skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There isn't really any evidence that Haskell is more productive than Go.

Go appears to be a network services language. Although Haskell has equally good for-loops and channels, it does not have an incremental garbage collector or fast build times. So Go has its place.

For general purpose programming, Go is lacking so many features and provides such verbose syntax for what little it does have (worse than modern Java, e.g Lambdas and conditionals), that one can certainly say it is starting from a disadvantaged point with regard to productivity.

It sounds like you've had some bad experiences with some of Haskells libraries and tooling. The ecosystem is certainly still rapidly evolving and good documentation and libraries may not exist in all areas. With regard to complex abstractions, the Haskell community usually likes to formalise and reuse them. Learning an abstraction usually results in a big payoff.

EDIT:

> Do monad transformers make me more productive?

Monad transformers are specific to pure functional programming, but yes they aid productivity. For example, I can build an effectful streaming type with resource management and other desired features by stacking existing transformers. In Go I would be solving such problems with for loops.

> Do functional dependencies make me more productive?

Functional dependences are specific to Haskell type classes, but yes they can aid productivity. For example, you want to express arithmetic ops on matrices and scalars and have the compiler figure out the correct dispatch and return type depending on the type of the values. In Go I can't overload operators or do multiple dispatch.
Yes, a 'saved search' is a Search Folder.

>it isn't necessarily in the same spot as what it's searching to make it obvious what it is

That's exactly my problem! Search folders are unable to be relocated or act as parent folders.
>Anyway I think this is a bit sad.

It definitely sounds like you have something against your brother by the way you have portrayed him in a negative light. It sounds like you are competitive against him by constantly comparing his lifestyle versus yours.
I don’t think I feel good about this. The comments are nice and seem true, but whenever there is so much money involved, even a non profit label I would be suspicious. Are all funding and allocations going to be made public for the organization? People always seem to have a hidden self interest, especially when money is involved.
Very cool, but can't help to wonder.. What is the likelihood of taking a random picture that captures the start of a supernova? How often does one happen in a given photograph-sized portion of space?

Because astronomics is involved it feels like one of those things that either happens all the time or has a 1 in 10^100 chance of happening.

Is there another plausible explanation here? Some kind of eclipse maybe.
It can certainly waste space. And a lot of it. I’ve seen designers redesign tight tabular data layouts into light and airy cells of data and it ends up displaying 60% less information on a screen, requiring more scrolling from a user. This is exactly the kind of thing enterprise apps don’t need, but it looks good for a consumer app.
Again, many words for still a simple answer:

> Why don't the people at the top want to share?

Greed
I really, really wish that he'd reconsider. Interoperability is a huge Good Deal.
Edit: That was written under the belief that I was replying to @sneak.

Haven't had a drop of alcohol since January 28th, so no drinking problem here.

My last sentence wasn't sarcasm and this comment of yours prove my point. You are so entrenched in your point of view that you automatically assume stereotypes about me. You are assuming that drinking alcohol === drinking problem and that me "offering you" a sip of quality booze is a proof of alcoholism.

Yes, my comment was "defensive". However, yours was on the offensive. "Drinking in general is a really bad idea" is a pretty wide statement. This makes me suspect that you are the one with issues here. Perhaps that you had negative experiences related to alcohol or alcoholism, making you perceive any consumption of alcohol as negative and dangerous, and that's perfectly fine.

I'm not trying to be insensitive either. You are perfectly in your rights not to like alcohol and to think of it as negative.

The issue is when you allow stereotypes to taint your perceptions of others.
Drizzle: Reactive Ethereum Data for Front-Ends
Wait, ok. Humans can fix their teeth by not eating too much sugars and acids, cleaning their teeth and swishing spit around?

If you're for real, please donate yourself to science :|
I thought Travis really did want to use the limo(s) himself. Wasn't shared access to high-end limos the original idea? And didn't the Airbnb founders put the literal Ur-airbed in their own house?

I think you are right that there are exceptions to the rule, but those seem to follow the rule to some degree.
It might not be the strongest, but I think it might be one of the easiest to film. Lots of action and interaction between characters compared to something like Player of Games which has a lot of internal monologue.
That's the weird thing: If I rember right Consider Phlebas is by far the worst book to adapt to introduce the Culture, because of how prevalent the Idrian religion (an expy for various militant religious groups) is to the plot and action. As you said lets hope we get all of them, especially Excession IMHO.
Show HN: Puzzle.js
Plaster bricks for modelling in a variety of scales have been around for a long time.
How about: they aren't?

