skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked that up in my copy of "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" by Simon Marlow, and indeed you're right -- the runPar function shouldn't let you return an IVar, but it does. This is planned to be "fixed in a future release", but the current online documents say about the same thing.

Presumably, this could be fixed easily by using the phantom type trick (same as ST) but it would make the type signatures ugly and possibly break existing code. (Maybe there's a more modern alternative to phantom types?) So, yeah, you might not want to use the Par monad as it's currently implemented in ghc as your secure parallel sandbox.

The online docs suggest using lvish if you want a safer Par monad interface, which I'm not familiar with (though the lvish docs say that it's not referentially transparent if you cheat and use Eq or Ord instances that lie).

The general idea seems sound, though -- it should be possible to have parallelism in a sandbox environment without allowing the sandboxed program to conditionally execute code based on which of several threads finished some task first.
The Tinder Swindler
Performance Benchmarks for the Social Proof Plugin
Your car gets better the more you abuse it? Could be true if you replace broken parts with better ones.
I could reduce my /etc/hosts by 1000 lines, that's about it.
Counting sound business and charity with strong commitments as hobby me time where you rest is ridiculous too. Both are work for any practical planning relax vs strength purpose.

They are not hobby time nor me time by any reasonable definition. Charity can be me time, if you can stop when you feel like it is not refreshing you anymore.

The talk about choice in the past is weasel expression. It makes it easy to sound as if people had choice right now, today, when they clearly are not having that choice (at least if you want to stay at least a bit ethical which I admit is a choice too).

It is more about what some people want to believe about world then about what world is.
Deterrence is just one way to reduce crime, it doesn't have to be the only factor and like you say, it's just a reduction not a complete fix.
Ask HN: Examples of well-designed highly-configurable user account UIs?
I am currently creating a notification aggregation service where users have a bunch of configuration options which determine which notifications they will receive. I am struggling to keep the UI clean and intuitive as I have to cram so much in.

Does anyone know any examples of highly-configurable user accounts in some website where the UI is still simple and intuitive? Free or paid, I can sub for a month to check them out. Thanks.
I always enjoy reading about Backblaze updates. New Pod designs, drive statistics, operations, etc... One thing I am particularly excited about is the future Pod designs with 2.5 inch drives. There may be enough miniaturization with magnetic drives to make this feasible, but I expect that the real transition will come with a Pod full of SSD. Any idea when that might happen? What is the expectation for that timeline? Do you have additional products or price/performance improvements planned in that transition? The SSD endurance experiment from 4 years ago indicates that, reliability wise, they are more than ready. I guess the only limitation now is price and maybe processing?

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
Yes, let's ask individuals to constrain SA's influence by not using Uber, when the US and many European governments continue to support them.

One must be stuck in the 50s to think that individual buyers have any power over corporations.
engine development is one of the more interesting aspects of game dev to me and many other programmers, having so much focus on clunky monolithic closed source platforms like unity is lame. just providing a counterpoint to the unity hype, one rando comment is not gonna turn the tide on its popularity lol.
When discussing scattering of particles, "elastic" usually refers to electrostatic slingshots where almost the entire kinetic energy of the particle is conserved. Inelastic, however, refers to a direct collision where there is a significant energy loss of the particle. Obviously the former doesn't happen with neutrons, but I believe it's still a typical convention in particle physics.
> weight loss is a poor metric for the healthiness of a diet

Most people are near-totally uninterested in their actuarial life expectancy. As a result, close to 100% of people on a diet are looking for weight loss.

Whether you should consider it a "health" objective is a more interesting question. From a Darwinian perspective, attracting a mate is much more important than whether you live to be 67 or 72.
> In his influential 2011 book The Lean Startup, Eric Ries advises companies entering a new market to develop a "minimum viable product"—the simplest product good enough to attract paying customers. This strategy allows a company to begin selling real products to real customers—and get real market feedback—as quickly as possible.

I think the problem is that they're only interested in selling fully autonomous self-driving vehicles. There's very little market advantage in selling a "mostly" self-driving car, and Waymo doesn't want to be in generic car sales for years until they're ready. So they have to hold out for the 0 to 100 switch flip.

And they don't get to make mistakes and iterate on core functionality, so they have to wait. People's lives and schedules will be at the mercy of these vehicles, in a wide variety of operating contexts. They have to get it 100% right. If they kill people the brand itself is potentially dead.

So the picture is they need to go 0 to 100 with near 100% accuracy. Anything less is at best brand dilution or at worst corporate suicide.

