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> Bezos also didn't support the Seattle income tax, although as far as I know he didn't spend money to oppose it.

He did; Amazon was among the primary opposition (if we're talking about the same tax):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/technology/seattle-tax-am...
I don't know whether that's true or not, but I'll add that his appearance on Joe Rogan also made him look rather...unhinged, or very stressed out, or on some sort of drugs. There was nothing extremely troubling, but it certainly didn't paint the picture you would expect of someone running multiple large fast-moving public companies.
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Rust hasn't really got 'faster' in that time, barring the odd optimizer improvement as noted in sibling. Much more likely that whatever benchmark you refer to has been rewritten for better performance.
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SemiAccurate tends to be fairly on point, they do have a heavy slant against anyone that isn't on the GNU/Linux software support train.

FYI, Ericsson admitted to this silicon problem negatively impacting them recently: https://semiaccurate.com/2018/08/30/update-to-intel-custom-f...
I think of winning a Pulitzer in the non-individual categories like a film winning an Oscar in the non-individual categories. It is a grand achievement that was made possible by the efforts of many. A non-individual award at the Pulitzer level is still a remarkable achievement.
I think an Android app called Prioritize Me did something functionally similar. Haven't looked it up again recently.
Agreed. See also, on reddit:

/r/almosthomeless
/r/homeless

even subs like /r/povertyfinance contain some people that live in their car at times.
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while it would be great to have a standard way to do absolute imports, I almost like how it force people into more sensible project structures and splitting large projects into multiple packages. The "smell" of the ../../../ encourages better practices, so it's not all bad IMO.
A couple of things: one, there is a selection bias involved, as another responder pointed out. You don't see the non-addicted, non-mentally ill homeless, or at least when you do you might not even realize they are homeless. Unless someone is pan handling, a homeless person doesn't wear a sign saying they are homeless. You probably walk by countless homeless people on the street that you don't realize you are homeless. Only the drug addicted/mentally ill ones look like the homeless you are thinking about.

Second, your observations won't tell you whether the drug addiction caused the homelessness or vice versa. Many homeless people turn to drugs to cope.

Third, you don't have to live on the streets to be homeless. Those people who are crashing at friends and living in unstable group housing situations are homeless.
Its definitely Ericsson, they admitted to it in their recent filings: https://semiaccurate.com/2018/08/30/update-to-intel-custom-f...
"It’s a hard enough life to be a scientist," she says. "If we want our best and brightest to be scientists, this is not the way to do it."

And he’s a skeptic of this new generation of skeptics. For starters, Nisbett doesn’t think direct replications are efficient or sensible; instead he favors so-called conceptual replication, which is more or less taking someone else’s interesting result and putting your own spin on it.

It's gotta be about feelings, then.
You are taking your personal anecdotes and extrapolating. No one would disagree with you that mental illness and addiction are major factors in homelessness. But your argument is like saying, anyone who doesn't believe everyone in the world is wealthy go spend some time in Medina. It's a ridiculous argument.
As a fellow Seattle resident the arguments seem to break down this way:
(From the left)
1) Amazon contributed to homelessness by increasing property values by paying too many engineers too much money
2) We don't have an income tax, so that increase in wealth does not come back to pay for services
(From the right)
1) Enforcement of laws about sleeping in public spaces is very low so people feel comfortable being homeless here.
2) Increases of property taxes have increased rents leading people to not be able to afford rents
(From both left and right)
Housing developers are buying up as many cheap places as possible and turning them into high end houses that only the rich can afford muscling out people that could have both those cheaper places.

My take:
If you isolate and fixated on one variable being the only cause of a problem, it's pretty easy to create a narrative, but the answer is probably more complicated and the solution is probably even more complicated.
> They pushed it

No. You didn't turn off the automatic categories. It's a single checkbox in settings.

My only bundles are the ones I've created and they work exactly how I want them.
If you rotate around that blur, it appears to have depth, like it's just above the surface. You can see beneath it at the right angle, revealing the top of the dome.
I don't sense much entitlement in thoroughly thinking through the options of how to keep a website running.

Actually, the air of entitlement I detect in this entire discussion is around people who strongly believe that everything should be free and magically self-sustaining.
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I would absolutely not say that. The British Empire encompassed more than a quarter of the population, and in the 1870s the US became the world's largest national economy.

I think what you're thinking about is when English supremacy started, that can probably be dated to the post-WWII world when the US economy was far ahead of everyone else for decades.
I am unconvinced about that.

If it was the case that CA actually was able to do the things the media claimed they didn and affect people like that, FB would be in an even better position to affect people which means FB shares should have risen not fallen.

