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> Unless your workplace has already bought into it, you'll find it a hard sell.

I know a company that tried to hire a Haskell guy to support some existing Haskell software for more than a year with literally two applications.

Just finding professional devs for it seems to be hard.
Yes, I get that using the word "chemicals" is problematic. I understand that food is made up of the same proteins, fats, etc.

When I hear hucksters marketing organic, GMO, or Soylent. I'm always cautious. Caveat emptor.

Edit: I'm not anti-GMO. Nor the concept of Soylent. But I use a headset rather than hold my phone up to my head. Even though there's no definitive proof we can get cancer from smart phones. I just think there is additional risk here.

Edit: Also, your "chemicals" point is like arguing that Global Warming doesn't exist because it's snowing today. It's true, but not relevant to the discussion.
A little of both.

My job is probably the best fit for me, in terms of jobs where someone pays me a salary..but I don't truly want a job. The people I look up to are...scrappy. They don't work desk jobs for other people.

Anyway, for now it's paying the bills and developing a skill-set that perhaps I can leverage into something different. Meanwhile I'm building up infrastructure for pursuing some other, offline things that I'm interested in. And getting my feet wet with them until I can make a more permanent switch.
Herpes. Mental illness. A history of suicide attempts. HIV+ status. The fact that you weren't born with your current gender. The fact that you've miscarried three times, and are currently pregnant. The fact that your child has fetal alcohol syndrome.

All super fun facts that people would love for friends, coworkers and strangers to be able to find out.

I understand that there are good arguments for releasing medical data, but this is just the "if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?" argument.
Ask HN: What was your product's biggest marketing win?
My friend Lars recently told me that his company's biggest win (in terms of getting new email leads) was a focus on SEO: "Nothing beats people searching with intent."

What's been your biggest marketing win of the past year?
Yawn.

"The oligarchy" who you never identify would include the owners and shareholders of businesses who would suffer catastrophic business losses in the event an encryption-defeating law were passed.

Various billionaires are adversarial with respect to the laws they support and the media narratives their companies push (e.g. Washington Post vs Fox News). They don't act in concert.
> Either way -- if opening medical records leads to new treatments, it may be worth the shame.

That's incredibly easy to say if you don't have any of the problems listed.
Have implemented DMARC? Is the effort worth it?
Well, I'd use http://linuxfromscratch.org/ for that matter...
Apple's 2-Factor solution for Apple accounts requires a phone number, and SMS plays a role in reseting passwords in the absence of a secured device. I'm surprised more people aren't concerned about that approach. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
thread: https://twitter.com/spencerdailey/status/846516787533533184
If there is a 35% tax on profits in the US and a 0% tax in Europe and the cost of customer acquisition is similar, the obvious conclusion is to invest in your European branches until cost of acquisition becomes so high that it makes sense to invest in the US again.

So yes, you cannot immediately trade out American customers for customer abroad, but it makes foreign investments more profitable than domestic ones. Leading the firm to invest more of their earnings abroad rather than domestically, which I believe is the opposite of what you wanted.
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If you are interested in building your own Linux, the LFS project has a lot of detailed information: http://linuxfromscratch.org
If there are reasons that are beyond "I already know Fortran" then please share. As my comment has pointed out the reasons mentioned above are incorrect. Modern C++ compilers, Rust, and Julia all have the edge on Fortran in their use case.

Also, people are now moving away from Fortran. There's a huge push in my field to use python and many students (like me) are't using Fortran.
Yeah, the thing is, if dialer is an app you "shouldn't disable", then it also should not be silently replaced by the vendor with third-party service, with no easy way to revert that.
The problem with the "We report, you decide." model is that the reporter chooses what to report.

The messenger and the message always have a relationship. It may be irrelevant, but it always exists.
If you measure complexity as LOC then Haskell will do well, but you may not end up with uncomplex code :-)
At some point it becomes unethical not to publish it too, given that the entire time it's exploitable risks someone else running into it and using it.
Anything can be used as an excuse for war.

You really think North Korea wouldn't damage a satellite giving its citizens open internet access if it had the ability to do so?
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Free will can be both random and non random at the same time. For example, a recursive infinity of antecedents.

Like I said before, we just don't have the concepts to model free will right now, so we should not dismiss it as impossible.

