skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How easy it is to get your name out there, based on market factors. They tend to include: Coverage, Reach, Cost, Consumer confidence and Frequency. Which is to say anything and everything in form of media that gets your name/business/trade/news/and form out there where others can communicate based on your thoughts/ideas/forms for a fully open feedback-loop. In terms of economics, it's an offering and those that would purchase/consume your offerings having an open space to communicate their wants/needs/complaints.
If I was transported to my city in 1900 and walk around, I would probably be uncomfortable for a few hours but be adjusted soon afterwards.

If I was a 1900’s citizen transported to 1000 BC? holy.. are you kidding me? I would be shell shocked.
I totally agree that FP in C# isn't super nice (its clear that it's bolted on) but to match the style of my co-workers, I can't do much more than sneak in a few little things here or there. The bulk of the code is clearly OOP, and I've accepted that, but at least I can have a little fun with some LINQ and a few extra vars that I don't mutate. :)
"In some cases, violators of the GDPR may be fined up to €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year in case of an enterprise, whichever is greater."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I was in almost the exact same situation as you; young, European and looking for a car maker to round out that part of my portfolio.

I opt'ed for VW as it was very cheap after the scandal and had some of the best brands in the business. Why did you pick GM instead?
FYI F# started as an OCaml implementation to .NET. It quickly evolved as an independent languages as it was easier to do, but a good part of it is straight up OCaml.
The Wappinger confederacy most likely.
They also dropped a seemingly random-named tool/service ("sedlauncher" and I think "sedsvc") in "C:\Program Files\rempl"

...and they didn't even bother to check that there's an existing project of that name (which will only serve to scare those who come across it by searching --- the description begins "Platform for moderated remote access"...): https://github.com/rempl/rempl

It also randomly creates a new service matching the name of an old service + a random changing hexadecimal suffix

That is extremely disturbing. It's like MS is following in the lead of malware persistence techniques.

There's also this:

https://www.askvg.com/what-are-sedsvc-exe-sedlauncher-exe-fi...

"Hardens the servicing stack against admin tampering." Yes, they're fighting against you, the owner. As the exclamation goes, "fucking bastards!"

All this aggression is going to do is drive even more users who are forced into using Windows 10 to turn off updates completely. They were already wary, now they'll have lost their trust completely.
What, no 20Mi fine? No tar and feathering?
When the breach was announced, they revealed that they did not store the passwords themselves in plain text, but had a second store that did, so they could prevent users from posting their passwords in chats. [0]

Still stupid, but at least the had good intentions, just bad execution.

[0] https://www.golem.de/news/datenleck-warum-knuddels-seine-pas... (in german)
Mondialisation / mondialism originates from a different philosophy or perspective.
Guess I should’ve expected such a quality response to my factual and detailed comment. But I’ll bite.

0% you say? What about the overhead of hosting the site? The cost to develop it? Drive traffic to it? Credit card processing fees? Managing fraud on payments? Etc etc.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. If you prefer one avenue’s cost basis over another’s, feel free to use it. But don’t make bogus claims to justify your choice.
Yeah, it’s called “installer for another OS”
It wasn’t 111 years ago when we needed it.
>> Since adding noise is a critical part in many neural network training models

Our brains do not work exactly like neural network models. Neural Networks are a model, on how nervous systems could work. It doesn't follow, that nature has implemented them the same way.

There is no need for the human brain to produce noise with some arbitrary process. There is more than enough noise in the human brain... Every single neuron is a powerful noise-filter[0], that seemingly can generate signals when the "correct" noise-signal is filtered.

>> Drugs that reduce the accessibility of this randomness by biasing the signal pathways

The randomness you are talking about is way the brain operates under normal circumstances[1]... so no, it wouldn't be beneficial, since we cannot discern signal from noise in any meaningful way [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal_noise

[1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/486289

[2]: not even on the level of the single neuron -- except for very few types of neurons [pyramid neurons] in a rat model -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1456039/
The USA with 4% of the world's population is responsible for over a third of the greenhouse gases unnaturally released.

You better believe the global community will slam the USA for their emissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-bi...

Other countries have their issues and NOBODY is defending them here. So I'm not sure what you're getting at with the rest of that statement.
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Kind of. Check out IBM's isostack. It takes CPU cores which are not used by the main os (you explicitly disable them) and essentially runs a parallel operating system which only handles the network cards / network stack. The main os cooperates with it, but otherwise it's not really aware of it.
I’m a believer in China dominance in the coming decades.

However, painting the West’s ability to heap “unequal treaties” on China cannot reasonably be described as a function of finding and conquering the new word. Firstly: the major conquest of the new world came through Spain, which had little to no involvement in the humiliation of the Middle Kingdom. Second, colonies in North America did not give the British gunboats capable of demolishing the Chinese fleets.

