skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an old Irish saying that goes "A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man." If you have a drinking problem, you just need to avoid drinking period.

I have some close friends that have drinking problems and what I learned from their experiences:

1. If you're an alcoholic and think you can handle a single drink, you're lying to yourself.
2. It's honestly not worth it. Life is better than being stuck in a multi day binger. The physically effects are taxing on the body.
3. You'll always have those urges and that feeling of wanting to drink isn't as bad as the act of actually drinking and the damage the follows.

If you have those urges, attend AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and refresh yourself on why you don't drink. I remember going out to dinner with a friend and the waiter knew my buddy. During the conversation he asked would I like something to drink. When I said no, he asked if I was a "friend of Bob". At first I had no clue what that meant and asked who was Bob. Later I found out he was referring to the founder of AA.

I personally don't drink around those that battle with drinking. I understand the struggle.

Stay sober. Reading about Tristan and it reminds me of all those people I lost as a child. I watched so many friends OD to heroin and other drugs.
Erlang does have a shared binary type, but the other types are simply copied. This is likely not space efficient, and it likely uses a lot more memory bandwidth. However, this allows for the garbage collection to be extremely simple. It may be pretty useful for NUMA systems as well; although, I'm not sure how well the VM manages that, it may be more potential than actual.

Other actor systems may vary.
You’d be surprised how much a person can routinely drink and still function. I grew up and now work in a high alcohol abuse area, and some of the folks that were abusing surprised me. Sadly, I’m sure when their body said enough it came as a surprise to them too.

Keep safe folks
From Wikipedia:

> F# is a member of the ML language family and originated as a .NET Framework implementation of a core of the programming language OCaml

So F# is based on OCaml and is very similar.
I’d like to see the industry regulated and that it’s practioners are required to obtain certification, or at least optionally so.

This would not resolve all issues, but you could at least have the option to see a practioner who has done a senior first aid course and knows how to identify STDs.

More widely, I believe sex work should be absorbed in to the healing modalities and professions.

We drastically need to take a different approach to sexual wellbeing, because whatever we have been doing has lead to a sexually violent culture.

I believe the dishonoured / unregulated / unintegrated / unlawful practice of sex work is both a cause and a symptom of our culture’s worst aspects.
Those usually end up being companies that aren't great to work for because of how dysfunctional most of them are. Fancy work environments don't make me happy, but clueless management sure makes me unhappy.
Does anybody think ReasonML will become more popular than plain OCaml outside of front end web development?
I'm not sure why you think the only option here is that the doctor was in on it. He could have treated a man with fake papers identifying him as Mr. Cotten. By asking the doctor to compare with known-valid photos you can eliminate the possibility that the doctor was unintentionally mistaken about the identity of the man he treated.
Sex work was sufficiently centralized in medieval red light districts that a number of places in the UK have a street named "gropecunt lane". Which is exactly what it sounds like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
I'm surprised how few free/open market advocates have come rushing to Huawei's defense. It seems everyone's caught the protectionism bug these days.

Fact of the matter is they're being singled out not because of the their Iran dealings (Numerous US corporations have done this in the past and paid only modest fines), but at the behest of corporate lobbying efforts on the part of Huawei's competitors whose high margin business models are under assault.
Japanese team plans to grow human pancreases in pigs
You need to look at the figures. The differences that support your argument are minor and within the margin for error. You could similarly concluded that women are just smarter across the board.
I'm surprised that it was not a scientific knowledge before this research. Cats are not like dogs, who are ready to sell their mothers for a bite of sausage.
Just because of FB support, or are there other reasons?
Obligatory Dilbert

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
Some people append `_exn` to names of functions which can raise exceptions; that's about it.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/huawei-threat-to-the-us...

But Huawei is incredibly opaque – at least by Western standards. Ren’s still there (now about 70 years old) and still has veto power, but rarely makes public statements. He attributes Huawei’s success to collective leadership. That leadership? Huawei won’t say.

National champions aren’t state-owned businesses, but they typically get market protection, financial support — sometimes as direct funding, but more often tax breaks, subsidies, low-interest loans, and government contracts — and even diplomatic help. That means the Chinese government could have a significant influence on Huawei, since so many purse-strings lead back to Beijing. And the company has a reputation for playing fast-and-loose with intellectual property: in 2003 Cisco accused Huawei of copying its source code and documentation – all the way down to typos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei#Communist_Party_a...
I imagine a lot of it is that floors are likely much flatter these days.
Jira doesn't use hibernate.
But I don't want to learn 50 different tools that are all best-in-class. My use case is social media analysis of specific communities with fairly limited resources, so every hour that I spend on tooling is time not spent observing my subjects.

