skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without a double blind study it's not possible to filter out the placebo effect here.
“Positive thinking” has turned happiness into a duty and a burden
Haskell (or, rather GHC) does do clever stuff, and gets idiomatic code competitive performance with other languages [0]. The problem is that a lot of what GHC does require going full on functional in order to be practical. For instance, GHC can easily produce garbage of 1GB/s [1], which it can handle far easier than most languages because everything is immutable.

GHC also does not have a stack [2]. You can get something resembling a traditional call stack, but it has a fair amount of overhead.

> map f (map g x) -> map f.g x)

This transformation only works with pure functions.

I am currently using Scala, and it is (IMO) a very weird mix between FP and OOP. I is (IMO) much closer to Java style OOP than it is to Haskell style FP (not suprising considering its relationship with Java). It seems to inherit a lot of restrictions from Java that limit its ability to do the type of optimizations that are necessary for performant FP.

If you actually look at the JVM call stack of a scala program, you will find an insane amount of indirection. More than even a naive implementation of FP in C (undoubtadly because of how it interacts with its object system and the JVM)

[0] Although reasoning about performance is still pretty hard.

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management

[2] Actually, it does have a stack, but the stack is no where near what you would expect.
Give us some details about your setup. Are you running JH on the cloud somewhere? Or is this running on a single box at VT? We’ve got JH running on a Kube cluster with persistent storage on the NSF Jetstream cloud [1] (which you could qualify for free resources being from VT) . This set up should theoretically address the scalability concerns you are having. See the work Andrea Zonca and I have been doing [2, 3, 4, 5]. Contact me for additional details.

[1] https://jetstream-cloud.org/

[2] https://zonca.github.io/2018/09/kubernetes-jetstream-kubespr...

[3] https://zonca.github.io/2018/09/kubernetes-jetstream-kubespr...

[4] https://zonca.github.io/2018/09/kubernetes-jetstream-kubespr...

[5] https://github.com/Unidata/xsede-jetstream/blob/master/vms/j...
# lines codes. no of pomodoros/day.
>There is zero website, news team or otherwise that adheres to your nigh-impossible lofty ideals of 'neutrality'. Every single site is going to have some bias in one direction or another.

I don't care for "some bias in one direction or another", nor I have "nigh-impossible lofty ideals".

I just don't like to be taken for a fool with blatant bias -- which many outlets have, including the Guardian.

>For example, EFF is obviously going to be biased against anything that takes away privacy. The Guardian is going to be more left leaning than The Daily Mail and so forth.

Again those things are not really relevant to what I say. You can be more left or right leaning, or be more pro-privacy than anti-privacy and still tell things like they are (including in your opinion pieces) without demonizing the other side, misrepresenting their arguments, using uncharitable interpretations, using imagery and statistics for cheap tricks, and so on.

In other words, you can still report and opinion on things in good faith, despite having a bias.
Yeah, roger that one. We've been having kids together for some time now.
Yes, but it's just as easy to reject true things that people say because they violate preconceptions. We see at least as much of that as the other on HN. And don't forget that the site guidelines include "Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, we have one (or maybe two?) at our local zoo and the setup is such that I was able to be eye-to-eye with one of them from less than two feet. That thing held my gaze with zero fear whatsoever of me. Unbelievable experience. It's a freakin' war machine. And strikingly beautiful as well.
Are you unaware of China's Belt and Road initiative? Confucious Institutes at U.S. universities?
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The author seems to be unaware of the Fermi Paradox and also the current view of quantum physics as it relates to the possibility of a multidimensional universe. It's quite possible, even likely, that our observations of "material reality" are neither material nor reality. To posit that aliens must exist because animals live in harsh conditions on Earth is scientifically unsupportable.
No, they don't have to make sure every employee enjoys the benefit, they just have to not exclude anyone from it. Unfortunate coincidences like being 1000 miles away from the benefit are unfortunate.
Whenever someone says GMT/PST/EST during the summer, I need to ask them to confirm whether they mean BST/PDT/EDT.

