skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And clearly statically-typed everywhere PLs are asking the programmer to do extra work.

I'm not convinced this is entirely true. The kinds of information that you encode in types is the kind of information that's useful to anyone reading the code. And if that information isn't written down somewhere, then the person reading the code (maybe you sometime later) has to reconstruct it themselves. And if it's useful to write that kind of information down, why not have the computer check that it's consistent?
I don't think any of this is new. My dad owned a restaurant over thirty years ago and has talked bad about them (as business investments) ever since. Restaurants have a number of characteristics that indicate they should be poor investments vs other types of small businesses. Here's a few, none of which require wall street's involvement:

-They're cool. Who doesn't want to own one? I'd love to own a bar if I thought I could make money in the game.
-They're visible. Everyone eats at restaurants, and in fact, a lot of people sit around in restaurants talking about what sort of business to start.
-They have good perks. Free beer anyone?
-They're familiar. I mean, things turn out pretty good when I BBQ, right?
-They're (relatively) cheap to get into. If the minimum is $100k instead of $1M, you'll have more competition.

When it comes to small business, look for the opposite of all of those. The more obscure, boring and downright unappealing the better.
I’ve long banished Babel thanks to Typescript. Still has a transpile step though much faster and no more plugin hell.
> yet terrible at risk/reward

Pretty much. Managed to work on about eight games in a row that didn't make back their investment for three separate companies while I was in the game industry. They failed for various reasons, and a few of them really should have been successful, in my opinion, but oh well. Bad timing (releasing at the same time as heavy hitters), bad marketing, bad luck with reviewers, getting screwed by platform holders, aiming at the wrong audience, bad choice of difficulty, bad choice of which idea to pursue, technical issues that weren't in the testing environment and not discovered until release, overly restrictive and expensive update patching policies with platform holders, all sorts of fun reasons.
Because most of us tend to think a great deal about ourselves. The difference being: he has a lucrative, popular blog and we don't.
> Although, I have a pet-theory that you don't really need distributed data frames. For 95% or 99% of data science, use stratified sampling to cut your data down to the size of a single machine. Then load it up in R or Python. You can make almost any decision with say 4 GiB of data. Often you can make it with 4 MB or 4 KB of data. It's not the amount of data that is the problem, but the quality.

To add fuel to that fire, you can get AWS EC2 instances with 4TB of main system RAM now. At least where inference is the goal, the times that you'd need exotic systems are truly rare indeed.
Pro-capitalist propaganda disguised as "freedom".
Ask HN: How can I track the usage of third party APIs in my app?
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Any plans to make self-hosting straight-forward? Granted, I haven't spent much time looking for it, but I've been looking for something similar to this for quite some time, and Nextcloud's Collabora isn't quite what I'm looking for.
Yes, of course, on the technical level it works. The legal and editorial side of it has not really been addressed. When somebody can publish arbitrary content on a Google domain, then Google pretty much has to start taking on an editorial role.
It's exactly this. YouTubers are being given phones to drum up some uneducated noise to dilute any criticism from technical reviews. YouTubers only care about view counts and their popularity, and most will just shout about how shiny it is without putting in any effort to find anything to criticize. Apple needs some hype to convince consumers that the iPhone X's notch design, and Face ID not working in sunlight or sitting on a flat surface, aren't deal breakers.

That notch is the most gimmicky thing to ever make it past the concept phase for a modern phone. The tech reviews I've seen so far are showing off just how broken existing apps are because of the notch interfering. Of course all the "big player" apps will be fixed within 1-2 months, but there are thousands of apps that will never be updated to support the X's notch.

Apple needs to figure out how to embed these components beneath the screen. Yes it will be an incredible technical challenge; but that's what we're really waiting for: 100% screen space. Until that is possible, they shouldn't have pushed such an unfinished concept as being "innovative".
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It doesn't matter if they believe that it's higher revenue, GDPR requires consent from the data subject [1] to process personal data. An email address is personal data under GDPR. You can't guarantee consent with single opt-in.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
I was under the impression it stood for "Office Suite" but apparently not. See this[1] comment by the author on /r/privacy subreddit.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/76c605/airborn_os_...
“It's been great to see Wireguard mature over the years”
I assure you that outside, people are still mostly normal.

I have visited this land, and spoken to its inhabitants, most everyone is pretty chill and friendly.
thank you. passed this info on.
Lazy learning. Information is getting as it needed
I can't predict the future, but my gut feeling is telling me you're wrong. Institutional money moves the needle and I wouldn't be surprised if this goes another 20x (into trillions of dollars) before we see a major correction. The current market cap ($180bn) is nothing.

Facebook went 10x, from $50bn to $500bn, after it was added to the S&P500. A similar pattern can generally be seen for other stocks being added to the index. That's one company / stock.

