skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t really want to say what is and isn’t a functional programming language. However I think it’s pretty clear that c++ and java are not particularly functional and that the next version adding traditionally functional features does not convert one’s legacy codebase into an FP program. It’s still the non-FP program it was before.

I don’t think this was ever really about first class functions (by which you really mean closures): C already had function pointers and a common pattern of function pointer plus a void * for some data which effectively gives you closures without the syntax. And java already had the ability to mint a class inside a function which closed over (final) variables which is basically the same as a lambda. Saying that functional programming means lambdas is like saying that FP is the same as having GC (or good static types, or dynamic types, or lots of parens, or ...). This isn’t true (again, see java, but when it was new) and there are examples of languages in each quadrant of the FP vs GC square.

The fact that C++/Java are picking up features from functional programming languages is sort-of irrelevant. I think it makes more sense to say that they are picking up useful features from all sorts of programming languages

My main point in this area is that despite the mood on HN, most programming done in industry is with the same big existing procedural/oop programs that have been around for ages and are likely not going to dramatically change or be rewritten just because FP has been coming back into fashion in the last 10 years. And the new programs written in industry will probably still be in the same languages to interoperate with the old programs (although perhaps written in a slightly more functional style depending on who writes the programs and which libraries they use).

Having said that I’m less sure about JS. I get the impression that it’s tending to a more functional style as a solution to managing complicated state and user interfaces, that many programs are written with new functional style libraries like react, and that programs are less likely to be old and big and more likely to be frequently rewritten. But maybe this impression is wrong and most JS programs are just using jquery.

Two actual changes are I think moving towards web based UIs instead of platform native ones, and moving to json instead of xml. But these have little to do with programming languages.
>Especially if as the article says a failure of the AOA sensor on the system would be Hazardous (looks like it was Catastrophic

From my understanding, this was an intentional decision, as the only way they could certify the airframe without simulator training being required was to feed the MCAS with only 1 sensor.

The only way they could do that is keeping the system overall rated as hazardous, as the Catastrophic rating would require multiple redundancy plus the training.

This can be corroborated from the Australian 60 minutes expose.

>For sure there may have been pressure from management to keep MCAS out of the manual but it’s not really up to he regulatory agency to be experts on the aircraft design, if things are being hidden by the company then I’d consider this bordering on professional misconduct on the parts of the engineers overseeing this work.

That is my conclusion as well.
Chrome/Android – Simplified view for web pages
I don't know how long this has been here but I've turned it on in Accessibility settings and it let's me read those pages with super thin web fonts in light gray on white. Can also change font face and size. The option doesn't appear for every page but it's great when you need it.
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How the heck can they deliver so many flats? Poland with 30% of Japan’s population builds roughly 5 times less houses per year and trust me we’re building new blocks literally everywhere. Yet flats are getting much more expensive every year, it’s cheaper for Londoners to buy flats in London than for Poles to get something in Warsaw. I guess what works for Japan won’t work for European Union as folks from Germany, the UK or France can buy Greek, Bulgarian or Polish flats easily...
You might have had more luck searching in an incognito tab. If google thinks you are a programmer it may be more likely to display results related to the chess engine rather than the actual food. (Assuming you are using google and have done many programming related queries)
Some interesting tests would be Firebase, Airtable, and Google Sheets. Assuming each of those products was built on top of databases available under each license, which would be legal?
Something similar to the displacement happened with birds during vacation recently. I was just relaxing on a porch, and one by one groups of birds would occupy the lawn for a while. It must've been four or five different species, in groups from one (only the kingfisher) to six or seven finches of some sort. It seemed strangely orderly, in that each group seemed to stay about the same amount of time, and none of the groups ever met - the new group would always swoop in shortly after the last one. There was no bird feed to be had there. I can't be sure, but it seemed the groups were actually rotating rather than new ones every time.
Semi-OT: I suspect that Amazon is going to end up with the lion's share of the smart home assistant market.

I see a lot of Amazon advertising on television for Alexa and their devices. I don't see much for Google, and I don't think I've ever seen a TV for Apple's device.

Furthermore, I'm now seeing Alexa being mentioned outside of Amazon ads. For example, Frito Lay has a TV ad that is a variant on one of their earlier ads for their variety pack of snack sizes bags of potato chip. In the variant as the mom in the ad leaves for her daughter's soccer game, taking the variety pack with her to provide snacks for the kids, she calls out to Alexa to order another pack, and a text overlay shows the exact phrasing for this order.

I don't know if Frito Lay added the Alexa bit on their own, or Amazon paid them to do so [1], but either way if this starts happening with other products I think it will really give Amazon a boost.

