skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Helion, TAE (formerly Tri Alpha), First Light Fusion, Tokamak Energy, General Fusion, and others. TAE is the biggest, with over $500M invested so far.
> But it also makes Forth far less fit for task where handling nightmarish complexities is the main topic. If you can't cut the Gordian knot, you lose.

Maybe in a monolithic program. But I could see successfully tackling some very complex problems with a swarm of Forth programs that are individually very clean and simple.

That sort of approach is presumably one of the basic ideas behind Green Arrays.
There are technical solutions that could be used here. You can JSON dump the PR contents and Issue contents, for example, into another repository (or a branch in the same repository). It wouldn't be hard to automate that process with the GitHub API.

That doesn't solve the interop problem that would exist in trying to implement secondary UI systems that can redisplay that information usefully, but ETL of that sort is full of options and developers with experience.

JSON dumps of GitHub information would be useful to more open source projects beyond legislative history. I think a good automated solution could be generally useful, if someone wanted to invest in it.
Hey, author of the linked post here.

A few thoughts, since some things have changed since that post was written:

First, the tooling limitations that I mentioned in the article have gotten a lot better. In particular:

Merlin now provides IDE-like functionality for your editor of choice (including code, vim, and emacs).

Also, Dune is an excellent build system for OCaml that does an enormous amount to simplify the build process, and tie a bunch of different tools in the ecosystem together. One great thing about Dune is it does a lot to unify the experience we've long had inside of Jane Street with the open-source OCaml experience. It's really a big upgrade.

We've also made some progress on debugging tools, like the spacetime allocation profiler. There's also active work on making GDB/LLDB debugging in OCaml really first class.

Also, OCaml has had some major industrial uptake. Notably, Facebook has several major projects built in OCaml (Hack, Flow, Infer) as well as their own syntactic-skin-plus-tooling on top of OCaml, in the form of Reason. Reason has gotten a lot of traction in the webdev world, which is awesome. Bloomberg, and Docker are some other big names that have real dependencies on OCaml, along with some more names you probably don't know like Ahrefs, LexiFi, and SimCorp.

People sometimes feel like Jane Street is the only real user of OCaml, so they imagine that Jane Street's needs are the ones that drive the language priorities. So, the thinking goes, if you're not a trading firm, you should look elsewhere. But this is the wrong picture. First, there are other serious users, as discussed above. Besides, the community doesn't just roll over and do what we say. If you don't believe it, go and see how often our PRs to OCaml get rejected.

And even our interests in the language have grown beyond what you might imagine a trading firm would care about. We use OCaml for building traditional UNIX system software, like MTAs, for designing hardware (via HardCaml), and for building dynamic browser-based applications (via Incr_dom).

For sure, there are still challenges of being a minority language (and there's still no multicore GC, despite some exciting progress). But I believe OCaml is a yet better choice than it was in 2011 when I wrote the article.
I have built a platform that exactly does that. It does require JavaScript for a few reasons:

1. It allows single page apps to analyze

2. Caching of pages does not have any effect on the JS to be executed. Most back end tracking don't know if something is visited when cached.

So I would recommend you to use JavaScript if above reasons apply to you. As far as I know you can't really obfuscate the IP address in a why that you can't track a visitor. That's why I decided to drop IP address from our logs and don't use them at all.

Regarding your last point: unique visitors are hard to measure if you don't use IP or a cookie. A cookie is tracking, be not sure how intrusive you think this is for you. It could be a cookie with just a value of 'visited=1' or something, so you know it's a non-unique visitor when the cookie is present. That way you don't track I think.

You can see demo stats of my platform here https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io
>Consider all the people you know well. How many have switched from Android to OS X in the last 5 years? How many have switched from OS X to Android in the last 5 years? In my household, 2 switched to Android, 0 switched the other way. In my broader network I'm aware of several more switching to Android, none switching back.

Anecdotes are worthless because one anecdote counters another. I don't know anyone who has converted from Apple to Android, but I know several who've left Android for Apple. However, since we're both only throwing out our anecdotal experience and not data, there's not much of a conclusion we can draw from it.
Indictments are merrily formal accusations and are not proof of wrongdoing, so again, please supply substantial evidence of Russian meddling.
#Linux #Kernel is affected by two #DoS vulnerabilities still unpatched
That does seem pretty intense. To be close enough to get that dose I'd imagine thermal/blast effects would be incredibly high anyways, rendering this chip pretty useless.
If you could find areas where warm waters killed them off that would be something, but some species of phytoplankton are known to survive to 40+°C.