There is only one Bitcoin. There is only one Ethereum. You have investors globally buying mostly those two assets. Want to buy the asset class? You buy one of those two (or both)

Pension funds manage around $300tn. If those allocate 1 or 2% to crypto, a sparkly new asset class, you'll have a $3-6tn market cap. Which they might, given the above average returns it's been generating.

Gold is worth $8.2tn globally. Bitcoin in my view qualifies as digital gold. Why was gold originally picked as a store of value? You could've picked other metals. Or diamonds, etc. But someone decided gold was the one. Gold in itself isn't very useful. It's been given its value by people, because they believe it to be a store of value. (I'm not a gold bug and I personally don't think gold is worth holding) But think about this: how high could gold and silver go in a speculative bubble? $13tn? $16tn? Higher?

There will be 20-30-40% corrections along the way, but in my view, it's going much much higher -- very much like the .com bubble (which went up to approx. $5.6tn). Wouldn't be surprised if this entire space achieves a multi trillion market cap ($2-4tn) over the next few years, with most of that ending up in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Note: this is not investment advice. Do your own research and make up your own mind.
Report on the Trinity Test by General Groves (1945)
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Where did you get the idea that there would be a 95% energy loss rate? In general it never goes above 8-9%.

High voltage + low amperage = high energy transfer efficiency.
package management is a harder problem than most people seem to want to admit. I've run into tons of issues with every package management system you can think of: rpm does some extremely dodgy caching stuff at times, navigating maven dependency trees to identify the offending version of slf4j that is harshing the vibe, etc.

I can't think of a single package management system that works well and people seem to love.
Also from the first link:

Popular Physical Delivery futures contracts include (but are not limited to) CME Currencies (Euro, JPY, & GPB), CBOT Treasuries (2 yr, 5yr, 10 yr, & 30 yr), NYMEX Energies (Crude Oil, Natural Gas, RBOB Gasoline, & Heating Oil), CME Live Cattle, CBOT Grains (Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Rice, and Oats), COMEX Metals (Gold, Silver, & Copper), and ICE Softs (Sugar, Cotton, Cocoa, Coffee and OJ).

There are plenty of physical delivery futures still in existence.
Okay, that second part finally explains it, thanks for that. I had a hunch the five years having been up 2 years ago didn't tell nearly the whole story (though apparently people think I'm crazy for thinking that).
You don't need to download the file to verify the contents. The purpose of having a hash in the link is to allow you to cache jQuery previously downloaded from one CDN even though the link points to another.
They don't need to replicate anything, they just need to match buyers and sellers.
The WIPP?! I love it... a desolate plain of windblown sand, gathering around the base of massive, repulsive obsidian and concrete pillars.

Then again, maybe we just go with, "There be dragons."
So you're saying that you would reject otherwise qualified candidates based on their religion (a protected class in the U.S.), which is illegal?
I don't get the impression that he was denied a review unit, just that his embargo clears later. The Youtubers don't seem even to have been given a unit at all — just access to them in Apple facilities.
Signal Desktop is not really standalone, because you still need to pair it with your phone. And the phone should be turned on.

I am very privacy conscious, and I don't use a smartphone, at all, because it's basically a spying device in your pocket.

Why Signal is all about privacy and then it forces me to pair it with a telephone?

Telegram desktop is really standalone. They require a telephone number too (and that's very annoying), but they don't require having a smartphone or keeping your phone open. My phone number on telegram is not even my phone number anymore, and it doesn't make any difference... Privacy wise is far from being perfect, but it's already better. At least it's usable.
We might not be able to have it both ways. The geysers and other unique features of Yellowstone are epiphenomena of the supervolcano they overlie. It may be that a method exists by which we can both preserve those epiphenomena, and prevent catastrophic damage to ecologies across the continent or even the world. But if we can only do one of those, then I know which one I'd choose.
Hey Russians! If you guys have worked out how to get the herd to stampede, then why for the love of cabbage, do you need to use this skill to just cause randomness???

I mean can't you guys get the herd to buy Russian iPhones or line up for Russian super hero movies or something?

I really can't understand what the Russians have gained here. If Mueller's final report says the Russians had a major influence on the election, then what happens? I can't imagine it being good for anyone.
If it's something that a hiring manager uses to make a determination, it's a policy.
Their interface is available in Esperanto. That's already a huge point for me.
There's no permanent paragraph ownership in Airborn OS either, but it's locked for about 10 seconds when you edit a paragraph. Or are you saying that the two editors would be editing the same paragraph at the same time?
Stuff that directly touches the hardware is hard to unit test. But embedded systems have a lot of timing and sequencing stuff that can be unit tested. I unit test that fairly thoroughly.

And it's amazing some of the things unit tests have turned up for me. Timing errors. Race conditions. Calling a (pure) virtual function in the destructor of the base class. Semaphore deadlocks.
Because SCIENCE!! ;)
I also fail to see the usefulness. A server can already today send only the html head, flush the stream then pause before sending the body?

