skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what happens when he is no longer the one making these decisions? Will BH still outperform the S&P 500?
Come on dude, try to write things that might be believed. Limbaugh has been bragging for decades about inventing this clever phrase that annoys Democratics.
> In a nutshell: Julia is great when you're a grad student working mostly by yourself on small scale projects! But not so great in prod.

Some people would disagree with that

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/celeste.html
We really need to switch to a regime under which we first establish the safety of a compound and then mass-produce it.
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And here we go again with "but that was the old, evil MSFT! This is the new, good MSFT!" Where oh where have we seen this before? Hello leopard, nice spots. (Cue whataboutism)
Well it's a requirement for safety I think, so not entirely useless.

It's more that flying planes for fun might be considered wasteful.
Is the timber that is used local?
I was a military wife for a lot of years. I have very serious health problems. Doctors officially blame that on my genes, which can't be changed, so it's a de facto means to throw their hands in the air and call me unfixable.

I think environmental factors are a big part of the problem and that those can be addressed.

I lived on a military base for 2.75 years where there was one tap in the house labeled "potable water." You weren't supposed to drink water from the bathroom sink while brushing teeth, yet we bathed in this stuff and washed our dishes with it, etc.

The house was not very far from Hinkley, CA, location of the hexavalent chromium plume made famous in the movie "Erin Brockovich."

When I have said on the internet that I believe hexavalent chromium poisoning is one of my problems, I have been dismissed as a nutter and conspiracy theorist by internet strangers who are confident they know all about my life better than I do.

I actually spent some years on an antivaxxer email list. They had a lot of interesting and useful information that helped me begin turning my health around while my doctor expressed zero curiosity about my improvement, advised me other patients needed him more and scheduled me fewer appointments.

YouTube recently demonitized anti vax channels (seemingly part of general trend to shut down such views). Most people seem to think that's a good thing. It leaves me wondering where people like me are supposed to go in a world where "fringe" views cannot be discussed in good faith on the internet. Are we supposed to just quietly die because that's the PC answer when doctors tell you "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game."?

If you make zero effort to get me well and write me off for dead because of the label you gave me, wouldn't my decline and death be a form of self-fulfilling prophecy?

And when I defy that prediction, I'm written off as a crazy person and thrown off of one forum after another.

Insert some quote about "And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak."
"This is basically how a particular user's front page is put together:

1. 50 (100 if you have reddit gold) random subreddits from your subscriptions (or from the default subreddits for logged-out users and ones that haven't customized their subscriptions at all) are selected. This set of selected subreddits will change every half hour, if you have more subscriptions than the 50/100 limit.

2. For each of those subreddits, take the #1 post, as long as it's less than a day old. Order these posts by their "hotness", and then these will be the first X submissions on your front page, where X is the number of subreddits that have a #1 post less than a day old. So you get the top post from each subreddit before seeing a second one from any individual subreddit.

3. The remaining submissions are ordered using a "normalizing" method that compares their scores to the score of the #1 post in the subreddit they're from. This makes it so that, for example, a post with 500 points in a subreddit where the top post has 1000 points is ranked the same as one with 5 points where the top has 10."

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2lhhiu/the...

This is an old comment (2014), so it's about so-called "old design" (old.reddit.com). I don't know much about "new design", because I don't use it.

See also this interesting related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567494 (and also this: https://web.archive.org/web/20180528053032/http://www.kairay...)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – 2018 Annual Report [pdf]
Republicans and Democrats most of all. If voters would stop voting for them, we'd have better people in office.
I grew up on a military base and we were told on certain days not to drink the water but on other days it was "fine"

I wonder about the after effects.
Go for short story compilations first and allow yourself distraction only after you’ve finished. That’ll get you back into the reading mindset.
The Joy in Csh and Vi
The point I'm making is that it's not okay to force others to inject things they do not want in their bodies so that you don't have to make any effort for dealing with diseases. Forcibly injecting someone is violence, but it's so abstracted in our society that most do not see it that way.

I generally don't bother to argue logical points because no one will listen. But here are a couple of the big ones:

Measles is not a deadly disease for all but in the most rare of cases. Yet the claims of vaccine injuries are skyrocketing. It doesn't make sense to protect people from a non-deadly disease at the cost of giving millions lifelong debilitating illness.

There has not been one double-blind placebo controlled trial to evaluate the safety of any vaccine. All studies that have been done compare a newer vaccine to an older vaccine. Those are the kinds of studies people are referring to when they claim that there is no link between autism and vaccines. These studies only prove that the new vaccine is AS safe as the old vaccine.

The measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Deaths from measles were already minuscule before the vaccine was even introduced.

Likewise, most diseases were well under control before the introduction of vaccines. This is due to advances in sanitation.

Of course, vaccines for polio are probably worth the risk/reward. But no one is actually talking about polio. We are talking about non-deadly diseases.

This is a decent summary with sources to these claims:
http://www.jannyorganically.com/blog/2019/1/27/your-industry...
Yeah I get it, it's inconvenient. But I taking the jvm thing again, I think julia's value is outside of this way of doing things.

Out of curiosity I timed ocaml

$ time echo 'let x = "1" in print_endline(x)' | ocaml -stdin -
1

real 0m0.045s
user 0m0.039s
sys 0m0.007s

I thought julia init time was due to type checking phase but ocaml seems to have no issue, even with non zero code:

$ time echo 'let l = [1;2;3;4] in let m = List.map (fun x -> x*x) l in print_int(List.length(m))' | ocaml -stdin -
4
real 0m0.050s
user 0m0.040s
sys 0m0.011s

Sad, I liked a lot of Julia features..

ps: this hints at the init time being constant recompilation of its core https://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/4c09m1/julia_045_sta... and they were thinking (2 years ago) of caching..
Sure. All I can recommend is to contact the EFF. They had some lawyers willing to work with us. The lawyer who did end up working with us was from California and specialized in patent trolls. I'm outside the office right now so I can't tell you specifically who it was

You may also be able to strike a deal with the patent trolls. We were able to take them down to 40k from 100k. That was still ridiculous for us but if you're paying a lawyer or paying the troll it's all the same to a business working on thin margins. We heard stories that they would accept as little as 10k.

For what it's worth the patent troll that targeted us is no longer operating under their original name. They were taken down by the EFF representing a vape company if I remember right.
I'm interested in the tapeworm pictures.
Another issue is that physicians flat out deny that there are any risks associated with vaccines. And the one's that do admit this risk losing their license.

Yet it's widely known in the medical industry that all medical treatments carry risk, like you said.
Weird article title. This is more neat than it is alarming.
> People who have the choice between "no car" and "self driving car that sometimes refuses to start because of the weather" will still prefer the latter, as long as it's not too frequent in their climate.

This. As an anecdote, my grandmother still drives, but does not drive at night, or in bad weather.
This is actually big news.
It means that all of the major GPUs with an OSS driver share a lot of code, specifically the gallium part of the mesa project.

This means that features like OpenCL can be implemented for one driver and with minimal effort be ported to another GPU.
Interesting. Is there something that would stop them from making a sham delivery in Windsor each time through to skirt the law?
One of my favorite things about NYC are the quarterly water resevoir updates. They test constantly (more than bottled water is required to) and release detailed reports about the state of things [0]

Not only that but they'll send you water bottles to fill up and then test your water for lead and give you results which is neat too.

The United States as a whole has done some incredible things in regards to air quality, and water quality. We should keep it up. Travesties like these and Flint are not okay.

[0]-https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/wsstate.sh...
Interesting, but this whole digression is patently off-topic.
Yes this is a deficiency in TFA. It obscures the more serious points about e.g. automobile safety.
I don't admire his behavior though and I don't want to emulate that behavior. He makes his alcoholism and everything that goes with it less appealing to me, unlike other authors who do romanticize a sort of rock and roll lifestyle.

Unless the behavior we are talking about is his writing style and his honesty and his ability to talk about some of our darker states of mind in a way that feels authentic to the reader.

> There's something romantic and intoxicating about frank, brutal honesty w/rt the inner id, the fortitude to look deep into the heart of one's own darkness without blinking that gets frequently conflated with 'romanticizing' or 'normalizing' that darkness.

Well yes. My point was that the parent comment got it wrong with the 'romanticizing'. Sounds like you agree.
Which drivers now use Gallium? I know the r600 driver for older AMD GPUs does, what about AMDGPU?
Is that the actual constraint on the system though? Are existing technologies not up to the task? Or are we failing to build a system like this with existing technology even though it's possible. Would a robotic assembly line with existing medical testing technologies be possible?
I tried to like Julia but after a while I realized there was absolutely no use case for me to choose Julia over other languages. It might be useful for new grads looking to learn a language though.
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Just thi search fails "old western town in pheonix" others are fine.
> exposed in all their nakedness

In fairness, some of the better designed servers redirect to a domain. For example, one of the IPs I stumbled redirected to this weird portal (where the links point to the parent domain)

https://www.cjb.net
Only a few Atari 8-bit people in the audience, but one thing that wasn't covered in his overview was ATASCII art - sometimes made with a program called a "Breakin' Generator". There are some online demos here: http://www.breakintochat.com/collections/atascii/
I guess a clearer analogy is via environmental economics and externalities.

