skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mundane typing? Typing is awesome! Haven't you ever wondered what a parameter actually is in say, Python, and have to track back through callers to work out what the parameter is expected to contain? Completely solved by specifying type.

Nim has really good type inference, so the 'mundane' aspect I guess you're referring to isn't there.

let
myStr = "Hello"
myInt = 12
myFloat = 1.2
var myHashTable = newTable[string, int]()

The need for checking types at runtime is of course completely eliminated in typed languages so you get that for free. Nim also offers an extension to this with distinct types.

type
Euros = distinct float # NB: Don't use float for currency
Dollars = distinct float
let
a = 10.Dollars
b = 10.Euros
c = a + b # Compile time error
d = a + 1 # Compile time error

proc dollars(e: Euros): Dollars =
let exchangeRate = 1.117
result = (e.float * exchangeRate).Dollars

proc euros(d: Dollars): Euros =
let exchangeRate = 0.858
result = (d.float * exchangeRate).Euros

let
e = a.euros
f = b.dollars

echo e.float # 8.58
echo f.float # 11.17

> I have come to believe transpiling is the devil and many-languages syndrome is very counterproductive

Why do you believe this? In Nim the language creates an AST and it's this that is output in various forms. The underlying representation is the same, but it allows many targets. Similar to LLVM (which is also a Nim target, if unofficially), it's one of the reasons why it can compile on almost every platform, and why it is a good choice for the low resource devices that projects like Nimbus target.

It also means you can write servers and clients in the same language but target C and JavaScript, respectively.
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I bet it's possible to write a webpack plugin that takes CSS changes from StyleURL and saves them to disk

It currently outputs CSS based on the filenames from the sourcemaps, theoretically you could append the changes to the same files via a webpack plugin, and then if you ran it through some step after to make the selectors appear in the right place in the file, you would get the experience you describe, where it's like you edit the CSS in chrome and it saves it to disk directly so you can commit it later

Seemed like too big of a jump though to start off with that, because first asking people to install a Chrome extension is a thing, and then not everyone uses webpack for front-end and I'm sure there'll be complicated edgecases with something like this
Blocked on most ISPs in the UK too.
That's an interesting perspective, thanks.
Right, but since they did just start selling a lot of cars, the runway calculation is now moot.
WhatsApp provides more than $1 of value to me in a year, provided I have already decided to use it. But paying a subscription also represents a psychological commitment, a loss of choice for a year, a mental tracking cost if I should reevaluate annually, an effort cost to convincing others to use it if I want to communicate with them, and an opportunity cost. Because I'm certainly not going to pay $1 to 10 different IM apps though I may keep 10 if they were all free.

The strain of all these hidden costs is way more than $1, probably on the order of $30. So WhatsApp reaps $1.5B and dumps $45B worth of externalities on its user base. I refuse to pay.
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Here's an example article of what I was referring to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-29/inside-th...

AIUI Trump supporters used targeted facebook ads to go after American Haitians to remind them of the Clinton Global Initiative(which has a very bad reputation on the ground in Haiti).
Even that phaseout will probably result in a lot of cancellations from people who have been on the waiting list for several months already but who haven't taken delivery by the end of the year. Especially for the orders at the lower end of the price spectrum, which haven't even started shipping yet.

Loss aversion is real, and people aren't going to be happy about being asked to suddenly pay ~20% more for the exact same car. Since the base models haven't started shipping yet, it stands to reason that after the end of the year that will be mostly what's left on the waiting list. So if they lose a lot of those reservations, they're stuck with huge capital expenses and a potentially very significant decrease in orders.
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Home Is a Mixed Bag, Like America
Could probably also correlate by password. I'm sure lots of users re-use the same password at least for their throwaways.
For any company that scales up past a certain size, it can be cheaper to run their own department to handle things at volume, than to pay an outside company the costs of handling things at volume plus their markup. They can customize and specialize for their own needs, too.

So there will always be integrated employees somewhere.
Ah yes, like how Coinbase told its investors that Bitcoin is great for money laundering and bypassing sanctions?

Immune to country-
specific sanctions
(e.g. Russia-Visa)

http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/COINBASE-IN...
Obviously the thieves weren't after them for any mundane value they possessed. <insert story about occult conspiracy theory here> (Back when I ran tabletop RPGs, this is exactly the sort of thing the PCs would have done.)
I can honestly see the benefits of having the windows store do that for me. Personally, as a developer, I'd rather roll that on my own... but only because I'm so soured on these walled "stores" the giants have set up. I loathe the playstore and fear that, without heavy curation, the windows store is going to turn into the same exact thing.