Most modern SPAs also have a static index.html which shouldn't take long to serve anyway.

This is going to be abused by cargo cult brogrammers who heard that "103 will make your site faster!!!1" and put every single resource as a 103 making the time to 200 even longer than the time you actually potentily gain.
He got a review unit 24 hours ago, per his most recent post.
I'm the original author of the freeze_graph script, so I'm to blame for a lot of the on-going mess here. For what it's worth I'm actively working on cleaning this up, since I know what a painful experience it is. Apologies for everyone who's struggled with this, and I will take a look at the case number mentioned above and follow up internally to see if there's anything I can help with.
Hey, I work for YC and would love to talk to you about this -- feel free to reach out to kyle@ycombinator.com.
Does this fall under mailchimps responsibility or the company using their services?
Eh, that's just Gruber's style, always a bit of an asshole. Sometimes it's amusing and sometimes it really grates, but you've got to admit it seems to be working for him.

Anyway, underneath the presentation, he has a good point that it's pretty weak that Apple chose complete puff-piece reviewers to get initial seed units.
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Because it's not journalism. It's entertainment.
One day Google will shutdown Gmail.

Finally then everyone will learn to ignore their non-Advertising services. It's for the best!
The privacy options started as one drop-down with only three choices, one of which was unavailable to choose for non-Enterprise consumers, which is nearly the same number of options as the checkboxes you reference. Some complained that wasn't enough options so now there's a half-dozen checkboxes.

The telemetry Windows 10 didn't allow you to opt-out of at launch was the same telemetry every version of Windows since Vista (including 7) have not allowed you to opt-out of (including Windows Error Reporting, which even Windows XP had a stripped down version of that). There's a bit more of it in 10, but it's not like it magically appeared overnight...

Now there's half-dozen or so checkmarks, all in one spot, with a lot of information (and links to a lot more information) on a lot of detail as to what each checkmark includes (and what is impacted by turning it off). It's overkill compared to Apple's "one checkbox", but a lot of voices shouted they wanted a lot more information and a lot more ability to pick and choose.

The same people that trust Apple to just have one checkbox and be done with it, are some of the same people that want 100-page documents with specifics from Microsoft and why we've come to this page full of checkboxes and tons of stuff to read impasse. This is part of why I'm getting cynical about privacy complaints and feel like this discussion isn't going anywhere productive.
You have good points and in you might be right for the common user.

But as a technical user I despise that and I liked the honest way this was presented. Because this is something everyone should be thinking before signing up (granted most don't, so, yeah).
What level of confidence would you say is represented by that comment? I’d say 95% sounds reasonable, which implies a 5% chance of being wiped out with your strategy. Might be too high for many people.
Arrow is all about in-memory, not long-term persistence. Systems can write it to disk but it is the one in-memory representation to rule them all, not storage/disk. Disk has its own requirements and challenges outside the scope of Arrow.
Why would HIPAA apply to Yahoo?
I love wakatime...

I'm currently writing an integration (beta) that will take your wakatime history (heartbeats), and convert it into billable hours (15 minute chunks)... it is available for free at:
http://itimetrack.com

Congrats to Alan!!!
No: the idea that immutable is a sensible default, and active enforcing of immutability.
In Java, e.g., a linked list's cell might be immutable, but its contents are most likely mutable - so back to page one. It is definitely possible to write code for structures that are immutable by interface or convention, but the environment does not help you doing so.
Names barely matter, but yeah, the "OS" is confusing, airborn makes me think viruses and plagues, don't get any feelings of "documents", or "encryption", or "security" from it, and the namespace is overloaded, it will be hard to get rank.

Otherwise I really like the project. I want all my data on all sites to be locally encrypted and backed up in the cloud. Documents is the perfect start, because there is very little server-side introspection needed. I'd like my friend graphs and contacts to be next.

In terms of UI, start by copying google docs exactly, they did a fine job.
What reliable service should one use then? MailChimp is still pretty much the go-to option for me
I was going to disagree, then I read the paragraph against regulation.
I've seen reviewers say negative things about Apple products within the context of a review and still get future devices.

I don't know what reviewer the parent was talking about, but if Apple thought their review was unfair, I see no problem with Apple deciding not to give that reviewer any more devices.
We used this service for an internal company flight-booking application. Fortunately, we booked all the flights for this year but I guess we'll need to find another solution if we do this again for another year.
I see the value of statically typed languages as I've used Swift quite a lot and quite like it. It is way more strict than say Java and C++. However when I compare my coding with Swift to the dynamic language Julia, it is way more fun and fast to write Julia code. Up to a certain point of course. As I pass about 1000 lines of code I start feeling a bit uncomfortable about the lack of static type checking to catch my changes.

