skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this cost analysis doesn't even mention time spent, though, given the motivation of the site, that could detract from the message.

I realize that some participants may consider it a part of a hobby, in which case the dollar value of the time may be negative if not zero, I can't imagine this would be everyone (especially of the subset who load their own due to cost).

Someone might even value that "lost" leisure time higher than their hourly work earnings.
List comprehension functions are just that: functions. Monoids, Functors and etc are type classes, some semantic element of a language. List comprehension syntax is a DSL with some specific capabilities.

None of that is a pre-made structure one would impose on code. Those are all functionality that the language makes available for you to use when desired.
It could in the event of a trade war, which seems increasingly likely for many countries.

Lack of local manufacturing isn't really important in a world of global commerce, but when governments start using their manufacturing as a weapon in dimplomatic disputes it becomes important.
Tell HN: GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent running every hour
I was `grep` through my system log and noticed something interesting, GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent runs every hour:

Oct 6 00:23:10 mbp GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent[53838]: 2018-10-06

Oct 6 12:28:17 mbp GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent[40041]: 2018-10-06 12:28:17.882

Oct 6 13:28:46 mbp GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent[43999]: 2018-10-06 13:28:46.849

Every hour there entries for: /Users/zzz/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon phoning home.

I'm not even using Chrome, but I do have it installed. I have automatic updates on but every hour seems way excessive.
I second this. I've tried Blokada and DNS66 via F-Droid, and Blokada in particular has worked wonders. It blocks ad hosts at the DNS level, which is more battery-efficient than a traditional adblocker, but that also makes it necessary to clear out your DNS cache. I've only had one notable issue that required me to disable Blokada - adding a bank account to Venmo wouldn't work for some reason.
not sure which precision problem you're referring to, but in general, we understood that excel's precision issues are probably overwhelmed by the imprecision of the model.

but i'd be more weary of using excel if we were doing scientific research (R or matlab would be better there).
I got one of the 2nd version June's as soon as they came out and I cannot recommend it enough. It makes so many things an absolute breeze.

Salmon is surprisingly good, though the June does not get the skin crispy - if you like crispy salmon skin on your salmon fillets you'll still need to do it on the stove.

I also really love how good it is with frozen pizzas. If I want a light dinner, I'll toss a frozen pizza in there and 20 minutes later it's perfectly done and anywhere from 600-900 calories per pie.

I literally have not turned on my real oven since I got it and likely won't until Thanksgiving. I doubt a big turkey will fit in the June.
This is a good point and I notice that we respond to it by building remakes, remasters, and we do keep things running that were never really designed to last so long. I don't think many of us perceive that as decay or rot, or self-destruction, it's just that some of us are so passionate about those games or those works that we put a lot of effort into keeping them alive through emulation or hacking or reverse engineering. It's maintenance work and we'd describe the software as legacy.

It would all be completely lost without those people though, so of course it is the act of digital works decomposing naturally. Those of us who enjoy those efforts probably won't ever perceive it that way: those old games and programs and websites we love are still as alive as ever.
In my experience, it's best to look at companies with Glassdoor reviews collectively along a single axis: Are they really bad? Or are they potentially not really bad? I usually try to find a shortcut along a path less traveled, and so I take to LinkedIn or Github (or IRC!) to find people working the job I'm looking for at the company I'm interested in, and then talk to those people. Glassdoor can sometimes reveal when companies have recently been a really terrible deal for employees, but I've had more than one negative review not even make it past moderation (for no reason I could discern). They're clearly scrubbing the stains from company images, one way or the other.
Awesome comment. I wish that more people understood the system where we work. But I guess that most people are sheep, and there is less cognitive dissonance when you believe that free market is something good, and leaders are doing good things for society, and that salary and job creation are somehow inexorably tied to the status quo of the wealthy and powerful.
https://twitter.com/zoelouisesmithx/status/10485771217429831...

It happens at 0:37
See Scott Alexander's "toxoplasma of rage" article, or cgp grey's "this video will make you angry" video on YouTube for some good analysis.
Seems like blood clots could be an issue since there’s no way to effectively get your blood circulating effectively in such a small space.
Wow. People these days must be square and boring. Heck, I remember a coworker's birthday bash on a Half Moon Bay beach with turntables, booze and bonfire til 4 am and people trying to steal our rented generator. If that's "pushing boundaries," I want to know where to turn in my cool kids' card.
Microsoft did quite well on mobile back in the pre-iPhone days, the battle for the today generation of smartphones has long been lost for them and all the attempts were futile. Perhaps they've chosen to retreat and prepare for the next big battle silently.
This is good advice. I’d add that, in the US at least, there’s a little more overhead to deal with when it comes to an S-Corp vs an LLC. A CPA is definitely the first person to talk to.
> Antitrust law is not applied randomly.

