skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For perspective: this is maths, not programming. You learn about these combinators in your typical lambda calculus course at uni.

It's a fun POC to actually represent it in code, not a serious proposal for production grade software.
Wow talk about garbage journalism.

"As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump seized the platform as a megaphone to amplify his attacks on immigrants, women, and Muslims, adding a virulent new political dimension to the tidal wave of harassment."

I got that far and closed the window. When someone's mind is that infected with ridiculous biases and prejudice and a compelling addiction to pushing their own agendas, it's a safe bet whatever else they have to say is probably not worth hearing.
How many chess players are in the world: Numbers Game
Mathematicians insist on one-grapheme identifiers, partly due to tradition and aesthetics, and partly because at some point juxtaposition came to represent multiplication, so what xy means would be ambiguous.
unsafe is not viral; if it was, everything would be unsafe. An unsafe block is the boundary where you tell the compiler "I've got this bit", and so it trusts you and considers it safe.
It's a pretty terrible reading experience on desktop too. It goes away if you are a logged in user. Clearly Medium is trying to drive users to signup/signin and it worked in my case.
The TL;DR:

There are 2 types of GMO corn: Insect Resistant and Glyphosate Resistant, (Glyphosate is a herbicide, so it can be sprayed on fields killing weeds but not resistant corn).

Corn resistant to pests has less loss, therefore higher yield. Also, since there's less insect damage, there's less chance for rot, and therefore fewer mycotoxins, (mycotoxins = toxins that come from fungus). It also hasn't been sprayed with as many pesticides as a non-resistant variety would be, so there's less actual poison on the corn.

Corn with no competition from weeds has higher yield, and glyphosate makes it really easy to kill everything else in the field.

More corn = more food = better health.

Let's pick this apart a bit!

Ignoring the lobbyist domain, since the study also appears in Nature[1], there are some sneaky twists here:

> GMO corn crops had lower percentages of mycotoxins (-28.8 percent), fumonisins (-30.6 percent) and thricotecens (−36.5 percent), all of which can lead to economic losses and harm human and animal health

Fumonisins are a class of mycotoxins, so that 30.6% reduction is already included in the 28.8% reduction of mycotoxins.

The word "Thricotecens" only appears in Google as part of this study, and isn't in my computer's dictionary. Is there a scientist that can explain what it is? Is it another sub-group of mycotoxins?

Is it a good idea to be consuming corn that grew up with glyphosate[2] in the fields? It seems pretty poisonous, and I didn't see anything about balancing the benefits of more corn vs. less glyphosate.

We can also talk about if having more corn in our diet is really a good idea if we want, (spoiler: generally no, especially if you live in North America).

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21284-2
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
> The question is, just looking at the above code, it looks like "s" is mutated. Yes the implementation in the monad could be pure and use state threading, but how does that help us reason about the above imperative program?

The value of the monad is precisely that both these things are true. We can use our fast-and-loose imperative intuition most of the time, but if we ever get confused about how the "mutation" of s interacts with some other effect (e.g. a continuation), we can desugar the code into the pure state-threading version and bring all the power of our pure, referentially transparent reasoning tools to bear. Most of the time we don't, because that version of the code looks a lot more cumbersome, but it's there if we need it. Whereas if we find ourselves in the same position with the Javascript, we're stuffed; when the effect interactions get too complicated to reason about imperatively, we have no alternative.
A persistent noise of unknown origin
+ bad infrastructure is not evenly distributed and its effects are more likely to impact poorer parts.
This is so beautiful it's hard to look at. God. I just want to lock myself in a room for a month and let my mind fully absorb the gooey rainbow colored goodness that gushes out of it and covers everything in delicious tasting goo.
Thank you for the mostly common sense. To me, the root cause is:

- Central planners in government who think they're able to positively control and shape society ( because they know better than 'we' do )
Is it just me or this kind of rant-like writeups make it difficult to go through the content? While I held on to the romanticized story about the dating site, I gave up when it segued into multi-para story about Rockfeller and SC.

But I get the point and I think there is some value in Google making everyone dance every time they change their algorithm. Things might have been better if they have some kind of review board. Apparently having zero or negligible customer facing teams seems to be the norm.
Uh, no not really?

That biases about race might be changing form doesn't "rule out" the idea of racism. You might as well say the increased inclusion of Irish people in the last few decades rules out racism in that period.
I've done that before. Bought Bioshock 2 and got frustrated with its Games For Windows Live, so I pirated it and played that instead.
Seriously, I like Steven Pinker, but I find this view naive. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9zdpLlXf0 called "How Hollywood Gets Nietzsche Wrong".

