skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry - but we do have very high standards. Your preliminary interview was fine (if you are who I think you are), but the quality of your code and depth of you thought process as exhibited in the "trial" code review process did not match with our team.

Good luck finding what you are looking for.
Right, this article seems to be so intentionally missing the point that one has to wonder if it's an attempt at manipulation.
That's ... actually pretty good! I'm usually quite frustrated by those, but this one is not so terrible.

Some remarks:

- Coq is not an ML at all, it's simply implemented in OCaml and has a vaguely similar syntax. I think dependently typed languages should have their own category, as they have a rich history (coming from type theory, obviously).

- Elm is almost certainly more an ML than an Haskell. The only link with Haskell is really the syntax.

- Speaking of Elm, you might want to add something on synchronous languages (You can start by looking up Lustre).

- ML languages with modules, and especially OCaml, took pretty direct inspiration from Modula 2's modules.

- Curry is half Haskell and half Prolog.
Especially since one of the books he mentions, Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, has a 3.97 - which just barely misses the criteria, and yet has a big fat red X. He gave rated it 2 stars, so this seems to be confirmation bias more than anything.
Put it in a district just outside of Pittsburgh with cheap housing, and there goes PA.
What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.

My father in law seems fine with the act of injecting itself, but he's very private about his health issues and seems very self conscious about injecting. I've known him about 15 years and he'll always leave the room to inject even in his own home with only family around. I'd imagine this might help someone like him in a small way.
Housing prices are mostly high due to shortages within specific labor market areas. If displaced workers can leave, that puts a lot more competitive options in their reach.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/-apple-could-pay-reward-to-g...
>Don't name your variables after types: you wouldn’t name your pets “dog” or “cat”

I would if I could not tell just by looking at them what species they are (and thus what I can do with them, what to feed them, etc) among 200 other animals in my house.
Welcome to HN! Add 'Show HN' to the title, a title that describes what the product does, and it will end up on https://news.ycombinator.com/show where you need much less upvotes to get seen.

Wording on your website is excellent, the about-us page open and honest. I would charge more, but I'm not complaining. The video ends with a screen of other recommended videos, maybe that can be switched off.
I mean I would expect you to back up your claim with some kind of scientific study that humans in general opt to produce value for society purely altruistically.

I highly doubt that’s the case, but I have an open mind and I’d be delighted to be proven wrong.

As I understand it, most societal benefit and technological advancement has come from humans acting selfishly. You develop an idea while seeking profit — not necessarily money; this behaviour far predates money — and society benefits as a side effect (if the development of that idea is in some way beneficial).
Just to be sure, this is only for free accounts, right? Having a paid account suspended because a friend runs a pi hole would be pretty annoying.
You don't need another extension for it. Blocking the newsfeed with ublock works just fine
Thing is though, the state of the internet—all that shady stuff Facebook does—is because of ads. Ads aren’t something you can pluck out of a social/technical context and talk about as though they’re in a vacuum. When a site’s existence depends on ad revenue, every single product decision becomes tainted by “how can we hook people?” I can’t find the article now but there was a great one a while back about this very topic. The thesis was that the environment produced by advertising—not the ads themselves, but their effect on everything around them—is nothing short of psychological warfare.

So it’s not just whether “ads” are good or bad. And it’s not enough just to block them. They are like a virulent symbiote. They seep into every aspect of the platform they live on, because the platform’s survival depends on them. And then the infected platforms poison their users, ad blockers or no.
Presumably, if you have unlimited resources, you can create most, if not all, of what makes that land in NYC valuable. You could create enough city districts to meet demand.

There's lots of factors that go into the value of land. Available amenities, jobs, being near other people, quality of schools and other resources, transportation, etc. But those all seem to boil down to scarce resources being pooled in one area. If you could mass produce amenities, buildings, school supplies, etc, then NYC wouldn't have any inherent value, because its equal would exist everyone someone cared to plop one down where there was enough demand to fill it with people.
They want existing users to upgrade to a premium version

IME, cheap people are cheap. Nagging them doesn't change their minds.
Privacy is one of the features that helps the iPhone sell for over a thousand dollars.

I remember one of the Amazon Kindles sold 2 versions: one with ads that was cheaper, and one without ads that was more expensive. So people do pay at least to get rid of ads (I'm sure both versions collect your data), it just costs more, and most end up not being able to afford it.

For all the good in the iPhone, year after year android gains ground worldwide by virtue of being cheaper and more flexible.
Stunningly in NYC there is not a single medical library that offers journal access open to the general public. The only publicly accessible medical library has been described to me as primarily a "historical" library without journal access.