[1] I can see it going either way. I can see Amazon paying to be included as a way to promote Alexa. But maybe Frito Lay makes more on the sale if you buy via Amazon than if you buy from your local store, and so they did it on their own.
The Uncertain Future of Sweden’s Floating Libraries
They weren’t hacked so much as badly transferred ownership. Basically someone (Alexa or Wyze) didn’t invalidate security tokens after the device was sold and changed hands.
> All the while the apartments supply has been at record high in 10 years.

Has the number of jobs increased? Housing needs to be built in proportion to office/factory/commercial space in order to balance supply and demand.
Not sure why I got downvoted so badly on this.

The reference is simple: SkyNet fought war, and a war is a type of multiplayer game.

Am I missing something?
I was just researching wind turbines for my off grid system today, and then this comes up!

I had been concluding that small wind turbines probably were not worth it. But this addresses some environmental concerns and also makes it into a really nice project (even if it still isn’t too efficient).
Most people don’t realize how expensive their employer health plan is because they don’t even know the amount of their employer’s contribution.

If they ever lose/leave their job and try to get COBRA the sticker shock is intense. At that point it’s almost always better to get a Marketplace plan if you can, because the subsidized price will be much lower, if not even the unsubsidized price.

The exclusion from income of health insurance premium payments is the largest tax break on the books;

“According to a Joint Committee on Taxation analysis for 2007, the average savings for tax filers with incomes less than $30,000 was about $1,650 compared to about $4,580 for those with incomes over $200,000.” [2]

But I don’t agree that it should be eliminated. By comparison, ACA subsidies are about $6,300 per person on average. [1]

If you look at the exclusion in isolation it looks regressive. If you plot it alongside the ACA subsidies, in fact it’s not, it acts to smooth out the hyper-progressive ACA subsidy drop off.

[1] - https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-06/51298-2018-05-...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/14/the-worst-t...
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I don't find Netflix recommendations to be that useful. They recommend categories for sure.. but I like a wide range of movies and it is usually on a per movie basis.
Or just dismissed outright. It's very common see FAANG employees on HN labeling user concerns "edge cases" and blowing them off.
Steve Lopez wrote a similar column about the trash dumping problem a few day prior to the one discussed here. I'll give him credit for actually looking at what is going on instead of being a mindless Trumpist hack.

It seems that the city granted monopolies to waste collection-recycling companies, who tripled fees charged to downtown businesses. Instead of paying the high prices for waste disposal, the business dump trash in places no one cares to defend: skid row and the like.

Solutions: clean up, monitor, enforce trash dosposal regulations. Also, homelessness, with its complex causes, needs to be dealt with. It is not as simple as calling in cops and bulldozers to sweep away shanties, as it is an economic and social problem mostly treated as a crime problem.
You have a very poor understanding of probability. At a mean failure rate of 0.66 per year, it is quite probable for 2 failures to be spaced 4.5 months apart.
> The USB 3.2 2x2 Controller is way larger, I doubt Apple is going to put 10Gbps on iPhone.

10GBps is Gen 2×1 (or Gen 1×2); 2×2 is 20Gbps.
Generally most consumer equipment in the last decade or two is pretty flexible on voltage. The modern switched power supplies are both flexible and efficient.

But generally equipment is AC, and solar and batteries are DC. So it's entirely up to your inverter how clean your power is.

But generally off the grid users have to either over build a crazy amount (which is expensive) or adapt a bit. Things like hanging laundry vs using a clothes dryer might not always be necessary, but if the wind/solar is behind it would be a good investment.

Even things like dressing for summer instead of blasting the AC so you can wear multiple layers can make a huge difference. If you have a surplus during the day (which is common with solar), run your most power intensive stuff then. That way your very expensive batteries don't have as much load to make it through the night.

Things like air conditioning are among the hardest loads, high peaks, worst when it's hot, and overall just a huge amount of power. Who wants to pay $40k for batteries instead of just being a bit smarter with insulation, whole house fans, and dressing for the weather? In my city I'm often out in about after midnight, with a light jacket on, and listening to neighbors AC blasting with all their windows closed while their AC fights the thermal mass in their attic. Seems insane to not open the windows when it's under 60F.

Generally minor changes. You can still stay up all night watching tv, still have a comfortable life pretty close to normal. But if you don't adapt you might be out of luck a few days a year or have to spend 2-3x the money.
The author of this article is Rob Enderle, in the past a PR person. He actually seems to have written or given this as a speech: https://sco-vs-ibm.org/review/2004/0803.html

I'm not entirely sure he can be believed on any topic.
> This article, as usual, has no idea what it's talking about.

Are you talking about the article or the paper? The paper is published at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) with the conference char being people like Bruce Schneier. Besides, the author is Alessandro Acquisti and the details of their experiments are well outlined in the paper.