Tesla's approach matches the MVP idea more closely since they can add small features incrementally. Presumably their eventual goal is to be able to say "with this update your car is now fully autonomous". But they're in the business of selling cars to begin with, so every release short of full autonomy is A-OK. Autonomy is a feature, not the product.
One reason the Forbes list is so dominated by self-made entrepreneurs is that it's relatively easy to verify their wealth based on public records. Jeff Bezos' net worth is, to a first approximation, the same as his stake in Amazon, which is regularly reported in SEC filings. The wealth of the Rockefellers/Morgans/Vanderbilts is less concentrated in any single company, so if they don't voluntarily disclose their finances to Forbes, they stay off the list, regardless of what their net worth is.
This is their long game. To me all the push Google did with https, and certificate pinning etc makes much more sense. I was wondering why they were pushing it so hard.

I mean after they essentially blocked ways to use proxy to filter the content, next logical step is to restrict API.
Lots of harsh comments here, some seem a little short-sighted. I wonder how many are actually from Tenure Track Lecturers? Every field is very different. Some fields value industry experience highly, some care only for publications. Some value teaching experience more than others.

My experience of getting a tenure-track position is that you’ve got to be the right person in the right place at the right time. My academic record is patchier than the OP’s, but it is offset my several years at fairly senior level in industry, which my university values happens to value. And I entered the picture just at the right moment.
> They started running after the touch segment and deliberately removed the keyboard interface. They didn't get the app-buyers and the keyboard people (like me) probably left them.

I get that for ordinary users it's a dealbreaker, but I never understood this complaint about the Windows 8 touch UI from power users or developers. It takes maybe 5 minutes to download and install Classic Shell and suddenly you have a classic UI that lets you forget the new Windows 8 UI ever existed. Otherwise the OS itself was quite better than Windows 7. How that UI change makes it such a dealbreaker just makes no sense to me. If you'd complained about your Linux kernel they'd have just said boo-hoo and told you to go compile your kernel to your liking... but now when it's Windows's turn suddenly the start screen is a showstopper for the whole OS you were such a fan of?
To me the fully automatic espresso machine IS already the barista.
I can think of no place where such a protection is less nessecary.
London is one of the last cities I would complain about taxis in—and one city where I don’t use Uber. (Not that I use a lot of cabs because the transit system is good.)
The City by the Bay has embraced a new religion: drug normalization
Freenode hosts only free software-related channels as far as I know. There are still some small servers out there, but they are getting rarer. One I used to frequent just recently shut down because it was hit by massive amounts of disgusting spam.

https://freenode.net/news/spam-shake
> I think their theory is you don't need as much Vitamin C when you don't eat carbohydrates.

If that's the theory, it's definitely wrong. Vitamin C serves basic structural purposes like binding your cells to your other cells.
Small businesses can’t escape misery on SF’s streets
uBlock Origin blocks youtube ads, I haven't seen any for years.

However that doesn't solve the problem of the web player sucking. To solve that, your best option is mpv/youtube-dl.
Well, if we're talking about intention, they were originally a browser feature allowing to scroll to a specific <a target=..>. They were invented before JS if I'm not mistaken, so the assumption was that the browser was handling it.
> Driving 180mph in a residential area

This is because it has a large chance of hurting people around you. not because it would hurt the individual.

> If you get caught, you are still in serious trouble.

No, actually. You will not get in legal trouble for accepting an unpaid internship.

My point being that your opinion is extremely patronizing, and that maybe you should let people decide for themselves what jobs that do or do not want to accept.

This is an especially important concept to understand, when the people that you are trying to "protect" tell you that they do not want your "protection", which involves trying to prevent them from accepting jobs that they want.
So you are saying the current system is better, because rich students have better chances as they can afford more applications?

The current college system in the US is entirely flawed. College education should be free and slots given based on merit and not money. What you pointed out is that this bad system already starts at the cost for an application.

University education in Germany is basically free (~300€ per year) and application costs are printing 2-3 pages and sending them in or bringing them personally. And that's only for the final step, everything else is already online.
> If a user doesn't have an obvious way to know it's the fault of an extension then Chrome gets the blame.

If the network or DNS or system is slow then Chrome gets the blame.

Perhaps they shouldn’t install anything if they’re incompetent to use it.
I'm going to say no because your "freedom" will hurt other people.
They are mostly the same as those ones who help fight against patent trolls. They earn money from both sides.
But why would you want to do the credit card company's work for them? That regulation is in place purely because of political bribery by the credit card industry.