However this is mostly down to me being lazy and not bothering to write tests.

I've spend some time with Haskell, and tried writing some code for a simple geometry library in Haskell. Quite cool language, but I could write the same code in much fewer lines in Julia and much faster.

Haskell has just too much mental overhead. It requires far more investment than other languages to learn and I've learned plenty. Nothing has required as much effort as Haskell. Despite the effort I never felt like I could write any real and practical programs with it.

I honestly think the Haskell fan club is slightly deluded. If Haskell was truly as amazing as they think, we ought to have seen a lot more amazing software being made in Haskell. We don't. Far more interesting things seems to have been done in newer languages such as Go, Rust, Swift and Julia. That ought to be a hint that Haskell isn't quite the silver bullet that the fan club thinks it is.
> The icon would provide users an assessment of the news outlet's ratio of fact versus fiction and reporting versus opinion.

Yes, we should always trust powerful institutions to tell us what the truth is...
Can you expand more on your personal decision to be so privacy conscious?
I like the idea of tapping into potential disaster for energy. Next topics:

- lightning

- quakes

- tsunamis / tide

- avalanches
The linked article doesn't say anything about messing with the geysers. As far as I can see, it's talking about drilling separate shafts down into the Earth and harvesting heat energy via pumped water.

> Why we as humans seem to think that life can't possibly continue without us has always boggled my mind.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with this comment. Care to clarify? If you're suggesting that any attempts to prevent an eruption would be too disruptive to the ecosystem, imagine how disruptive 8 ft. of volcanic ash would be if it were to blanket most of the western United States. That's not even mentioning the millions of tons that would end up in the atmosphere for years, blocking out the sun, and killing off a substantial amount of plant and animal life world wide.
How dare anyone promote the most successful anti-poverty economic tool ever invented - letting people freely exchange labor and goods in a system of laws and contracts.

Don't believe me? Look at when China implemented free market reforms then look at when their economy began decades of massive growth. China used to have 500 million people who had never owned a toothbrush. Now all the toothbrushes in the world are made there.
In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich (2007)
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Hum, the repl catches most of those for me almost as instantly as Eclipse would highlight it if it were in Java. And the onese that are left are annoying, but really not a massive amount of wasted time. Like possibly a lot less time then the time I would spend wrestling with complex types, or having to build generic structures so I can group disparate types together.
To be fair, Google has a little more than 200 users.
Looks like the post means 'either already burnt or will be burnt easily'? So what exactly is your nitpick here?
You're probably right about that. But, I believe that reading and blocking private, non-shared, documents in a user's account is not the right approach to abuse. If it ever becomes necessary, Airborn OS could inspect publicly shared documents for abuse, too.
I think inflammable (or flammable) applies. I think the user is saying the trust is likely to go up in flames.
Sometimes it won’t let you continue at all without logging in, with “go to the mobile site” being replaced with “log into the mobile site”

This isn’t consistent though and I only get it maybe once a week. I just give up and check again later.
Umm...Google Cloud Platform?
You're so spot on. Some companies do not introspect deeply enough, nor do they have the desire! I've met some of them and guess what –– they don't end up creating a profile on Key Values. Honestly, I think it says a lot about team who put in the time and care to create a profile. The exercise of selecting 8 values and qualifying them signals a real desire to invest in people, culture, and to make sure values actually translate into behaviors.

Re: your example, I see it as my job to encourage them to communicate who they are loudly and proudly! There's pressure on both sides (job-seekers and employers) to check all of the boxes. It doesn't make sense to do that at all though.
There isn't one.

The atomic bomb is a blunt instrument with no finesse. The ability to vaporize large groups of people in a flashy infrastructure destroying display is not particularly conducive to control.

Atomic bombs don't let you watch, record, and analyze the movements of millions of people. They don't let you record and analyze the personal lives, conversations, and secrets of millions of people. They don't eliminate the need for human labor.
Interestingly, I read this the other way: "...all trust is burnt, or about to be burnt."
The short answer is both.

There's a somewhat longer answer about how MailChimp would need to make the company agree to a separate contract around liability issues, as per GDPR requirements.
The worst case for the number of places I have to go fix is O(n). I.e., the verification half is O(n). The solution search side ("solving the puzzle") may be worse, because I have to generate/find the code that fits the type checker.
I have to agree with you on the point that life will find a way regardless of our meddling or not. However, I feel like the Yellowstone super volcano bogeyman is not worth the effort. It is like worrying about an asteroid hitting the planet, there is nothing we can do about it so why worry?
The author is obviously not against regulation - deregulation is the crazy idea that there can be too many regulations that end up being harmful to progress and safety, but that some lesser level of regulations are still necessary.

Think this is obviously untrue? In some places you can't wash someone else's hat without being certified and bonded. Maybe you think that's a good regulation, but you'd be in the minority.