You're not wrong about the value of all the different tools you mention, but I think overlooking the integration and maintenance costs that a specialty tool can reduce, at the expense of some flexibility. I think that's the same reason many people prefer an IDE.
Not really, but the documentation will usually tell you. Also, at least in Jane Street’a libraries, exceptionful functions always end in _exn. So for example there is List.find and List.find_exn
https://v1.realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/the-compiler-backen...
Reading this on mobile, and there is a huge ad for Belvedere Vodka. Just like the "Fuck Cancer" movement, it's time we had a "Fuck Alcohol" movement. I'm hoping with cannabis gaining more and more support throughout the US that we see a drop-off in alcohol consumption. It may take a generation or two, but I think it's time to drop this poison as a society.

R.I.P. and so sorry to hear that his young daughter will not get to know her father.
Revery looks really good, but it isn't ready yet.

It has a very similar approach to a React/RN project.

I'd eventually switch over to Revery when/if it's production ready.
As a separate comment, which might be controversial, I would like to call bullshit on the entire claim of the Berkeley study in particular (and not about Simpson's Paradox in general). In the "Berkeley data" (if that's what it is), it's clear again that men applied to most departments in larger numbers than women. The Berkeley data claims that because more women were admitted on a per-department basis, more departments were biased against men.

Now, picture this. Alice and Bob share a pizza. Alice takes 7 pieces and Bob takes 3 (he's on an intermittent fasting diet so he only eats every other slice). Alice eats 4 of her slices, Bob eats 3 of his. At the end, Alice turns to Bob and says "boy, you're such a glutton! You scoffed down all of your slices, but I still have 3 left".

Is that a fair comparison? Well, no. Alice starts out with almost double the slices than Bob. Bob eats less than Alice, but he's accused of stuffing his face because he eats a larger proportion of his smaller share.

Same with the Berkeley data. If that is the Berkeley data.
I'm sorry, I don't understand your comment. What difference is minor? What is the margin for error? And how would I conclude what you say?
Say you just define your total hash to be the sum of hashes for some constituent data. You change a constituent datum, so you subtract the old hash, add the new hash.

What will you get when you decrypt the total hash? Probably some gibberish data.

If your hashing had the homomorphic property, then when you do the add/subtract song and dance with some datum’s new hash, the resulting total hash has the property that it decrypts to be the sum of the (updated) data.

A practical example might be keeping track of the average salary of a group of people without ever learning the salary of any one of them. As they get raises, you learn only about their new encrypted salaries, but you can update the encryption of the average salary directly, knowing that it will decrypt to the correctly updated new average inclusive of raises you never explicitly saw.

(Here I am using the term “hash” loosely to refer to the cipher text of whatever data item is encrypted.)
I'm not sure which is more dangerous with regard to Huawei - their utter disrespect for intellectual property, or their subservience to a totalitarian government that is in continual digital warfare with the United States. Platitudes directed at the US are exactly that, and should be ignored.
I imagine java is what a company would choose if they have a massive budget, but is unwilling to hire cowboy coders.

Java makes maintaining a feature easy, and the programmers hired can be average and still be able to make something of acceptable quality, in an acceptable timeframe.

A startup rather wants to move fast. Java is harder to move fast at - but Go probably has that in spades. I do believe Go will not succeed in a large, beaurocratic place. And as a start up grow out to become more and more beaurocratic, the tech transitions with it.
Happiness, for all I know is basically the ability to ignore sad and inconvenient truths about the world around you. The smarter you are, the harder it is to maintain this delusion.
RIP.

We need to support each other in times of need. Any addiction has as much a social component as psychological. Startups are hard and it has different effect on different people. Talk to your friends. Seek help, professional or personal.
Because the Chinese is not a free market, at least far less, by huge margins, than the US or any other Western nation one.

Huawei has been free to operate, and even bid in large contracts. Name one Western company allowed the same degree of freedom in China.

If Huawei wants to get equal treatment, its CEO should ask the Chinese government to truly open their economy, and allow outside companies to truly compete.
My understanding is that it's a complete rewrite, perhaps more than once at this point.
Unless you are God. You will never be able to even properly know what to factor in. Actually doing the experiment and analysis is exponentially harder. It's like saying well who cares about p=np, if you want to decrypt Aes without the key just make a super fast computer.
> Why aren't they being prohibited from using other Chinese consumer electronics, like Lenovo, Xiaomi, etc?