The consumer-friendly thing to do is to charge proper rates for things with higher processing fees, like credit cards, and not subsidize them by punishing everyone else.
Ask HN: Storage DB for backlinks?
Hey everyone,

Looking for suggestion and recommendations, what would be your ideal choice if you are about to build a backlinks database and running later on PageRank algorithm on it. Our use case is to improve the search relevancy depending on the URL rank.

Considered Storage DBs:

1. Clickhouse
2. ElasticSearch (team is experienced with it, but finding a duplicate URLs etc. over a huge dataset is still clumsy in ElasticSearch) So thought of going with the Clickhouse.

Thanks.
Whether choice or not, if the debt exists now and you are broke, well you really can't XYZ due to being broke. In terms of evaluating situation as is now, the facts of situation matter and not whether you are guilty or not.

Also "accountability" here serves only to allow rest of us to use feel good euphemisms, pretend that situations is more fine then it is and make it so people in those situations don't talk openly about issues they are encountering. If people can't "XYZ due to debt they are accountable for", then they can't XYZ. Them having some guilt there does not render statement untrue.
> It takes maybe 5 minutes to download and install Classic Shell and suddenly you have a classic UI

1. Where would a user even learn about a "Classic Shell"?

2. Why would a power user install a third-party thing that radically changes the way the system looks? And one whose development stopped in 2017?

3. And, in general, why? It's the OS' job to provide interfaces for power users.
Come on, look outside your own country. A lot of European countries banned unpaid internships (that are longer than a few weeks). And people find plenty of 3 to 6-month internships.
While you are right, it's not a choice between pure life extension on one side and pure weight loss for attractiveness... Because the "healthiness" of a diet, in my opinion, includes its sustainability (do you regain the weight immediately after stopping?), reliability (can you use the diet to reduce your weight in a controlled way?), compatibility with exercise (which can also work to make you more attractive and therefore more successful in the Darwinian sexual selection sense). Another reason that "scale weight" is a poor indicator of the healthiness of a diet is that depending on the diet you may be losing mass via fat loss, muscle loss, water loss, etc. What's more important is body fat percentage reduction if we are talking about both traditional Western attractiveness and (usually) physical health overall. There are diets and lifestyles that make you more attractive and also increase your life expectancy.
> the main thing that decentralization is all about - making rule/law enforcement on others practically impossible

Citation needed.

As far as I am aware, the main aim for dweb stuff is decentralisation, i.e. removing single points of failure, providing a more democratised means for people to store and distribute materials, and lofty-but-perhaps-unrealistic-ideas (if this article is accurate) about community networks separate from the "main internet".

Nowhere on DATs or IPFSs sites for example have I seen anything at all about evading the law? Please can you share your sources for this as it is news to me.
But that was before global warming. If we don’t stop eating meat the world will come to an end in 12 years.
Munich Security Report 2019
I remember writing this for my GCSE computer project in C. It didn't take me a weekend though back then. This is a Wolf3D style game.
It would be interesting to illustrate the Doom engine that followed with the diagonal walls and lighting effect.

I looked at this after doing GCSe project, finding it to hard and skipping to a real 3D engine like quake because it was conceptually easier.
Haha, the whole article is focused on Ghostery against Them.
curious what kind of infrastructure have you built for deployment, serving and managing models?
Swift versus C++ g++ fastest programs
You seem to be confused who is being protected here. It's the people who do not and, most importantly, cannot accept the unpaid internship, because they cannot afford it. They are to be protected, not the affluent person that is totally cool with taking that internship slot because they have a steady source of income anyway.

In the car analogy above, they are the ones that have a large chance to get hurt by your driving.
Yes. From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.
Scott's inference about the million scoundrels/witches at Voat was a bit off, here's an alternate observation of the same place:

> "You know what we found out during the temporary Voat exodus of r/Gundeals? As famously "toxic" as it is claimed the denizens of Voat are, they were completely drowned out once we hit ~1000 active users."

Building a new community only from rejects of a moderated one is probably still a dumb idea, and it's a great slatestarcodex article, but the popular notion that unmoderated communities will be necessarily overrun with undesirables is wrong - they're so few in number that "even" Voat could be saved.
If that works for you, that's great. But it's a pretty crude tool. Kind of like wood carving with a chainsaw; some people swear by it and it's undeniably efficient, but other tools give you more delicate control. I wouldn't go without ublock origin's cosmetic filters which I use to block many things that aren't ads (such as those annoying floating bars at the top and bottom of the screen a lot of websites use just to annoy users (sorry, "improve conversion") and waste vertical screen space.) uMatrix (and to a lesser degree, advanced mode in ublock origin) also lets you differentiate between blocking on first party or 3rd party. For instance I block youtube on every website except youtube.com
I don’t see how this conclusion is supported, much less cited, by the NYT article.
BP: Plastic ban “could have unintended consequences”
Everyone except owners of taxi medallions and maybe Uber investors and taxi drivers won. Black people who could actually now get a taxi won. People who wanted to reserve a car and have it show up on time won. People who wanted service in places taxi drivers didn’t want to go won.