"The 1980s saw a rapid increase in phytoplankton biomass in the North-east Atlantic. We now know this dramatic change was part of a regime shift—a climate-driven stepwise change in the structure and functioning of the north-east Atlantic marine ecosystem." https://www.mba.ac.uk/are-marine-phytoplankton-decline

Anyway, they are not simply being killed of in the warmest waters. Climate change means changes in ocean current circulation and other effects beyond simple changes in temperature.
This license is invalid in quite a few jurisdictions around the world.
never thought of this.
This is Peak Phone. Everybody already has a mobile, and IPhone N+1 is only marginally better than IPhone N. It's like GM in the 1950s trying to get people to buy a new car every year. Then GM tried "more car per car", trying to get people to pay more per unit.

There's no Next Big Thing in the near future, no "must-have" consumer product. 3D TV was a flop. VR goggles were a niche product. Cloud-connected surveillance ("speakers") and computer-controlled woks (big in Asia) are just not that big. Foxconn sees this and is cutting back.
"A 2015 study by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found glyphosate in 30 percent of 3,200 food products. Similar studies have found glyphosate exceeding maximum residue limits (or MRLs) in Cheerios, beer, and wine." It has also been found in honey, soy sauce, oatmeal, bagels, organic eggs, potatoes, non-GMO soy coffee creamer, tampons, infant formula, and even breast milk (that's the stuff coming out of a human).

Not only is it in animal feeds, it's in processed foods. It's being passed through animals and plants. Even if you believe the claims that ingesting it won't give you cancer, it will probably screw with your gut microbiota.

The US MRLs are much higher than countries such as Japan, the EU, Canada, Australia, and Taiwan. Are our scientists just way better at sciencing, and know something these other countries' scientists don't? Or is it more probable that Monsanto has significant influence with the US's 992-billion agro industry, government, and FDA?

It's also possible that some countries have artificially low MRLs, in order to gain a competitive advantage with countries that have stricter limits on imports. But lowering MRLs means using less herbicide/pesticide, which wouldn't produce as high or reliable a yield. In order to maximize product, more herbicide/pesticide must be used more frequently (such as with desiccation), and that means you can't lower the MRLs - you can only raise them, to avoid regulatory issues from affecting your crop yields, and subsequently the profits of agro business. At the least, we know the FDA can't keep up with import testing (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297498/)

Finally, from a scientific standpoint, all of this is based on animal testing. No human testing is done, so we really don't know what long-term exposure will do to humans.
Yes. It’s a classic market failure. We see examples of this type of thing throughout history. For instance, without the Manhattan Program, civil nuclear power would not have developed, because the enormous investment in risky technology development would not have flowed from the private sector.
Is there a way to run npm and show what would be installed via an 'npm install' short of actually installing it? That combined with a diff tool against package-lock versions would limit the review list. AFAIK, the way it is now you can't tell if one thing changed or one thousand until after completed.
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Facebook won because its culture was voyeuristic
>There are so many legacy app flows kicked off via sftp/scp file drops

Yes,.... Legacy apps... because no one would choose SFTP for system that designed in 2017.

Seriously this is great, so many solution rely on SFTP, but so many companies fail at managing the service. Having an SFTP service that just works and is secure (hopefully) will help a ton of compnies.
Amazon, With Little Fanfare, Emerges as an Advertising Giant
Yes, that's what I do, and thats what the word "but" after the part you quoted indicates.

If gatekeeping is bad, not checking who's passing through those gates when they're wide open is worse.
The Heartbleed bug would have been found then fixed by the munmap, as the process would have crashed. This has nothing to do with clearing data, it would not have found this.

> And in the context of OpenSSL, this kind of fanciness in some libc's that'll make all sorts of syscalls randomly is exactly why they wrote their own allocator.

"web asm -- if it was good enough for openssl!"
And, shameless plug, if you're interested in seeing what it's like using a functional language at scale for solving real problems, well, you can apply...

https://www.janestreet.com/programming/
> This could be a difficult choice for someone who doesn’t have much cash on hand.

This is a vast oversimplification. The entire section on equity is very, very deficient and should just be disregarded.

This article is a fine start, but it still needs lots of work.
Tutorial: create self-editing web profile on the dweb with ipfs and knockout
The drops are starting to happen lower down as well. The market stall is across the board.
For comparison, here's a web app that lets you play with BigGAN:

https://ganbreeder.app/
Schlep is precisely a business opportunity -- tedious drudgery that you have to do regularly OR can pay and not worry about it again.
You mean in the United States? Or in the civilized world?
Not cheap, but about an order of magnitude cheaper than ITER.
would you mind sharing how much equity was granted at gitlab ?
Yes, giving birth twice in 24 months is normal, but that gives you a very narrow window within 2018/2019.