> You must have a large enough market share for it to apply, and you must be using that market share as a weapon against competitors in another market.

I think Netflix is big enough for it, and yet they prohibit every custom client (thanks to DRM).
Thousands march in Edinburgh for Scottish independence
isn't the correct practice to use errors="surrogateescape" for precisely this purpose with any encoding?
So in this case, you would use .decode("ascii", errors="surrogateescape") as the first bytes are the only ones you are sure of, and then .encode("ascii", errors="surrogateescape") to save again
Individuals' resumes on LinkedIn could be used to identify companies' attrition rates, though it would miss outliers where people omitted a company from their resume.
Add some IR temp sensors, for what $5 in parts, that can heat to an approximate inside temp.

Food is not thermally transparent. The outer surface will quickly reach the cavity temperature so that's not an indication of the core temperature. The accepted way to measure the core temp is with a probe.
Is there a simple way to check attrition as you described, how do you do it?
From personal experience, you can scrub bad reviews by writing to their support and claiming that something fishy is going on.

They will investigate and will not tell you the exact results, but if some reviews look like they were posted from the same browser and IP address, they will be deleted.
That was my exact motivation while making this! This visualization helps me alot to understand trigonometry so i think it will be good to make a sandbox out of it. I hope this helps somebody who trying to understand basics of trigonometry.
Maybe I'm just getting hung up on the word restriction. In particular is there any monad that cannot be expressed as a pair of algebraic effects and handlers? I think the answer is no (potentially barring especially magical monads such as IO in its full generality), but I'm not sure.

Totally agree about the brittle and type-soup nature of transformer-heavy code.
Honesty comes from two types of people:

1. Those who have carefully positioned themselves to be able to speak their own mind without cutting their throat.

2. People willing to take the consequences of speaking their mind.

Sometimes, enough anger creates a person of the second sort. But anger per se is not actually evidence of veracity. It can introduce bias of its own. It can also be evidence that the person who is angry is a problem person.
My very cheap microwave does that same behavior only it's in minutes. It also has a 30 second button. Save for heating pancake syrup (a 10 second job) I rarely set a time explicitly or wait to cancel a button press early.
That's how socialism works. Cars are individualistic.
I don't understand how this solves the problem:

- if all links in the supply-chain are properly verifying/tracking components, why can't they send this verif/tracking data to their client's server?

- if they're not making a good-faith effort, what does blockchain solve?

Blockchain is genuinely good at maintaining an immutable, trust-free ledger. It's NOT good at making sure the data that's written to it is true.
Vancity's online banking system still down after three days
Brave isn't making money if its users choose to block ads.

Users now have the choice to make money from opting-in to ads. But only ads that protect their privacy. Brave enables this, and takes a smaller cut than the user.

Sites choosing to monetize themselves are doing so at the expense of the user, whose privacy is compromised in the process.

I don't think Brave or the User is hijacking things here more than you can say that monetizing sites are hijacking user privacy.

Monetizing sites don't give the user the option to pay for content via other means, or ads that protect their privacy (or even the awareness of what transaction takes place). At least Brave and its users are giving sites the option to get revenue here (revenue that otherwise would be lost if users opt for ad-blocking instead).

N.B. Looking at [0], Brendan Eich stated that "We don't replace ads on publisher sites without that publisher as partner; they get 70% of the
gross revenue, user gets 15%.".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155869
Not as much as something like semiconductors. If everyone in the world literally stopped selling us shoes, we could likely figure out something passable locally in a few months. Spinning up the tooling and know how for advanced manufacturing of critical technology goods is a years long proposition.
No, but it matters that you can't get any because some adversary decides to cut your supply. Protecting your supply by force is obviously easier if the source is within the borders of your country.

This is the basic reasoning of every "national security" argument about having domestic production.

The parent is merely stating that basic necessities are also important for the well-being of the nation, it's not just about the IC for ballistic missiles or the 3G circuits that allows Trump to always be on twitter.
Also a bunch of letters that are not enough to ensure any certificate holder can turn on the computer, but hey, it sounds fancy, like CMMI or ITIL
The implant you describe sounds much like this:

https://nsa.gov1.info/dni/nsa-ant-catalog/usb/FIREWALK.jpg
That is misleading.

Brave blocks third-party ads and trackers (which are not only harmful to users, but often make up more than 50% of all data loaded).

Brave is testing an optional digital advertising model which operates via local (on the user's device) machine-learning to match ads. If a user opts into this component, they will earn up to 70% of the ad revenue.

In the future we will offer publishers (websites) the ability to partner, permitting Brave to display ads on their pages. In this arrangement, publishers will receive 70% of the ad-revenue (far better deal than what most see today), and users will receive 15% for their attention.

In either model, the user must first consent to see ads.