Taxi regulation was so comprehensively captured and rider hostile, and this was true for so long, that there was never any reason to believe it would improve. If all Uber achieved was coming close to burning that entire industry structure to the ground Uber is a massive boon to everyone who wants a ride and doesn’t want to deal with lying, cheating, lying, racist taxi service.
Recently, he added chicken to the menu.
Arco is not an all-cash business though - they accept debit cards.
If you have the power to just throw out costs as a concern, then we’ve had a solution for much longer. Geothermal.

>And we already have a lot of national scale grids, how hard is to join the existing ones together?

Very. We haven’t even managed to get the US on a national grid. To connect continents is just fantasy at this point. Do you realize the undertaking it would be to get 700kv line to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, etc?
Nope because you are a follower of an organised prescriptive proselytizing religion. You can not help another human being if the answer for that human beings spiritual search is Islam, Buddhism or a pantheistic nature religion.

You are not unselfish, you are acting in the way that your religion tells you,to try to "save" people and up the numbers in the group with the "right way".

I try to empathize with and if you can love Jesus and that keeps you a good person, great for you. But please stop trying to push your solution onto other people looking for answers. Listen to them instead. Learn about other ways to look at life beside your own Christian way. Please.
All extensions with access to the DOM can steal passwords. That's the argument used for restricting sideloading, etc.

(Can they steal Basic-auth passwords, though?)
And what I am saying is that I know multiple people, who were definitely not affluent, who fought hard to be able to break into the industry, and would be extremely insulted and upset that there are people out there who would have tried to tear these opportunities away from them, and probably permanently prevent them from breaking into the industry.

Just be careful who's opportunities and jobs you try to take away from people. That might have been their only shot.
1. Google old start menu. It's literally the top result.

2/3. Sigh. I didn't realize setting up Classic Shell was so much harder than setting up a Linux box for a power user, I'm sorry. Power users definitely should be the ones to expect their OSes to be perfect for them out of the box, and it's definitely nuts to expect they'd be the ones to customize their systems.
Tell me how autoplay audio is doing with it's rollout, rollback, and butchered secondary rollout.

You can claim to have high standards, but Google is trying to dictate the future of the web.
What's not to be afraid of not to be?

Whole generations of men have spend all living years and resources on bizarr death cults which used the in your face fear reaction to inspire irrational believes. Denial is better than a rational approach in my opinion.
> How do you check that this key has signed this message, using the gpg command-line tools?

gpg2 --import pubkey.gpg
gpg2 --verify-files a-message.asc
Being a cash-only business also means they can pay their employees in cash - often because their employees aren't authorized to work in the country.
You didn’t disagree, you just affirmed it. The debt markets treat it as high risk precisely because so many parties can easily stop it.

Nobody refuses to invest in nuclear because of the negligible meltdown risk.
Threads and Processes in Android – AndroidWave
check out one called NoRedirect on both chrome and firefox.
Herbal teas, like anything with hibiscus as the base can be a very potent source of Vitamin C as well.
One needs to include in their calculation of winning and losing whether their private data means anything to them.

Uber, for example, sucks from your phone access to your camera, all of your contacts, your location at all times, your microphone at all times, and the ability to dial or text from the phone itself.

At the same time, all of the people in your contacts have their privacy productized as well, involuntarily and silently.

The ride isn't the product. The riders are.
We use TesnorFlow serving (https://www.tensorflow.org/serving) for serving the trained models. We also run Flask to transform the incoming JSON to match the way the data has been transformed at training time.
This.

There's been a huge turnover this year, with people quitting the committee out of protest for an absolute lack of oversight into how Google will be using the "smart data" and piss-poor management by the city.

From what I can gather, some politicians want to add a "success" to their career with zero care about the long term consequences. I'd like to see every politician involved in this put their entire net worth into the project so that they have to care about the long-term success. People simply don't care about other people's money.

I'd have loved to see Kathleen Wynne go bankrupt over the hydro projects.