I suppose it depends which "approved devices" list you're using. If I look at the US Department of Defense's approved products list I see Korean brands like LG and Samsung but I don't see Lenovo or Xiaomi:

https://aplits.disa.mil/processAPList.action
Interesting you say that. When I grew up I was always told that four legged furniture was more stable than three legged ones. Three legged stools/tables were common (but not chairs I think) when I grew up and I was always cautioned against toppling.
It could be because three legged furniture created a virtual triangle shape (Even if the top of the furniture itself was not a triangle, circular ones were very common) and when one puts weight on the side of the base of the triangle, like siting on the edge, the furniture is more likely to topple than a similar action on a four legged stool.
It often feel like a statically typed lisp with much less in the way of macros.
China’s expanding war on Islam: Now they’re coming for the Kazakhs
> If only we could figure out how to detect solid objects, but alas, such a difficult problem.

Can’t we just put signs on everything?

By placing an industry-standardised logo on the corners of vehicles, and giving them away free as stickers / screw on signs, we could identify the anything that ought be considered solid and necessary to avoid regardless of its velocity.

In my opinion we aren’t going to see Level 4+ autonomous vehicles until we start including their requirements in our built environs design.
> PhD's who are no longer in academia.

And what about those that never were in academia? Mathematics has a long history of participants that were never formally educated (ironically Ram is even mentioned in the username section). Plus, being such a niche topic (especially one that a lot of people were taught to fear), I doubt that there'd be much abuse. Evidence of this belief is that Wikipedia has great math pages. Ones that many times are better than Wolfram's MathWorld, which can be too concise.
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What an incredibly dangerous suggestion that people seek out a prescription for this kind of drug online at mdproactive or anywhere else.

You also did not mention that a number of studies have shown this drug to be only modestly effective at treating alcohol abuse, and that there are better treatments. It can also cause liver damage. It's not a magic pill.
There will always be a marketplace for people who understand the math. There will always be a marketplace for people who know how to apply data analytics to specific domains. It will be harder for people to get a $100k/year job if all they know is sci-kit-learn and python.
Is there a relationship between 3 vs 4 legs and total weight bearing capacity? Maybe the tradeoff was stability for weight of furniture? I’m also not sure that three legs is more stable, wouldn’t it be more prone to tipping over, unless the three legs are splayed very far apart from the seat base? Remember the issue with furniture is a desire to keep it from tipping over, not stability in 3-space. You’d get no,wobble on three legs, but if you leaned or swiveled too much you’d find out that stability was an illusion, because you’d failed to take the vertical component into account.

A four-legged chair for example, regardless of how you lean (within reason) and distribute weight will maintain 3-point contact with the floor.
From the abstract: "Adult cats from two populations (pet and shelter) were presented with three stimuli within each of the following four categories: human social interaction, food, toy, and scent." Cat on cat social interaction wasn't in the variables. So, the cats in the study highly desired social interaction, not necessarily from humans. If they had included falling anvils, I would bet on the cats eschewing that variable.
Not all of it, notably the algebraic extensions which are quite difficult to grasp.
Stability is a big issue for chairs especially. Rolling office chairs are afaict all 5 legged these days, unless you happen to find an old one. OSHA mandate.
A systemd conceptually is quite a good idea. However systemd is not that systemd. Much rather go with rc.conf + script approach, disable all systemd services, lock selinux against systemd socket activations and run a purpose controlled environment. Avoiding systemd does force one to not use Linux as a desktop..oh well.
I get high from cannabis about once a week, so I’m not a tee-totaler. But weed is no substitute for alcohol if you’re concerned about addiction. The main reason that I used to drink to excess was to drown my anxiety / depression. I had a wake up call a few years ago and now only drink or get high on weekends... but what I’ve learned since then is it’s much better to treat your mental health problems with mindfulness and meditation (or even a therapist).
Android's java ius not a real java implementation.

Use kotlin instead!
Definitely true. It really affects what the ideal product is.

If Truffle operates like KeeperTax (https://keepertax.com/), you can set the ground truth to the CC statements; the user only needs to augment this CC statements with occasional meta-data (what was the business reason for the meal?), etc. -- fundamentally the user can work completely in the tax app.

If you need to submit expenses, working with your statements is a much worse model, because of the need for the user to associate receipts. Receipts are the model the employee should work with; statements are for validation.
Cat on cat interaction, when the cats aren’t already familiar with one another, is often hostile.
I’ve never been a heavy drinker, but at one point 2 years ago I handled a project by myself to move 6 million dollars a month in charity transactions from one uncooperative payment processor to another.

I normally handled stress well, but this was a different level and it was physically taxing on me. I had a glass of wine one night about 3 weeks into this and immediately felt so much better that I ended up having 3-4 / night for 3 months just to cope with the stress.