We do not live in the world created by the media about the capabilities of CA not even close.

But as they say. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. That irrationality is further fueld by the medias attempt to dumb down things IMO.
How do you know people don't become mentally ill or homeless after losing their home and their life spiralling out of control? Or perhaps that if you have a support structure you can manage mental illness?

If you don't have money or friends, what group housing would you find?

Why would you move to a different city, away from everyone you know, if you don't have a job to pay bills?
I am not sure how hanging out with a particular group of homeless people is going to let you understand homelessness as a whole. It will only tell you about that particular group of homeless people.
Given the lack of a track record of people in our industry to deliver reliable, secure software? Yes, and I'm amazed this is even a question.

Paper ballots have been used quite successfully for about a thousand years. It's not broken, so why fix it?
I feel people like Jeff Bezos, who already have all the money in the world, are more interested in winning/power and money is only a way of keeping score.

Bezos is probably interested in growing Amazon into the biggest business in the world, and part of that strategy is cutting costs to the bone.

What I'm trying to say is he's looking for a way to maximize Amazon's growth rate, not necessarily pinch pennies (pinch billions?). So if he can preserve his current strategy by giving a few billion away, I don't think he cares.
Your impression is completely different from the reality.

Facebook was/is irrelevant to PHP adoption. Their only effect was to increase the speed of PHP.

PHP is widely used because it's really great language for web development. It's better than the other choices because of ease and rapidity of development, and because it was designed for the web, not as a regular language with web things bolted on (Python and JAVA are examples of that).

It is not fading at all. Some developers think it's too easy of a language, so they discount it as for beginners only. That's about it. It's a kind of snobbery, which I'm glad to see seems to be vanishing with the release of PHP7.
It really boils down to the implementation. Also, you need community support. What really helped HHVM mature is that by using PHP for something large scale, they were able to see its shortcomings. Most other forks are not driven by that. As such, their upsides are questionable, or they just offer some performance boosts, that are achievable even without the trouble of forking.
Doing the smart thing and retiring?

Theres not much that can be said about communication online. Its going to be terrible, even without VC money thrown at it.

This isn't hyperbole, its just history - even with the first ever online game, back in the text days, the first griefer existed. In old forums, we had eternal september.

Communication online is just hacking the human brain more efficiently.
Living in a car is homeless.
I keep reading these statements wondering what kind of women’s jeans I own. My plus has no problem fitting in any of them, I just prefer to put it in my purse.
Looks like a mobile-only app. I need something that runs in a browser as well. In fact - more so. I do most email management on my laptop.
That's the charity of Kings. The French king gave a lot to charity with one hand and created a lot more misery with the other.

This is just the return of the times of charity.
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And presumably be cached through a service worker, which might be very useful.
I can see where they’re coming from. TBH though when I look at my watch with complications I want to see a specific complication (date, upcoming appointment, etc).

I’m not trying to take in every piece of information on the watch at once.

I’m guessing the author of the article doesn’t own a smart watch.
The standard "hard game" of that category is Montezuma's Revenge - which has no score, is easy to die right on the first screen, and requires a fairly complex series of actions to make any clearly visible progress (moving to the second screen) at all.

Deep Q Networks (the Atari AI you're thinking of) and really all reinforcement learning systems generally fail to make it past even the first screen.
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I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge and has script errors in Chrome and Firefox, and just doesn't work in Edge.
Are you using something other than CRDTs or Operational Transforms?
>Our funding per student has been declining for 15 years. We raise tuition as a result. We have become more like a business

I thought the Obama administration did a lot to fund community colleges. Was that just all posturing and no actual substance?
Frustrating? I can understand why you would feel like it's a shame, or feel disappointed, or even ashamed of tech/bezos/humanity, but why frustrated? Is it that you're upset that you can't change the way someone else spends their own personal fortune?
I get that. I do.

Most spices have medicinal purposes. Inadequate muscle mass -- aka protein -- is linked to insulin resistance. I have eaten butter sandwiches to stop the bone and tooth pain no pain killers helped with.

Food has tremendous chemical impact on the body. We are only beginning to comprehend it.
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> I am amazed every time I travel to Europe, how few homeless people there are, despite their economic growth lagging the US.

This. I grew up in Eastern Europe where middle-class people would make and eat every single meal at home, but I have never seen such level of poverty as I saw in the streets of the US.
I'll say "finally" if he doubles the salary of his workers and give them a decent work conditions with a lot less stress.

