skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you going on about?
Ruby On Robots Using Artoo by Ron Evans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhXyNGX38mw

Here's the drone video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp7czxk52bI
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"write only language" ? If anything, C++ is becoming more const-sensitive as it ages.
As an attorney, I’m curious as to how you think a constitutional equal protection issue is at stake here. I’m unaware of any case law that would suggest so.
They're only targeting a single species of mosquito. Other species will quickly move in to fill the same niche so the impact should be minimal. Sure it's risky, but the reward is significant.
Sure, but there are many non energy ways to warm a house and few to cool it. I believe the term is "warm clothes" and "blankets". There is a limit to how much clothing you can take off.

I've never been so cold in a cold climate that I couldn't get warm without power. Between heat and humidity I've had plenty of days the opposite though. Now well designed and constructed housing makes a difference, but so does thoughtful clothing choices.

Here in Australia we often complain about the cold in winter, when it isn't even below freezing, we just don't dress for it and our houses are designed for cooling not heating (Assuming any thought was put into that at all). I spent time in Japan and half the times we turned the heaters off in our apartments because we were too warm, while outside there was a metre of snow...
You can now whitelist extensions to only run on specific domains. There are a lot more changes coming in v3 of the extension API, you can see the (strong) reaction to the changes in the chrome extension forums.
The tax point is a good one, but I don't understand the relevance of the safe withdrawal rate. I'd think you'd want something like an annuity that shrinks to zero by end of life instead of being equal or larger than what you started with.

But in the end that's neither here nor there. I'm happy to use your 28% of normal income for the rest of your life. Why wouldn't that change your lifestyle--whether that means working fewer hours, buying more things, planning to retire earlier, being more charitable, whatever it is I don't see why it wouldn't have any impact.
San Francisco-ization it seems. Liberals going against their own interests. Reminds me of an apartment complex under construction in SF that was forced to include a larger amount of low-income units. The builders found it would no longer be profitable, and ceased building. So lose-lose, prisoner's dilemma, vocal social media forces "won," lacking the cooperative biases that humans normally have. They all end up with nothing.
In a perfect world yes. In reality what matters is not how many people support a position but how many will vote based on that issue. If you support something but it is not in your top ten of voting factors (assuming you even vote) then in reality your view doesn’t matter to the powers that be.
"While genetically female, the transformed insects have mouths that resemble male mosquito mouths. That means they can't bite and so can't spread the malaria parasite. In addition, the insects' reproductive organs are deformed, which means they can't lay eggs."

This is awesome. It's one of those things that makes you feel like you live in the future. Preventing the spread of Malaria, Zika, West Nile, a bunch of other things... and saving our dogs from heart worms! Not to mention avoiding all the cancer and neurological illnesses we've had to endure thanks to chemicals in repellants we had to use...

I'm sure there are consequences for killing off all the mosquitoes, and we'll have to deal with those... but I for one can't wait to deal with those problems instead of mosquitoes.
This entire deal was incredibly poorly timed. While the national Amazon roadshow was raging on, the truth behind another high-tech government deal was being exposed. Foxconn received massive benefits from Wisconsin on the promise of manufacturing jobs, and they were equivocating right around the time of the announcement that NY might be on the shortlist.

Even if other companies were eligible for most of the deal, the fact that even a small part of it might have been specific to Amazon meant that the Foxconn story and fallout became a relevant part of the discussion
vim: https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim
I have an F-key shortcut in my .vimrc to turn this on mainly for non-Julia files, so that I can type (maths-y) unicode in Markdown / text files.
well said! +1
That's only true when writing new code. When you have to maintain code, you need to use all the features used by any one of the people who've ever worked on it, which at some point becomes all of the features.
No, in addition to being blatantly unconstitutional, the Fairness Doctrine wasn't even a valid solution to the problem. These days we have an entire news network dedicated to being "fair and balanced," don't we? How's that working out for us?

There are more than two sides to every worthwhile argument, and it's not the government's place to decide which voices require equal time to rebut. Furthermore, "Congress shall make no law" means just that, until it's repealed or further amended.
foxconn made very similar promises in wisconsin. that worked out really poorly indeed.

GE made similar promises in boston. that’s worked out really poorly indeed.
Just wondering - why RAID6 and not ZFS?
Yes, it is: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/announcin...
Many companies in New York create jobs for the state. Some even more than Amazon, and generate even greater amounts tax revenue.

Are they too entitled to tax relief?