As soon as the project ended (successfully I might add), I stopped...but I’ll never forget how much I felt like I needed the alcohol during that time. I’ve never experienced that in my life but it gave me a new appreciation for what it must be like to really struggle with the addiction. If I felt like that every day I don’t know what I’d do.

Sincerest condolences to his family.
Maybe those physicians, who are licensed to practice medicine in the United States, know better than you do.

You are contending, without evidence, that these physicians are dangerous. That is a serious claim.

If you are concerned that these physicians are endangering the public, you should take it up with their respective state medical boards straightaway.
Learning the time tested tools almost always involves spending less time setting up / reading tutorials / etc. The time sink of betting the farm on latest and greatest data science frameworks is often gigantic and gets worse over time.
I think because of community interest and the need for a good general-purpose, efficient language. Here are some interesting community-developed projects:

- A cross-platform native-compiling GUI library with a React-influenced design: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

- A lightning-fast Node version manager: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

- Erlang-like multicore actors: https://github.com/ostera/reactor

That said, it's early days and the ecosystem has to (and will) mature a lot.
F# uses a lot of OCaml syntax and is quite similar in many regards. Where they differ is F# is written on top of .NET, so users probably drop into the OO paradigm more often than they might in OCaml.
I don't think we should buy anything important from China because of their abysmal human rights abuses, surveillance state machinations, hacking and IP theft, down to the way they treat their neighbors (Taiwan, building BS "islands" to claim fishing territory, etc."

I think we should isolate and contain them as much as possible, free market BS be damned, we should grow a spine and do without them by working as closely with the neighbors they've stepped on for years and who are much more open to ideals we agree with. We should actively work against them and I'm glad we're finally doing something.

As much as I hate Trump, the one thing he's done I agree with is putting the screws to China. It's actually a popular stance with both parties, and it looks like it will continue after he's likely impeached. Good.
> Maybe those physicians, who are licensed to practice medicine in the United States, know better than you do.

There is nowhere near a consensus among professional physicians that this drug is as good as you claim it to be. Meanwhile I can find plenty of physicians like Dr. Oz who are snake oil salesmen, so I reject your fallacious appeal to authority.

EDIT: I see that you have now edited your comment to say "(An appeal to authority is the purpose of medical licensing.)". You should not edit your comments in an attempt to make people who responded to you look bad, or look like they missed something that was actually not there.

Now you keep adding even more! If you want to respond, then respond. I quoted the entire text of your original comment at the top of mine.
Is azure really bigger? Because if you ask azure, they claim to be bigger than AWS as well. They are obviously lumping office 360 and all of their cloud software.
As much as I admire YC, I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of what they can do here. Let me explain.

I mentored/advised literally hundreds of startups over the last 10 years, in most cases just out of pure altruism (in a few numbered cases these were startups where I had invested, so the help was not altruistic). You hear "hundreds" and might think it's exaggerated - reason why I interacted with so many startups and they seeked advice was because of the brand I represented (AWS), and the fact that everybody wanted technical help to start with. Let me add: perhaps also because I really love teaching and helping, and it probably showed.

I've seen many other mentors/advisors during these interactions, and most of the time the truly helpful ones were the ones with real experience and a real desire to help; their ability to help came mostly from their experience (sometimes successful; but surely painful and full of great life and professional lessons).

They say you can't teach experience, and in this particular case I see this as the biggest problem that not even YC might be able to solve or mitigate.

If you think that an initiative like this can "do no harm", I think you're mistaken: when too many want to advise/help, but don't realize they lack the true experience to know what they're talking about, the risk is that they'll simply damage these startups.

To be clear: I am in favor of what YC is doing here; I am simply sharing my views on what the biggest hurdle can be.
You're stating that they're being singled out for just doing business and that businesses are just afraid of losing money. You seem to be ignoring the trade secret theft, IP theft, multiple intelligence agencies investigating them and stating that their hardware shouldn't be used, practically being an arm of the Chinese military intelligence, and probably more I'm forgetting. Seems like a very disingenuous argument to be making...
Here's a mail from Don Syme, F# creator, to the OCaml mailing list telling them how much influence they had on him and the entire .NET platform: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/11/d921c...
Do you have any examples of projects where it's used in a "less managed" context? Are you just talking about avoiding GC, or something more advanced?

Even when you write in a low level style using the .Net/Mono VM, you're still fully protected by the guarantees of the language and runtime. You can't chase bad pointers around through memory or overflow the stack. It's impossible to access an array without a bounds check unless the JIT can prove it's not needed. The safety this provides is night and day to what it's like coding close to the metal (I develop games in C# and have written a fair amount of C/asm).

But as you say, we can agree to disagree about that...