skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the loop inside of map, you need to produce side exits and new traces for each function passed in.

Is it true to say that if two functions have the same body and arglist, and capture no variables, then you should be able to reuse the same traces?

This doesn’t happen very often in real code, but it’s useful to understand the problem.
An Xcode playground demonstrating the new features in in Swift 4.2
I'd wrestled with titles submitting this (before discovering gumby had), choosing:

"Research shows that when people feel threatened they want ‘tighter’ social norms"

From the subhead: My research shows that when people feel threatened they want ‘tighter’ social norms, with profound consequences for politics

Very interesting, and playing to several elements of social dynamics, risk and unceertainty, information flows, and behaviours.
I generally agree with your statement about trust systems - but my point is that we have to end up trusting a lot of people anyway, even if it is a matter of trusting the people that design the systems. I can't verify everything about my life and still have it. So we need to design not only based on mistrust, but also include post-facto verification systems so if questions are raised we can go back and apply the distrust we were too busy to do originally.

I was going to say that I can't sign up as a poll-worker because I'm in a mail-in-ballot state, but it appears I'm wrong. I'll look into that - it's definitely an accessible (for me) form of civic service. Thanks for the suggestion!
I find that for me mornings are better for input (i.e. education/research/meetings/review) while afternoons are better for output ("productivity")

Luckily, my current role requires me to spend time staying up to date, so I can spend my mornings learning and my afternoons using that knowledge.
IMO, there are two, perhaps three issues:

1. Walmart sells things to SNAP recipients. This is something that is perfectly fine, as I downloaded the MA.csv listing of food vendors who accept SNAP and it seems like it's damn near everyone, including tiny little convenience stores. That's a level playing field, and the fact that Walmart gets money from SNAP is no more interesting than the fact that they get money from American Express. In particular, this is not stealing; this is selling.

2. Walmart employees being recipients of government support programs. It's fine to object to this, but I don't see it in any way as related to #1. Presumably, you would object to any other employer who doesn't sell food (and therefore doesn't take SNAP) paying their full-time employees at a level that permits them to qualify for and accept SNAP benefits. Could you confirm/deny that?

3. Walmart lobbying for the preservation / expansion of SNAP program. It's also fine to object to this, though I see the case for their lobbying to be much more strongly to preserve the #1 status quo than the #2 status quo.
I suspect the alternative would be to simply not have the online poll, without anything replacing it. That's likely how it was in the 90s.
One thing that concerns me more than ageism is the tendency to retain management while refreshing engineers. Bad management will always fail no matter what the engineering skill is.
The earth doesn't rotate at a consistent rate, so leap seconds (as determined by astronomical measurements) are necessary to keep civil time in sync with sunrise and sunset.
> - Infinite scroll allows you to find information faster, even from not so notable sources

That is the opposite of my experience. I used to be able to skip, say, 5 or 8 pages of results to ignore the automated botsites and mainstream nonsense on some searches and get less popular but in some contexts more helpful results. Now I'm stuck with torturing my mouse wheel or use some specialist search engine like https://millionshort.com/. Especially since "-" and "+" don't seem to work reliably anymore.

> - Bangs allow for a streamlined, faster search experience if you use certain services massively.

Yes! I love !wa for time zone conversions that understand most appointments copied from somewhere
Scuttlebutt has a lot of work to do before I'll consider it as even approaching usable, mostly to do with the protocol layer. It works great for very small (<1000 member) communities, but it scales extremely poorly, and the protocols are poorly designed and cumbersome to work with.
A browser extension could be used to request the data straight from ipfs instead of Cloudflare.
They have iCloud for that.
ActivityPub is a W3C recommendation[1], which is further along in maturity than previous open protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium#Spec...
ProtonMail was a bit expensive for me, so recently switched from Gmail to Soverin [0]. Based in the Netherlands, costs less than $4 per month for 25gb storage on a custom domain.

Also have a Roundcube web interface, but smtp is fine.

[0] http://www.soverin.net
1 hour's time difference spread over six months. We could even change it daily.
Why is this on the front page?

As others have commented here, this blog post reads like something you would normally see on a trade rag, making grandiose-sounding claims that are really kind of obvious ("think about price before launching a product") and backing them with cherry-picked anecdotes and questionable logic.
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign
That's true, but what I said factors in all of those historic nuclear disasters. Even with all of those, nuclear power still averages out at releasing less radiation per unit of power generated than coal.
The way they describe the implementation, it basically sounds like they're intentionally trying to screw Facebook and Google. That it also benefits the user is likely just a side-effect, but that's what marketing is for.
California is actually voting on it this fall. Although like you mentioned it is dependent on the federal gov allowing it:

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_...
If you like Murakami, you might also enjoy Ruth Ozeki, who is influenced by Murakami and also writes magical realism novels.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811545-a-tale-for-the-...
I deleted FB and it had zero impact on my life, for better or worse. I really question people who say it does. My guess is that they're repeating what other people say because it makes you sound forward thinking.
What could help Mastodon grow significantly is if the moderation on a large number of instances was toned down a bit. What happened to Wil Wheaton was a bit nuts. And conservative opinions are often banned due to being agressively labelled as hate or racist when they are usually not technically so. Most people don't want to be part of a social justice warrior authoritarian "fall in line or we will ban you" community.