The reasonable conclusion is that the Enlightenment and the scientific advances eminating from that allowed the West to go from isolated, low population minor powers into worldwide empires.
I would agree. I'm happier using a stable, rarely changing library than something that is in constant flux and changing every week. Really, that kind of breakneck pace signals to me that people are just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and reduces my confidence in the quality of the product...
Clearly, 640K is enough RAM for anyone.
I want to know if anyone threw in the words of the last departing toy soldier in Toy Story 3: "you're gonna need it".
I wrote this a while ago:
http://www.kmeme.com/2010/03/healthcare-diff.html

I wonder how well code-style line-oriented diffs work for laws. If you word wrap then your single-line changes can cascade and effect many lines. If you don’t word wrap seems like you need a better way to see diffs within long lines. Seems totally solvable, but that what github does for code might not be right.

But this is so awesome, pull requesting a typo. Go DC really forward thinking.
>Why doesn't by usb headset work?

>The only thing I haven't had work is some cheapo chinese Serial PCI card from fleabay.

You are contradicting yourself here. Besides, linux hardware support is incredible nowadays, and most of the time if you have problems with linux, you would have them with windows as well (aka, oem drivers for crappy nonstandard custom hardware).

Nowadays most of the soundcards, gamepads, headsets would just work, at least their standard functionality.

Also, RedHat cares about desktop, and canonical cared a lot. Nowadays RedHat is involved in a proper hybrid graphics support, gnome desktop etc. In some areas linux is lagging behind, for example accessability is still not the best, though gnome people are very concerned about it (that was one of the major reason for using a full gnome shell for login).
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Haskell has a famously high barrier to entry that has little to do with its type system or functional nature. As a pure lazy language you have to learn a lot of concepts (What does pure mean? What does lazy mean? What is a monad?) before you can be productive. Extending this into intermediate usage is difficult too; how do I begin to combine these monads I now understand?

I see your argument. If your aim is to get into functional programming then Elixir/Erlang, even Lisp/Scheme is fine. I don't think it's the functional nature of OCaml and Haskell that make them powerful; I think those parts of the language are great, yes, but the type system (static, algebraic, inferred) is the real secret sauce.
Shame the Pendolinos very rarely (if ever) get up to full speed as our track maintenance and rail infrastructure in general is so poor.

The UK is also one of the most expensive places in the world to travel by rail, but that's a whole different story...
Consultation on the EU regulation of the data economy
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There are two issues

1. why the system is as it is (and why it's hard to change)

2. what work are the publishers doing that is actually contributing value

The hosting cost is a point regarding 2, and making that point is consistent with understanding 1.
Thank you for your big comment!
> Do we really want the government to have that much say in whether businesses live or die?

Sure, because before the GDPR businesses needed to follow no laws and never would have been closed by the government by not following laws and regulations.
years of mostly pointless assignments, lectures and pre-test cramming coupled with thousands of hard earned dollars spent on getting <10s of attention from a recruiter. Feels harsh, strange and unproductive enough to be true.
Nah it's just Linux.
Rust is actually a contender in this space as well [0]. It is not something that is widely touted, maybe because of a fear that an FP-label would give rust an academic tinge?

This is one of the reasons I will dedicate this year's advent of code [1] to learning rust.

[0]: https://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-progra...
[1]: https://adventofcode.com/
The article is about "compiler basics", but it never mentions PLs are parsed according to context-free grammars, let alone giving one. Just throws a bunch of code and says "yeah this'll parse it".
No one is claiming that. They are claiming that if you want an OS that doesn’t spy on you, is secure, and open to inspection then learn to use Linux. Or, to move even further towards security, openBSD.
How about this:

1) the contract is initiated by the seller (sets amount, payable accounts, etc)

2) the contract is signed by the buyer, moving (or locking) an amount of money in the contract pending one of two situations:

2.1) the seller signs a message that the product has been shipped and the buyer signs a message the product has been received

2.2) the seller signs a message that the product has been shipped and after 30 days of no further message from the buyer's side the contract releases the funds

In this case, the solution is to have a commitment from the buyer that unless they take action (sign a special message to denounce the transaction / pull out of the contract) the seller gets paid. To address the scenario where the seller is malicious, the buyer can use the on-chain commitments from both parties as evidence of malpractice and report the situation.

(edit: formatting)
You think fracking is clean?

You think the "brainstorming sessions" accomplished nothing because of cherry picked single year data on Imgur?

