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You can make any language do anything if you have days/months/years of free time, but NodeJS isn't suitable for systems programming. Imagine trying to write a tcp load balancer or interface with Linux specific kernel APIs from Javascript. It's not a great choice for a CLI tool since there's inherent startup time for JITed VM based language. It doesn't scale well for CPU bound thread pool applications like image processing, etc.

So there are lots of places where it doesn't make any sense at all or it's just a very, very poor choice for a particular task.
That comic just seems like a lazy way of dismissing people by assuming bad faith.
The Marvel movies are notorious for oodles of film grain. I think it looks horrible and adds nothing to the movie.
I got really confused when I saw Loop a few weeks ago as it seems really similar to https://www.loopindustries.com/en/, which is a Canadian company working on plastic manufacturing that has already partnered with lots of the industries (beverage, cosmetics) that the org in this article would like to target. They don’t seem to be the same organization though? The similarities even go down to the logo...
Puerto Rico's solar energy insurrection
That take forever to summarize. How about learn PinYin from the basic?

I just found this video on YouTube, can be a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XbQJPF817I&list=PLWXyZU_NJb...
> Typically this information is your email address or phone number.

Which means they are also using other types of information to identify you, and since your email and phone number can't be used, it must be those other information types. I'd love to know what they are.

My count is 11,885 advertisers, for what it's worth. It looks like car dealerships are the majority of them... I've never bought a car from a dealership. Very odd.
This is true with regards to measles. It is also true that babies tend to have some level of immunity for the first year (assuming their mother is), which is why the vaccine isn't given until the 12 month mark.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/childrens-health/...
Boise, Idaho has a growing technology scene. There are many HP and Micron offshoots. Some big success stories too: Cradlepoint, Bodybuilding.com, T-Sheets (acquired by Intuit), ClearWater analytics, ClickBank, TruckStop.com, the list goes on.

A bit further of a flight to SF and Seattle, Salt lake, but also has a ton of outdoor access.
This has been all over the local Portland news for weeks.

Here are a few more details (but from memory so I could be slightly off):

About 50 kids in Clark County have come down with measles so far.

49 of kids with measles were unvaccinated.

1 kid with measles received one dose of the vaccine. SOP is for two doses.

No kid that received both doses has contracted measles.

I haven't seen any reports of adults contracting measles.

One vaccine dose is about 93% effective, 2 doses are about 97% effective.

In Washington State (not sure if state as a whole or just Clark County) about 22% of kids aren't vaccinated.

In Oregon about 11% of kids aren't vaccinated.

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When I was a kid smallpox vaccine was very common and polio vaccine was coming into use. People took vaccination very seriously. Read some history of those two diseases and you will quickly understand why.

In various settings (e.g. family doctor, various school nurses, etc) I probably received 2 doses of injected polio vaccine and 5 doses of oral vaccine. At least that I can remember. The number was probably higher. That's how serious the effort was to prevent polio. One high school teacher (polio victim) needed some metal contraption around his leg to help him walk. I.e. there were visible reminders of how serious polio was.

Smallpox vaccine was easier to keep track of. It left a slight scar on many peoples upper arm. So if you had the scar, it meant you had the vaccine!
I hope they are successful in building a localized grid that supports solar and other renewable sources.

What I don't understand is why towns and cities can't lead the way forward?
I define a 'just' society as one in which initiating violence is forbidden and you must only use reason to persuade people to action.

It is in line with the commandments "Thou shalt not murder/steal", which would be in effect even (especially?) if you think you are making the world a better place through wealth distribution.
> If you don't record what people are doing with your app, then you're not going to have any idea if anyone is actually using it, or if it is any good, or if there is anything you need to fix.

There are other ways to get information as to what to fix, and I have no need to know what people are doing in my app.
Whither tactical media?
How? In-place sorts and out-of-place sorts have different implementations.
Antivaxxers are pretty evenly distributed across the ideological spectrum.
Good point! Let me update.

I was going for unique keywords with no repetitions.
Bloomberg changed their title after article was posted.
Source? This would probably fail some compliances audit.

Most of these kind of tools (ie:HotJar) have a flag that will prevent theses data from being sent.
Even when your app crashes, Apple gives you crash log and nothing else, so I don't see they providing a way to tag users more granularly than this.
The $64,000 question is if they eventually are able to connect a ghost profile to a real profile, then shouldn't that data be available in the data export of the real profile? I've downloaded all my data before but just kicked off another one to check again. If someone in the EU was in the same situation I'd like to see what their data download looks like given the new privacy and data rules under GDPR.
Yeah, though it is bad form to comment on up/downvotes, the voting in this thread is super weird for hacker news. It is putting some other conversations on the site recently in a new light for me, though.
I assume you are on mobile - keep scrolling right on the code, some reason HN doesn't wrap text on mobile.
When my daughter was born four years ago, the anti-vaccine movement in SF and the north bay was in full swing. Despite living only 40 miles south, she didn’t go to SF for the first time until after she was one.