If you give birth in July of 2018, an 18 month spacing won't let you give birth in any month of 2019. That's still a very significant negative adjustment to "demographic factors get you to 5X+". Demographic factors aren't the only factors there are.

edit: a quick sanity check tells us the factor of 5 estimate is off by a huge amount. From https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm :

> Birth rate: 12.2 per 1,000 population

This is the birth rate (for 2016, in the US) reflecting the odds that a randomly-selected person, male, female, infant, or menopausal, will give birth in a calendar year.

> Fertility rate: 62.0 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44

And this is the birth rate demographically adjusted for the ability to give birth. It's about five times higher.

Since siblings born in consecutive calendar years are rare, we can only conclude that patio11's "true statement" is false by a pretty large margin. For it to be true, every birth in 2016 would have to have been to a woman who also gave birth in 2015.

I wish that, before asserting something is true, people would think about whether it's true.
I think this is mainly a question of momentum. Microsoft is benefiting from some good strategic decisions in recent past, and has a large number of legacy businesses that are quite profitable. Apple in the short term is too dependent on the iPhone, and it will take a few quarters to build a more robust product pipeline.
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Extraordinary claims...
This is a big of a self plug but my goal for 2019 is to read more text books and read more concurrently.

I started a project directly for this purpose:

https://getpolarized.io/

It allows me to keep track of where I am in the text book, even if I jump around through something called 'pagemarks'. Which are like bookmarks but for a region of the book.

It also supports annotations, comments, highlights, and flashcards which can be sync'd to Anki.

This way you can keep an important fact in your brain forever.

The goal is to reduce lower the "I'll probably forget it anyway" problem with reading and text books.

This way I'm more encourage to read complex material s the chance of me keeping it is higher.
Microsoft is doing a much, much better job with hardware compared to Apple. Microsoft's Surface Book is absolutely stunning--although a little pricey for me--and unlike Apple's stuff it doesn't break after a month of normal use with people having to do class actions for them to acknowledge that there's even something wrong.

On the other end, macOS is definitely better than Microsoft in pretty much every aspect (although that might be subjective).

Me, I'm currently on a Surface Book "clone"--meaning a laptop that has the exact same Chinese, awesome 3000:2000 touch screen, running an hybrid of Xfce with Kwin and other components to make Linux look a little prettier.
Rust isn't a FP language in the strict, traditional terms of Haskell and OCaml, but it's pretty damn close. If people started switching to Rust, they'd probably get 80% of the gains (concurrency, excellent typing, non nullability, etc.). If Rust gains traction, I wouldn't exactly complain; don't let perfect be the enemy of good, after all.
Without taking sides on the issue, these are purposeful trade-offs that the Go team makes. They are trying to avoid bloating the language and making it too difficult for them to add optimizations or other features. And I think they would argue that it makes ignoring errors harder, since you have to intentionally discard the error value when it was given to you, which takes conscious effort, rather than omitting it from the code completely like other languages let you.
The actual feature (having netflix, amazon, hulu, etc natively available) is fine; the problem is that its slow, unreliable, prints useless errors, and no matter how much you spend, the interface is always a janky horrible experience. There are also other nuisances like forcing the framerate up to 60fps by frame interprolation, causing everything in 24fps (most content) to look awful, and in certain implementations, jitter.

Some of the things I noted have perfectly valid ideas, but just ..pathetic.. implementations (smart tvs, gps), and others are preferences that get forced onto you (aux port, web heavy-js, game graphics)

But the key is the suppliers collectively decided that this is exactly what the consumers want, and the only option left otherwise is to turn back to 1990 or look to the chinese knockoffs. The ability to signal to the market that this isn’t whats wanted is lost... except by entirely avoiding all recent technological advances.

And the truly strange thing is that there are few, if any, offering the same object but with improved interfaces (with cars it makes sense, the rest of the vehicle is more important; but tvs? video games? What the hell? These should be much easier to find variations on.
Is Student Debt Forgiveness Progressive?
I don’t understand how yours is the top comment. The cheapest iPhone currently available is the iPhone 7, which you can purchase right from their store. It’s $449. Their cheapest current-gen phone is the iPhone XR, which retails for $749, 75% of your claimed $1,000 price.

On top of this, iPhones handily trounce equivalent-generation Android phones in hardware performance, so it’s difficult to see how you can so confidently assert that Android phones are cheaper for the performance you get. The Pixel 2 XL and Galaxy Note 8 are still absolutely shamed performance-wise by the iPhone 8.
VLSI design is pretty complex, yet Chuck Moore figured it out in mere 500 lines of Forth and successfully manufactured chips designed with his own tools: https://colorforth.github.io/vlsi.html
> Had it been distributed under a new account/name users could have decided to trust or not trust a new maintainer.