The byproduct of dominant market share in an industry where you influence people's thoughts is toxic responsibility.

And currently, some large companies are avoiding and externalizing the costs of that responsibility.
I love how Berkshire uses honest measure to compare their performance.
They could just use SP500 price index as others do and get away with it, but they choose the correct metric - SP500 with dividends included.

Berkshire is not paying dividends like most firms do and their stock value grows 2 -3 percent more than SP500 price index just for that reason.
The US health care system is dystopian. These are just challenges that are not possible to ignore.
The reason I'm resorting to appeals of emotion is because the opposing side will only listen to emotion. They are so convinced the science is settled that you can't get a single word in to present a logical argument.
Jainism is a very hard road to walk.
Ideally, Julia should give you the best of R (good, integrated data-types, -structures and functionality for statistics etc) and python (a sane, real programming language) - with the benefit of speed - and no/hardly any need to drop to/link to C libraries - "everything" is in Julia, and you can inspect the code "all the way down" (well, to a point - there's of course llvm at the bottom).

Whether Julia is that for you right now probably depends a bit on your needs/use cases.

Until Julia gains some form of aot compiler for static binaries - it's not quite an alternative to python imnho - you can't expect to run Julia scripts everywhere you can run python. Though this is similar to R. And there are of course much bigger ecosystems for python and R code/libraries than currently for Julia.

Personally I think they've done a great job on the design/syntax of Julia - it's a fun language - and that might be the best reason to play with it?
https://github.com/galegosimpatico/halley-samples
Seems your condition is very different from that of a newborn baby with an under developed and fragile immune system, who's mothers are fed mistruths about how harmful vaccines are.

I don't see how your story relates in any way about harmful anti-vax groups (and vaccines in general) other than "I got some unrelated help at one point". So yes, we can absolutely be happy they are being demonitized.

That being said I am sorry that your doctor treated you like that and I am glad you did manage to help yourself.
Epigenetics for example show that certain gene switches are passed on between generations. Rat mothers that experience anxiety pass this on to their offspring. There is this whole lecture on behavioral biology by Stanford Prof Robert Sapolsky which I highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7E21BF91F3F9683
Anyway I think having a clear understanding on where you are coming from, with acceptance, is a requirement for moving into the future with the best of your abilities.
I mean technically it's a feature you're using, just unintentionally. Kinda like setting a mutable object as a default argument.

But I'll admit I got bit by exactly this recently, wrote up an "assignment" using a colon instead of an equal sign and it didn't do anything, but didn't fail either.

Somewhat frustratingly, pycharm didn't warn about it either. I should probably check their bug tracker to see if somebody already reported it.
> We are all responsible for breaking our country. Every. Single. One. Of. Us.

That's not how it works. Unless all Americans are responsible for an American barn catching fire because the American owner tossed an American cigarette butt inside.

No, politics get ruined by politicians. And politicians are put there by some of the people. Not all of the people. I know you'd like to lessen the burden on your shoulders and try to spread the blame also towards the people who voted against them. But if you voted for the current crop of politicians ruling your country you (and all others casting the same vote) are directly responsible for the state it's in.

Being ashamed of that and diverting the blame just implies you accept you voted for the wrong people.
> Anyway, I don't like salmon, it's too orange, I don't eat anything orange, except for oranges because they admit that they're orange.

- Karen from "Outnumbered"
Don't look for sources that are biased in a different way. The solution to spin in the news really shouldn't be spin in the opposite direction - that would just add another source of misinformation. The solution is consuming only solid, fact-based journalism with reliable sources.

Also, not every issue requires "balanced" views - if the news is extremely negative/positive regarding a certain problem/person/party, that's fine as long as the news is supported by facts. Adding "alternative" news would be adding lies in that case.
I think the anti-intellectual theme of Fahrenheit 451 is pretty clear. The story spends a lot of time describing the vapid media that everyone consumes. I don’t see how anyone could interpret it to be solely about censorship if they actually read the book, to be honest.

In my very humble opinion, I don't think the book has aged well. I believe the internet really upended the central premise.

The book described society devolving into an illiterate, pleasure-seeking dystopia. The main feature of the Fahrenheit 451 world is a centralized monoculture which is established through trashy tv shows, advertising, and comics.

Social media is extremely shallow, sure, but we also have historically unprecedented access to almost unlimited information. We now have media that is so diverse, and of such specificity, that it has essentially eliminated shared culture and narrative.