Amazon is a tremendously successful company. You start handing it tax breaks and you begin walking down the path of making it a government-sanctioned monopoly.
honestly, parent had a use case in mind but it's ultra orthogonal with julia's goals. They're aiming at large numerical problems.. as I said above, if you need julia to make a quick one shot computation in a bash script loop, by all means use something else. But my bet is that anybody reading about julia is planning to do the heavy work inside of it, in which init time will probably be insignificant.

It's a bit annoying it's true, a well featured language with dynamic/repl appeal that is not in the ms launch time. But alas..
Millions of deaths from mosquito borne illness? Oh wait that's what we have now.
This reads too much like a one sided political letter by a state functionary. It's curious no such 'open letter' was forthcoming from any public functionary accounting for the losses due to the long list of bank frauds and bailouts?

Many here swear by free markets, fair competition and a level playing field and yet do not see the contradiction of letting large companies play regions against each other to extract concessions.

Too many times we just see pro business narratives that rehash arguments by lobbyists, bought economists and the business press to support specific business interests and these one sided narratives are now being challenged.
First thing it came to my mind in the beginning of the article was music, glad it did come out but would have liked more about it
> I'm sure there are consequences for killing off all the mosquitoes, and we'll have to deal with those... but I for one can't wait to deal with those problems instead of mosquitoes.

I’m not sure we know the scale of these problems. Historically, messing with the ecological food web like this has often caused more harm than good, so I think it’s worth it to be more careful than this.
A lot of productive people are as passionate and productive with their free time as they are with work. Competitive, challenging, adrenaline filled and technical activities have great appeal. Things like road cycling, kite surfing, ultra running and skiing attract productive types.
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Plus I'm sure there are a lot of regulations for hotels in a city like NYC that probably cost a lot of money.
If they start handing out billions for corporate HQs it won't stop with Amazon. Google and everybody else will like up for theirs too.
The decision makers won't put you in the room with them. They will take the weapons you built, pay you for them, and use them on whomever, and whenever they see fit.
This is a half way solution, as you can see a lot of artifacts like when typing numbers to the time field when it is already full.

The only way to properly address this is to bring this as native HTML5 components. Then different UX paradigms, like desktop and mobile, can properly handle complex input.

This shows the shortcoming of web UI. You cannot properly address shortcomings of browsers on low enough layer. It is not an issue for native apps.
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> "The RWDSU Union was interested in organizing the Whole Foods grocery store workers. [...]. Organizing Amazon, or Whole Foods workers, or any company for that matter, is better pursued by allowing them to locate here and then making an effort to unionize the workers, rather than making unionization a bar to entrance."

I'm not familiar with how this works in New York. Someone who's registering a company needs to negotiate in advance whether the people they hire are part of some pre-existing union or not?

Wouldn't Amazon just have started hiring workers, and if those workers decided to organize into a union or join an existing one they'd have had to deal with that then? It seems not, so how does this work?
Joe already knows. He and Alan Kay had a talk about it. It was great.
I wonder if it might be used for something like formatting plaintext Git commit messages. Rules would be things like 'subject line 50 characters, then blank line, then paragraphs or bullet points of 72 characters'. That would solve a major issue with writing commit messages on the web.
This is what detractors of the deal keep saying. You can speculate on the organic growth rate of the NY economy all you want. But at the end of the day, there are 25,000 - 40,000 jobs which definitely won’t be coming to Long Island City now.
>Unfortunately, julia is not a good team player.

Or, you know, Julia is not specialized for your use case.
Just as a business can grow organically and through capital acquisitions, a city can grow organically or through capital investment.

A city can spend money (billions) on infrastructure and public spaces which serves the workers of the companies, and the campuses of those companies. A city can also ask companies to spend billions to help build out those spaces and that infrastructure and in return offer tax incentives. It works out exactly the same. Both subsidies serve the workers and the companies paying those workers in the same fashion.
As someone who doesn't use C++, can anyone explain in a straightforward way why a low level language is going through so many new versions?

And is there big difference between the latest version and C++ from 5 or 15 years ago?

How do you guys keep up when a huge language is continually changing?
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Ok here's the prompt: A eugenics tool this powerful will eventually be misused in humans.

Thoughts?
THanks for a serious reply. The cached function computation argument is an interesting one, which resembles the answer by evanb here https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/86189/why-do...

