skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think so, yes. However, I'd attribute that to F# having the first implementation and not enough clout to influence the central .NET implementation, like C# did. AFAIK, there's another computation expression builder using Task<T> in FSharpx that performs better.

However, since in C#, async functions also seem to boil down to monadic continuations, I see no obvious reason the F# way couldn't be optimized to the same degree (given enough determination and resources).

If there's anyone here with insight into the `async` implementation that knows otherwise, I'd really appreciate a comment on this :)

Edit: Andrei Alexandrescu had a nice latin phrase on this in a talk at DConf 2018[1]: «Quod licet iovi non licet bovi». There, he's basically arguing the same thing: It is very often more desirable to give the language user a tool they can use themselves instead of reserving it only for the language implementers.

[1]: https://dconf.org/2018/talks/alexandrescu.pdf Page 4
You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.
When banks in the UK have offered 3% (Tesco bank did this) it was for the first 12 months and the number of new accounts was eventually limited.

from what I understand Tesco bank had purchased bonds/securities/whatevs with a 5% interest rate, so made 2% off the deal. (and a slew of new customers worth x each to the bank)

Hopefully something similar is funding this
No. It's SIPC insured.

[0]: https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001469903
I think most people on HN have set up their own domain and web services before or have the ability to do so without having to do much learning. So I don't think it's a stretch to say that on the scale of difficult things to do, hosting your own blog is very low.

But Medium is just so easy. It's trivially easy. It's uncluttered, clean, easy to just write an article and publish it or share for editing. The fonts are easy to read anywhere, it's fast, easy to find through Google because of @handles and works seamlessly on all devices. Oh and it's "free."

I've tried to figure out how to make self hosting this easy but honestly it escapes me. Maybe someone smarter than me can figure that out.
Preparing for Discovery with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Given the use case you describe, a Citroën Jumpy would probably be the most sensible car:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Jumpy

If you want a car that looks slightly better and costs a bit more, you could go with a VW T6:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Transporter_(T6)

Here in Europe, most people with your usage pattern would actually just buy a station wagon and hitch a trailer to it when needed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Insignia#/media/File:Opel...

There are even rooftop containers for kayaks and specific cycle holders for the rear of the car so that you can go camping with a typical European station wagon without having to use a trailer.

I'm not trying to complain about the choices you made, but rather trying to emphasize the point of the article. Pickup trucks are more of a cultural phenomenon than a practical necessity. If the emission standards are raised, other solutions will appear without much/any loss in convenience.
Banned from a meeting because of GDPR by the Romanian Ministry of Education
In Case it is free there is no reason not to use your name. For privacy you should tunnel your traffic anyways.
> but paying >$40k for a vehicle is an impossibility for most people.

I agree. I paid more than I would for a car so others in the future can pay less.
What's stopping you from opening up similar accounts with other banks?
First case here: https://www.occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/8...
Because they let the bill pass the senate unamended.. did you read the article?
This is exactly how FR is designed to operate (author of an FR system here). The FR system's gallery is loaded with persons of interest, and then video acquired from various sourced is analyzed. When a person of interest is identified, that "identification" is in the form of "here is person N with a probability of X% accuracy". That "notification" is then presented to a human, who then makes the human decision "yes, that is our person or no, that is not our person" and then whatever organic response that person's presence triggers occurs.

FR is like having a human lookout who is really good with faces.

Beyond that, it is all humans using this capability for good or bad purposes.
That's pretty standard for a lot of these new-tech-wave style brokerage psuedo-banks. Betterment, Wealthfront, etc which also have a form of savings accounts (don't believe they offer checking accounts like rh is doing here) are SIPC only as well.
Did you read the article I linked to? I specifically gave an example of how one of the world's most prominent buildings -- far larger than a retail store -- was delivered not via waterfall planning, but flow orientation. And done on time and well under budget, something waterfall plans rarely manage to do in the construction industry?