Whatever I assume, I might be off by an hour.
thats definitely true as well... it would be interesting to see what the effects of having, say, only tariffs would do the economy and trade.

im not sure you were making this point or not, but in any case, my personal opinion is that without an income tax for at least the super wealthy we would end up with the problems we had at the end of the 18th century: robber barons and mass civil unrest.

i guess the answer to alot of these issues is very nuanced, but yes, i think tariffs are an interesting angle for sure
How is this downvoted? Autoplaying videos are annoying as fuck: please stop it.
The suggestion was to use the EDNS of the datacenter server, how does that ruin privacy?
There is not "general Chinese apologism" on HN. What there is, is divisiveness on China-related topics that is growing for social, geopolitical, and media reasons completely beyond the scope of this site. Moreover, the population on HN is majority Western (50% US, 30% Europe, 7% Australia/Canada, if I remember correctly), so views here are skewed in rather the opposite direction to what you suggest.

HN users don't have to hold any particular views on these topics but they absolutely have to treat each other respectfully, including by not calling names (such as "Chinese apologism"), and nationalistic flamewar is not permitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cloudflare uses "privacy" and "caring about users" as excuses to sabotage competing CDNs (including whatever CDN is used by archive.is).

Most recursive DNS severs on Internet can be categorized in two groups: local DNS servers, offered by Internet providers to their users, and enormous "generic" DNS like Google's 8.8.8.8. When someone makes a DNS request to those servers, they will in turn forward it to DNS servers of web page you are requesting. Content Delivery Networks use DNS to determine, which server should serve your request: if your DNS request arrived from Africa, CDN's DNS server will return IP in Africa. Of course, _users_ don't send DNS requests to CDN's server — recursive DNS servers do. In the past almost everyone used DNS, offered by their Internet provider, — CDN's had to use GeoIP or even static lists of providers to determine origin of that request. When world-wide DNS servers like Google's 8.8.8.8 started to gain popularity, that approach was broken, so EDNS was developed.

Cloudflare is a CDN. They are selling their CDN services for money. At the same time they are encouraging end users to use free DNS server, that does not support EDNS on purpose (they admit so on their website). In effect they are creating a situation, when competing CDNs are at disadvantage and can't determine, what country user comes from. Cloudflare itself does not suffer from that disadvantage, because they control both 1.1.1.1 and DNS, used by their clients' websites.
There's three main flavors I see:

Synchronous method calling as limited message passing; synchronous method calling as general message passing, and asynchronous message passing.

Java and C++ and most static class-oriented OO languages are in th first group.

Ruby and Smalltalk (and JS, which isn't, barring more recent developments, class oriented OO, bit is still OO) and some other dynamic OO languages are in the second group.

Elixir/Erlang are in the third group.

Message passing is inherently an imperative idiom (whether synchronous or not), even though it may show up in languages that are largely declarative rather than imperative outside of message handling.
I saw faint outlines of tattoos in some of the "disappearing" photos.

Could we use these as templates to recover tattoos in photos from the time-period the article mentions?
Down voting my expression of a known fact along with my personal preference is also straight out of Marx's playbook and constitutes an ad hominem attack.
I don't. Everything goes into a single deck so that my review sessions interleave[1] topics.

But if you have cards that you don't find interesting or useful anymore, maybe it'd be better to just delete them.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-...
That's absurd. The cost of letting support staff feed at the trough is a drop in the bucket compared to the other financial and management issues of contractors/vendors.

Most places without free food still contract out generic support services, as is standard in the modern specialized economy.
Patching security bugs using Shield is utterly stupid.

What would happen if they found a Zero Day - would they use the same method?
His story is full of holes. He claims that he has a master’a degree in physics, but cannot produce a diploma, his master’s thesis of the names of any classmates or professors. Furthermore, he has never demonstrated that level of knowledge of physics and the things that he does say are bizarre at best.

