:

https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/60

Sebastian Markbage replied in that RFC thread, and tbh the discussion seemed a bit odd. It seemed like he was discouraging me from trying to use the bitmask API, or trying to figure out why I might actually want to use it, when it seems like the entire reason it exists is exactly for something like React-Redux to leverage it for performance optimizations.
Is there a link for the filing? I hadn't seen that update but it's still just rumours!
it'd likely have something to do with a long-term non-optional residency as guest of the government in Leavenworth, Kansas
That's just there for comparing to models you are likely to be upgrading from. They have it listed as "Available from some resellers only".
Unrelated, but I often notice that lots of stack overflow and github issues get translated into chinese by someone. It's kinda interesting to see
Asking out of complete ignorance: What can a mainframe do that other kinds of machines can't? I barely understand what a mainframe is or why you'd use one over other technologies.
How is building in a desert more difficult than building on a plain? Water is a municipal problem, not the builder's.
Aww, thanks :)
In case Jack Poulson sees this HN page: thank you.

A few select quotes from Ayn Rand on Evil:

"Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us."

"I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it."

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser’s intellectual abdication that invites them to take over."

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/evil.html
> The rest of us will continue to ~~learn and innovate~~ buy $tsla after silly controversies cause it to tank, and sell $tsla once everyone remembers they like money and it climbs again.
Internet Explorer on WinMobile was not WAP, either. It did not render anywhere as close to desktop as the iPhone did, but it at least tried.
He gave figures for the city of San Francisco and the entire country of England.
What gap, just pay more for the position.
Let's not pretend that homelessness has nothing to do with addiction and mental health. Stop avoiding the real issues- it's harmful when everyone pins Washington's problems all on Bezos.
No it doesn't, that's not the way the internet works - it's only if you conduct business in the EU. That means, if there is a service / entity which exists in said country.

If a citizen of France in the EU calls on the phone a citizen in China to buy something, the Chinese citizen isn't subject to EU laws. However, the Chinese citizen AND the French citizen is subject to Chinese laws, and the French citizen is also subject to French laws. Plus there's a plethora of international trade agreements.

This is where everything starts becoming strange, because in the case of the GDPR it's an attempt to subject the Chinese citizen to a law from the EU. I.e. this is a debate over sovereignty, the EU citizen should be responsible for conducting their business not the Chinese citizen.

(a) The Chinese citizen never left China

(b) The Chinese citizen never intended to leave China

(c) The Chinese citizen doesn't know the laws of the EU, because they aren't there

(d) The Chinese citizen conducted business in China, because the transaction occurred there (i.e. the money was transferred to the China) <- This is the rub, because where a transaction occurred is actually defined differently in each country
This is a perfect way to put it

"Los Angeles is a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit."

Once you understand how to travel the city, it's hard to live anywhere else because quality of life is so ridiculously high. It's why people tend not to leave if they make it past their two year mark.
> They are looking for information, they should question the person who can answer those the best.

I disagree. Calling the CEO to testify puts the chief decision-maker on notice that these are issues he needs to focus on. Settling for a minor executive won't have the same influence on the CEO. Secondly, a minor executive has much more ability to dodge and evade, since he can legitimately claim "this isn't my area," "wasn't my decision," etc. Also, like I said before, settling for interviewing minor players doesn't attract the public's attention to the issue.

> If congress wants to take these issues seriously they should drop the politics

Congress is politics. It's not some technocratic regulatory body. Engaging in politics is literally the primary job of congressmen.
This was the Senate Intelligence Committee though not a joint committee(Judiciary and Commerce)hearing like back in April.

Senate Intelligence Committee hearings tend to much more informed and productive comparatively speaking. It's apparent from even a cursory viewing of the hearing.[1]

Larry Page would have been made well-aware of this distinction before making the decision not to attend.

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fo...
Able Health is seeking Rails engineers to help doctors make patients healthy
So why do we think this was done by hominids?
yeah, these are very unstable places. it should be shocking to imagine the west devolving into that.
I encourage anyone interested in game development with Rust to check out the yet-to-be-formalised working group:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/a-working-group-for-rust-g...

At the moment the main focus is just to get organised around some common tooling that everyone can get behind. At this point I'd say the most impactful project to contribute to is gfx-rs.
Another major evolution is that SIMD is becoming part of stable Rust. It is available in C and C++ as GCC and Clang extensions, but not part of the standard language. Careful use of SIMD can result in fairly massive speedups across a wide range of problem domains.
How is increasing inequality a net win? The situation you've presented is even somewhat zero-sum, i.e. the first family's gain comes at the expense of the second. That's exactly what we should be trying to prevent.
I don't believe the GP expressed an opinion, but simply asked a question.
Robin Hoodization of OSS and Commons Clause License – StackSense
Much of the water for LA comes from the Colorado River. You have to build substantial infrastructure to pipe it in. Building a large swathe of stuff helps defray the cost of this essential infrastructure, without which you can't survive.

Once you put in the pipes to get it there, you better build out enough homes and businesses to at least break even on that part of it or you are doomed.
You've never been caught murdering anyone, I assume.
Google would survive without China.
> 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

Wow! "Play a role" has an amazing undertone here; It's Amazon's fault for offering good salaries in Seattle; a better company would offer fewer jobs, at lower salaries, spread out (oh that's what's happening at the warehouses).

Local and State Governments (and the people they represent who are profiting from real estate in San Francisco and Seattle) should not be the distant second you're pointing at here!

Indeed, Amazon HQ2 is considered by many cities to be a giant opportunity for economic growth.

And this is to ignore that Amazon Seattle is located where a previously blighted community was.

Nay, I say, I've considered Seattle as having a higher cost of living since 'You've Got Mail' came out.
To be fair, it’s a journalistic exercise not a long running webapp project, if the page loads a second later but development time is significantly reduced, it might be worth the tradeoff. The map works well for me, using mobile on wifi.
I don't feel this criticism is warranted. The spoken portion that went along with the unveiling of this watch face was admitting this was ridiculously trying to show all the measurements/indicators possible to make the 'ultimate sports watch'... at least, that's how I interpreted it.
I'll see your Pittsburgh and raise you a Boston.
This is technically true, but kind of a stretch. The population of LA in 1900 was only ~100k people. By 1920, there were over 500k. And it continued to explode in growth through the '70s.

The "sprawl" was less sprawly than it was a collection of multiple cities that have been annexed over the decades. In the 1890's, LA was 28 square miles (and that 28 "original" LA is still very evident today). Today, it's 469 square miles. LA's current sprawl is absolutely because of the car. There's a very clear reason old east coast cities and european cities look so much different than newer cities like LA.
The Facebook redirect takes me to the WSJ article, still paywalled.
More precisely this is routine testing of the opponent's readiness.
The language itself is beautifully designed and very readable. I also love the simple parallelism support.
Insect-inspired robot can fly a kilometer on a charge with flappy wings