So your theory that waterfall always works considerably better is demonstrably false.

As an aside, my brother builds houses, and I've spent a great deal more than 30 minutes talking with him about this. I agree houses are not software. But he agrees that waterfall thinking is often much more a problem for him than a solution.
Just because something is XML doesn't mean it is "well-defined".
I don't know :) But I do have one of their "GAME NOT OVER" shirts from when they launched emulation of old games in the browser. Played Prince of Persia in Firefox with Brewster Kahle :)
Debit card skimmers are very common in ATMs, as are cameras to catch people entering their PIN. Although I have never seen an ATM where you can deposit money at a grocery or convenience store, and so I’m not sure what the potential attacks are for such a situation, I would imagine that tampered-with ATMs could capture other information or remove money from your account.

See https://krebsonsecurity.com for a ton of articles about various skimmers and scanners that have appeared in ATMs and gas pumps.
Driving through Eastern europe and in the Alps I noticed that they are very popular -- was wondering if it was a cost thing or if they are simply better in colder/harsher climates -- my guess is both.
20 years sounds like a reasonable time for the investment to pay off.

It's not mindblowingly tremendous, but not a catastrophe either.
You might want to disclose that this is a referral link.
Also looking for something similar to Robinhood in Europe
So you oppose the democratization of luxury?
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>do what Europe does and tax middle class people who can't just move to a lower-tax jurisdiction

Well, that's why Europe is blanketed in riots right now.

Disenfranchised people enraged at the governing concept of "taxing middle class people who can't just move to a lower-tax jurisdiction"

Taxing the hell out of foreign goods would just mean the company now plays a two pronged game - manufacturing where the least regulation is present, and selling at the country with the highest price point who doesn't outright refuse to let you extract their nation's wealth.

It's a tricky problem but your answer to it is untenable unless you want people to riot more.
> Personally, I wish no developed (e.g. EU, US) country would allow any economic relationship with any country that allows tax avoidance (like 0% tax) or tax evasion (like bank secrecy).

But US allows huge tax deductions for businesses. Maybe other countries don't? Wouldn't they have a right to say, "Personally, I wish no developed (e.g. EU, US) country would allow any economic relationship with any country that allows unfair deductions or tax evasion (like states give to Amazon).
Yes, but you understood that I clearly meant a single employee company, didn't you? Communication successful.
BOA interest rates will probably rocket up from .02% to .03% when the prime rate goes above 6%
Not add but move. And they will whine and get a tax abatement.
Nasa's Jupiter mission Juno reveals giant polar storms
I've recently read Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich".

IMHO, this novel does a very good job at capturing one key aspect of gulag; It was not just all about "oppressor vs oppressed", but was a complex society with a particular set of rules.

If you likes the works of Primo Levi, I'd highly recommend you to take a copy.
They don't exist
That is impressively hideous, it looks like living in a mall.
Runtime performance is another one. Map lookups aren’t free, especially if there’s a whole bunch of them happening in every component on every render.
True. Although I mostly have a library on my device anyway because WiFi quality is still often a crapshoot. (And I want downloads for the plane anyway.)
Most banks that will give you a current account will want to see £xxxx deposited every month (e.g, your salary) to earn any interest (if they even offer interest, it's rare on a current account).

I could open multiple, but then every month I'd need to spend time transfering money to each to earn the interest. Im not sure that would even count towards deposited every month, they might want to see a direct debit that is actually a salary. I'm not sure.

Further, I have an ISA (which is the UK tax free saving accont), that earns under 1% too and I'm limited to £20k a year into that account.

I have another account that pays ~2.x% per year, but on that one I'm limited to £250 a month.