There’s no evidence that The facility that he allegedly worked exists. There isn’t any trace of roads or any infrastructure for it. The location that he gives is right on the edge of the restricted airspace surrounding Area 51, which seems odd for a super secret facility.

There are a bunch of little things. In one interview he mentions seeing an alien through a window in a door. His escort guard tells him not to look. Somehow the government is able to secretly reverse engineer alien technology, but can’t spring for some curtains?

To put it simply, there’s no evidence to support it. He has never been able to produce a sample of any extraterrestrial material nor has he shown that he has any knowledge that is beyond current physics.

Personally, I’m fond of [this idea](http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...). Basically that Bob Lazar schmoozed his way into a job at Area 51 due to a chance meeting with Edward Teller. He brought people to watch a classified test (of experimental, but completely terrestrial technology) and got into deep shit over it.
Great story, thanks for sharing. My wife grew up with a Polish Mountain Sheep Dog. When we decided to get a dog for our family, we wanted a similar breed (livestock guarding dogs tend to be low energy, good with small children, and fearlessly protective; perfect for us, in other words). In the Pacific Northwest, Great Pyrenees are much easier to locate than Polish Mountain Sheep dogs, so that’s what we got. Anyway, around that time I did a deep Wikipedia dive on dog breeds. I found it fascinating that basically every mountainous region of Europe has its own breed of large, white livestock guarding dogs.
Alternative to what?

I guess we are implying different objectives here. To convince someone, appeal to authority might be quick effective. But I don't care about convince you or anyone. I care about reasoning. So I show you how I debug, and I say something about my reasoning behind it, and I also think I understand how someone would not work and think the same way as I do. What results I am seeking? If you find there is flaw in my reasoning, blind spots in my thinking, point/comment back to me, it is an opportunity for me to improve. If you find my reasoning makes sense, but the conclusion does not, feedback to me and I may also improve. If you fully agree with me, I may get a boost in my ego. The last one is in my instinct, but I am not sure I really want that.

I will, however, most likely argue back for the potential feedback. Only through arguing back and forth, I truly can understand the feedback and morph into a form that I can use to improve. I often do improve my reasoning even there is no conclusion for the argument yet. It is easy to gain when background and reasoning are provided. So I always provide them, hopefully who ever participates also gain.
Maybe it's something at the interface between the lower and upper mantle ;)
Since abortion is legal and LSD illegal most everywhere, there must be a lot of people who are for one but against the other.
Ah, you object to Normandy’s design in some manner. That’s being hashed out in today’s Normandy thread, and if you haven’t already read that link you’ll definitely want to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825830

(While of course you’re welcome to continue pursuing your issues with it here, your opinions will receive more views there.)
At least wood fuel is carbon neutral.
Because they'd lose a ton of votes if they did.
A local "authority" is another word for "the state." Why do you think rich people don't want their kids to go to public school? Could it be because they don't want to raise another member of the plebescite?
If you're looking to get into C# 8.0 you're out of luck if using OS X. Visual Studio 2019 for Mac offers .Net Core 3.0 as an option if you have it installed but Mono hasn't caught up with C# 8.0 so isn't available. So much for cross-platform development - it seems OS X is still an afterthought.
...where the fewer lines are written to achieve a well-working solution, the better.
Definitely helps. But not so much when you're hitting it all day... Any resources to help bring consumption under control, i.e. maybe to a few times a week?
Wages also don't rise in the same way for all people.
Once you’re past a basic level you’re at least as well off using Anki cloze deletion cards for this. You take a news article or short story and break it into chunks and the app will show it to you with bits missing and you have to guess/remember what’s in the missing parts.

So this is the source card with four possible deletions.

[Alle glücklichen Familien_c1] [sind einander ähnlich_c2]; [aber jede unglückliche Familie_c3] [ist auf ihre besondere Art unglücklich._c4]

And this is one question generated from that card.

