skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.

You know, that Stallman lived for years out of donations? And no one was opposite of that. It also worked for WikiMedia etc. It's great business model but people need to stop looking on non-profits like that next corporation. They require far more work and I think leaders of such projects should be compensated well. :)
What in this very even-handed and factual post could possibly be construed as a “flame”? Just because this commenter is engaging with an interlocutor who obviously is flaming doesn’t mean that they themselves are. That’s just the all-too-familiar “both sides” fallacy.
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"The rich get richer" is a known thing and it's often about things like cronyism, not sheer, objective competence.

https://simplicable.com/new/failing-upwards

https://simplicable.com/new/cronyism
Except that there's no argument, just the same old copying = theft meme and a false dichotomy between buying and copying, plus a bunch of whining.
Haskell or OCaml
Chloroquine genius Didier Raoult to save the world from Covid-19?
Java's bytecode can be JITted, AOT compiled to native code, stored in a cache and reused with PGO information, directly executed in hardware, or just plain interpreted.

There are plenty of Java implementations to choose from.

I wish professors would actually spend more than 5 minutes discussing how languages and implementations aren't the same thing.
Think about that. You open a page in web and you SEE YOUR FACE telling you that you liked this product and how it changed your life! Scary times ahead.
A lot people are to comfortable with china controlling a lot of the world's tech. I'm not in europe but it seems a strange thing to conclude. Either was I will vote against anyone in the US that does and its the best I can do.
> At the time of OCaml choice at JS (I guess it was circa 2008-2010; I also strongly suspect that it was not at the start of JS)

You're right that it wasn't OCaml from the beginning, but I believe it was quite a bit earlier than that. The firm dates to 1999-2000, and OCaml came into the picture sometime around 2004.

The reason they avoided Haskell, supposedly, is the lack of predictability in its performance, largely due to its laziness. OCaml, meanwhile, has a fairly straightforward compilation that allows moderately experienced developers to have a very good idea of what the corresponding machine code will be.
Absolutely not. If you don't pay the best, you'll get lower quality teachers and developers.
He was a hotshot stock broker who would be making 10 times that. 0.8m isbarely respectful for him.
It as the worlds highest education budget.
I speed read that as "incidents" and and after brief viewing and realisation am both disappointed and relieved
edit oops i should have refreshed before duplicating this thought !!!!

funny how different people grasp things.. this code example didn't really click with me, but someone else explained it by imagining 100 doors, not 3.
After you choose one door, 98 of the remaining 99 doors (all with goats behind them..) are opened.... leaving 1.

stay or switch? :)
Most of the pressure to break compatibility comes from Microsoft and Google, representing a truly minuscule fraction of C++ users. However, both are heavily represented on the ISO Standard committee, and very, very little happens there without their express approval.

Introducing a new ABI in competition with the current ones (e.g. ia32 and x64) would be less destructive than officially abandoning those currently in use.
And people are moving to china?
Okay, so if I steal from you, it's all fine, because that happened in the past, not in the present?

What a weird way to look at the world.
Ahh.. Khan Academy.. the usefulness this site provided throughout my middle and high school education. Quite frankly, it literally saved my ass. I've gone ahead and donated $1K.
You forgot to add few million from lobbyists
It's not about paying a salary. I've worked in non-profits before, all of the employees themselves are taking pay cuts to work for the greater good. He's asking people to give up their money in order to provide this service. A salary half that size provides an extravagant lifestyle, what he's taking is exorbitant.
I think that independently from what the original comment said, it can be easily conceived and taken into account how UK style restaurants health and sanitary ratings could easily correlate with one's possibility of contracting the virus given the sanitary level of an establishment. The same could be done for any country.
I'm the host, and I also happen to be blind. I chose 98 doors and none of them have the car - terrible luck on my part! But probably this lends some credence to your initial guess?
Try arguing with less snark.

Every comment like yours attacks the strawman that the CEO and employees should not get paid. Nobody is saying that. But I'm absolutely not going to donate anything while the CEO takes out over 800000 dollars in pay, and it looks distasteful to me to go around begging for donations.
Source:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...
Jimmy Wales takes $0. I know they're not in the same situation, but even half that salary provides an extravagant lifestyle. I don't think he should be poor, I just think that if he's asking people to give up their money to pay him to do what he's doing, than he should be more frugal with the money he's asking for
AOT compiling Java has lots of usage, including on my smartphone since Android 5.

Outside Android, it has always been available in commercial JDKs since the early 2000's.

GCJ was never the main one, it never went beyond a toy AOT compiler.

Anyone that cared about AOT compiling in Java would be paying big bucks to Excelsior JET, Aicas, Aonix, PTC, IBM, J/Rockit, Gemalto and a couple of smaller players.