He can keep his charity.
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It's like saying, that industrial revolution killed artisan makers. It did, but it also was a global good. Small businesses must adapt.
I'm trying to fix this with a user editable IMDB for everything: https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh

It's a hard problem to solve. Currently, I still haven't found product market fit yet - with TheyMadeThat's most apparent weakness being the lack of data, but I still can't fully let go because making people aware of who made their stuff matters. People know it's a problem and they like the idea of solving it. Unfortunately, people do not love my solution. Not enough people loved other higher profile solutions like Makerbase from Anil Dash and Gina Trapani either. I don't know to fix it.

Interesting features aside from associating people with contributing to the "iPhones" of the world:

* Seeing the relationships between different things i.e.
-- evolution (predecessors/successors),

-- variations (https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh/show_ver...),

-- parts (https://theymadethat.com/things/l1t/reddit/show_parts#focus_...)

* Who used what as tools

Feedback is welcome. Feel free to not be nice. It tends to be the most useful feedback.

Currently I'm using it to build a Ycombinator Census
English still has a lot of influence over India, though. I think this thread is confusing influence with supremacy, English has had a huge influence on other languages and cultures for centuries.
I disagree. This would be the US Government telling a shitty company that they no longer want to subsidize their shitty business practices with taxpayer dollars anymore.
Didn't I read somewhere that children start out as abstract artists and only begin attempting realism after they discover that the adults go "Oh, a tree?" when looking at their new work "How it feels when I wake up from a nice nap" just because it's brown and green.
That's the charity of Kings. The French king gave a lot to charity with one hand and created a lot more misery with the other.
This is just the return of the times of charity.

You’d think people would remember how that worked out for the French royalty, but I guess it’s always “going to be different this time.”
> It’s all about passing rate. In such an environment standards go down.

You would have thought that standards would go up, in order for them to get better grades. But I think you'd need standardised tests at the end of college for that, and I think outside some vocational professions nobody does that.
You're ignoring the pixel density, though. Half the resolution, but a screen many times smaller in physical dimensions than the monitor that you are comparing it to.
If that is the case, nothing stops him from creating a Bezos Amazon foundation and making every Amazon employee below a certain salary threshold eligible for grants/help etc etc. With all the accounting jugglery they have access to, I'm sure there are multiple ways to making the employees financially happier while satisfying the shareholders thirst for squeezing the last drop from the last penny.
Homelessness is a problem. Camping is a (weak) solution.
Utilitarian question:

Can he do more net good spending $2 billion to help the homeless, or spending an equivalent amount to double the take-home pay of warehouse employees and/or convert the "money towards medical insurance" plan into a company-supplied medical plan?

(Follow-up question is "Given he doesn't have plurality control of the stock votes, does he have the authority to do so in a vacuum without getting ejected from his own company?")
It is a very telling metaphor in terms of attitudes regarding relative roles of individuals and government. I'm not sure if you're American or not, but many Americans would recoil at the idea that they should be treated like a farm animal.

An animal on a farm might be treated well (at the discretion of the farmer) (until they are slaughtered), but they aren't free. An animal in the wild has freedom, but not security.

America heavily favors the latter, or at least it used to, times may be a'changing.
> no other language has this issue

Because no other language is as easy to deploy. With PHP you edit the PHP file, and that's it. It's deployed. No clearing cache, no compiling, packaging, nothing.

It's one of the major factors in how good of a language it is.

If it's needs this optimization as a result of that, it's completely worth it, and other languages should copy that.
When you subsidize poverty you are going to have more of it and local bodies love these people as the establishment can always buy their votes through doles.

This actually hurts the real needy people who are trying to get by.
There's nothing to say that people were offered full-time work and opted for part-time instead. Regardless of employee preference, it's still not apples to apples if trying to make a comparison to income qualifying for government benefits.

Is a business owner that only requires part-time work supposed to hire full-time workers for some arbitrary reason all of a sudden?
Bezos could fight a lot of homelessness directly by paying his warehouse workers a decent wage.
> The course "College Algebra" has the highest fail rate among all university courses in the US

After I finished my undergraduate education, I moved to a different area and started to hang out around people who were attending the local state University. Often, they would say "I'm bad at math" and "I struggled with College Algebra" in the same sentence/context.

My initial reaction was a dumbfounded "Algebra is a college subject? I didn't know that. I thought it was a high school subject, sometimes started in middle school."