Sure, people could set up their own instance. Federation is awesome. But if almost all other instances don't talk to them, they have to build a community from scratch, and it's usually not worth it.
Yeah, ProtonMail is about 150% the price of G Suite with weird limits on things like number of aliases or domains. And while I understand that the selling point is privacy, it's not that expensive to maintain one more record in your database while not violating your users' privacy.

OTOH, €8/mo is peanuts anyway.
Try this: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
You're right, Access Transparency is specifically for enterprise GCP customers (at least currently).
Some folks have really old hardware/software systems because the people that set them up initially (think 5-10 years ago) didnt probably feel confident with the newer vendors or maybe were incentivized to use the more older crappy systems that are more reliable but less customizable/hookable
This post is probably the last in a series about building production web applications. It covers continuous delivery techniques, briefly discusses some of the tooling, and discusses how modern deployment approaches compare to in-place deployments. Let me know what you think!
Telling someone they are lazy or they didn't think isn't critique of their work, it's a statement about them as a person.

If the work is wrong or bad, explain why. Insulting someone doesn't help them improve.

If you argument is people won't change unless they are made to feel bad, people said the same thing about physical pain - banning corporal punishment would mean no child would learn again. That was nonsense, and so is the idea that making people feel bad is necessary for them to improve.
Not a chance that the Dutch won't follow whatever the Germans will choose.

Now Belgium... I could see Flanders move to summertime and the Walloons join the French in going for wintertime.
Something like "start soft and grow loud slowly, cuz if you start loud you can't tone it down later without looking weak or overplayed" is what my ex (a lawyer) used to say.
So in 7 years since SJ died they went to be 1T company.
It that fast enough and down enough yet?
Well, she doesn't have a computer science degree. She's an MBA who's learned SQL, tableau, excel, etc (working at a large company 500+ people). She pulls out data with SQL queries and knows how to use excel inside and out. she's made it all the way to the final interview, but everytime they figure out she had a baby, they assume she's going to have a 2nd one.
It's really hard. Remember the Itanium and the Cell. You can build it, but they may not come.

GPUs, though. Those have turned out to be very successful, they can be parallelized as much as you're willing to pay for, and they're good for some non-graphics tasks.

Much of machine learning is a simple repetitive computation running at low precision. Special purpose hardware can do that very well.

So what's the next useful thing in that area?
The Future of Web Payments
Everything old is new again: blogrings are back ...
> I don't see how that's possible. Low value would skew it even more versus 2.9% + 30 cents

Because that’s not Square’s rate, they charge a flat 2.75%.
Well, artists aren't known for having lots of money to spend :-)

I think you might need to be selling the output or something too. As well as wall art, it could be wallpaper, carpet, fabric, wrapping paper, etc. If you could make it less abstract but "right"-looking, you could generate stock art backgrounds.
Ask HN: How much traction did you have when you were interviewed by YC?
Were you B2B or B2C? Were you accepted?
Obsessive about the spacebar size, but not about the keycap profile?
How Libcorrect Implements Forward Error Correction
You think that's bad? Canada is forced to follow the US. Whenever the US moves the dates/times we just mirror them. We want to get rid of the entire thing, but a north/south split would be a huge disruption to air traffic, at least for the passengers.

In the real north, the part with very short/long days/nights, an hour one way or the other really makes no difference.
But personal insults are not direct non-bs communication. Saying to someone they should have been an abortion is not a sign of emotional maturity. Accepting denigriating insults without complaint is not a sign of strength or emotional maturity.
Microsoft disables insider flight testing browser installation interception
Don't change the clocks, just do everything an hour later!

Seems like the worst of both worlds.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder, here's a copy and paste from the Wikipedia article for Chinese time zones.

Currently, timezone usage within Xinjiang is roughly split along the ethnic divide, with most ethnic Han following Beijing time and most ethnic Uyghurs following Ürümqi Time.[10][unreliable source?] Some local authorities are now using both time standards side by side.[11][12] Television stations schedule programmes in different time standards according to their nature.[5]

The coexistence of two timezones within the same region causes some confusion among the local population, especially when inter-racial communication occurs. When a time is mentioned in conversation between Han and Uyghur, it is necessary to either explicitly make clear whether the time is in Xinjiang Time or Beijing Time, or convert the time according to the ethnicity of the other party.[13][14][15] The double time standard is particularly observable in Xinjiang Television, which schedules its Chinese channel according to Beijing time and its Uyghur and Kazakh channels according to Xinjiang time. [16]
In none of those cases was there proof
that actual vote counts were altered.