Columbia and NYU's medical libraries are only open to medical school students and faculty. No undergraduates. No alumni. The New York Public Library has surprisingly good online access but is missing a number of important journals and current issues are often delayed by agreement for several months.

If in this nation's largest city, current healthcare knowledge is bulkheaded from public access there is a serious problem. Whatever the publisher's rights these knowledge and information asymmetries must not be allowed to continue.
Can we stop saying that "blue collar" people delve in boasting and exaggeration ? Most blue collar people I meet are very polite, mild mannered and focused on executing their tasks. The only people who talk like Trump are narcissists.
I pick the shortest one on the shelf for the subject. That’s how I found Einstein’s Relativity and Feynman’s QED. Omit needless words!
Measles cases in Europe tripled from 2017 to 2018
Amazon is just whining because NYC won't cut them a sweetheart deal. There's nothing stopping them from just buying or renting office space like everybody else.
By happenstance I have spent about half of my life living with people with T1D and this post echos pretty much exactly what I have heard over the past decade or two.

A lot of non-t1d folks seem to fixate on the needle/lancet parts of management because it is visceral, but have difficulty grasping the huge amount of stress and responsibility around managing time, activity, boluses, diet etc.

For example, managing stress can itself be stressful. Some people with t1d have sever anxiety, and a panic attack can trigger a cortisol dump into their bloodstream, which in turn causes a significant spike in blood sugar. I once saw a panic attack spike a person from 80mg/dl to over 400 mg/dl with no eating, no pump/infusion site failure, or incorrect basal rate.

Also, concerns about your ability to engage in sexual activity with regard to blood glucose is the furthest thing from a humble brag. It is an issue for many, many diabetics and is often a point of embarassment. Kudos for mentioning it!

Recently my partner (23yrs with t1d) and I made accounts on the twitter-like site called Beyond Type 1 which has actually been a really great community of diabetics (and diabetic-adjacent people like me) sharing
their concerns and advice and we have both loved it.
How did we end up purifying the amount of U235 needed?

I saw on another page "General Leslie Groves consulted with lead scientists of the project and agreed to investigate simultaneously four separate methods of separating and purifying the uranium-235: gaseous diffusion, centrifuge, electromagnetic separation and liquid thermal diffusion."

Seems like a ton of work.
Did you mean, can a person with low body fat get Type 2 diabetes?
Ok so they'll ban you and then... what? You'll have no recourse, i.e., you have no inherent right to use their service as you see fit (outside your own head anyway).
Oppression is always structural. Organize.
Where is the "sign in with github" prompt?
> Note: I think if UBI were implemented that Medicare and a lot of other programs should be replaced by it.

Medicare is a program that solely exists for the retired who over 65 and disabled people.

Medicaid, on the other hand, is available to those who live in states that accepted federal funding via the ACA and are within a certain percentage of the federal poverty line.

Those who don't qualify for Medicaid, but are under a certain income level, have their health insurance premiums subsidized via the ACA.

If you plan on eliminating Medicaid, you'll need to acknowledge the fact that even people who earn many multiples of the federal poverty level are still eligible for subsidized health insurance due to burden of costs. If people who are not poor by federal standards need to have their health insurance costs subsidized, that means people whose income is derived from UBI-esque make-work programs will have a hard time affording health insurance if they're considered eligible for Medicaid, but it was eliminated.

This is why many proponents see UBI as an adjunct, not a replacement, for existing programs.
What's wrong with USB sticks that you need 3 tries to plug them in correctly?
What if Apple buys a meth lab with it? You’ve just deployed a fully general argument against the existence of money.
And what happens if it gets stuck in your esophagus?
Looks like the hacker community is already on it! :)

https://medium.com/@ATN_Events/accessible-tech-in-employment...
> onerous regulation about fire escapes

We live in a society. Societies have rules. One of the rules of our society is we don't move people into dangerous tenements where they're likely to burn to death because they're trapped and can't get out.
The Great Climate Flip-Flop (1998)
Bioengineering soldiers for smart, adaptive wound recovery
Green card Bill that favours Indian techies may get green signal
In recent years I've switched a lot to watching a non-fiction author's 30 minute talk on youtube about their book rather than reading the book entirely.

This is especially true for business/self-improvement type books, where I've found its almost never really time efficient when I'm really just looking for the list of 5 things I should be doing and skipping the extraneous pages of anecdotes.
Everything in the news is true, except the rare story one has firsthand knowledge of.
It is, but businesses and businessmen used to be more civics minded.

Nelson Rockefeller smashed heads to rid New York of Robert Moses' strangehold and fix the subways. The Carnegies and the Vanderbilts founded universities. After the '80s we haven't really seen this kind of behavior, save Microsoft's recent tiptoe into developing affordable housing.