Naturally in 20 years quite a few things changed, and now PTC, Aicas, IBM, Gemalto are the survivors, while MaximeVM graduated into GraalVM and there is a free beer layer for everyone not willing to pay for AOT compilers in Java.
The really stupid part is that keeping the delivery workers safe is ALSO keeping the wealthy consumers (and owners of those businesses) safe!

If you're holed up at home and SARS-CoV-2 strolls in your front door on the outside of your toilet paper then you might as well have just taken the risk and gone shopping yourself! Such painful short-sightedness.
And AOT as well.
Thank you. This is exactly what I meant, as well.
Among information I've heard:

- Testing ramp catching up with community spread. A US congressional source was saying a week ago that the disease waas spreading faster than testing. Likely still the case.

- Entrenched community outbreak and transmission.

- High-density regions with rapid transmission. The US east coast has leapfrogged early outbreaks in WA and CA (though these also likely have undertesting). New York State (overwhelmingly NYC) alone would be the world's 6th largest outbreak.

- Many regions remain in denial, have grossly inadequate response, or are mishandling the outbreak. In the US, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi are saying and doing innane things, even by standards set at the national level. Mexico is in fiull denial. Brazil's mafia are imposing quarantines where the. government won't. And rumblings (see Tyler Cowan) are that Japan may come unglued again.

The virus does spread asymptomatically, and many (mostly younger) patients can carry the infection with mild or no symptoms, but infecting others. See: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba...
Saying US has been proven and not Chinese is the real propaganda.

China has been caught countless times. Anyone working in network security or Telecom have their China story

It is no longer treated with fanfare because unlike US it's is almost common.
Insurance covers insurable events, some of them may be triggered by a pandemic, and some of those might be excluded. Check your fine print.

* Life insurance is probably going to take a hit. My life insurance doesn't mention pandemic or acts of god. Suicide yes. Pandemic no.

* Auto insurance is probably going to be marginally more profitable as miles driven drop.

* Home/Property isn't likely to be heavily affected.

* Health insurance is going to take a major hit. Probably in the bailout/re-capitalization range.

* Reinsurance is going to be dependent on the specific underwriting that's been done.

* Travel insurance. Ha. This is an extinction level event for them, so it's excluded.
Developers don't need ping-pong tables
To be fair, there's a difference between getting a salary from donations and getting 40x the average income from donations.
Went ahead and offered them our encoding service at cost-price
No, there are other reasons to use volatile declarations that have nothing to do with the original purpose, and that are completely unaffected by any potential effect on optimization. At the level I have seen, it is used as a simple tag to generate a type related to T that is neither T nor const T.
The year is 2050, Khan Academy has raised 2 billion in funding, restructured as a for-profit corporation, and has vendor lock-in with nearly every school and child in the world. Khan academy charges a minimum of $800/yr/student. The CEO takes home $56 million a year. Which do you prefer, 800k, or 50 mil? Do we really want to a world where a brilliant mind, Sal Khan, is not rewarded at all for leaving his hedge fund career to make YouTube videos for next to nothing for many months, if not years? On top of that, he likely had a very real opportunity to turn Khan academy into a huge company, but instead went the non hockey stick, nonprofit route. Being a part of a successful non profit doesn’t mean you need to dip into your employees and your own salary to pay bills. Some of this might just be publicity to show that Khan academy is growing rapidly with remote learning.
Can someone with more experience explain what does "cash" mean in this context? Is it saying that 100 billion isn't actively invested and is simply being depreciated by inflation? It's said it's tied up in 'short-term investments' but that's not clear to someone who doesn't have knowledge of this domain.
Oooh....

Source on the DE lack of PM Dx?
They really need to tax this man, he's even on record saying how he needs to be taxed more.
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Why do you say that? In my company our cloud bill is the largest expense after salaries. We're constantly watching those costs as they can get out of control quite quickly
Well, thank you authors guild, for pointing me to the great library. 'Tis a shame you are people who would see the great library of alexandria burn in the sake of profit.
There seems to be a couple of examples but the UX for discovering them is a bit poor. Author could do a better job surfacing them up front instead.

In the meantime, here is where you can find them:

- Online editor has a "Hello World" button that loads a very basic example

- https://github.com/m-ender/retina/tree/master/Examples has a bunch of more example, linked from the landing page

- https://github.com/m-ender/retina/wiki/The-Language shows the entire language (AFAIK), but it's a reference.
I don't know, get to work in very interesting large scale projects despite politics at corporate level, work my 40h week, get to travel comfortably around the world, play digital nomad when I feel like it.

Doesn't seem that bad to be invested into Java/.NET/C++/Web eco-systems.
I think the increase in load is due to school closures as a result of COVID-19.
Even though the average Android phone doesn’t compare performance wise to an iOS device and really sucks when it comes to running complicated web apps, it’s mostly Android users here who claim that progressive web apps are the future and that Apple is holding them back.
To be "fair" (definitively not the right term here), it's not exclusive to English people. As a frenchman in England, French people have a disgusting xenophobic culture towards eastern europeans too
> you can only take pieces from fields occupied by two of the opponent's pieces.