I haven't read the source texts yet (Twilight of the Idols e.g.) but my understanding is that his main goal was to ask people to not-systematize and live the lives of others or wholly subscribe to someone else's philosophy but to live life as a self-creative act in which we are the authors of what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I don't see anything offensive about that.
Have a look at the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kimball
What's the mechanism whereby low interest rates cause high rents?
I can sort of confirm this. Disclaimer: I work with C++ and Qt and only know some basic HTML and JS.

I have worked on a project where we reimplemented an HTML5... application (information omitted to protect possible secrets). We did it in a quarter of the time with IIRC a tenth of the staff from the original, according to those who did the HTML5 version. Line count was also lower. Of course not having to redo high-level design and some lower level services was a massive benefit for us, and HTML5 frameworks weren't as good at the time.

Perhaps the most important point is that while they got a skeleton up in reasonable time, things slowed down greatly from there. The HTML5 / JS code was kind of hard to understand due to callback hell, and getting smooth performance took a huge amount of work. In the Qt version, we implemented it following some best practices and performance was great right away.
Silicon Valley parents are raising their kids tech-free- it should be a red flag
Very nice. I always think the second best thing to working remotely would be a job I could ride my bike to every day.
Even if some or all of the items on this list are true, to present them as obvious and unquestionable, without any supporting evidence, belays a shocking amount of arrogance that I'm surprised and embarrassed the HN community has deemed worthy to merit with top comment status.
.. because they believe that they'll get more money from the efforts of these people than they cost? If they can sell ads that people wouldn't buy without a person on the other side, they can be worth the cost.
You need to increase the resolution of your infographics. Here's why:

So people can read it. Here's why:

So they can possibly integrate the information and be convinced to use your service. Here's why:

Contact me for the answer.
Why do equations use single-letter variables? Or those weird greek symbols? Because they are concise, and their use is so localized that you don't need long names to keep track of them.
The sources for this seem very suspect. I'm going to dive into them a bit more but I have a lot of questions about this. In general when I have done A/B tests the live chat had very little affect on actual sales.
This is true for desktop applications. On embedded, even PyQt or PySide could be difficult, depending on the amount of application logic required.
Irish Dutch sandwich.
The way large multinational corporations pay tax in the UK seems to be that the government names a figure, the company says "ha, no" then they negotiate down until the company is happy.

I don't think raising that starting figure is going achieve much but maybe it works differently in other countries.
AFAIK, Golden Rice is a spin-off from university research and not owned by the big agriculture companies, so I think you are wrong in at least this instance. It's really no different from Qt being available both under the GPL and a less restrictive commercial license.

Sure, gene patents and proprietary software are both manifest evil, but not everyone working within the existing framework is acting maliciously.
Yes. I also tend to be suspicious of anti-GMO stuff which could just be shilling for organic food.
They do get compensated though, in a way - Facebook is not an utility, people don't have a right to use it, and yet they do which IMO means they get something out of it. Not money, but being connected.

A lot of people will probably object due to their romanticizing of the age before Facebook, but, I strongly believe people have never been as connected to others as they are today, never been as social with as many people as today. Sure, it's mostly in the form of text and pictures and shit which is not as er, "intense" as face to face, but it does allow people to extend their networks by a lot.
As a single piece of anecdata, this is exactly what prevented me from using the free licenses I had through my university to learn these programs. After my experiences with Stata, seeing the non-affiliated prices and having to do my work in a computer lab instead of on my own laptop, I didn't want to be tied to software that I might not have access to in the future, and that I couldn't share with other people.

The one time I made a handsome demo in Mathematica, I realized that there was no straightforward way to share it, so I gave up and redid it in R.

I'm grateful I never spent time learning those programs. I still miss Mathematica now and then, but free software is the only way to go for me nowadays.
I have always been fascinated by JPB because like me, he transcends labels. He was a libertarian and didn't fall along any particular partisan lines. I'm no fan of LSD, but the sort of mind expansion journey he and other attempted was mostly honorable. There are some recent rumors about what devious activities he may have been involved with (perhaps unethical LSD experiments by the government) but I can't uncover any details on that.

I want to believe he was one of the good ones.
Getting hit by a car within a year is an anomaly right? He brushed it off as his "only accident" like it's supposed to be more commonplace.
Exactly! I hope the EU looks into the whole AMP (both web and the recently announced and universally panned email) program for antitrust violations.

I bet if they subpoena Google, they WILL find A/B tests and experiments on increasing engagement & time spent on google.com through AMP changes. How that fits into the antitrust framework is not my subject area, but Google needs to be reigned in.
Twitter chased growth at the expense of quality, quality moderation, and quality infrastructure. Thats all it boils down to.
Also this Vice News piece on same phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhXaM_r80_c
That’s quite true but I’m talking of a common influence about 1500or more years prior to Alexander.