In response, I went with the LTSB version of windows 10, which is absolutely great. I went to use ganache the other month and they didn't have an .exe or .msi (they do now fortunately) but it took a few to figure out how to sideload the .appx and I'm not sure I ever got it installed correctly so I used the CLI until they released a proper installer.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses that exist only thanks to FB and Instagram ads?

You should provide ample evidence for such an extraordinary claim.
Thanks for the formatting -- what a treat for the eyes after browsing through all that ^
> The hallucinogenic similarities may be due to a similar chemical reaction to the drug between human brains

This is literally going to be true whether or not a higher power is involved. Our brains are the chemicals either way.
> finished goods vehicle inventory of $579 million as a result of the timing of deliveries.

AKA, we delayed delivering a lot of cars to not trigger the tax credit expiration in Q2.
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Your parent is not mixing different accounting concepts. Those are two lines taken directly from the statement of cash flows ("Net cash used in operating activities" and "Capital expenditures").
I'm with you.

In my view, Google's services are just straight up better. This makes it exceedingly difficult to switch, because I'm not perceiving the choice as switching to a better product. I feel like I would be switching for non-concrete, emotional reasons. Not to mention, Google's record on security is top-tier.

To your point about iPhone, I feel the same. I would like to use an iPhone, but when I sit down and think about it, I'm certain I would be frustrated with the completely locked down nature of the product. I wish Apple would open up a little more and make it a palatable choice for usability. There are lots of aspects of Android I like just because Google _allows_ it. "OK Google, play xxx from Spotify" launches the app and plays music from Spotify. I use this all the time. Meanwhile, Apple explicitly forbids you from doing this and purposely cripples Siri. You can't even use Spotify on a HomePod. I can use all of Google's services on every machine I have with every OS.

When I go down the list, I feel like I come to the conclusion that nearly every service is just better. This makes it hard to leave, despite how icky one might feel about privacy. I'm not keen on emotional choices.
"Plus public charter schools typically run less overhead and are more efficient per student."

Because they don't have to serve all the students, and they don't have to serve special needs students. Not mentioning that is quite dishonest.
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Apple always did that. It's not entirely vain.

!) they led the pack, their brand has value (stores waiting line)
2) they push the price as high as it can be (cold but smart)
3) their products often have higher level of finish <= this is worth a lot, very often you have lower priced product with almost the same specs.. but a ton of 'almosts' create a shitty product. It's surprisingly costly to push a few percent above the pack.
Didn't Nextbase Autoroute released circa 1992 have point to point directions and vector maps?
Based on personal experience, I suspect that the "other intelligent entities" are in fact something like Hofstadter's strangely looped hierarchical levels. Psychedelics seem to break down firewalls between levels.

One main class comprises tryptamines (e.g., DMT and psilocybin) and other serotonergics (e.g., LSD). They seem to mess with mainly sensory and meta-sensory (or self-sensory) stuff as serotonin agonists. Another main class is phenethylamines aka amphetamines (e.g., Ecstasy and other MDMAs). They alter mainly body-related states, such as alertness, emotions and pleasure. Mainly by stimulating release of serotonin, dopamine, and noradrenaline.

Edit: deleted a stranded stub
The blog is dead. Archive link

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RED’s holographic Hydrogen One phone gets closer to release with FCC approval
Finland has a drastically lower poverty rate, lower income inequality [1] and lower violent crime rate than the United States [2].

This fact, combined with Finland's well-known social safety nets leads to the obvious conclusion that you would be hard pressed to find living conditions like those in the slums of Akron/Cleveland in Finland.

[1]https://data.oecd.org/finland.htm#profile-government
[2]http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Finland/Uni...
That is including or excluding paying capital gains taxes that is required for cashing out such transactions?
True. The assumption of "we don't need/want long term employees" is also something that will be challenged if we see a prolonged period of labor scarcity. Of course, that's a big "if".
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I interpret it like that as well, yes.
How is Together Management Group, Inc thus not a criminal enterprise for mass littering for profit?
Beyond the finances, Tesla says they’re still on target for 6000 Model 3’s a week by the end of the month.

