skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The goal of the Foundation is that all kids grow up healthy - no matter where they are born. That means getting rid of malaria and many of the other diseases that affect poor countries.

There's something about this guy that seems 'off' to me. I should assume it's because he's a tech guy originally and not a politician.

Is it just me or do other people see the convoluted logic that links 'lack of money' with disease and therefore unhealthy kids?

If so, then all that needs to be done is for Mr Gates to give all his money to those poor countries, ipso facto disease is gone and kids are healthy.

I'd love to see him try it this out!

A later quote:

> However if I had one wish to make a new technology it would be a solution to malnutrition. Almost half the kids in poor countries grow up without their body or brain developing fully so they miss most of their potential.

From "How much would it cost to end hunger?" [0], the answer is $160 pp in poverty.

Or from Quora [1]:

"With say 2.5 billion people short of food, $166 billions per year would "theoretically" eliminate hunger. Just as a comparison, "During FY 2013, the federal government spent $3.45 trillion on a budget or cash basis, down $84 billion or 2.4% vs. FY 2012 ", or about 20 times as much"

Now, the US military budget was $637 billion in 2015 [2], which is enough to feed the poor several times over.

To me, it sounds like he should turn his Foundation into a lobbying group to end all war (or greatly reduce the military industrial complex) and use that money to reach his goals. Just sayin'. (This is why his words keep seeming 'off' to me)

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/07/how-much-would-it-cos...

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-would-it-cost-to-feed-the-wor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

(Edited)
I have always been 'happy go lucky' type of a person about my entire life. But, earlier today, from this thread [1], I learned that we have grown from 1 billion to 7 billion people in just 200 years. I knew we are at 7 billion right now, but holy fuck... in 200 years we went up by 6 billion?

This seems a little disconcerting, and not for the reasons you might think. I feel as though society is so caught up in the rat race (literally!) that we simply don't give a damn about what is happening to the planet anymore.

And I know there are a lot of strong characters on HN who love to talk their way out of any conversation, but what's needed on this planet is a massive awakening to the fact that you cannot expect to exhaust Earth's resources without paying a price for it.

It's kind of funny how even the tech industry (presumably smart people..) overlook the very fundamentals of supply and demand. We all know about the story of Tibet vs. China, but does everyone know that Tibet is a lithium goldmine? [2]

Let me guess... China "did not" invade Tibet for its resources... it was simply an emotional grudge! And tell me even more, how safe we are and ample supply there is for all the world's necessities...

The UN can't and won't do anything. And everyone who is 'using' these resources has such strong ties in the political systems that we won't see any significant change any time soon.

And you know the saddest part? This is all because of money and self-projected power. And at what expense? A planet that is supposed to be taken care of by its people?

This is the fundamental human flaw, exhaust everything until there is none left and move on to the next thing...

I can already hear the justified screams, "Elon will take us to the Mars!".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247821
[2]: https://goodelectronics.org/mining-tibet-for-electronics-raw...
"Let's say a rock is conscious,"
No, let's not.
No one is essential. Not to mention, you think there will be a global economy after half the worlds population dies off? Like everyone will just go on like everything is normal just there are fewer people now? Societies would fall apart and rebuild over the course of centuries. Governments would be toppled, countries broken down. Infrastructure would fall apart as it was built for a different scale of humanity, now half of them are gone and the metrics don't make sense. It would be messy.
A TPUv3 pod is ~107 petaflops (Googles number from your paper). 512 Volta GPUs is ~64 petaflops (Nvidias number from [1]).

v3 pods don't seem to be publicly available. A 256 chip 11.5 petaflop v2 pod is $384 per hour, $3.366 million per year. [2]

Meanwhile Google Cloud Volta GPU prices (which are probably inflated over building your own cluster, but are hopefully close enough to a reasonable ballpark) are $1.736 per hour, would be $7.791 million per year for 512.

Unless Google GPU prices are really inflated, clusters are legitimately substantially cheaper than cloud GPUs, or these researchers did a poor job, it seems like this is a good advertisement for TPUs.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/volta-gpu-architect...

[2] Pod availability / performance / pricing information here: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/

[3] GPU pricing info: https://cloud.google.com/gpu/
Nurture over nature, always. Epigentics/genomics is telling us how we'll really evolve over the next few million years and it will have more to do with environment than our current genome.
Looks cool. I'd like to see more widgets though, like a checkbox or simple form widget.

One package just for a radio list is too much like the npm way of doing things.
You could place the externalities directly on an UBI (universal basic income). This would address a problem of redistribution of the tariffs income. France had the yellow jackets because people are tired of not knowing were taxes income go (normally to the very rich.) If we implement externalities to level of what IPPC advices there will be unemployment, but work like the economy is just another mean to an end. Right now the big problem is ecological.
> Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy?