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Show HN: Hacker news like site for global trends curated with machine learning
Something’s odd: in the US midrange clothing is from europe. Be they shoes, sweaters (pullovers) shirts, etc. Japan enjoys the same cachet. We also have domestic brands which enjoy similar preference.

While they tend to cost more, for the most part, unless you follow the vagaries of fashion, they are worth the extra money.
You have no idea how close we are, actually. I’d say, we are five years away.
This man is my hero. The everyman athlete.
This doesn't seem like it would be that hard to happen - doesn't the US already mandate requirements that certain DOD purchases to be from within the US? The DOD probably buys enough to make it worthwhile for there to (continue to) be US-based fabs if they could only purchases those chips.
Here are three use-cases:

1. You are editing documents locally on your computer. This lets you double-click to view nice markdown in a web browser with a `file://` url.

2. You are editing a website, but don't have control over the server-side code.

3. You don't want to install a markdown rendering library on the server.
Hmm... Maybe I need to look at multi-core OCaml more closely, but I don't think it's true in general of algebraic effects (or at least its freer monad variants), as in I'm pretty sure I can emulate a list using them. In particular I'm pretty sure I can do that with `Cont` alone.
One way would be to go by the statements of the people producing the plant strains, and to observe how the plant strains were advertised and used.

So for example, you could pretty easily allow gene suppression and not transgenesis.
I think senescence may be largely driven by viral infections. The top gene associated with senescence is hijacked by many viruses to lock the cell cycle into a specific point and optimize energy production, which viruses need to propagate.

https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/senescence-links-between-heart-...

We need better antivirals so we can kill off stuff like Epstein-Barr that infects so many of us for a lifetime.
Ignoring the biggest problems of proprietary software (e.g. the fact that such software can be deactivated at any time for no reason, backdoors) and citing pseudo problems on free software.

"You can also argue that OSS tends to be reused by other OSS, which amplifies the impact of a given bug."

This guy clearly as a horse on that race.
You could argue that about literally anything though, from clothes to bananas - but it's simply not practical for every country to manufacture and produce everything it needs.

Also, clothing and shoes (mentioned in the comment I responded to) are easy to produce without massive capital outlay, and the raw materials are readily available from several countries. I think the local manufacturing argument makes more sense with regard to items that are seen as critical, and which would be impractical to obtain from elsewhere - such as motherboards, processors and the like.
I learned this one with typing in high school. Being the only person who could type proficiently, I was barraged by friends to type out their papers for them. After awhile I just charged people to do it. The next school I went to I made sure not to tell anyone.
> Allowing cars is overly restrictive of my individual choice to cycle safely, breath clean air and have my children grow up in a world without climate change.

There are obviously alternatives that do not involve banning cars outright - like barriers between cars and bikes, and electric vehicles.
It is a multi-tool bracelet made by Leatherman called the Tread.
> Beyond the initial resonance of the idea of sea-aging wine, there’s also a science to the process that Heude and his friends pegged with sheer intuition. Off the coast of Brittany, the temperature of the ocean floor hovers at 9-10C – the equivalent temperature of a deep wine cellar – while the water shields the wine from damaging UV rays. Plus, the twice-daily ebb and flow of some of the biggest tides in Europe mirror a technique used to age wine, particularly Champagne, known as remuage. The process of slowly tilting wine as it ages keeps the sediment from settling on the sides and bottom of the bottle and maintains the visual clarity of the wine.

Pretty cool.
Should you work at a startup
> Edge

Why would anybody but legacy-encumbered enterprises actually use a web browser by Microsoft nowadays?

> but they don't need to be the app store

But wouldn't it be good if there were more than one fairly-big and well-advertised app store? In fact the situation when there is just one seems worrying, e.g. Apple is already misusing their monopoly on iOS devices actively.
I've been doing some research (from a US perspective) on this topic. From what I've read, a single-person corporation only shields you from things like not being able to pay back a business loan, or paying suppliers, etc. But it doesn't necessarily shield your personal assets from liability lawsuits, since the person who is responsible for the potentially liable action is the same as the company, and is the same as 100% of the shareholders. To get that protection, your best bet is to have a good umbrella insurance policy, along with having a lawyer draft appropriate terms and conditions for your services (such as "this software is not guaranteed to be fit for any purpose, and should not be used for any purpose", but worded a bit different).
the simple fact is that the existing public transport systems are not even close to having enough capacity to replace private motor transport entirely, and there zero chance of them having it any time soon (...) you can't just ban cars to fix this, or price them off the roads with congestion charging or the equivalent.

The reasons why existing public transport systems don't have enough capacity to serve everyone is that (1) under the dominant hypercapitalistic ideology, public transport is often seen as something that has to be economically profitable, or at least break even, and not as a right (as you can always take your car); and (2) it is hard for it to be economically profitable, or at least break even, when it has to compete with the convenience of the car (which is effectively subsidized), apart from competing for space.