Yikes.
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The problem is that there is no way for a smart contract to actually know if goods have been received or not, so it is still subject to abuse.
But that is not what China does. When the other country can’t pay back the loan, China “buys back” the construction project and turns it into something useful for them, like a military base. That is for instance a worry with the Vanuatu wharf but there are multiple examples across the Pacific (Tonga, Sri Lanka, Cook Islands, ...)
Really interested to know your use case for power as a desktop cpu ..
“I know you say it's a commodity but we decided to custom build this software”
I think you misunderstood the thread. Of course the question asked to the Supreme Court has been looked at in detail by the lower courts, but other questions in the case haven't yet.
I actually framed my JR Pass when I got home.
0.2% for debit cards, 0.3% for credit cards.

Only applies to consumer cards and only the interchange (ie. the part that the bank of your card gets). MasterCard and Visa fees are still quite substantial.

A regular merchant would now pay < 1%, so quite a bit cheaper than before.
I like how he describes chess about 44 minutes in. Makes me wonder how modern chess engines like stockfish rate a certain board configuration. I expect it is quite more nuanced than his description of dead/not dead and summing up the material on both sides.
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You can have free functions that operate on your classes instead of shoehorning every operation into one class or another or creating new ones from whole cloth just to hold a function (e.g. the Hit class mentioned earlier).

Writing methods makes it easy to add new types but not methods; you have to change every class to implement a new method. Writing functions makes it easy to add new function, but you have to update every function for a new type.

Each has its place, and issues arise when certain languages (e.g. Java) or paradigms ("classical" OOP) make it impossible to use one or the other style.
The only connection to black holes that I could find is, that they use mathematics first developed for string theory [1], so it's bit tenuous to say superconductors are related to black holes. Once you read a few of these articles you start seeing the same tropes. I yearn for articles with less hype, and more honesty.

The main result of the paper seems to be Fig. 3B and Fig. 4B. The black line represents the limit set by the uncertainty principle, and they argue that all these superconductors lie right at the limit, which they call Planckian dissipation. However, I have a sense that a lot of cherry-picking data is going on. They claim this is a universal behaviour, but the paper doesn't even mention whether it applies to the most well-known and highest temperature superconductors like YBCO and HBCCO. I suspect because it doesn't. Another omission is NCCO, for which they have data for in Fig. 4A (from which Fig. 4B is calculated), but then they don't plot it in Fig. 4B. I am guessing because it again didn't match claim. I wonder how thorough the review process was, if at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence#Condens...
Being pro-choice doesn’t require nullification of an unborn child’s rights. It’s the recognition that the mother’s right to agency over her own body takes precedence.

That does not imply that a doctor or researcher has the right to risk causing debilitating life-long symptoms to another human being at any stage of development without a clear medical justification.

By your reasoning, because an embryo has no rights whatsoever, it would be fine to experiment wantonly for the sake of producing circus attractions. I presume you wouldn’t actually support this?

I also fail to see how the scientific basis is relevant to the ethical question. Whether the science is good or not, we’re talking about unnecessary procedures with inherent failure rates that can have brutal life-long consequences. I can’t see how someone can support this unless they are fundamentally lacking in empathy. As I asked another poster elsewhere in the thread, do you really think you would feel the same if something like this had been done to you and caused you to live with a painful deformity? Would you care then whether the science was good?
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If the law is on github, does Microsoft then own the law?
The killer app for OCaml is front-end webdev with Reason. Most new large-scale Javascript projects are using gradual typing with TypeScript, and the experience is not the same as having types natively. It gives you the safety and rigidity of types, but not as much the ability to think with types. These projects also toy around with immutability - using a library like Immutable.js which is a boxed data structure that needs explicit handling and conversion to and from native types, need to pick a state management library like Redux which implements a version of variants through constants and manual dispatch, and all these projects need large test suites to check for things that types would've caught and so on. A typed functional language eliminates almost all of these issues and grants more powers of abstraction. If not Haskell or OCaml, I suspect Elm has a good shot at it.

I'm all for new languages! If I remember correctly, the ideal one is Lispy with Hygienic macros, ML-like type system baked in, multi-core, good stdlib, and tools that don't stand in your way.
You didn't mention Scala. It has access to all Java libraries, and it doesn't force you to into a single fixed mindset like Haskell's purity at all costs.

That said, it doesn't seem to have taken off, and it doesn't really look like it will. Not sure why, though I hear a lot of complaints about compile speeds.
I want to spend more time in OCaml, but without threads it's a tough sell. Modern performance requires parallelism with shared memory, and the current mainline solutions don't offer that.

Where threads aren't part of the equation, OCaml has become suddenly popular. That's telling.
The good news for us is that China is /will be checked by at least India. Japan, S Korea, Vietnam etc also be watching.