I understand that you see challenges, issues with their methods but you need to perform your own experiments and make a sound argument to make any strong statement. I'd be very cautious before I make a casual remark at a well conducted study. The study may have limitations but this doesn't mean the conclusions of the study are invalid.
Unfortunately I don't have any good intuition to share for the Monty Hall problem, as I haven't been able to get an intuitive understanding of it yet.

However I did just read about Bertrand's Box Paradox[1], and it's very much the same sort of thinking as the Monty Hall problem, but more intuitively understandable for me at least.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_box_paradox
Shielding at the speed of light is an interesting challenge.

The beginning of Alastair Reynolds's short story "Weather" (in "Galactic North") addresses this.
That was unexpected. And hilarious!
I call it "the IRC smugness pit".

The asker knows that providing the full A-X context would be an utter waste of time, and really does want an answer to Y only.

Certain IRC regs will flat out refuse to answer Y. Often this is because they don't know the answer to Y, but instead of saying so would prefer to wear the mantle of wise interrogator of "things you did not think of"™.

Ofc, sometimes they're talking to a newb and this is appropriate, but jumping to "this is an XY problem" seems to be a knee-jerk reaction for some people.
As I understand it, developers are quite free to build with minimal restrictions in Tokyo.

It's of course not the only thing you need for a healthy city. But it's a great start!
Isn't it the other way around? From the perspective of the spaceship rider, time outside the ship appears to be moving more slowly. That is, as the spaceship rider flies by earth, she will observe earth-bound watches ticking more slowly than her wristwatch.
Uber drivers face long hours, no benefits and sometimes danger
The author mentioned the Galaxy Tab S5e but I don't see anybody discussing it so I thought I'd give it a go seeing as I'm typing this on one. In short, I think it's great. Very thin and light considering the screen dimensions. Also, that screen has very thin bezels that are just thick enough to make holding it comfortable. The screen is extremely vibrant OLED that makes my iPad 2017 look washed out in comparison. The tablet has a light Samsung skin overlayed but it's still very fast and responsive though not quite as smooth as the iPad.

Android on a tablet is not for everybody though since depending on your app choices you could be in for a lot of programs intended for a phone looking blown up on this screen. So far, that hasn't been an issue for me since I mostly stick to the browser, Anki, Ghost Commander, Moonreader, emulators like SNES9X and PPSSPP which all either have tablet UIs or it's just not relevant.

The last thing I got this tablet for and which also works great is Termux to have a real command line interface and, though I didn't plan for this, Linux on DEX which gives you either a full blown Ubuntu desktop or you can just start up a BASH interface in a couple of seconds. It's great and it's the real thing right on the tablet. Even works with a keyboard and mouse with the Ubuntu desktop appearing on the tablet rather than external display. It's amazingly responsive too. Much moreso than I expected on a Snapdragon 670 with 6GB of RAM.

If you're thinking about an Android tablet, give this thing a shot. I don't work for Samsung; I'm just a happy user and since OP mentioned it and seemed to be satisfied as well, here's my 2 cents.

Edit: also my girlfriend has a Motorola Play Z something or other and that splash screen really is something else with the "HELLO MOTO" blaring and the robot doing a backflip I cringe every time she reboots it.
So it is basically a fixed "interest" leasehold market. Here the bank and leaseholders are the landlords but only in name only. So the money is in the land really and the option to build which is retained by the leaseholder. The bank is betting on the interest. If you borrow 20k at 100 years you end up paying $80,685.50 in interest. I guess there must be some magic number somewhere that makes this work nor why you don't have appreciation ... I guess because newer and better keeps being built.
That's the devilish thing, I think. Making the plane unstable then patching things up with MCAS, or something else, isn't a fault in any straightforward way. But it is taking a risk, and the source of risk isn't simply the risk that eg. MCAS will fail on any given flight, it's also the higher-order risk that eg. the MCAS system will have a faulty design. (A bit like rewriting code in C for performance, or keeping on generally unloved code to satisfy a paying customer, presumably.) I assume that makes the ethical and safety decisions a lot more murky for the engineers than having a specific fault to point to, especially in an organisation afflicted with go fever.
G20 digital tax takes step closer
What about running out of power?
Unfortunately there is a good reason to believe that organizations like NYT could be targets. This should not be compared to, say, the Patriot Act.
I believe the airplane is aerodynamically stable even at high alpha. What it fails in certification is the requirement to have continually increasing pitch feedback forces. I believe the pitch feedback forces are still in the stable region, just too low. This is not a flying wing or intentionally unstable airplane (as the F-16).
Upon rereading the bit you quoted, I agree that could be an issue. I had initially misinterpreted "all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available" to mean it was limited to any essential supporting bits you had implemented that might have otherwise been made proprietary (much to the detriment of a user trying to actually use the source code you provided). It does seem to be overreaching, but I also maintain that the AGPL has a major loophole as things currently stand.