It seems the path to the 21st century dystopia is having too much radically decentralized information, rather than a lack of it. Now the concern isn't people being deprived of information. To the contrary, the concern now is people consuming the 'wrong' or 'fake' information. We now have intellectuals intentionally depriving the world of revolutionary research because of this.
That is the question. I'm not a Berkshire-head, but from what I know Buffett seems to run a pretty decentralized shop and take succession planning seriously.

He mentions how accolades belong to talented BH managers rather than himself in almost every letter.
He’s not the only one who knows the secret:

https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

He’s made his ideas known for half a century.
As the annual letters go, this one seems remarkably uninteresting? No major purchases or restructurings, and the rest is canned summary & familiar from previous letters. 2018 was a quiet year at BH, seems, despite all.
Open source drivers don't work the way proprietary drivers do. For example, the Rage 128 from 1998 is still receiving updates in Mesa.[1] Before spreading unfounded conspiracy theories, you should do some research.

[1] https://bracecomputerlab.com/2018/06/08/selecting-ati-techno...
Yes, I got that. But the "good parts" according to this artcle derive from where it can work like a statically typed language.
Here's a relevant quote from the link you've posted:

> During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism—as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. The FBI estimates that ALF/ELF have committed approximately 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 42 million dollars.

I'm not much into US politics, but aren't the two mentioned "liberation fronts" left?
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The high risk is destroying forest land without fully realizing the extent of the impact it will cause.
Local variable type hints are a major reason I refuse to use python versions before 3.6. What is this guy's problem?
If you can, try Calibre[0]. It can do the conversion and ebook management for you.

[0] https://calibre-ebook.com
I can give you one secret, which is that despite what you hear in the press, the phone can be a double-edged sword, one that can also cut for you, instead of against you, with just a bit of discipline. Non-zero discipline, but not impossible amounts of discipline. With a book-reading app, you can get through anything, even War and Peace, in ten minutes here, ten minutes there, and maybe 40 minutes in the evening if you can scrape it together.

I'm saying this not because I lack the attention span to read for three hours, because I still can... the problem is assembling those three hours when you've got a job and young kids.

I've also been learning a foreign language for about an hour a day over the past year and a half, and believe me, very few of those hours have been contiguous. But I can recover five minutes here and five minutes there, and finish up in the evening, and I'm making real progress. (Unlike reading, where the attention being cut up will diminish the impact, once you're memorizing vocab and such, it's actually possible that breaking it up throughout the day is a benefit rather than the same amount of time in one block. It may help convince your brain that what you're doing is important and shouldn't be discarded, because it keeps coming up, rather than being something it can compartmentalize easily.)

With a bit of creativity you can turn this to your benefit, or at the very least, somewhat to your benefit rather than merely to your continued disadvantage.
The literal interpretation has only humour value (which is great btw). If you were worth many billions and thought to better something you cared about it should be something big and long lasting. It would be to set into motion a new thing in a chosen direction over a longer time span, say a generation or more.
Free software has unfortunately turned into a major enabler of the advertising economy. Take Android for example. Before Android, phone makers had to pay for their mobile OS. It was something like $15 to license Symbian. Android destroyed Symbian, in part because it was “free.” But what was the result? It’s not actually free to develop Android, and most of the work is done by paid developers. That investment is recouped, of course, by Google’s data mining and advertising platforms built on Android. And Android destroyed the for-pay mobile OS market—it’s impossible to compete with a “free” OS.

The same thing happened to web browsers, though it’s Microsoft’s fault. You had to pay for web browsers back in the day. And then Microsoft bundled IE to leverage its OS monopoly. And then Google made Chrome, an ad supported browser. Now, the browser is just a purpose-built vector for advertising. Even though Mozilla still exists, almost all its revenue comes from Google.

The problem with free software is that unpaid developers can’t really do things on the scale of Android or Chrome. Today, the overwhelming majority of Linux contributions come from paid developers. That forces you to think about how to monetize the software, if you can’t just charge for it. And that leads to advertising, at least on the consumer side. Open source works okay for businesses, where companies like RedHat can pay for development through support contracts. But it’s been a disaster for consumers. The landscape is littered with formerly viable software niches (photo and video editors, word processors and spreadsheets, etc.) that have been decimated by either free software or free web apps which are linked to advertising.
This is true. I don't think Python is to blame for it, though. Any language has potential for making a mistake that's syntactically valid but doesn't have the intended meaning. It's like when a former manager of mine typed "call me at your continence" when he meant to say "call me at your convenience".
non-clickbait title: Python: Mistyping a character in your code can bite you.

Any IDE or linter worth its salt would catch this for you.