I was thinking more of the recounts that were cancelled. If you can't recount to check if vote counts were altered without first having proof that vote counts were altered, what's the point?

More broadly, I hoped to illustrate the fact winners oppose fishing expeditions to double-check election integrity.

I simply don't believe we have the option of getting the result wrong on the first announcement. It has to be right the first time. And because it has to be right first time, we should apply our most trusted counting method the first time; the addition of an early-but-untrustworthy count is a move in the wrong direction.
Which you have to do anyway, because not everyone works 8-17.
So you have any evidence for that brazen accusation?

My dentist is open 43hrs/wk.

Legally, 30hrs is full time for benefits, so it's hard to see any truth at all to anything you wrote.
IPNS is a poor answer/solution to the original comment.

Don't get me wrong, I love IPFS (it is a perfect match with our tech) but IPNS is a nice sounding solution to the problem, but suffers terrible performance problems from the IPFS requirement of hashing.

Unfortunately, I know this for fact because multiple companies have already moved from IPNS to us to handle the indexing/updating of decentralized data in a mutable context BUT they still use IPFS for files/photos/etc.

So IPFS is great, but you are better off using another system for naming, indexing, searching, etc. and then point to the IPFS hashes. I'm biased (D.Tube - couple million+ monthly visitors, P2P reddit http://notabug.io - thousand daily actives, Internet Archive, etc.) are using GUN (https://github.com/amark/gun) for this instead.
That’s how capitalism should work, buddy—companies competing with each other to win users. I absolutely do not see why this is a problem.
I’ve had an iPad since 3 weeks after they were introduced, and I’d never discovered that.
Fortunately, the claim is not true at all.
Cool tip, thank you.

https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/exclude-files-folders-fr...

Also "Bailiff":

"Bailiff is a simple menubar app which lets you evict iCloud files and folders from local storage, or download them when you want. Saves your Mac’s startup disk from getting cluttered with files you don’t want or use."

https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/
I’ve been on the beta all summer and the “screen time” feature has been a nice weekly update. Def have made an effort to cut down the time due to seeing the stats every Sunday. (Though, happily they weren’t as bad as I’d imagined they might be.)
I have lived in Phoenix, Arizona my whole life. I didn't know what DST was until I was in high school. The entire concept feels bizarre to me.

The only time I've run into confusion when coordinating a meeting with another time zone is during the DST change. Yes, this week we are two hours behind but next week it is only one, etc.
Show HN: Intro – HTML theme for developers
Hi everyone,

Want to share the "Intro" theme I made with a friend of mine. Our goal was to make a template which allows developers to share their profile and story.

We prepared 10 different color variants, you can also easily create new one. There is also a simple static website generator included - entire page can be configured in single JS file. In a result you'll get HTML file, which you can host anywhere (i.e. GitHub Pages or Netlify).

Hope you'll like it. Theme costs $19.99, but we prepared "hackernews" code with $10.00 discount.

Any questions - let me know.
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
Nice. I got a similar feeling looking at this to the old Flash game "Flow"

http://cognitivelabs.com/flow/flOw_widescreen.swf
> The author is correct, it is price before product.

Given that the two main examples in the article are so controversial, can you give any examples where it was true, and successful? As consumers, we obviously don't know what price points most consumer products were intended for.

I've read that the Macintosh was intended [1] to be $500, but ended up selling for $2495. It's hard to imagine that a personal computer costing half the price of an Apple II in 1984 would have been able to include hardware/software that had such a significant impact on the industry.

[1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Both of the points you have made are very similar to the issues with ExpertsExchange which SO set out to replace. The reason idiotic questions and answers remain is that they are fodder for people arriving from search engines. If you cleaned them up and removed the duplication there would be a huge reduction in content. I often wonder if Quora actually knows what it wants to be when it grows up. They have some serious funding (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quora) for what little they seem to have delivered. I would love for them to prove me wrong as I think there is space for an alternative to SO and the StackExchange network.
Fossil's also very easy to put online, needing at a minimum a two-line bash file to function as a CGI script.

Maybe more relevant to private data, the builtin wiki makes a good personal knowledge database.

The next version of fossil will have a forum (seen already at https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forum ). With the time sorting for threads, that might be good for temporal data that you wouldn't want to put in a wiki.
Just want to add an alternative gateway that I've been working on recently: dapps.earth

It is somewhat different in the sense that it redirects from `gateway/ipfs/hash` to `hash.ipfs.gateway` to ensure different ipfs websites are hosted at different origins (Cloudflare also talked about origin issues in their announcement).