Not true, you can choose whether to occupy the empty place or to capture
It was early, not sure I was awake enough to type tbh. XD
Then let's talk about the IT staff. What is their salary? How many of them the "non-profits" could hire if their CEO had a more decent salary?

The organizations we are speaking about are very loud to beg for money yet they spend a large part of it on overpaying a few execs. This is very different from companies that earn their money without asking the public for money.
Steve Jobs made Apple about the user. Tim Cook is just leveraging that to make it all about the money.
Yet it is quite clear and obvious how the rich have easier access to the regulators of the system through subsystems like lobbying which in effect skews the rules in their favor especially since the regulators are hardly ever issued from the lower classes which has the artificial indirect effect to reinforce their representation in the system and consequently the creation of rules for this highly privileged class just on the simple fact of ease of access in comparison to the lower classes whom don't even necessarily have the proper education to understand how such systems negatively affect their proper democratic representation on the political level.
Actually, it depends on where do you live. In OP's country elder people have been given rights to call social services and even police to get their shopping done. Other than that, in Turkey family relations are similar to Italy: the old people and younglings usually live together. So there is always a risk to get the disease in the market and then pass it to an elder back at home. OP's doing the right thing keeping his head down and order online.
There's another type of tests: visual diffing. I've used it a lot and I love it.

1) Keep a set of a few thousand URLs to diff, add new ones as needed.

2) Use a tool that can request these URLs from two versions of your app, make a side-by-side visual diff of the resulting pages, and present a report of any differences.

3) Before committing any change to your codebase, run that tool automatically on the whole URL set, comparing the new version of the app with the current version. Then the committer should review the diff report manually and it gets attached to the commit history.

This way, adding coverage for new functionality is easy (you just add some URLs to a text file) and the whole thing runs fast. And it catches all kinds of problems. Not just UI bugs where some bit of CSS messes up something unrelated, but also you can run the frontend diff after making any backend change and it will catch problems as well. It won't solve all your testing needs, but it covers a lot of ground cheaply, so you can concentrate the custom testing code where it's actually needed.
What CEO's and many other people in for-profit industries are getting, is also quit exorbitant. But that's generally accepted.

Why do some people go nuts if they see non-profits demanding high pay? Khan Academy has done something unique, helpful and truly excellent, but how dare Salman Khan wanting a cut similar to for-profits. (If it is similar, properly still less).
I appreciate the way you've taken my criticisms. You acknowledge you're not an expert which is much to your credit, and haven't amended your posts or done the usual wankers trick of just downvoting someone who disagrees. I like that.

I can't speak for ACEs and ARBs.

Let's agree to disagree on why we don't have better data on these. I trust doctors and the WHO on this. You maybe feel they can do more. I can't take the time to look into it, nor if I did, to interpret what I found.

I repeat I appreciate your constructive attitude and have upvoted several of your posts and this one, because it's done in the right spirit. Good luck.
The Federal Reserve is printing $1M every second
You can throw shade at a consultancy without necessarily referring to one of their alumni. McKinsey was a major player in the field long before Buttigieg was an ultrasound.
Copyright just introduces artificial and undesirable scarcity, and I doubt that it really supports many authors. This piece says that mean writing incomes are only $20,300 a year, and I wouldn't be surprised if a large proportion goes to a few of the most popular authors and many get little or nothing.

Scrap copyright and find other ways to support creators. I'd suggest funding from government for a decent number of writing scholarships with input from various sources (including the general public if feasible) on which writers to support.

This could be started without scrapping copyright initially, simply require that all output from the scholarships be released under Creative Commons Zero.
Berkshire has almost all of their cash in short term treasury bills. It's a cash equivalent, because you don't want to keep 100bn in a checking account, and it does get hurt by inflation. But that's OK, because making a purchase when the time is right will more than make up for it. Cash is still king, in Buffet's world.
Wow, that's very, very generous of you!
Add to that the extra income from illegal such as bribes or the income Trump's orgs like his hotels do, to the legal avenues after the term such as book deals, speaker fees, corporate board memberships, lobbyism deals... the president nominally gets 400k but in reality way, way more than that.
Social media has positive possibilities in pandemic
for a long time it was impossible to write code compatible with both python 2 and 3
Other than the tires extending past the fender, I don't see anything potentially illegal. The wooden "spoiler" doesn't look properly well attached, but you probably wouldn't be pulled over for that.