This is the myth we keep telling each other but I don't seriously believe this is how open source works in reality.
How could you tell who is the culprit in this event?
> GitLab may be an anomaly and YMMV

I think this is the crux of his argument. Of course there are outliers, but 90% of the time (I don't know the actual percentage, but I'd venture it's around there - if we're only talking about money I'd say 99.9%) someone will be happier if they go to a more established company.

And people are often disillusioned when their equity becomes worthless, because for years they were told that would be worth millions and they accepted low salaries because of it.

Of course sometimes it does work out great, and I'm happy that it did for you! But statistically, you are incredibly lucky.
Depends on the something. If I buy a carton of milk, I'm pretty likely to buy another before too long. If I buy a new refrigerator, probably not.
Besides, the point of advertising is to get you to buy things you otherwise wouldn't. It would be pretty pointless to show me an ad that says "you love eggs, you eat them for breakfast every day, so buy some next time you're at the supermarket", because I was going to do that anyway.
100% agree - which is part of my point...it's a very irrational view that more often than not doesn't net a high return.
I'd disagree, I work in phone repair and have an iPhone 7+. Apples cheapest phone isn't 1000$ it's 450$ for an iPhone 7. Which IMO is fast enough given the tiny incremental improvements of the 8, etc.

I'd say iPhones last far longer then most (not all!) android devices. My mom still uses a 5S. It still gets security updates (and feature updates and optimizations!) how many android devices can say that? Even Google's nexus series can't say that anymore.

That said the 6 and 6p have been dying a lot recently from cellular/wifi issues or some other weird things - things we can't replace or fix (sadly our store is unequiped to do motherboard level repairs, but IMO only 2 employees would even have a chance at attempting something like that). I think this comes back to the bending issue they had. iPhone 6 phones are still aplenty in the wild though.
Tell us how.

I don't think the guy you are replying to actually thinks that the dozens of multibillionaires out there are holding their billions as cash that they could hand over to Musk tomorrow. Their wealth is held in assets with varying levels of liquidity, and, most notably in the case of stock, trying to convert them to cash would decrease the value of the remainder. But if Bezos wanted to get his hands on 10 billion to fund Musk, why could he not? (Ignoring the fact that he has his own aerospace thing going on.)
“I used to think the machines are geniuses,” Ms. Hou, 24, said. “Now I know we’re the reason for their genius.”

I recall John Searle's Google Tech Talk, when he said outright that AI was nothing more than the automation and repackaging of the output of human intelligence. Most of the room was clearly against him, just a bit short of booing him. Nowadays, the "smart talk" around AI is exactly what he said.

For those who may not be aware, John Searle is notorious for his "Chinese Room" argument against hard AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Researchers measure carbon footprint of Canada hydroelectric dams
It's been time to move on from WordPress for several years. The only thing WP had going for it was 1) massive plugin ecosystem, and 2) ease of development.

Gutenberg undermines both those, so now is an even better time to try out a Bolt/Grav/Statamic/etc.
The biggest problem is to convince chicken to go sleep at the coop instead in its favourite tree.
This is purely anecdotal - I have noticed the opposite trend in my circle of friends and family

The cheapest iphone that apple sells is certainly not an XS for $1000, the cheapest phone on their website is a cool $449:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7

The problems I faced with my many android phones dwarf the amount of problems I've had with the two iPhones that I've owned (7 Plus + XS)

It's important to understand that these kind of experiences are anecdotal and have a history of being over-reported by tech news media (think "bendgate" and "squeezegate")
This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos for a few weeks now and it made upgrading to Gradle 5.0 a zero manual action upgrade!
Both images for lazy: https://i.imgur.com/ROhfMXb.jpg
Fortunately, videos like this getting visibility means it's more likely next sci-fi movies/shows will make more realistic shots.
Cotton candy or meth? Woman sues Monroe Co. over false drug test results
please note that i am referring to the sense of ownership and responsibility that comes from being one of the important cogs. this is reality in a startup.

i don't mean it in a legal/financial sense, and i am not referring to any extrinsic reward, eg financial upside.
> “I think the whole thing is an overblown attempt to exert government power over us,” said Bob Allen, a Washington state apple farmer.

I'm really looking forward to the urban farming revolution.
That’s how they are now built, yes. Cars looked very much different 100 years ago, too.
I kind of agree with this in theory, but with services like Mac in Cloud and Mac Stadium, you can learn/develop for tens of dollars a month, and cancel your mac for extended down time.
Does rinsing salad greens do anything to remove e. coli? Or does that just get the mud off?
Electronic Health Record Interchange Faces Multiple Challenges
Anyone know if this can be used directly from CloudFormation?
Surfaces visited by Humankind (or by robotic ambassadors) 2018 - https://imgur.com/a/v9Pc5Qz
There is a "Math for Machine Learning" course.