Could you clarify what you mean by “least essential for the global economy”
Good call. I will add the entire article to my training data. Just running it as is, wow, the headline came out to be 94.40655708312988 positive for clickbait! (I am using a modified keras/tensorflow model trained on clickbait headlines.)
https://developer.apple.com/support/account/authentication/

After reading this, it seems like one device can be used for multiple developer accounts.

I was worried when I started seeing “iCloud” because of course none of us use our personal iCloud accounts for dev work. However, it looks like you can link multiple dev accounts to your personal iCloud account to prevent having to sign in/out of the accounts on the device.
I learnt from that that there are more non-religious people than there are catholics! I had no idea. (Most of my friends are catholics, I'm atheist)
I'd like to call attention to describing piloting as feeling slower.

It sounds like you have said something objective. But really perception of time is a completely subjective phenomenon as well, constructed from unconscious processes which create conscious experience.

People in great fear report time slows down, but also top tier athletes.

Thinking hard about something is one particular kind of unified subjective experience.
An old job had that setup, with about 15 devs per instance. It worked surprisingly well, where each developer had sudo access but was asked to 'use it with care'. It helped that there was a mix in the type of work, so not everyone was doing resource-intensive work, etc.
Original statement from the annual report was "Barring unexpected challenges with Gigafactory Shanghai, we are targeting annualized Model 3 output in excess of 500,000 units sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020."

So saying "we'll produce 500k cars in 2019" is a lot of new information:

- it's now definitely 2019, not Q2 2020

- it's 500k total, not just "annualized output"

- risk of "unexpected challeges" in Shanghai disappeared.
>It took 4 years thanks in no small part to espionage efforts by the USSR. Part of the reason why this worked is people who didn't want a world where only the US had nuclear weapons. It would be too dangerous.

I believe the technical term for these kinds of people is "useful idiots". How exactly was the world made a safer place by Joseph Stalin having a nuclear bomb?

Try this thought experiment, at the end of WWII the Soviets have the bomb and the United States does not. Does Russia wait 20 years for the US to develop the bomb? Or do they attack as soon as the are able?

Which part of Stalin's morality guides his decision?
The difference is that, unless you spray the coolant within 10 seconds (DDR 3) after poweroff, all data in the DRAM is lost. On the other hand, a MRAM laptop without battery will retain all the data even if the power loss occurred days ago.
> "just" is just your opinion

Reading the entire sentence makes it clear that "just" refers to whether or not they "use that information in some way", and that is not an opinion.

> I do.

You cut off "the minute it happens". It's not about whether you learn it, but how rapidly.
A one word reason why I support OpenAI’s GPT-2 decision: Reddit
> yet here we are with only a decade to meet the unattainable IPCC goals

They probably are unattainable, but that's only because we (an electorally significant subset anyway) opted to sit on our asses for 30 years. The Kyoto protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) was the largest international collective effort and ignored by certain selfish countries.
That is true for UNIX based OSes, thankfully those aren't the only ones around.
That priced-in externalities are mostly missing from the current economic system, (and that bankruptcies of important organizations are bailed instead of fully played out), are two things that when fixed would make our markets so much more "free", that I can not really understand why this doesn't get more political support.
George Pell: cardinal found guilty of child sexual assault
A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk
File Sharing Made Easy
Books for Kids (Death and Bullying)
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Also, talk to your kids about death "When Mommy Went to Heaven" by Evon Latrail
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An anonymous file sharing service, with no signup, email, or any other personal information.

The goal is to make a simple and easy going service for sharing files, links, text, code etc.

The reason for this service, we found it too complicated to share files or links between different devices, especially if it's not personal devices. Most of the similar services require either a login, an email or have an URL you can't remember.

I won't spoil all the features and functionality, but if you have a minute or two, give it a try, all feedback are much appreciated!

You can find the service at wespam.com

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I just don't know why people think infinite growth forever is desirable, or even possible.

1% growth annually is more than a doubling every century. Speaking on a quantitative level, that seems insane to contemplate.
There is the theory it was a Cold War weapon of economic warfare. But the US government employs a lot of Ada programmers so it seems to have backfired.
Kanehman's system 1 and system 2.
No, I'd get Fyre Festival tickets instead
You have no idea how important you are. If you’re reading this, you are the resistance.
Leading with Wikipedia: A brand proposal for 2030
> Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy?

You'd kill off 4 billion people who's emissions are more or less rounding errors instead of the ~1 billion responsible for the vast majority of them?
Interfaces are based on Objective-C protocols.

The class reflection, dynamic loading, JIT come from Smalltalk.