Wages did stagnate for some time, but now they're growing again (http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/news/economy/january-jobs-re...).
Makes sense, considering he already stole one of their best vision engineers to lead the AutoPilot project.
There's a lot of evidence that a large part of the NYTimes revenue surge is a "Trump bump", and that, more broadly, there are way too many media outlets offering free content for the same limited number of eyeballs, and they're burning a lot of VC dollars in the process:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-...
My main problem with this list is that in most of the cases it's basically asking for "faster horses". Most of the items are not problems themselves, but traditional and long existing solutions for problems: news (for the problem of being informed), dating sites (for the problem of meeting romantic partners), auctions (the problem of buying and selling unwanted items), advertising (for the problem in making money when publishing content) etc. The WebOS, really? Sir Tim solved that long ago.
You can't cut from 0%, unless you're talking about expanding earned income tax credits or something.
TicketSwap is very popular in Amsterdam.
Hawaii’s Last Outlaw Hippies
Tesla left their Kubernetes cluster unprotected
I don't trust myself enough to keep track of a local database of passwords, because of that for years I sticked to the tactic of repeating the same 2~3 passwords over and over on all websites.

Now I'm using https://lesspass.com/, a deterministic password generator that requires no setup besides installing a browser extension[1] and doesn't requires me to keep a database or run any other custom programs.

[1]: There's the official extension for all browsers, but I've developed my own, https://lesspass.alhur.es/, which solves 99% of the problems associated with the whole LessPass idea.
Just keep in mind anything simpler likely has additional attack surfaces. e.g. Anything that's cloud based, browser plug-in, centralized, etc. all bring the standard attack surfaces in that domain. Still, it's probably better than what most people do, same user name/password combo everywhere.
You think the Kims genuinely want to unify Korea under a single, democratic government? That they would give up power to a unified Korean government elected by the people? I just don't understand how the Kims could keep their god-emperor status and unify Korea, except if they conquered the South. And I don't see the Kims willingly giving up absolute power.

I also think you're kind of glossing over the fact that the DPRK is a profoundly brutal totalitarian regime that holds hundreds of thousands of political prisoners in concentration camps, along with numerous other human rights violations. You don't think that might be the reason the country is hated globally? Or at least contribute to it?

> We live in a Western world of Full Spectrum Dominance, discussion of North Korea is skewed so that we imagine these hordes from the North flattening all those big cities in the south with their cruddy armaments and dirty bombs.

Have you read up on the DPRK military? They have thousands of artillery positions throughout the country, most of which are capable of reaching Seoul, along with key military installations. It's crappy artillery, but there's a lot of it and they can really make it rain down on civilians. Studies have suggested that even if the US devoted the entirety of its air power in the Pacific to destroying those artillery positions, it would take a week to remove all of them. During which time they could fire indiscriminately at population centers. Even an Iron Dome-like defense system wouldn't be able to handle that volume of artillery.

North Korea wouldn't win any war with the US, but they could take a lot of South Koreans down with them.

> In a matter of a generation a united Korea would be a GDP powerhouse with ample natural resources and great people. Korea would be unstoppable to become bigger than everyone except one or two others when it comes to global clout

[citation needed]

> Really there would be no excuses for not giving Korea a seat at the UN

North Korea has been a full member of the UN since 1991

> In the West our views have to be suckled from the teat of the TV news, there is no scope for listening to the other side. We have our news journalists to not do that for us so we don't have to either.

This sort of ad hominem attack on the abstract concept of "the West" really doesn't add anything to your argument.
Cool, need something scifi that isn't dystopia. We're already living that. Warminds for president 2020.
Report here please: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6027
Maybe here is the answer https://teonite.com/blog/deep-image-thanks-to-machine-learni...
T.I.M.E. is a favorite of mine when listening to Mouth Moods straight through. But I can't have it in my shuffled playlists like I can with Smooth or Wow Wow.

It's like Love Psych. Great idea, great execution, but not something I can listen to very often.

I do like how it brings out the message the Village People intended though. You have to really try to hear what they're saying in the original.
Again, 1Password.

It allows you to login to multiple workspaces so you can have your family plan and your work team plan at the same time.

There is a cost but I can guarantee that it’s saved me more in time than the cost could ever amount to.

I’ve never used an insecure password since using it. All completely random and it’s so easy to use.

The different vaults means I can grant my little boy access to the stuff he uses whilst having my credit card and server details in other vaults without fear that he can access them (more the credit card details). I just need to get the wife into using it now...
>It relies on teleporting photons to communicate and it is unhackable—if someone tries to eavesdrop on a quantum encrypted communication, then the people communicating can immediately tell that this has happened.

As mathematics and physics PhD Vladimir Dergachev explained to me, yes, this is what experts purport about quantum encryption.
It sounds like the same downsides of working in an open plan area but worse because there's not even an ostensible attempt at making productivity a priority over maintaining a veneer of "fun."
That's an example of badly thought-of white space.
My biggest frustration with lastpass is that it doesn't seem to know the difference between subdomains, so it suggests several passwords for the same domain even though I am on different subdomains.
You can filter to Sold Listings to see what the average price is. The problem is that in many auctions for similar items are actually not so similar.