She went to Budapest at 7 months old. I felt more comfortable taking her to Eastern Europe than San Francisco.
Not really. I get a lot of spam from recruiters. I also get feeler from people I have worked with before. Last time I look for work, I got multiple job offers after one week. San Francisco's tech job market is hot.
Ummm, country ≠ person...

Also are billionaires going to allow people to vote who owns their wealth and allocates their spending every 4 years?
Do you have anything to say about C++ => V translation?

From what I know C++ is an extremely complex language. How do you deal with the complexity? (Especially considering V is meant to be simple)
That's a good point, but shouldn't we have learned from history?

I don't think "we don't really have a choice" is true. Societies DO learn from their mistakes, albeit slowly. "Culture" exists for a reason -- it's how groups of people change their behavior.

For example, I think the memory of World War II absolutely did make decision makers behave differently. Nobody wants total war again -- they know how bad it is. We learned from our mistakes. (This doesn't stop stronger countries from picking on weak ones, but that's not total war.)

As an aside, I do think there is a form of "group selection" that happens in nature. Societies that are unable to collectively change their behavior -- learning big lessons on long time scales -- don't survive. "Sapiens" is largely about these "mass delusions" and I think he's onto something (although many would argue its unscientific, and many have argued against group selection as a mechanism of evolution).

In the past we had mass delusion to start religious wars, but that same mechanism can perhaps be used to put value on measured growth rather than winner-take-all outcomes.
According to this World Bank data[1], the measles vaccination rates in the countries that are the top sources [2] of illegal immigration in the US:

* United States: 92% vaccination

* Washington State: 90.6% vaccination

* Mexico (55% of illegal immigrants): 96% vaccination

* El Salvador (6% of illegal immigrants): 85%

* Guatemala (5% of illegal immigrants): 86%

* India (4% of illegal immigrants): 88%

* Honduras (3% of illegal immigrants): 97%

* Philippines (3% of illegal immigrants): 89%

So I’d say that theory is not strongly supported by the evidence. But it’s entirely appropriate to evaluate the possibility, and there could very well be a lower vaccination rate among
illegal immigrant populations. Had you phrased your point differently — as a matter of inquiry into the epidemiology — it likely would’ve been received better. Also, your post made no real attempt to quantify the real and well documented phenomenon of philosophical/cultural objections to vaccination among the citizen population in Washington, which is surely relevant!

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.MEAS?view=map

[2] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Unautho...
I was living in Orange County (CA) when my son was born. It would have been _very_ easy to find a midwife and a pediatrician that were totally fine and all-in on "alternative vaccination schedules." I can't speak for all other metros where this has played out, but I suspect the same is true in many places. Lack of knowledge (or holding on to provably false beliefs) isn't something that physicians are immune to.
Awesome, I love to see new programming languages in action. This is great. Some thoughts.

First, ignore negativity and focus on getting constructive feedback. One of my tiny regrets is that I abandoned one of my projects due partially to negative energy. Many years ago, one of my projects was shared here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226480 ), and the feedback was kind of a buzzkill (especially since I wasn't the one sharing it).

Second, think about the growth you want. While I could ignore the buzzkill and keep the faith, I used my language to put a real product out into the world. The crazy thing is that I got it working and working very well, but when it came to hire. It was a cluster fuck. I should have spent a bunch more time on documentation and examples, but I had other concerns that were higher priority. I ultimately had to abandon the whole thing, and I just rewrote everything in C# and used Mono. It was painful, but the company was able to grow faster since the tools were somewhat standard and a plethora examples for the new hires.

When I look back, I was onto something. If I had kept the faith and pushed through, then I would have created something very similar to HHVM which Facebook uses. My strategy back then was to create a less awful language, improve it, then port the platform bits to a better ecosystem and preserve the "business logic".

My core advice with the programming language side of the house is to find a partner for you to lead/follow with shared values. Make it open source as soon as possible, don't wait.
[2014] The future that everyone forgot
There's a _very_ strong case for taxation being robbery. More like extortion, I suppose.

If I don't pay my taxes, I get put in jail. If I resist arrest, I get shot.

If we "abolish billionaires", they'll just all move out of US jurisdiction. But what if one doesn't, and doesn't want to give up his money? Should we agree to murder him for it?