Checked exceptions from CLU, Modula-3.

Packages from Modula-2, Mesa, Ada,...

GC from Lisp, Mesa/Cedar, Similar, Smalltalk,...
You're okay with your voice and POV being muffled. I consider it a basic inalienable right to speak my mind.
Yes, it is the best commercially viable ISA on the market for servers.
I disagree with using it as a descriptor, but the literal meaning of the word holocaust is something like "burning everything". So in the context of global warming it's actually weirdly applicable.
It's fine until you do almost any arithmetic using the index. Unsigned arithmetic is rarely what you want, and it quietly converts all of your signed types to unsigned giving you large positive values instead of small negative ones. Maybe this isn't a common use case for most people, but it came up all the time when I was doing signal processing algorithms.

Using ssize_t is pretty reasonable, and you're not going to overflow ssize_t for loop indices except in some very pathological cases on a 32 bit architecture.

If the arithmetic argument doesn't convince you, here's another one: write a correct loop (using size_t) which traverses your array in reverse order. Here is a broken example which would be fine with ssize_t:

for (size_t ii = len - 1; ii >= 0; --ii) {

}
One rabbit hole to go into with this thought is Hubert Dreyfus and his use of Heidegger's philosophy to explain why the early AI research program was deeply misguided by focusing on explicit cognitive symbolic representation and logical manipulation rather than embodied motivated learning.

From what I understand, Heidegger's phenomenology is related to this piloting and autopiloting, exemplified by the way a hammer only appears as explicit conscious representation to a woodworker when something is wrong with it. The hammer's normal relation to the woodworker is just its ordinary function; the tool's own presence recedes.

But then I also wonder if there's something suspicious about the pilot/autopilot dualism. It seems to mirror dualisms like culture/nature and animal/human. Maybe what we think of as piloting is not as critical, rational, and creative as we are inclined to believe?
Well, in the long term externalities wouldn't yield much money, and instead move allocation of capital to methods of production with minimal external costs.
I have bought a couple of them during the mid-90's in Lisbon technical bookstores for university students.

Our university library also had a couple.

Indeed our university library was a treasure well for anyone doing the compiler design and systems lectures.
Who's protesting?

Microsoft's employee's.

Why are they protesting?

Because the company mission statement has changed, and they are being drug into a morass of political entanglements they want nothing to do with.

What is their self-interest?

They do not want to be involved on US Military projects, nor do they want to create the weapons systems of tomorrow. That's someone elses job.

I guess their self-interest here must just be "something" to fight for. Being dismissive is not the correct response to what they are doing.
Thats very true, it's also true that most books don't demand a high level of attention. Most media in general is designed to require zero effort on the part of the consumer.

I just worked through 'Gravity's Rainbow' and was very mindful and careful in my reading. It was a great experience, but at the same time it was fairly boring in comparison to something like social media.
I had the same problem at work. My former manager recommended me to read about storytelling and especially “the pyramid principle” [1] by barbara minto. It helped me a lot in how to frame a message and make the message logically easiest to absorb.

[1] Barbara Minto - The Pyramid Principle
It was about 20 years ago, I wish I could remember the CD.
HN has a very diverse user base, many of which love their countries of origin dearly. What is sometimes seen as organized behavior, often grows organically.

Because HN does not expose downvotes to users with less than 500 karma, flagging becomes the "I disagree" button.
Humanity’s 30M-page backup plan is heading to the moon
One thing might be to start by describing things at a less detailed level, perhaps focusing on why something is interesting, or a personal story like how you learned about this thing, or something else that lets you share your enthusiasm without getting bogged down in fully teaching the thing. Hopefully this can be done in a way that sparks the curiosity that will let you proceed to more engaged discussion.
By that logic then this program doesn't make sense because most militarized nations have nukes and which makes ground warfare obsolete(mutually assured destruction).

There might be some sort of justification for it that people don't see(other than jobs) but it's really in bad taste when there's so many other things that should get funding first.
What can the average person do to help the oceans that is easy to understand, everyone can do themselves and the government can sponsor with money?

I'm thinking of something like planting trees: order a free tree (government paid) in the mail, pick a spot and plant it.
* https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/pakistan-s-billion-tr...
* https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/28687/africas-great-g...

Can we do the equivalent and plant a kelp bed or the equivalent for different ocean conditions? https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/plants-and-...
> migration off the coast

Do you have any idea what democracies are capable of becoming when faced with mass migration and resource shortage?
Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper
I laughed when I saw George muller (the guy behind filthy frank an awful channel about suicide, offensive jokes and dark humor). Quick run down he did in 2016-2017 free green screen and slowly after became a meme and put in videos. The guy now does music known as "joji".
SSD is the most wonderful thing happened to me in years. Instantly change how I use computer. Now I cannot use any other than SSD.
OP is from a few days ago. SpaceX passed the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) in advance of launch NET Saturday 3/2 at 07:48 UTC.