Give India a couple of decades of good management and they'll be strong enough
My vote is still for OCaml, if for no other reason than the compiler speed.
I want to do a 12 year gigadegree that is structured from undergrad to doctoral program to postdoc(s)
https://es5.github.io/#SortCompare

pretty sure it's been this way since 1.0
Smoking composted tomato peels is much better!
The same happened in Europe in the 1930s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
"The killer app for OCaml is front-end webdev with Reason."

I'll make a 1000$, 10 year bet with you that in 2028, if browsers still exist, ReasonML (or its successors) will be nowhere near mainstream status (which is the point we are discussing here). I like Reason, or at least the idea of it.

Javascript itself might incorporate more static typing in 2028 than today's version does, but I suggest the 'advances' will be relatively miniscule.
It wasn’t always that way. There were people (especially in operations) that used it as a guide for certain decisions. I was disappointed when the slogan was retired.
Not a doctor, but I believe this is well established that grief can affect your memory. There is plenty of hit for grief and memory loss on Google. Likely this is only temporary.

But I guess that the lack of sleep, which is also known for affecting memory, is also taking its toll. So the combination of the two might explain your state of confusion.
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I thought it was a rhetorical device Stallman was using to make a point (badly)?
https://pl-rants.net/posts/go-and-ocaml-scalability/ has an interesting take where they found multi-process OCaml performing better than goroutines. I don't know how to interpret those measurements correctly, so any help there would be appreciated.
Congrats on the rankings! It appears from my search here that you may have 2 sites that are both in the top 10 results for that search phrase!

I am guessing that those keywords are not highly competitive money wise, just a guess, as I would assume there would be lots of competition and articles via mashable, tech crunch and similar pushing links around, along with a fair amount of negative seo phishing bad links from multiple pbns to different sites.

I'm sure others have faster access to tools that show what the keyword is worth for adword clicks, what the estimated traffic is and value of such sites.

I have stopped using the seo type tools like the one the article is from, as I have determined that the more valuable spaces to be in are already saturated with players in the index and the cost for time and money is not really worth the expense of the tools and the stress.

I've had a hundred or so domains sent to my email to add to a disavow list, but it seems no one really reads the notes I put in there, so I've lessened my focus on google obviously - the time and money spent elsewhere has bigger rewards for me and those I try to help promote.

I can see how your particular niche is likely to do better with google and not have as many groups of interested people on facebook or snapchat - again just a guess.

Maybe you are someone with faster access to a backlink checker can explain how many quality links you have gotten to your articles just by publishing.

If it's just sitewide links in your header pointing to your other site along site a few hundred blog posts written by you, that would be so funny.

Glad it's been working out for ya, seriously. Google is a fickle friend who can be generous at times, enjoy.
I had two reasons:

1. The scandal itself. I do not want to support a company that has a proven record of not caring about the environment. I understand that this probably applies to all car companies, but VW is the only one that got caught. Getting caught circumventing environmental laws should be something that CEO's are afraid of, and this is an easy way to contribute to that fear. I would not buy a VW for the same reason.

2. I wanted to diversify outside of the EU. The Dutch and German economy are very connected, which would make my portfolio very vulnerable to a recession in either of those two countries.
The unfamiliarity of random HN commenters with genetics is overwhelmingly clear, but that does not mean that geneticists in the US are not thinking about this.
Yes, I really do. Why don't more computers come with Linux pre-installed? If Linux is such a great replacement for Windows, why has it made very little gains in replacing Windows? Is it all somebody else's fault and has nothing to do with the usability of Linux?
Some of the most intelligent people in history including renowned philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians did not seem to focus on using their intelligence to acquire as much power or wealth as possible.

More significantly, they tend to not have children.

"Men of the highest genius who were childless include Newton, Faraday, and Mendel; Vivaldi, Handel, and Beethoven;
Gibbon, Macaulay, and Carlyle; Plato, Aquinas, Bacon, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant and Mill. Anyone who thinks he can frame a list of comparable individuals who had on the average enough children to counter-balance the childlessness of
these, is welcome to try; but he will not succeed. ...Just below the very highest level, and average number of children is again far below the average for people of no intellectual or artistic distinction. And it is, again, spectacularly depressed by the huge contribution of the childless: Copernicus, Swift, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Haydn, Dalton, Francis Galton himself - to mention a few examples at random." (David Stove, Darwinian Fairytales)
Yes, selecting the "tallest" embryo for implantation sounds somewhat feasible. It's similar to selective breeding with a shorter feedback loop. The only downside is that you are only selecting for genotype, instead of phenotype, so your model might accidentally select for some other things that you didn't expect.

But that's very different from designing an embryo by direct genetic modification.
It's funny when people say science proves consciousness is an illusion, when all that we know of science comes to us through our consciousness :D