People get murdered for a lot less, all the time. I guess it's not a surprising thing, suggesting that society murders billionaires.
That's a good point. Trust seems to be built on repeated interactions no? Could the doctor spend that time building the trust so that the education sticks?
I’ve worked with a similar library before: appsee. While it does have a little bit of value in helping trace crash reports and provide heat maps, we ultimately got rid of it and for the better. It can be hard to find and “cover up” every single place where sensitive information can be displayed. That’s really up to the developer to manually do most of it, though some of it is done automatically (e.g. password fields). Even the most well intentioned developer can miss out on a label that shows th user’s email or a text field with address data. And that’s just the developers who know about this challenge and try to do something about it. I’d venture many don’t. Just as bad is the performance hit. Taking screenshots utilizes the main thread (no way around it) and it just kills any attempts at making buttery smooth animations throughout the app. Suffice to say, such libraries are just not worth it for the perceived value they allegedly provide.
Stabilization and proliferation of libraries; afaik its ecosystem is currently only really fulfilled for numpy/scipy/ml workloads
No, but you shouldn't even be able to become a billionaire in the first place. That capital should be reinvested into society, not held by an individual.
Literally, yes.
What kind of niche ai products do you work with? Curious to know if your ok to share
I did not downvote and will not, because the post is phrased as a question. But, I do oppose compulsory vaccination because it harms bodily integrity.
> You can write platform specific code in Python.

It's clearly not designed for doing anything advanced, though: it's not like you can get access to platform-specific APIs outside of the basics without doing a lot of work.
The problem with Do Not Track was that it wasn't a technical solution at all. It was begging. I'm honestly surprised anybody thought it would work.
Competition to be the best is a zero sum game. But education isn’t. You speak of life before internet, youtube, wikipedia, github, bigquery. Things aren’t so bleak.
Extra Dimensions Give Optimization a Boost – The Computation of Stable Atomic
I assume `a` would need to be copied into the local scope of the function and the optimization would be to elide the copy after analysis shows the original a is safely consumed by the call site so it does not require persistence.

This probably means lots of aliasing restrictions or in the case where the optimization can't be done, copying could be an expensive side effect of an innocent refactoring.

I hear Swift uses something like this, though it's copy-on-write. I've not used Swift in any significant capacity. Does anyone else have experiences to share with this model?
That’s fine and well, but irrelevant to what I said. I failed to deduce the fallacy myself or find anyone else doing it for me, thus I’m asking.
Do you really believe this?

The democrats are on the whole not against billionaires, there is simply an increase in popularity to make billionaire pay more tax. Something closer to historical levels no less.

Then people make comments like this and try and things into a storm in a teacup....I wonder if this is how they truly see the policy or its just cheap internet comments.
Pointing out how high the base-line level of incompetence of the government seems ineffective.

I think the line of reasoning is something like this:

> "The rich" are bad, we need the government to save us from them. The government is underfunded, so when it takes money from the rich, it'll be funded enough to become competent.

The federal debt is $20 trillion. The 400 billionaires and their 2.7 trillion is about 15% of the debt we're in.

Why does the government always get a free pass in... everything?
Does Zinc Increase Sperm Volume?
Do you have a dedicated VPN exclusively for browsing Facebook too?
The envisioned use case is Kata Containers https://katacontainers.io (formerly "Clear Containers"), which behaves like a container runtime but is actually a virtual machine with its own kernel to enhance isolation from the host. Since it runs its own kernel, it needs something like this to access files on the host.

The advantage compared to running normal VMs is that it's interoperable with things that expect a container runtime like Docker or rkt - e.g., Kubernetes can run Kata Containers - and the overhead / density / startup speed is much closer to that of actual containers (in the sense of namespaces+cgroups) than traditional VMs.
In Germany you typically have two options to get vaccines. Generally recommended vaccines are given by any general doctors. For other vaccines, usually for traveling, you can visit a "tropical institute".

I've had extraordinary good experience with the treatment in those cases. They perform a personalized risk assessment and thoroughly inform about risks of both the vaccination and the disease.
It's not garbage collected, right?
Are you trying to position that unless something is the root of all your problems you cant address it?

Also straw man. It's a cheap form of debate... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
You obviously didn't read my other comments here if you think this is "future" stuff and not already working in real-world scenarios. Also the title does not say anything about Bitcoin, it uses the term Blockchain technology. For someone who is so professional and partial to the space, I WOULD ABSOLUTELY EXPECT a title and terminology to reflect the actual content and not to so casually and carelessly lob all Blockchain tech in with this analysis. It's really unfortunate because those out there who understand so little of what is actually going on will believe what these "analysts" tell you.
Volt: Fast native desktop client for all major web services
Sorry - the two issues are separate.

* Spotify is inefficient (wonder how much is DRM?)

* Low signal causes your phone to increase transmit power.
Fuck, if only a bunch of clueless helicopter parents hadn't decided that Jenny McCarthy was an authority on vaccine safety, and had listened to the advice of every immunologist and epidemiologist on the planet.