Imagine trying to explain to someone living 1000 years ago things like quantum entanglement and superposition. Or Gödel's theorem and the Halting problem. These concepts challenge our intuitive senses, and yet we have to grapple with them because they are supported by real evidence.

Now imagine a thousand years from now, new phenomena or understandings will generate concepts that can model free will that is both non-random and non-deterministic.
To add to your point, many of these "chemicals" aren't even all that artificial. Some thickeners for example come from algae and gave been in use since centuries just in different countries. Looking at some traditional food like ham they are incredibly processed we just are used to it.
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What the GP mentioned is much closer to regional bias/stereotype. In my opinion, it's all about how much alignment a group of people can have while gearing towards making/producing something better. Japan has way more alignment, while everybody else in the crowded Asia is busy with taking a slightly better position and showing off to neighbours. People truly enjoy this kind of feelings.

I don't think most of readers on HN can get and care about mainlanders' feeling of being somewhat offended in this case. So I just chuckled originally. But I hope my comment can supply some context.
Completely agree. It's not only about the skills, but also (from my experience) working for a company isn't that satisfying and motivating as for yourself.
> These optimizations will only ever be made if Fortran has wide adoption.

I think you completely fail to realize that Fortran does have wide adoption, and that there is a big market for commercial and open-source Fortran compilers, and that these optimizations have already been made.

I also don't think you realize how much more productive a scientist is with a language that explicitly lacks all the bells and whistles of e.g. C++. Just like how many fiction authors prefer to use old and simple text editing software, hell even mechanical typewriters, while you would argue an iPad with keyboard cover has so much more functionality.

If you want some examples, go have a dig through the OpenFOAM C++ source code [1], and compare it to e.g. the Pencil Fortran code [2]. They're both CFD codes, though the specializations are different. The former can best be characterized as "templates all the way down", throwing you 800-line error messages when you miss a semicolon, while the latter is downright pleasant to install, use, understand and debug in comparison.

[1] https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-dev

[2] https://github.com/pencil-code/pencil-code
It's not a HN hivemind, but there are voices saying that indeed.

Maybe I'm weird, but I'm utterly disappointed with apps. Each piece of functionality is being partitioned into vendor-locked blobs that do much more on the cloud that they reasonably should, and almost none of that is interoperable with each other. If we call smartphones mobile computers, then we're throwing away 90% of power that comes with having all that compute on your person.
Aaronson spends far too little time using the real cannons he's leveling at Penrose. He is attempting to down a tree by focusing snipping roots individually instead of just pushing the rotting trunk over.

Penrose's argument is hollow. We understand the biophysics behind how the brain works. They aren't complicated at the level of detail you need to understand how the system works. We understand how neurons interact with each other. The evidence is consistent not only with our well settled understanding of chemical and biological systems, but also increasingly consistent with our development of information systems at scale.

The real gap is whether or not the totality of 'consciousness' is really just neural interactions at scale + starting state data, but the more we learn, the more that mystery vanishes. We understand the low-level perceptor->analysis models much better now, and we can map perceptor inputs at scale to outcomes in model tuning. In short, the consciousness of the gaps is rapidly losing his hiding spots.

Penrose's argument is taken seriously because we have collectively created a tremendous philosophical and institutional infrastructure around the idea of free will and the theory he attacks strongly implies there is some level of determinism in our cognitive systems. Since he is irreproachable on a personal or intellectual peerage level, he is a fantastic champion of this counter-cultural perspective.

However, if we apply even the barest of epistemological tools to the issue, we rapidly recognize that even if Penrose is correct, the chance of his position being accurate is so remote and so unverifiable so as to be useless.

But the existence of a counter-argument against the deterministic mind itself, absent of its validity, is itself useful. It allows us to collectively hem and haw before changing our views and institutions to fit our understanding of how people work. Which means Penrose's argument is not going away anytime soon.
> Performance is hard to figure out

1000x changes in performance is not a problem if:

1. Performance of one module is not overly dependent on the code that uses it.

2. Performance never degrades order of magnitude with new compilers.
I'm VERY curious about this! Backend web services not being the sexiest / most theory-requiring subject.

How did you convince the client, and why did you choose Haskell for this over, say, .NET, which throws a web service up quicker than it took me to type this? What sort of productivity are you achieving?
I'm not doubting that. Anyone can learn any language. I'm more asking why should you be using Fortran when other, better suited, languages exist for the same tasks.