Of course I didn't do my undergraduate education at a state University. I went to a more engineering-focused school, where the lowest math class in the entire course catalog was a dumbed down variant of Calculus for non-engineering majors.
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In diplomacy, yes. However, the US was the largest national economy even in the 1870s so in trade, no.
Agreed 100%. I live in California which has the same massive homelessness issues as Seattle. I also travel to Europe frequently and have noticed the same stark contrast where they seem to do much better at this.

To try to understand why homelessness feels so much worse an California than in Europe, I did some very basic research (which I also posted on a similar thread once before). The numbers are shocking:

San Francisco population: 884,363 (2017/Wikipedia)

San Francisco unsheltered population (conservative): 6,600 (7,499 SF self-reported homeless count * 88.2% HUD estimated unsheltered rate)

Unsheltered population rate (conservative): ~0.75% of residents (my calculation) - nearly 1 in 100!

Compare that with London, a city also experiencing a homelessness epidemic due to explosively rising housing costs:

London population: 8,825,000 (2017/Wikipedia)

London unsheltered population: 1,137 (homeless.org.uk)

Unsheltered rate: ~0.01% of residents (my calculation)

Homelessness rates in SF are absurdly high. In fact, there are more unsheltered homeless people in SF than the entire country of England(!):

San Francisco unsheltered population: 6,600 (2017)

England unsheltered population: 4,751 (2017)

They are not equivalent situations obviously, but somehow a country with a population greater than the state of California manages to have fewer homeless people than one relatively tiny city in California. Something is very wrong.

Homelessness is a complex issue with lots of intertwined causes and no single solution. Not only is affordable housing an issue, but mental health treatment is an equally important problem. I don't have the answers. But I do know that it is a public health crisis and we are currently completely failing to solve it. We need big changes if we actually care about addressing it and we as a country definitely have the resources to do it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17979743 and marked it off-topic.
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Interesting read!

I find it funny how we approach this same problem every ~5 years. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/164831/how-to-rank-a-mil...)

I recently implemented a similar tool to help my team decide which brand and art references to use => http://refsort.com/

One big difference is that I focused on subjective topics, where there is no absolute 'correct' or 'better' option. In that case I think transitivity could actually decrease the quality of the result, so more 'brute force' is required.

I could probably implement this algorithm in a branch and see what happens :)
You're welcome. Eventually, it gets to the point where the other person feels the need to fill the pause. And then you have a conversation. The pause, though, can seem to be interminably long even if it is just like 5 seconds.

If you don't pause, you won't give them an entry into the conversation. Some people won't interject or interrupt.
That is contradictory. If money is how he keeps score than he isn't going to give any way.
Or just collect a group of people to count the ballots as has been done for hundreds of years. Third-world countries that have suffered massive destruction in wars manage to conduct elections just fine without the use of any advanced technology. I'm pretty sure Georgia could manage just fine if they cared to do so.
I work in tech, and we really need to find a way to get tech companies to move from the bay area to different metro areas in the country.
It's one of the side-effects of having a relatively nice climate.

Quite frankly, given how many decades Seattle has had a significant homeless population, I'm surprised the city hasn't taken point on treatment and housing programs. They have a unique opportunity to really help a lot of people out if they'd step up and do it.
Was thinking the same. Probably it doesn't make a particularly good image of Emacs/Lisp users.

I happen to tweak Emacs and write Clojure for a living, but thankfully I left the 'meta' trap behind years ago. My blog in on Medium.
It seems backward in that you charge less money for lower paying degrees independent of what someone actually makes.
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I'm not against programs to help people who can't afford normal housing. However, that's not the specific, hugely obvious problem in Seattle.
> It doesn't compromise the users privacy in any meaningful way.

I would have to disagree. The mere fact that it's there and visible by default means it can be accidentally clicked on. Doing that opens a native application which loads an Amazon-provided javascript file. Cards are off the table after that loads.
I'm marginally surprised nobody's used ropes for Ruby previously; this is something that was done in the first few years for all the JS VMs* given it provides pretty sizeable perf gains (because string concatenation is so common), and this seems to show it's true for much Ruby code too.

*: to be pedantic, Carakan never did use ropes, just lazily concatenating strings for some operations.

(And now I wait for someone who worked on this to tell me why they didn't do it sooner. :))
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I highly recommend watching Raph's talk for anyone writing Rust apps that manage non-trivial state. Ah heck just watch it no matter what it's great.
Property owners in SF are extremely motivated to be politically active. The insane raises in property values are literally their profits. Voting is not the only avenue. Try to build anything and the whole neighborhood will call for “studies on the effect on the community” to keep you tied up in court for years.

SF does spend a huge amount on its homeless. But, it’s apparently not effective. I can’t speak to why.
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