Google and Facebook have the weight to throw around to ask for things like the second Transbay Tube or Dumbarton Bridge rail service, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
This is a pretty solid capture of my feelings about this. It is downright weird to swing from "Amazon chose this place for money" to "Amazon's CEO is standing up to (possibly) international cyberbullies" in the space of spending like 20 minutes on HN. It's the disparate decision making processes that are throwing me for a whirl more than anything.
I guess many journalists view themselves as the ideal outsider. If you deny them a place on your reading list (or demand that they only write about their job) you deny that whole vocation. The world would be a poorer place if we all did that.
What percentage of "good" books include an index?
It will be hard to recruit faculty who get grant money to fund the school if Elsevier has banned your campus IP addresses.
I see your point. The admonishment to Sahil at the end to "stop using" the term "lifestyle business" does seem to miss Sahil's self-awareness of the internal conflict between knowing about the misuse of the term and yet still allowing it to affect him at one point in time.

It's refreshing to see this perspective from founders. It's a story not often told and does well to characterize the grinding rollercoaster of hard decisions you won't easily find in the sea of "A-co raised $40mm!" press releases.
The idea of land ownership is as mythical as Thor's hammer.
You don't own land - you own a right to do certain things on that land to the exclusion of others. Only sovereignty gives actual ownership of land - transferring it to another jurisdiction, setting up your own laws, destroying said land and doing whatever the fuck one would do when one is literally "law onto oneself".

Also - money is no longer representative of a thing you can hold. Money is a share of wealth of a nation, which includes trust, culture, people, land and buildings.
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is."

Land in these places can be something like $500/acre. That's not zero, but compared to the land prices people are more familiar with, it's as close as makes no difference in practice.
Yep yep - if the text isn't distorted I can rip it from an image within minutes using pre-built OCR libraries. If the text is distorted there's full-blown API-driven services for solving CAPTCHAs and the like.
So instead of giving the guardian of said teenager 200k to do with as they/he/she pleases in the interest of the child

A lot of people are jackwagons and will spend the money on whatever they want instead of their child's education. This way Apple gets to make sure it goes to the child's future.

Source: Had to finance a big portion of college on MasterCard.
> people who stop working bear a generation of people who have never worked, and they bear children

Discourage bearing of children by pushing contraception and providing the poor and unemployed with free internet access, with streaming and online gaming, in order to occupy their time. Birthrates are already going down in the West, and probably a further push can be made here and there so that people are even less interested in children. Then, that underclass status won’t be passed on to another generation, it will stop with the first generation.
>My screen is not Spotify’s property. They are allowed to TRY to display something on it, and it will only be displayed IF I LET THEM. There’s no discussion here

And they will only send you that stream IF YOU LET THEM (display ads). That's the deal whether or not you like it. You don't get to substitute your own.

So, they win, you lose.
As a TYPE 1 Diabetic. All I can say is AMEN!
I think the exact opposite is true in dentistry.
When Schumann Ruined His Fingers – And His Concert Career (2017)
Do you know how difficult it is to get into a bounty program?
Property taxes and land value taxes are absolutely not the same. Unlike property taxes, land value taxes do not cause any deadweight costs, as the supply of land is fixed and can even increase allocational efficiency.
Napkin Modeling the US Govt “P&L” // Income Tax and Redistribution Scenarios
Blind people do this as a matter of course. With practice one can understand absurdly fast reading.
Right, and Starbucks should feel perfectly at ease kicking you out for that, just as Spotify plans to do.

(actually Starbucks does not feel at ease doing that after the whole two men / racism fiasco, but they should feel justified in doing that).
and the atomic bomb that terrorized Japan
Or it's news because funding education is bad and it's that vile socialism thing Obama was doing!
Airbnb is squeezing Toronto’s housing market
> the 1 char operators that concatenate stuff

But they're super useful. Some examples from Ansible.

- name: Do something annoying.
command: >
./my-really-annoying-command
-a yep
-c it
--really-does=take-a-lot
--of-options
subcommand
--target=blah
--timeout=60
--callback=/usr/local/bin/callback-x245.sh
https://example.com/this-is-the-worst.aspx

varable_that_I_need_to_preserve_whitespace: |
#BEGIN_LICENSE_KEY
...
Both the laundromat and the new building they want to construct are pretty numb. When I look at the architecture of the early-to-mid 20th century I can't help but feel we've lost a lot.

These days economic architecture reigns, and probably for good reason. It's no longer affordable to have ornate brick-work or any kind of embellishment. Interiors are functional and efficient, we've done away with unnecessary mouldings and again dispensed with ornate detail in general.