I can understand legacy libraries. I cannot understand new projects and mission criticle systems.
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So something counts as business-as-usual now because it was attempted precisely once before, unsuccessfully, in the company's 40 year history?
Even without globalism, automation will still give them a hard time. Hence globalism accelerated trends.
Thank you for your last paragraph. You don't see much compassion for others on HN (IMHO).
Not to support zerohedge citations but isn't it totally expected that people who see a collapse coming wouldn't be able to time it exactly? You know the common refrain, the markets can stay irrational longer than you stay solvent, doesn't that go both ways? That if I see the markets are being irrational, it may take quite a long time for the bust to actually happen? But that doesn't mean they weren't irrational and it doesn't mean I didn't see it.
Historically, "hedge fund" was named after a private fund that did pairs trade by shorting one security as they long other to hedge their losses in a downturn or broader market decline.

Modern hedge funds use futures, swaps and derivatives to the same effect, hedge in "hedge fund" is in no way a misnomer and being lightly regulated is a direct consequence of them being limited partnerships which are not open to public or non accredited investors and not the other way round.
Thanks for the link. Great reference. This could keep me occupied for a while.
> if it had that much sugar, it wouldve never gained a reputation for losing weight.

Ah, I see you've forgotten about the 'low-fat' era.

Efficacy has very little to do with the popularity of diets.
Soylent has 20% of calories from protein - good luck with that if you do any physical activity.

The stuff I mentioned can be bought in 5kg bags which will last you a month at least - depending on how much meals you're replacing - if it's all then you'll probably go trough more - you can pre-mix a week worth in a standard plastic container and shake in like two minutes.

The major time difference is going to be in figuring out how to do it the first time - but this is time well spent if you want to balance your nutrition (figuring out how much protein/fat/carbs you want and how many calories).

I'm in the same boat - I don't want to cook every day or eat out all the time - this is convenient and works towards my fitness goals. Throw in a multi vitamin, fish oil and some fruit/vegetables and you got a easy to do fast and cheap diet for building muscle.
So your suggesting that using C++ which has only just had features added that Fortran has had for decades is a good idea?
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Actually, that's not technically true. FWIU, Lighting could be run on both Bitcoin and Litecoin today, but issues with transaction malleability could cause it to be less than trustworthy, for some use cases. So, Segwit, which fixes transaction mailability by moving the header in the transaction to it's own section, enables a higher trust Lightning network to be deployed, on top of a more trustworthy blockchain.
> "In fact, most people these days are implicitly using maps - how often do people drive to new places without GPS navigation?"

I'd argue also they're using maps in an even more fundamental way - most driving occurs in places where the driver has already been, and relying on a wetware-stored map is a critical part of safe and effective driving.

Local knowledge - traffic patterns, weird traffic signal setups, difficult lane changes, etc, is pretty critical to driving well.
Sig. other and I call it "device" as in "did you see where I put my device?"
The best food advice I've read: don't eat or drink anything that humans haven't been eating or drinking for at least 500 years.
I have had two pretty big wins.

Pretty easy (results in days): Answering questions on Quora was a relatively easy, quick win. I answered a question on salary negotiation or job interviews every day for a month, and immediately saw a lot more interest in my site.

Harder (results in 90+ days): A focus on SEO has really paid off. SEO takes a while to build up, but once it's built up, it's pretty reliable traffic source. That means I can spend time working to offer more value to visitors so they'll stick around and come back later.
How do I find a dialer app that's cloud-free?
Yes I thought that was the best one actually! ;)
As someone who's been keeping tabs on the field for the past 20 years since briefly bouncing through it at university, you're dead wrong. It's one of those things that sounds easy, and... just isn't. The shots of predicting the partially occluded pose are a bit special, too.
Actually, that's not that easy. There are not many android phones with keyboard, and even less with a proper community for rooting it. I wouldn't know a single one.
There are a lot of blogs out there, and they don't update frequently. Ideally RSS feed readers would come back into common use (which IM[completely unqualified]O won't happen until one comes out with the sorts of social features that can really drive uptake), but until then, have you considered putting together and promoting a blog/website aggregator for your field?