If cars were banned, public transport would improve by leaps and bounds by simple market force. There would be much more demand and it would be much easier to make it profitable (and there would be a case to run it with taxpayer money even where it weren't profitable. With the savings on buying cars and gas, we could very well pay that).

In the 1920s, my city had about 80K people and there was a tram line to a town about 15 km away, which had 7K people. It was operated by a private company, and was profitable. It was removed when cars became popular. Now, my city has around 250K people, the other town has 15K people, more proportion of people work and thus need to commute, my country and area are much richer and prosperous than back then, but no one would even dream of building a tram line like that. It would be considered pharaonic, unprofitable, etc. Why something that was possible almost 100 years ago, with less resources and worse technology, cannot be done now? Because there are cars.
Check out the DisintegrationLoops by William Basinski
MSVC's LTCG is Broken
Well. To be fair these theories are based on studies using mice. Is there some parallel to humans? Likely. But that nonetheless remains to be seen.
JS on iOS is probably not jitted since writing to executable memory is prohibited on iOS. This is not the case for desktop.
Thanks! Put it on my Kindle queue :)
I'm amazed you can make such a sweeping statement with any confidence. What in your mind is "normal" human logevity? Because if by normal you mean "pre-industrial", then even discounting child mortality you're advocating for commplace plagues, famines and bad water affecting the number. We've been changing our environment, our bodies, and surpassing natural barriers since before we were sentient. Why should we stop now that we're just starting to get good at it?
What Stops Good Cybersecurity and Privacy Behaviors?
I've been hearing for years that automation will take all our jobs and leave us with crazy high permanent unemployment rates, thus necessitating some paltry UBI so useless humans can keep eating and won't revolt. Yet, a current news story informs me that unemployment is at a 49 year low.*

No doubt, tech has changed the world and will continue to do so. But I increasingly take it with a grain of salt when I hear predictions about robots being superior to humans in every way and making humans obsolete for various things.

* https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/economy/september-jobs-report...
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155960. No ads via Brave unless you opt in. Consent required by all parties involved in any of the optional token economics.

Try https://brave.com/download-dev for better desktop browser that is coming to stable very soon. Almost all chromium extensions work - any using Google accounts/sync do not.
Yes but from what I remember it wasn't that easy to do. When opting out is so difficult, most people will just stick to the default. This kind of approach is bound to increase centralization of wealth.
Neat, thanks for the hands-on report! Have you had any maintenance issues with it? My only hangup at this point, I think, with a fancy "smart" oven is that there are more things that can break or be buggy. And how is it to clean?
Why do you believe it will signal an end?
I’m not sure honestly. I’ve been thinking about it a lot (which to me means it’s actually good art).

I think the obvious & unsubtle reading above makes a ton of sense. It is a critique of the modern art business for sure.

But also it seems likely that the auction company was in on this so I sort of read it as a statement that you cant separate the business of art from the making of art.
You've given them the choice of not monetizing their content or paying you. It's the slimy Mafia business model. There is nothing decentralized about this.
Awesome, nice work! I like the simple usage of just adding a script tag to the top. I also experimented with this idea[1].

[1] - https://github.com/hachibu/md_spa
I'm running macOS Mojave now, and hopefully this will fix some bugs so that I'll be able to use Nix as my package manager

What bugs are you running into? I have been using Nix on my MacBook with home-manager a couple of months now with relatively little effort. Every now and then I run into a package that does not build, but usually it's easy to fix and submit upstream.

There is also nix-darwin for managing macOS NixOS-style:
https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

Of course, nothing beats the real experience, so I am running NixOS on my workstation.
A big point of using Prolog for the commercial projects fitting its niche (1) is that it's based on an ISO standard, though, and implementations are (theoretically) interchangeable. To make Prolog programs actually portable across major Prolog implementations, there's been the Prolog Commons initiative for an extended standard predicate lib.

1) personally I think Prolog is much more broadly applicable in all kinds of apps rather than just type inference, policy languages, games; but with the recent rise of Datalog as actual query and inference language (and not just in academic database literature), it seems Prolog's time has finally come

[2]: http://www.prolog-commons.org/
Memory, not smartphones, is what is really working at Samsung
I just meant that you usually still end up using the equivalent of bind to compose things and pure to lift non-effectful code. I was thinking mainly of the free and freer monad here, but I think it applies generally.
Twitter is great for publishing information updates. It's terrible for having a conversation or reasoned debate. Almost all of the built-in incentives are the exact opposite of what you'd want if you were creating a place for conversation and debate.
OR:

C) have 1000 hours worth of manually created content

Think about games like witcher 3, tes, fallout. Those things are huge and replayable.