I search for camera gear a lot. When it comes to camera bodies, there's a lot of variation. With lens or without, with battery grip or without, what's the shutter count? What's the cosmetic condition? etc. etc.

But generally I just end up with a range by manually looking for the highs and lows, and then try to nab one at a price I think would be a "good deal"
Actually it's the juries in East Texas that are troll friendly
Home-brewed AI, not a NN. Similar in some ways to AlphaGo Zero's MCTS.

Learns to play with 0 knowledge. No training data. No rollouts. It squeezes a lot of info from each hand, more than a NN, which is why it needs less trials.

Currently 100k hands and most respectable play.
What do you mean "more work"? It's the same amount of work, just with more results.

The fair market wage for a worker operating the "old lawnomatic" that can mow one lawn per hour is not meaningfully affected by the value of the mowed lawn but by how cheaply the company can find a different worker to do the same thing. If there's another potential worker waiting to do the job for $x/hour, then $x/hour is the ceiling of what you can ask for the job, no matter how much value that job produces (assuming that there are some barriers to entry and you can't just compete with the company directly).

If the "new lawnomatic" can mow two lawns per hour, but is as easy to operate (i.e. the company could still hire the same currently unemployed person for $x/hour) then the workers have no leverage to get increased wages.

If anything, the new lawnomatic can result in lower wages. If there aren't any more customers, then mowing lawns needs half as many employees - so the company can ask which employees would be still willing to work for x-1 dollars per hour; if half of them say yes and half say no, well, they just fire the expensive ones and keep those who are more desperate/vulnerable.
I’d certainly read it. I don’t own a wood CNC but I’d like to in the future to build some really cool stuff.

Anything that lets me do more with software beyond building web apps is always fun.
And all too often most of the players will try to bend/break the rules in their favor.
I was hoping that someone more knowledgeable would answer this. I think they best community to look at is Endless Sphere[1] but you could also check out /r/ebikes[2] (although I warn you you that they are all about making DIY bikes that are unnecessarily powerful in my opinion.

Then there's electric bike review[3]. He's reviewed an incredible number of different bikes.

[1]https://endless-sphere.com/forums/
[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/ebikes/
[3]https://electricbikereview.com/
which sounds like it could be used to develop a federated protocol. I've heard there is an effort to do an RFC on the subject, but I'm not sure it uses the Signal protocols (for some reason), also there are two of them (I'm confused):

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-mls-protocol-00

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omara-mls-architecture-01
Everyone knows that this is the next level of crazy. In the winter, people don’t walk their kids long distances to kindergarden - they drive. And the unlucky souls who walk, it never was a problem because it’s easier to put on a better pair of shoes than to replace your car with a snowmobile.

Since this began there has been absolute chaos in society, last year people was abandoning their cars on the biggest road in Sweden(E4) and walked home - because the roads weren’t plowed.

More side effects of this was that all shipments were delayed which caused billions in financial loss for the society, emergency personell was unable to get around and people died, all buses and trains were cancelled.
A personal question. Do people really install megabytes of dependencies to run what would be a one line shell script, were it written in shell?
That's true, but I believe the concern would be that there's information just in knowing:

1) what's your number, and
2) with whom you connect or communicate.

That is, there's still the danger of social graph analysis: "Oh look, this person's communicating with a known journalist!"
My bad, I misread and thought you had referenced my first example (button/no background) but you had referenced the button/button example.

The button/button was for a search. They wanted to draw attention to the 2nd button that sorted the results alphabetically. Why wasn't the alphabetical sort the default? Well... doctors are all very bothered about who gets shown above who - so the list of doctors has to be sorted randomly to please the doctors. The hospital doesn't want to piss off the doctors but also wanted to make it easier for users to search. They wanted to draw attention to the button that would sort the list alphabetically by changing the color of the button to stand out more.

I'm positive doctor names would look like Yellowbook pages back in the day with "AAAble AAApplebottoms" just so they could be the first shown. You'd think users being able to find their doctor would take priority over the order the doctors are shown in, but apparently not.

I work in Healthcare. The only thing that irritates doctors more than listing them alphabetically is forgetting one of their various titles. Dropping the "MD" after their name is a cardinal sin.
>How long did it take?

I'd say about a month or so until I wasn't worried about it anymore. But again, it was visible and accessible on the side of my tooth. If it was between teeth, not sure what I would do... probably go to the dentist.

>Are you really saying the tooth repaired itself and the cavity is gone?

Absolutely, yes. It had a yellowish stain in the place where the hole was after it filled in. But even that is not visible anymore. (this was over 15 years ago)

>This contradicts everything dentists tell us but I would be very happy if you were right.