I hadn't seen it before, basically if I understand it right treating all vectors as lisp s-exps which are themselves 0-indexed (0th element is 'list' , because you're doing a lot of symbolic manipulation. It's the best argument I've seen for 1-indexing, I'd say two criticisms - 1: I don't know how homoiconic Julia is, if it's not very then the actual use of this seems very low relative to slicing. 2: It seems to be mixing up indexing a vector itself, and indexing the expression that the vector is (like macro-quoted vs unquoted). I can see how it would smooth things in some way but it feels like a fudge that might cause more pain somehow later.
Eh so I'm not a Windows expert but wasn't W2K in turn NT-derived?
Not every employee is a programmer, and how many people moved from places like Mississippi to Seattle/Silicon Valley/NYC etc? Surely some of them would love to return to their home state or nearby earning good money, paying a lot less rent and actually seeing family and friends from their childhood.

I can respect your decision to stay in Hawaii, just like I stay in Sydney it's a vibrant multicultural city with everything I want. Despite coming from a small town in a rural area I wouldn't go back, especially as the nearest Korean BBQ would be a 6 hour drive away.

However if that small town grew to a medium town and had those things, and enough money to build some community facilities that I desire such as public pools that are open year round and have enough space for multiple activities (First world problems you can't go for a swim on a hot day because the local swim squad has the whole pool reserved), theatres that could host local and travelling groups, a public library that is open more than twice a week and of course city wide broadband, preferably available to outer regions as well (5G networks might bring this one home)...

Any big move like Amazon would have to be thoughtfully planned, the last thing a small town needs is thousands of new residents with salaries 2-5 times the local average driving up the price of everything, imposing their worldview on the community and creating an us/them divide in the town.
Applications programmer: In a low-level language like C++...

Chip designer: In a high-level language like C++...
Another great Berkshire annual letter. This one feels a bit more "subdued" than previous years. Though I love the part that Buffet's heart races at the thought of making a large acquisition.

It's funny that the company is so big that there simply are not enough businesses to keep it satiated.

If that goes on long enough... There will be a time when it's more valuable to break up the conglomerate.
> Like NY Taxi Medallions. Before Uber, Lyft or other ride-sharing apps, there was only 13,587 yellow cabs in the city of 8.5 million people.

Before Uber, yellow medallion cabs were certainly not the only taxis available in NYC - they're just the only ones that can be legally hailed from the street. There have always been lots of car service companies in NYC that you can call to request a taxi. Some of these even offer online booking.
By definition you cannot patent something that was not invented.

I fail to see how anyone could issue a patent on human genetic material.

It was "discovered" perhaps but certainly not "invented", so clearly patents issued on any naturally occuring geneitc material should be declared null and void.
Millions of deaths is your rate, is that what you’re saying? Yes, yes?

Can you take that rate, and... double it?
What does `We pocket vetoed the decision ` mean ?
C++ isn't really low level. The changes are usually in libraries, not in the language itself. C++20 is by far the largest change language-wise since C++11.

To answer your question, one of the motivations behind the (ongoing) design of C++ is to factor out and codify common C/C++ coding idioms. Almost every feature, library or language, can be traced back to this motive. So most "new" features are less so "new" and more so "that thing you're doing informally? It's formalized now." E.g. concepts codify how template parameter requirements have traditionally been stated.
Look at this beyond the scope of Amazon.

If the basic premise here is that any company should get a tax break if they are capable of hiring enough workers whose tax payments would exceed their employer's tax payments, all you're doing is just shifting the tax burden onto the workers in the form of regressive income, sales, and property taxes.
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For me personally, none of the 'really' major tech companies are; I don't desperately enough need to work on the very cutting edge to trade-off against morality. But I'm not innocent either, most actions have (ideally unintended, and later rectified) negative externalities.

It'd be an interesting discussion to have with someone who feels like they really need to stay at the very peak of private data accumulation - because in my view those actions are potentially very detrimental to wider society, certainly depending on the culture. I'd extend more respect to Google than the others from what I've seen, although opinions may vary elsewhere.

Regarding scandals and reactions - users and shareholders can and do care, and they vote with their feet, or wallets, or ideally both.

The battlefield in these cases is over how much truth about the scandal and resolution are published. A good organization will generally tend towards more transparency in both, while perhaps keeping a few cards close so that they can react to any potential retaliation (such is the world of rapid fake news that we live in).

Edit: s/data accumulation/private data accumulation/
I was happy to see coroutines make it in but some of the concerns raised about the design seemed to have valid points. I'll be interested to read the papers mentioned when they're available to see how a consensus was reached and what the plans for the future are.
If intentional yes, but this is probably an accident. You can't accidentally take action on data you don't have.
C++ includes low-level and high level features.
Nice shout-out to kill-9 a nerdcore fave.
> And if a type system can not guard against run-time errors, what’s the merit of having one?