I wonder how the economics of the property market used to bear the additional cost of all that extra work? Were people just more proud of what they made, or was labour just so incredibly cheap that making a building beautiful made little difference to the bottom line?
I realize this article is one data point but I'd offer that I have a completely opposite data point.

1. We accidentally turned off our main Intercom in-trial campaign for a segment of users during an AB test and were surprised how much lower the conversion was. We re-ran the test ensuring both sides had our Intercom in-trial campaign on. It increased in-trial conversion by 25%.

2. We do pay a lot for Intercom (10 person support team, tens of thousands of users, hundreds of thousands of leads) but we also use it a god damn ton for new customer campaigns, activation, churn prevention, reactivation, etc and by in-app, email, and mobile notifications. Replacing all of this would not be cheap.

3. Intercom can definitely be a crutch for bad UX. But you'll only know of those problems if you're actually getting this feedback. It's then on you to have the internal process for addressing common questions or requests in order to reduce the volume of help requests for specific topics.
I think you may be misapprehending our situation.

We don't really have corporate taxes in Wisconsin per sé.

So this deal is structured as a series of payments to Foxconn of cold hard cash. In cartoonishly simplified terms - I pay my state taxes, and the state puts it in boxes of cash, and gives it to Foxconn at the rate of roughly $200,000 to $300,000 per job they create.

Good news is the factory isn't open, so payments haven't started. So, if we can get a little lucky, the whole thing will fall through and we can just eat the losses we've taken to date instead of staying at the table and putting the really big money into the pot.
This is a little ridiculous.

1) Subway: yes, it needs major infrastructure investments. It isn't crumbling - isn't that a little melodramatic?

2) I call BS. Housing prices in most neighborhoods in NYC have deceased over the past year: https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-housing-asking-sale-pric...

3) and yet, major tech companies are interested in starting or expanding their presence (exhibit Amazon, exhibit https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/17/google-...)
Vancouver, BC, man. My morning coffee/latte order comes out to $4-6 (CAD, so... 3-5ish USD) depending on where I get it from.

When I lived in Seattle... the numbers on the signs were still the same. $4-6 for morning coffees.
Newspapers had a monopoly on distributing written information back in the day: printing presses, typesetters, journalists, delivery staff, etc are all expensive. Now anyone can self-publish on Medium. Technology has changed the game, and we whatever business models work in the future probably won't be the same as those in the past.
Teams and the Art of True Belonging
Why the Grammys sound and sometimes go wrong
What cookware on the market actually has quasicrystal coating? Any recommendations?
CREDIT REPAIR TESTIMONY
I just wanna thank my helper INTERNETDON. I would have been homeless due to my bad credit score but thanks to him i now have a home. You can contact him for any issues that has to do with credit card or hacking at INTERNETDON4@GMAIL.COM.
If you increase education, you'll learn that population will not grow that fast.
There isn't enough money in the world for me to want to have a job who's goal is to make the world a worse place.
The View from Marqeta: Pre-Signing AWS S3 URLs
Reminds me of the time it was my turn to lead the weekly staff meeting. Why? Cause our manger was lazy I guess. I handed out copies of Brooks No Silver Bullet essay. Did not go over well at all.
Kinda except you get to pick any "job" you want, work any amount of hours you want but still know you will get paid exactly the same amount. People might be happier reading to seniors 10 hours a week but not for minimum wage.
Oh definitely you do get much more for the same amount in Seattle today, but it was ~1200 three years ago. Meanwhile rents in NY have pretty much stayed the same (except for minor increases) for me and my peers.

I hear that prices have flatlined /fallen recently; let’s hope it stays that way.
Ask HN: Just Dunning (Start Up Advice)
Hey all,

I think my original post I did incorrectly. I apologize I'm new to HN but was sent here saying it was a wealth of information in regards to startup advice. I just recently launched a service for Stripe users whose product is subscription based. It's for automated failed payment recovery.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Steve
https://justdunning.com
This is too much.

Nobody is 'hurting anyone' - not even slightly, by ensuring that their free product also has ads.

If ads are unscrupulous, or if the company is doing shady things otherwise, then yes - bad.

But there is no moral argument against making sure that decent ads work with a free product, or when ads are part of any product wherein the social contract is to that expectation.

Facebook has ads, just like CNN and Cosmopolitan, that's normal, ethical, and within the expectations for user's experience. Again, shady things notwithstanding.

In 2018, people can pay or see ads, or a combination of both, there is no pragmatic way around this, and too many decent products depend upon ads for their existence, that's where we are until someone comes up with something better.
I interviewed for a job almost 20 years ago that where I would have been tweaking banner ads to get through. I turned it down.
Irish Britain is booming–and shrinking
I would recommend the book The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto

It covers how to write logically so that a document flows as you have described it.