Yes it does, and it pissed off my dentist when I told him. He was dismissive as though I were crazy.

>We definitely need more information. What food to avoid and what food is fine?

I really don't like to make detailed assertions like this. I had one simple rule at the time that I followed, I stopped eating white sugar. (and corn syrup) I know many people have different experiences with food, and so I don't like being dogmatic about stuff, I think everyone should experiment with the foods they eat, test things and figure out themselves what works.

But if you stop eating refined (or artificial) sweeteners, you will find that easily 70-80% of the food in the grocery store will no longer be in your diet... it's that pervasive. Also, they have like 20 names for refined sugars now. :P
The most expensive software failure ever: $3.2B dollars
Impressive but digital only subs were $340mm.
Mining guy. Don’t be scared there is plenty of cobalt

Recycling could also easily kick into gear if/when prices rise high enough. See one of my favorite recent books, Junkyard Planet, for more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/18/junkyard-plane...

Right now, many people don't bother recycling older phones and laptops because they can't get any money for them. If/when prices go high enough, we'll see recycling kick into high gear. The day you see Best Buy advertise "$10 for any phone!", you'll know we're actually seeing a sustained price rise.
You still can; Advanced search > “Completed items” and/or “Sold items”.
Kubernetes: Setting up a cluster locally on Windows 10
You can signup using the number of a public payphone if it makes you feel safer, with landline verification. (Of course, you expose yourself to having the account hijacked by anyone who figures it out and has acces to the payphone).

But it won't improve your anonymity significantly, unless you also use it over TOR.
How blockchain will change the world
do not skip the section on "Cloudflare, Privacy and k-Anonymity" ... it is a great summary of an elegant privacy solution.

And check out Cloudflare's detail post too:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
The term self-taught in the article doesn't really mean self-taught the way we use it for people. For the machines, it is cloned instances of the same program (hence objective) working adversarially , perhaps with different initializations.

Humans, or any other biological intelligence, learn adversarially and cooperatively with other entities in the world that are very different than they are. Our training data set includes not only our experiences, but those of others.

We also have a trainable objective, which while rooted in instinct, is very influenced by the information systems we interact with.

I wonder if we'd have more success with AI by allowing the objective itself to be learned after setting a reasonable initial bias.
You have an interval of real numbers [0, 1]. What's the probability of picking 0.3639401?
lol, I actually chuckled. I think everyone has the ability. What parts on our body can't self repair? I think it's very few things.

Also, I met a guy years ago that could regrow full teeth if they got knocked out. The world is a weird place.
Mental bandwidth is more expensive than megabytes, so yes.
The merit of Consider Phlebas is the potential of a fantastic scifi/action/adventure series, its easy to make TV off, Excession is the other side of the spectrum, a bunch of Minds talking :)

In the end, Im a fan, Im glad that this happens, just a damn shame that Mr. Banks never got to see it.
> I've seen one attempt at this and I think it was basically an extraverts attempt at making introverts happy. It was basically "we made these 3 'private' office things that you can use when you need to". This doesn't help me at all. Can I use these 90% of the time I'm at work? If not, what's the point?

Did you give this feedback to anyone who could do anything about it?

> 1. It seems to be vastly more expensive for introvert-friendly spaces where square footage is expensive. Stacking people on top of each other is more economical.

That's true, but the benefits of having a workspace that's effective for your workers' needs would seem to outweigh the cost, I would think.

> 2. Introvert-friendly workspaces are generally seen as "uncool" and unable to attract young and cheap talent.

Sure, but places that are more concerned about being cool to attract young and cheap talent are generally crappy in lots of ways. If a place is staffed entirely with folks fresh out of college, that's a better reason not to work there than any office layout.
Excession is my favourite but impossible to adapt.
I think the key is the following quote at the end of the article:

> I find a bit of solace in the fact that implementing a data structure like this in a non-garbage collected language without Rust is also quite tricky; you need to carefully keep track of when a node has no more references and can be freed

The main difference between Rust and most other non-garbage collected languages is when the trickiness occurs: for Rust, the compiler complains about problems a lot, while for other languages, the problems usually only manifest at runtime.

If you're doing something that requires a pointer soup and can't use garbage collection, the choice is between Rust with compile-time checks and C or C++ with (at best, by using the appropriate sanitizers) runtime checks.
personally I've always just done:

</dev/urandom base64 | head

and picked a bit I liked
It's hot right now, but a lot of people don't actually know anything about it. A lot of ML tutorials are either dumbed-down or already pretty technical. People appreciate clear demonstrations of fundamentals.
P(Y=y|X=x)fX(x) isn't that like p-value?
Besides the effect of diet on the mouth environment, nutrition can make a difference: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/12/dr-mellanbys-t...
I'd be interested to hear that.