Interestingly the first time I encountered Kartikeya under the name “Skanda” was in fact on a visit to the Bodh Gaya! I guess Alexander was a contemporary or near contemporary of Ashoka. There was a lot of connection between the Greek empire and the Mauryan empire!
I don't understand what the use of anti-piracy measures is. Most pirates are those who won't pay for the software anyway. If an AAA game doesn't get cracked, most people would simply get another cracked game and play it.

So companies aren't getting anything from anti-piracy measures. Rather, they are wasting time and money on implementing these measures.

If I were to make a software, I'd keep it DRM free. Maybe I'll give occassional discounts to attract people who won't pay otherwise, but that's it.
Tesla Model S outsells German luxury flagships in Europe
"At the same time, the billionaire Facebook CEO . . . expressed concern about the country's skewed economic playing field."
> For example, the continuation monad, which is just a library in Haskell, can't be implemented in most imperative languages without extending the language itself (async in JS, C#, etc).

I don't know about other languages, but the continuation monad is pretty trivial to write using promises. These can either be provided natively or using a promise library. It's a little more verbose than Haskell, but it's actually a useful pattern in JS.

https://codepen.io/anon/pen/JpLLJR?editors=0011

FWIW, I'm no JS expert, so its probably likely that there's a library out there that provide the functionality of applyAsync and composeAsync that I wrote.
Anonymous trader buys $400M in Bitcoin
The sequencing is described precisely in the signature of bind.

(>>=)
:: Monad m
=> m a -- Left argument
-> (a -> m b) -- Right argument
-> m b

You don’t need to explain an individual monad instance to notice that this signature requires “a” in order to generate “m b”.
Maybe cheap money has caused increased wealth to those closer to the 'watering hole' ( capital flows ), thereby inflating rents in metropolitan areas close to said 'watering holes'. If you're 'in' you can afford it.

There are of course other major, possibly greater, factors like, NIMBY housing policies ( incl. rent-seeking boomers ).
Paul Graham said it best (without saying it).

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Sam Altman recently said the same, that in several ways freedom of expression is healthier in China today than in the bay area.

And for that matter, Shakespeare, "the lady doth protest too much." Sometimes even burning down the university at the faintest glimmer of the bogeyman.
Which is why I put random fake data into the fields on all my Facebook profile data. Facebook isn't the government after all.
Coconut oil is not a naturally occurring fat, unless you're eating it as part of a coconut. It's just as bad for you as other saturated fats (unfortunately, because it's super tasty): https://nutritionfacts.org/video/coconut-oil-and-the-boost-i...
> It turned out a lot of people actually wanted to talk to a human when spending $1,500 on a holiday. Shocker.

I'm surprised, and I wonder what the age breakdown of those people looks like.

> I'm skeptical of the notion that Roombas took anybody's job

It must have on the margin, surely? I was on the fence about getting a cleaner for a long time; it wouldn't've taken much to push me into not doing so (and many of my friends in similar circumstances, some of whom have Roombas, don't).

> or that I'm about to get a toilet cleaning robot any time soon.

Toilet cleaning will probably be one of the last things to go as the worst-case scenario there is pretty bad, but I read some interesting blog posts a year or two back about a robot that can pick up clothes from the floor and run a laundry cycle (with the help of a QR code sticker on the washer). I don't expect a robot to replace a human cleaner immediately, but I do expect the gradual automation of more and more domestic cleaning tasks, which will push more and more people across the line where it doesn't make sense to hire a human cleaner.
You have to take into account additional arguments, like the time you'll be spending implementing effective DRM will cost you more than any sales you're actually running the risk of losing, may degrade the experience of your legitimate customer base, etc.
Another bonus for bicycling/walking is very predictable arrival time as no traffic jams, public transportation issues etc impact them.
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I guess we just killed the demo site.
Well, HTML does not contain any APIs for creating plasmoids... So of course you have never seen that particular complexity in HTML.
I pretty much just read articles backwards now.
Yeah, I might have been unclear. I've been cycling for a few years before that and that was the first time I touched a car. The driver DID look straight at me though, seemingly noticing me, so I was really confused when she started speeding up anyway.
When i checked two weeks ago, there was a bug that when opened a notebook with large number of cells(~200), in firefox, it would freeze for about 10 seconds if the window was resized. The problem, as i know, only occurs in Firefox, not in Chrome.

This was problematic, especially for me, as I open documentation on other side of the window and keep resizing the window as part of my habit. But, overall JupyterLab was great. You can work on the same notebook side by side too and has a file manager/viewer panel.
What specifically are you looking for?
That's an exceptional situation in that they determined that they weren't going to be making money on it so they instead turned it in to a pro-GMO PR exercise.