Throw in the other Models and Tesla will be shipping 300,000-400,000 electric cars a year. That’s quite an accomplishment.
Why Are Detroit Entrepreneurs Bringing White Men to Meetings with Investors?
Let whatsapp just add payment and take a 1% fee, it's really not that hard.
They arent going to sell it. These things have uses to criminals. For example, if ever caught for something else, knowing the location of a missing cultural treasure is a great chip during plea bargaining.
If Silicon Valley won't stop fake news, we will
Yes, we're all humans. And so have very similar brain organization.
High-pressure sales tactics. They target people who are feeling vulnerable due to not being able to find a good relationship. They get them in a room, pitch them on a match telling them how perfect it is and how lucky they are to make this connection. Then they say: you have to pay $3,000 or we won't give you the name or contact info. And the offer is only good until you leave the room.

edit: I can't find a good link, but if you search for "imasucker" there are some details. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5TqEWNF...
This is one of those topics that feels like it has so many dimensions that it's impossible to get anywhere in some short essay.
Why would tech giants want this particular industry? I don't see them buying guns manufacturers, despite that being a very profitable business.
Why do you dismiss "different emotional valences"? People react differently if they think they're being persuaded vs. manipulated – emotions matter.
Why try to redefine the word "string?"

In computer jargon I believe CISC and the PDP-11 have seniority. That's why all multi-word functions like memcpy are in C's string.h header.
randstr has this goldnugget of a comment:

"""If reallyrandom = False, generates a random alphanumeric string
(base-36 compatible) of length len. If reallyrandom, add
uppercase and punctuation (which we'll call 'base-93' for the sake
of argument) and suitable for use as salt."""

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/4778b17e939e11...

The function has specifically a flag for use as salt, but the hashing code does not actually use it. Whoops. Of course the loss here is not really that significant (~4bits of entropy), but I find it still bit funny.
CAPEX is not the only component of runway. There's also the standard operating expenses to cover as well. Tell us why you ignored that and why you think Q2 is more relevant than Q1 + Q2.
Are there documented cases of non-bank lenders redlining?
Was glad to see this posted here, especially since in late August, I'll be taking the one-week SICP course that David Beazley in the Python community put together:

https://www.dabeaz.com/sicp.html
Check your urge to build a microservice when you can buy
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IIRC Facebook has been pushing WhatsApp to add adds for a while, their pseudo independence prevented it but ... yeah I think Facebook's "slap ads on it" or "sell our customers" system is their one trick.
Thus our world races to the bottom in integrity, values and the common good. Eat or be eaten. Kill or be killed.

Those committed to non-violence do so without regard to whether they'll win or lose.

The players make the game.
I imagine that most (but not all) people reading this comment have savings that could cover either (i) an unexpected expense of $500, e.g. to repair the car they use to drive to work, or (ii) an unexpected one-off $500 drop in income, e.g. due to a gap between casual jobs.

But many people, even in rich countries like the US, don't have a buffer to deal with situations like these. To many of them, paying $100 interest so that they can get their car fixed today, and continue to go to work and earn a living, is a rational and reasonable decision when compared with the alternative (can't drive to work -> no income -> can't pay bills -> ...).
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Isn't Sweden also famous for having 100 year mortgages?
Even the P20 lite is very impressive
Last time I had a PEO employ me, I had at least healthcare and 401k matching.
Well, the art is quite clearly psychedelic. And the themes go back thousands of years.
$1 - (2% fee + 30c card fee) leaves them with very little. I wonder how they get around the credit card fees. Supposedly Apple would want their 30% cut as well.
People wouldn't pay that much, google would just make less profit...
It's not at all unusual for companies of Reddit's size not to have a security team;

Well, by "security team" I meant "people that should know better". I mean, raise your hand if you knew even ten years ago what a bad idea it was to store passwords in plaintext. Okay, now keep your hand up if you're job role includes the words "security team". Hmm, not a lot of hands left. You don't need a dedicated security team to figure out that some folks, including the CEO, shouldn't be let anywhere near the database nor making design decisions.
SMS sucks, though.
Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library
That's my reaction but I've actually asked this question of some people who work in the Bay Area and been told it's table stakes in a lot of cases. Hard for me to comprehend and anecdotal, but there you are.
Assuming there are copies, "the original" is the one everything believes to be the original. If the one actually created by Munch is a different one, it's not worth a whole lot if people don't generally believe that to be the case.
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I am going through SICP currently, after having it on my reading list for long. Loving it so far. I agree that exercises in the book shouldn't be skipped, not a single one. You might seem to have grasped the material until you take up the exercises and realise there is more to it.
This is a good quote. One similar way to state it is by using the System 1 / System 2 [1] terminology. Manipulation is when someone pushes the audience to System 1 reasoning, diverting them from using System 2.

It's not a perfect distinction (there probably are cases where appealing to System 2 might look a lot like manipulation), but it's succinct, ends-neutral and not too subjective to be useful in practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory#Dual-proce...
> France is a country where failure is a taboo. People see it as unwise to start anything and will try to discourage you.

Maybe part of the reason there is no "Silicon Valley" of Europe is cultural? This attitude will have a chilling effect on anything that requires risk...