This makes me really question the author's credibility. Clearly the author is pretty confused about static vs. dynamic type systems, and the value and history of type systems in general.
> C++ has created generations of Visual Studio GUI addicts

C++ has been used outside of Windows since basically the inception of C++.
In this case, yes. $2.5 billion of the $3 billion amazon was getting were credits open to any company.

The letter addresses this, they're "as of right" credits open to all.
US healthcare isn't a free market. How much of our costs are due to government rules limiting the number of doctors and hospitals? Perhaps healthcare could be cheaper if the government was less involved.

But let's compare the two systems as they are, both dictated by the government. The US is actually rather heavy handed, imposing regulations on healthcare and pharma that most of the world doesn't share. For example, in most countries medical education doesn't require a previous non-medical degree. Pharmacists are often allowed to provide basic medical advice. And medicines are often approved more quickly and less expensively in Europe.[1] How much of the extra cost is due to over-regulation?

Also, how much of our costs are due to our unhealthy lifestyle? If we lived as healthfully as Europeans, we'd surely have lower medical costs.

We can't honestly compare the cost of medicine without controlling for factors like those.

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X1...
>You are simultaneously arguing that music is more homogenous, and yet has such breadth and diversity and ease of accessibility that only a small fraction of earths population could discuss your tastes.

Nope, I am arguing that _culture_ is more homogenous (and whether there's more easy availability of diverse musical works is irrelevant to that).

Music can have (and has) one million sub-genres today, but the mainstream music (the shared stuff that's part of "the conversation" and defines the music part of our culture) is more homogenous than ever.
I agree.

Upon reflection, it's more that Andrei Iancu is being quoted out of context. The featured quote is:

> "Remarkably, in what I believe amounts to Orwellian ‘doublespeak,’ those who’ve been advancing the patent troll narrative argue that they do so because they are actually pro-innovation. That by their highlighting, relentlessly, the dangers in the patent system, they actually encourage innovation. Right!"
I've often wondered why malaria eradication campaigns always seem to target mosquitoes rather than the mosquito-borne parasites that actually cause the disease.

Wouldn't it make sense to go after the root cause rather than merely its host?
The only problem I found with this approach is to manage state and dependencies: say, if the functions need to work with database, it is not convinient to send it as a parameter. A class instance initialised with a database looks more feasible in my opinion.
It's not low-level, it's a perfectly modern high-level language.

But as with anything C++, you and your team need to decide on a per-project basis on how far down the rabbit hole you are willing to go. There is a world of difference between C with classes and metaprogramming parser generators. And to the standards credit, a lot of the new stuff can be used individually.
that's a deceptive semantic conflation (i.e., poor logic; a bad idea). tolerance is for the person, not the idea (e.g., morals). ideas neither need nor deserve "tolerance". many ideas don't even deserve attention, let alone esteem or support.

for example: "i believe that wild bengal tiger will come lick my feet and cough up whole, live bunnies for me to cuddle." bad idea. doesn't deserve any tolerance whatsoever.

people, even those holding poor morals or beliefs, deserve tolerance, because they can change and adopt better morals or beliefs, particularly through experience.
Your first link references Google buying a building in Manhattan, which is not Long Island City, and so that doesn't apply.

Not sure about your second link because it's behind a paywall.
I'm curious why Congress has chosen not to regulate (or ban) the grant of tax incentives to companies as enticements for development; this seems to easily fall under the interstate commerce clause. All states lose out when they compete against each other in this way.
You didn't read your articles very well. Google is investing in new york. The tax credits were for companies in a specific part of new york, in this case long island city.

Google is not in long island city or in an area eligible for these particular credits.
Would your argument hold equally for US intervention in Europe in world war 2?
Suggestion: tag these links with [patent] or something similar. Those who work in the industry in question may appreciate the heads-up, in order to avoid inadvertently gaining knowledge that could expose them to willful-infringement claims later.
Oh no, New York is crippled from this! They'll never get on the map as a major city now!
Only in as much as they pollinate the mainstream culture, else its just fragmented niches that don't take part in any wider "conversation".
FYI Firefox mobile was unable to enter dates in January.

I agree this is bad practice. I have similar code in an app I'm writing right now, I also didn't consider the usability issues or wierd delete cases. Gonna remove the code after reading this thread.

Falls under trying to be clever.

I think slightly increasing the space between groups of numbers might be acceptable? Anything that magically inserts characters seems to be problematic.