Edit: From the sibling comment, it seems that SSPLv2 tries to address this.
Citation needed.

FAR 25 applies to all transport category aircraft. The section on stability (§§ 25.171 - 25.181). In exactly what manner is the airplane not stable, with or without MCAS?
Surely was not the first time a camera was sold second hand.
Exactly. We should treat animals much better than we do now.
shells are a tool to get things done. uniformity does help with this, as do the available resources. think "how do i do <x> in bash" vs "how do i do <x> in ksh" on stack overflow.

fish is great for my productivity, but the fact that it isn't quite bash compatible remains a constant friction/pain point. i'm glad it exists, but find it difficult to recommend in many cases.

another example of this is how dash/ash is the default shell for /bin/sh on Ubuntu (and other Linux distros). for day-to-day work, very few people care that it isn't bourne shell.

still, good to see them being put out there, even if the "selling points" of those shells in the PR don't resonate with me personally. if i'm going to the trouble of modifying my shell to be more productive, maybe even going so far as to try a different shell, being the defaults on some systems doesn't seem like a big win.
He almost seems surprised that going into complete social isolation in order to win internet points made him less happy.
Everything involved could be encrypted with the keys simply re-randomised when somebody else takes ownership. The manufacturer doesn't need those keys, only the owner.

The way they did it was easier, but as we see also more prone to screw-ups. But it was not the only, or best, way to do it.
Hmm, wonder if there's something we can take away from this. Let's say the latest major release is AGPL (or newer dominant copyleft) and the previous major release is more enterprise friendly licensed with those offering paid support handling the security and maintenance of them. This means that the community can continue to develop and use the latest and greatest. Not perfect but it might work in some cases.
We believe everyone should have accesses to a personal trainer and nutritionist
The analogy is that human lives are wasted. Karma whoring for years is no more productive than killing enemy soldiers. He doesn't see his friends get killed because he didn't have any in the first place.
What about countless service providers, consultants and contractors that [maybe] working on [SaaS] technologies potentially providing services to FAANG?

Hard to trace/track.
Grandma’s Robot: How AI Is Revolutionizing Elder Care
Before WWI, I don't think the world had yet grasped how horrifically effective industrialized countries were at killing enemy combatants. Not just killing either, but being able to sustain bloody conflicts for a very, very long time (being able to "take a punch" - to coin a phrase from Dan Carlin). WWI had many battles that individually had more casualties than entire past wars - it was shocking and it changed people's perception of war.
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I think the parent poster is referring to the technological explosion that preceded WWI, where social conventions about how war ought to be waged had yet to take into account the ruthless efficiency of modern warfare (tanks, cars, radio, telephone, submachine guns, planes, chemical weapons, flamethrowers, indirect-fire artillery). It was a 19th-century war fought with 20th-century technology; similarly, current generations are trying to reconcile 20th-century methods of social organization with 21st-century tech. I don't get the impression that they were literally trying to compare the experience of fighting in WWI to being on Reddit.
Where do these people work? And how do I get a job there?

Seriously, though. Even when I was a cooperative engineering student (ie. low 20's ages, lot's of partying, everybody pretty far from home for 3 months), people weren't fucking in the stairwells. Good grief.

Most of the places I worked, I generally have difficulty coming up with a single person who I would even want to have sex with.
Amazing, down to the point explanation. Thanks a lot!
Chromium could treat extensions better. “First class” keybindings provide a much better experience (think of opening a new tab that contains solely an image — you can’t close this tab with Vimium key bindings while the image is loading).

Edit: one example but I’ve found Vimium — while great — falls short due to “the platform.”
How Convicts Ordered to Stay Offline Try to Slip Their Digital Leashes
I know, but if that's trivial so is giving skeleton keys for all your network to the government for a fat contract (Amazon)... or they could just take it like they did with Cisco.
It'd be amazing if there were an open smart device protocol (maybe there is one?) that was widely implemented. There's no reason turning on the lights in your room or changing what Spotify is playing on your speakers needs to be tied to your Amazon/Google/whatever account.
Look at this. From the article it says Tokyo started 110,000 houses annually per year since 2003.

Population of Tokyo: ~9M.

Population of the Bay Area: ~7M.

The BA starts around 11,500 houses per year. Roughly similar in population -- a tenth of the housing being built. Wtf.
Author Brian Shul on Piloting the SR-71 – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The average millennial has an average net worth of $8k. That’s far less than
Build scripts predate Make.
[0] is one example from Research Unix V6.

[0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
I guess you're right. Six million homeless people is nothing to worry about. Lost in the noise. What was I thinking?
And they deserve no less for recording you, presumably without permission. Illegal in many states.