Interest rates are abysmal right now in the UK.
How about the popnails used in the hull?
Testing and refining the "theories" of astrology would qualify as scientific inquiry, but what practitioners of astrology actually do is far from scientific, so the subject itself really shouldn't be considered a science.
Bootstrapping to $30M ARR
SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to live in the city
> That being said, I intend to replace reagent soon with just raw React + a few helpers

Do you intend to keep using ClojureScript or use JavaScript/TypeScript? I read pure React with ClojureScript is rather painful (mostly due to the props conversion but maybe that's what your helpers are for?)

I am asking since I am still considering between React (JS/TS) and Reagent/Rum (CLJS) for a side project of mine.
What? Because the original site is "bad" providing a better source is somehow not acceptable? After you've complained you can't find a better source?
Show HN: Briefing Manager – Publish Audio News Updates to Amazon Alexa
Do you know where it is? I can't find any info on the exact location.

I assumed somewhere near Round Rock for the proximity to the old tech workforce but that was just a guess.
Not exactly the same model as spreadsheets. In spreadsheets, a cell is a value in memory. The sheet is a graph of states.

In Jupyter Notebook, the cells are nothing but messages. And the saved notebook files are JSON serialized byte stream of the message and metadata. It doesn’t keep the states, just data, a digital artifact.
Does this mean it's not smart to store more than 250k in robinhood? (I don't, just wondering)
Microsoft May Be Planning a Consumer Subscription of Its Microsoft 365 Bundle
Hey HN!
Long time listener, first time caller.

I just recently launched a SaaS product that allows anyone to publish audio news updates using the Amazon Alexa's built-in flash briefing capability.

I think flash briefings are an under-appreciated feature on the Alexa. My hope is that a tool like this will help to elevate the medium - giving everyone a voice!

I'd appreciate any feedback you have!
It's really rare for a SOCKS5 implemention to support UDP. ssh is included in the does not column.
Like all "tech" companies - they're selling your data. They already do it in their brokerage accounts. Now imagine the value of knowing what you spend every single dollar on, how often you're shopping at a competitor, what time of day you're most likely to swipe your card, etc.

They're SIPC insured (like a brokerge account) instead of FDIC insured (like a bank account) which is a subtle difference and ever-so-slightly riskier for the consumer but not terribly different.[1] The biggest/riskiest difference is that the insurance here is provided by a group-funded non-profit as opposed to the federal government.

But mostly it's about making up the difference with your data.

[1]https://www.schwabmoneywise.com/public/moneywise/essentials/...
New Thomas Sowell interview
Not if you update the content. When reading up on interfaces that change rapidly, I'll often throw $CURRENT_YEAR into the search bar. If your post has been updated with current content, I'd like it to be included in my results.
A common type of residential structure where I live is the three-decker. They were built of the cheapest construction of their time, and yes, they are quite flammable. Given the comparatively-lax regulations that existed when three-deckers were built, they have achieved residential density that is hard to beat with new buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-decker_(house)
A Russian robot hailed as hi-tech on state TV has been unmasked as man in suit
I should have added this in my edit but I'll put it here:

I stand corrected. I DO think it's wrong for Apple to drop support for something they shipped, especially since it's just over 4 years old. I thought this issue was limited to people who had Mac Pro's or Hackintosh's and put an unsupported card in it. I'll admit I've only used 13" MBP's for the last 10+ years until my most recent MBP and so dedicated graphic cards wasn't in my wheelhouse. I honestly thought they stopped ALL Nvidia cards back in 2009ish.
Then punish the corporations that abandon countries to avoid taxes.

Life and society is about the people. Corporations shouldn't be respected like people.
Until Robinhood exhausts its runway, is acquired by a traditional finance firm, or is run out of business by FINRA complaints because they kill options trading for hours at a time for their users during market hours [1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/VTZifUQ.png
> New York City Police Department documents obtained by The Verge show that police camera teams were deployed to hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protests from 2011–2013 and 2016. Originally acquired through a Freedom of Information Law request by New York attorney David Thompson of Stecklow & Thompson, the records are job reports from the NYPD’s Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) that document over 400 instances in which the unit’s video team attended, and sometimes filmed, demonstrations. More important than the records the NYPD turned over, however, are those that it claims it cannot find: namely, any documents demonstrating that legal reviews and authorizations of these surveillance operations took place.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/22/15016984/nypd-video-surve...
Not as far as I can tell - the SQ13 has a really dinky, shitty app that I wouldn't want to use for anything serious. I was unsuccessful finding any hacked firmware for it.
Thoughts on bootstrapping GHC
Maybe something like this?

https://gist.github.com/sebastiaanvisser/72e6bc54baa14abc08e...