Cars in far worse shape than that are driven on the roads here all the time.
Khan Academy request for donations [video]
When comparing countries only relative numbers (cases per capita) should bei used. Everything else is misleading.
But the value he provides to the world is (in my opinion) more than 40x the average person.
Didn't Nokia only just announce they had a plan to test somewhere? That puts them pretty far behind Huawei's "we're ready when you are" offering...

Also, cisco and the US gov are pushing their dumb 4G+ option. So you are deciding against the US whatever (true) 5G you buy.

I don't know much about the Ericsson offering. It would be nice to have a non-super power option...
Collecting exactly the dead objects in all situations is not possible even in theory:

function f() {
x = Object(1)
if (halts(some_program)) {
return Object(2)
} else {
return x;
}
}

The contents of x will be dead or not after the assignment depending on whether some_program halts. But a GC that could determine that could solve the halting problem.
Do you really not know your own history?

The Indian soldiers were the grunts in the British army. The British promised you riches, if you participated in the raping of China, during the Opium Wars, and you fell for it. The British played you well.

And they also payed up. This is why there is a heavy presence of Indians in Hong Kong, and some of them seem to come straight out of the 1800s, as if time stood still for them. Like, they’re a direct lineage from that military past.

The British even made you believe that it was your own fault for the Bengal famine of 1943. That’s how brilliant they were at manipulating you.

Nowadays, they release movies of James Bond, and make you love them, and want to be like them, and forget all about their past transgressions. Their brainwashing propaganda is so subtle and insidious, that it’s brilliant.

Look up the background to George Orwell’s 1984 novel. This was actually about his real life experiences in the British intelligence services in India, and about their incredible brainwashing ability. Where reality is indeed, stranger than fiction.
This is key. If the number of objects processed will never be large, then it makes more sense to write a quick, easily understood O(n^2) loop in under a minute and move on.

Taking an extra 30 minutes to an hour or longer to optimize and test for large inputs that will realistically never exist is a waste of time and money.

If you feel that the value of N might, in some strange and rare combination of success and changed requirements, exceed the expected amount, add a check for the lowest value that may signify a problem and throw a warning.

if N > 1000:
debug.warn("N count of %d may be too large for existing algorithm. Consider optimizing.", N)

Leave it at that and get on to more important things.
It's been like this as long as I can remember. At least one major newspaper would have an article a week about how China's on the verge of economic collapse and there are a billion obvious signs. People still gobble it up. It's impossible to convince people that it's BS. It's people passing off their hopes that their rival is a total mess as truth.

China's striking back now by "allowing" (promoting) conspiracy theories on social media that the US military created the virus and tried to use it to take down China.
He may ask for the money, you may consider his salary and decide not to donate and everybody goes his way. The comments here smell like there is a lot of acute jealousy floating around...
I'm confused. Is this a waiting list for the waiting list SaaS? Or an example of the waiting list SaaS?
> $125 billion in cash, cash equivalents[1], and short-term investments[2] in US Treasuries[3] at the end of December

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashandcashequivalents....
[2]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shorterminvestments.asp
[3]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/off-the-runtreasuries.a...

Regarding [3] the difference between ON-the vs OFF-the, is that the "on-the-run treasuries have a specific maturity date.
It generally means invested in instruments that are considered completely safe and completely liquid, such as US Treasury bills.

They can make a small return on your investment, but they won't typically beat inflation.
Are the same number of trains running? In London the number of tube trains is down due to drivers+signallers ill/self isolating, meaning that in some cases the trains have been even busier than normal!
Cool. Perhaps add revisions too to avoid losing all work when shared.
Since it’s a non-profit there are no shares or shareholders and he has no equity, ie the salary is the only way he financially benefits from the success of the organization. 800k is a lot of money but it doesn’t seem outlandish to me, considering the impact and popularity. Why should you need to choose between doing good and doing well?
Social Distancing and Its Effect on Reducing the Spread of Illness
That's way too reductive. Yes, his reputation helps tremendously, but even as a complete unknown he would still be a world-class investor.
Anecdotes of individual cases are not the same as the institutionalized spying and the presidential "oops, won't do it again" once the spying is revealed.

I have no doubt that China or Saudi Arabia or Russia and so on have spying programs and there were cases of revealed moles installed in companies but it's nowhere nearly as substantial as US directly plugging into the systems that run globally and running mass surveillance programs.

Google for Wikileaks, Snowden. Assange. The results will surprise you.

All this debacle looks nothing more than the US not wanting competition. It doesn't even look like the Chinese mass spying efforts are beyond a startup stage when the US spying is equivalent of a giant and established corporation. Actually, not even a startup, more like mom and pop shops of spying.

I think it's alright, US is no longer the country that stands for something beyond nationalism and most of the Western nations are not covered by that American Nationalism.
Google given them $10m per year. Are they on GCP? Are they pissing money away on MemoryStore instances? Turn off load balancer logs. Are their servers running javascript?