You want to see the result of not vaccinating your children, en masse? Go visit a poor part of Pakistan, where you'll see people still afflicted by polio.
It is about ads. Browsers have adblocks.
Hippies that eat granola. It’s just used to describe the kind of person that wears Patagonia, goes on weekend hikes in their hiking shoes and cargo pants, buys organic, probably a vegan, and eats granola/trail mix.
No matter what you do, you have to solve what I call "The Documenter's Dilemma" or nothing will end up working long term.

Let's presuppose an already-functioning documentation system, and three types of organizational players: the "Outstanding Engineer" (OE), the "Grinding-style Middle Manager" (GMM), and "GMM's middle or junior Engineering staff" (GES).

Imagine the following scenario: OE, a true believer at this point, authors an outstanding and informative technical document as an act of pure goodwill. OE is a busy person, with sweeping responsibilities that are often not completely understood organizationally. However, so far, so good, and different OEs across different areas jump in with articles of their own, often for areas they are not even officially involved in.

Meanwhile, GMM is directing GES to digest and leverage these documents to their fullest extent. Note that neither GMM nor GES could have authored the documents they are leveraging.

The Documenter's Dillema is this-- over time, the occurrence of one or more of the following is completely certain:

1. GMM or GES argue successfully that the LACK of an OE document is "the problem", for whatever "the problem" is that day, and that the solution is to force OE to do something about it.

2. GMM and GES successfully sustain a multi-week, widely CCd email thread that includes OE with the implicit expectation that OE monitor and react quickly to developments on this email thread.

3. GMM or GES argue successfully that because a procedure documented by OE does not work anymore, that this is some type of "external critical blocking item" blamable to OE in a status report of some type.

OE types are not OE types because they are stupid. They quickly understand that none of #1-3 would have occurred if it were not for their initial act of goodwill. Therefore, OE types will entirely cease to contribute out of goodwill, and mostly cease to contribute unless strictly necessary, upon which the contribution will be the minimum possible to minimize the damage.

Unless this is recognized and explicitly corrected for at the very top of the organization implementing and consuming the documentation, The Documenter's Dilemma will appear every single time.
This has been done for many years on the web. The first one I can recall was Hotjar, which offered both heat maps and session replay.

I have no comment regarding the ethical implications of this technology, but I can see why it is useful practically.
Quote from a mom on the fence in the article

“On one side, they make you afraid, and the other side they make you feel stupid, and you get stuck in this middle where you feel beat up by both sides,” she said.

Not trying to be condescending but this frustrates me even more than anti vaxers who have an identity in supporting their idiotic parade.

This woman is sincerely trying to figure out what is best for her child and she couldn’t do it until she had a 2 hour one on one conversation with her doctor. She has no agenda. And she can’t figure it out with honest effort even with the internet. Our society lacks clear trusted authorities on important basic issues. And our citizens lack critical reasoning skills. Why is she so bad at this? serious question. How is our general population so poorly equipped?

I’m glad she did go have that 2 hour conversation, but that feels like the kind of solution we can’t reasonably provide to all people. It shouldn’t require that.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who wishes VS Code had capability like this (which isn't to say everyone needs it or wants it, just that when it's needed and wanted it sounds amazing)
Mine is exclusively car dealerships. Are DMV records public?
Correct. There's some more details in this (unfinished) article: https://volt.ws/game
sensationalist bs.
how is ability to watch a screen recording of you using their app and typing in your credit card into THEIR app is different from the same app developer just pulling up your credit card info from their database? if you give the info to the app, the app owner will see your info. as discussed as that. the fact that its in a form of screen recording doesn't make it scary or dangerous.
Looks like you got downvoted by the usual anti-science politically-correct contingent here on HN, but you’re right to investigate that possibility. Here’s an analysis of the last major outbreak in the early 90s that shows how huge a factor unvaccinated undocumented Hispanics were : https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001675.htm
I'm not sure if I'm the target audience for this (low-latency trading), but here's my thought - code which would allocate in a fast path is a strict no-go for me, and this runs fairly close to that in a few regards:

> It seems easy to accidentally make allocating code allocate by changing some variable names (b = fnc(a) - oops, allocation)

> I would be extremely wary of trusting a compiler to realize what sort of allocations are optimizable and not - I already have problems with inlining decisions, poor code layout, etc in fairly optimized c++/rust code compiled by gcc+llvm.

Replace allocation with any other expensive work that duplicating a datastructure would result in, and you have the same story. I suspect many of the people that would be evaluating this compared to C/C++/Rust have similar performance concerns.
Huh. Seems to me they should just do that for everybody instead of for people with DNT turned on.
My theory? The virulent strain of anti-intellectualism / anti-elitism that has run through American society in the last 20 years. "These fancy educated people in their ivory towers telling me what to do with my children...".

There's a point at which you should simply defer to the critical mass of thousands of people with doctorates in the subject matter, such as about 99.9% of epidemiologists on the planet.
Spot on in what way? That the criticism is invalid because of the religion held by the people making the criticism?