Read more on this here:

http://www.goldenrice.org/Content1-Who/who4_IP.php

So your claims about ownership appear to be false, and you still need a license.
Glucose is harmless and can be metabolised by any cell in your body, while Fructose can only be metabolised by your liver and produced a bunch of undesirable metabolic end products in the process. It also blocks leptin, the antagonist of insulin and therefore messes with your metabolic regulation, while glucose does none of that. If you feed rats large amounts of glucose they will get a very big liver but stay otherwise healthy, if you feed them fructose they will develop diabetes... This is all very well known.
Isomaltulose is a component of the drink Soylent. It is a disaccharide that was specifically chosen for its health properties. Table sugar is also a disaccharide
He also says "it’s not clear that inequality (as opposed to poverty) is a moral abomination, or that reducing it is progress," so it may be unclear exactly what he means by the first statement.
Agreed completely. Infographics should be able to be expanded to fit as close to the full width of a 2048 resolution screen minimum[1]. What gets me is these things are usually made as vector graphics so the source material has more than enough detail to be displayed at any size.

[1] This is completely arbitrary. I made it up. But I think it makes sense.
I think data scientist, much like software engineer, is something you can call yourself without having any credentials whatsoever.

It’s why technical interviews can be so brutal, unfortunately. There are a lot of frauds out there. Money attracts frauds.

What’s the fizzbuzz test for data scientists anyway?
You need to hire a good blog editor/reviewer. Here's why:

He/She will make sure the blog is readable and avoid posts like these which barely pass the bar.
> It's presumptuous to assume "community A is smarter than community B".

To assume with no basis, sure; to conclude it may or may not be.

> It's just not even the right question to ask.

It's not inherently operationalized, sure, though (as seen elsewhere in this thread), “advertising jobs for platform A results in us needing to filter out fewer candidates with no real programming ability than when we advertise jobs for platform B” I'd pretty much an operationalization of it, and quite (to address your later point) actionable.
I stumbled through high school math and never took any in university so this is all wizardry to me. All I know is that when I began using immutable data in JavaScript, my data processing workflows and state machines became nearly trivial to understand and debug. Pure functions are also beautiful to reason about and test and debug.

I'm not sure about monads. I barely understand them. But if I could have one wish, it would be to make immutable data structures first class in more languages, like JS and Python.
I've been biking to work for a bit more than two years now. Same distance to work and not even any close calls with cars. I do ride quite carefully though and make very sure that they see me and stop before I ride out in front of one.
I just think it is inaccurate to call that leftism. There are certainly leftist in the US and there are also similarities between socialism and social liberalism, but the game being played in the US isn't a leftist one. It isn't about state intervention, union power or even legislation. That private individuals, institutions or companies should be able to do and say whatever they want is even a right wing positions in the first place. Just that it originally was about teaching about god, excluding gay people and firing union organizers. So if anything, people that want precedence for their opinions are right of liberal and not left. The left position is that important institution shouldn't be private (or at least not privately funded) in the first place and/or primarily be accountable to the state rather than individuals.
>"Why is it that there are so few women in high level management positions?" frame it as "Why are there so much men willing to put up with the stress and pressure of high level management positions?"

Except this "framing" implicitly introduces the assumption that gendered differences in stress and pressure tolerance is the cause.
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Presuming the company fully owned (or with some sort of pro-rata split) you could tax the parent company for the total of their holdings. If they truly were separate companies, well, that satisfies the OP's objective too, no?

(Note I'm not a big fan of corporate taxes in general, I'd rather we not tax corporations and tax individuals more aggressively. Get rid of special rates for capital gains and have a much more progressive individual tax system.)
that short of a commute? that's a no brainer for cycling to work.
Bertrand Russell: What desires are politically important?
How do free licenses enslave poor countries to always pay licenses?
> "The industry maliciously amplifies our innate tendency to find a "one-fits-all" solution. The bogeyman "

No no no no. the industry reacted to government intervention (bad intervention, as usual). the industry didnt want to change what it was selling, they said the food would taste bad if we removed the fats. but the government always gets what it wants.

and bogeyman policy is how things work. hey look, a boogeyman, fund my "research". then you can write books, hold paid talks/conferences, get hugely paid government positions, etc.
I live about the same distance from work as the writer, and I've been cycling to work since early October. I would have thought that such a short bike ride wouldn't have much of a health benefit, but I feel more energetic and my blood pressure is noticeably lower than it was a year ago.
Or just unfounded panic. The good news is that producers of organic food tend to have much smaller marketing budgets than the GMO giants, even so you are absolutely right that you can't trust either camp to have your best interests at heart and you should be wary of any article that picks one side over the other without being totally transparent about the party that commissioned the article.

I hope that in the future we will be able to solve this problem because access to unbiased information is super important if we are to move forward as a species.
I never thought they could blame something like this on Russia, but I was wrong.
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