A better article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/spacex-gains-frr-gre...
Thank you so much for a concise answer to the exact question I had.
It would promote the local economy (the one with less externalities). That would created meaningful jobs, jobs that you know have a propose. Yes we could not buy cheap clothing every weekend or go to a 3 day holiday in the south of Europe 4 times a year but we don't need to. What we need to live within the boundaries of the planet.
While there certainly are long-standing issues with Finder, this rant is just lazy and sensationalist. No wonder why, looking at the metric ton of ads on the page. This is basically clickbait. The other articles are in a similar tone and spirit. If macOS is really that bad, why use it for servers and do so much with it? Apple has no true enterprise strategy and never had. Whining about something one feels one somehow deserves does not make it so. The other comments are correct: the shown behavior is just how file managers work – especially when dealing with spinning disks over a network share and 7 TB worth of small files.
Stop buying stuff. Eat less meat.
Thanks for the feedback. I will add more features to this package asap.
Israel and the race to bring lab grown meat to the world
If there's one trend I can't stand it's developers claiming that their own projects are "beautiful".
The good news is that we'll probably top out around 10-11 billion people. The bad news is that we don't manage to live sustainably even with 7.5, half of which live in utter poverty.
specifics: you can use an iron bar to kill someone, but that doesn’t make an iron bar a weapon.

putting a hololens on a soldier serves only a single purpose: to increase their “lethality” as the US military puts it

i’m certain that if the contract was for medics, there would be no issue
I am surprised by the judgmental nature of the article, as if the author sides with the spice-ful type of cuisine, as being the “non-snob” and “delicious” one. And that it should topple the “supremacy” (really?!) of French cuisine.
We are starting to see major advancements from Israel based companies. They are now going heading to head with Silicon Valley based startups that have since been leading the space.
Wow, that's an amazing story... All those rallies in 2016 in the USA organized by Russian trolls.. Why just 2016? (Apart from that they evidently wanted Trump) Not before or since..Has it stopped?
> So I clearly remember wondering "Am I just a kind of slightly more advanced Markov chain?"

If you listen to small children's babbling, they sound exactly like little Markov chains. As they start to get older, their 'next()' function is informed more and more by semantic connections, reasoning, chains of association etc. until they're talking as people, not just like people.
My thoughts exactly. I feel like a day doesn't go by where I learn about another potential problem that could lead to the end of civilization. What's a good way to stack rank / prioritize these issues to know what's most urgent?
This would be great. I'm in the process of putting together a blog post that explains that the reason our software isn't free (like many other browser plugins) is that we're not doing lousy stuff with your browsing history.
Hmm? What's that? Sure, we can visit your mother on the weekend.

[Later, on the weekend] Wait, we're going where?
To be fair, I don't think he knew that CFCs were bad for the ozone layer.
Don't have children and join a right wing party which wishes to stop immigration. The fewer immigrants the lesser the consumption, as when immigrants move to rich countries they consume much more than if they were to stay in poorer countries... Also less immigration means a smaller economy which is good for the environment. Poe's law applies.

> The average annual carbon dioxide emissions per person, they found, was 20 metric tons, compared to a world average of four tons. But the "floor" below which nobody in the U.S. can reach, no matter a person's energy choices, turned out to be 8.5 tons, the class found.
yup exactly: if it was for medics, there would be no problem
GPT-2 and Threatmodels
As a beekeeper, this is my bees’ #1 enemy. Understanding Verroa mites better means better protection for our bees.
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner: How Compassion Builds Better Companies (2018)
> The panic eased when he found a job as a kitchen assistant at a J.D. Wetherspoon pub.

This is the same everywhere where people get a degree of a hobby subject. As a renter myself, I have not been allowed to do fixed on the property I rent, so I had to hire semi-professionals (gives you an invoice, but had a weekend course) to fix some piping, painting, electricity issues, etc. I used to be charged between £65-£75 per hour (10x the national minimum wage) and I had to wait for weeks to arrange an appointment. I assume this is the same in every developed country, where people go and get masters in “marketing” or “international communication” but there is a huge demand for people who get things done, even in questionable quality.
> In planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, also equivalent to the perturbative topological B model string theory in twistor space, an amplituhedron is defined as a mathematical space known as the positive Grassmannian.

Can I use a turbo-encabulator to create amplituhedrons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

As an aside, I work at a company that encourages people to summarize their mission in 3 words. Mine is "malleable logarithmic casings".