It all seems to boil down to packing and silently composing lifecycle methods. Either with classes, records of functions, or effectful functions, dictionaries.

I can see how the ergonomics of current react hooks are actually great, but I still think they’re weird :) I’ll probably get over it some day.

edit: note how hooks are now parametrized datatypes, probably allowing you to do all kinds of first class composition. Read only hooks are probably a functor and a monad...
Also 3% is astronomical for Euro zone. Here you typically have 0.01-0.1% on saving accounts (only for 100k Euro and below), and negative rate on checking accounts (most people usually pay 7-12 Euro per month for checking accounts and 20-40 Euro per year for Visa card).
Not true. Many of the problems described by gp wouldn't affect the fuel efficiency of the truck, but still vastly increase the pollutants the truck puts out. Replacing your catalytic converter with a steel pipe is the obvious way to game a carbon tax.
Is scinapse pronounced "skin-apps"?
I know, right? I'm soooo tempted to hoard $100k with BoA for that 20% extra bonus to their crappy interest rate.
> Anyone have thoughts on how this is possible?

... they are paying out money to the depositor instead of the shareholders
No, and that is one of the reasons their rate is so high. To receive FDIC insurance from the government, FINRA and the SEC generally have much tighter restrictions on what they allow the banks to do with the deposits and what they force the bank to keep in capital reserves, both of which are a drag on interest rates.
The flour company?
Another difference is spreadsheet states are local, Jupyter Notebook states are distributed.
Apparently, SIPC doesn't provide blanket coverage[1].

So no coverage against, i.e. fire, flood, robbery or embezzlement [2]. The first 3 may not be relevant with digital bank that doesn't handle cash, but the last one might be.

EDIT: I misread the second reference. apparently FDIC does not insure against theft or embezzlement, but according to the first link FDIC does provide blanket coverage unlike SPIC. it's still not clear to me what blanket coverage means in this instance.

[1] https://www.schwabmoneywise.com/public/moneywise/essentials/...

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/information/fdiciorn...
M1 has a checking/savings account coming in 2019 Q1, so this seems to be getting into the territory of tablestakes rather quickly. I'm kinda ready to say good riddance to my brick-and-mortar bank, other than maybe maintaining it at a low level for any in-branch needs (and as a source to transfer into robinhood).

(https://old.reddit.com/r/M1Finance/comments/9hk0dc/m1_team_a... has some light details on the M1 banking product for anyone interested)
In my opinion, saying just "no" it's quite harsh. That can create distance instead of building team (respect, trust, good manners etc.).

In such situations I usually say something like "I'm very sorry but I'm extremely busy. Could you send me email with your issue, please? I'll come back to you as soon as I solve the problem".
cuneiform has a lot of data, i would be more interested though in things that people claim to have translated already, like for instance Egyptian hieroglyphs where theres a solid body convinced it's all correctly translated ,but some parties dispute some basic symbols which change the meanings of texts dramatically.
There's a slew of online-only banks out there currently offering accounts with around 2% interest. Banks that have a brick-and-mortar presence have a lower margin so they offer lower interest rates.
Charles Schwab checking account has offered free ATM withdrawal worldwide for a long time.
You shouldn’t store more than $250k in cash in any kind of bank or brokerage due to the insurance limit (unless the bank has account insurance beyond $250k.) Investments are different, of course.