Now with what Cloudflare release, they do seem to solve some of the similar problems, but they still ask users to register the domains by themselves (or access in unsafe way with `/ipfs/hash` urls), which means those domains become a centralization point, and also most of the content is served from the same domain.

It would be fantastic if they allowed access in form `hash.cloudflare-ipfs.com` or `ens-name.cloudflare-ipfs.com`.

In the meantime I may just abandon the idea of serving ipfs content myself, and instead can just operate a small DNS-server that will return CNAME record pointing to Cloudflare and TXT record pointing to ipfs hash for each subdomain.
Yes, that would be possible; but is significantly beyond what people typically mean when they say "just give me receipt"

> Ideally, assuming you would be voting with a key linked to your identity (SIN), both the IDs of voters and their votes could be entirely public and on your receipt.

What piece of your identity does your employer not have access to? In the U.S. they've typically seen your id, your passport, your pay stubs, your health insurance.
Dude, I'm not here to shut down the revolution, I'm trying to explain what a real revolution entails. It's absolutely not running software on a bunch of hardware and networks you don't own. The people having the "real conversation" at the "real table of power" don't give a single shit about crypto and they never will because it is in no way a real threat to the existing economic power structure.

The "group of people I hang out with" you're referring to is actually the Federal Government of the United States, and it's not one that I'm particularly fond of, but they are who is in charge. As I mentioned in another post, the US government could easily shut down the effective use of every crypto currency inside of the United States. They have the legal and physical ability to do that today.

There is very little evidence that the crypto community understands the systems they are so eager to destroy and rebuild (often with worse solutions, that have already been tried and failed, to the same problems). This doesn't mean the current banking system does not have faults, but those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Nuclear is risky. Even if the risk is low, the long tail risk is tremendous.

I wish they would pour more money into Thorium reactors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Po...

"Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof."
What's happening with that Mill Arch? Is it moving forward outside of them publishing papers? It seemed promising.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008468.
Under the Hood of Rapid Photo Downloader
Time Zones are already a huge PITA no matter how you slice it.

This video sums it up fairly nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Hey, thanks for your work! This is an exciting start to the dWeb!

Any chance you guys would also support DAT, GUN, WebTorrent, and SSB? I know Feross, Dominic, Mathias, etc. would love to introduce you to them. Ping me? mark@gun.eco
Everyone I know is out of space on their phones.
It's an absolutely fair comparison. Remember, it wasn't that long ago that all of Europe was unimaginably barbaric by modern standards. Literally millions of people were put to death in gruesome ways for crimes we'd consider trivial (or not even crimes) today. And yet, the murder rate dropped right along with the end of absurdly draconian punishment.

Moreover, the violent crime rates for many parts of the US are no higher than in Europe. Coincidentally, those places tend to be the same states that have ended capital punishment.

Now, I'm not drawing a causal relationship between draconian punishment and an increase in crime. I'm just saying there's demonstrably no relationship between "tough on crime" harsh sentencing and a decrease in crime. Fear of violent retribution by the State is not what stops people from committing crimes. We have to look at other reasons.
Its hardly a brazen accusation. He said "I believe" and then made a fairly innocuous statement. Relax. Even still, just because your dentist is open 43 hours it does not disqualify his statement.
Having a patchwork of moving schedules across society, from schools to businesses to recreational activities is far worse than the inconvenience of simply changing your clocks twice a year.
I'm assuming your company isn't hiring because, like so many medium-large corporations, legacy products that require maintenance are driving the vast majority of revenue, and there is no need for new (American - read: expensive) talent to maintain these products. The company can save costs by maintaining these products with a smaller core SW maintenance team and/or doing integration/development overseas.

In many software/services-based orgs, salaries/benefits/pensions etc. can add up to 50-60% of costs. If revenue isn't growing or the company doesn't need "premium" American talent, many (especially large orgs) will set up fake open positions, reject candidates while looking like they are searching, and instead put a hold on hiring, hire H1Bs, or hire overseas.

Just my 2c/observations, may or may not extrapolate out. But gives me a rational framework to explain why unemployment is low (labor market is "tight") and yet employees have little bargaining power and fewer and fewer profits accrue to labor vs. capital.

Edit: Just saw this article about IBM laying off expensive employees on the front page, which fits neatly into this framework - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/ibm-is-be...
Maybe check out Kaggle for their competitions and also tutorials?
14hr days.
Interesting read.
In Enlightenment Now, Pinker attributes the spike in opioid overdoses and suicides to "the druggy Baby Boomer cohort reaching middle age".
(Similarly, the same cohort reached prime crime-committing age during the 1960s-80s spike in violence.)