[...] sind einander ähnlich; aber jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre besondere Art unglücklich.

You could do the same with a grammar textbook but if you use authentic texts I find it more enjoyable. If you want known good translations project Gutenberg has many different translations of classic works and aligning parallel corpora is a solved problem in natural language processing. If you want simple sentence structures you could start with children’s books.
It’s interesting to see how so many people here focus on specific line items on their costs. What it comes down to is management focus. It’s a lot easier to switch a CDN than to lay off two engineers as needs change.

I Do wonder why they don’t charge for API at all as even currency APIs charge and that is effectively public knowledge.

Very interesting though as this is some serious scale indeed...
Cree sold their lighting business unit in March. https://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/2019/03/led-business-n...
Spending is spending, when you're trying to see where the money goes.
> your hypothetical "browser extension for people in the middle of the ocean" was doomed from its inception if it was designed to run as a browser extension

Why? You haven't backed up that statement at all. Especially before they killed XUL it was easy to make a non-doomed app that runs as a browser extension, and it's still plenty possible.

No (non-demo) program should brick itself if it can't connect home.
Oh! cool! As someone who's bad with remembering names (but who feels that using names is REALLY important to making people feel welcome) I use spaced repetition to better match names to faces as a Meetup co-organizer.

I basically wrote a CLI tool to auto-generate an Anki deck from a Meetup.com event URL, using the publicized names and profile pictures :)
https://github.com/CivicTechTO/anki-meetup-memorizer

We have a script that runs weekly via CircleCI, before the event, and drops the file into a GDrive folder for me to easily load up on the way to the Meetup:
https://github.com/CivicTechTO/civictechto-scripts/blob/b1cb...
Similarly I'm guessing that if those employees were to visit the office, they'd be given free food too.
I routinely fail to get speedup on PyPy. In fact I frequently get slowdowns. I imagine it's only fast if your code is slower than it needs to be to begin with.
Shame on whoever downvoted you. The full last 5 paragraphs are devoted to bacteriophages, which are what ultimately saved the author's husband. The author is "Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics" at UCSD (https://profiles.ucsd.edu/steffanie.strathdee)

It closes on

"The possibility of living in a post-antibiotic era where simple surgeries or scrapes could lead to an infection that requires limb amputation or results in death means we need to improve AMR surveillance, diagnosis and treatment. This includes antibiotics, but should also include phage therapy. We can’t afford to bury a promising alternative to antibiotics for another hundred years."

She is absolutely pushing phage research. Not exclusive to any alternatives, but that is basically the point of the article.
The CNN page crashed my waterfox browser
Now that is some real bloat
The difference is wealth transfers, which are approximately zero sum, and waste spending (paying people to consume raw materials do create useless things or destroy things), which is negative sum.
The Dangers of Anti-Populism
I use a single deck, which seems to be a commonly accepted best practice for Anki because mixing topics is good for learning.

I do tag my cards. For example, if a card is "In HTML, what header should you use to make a website responsive?", I would tag it with "programming," "webdev," and "html." The organization is there, but I haven't actually found a use case for the tags yet.
I think Lingotopia was supposed to be something like this (though not VR).

https://www.lingoludo.com/lingotopia/
Hmmm, I sleep on average 0-2 hours per day.

I've been like this since the day I was born. I nearly destroyed my family because as a newborn I only slept 1 to 2 hours per day.

I've gone as long 11 days without sleep. At least once per week I go 48 hours without sleeping. I once did a trade show setup it was a huge booth with a ton of computers we worked round the clock for 6 days. Everyone else worked in shifts, I stayed the entire 6 days working, i didn't sleep for 3 more days, and then I only got 3 hours sleep. Then went another 5 days without sleeping.

The people I worked with always assumed that I was taking cat naps, or sleeping and not knowing it, but that during that show setup everyone realized that I actually don't' sleep, because there was someone with me at all times and I just kept working.