Edit: I forgot about the details of the limit. Thank you all.
This seems very likely. Robin Hood users seem to tend towards young and educated, so I imagine the transaction data would be a goldmine.
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She also has a Facebook post with more info here: https://www.facebook.com/andrada.fiscutean/posts/10217766665...
> Well it’s very simple what happened. Everybody in America was convinced they literally lived in a police state, that if you go out to the streets and demand change, even if you non-violently sit in a park, RoboCops will come and beat you up. And for a moment, when we did this thing in Zucotti Park, that didn’t happen! Everybody was like: ‘What? You mean this actually is a free country? We can actually protest?’ And so they came. And then, in about two months, the cops said ‘no this is not a free society’ and they beat them up again.

> It’s not that Occupy dissolved, but you can only create a movement for direct democracy if you can get everybody out in some kind of public place. They have to be safe enough to go there. So if going to an Occupy march means risking getting beaten up with stick, or being thrown into prison, then people with children, old people, they’re just not going come. And then only the hardcore activists come. It’s that simple.

https://www.eurozine.com/anarchism-work-and-bureaucracy/

And then the society that lets that happen picks out the worst examples of misbehavior by hardcore activists, calls itself noble in comparison, and goes back to sleep.
Perhaps start submitting PRs to open source projects, then?
While not a marine vehicle, I found this video on starting a steam locomotive fascinating. So many manually operated subsystems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9Q8PphAVo
i think the problem with the naive symbol approach is you need to know all the keys the user hook wants to use and pass them all in which is not really scalable. however, instead of using a single symbol you could use an array of symbols which would solve that problem. a user hook would take in an array of symbols from its caller which would define its namespace then it would add a symbol to this namespace to create a new array for each nested call it wants to make.

the example would become something like:

const nameNamespace = [Symbol()];
const surnameNamespace = [Symbol()];

const name = useFormInput(nameNamespace);
const surname = useFormInput(surnameNamespace);

const valueKey = Symbol();

function useFormInput(namespace) {
const [value, setValue] = useState(extendNamespace(namespace, valueKey));
return {
value,
onChange(e) {
setValue(e.target.value);
},
};
}

there are a lot of drawbacks with doing it like this tho. like it is much less performant because you are creating all these arrays and having to do these comparisons across possibly big chains of symbols. also, there doesn't seem to be any way to easily store these chains in a map like structure for fast lookup except for using nested maps which is a bit weird.
I hate to think what will be lost when Twitter goes belly up.
I've done that many years ago on a college campus that required you to log in via your student ID on a captive page.
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They are paying more than treasury rates, aside from the 30 year.
It said that they invest your money into US treasuries. I assume since they are doing this instead of providing mortgage/loan services and having to employ an army of loan and compliance officers, this would theoretically make it possible to profit based on the long term treasury rate since it's just a buy and hold strategy and doesn't really require much overhead (comparatively) even when being done on a large scale.

The 30 year treasury rate is barely over 3% so I'm honestly not sure how they can make any sort of real money on this. I would expect the rate to change over time, especially if the 30 year dips under 3%. But it seems theoretically possible given the absence of brick-and-mortar spaces and all the overhead and costs that comes along with that.

EDIT - I forgot about the interchange fee sharing when you use the debit card. So that is where the profit would be. Seems like the goal is to target roughly the 30 year treasury rate and pass that through to the customer and they can breakeven. And the profit comes from actually using the debit card. Not to mention potentially selling that user data.
Anyone else getting a 500 error on this?
Committee to Protect Journalists Releases 2018 Census of Jailed Journalists
You really can’t boil down quantum computing to something that doesn’t include probability distributions and measurement.
> There's nothing there that would make the coin stable in price versus a fiat currency;

That's correct. The idea would be to make the supply stable wrt. to the hashing costs. Meaning supply would increase with increasing computational efficiency and stay constant relative to it (ie. the inflation of this currency would be tied to improvements in chips).