I try to follow a certain academic field from the outside, but there are too many blogs, old online journal archives, websites, etc. out there for me to keep track of or even find, so I end up reading the few blogs that update somewhat regularly and academia.edu and that's it.
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I generally believe in transparency. But I would resist transparency with someone that exhibits this attitude:

Andrew Anglin, the owner of The Daily Stormer, has been candid about how he feels about people reporting his site for its content. “We need to make it clear to all of these people that there are consequences for messing with us,” Anglin wrote in one online post. “We are not a bunch of babies to be kicked around. We will take revenge. And we will do it now.”
We have a code base of roughly 200,000 lines of Haskell code, dealing with high performance SQL query parsing, compilation and optimizations.

I only remember one situation over the past 5 years that we had a performance issue with Haskell, that was solved by using the profiling capabilities of GHC.

I disagree that performance is hard to figure out. It could be better, yes - but it's not that different than what you'd get with other programming languages.
What? As if west is taking environmental protectionism seriously. Look what Trump is doing and other climate change deniers. An idiot in Australian parliament walks around with a lump of coal. Canada is raping the country digging up those tar sands which is more polluting than previously thought according to last studies. China needs to catch up at any cost, but once they do their government system will allow them to take drastic measures to clean up faster than the west. Our political systems are in bed with polluters and we're still emmitting the highest levels of CO2 per capita.
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Are they any good? The erythritol worried me a bit.
So what'll that be?... 5 new jobs created? Look at the Tesla Gigafactory, they brag on how dense it is and how automated it is... that means less jobs.

I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm just saying bringing manufacturing back to the US doesn't mean jobs, it couldn't and still be profitable. Any new factory in the US will have to be so heavily automated it couldn't possibly provide any jobs
Wow, really good writeup. And on point regarding '5 days' vs '5 years' approach.

And it really confirms my biases against the language.
Because the difference between a rocket and an ICBM is basically non existent and being able to simulate the environment inside a rocket engine would help a lot with designing either. To do pretty much any job in aerospace you'll have to qualify under ITAR which means you'll have to be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
The thing with enlightenment level ideas isn't that they aren't enlightening but that they attract hype. Individuals pretending to be enlightened if you will.

A scientific mindset as well as liberalism are also ideas where new proponents often want to draw a line in the sand to stratify people into superior and inferior. The original proponents were chasing a higher level of quality for all, but the need for social stratification weaponizes and gates ideas.
So what makes you think Apple or Google aren't using your call information for advertising purposes in the default diallers?
People seem to want people to have jobs that are easy to visualize... people seem worried about the number of factory workers in a way in which they do not worry about number of architects.
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Disabling JavaScript seems to fix it. It's a shame that it's necessary; it's a nice article otherwise.
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How long did it take? What keywords did you target?

What tools / approaches were most helpful?
10-15, which is far more than I get legitimate phone calls
I'll go off anyway I like. That's what the downvote mechanism is for here, after all. Hell, the main article got flagged and pulled. Something is clearly going on. Read the article. It's rational, mostly.

I will point out that large entities like Facebook may misuse this forum to their liking, and that anonymous posts who directly contradict a posting here, in this group, indicates a motive that benefits the entity doing the posting. It would be different if it weren't about something highly controversial that has no means by which a truth can be determined.

FACT: Facebook will and can do anything they like to their products to increase revenue, products of which billions of people use daily to do things they think are trustworthy, when in fact they are provably not. They can also do whatever it is they are capable of doing as a gorilla entity to silence those of us who question their motives in product development.

In these types of cases, we are actually NOT perfectly capable of "incorporating datum" into our interpretations, whatever the hell that means from your perspective.

Frankly, I find dogmatic replies such as yours highly annoying and boring. We, the members of this group called HN, are mostly culpable for making this fucking mess of this thing we call the Internet, with it's mostly viral models and broken security. We've leveraged capital to "trick" users into using our products via viral growth models, all the while to obtain higher and higher payouts. That I come in here to try to make a small dent in the effort to combat this and am colloquially "smacked down" for it is an indication my gut is right about my assertions. People are greedy and will continue to do so as long as they have the means.

So, again, I will go off how I like, when I like, and those who don't like it can do what they will to silence me. I choose to have free will, and deny those who deny that choice for myself.

> -1 points by kordless 12 minutes ago

BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life.