I don't get sleepy, I don't get tired, I'm just awake, and my performance isn't diminished.

The only time I sleep is if I'm really sick. I had a bad case of the flu one year and I slept for 4 days straight. I laid down Wednesday late afternoon and woke up Sunday morning. My wife said I never moved, and since I don't sleep she figured that it was probably really important that I stayed asleep.
I knew nothing about Taniyama until I read his Wikipedia article, which says he suffered from depression and committed suicide at age 31; and soon after the woman he was going to marry also committed suicide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka_Taniyama
Mr.2 can help you expose local server to external network. Support both TCP/UDP, of course support HTTP.
My plan was always to dedicate myself full time to the arts once I don't have to worry about putting food on the table.

I don't need nice cars, yachts, mansions or expensive friends. I want to be able to rent in a reasonably pleasant place, and then have the rest of my life to pursue what keeps me interested. Maybe I'll find that terribly dull and will need the rush of putting all the chips in every single day, but probably now. I know people who can't wait to start company #n+1 as soon as they exit, but that's never resonated with me.

Maybe my ambitions are embarrassingly timid, but being able to buy myself full access to my one non-renewable resource seems like a fantastic outcome.
I suspect that most people know that - it's just that the cassowary looks a lot more like our notion of a dinosaur than other birds.
Agreed. Cool URIs don't change. [1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
To heck with that. Ever use a gdb watchpoint? Amazing feature that's saved my bacon more times than I can count.
Only of you believe that foreign born people's wealth counts as prosperity, which parent poster does not.
Not necessarily.

Abortion is a pressing practical issue People may be very vocal about it.

Psychedelics is mostly an issue of recreation, even without a few millennia of consumption ingrained into culture like alcohol.

So the efforts people exert to legalize each are commensurate to how pressing each issue is.
That's been my experience in recent years; unit tests eliminate a whole swath of bugs that I'd otherwise use a debugger for.

And beyond the bugs themselves, reading the unit tests shows me what a function is expecting and what it's doing, and especially its behavior in edge cases.

The other technique I use is judiciously placed assertions that enforce invariants. I'd rather the system fail explicitly than have it returning junk data to users. (I work in finance, so customers are far more forgiving of a system returning an error message than seeing their balances be mysteriously wrong.)
No problem, do use tissue between the splint and the skin to ensure it doesn't bite during first few weeks (i.e. like new shoes which doesn't fit perfect).
Open a mobile grooming service called Mutt Cutts.
> But it is measuring an all too real effect that needs to be factored in to everything to have a serious debate about what is happening in the real world.

Well, sort of. The major thing this doesn't apply to is borrowed money. If both prices and wages increased by 10% then adjusting for inflation you would say there has been no gain, but tell that to the person with a mortgage or student loans who is now paying back the same nominal principal amount while earning more nominal dollars.
Nature's emergency: Where we are in five graphics
Real time programming requires you to be able to make hard guarantees about how long a certain piece of code can run and what resources it uses.

This is literally impossible with a GC because you can only bound one resource (time or memory) at a time.

The best RTS languages are a pain in the ass to use because the compiler will complain about every single thing - cases that could go wrong with your code

They are used in mission critical (in all sense of the word) systems like spaceships - where a tiny bit of lag will send it thousands of miles in the wrong direction.

Those links you provided, one is a draft for a spec, it's not even implemented yet - and the other has nothing to do with real time languages.
Lisp work isn't common, but the YC founders did pretty well. I hope you're aware HN is a Lisp testbed.
So ads? I thought it would be something a little more inspired.
Dell Set to Triple AMD EPYC Server Offerings, Support 7nm Rome Chips
Math isn't context free. Neither are most/all human languages. Yet we communicate succesfeully (within some margin of error).
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
I read about that! Knights of Something or other. Didn't he caught by having it on a ftp server or something?