skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is of course totally subjective. I run three businesses on Haskell, having previously been a mostly PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby developer, and having shipped many projects for startups with Ruby on Rails.

Anecdotally, I have been able to ship much more quickly and reliably with Haskell than I ever could with Ruby/Rails.
That's also what they taught us in casual reading and HN, even before ML when it was a theorem about search algorithms and compression. I don't know where the author got their basis for being contrarian.
I've definitely been companies where a bad code base basically destroyed the product because we couldn't move fast enough compared to the competition.

It usually happens on established products that have been around for a few years.
I think we wouldn't have problem to double or tripple our food production. The capabilities are available. It is more of a distribution problem. This is why I think a lot of the GM-discussion to solve hunger is a total scam. GM food should bring french fry beans and cream puff trees, nothing else.

Of course there are many ressources that would decline. You are completely correct with that.

https://www.overshootday.org/

(I don't think the data from this org is correct, but it still shows an undeniable trend)
>because there's no way to send complex structures across service boundaries; you end up spending more effort serializing and deserializing than actually doing business logic.

Honest question, have you ever actually worked with decently written micro-services?

You don't send complicated objects, you send relatively simple objects. And you don't do it by hand, grpc and thrift have existed for a long time. I'd argue that part of good decoupling, in functional or micro-services programming, is making sure you only communicate simple objects around.
>Tesla also lowered the starting price of its mass-market Model 3 to $38,990.

Note that the price cut is offset by the 50% reduction in federal tax credits from $3,750 to $1,875.
Awesome finding.
Hmm let's ignore the Medium thing.

He's basically going from freemium to a closed group of hardcore readers. I see two problems with that:

1. He obtained those hardcore readers via the freemium approach. What will he do about subscriber churn, rely on just word of mouth, or go back to freemium once in a while?

2. How long does the think the 10/month will last? It's fine now as few writers are doing it. But does he think he'll be able to charge 10/month when everyone else charges that much? No matter how rich you are, as a reader, there's a limit to how many subscriptions you're willing to pay.
Lol, interesting thought :)
That's a painfully conventional response to the inquiry. Aren't you interested in the data, if it exists?
A summary of USB-C cable features
news relevant to hackers ?
In food logistics this challenge is called the "cold chain" - you need to build a complete supply chain, from harvesting to production to retail to consumer, with temperature control at every point in the way. It takes quite a lot of capital to create, and good infrastructure to maintain.
I remember reading that some of the textile techonology that enabled the arctic/anarctic expeditions in the early 20th century has already been lost.

They're having to analyse the garments in medical scanners to work out how the fabrics work.

The idea that technology that enabled the equivalent of the space race could be lost within a century is quite sobering.
For the model 3, the SR+ dropped ~$1k (now starting at $38,990) partially offsetting the $1875 decrease in tax credit which began July 1st. The AWD dropped ~$2k (now starting at $47,990) and the Performance dropped ~$5k (now starting at $54,990).

Tesla Pricing history: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5IQOynIawoXiJPVarLD...
Lisp/Functional programming might indeed be a silver bullet, but you still need to know how to operate a gun to use it, is the lesson.
Really like the policy part of this as I’ve been bitten by sloppy Node modules (self inflicted and third party) in the past.

However, as this is a JS server runtime and Node is the reigning champ, it would be great to get a section in the README early on about Node compatibility. How much is it going to hurt to move my Node services over?
As a professor, I am not surprised about this. Publishers are pushing their online platforms hard. A few years ago Cengage came and gave a whole dog and pony show (with free lunch to ensure as many of us as possible showed up) with all these "statistics" about how great and effective their online learning platform was compared to paper books. Most of their "statistics" were things like "students like them more than paper books" or "students feel like they learn more" rather than any actual proof that these things are actually better for students.

Of course what they didn't say is that online DRMed platforms give them 100% of the profits instead of losing money to used books or giving the bookstore a cut and they danced around the fact that students loose access to the material after a year so even if they wanted to use the material later on they couldn't (they can just buy a new code!).

Thankfully, our department didn't take the bait and instead worked on creating our own OER https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks but too many educators are falling for it. My hope is that Pearson's move will spur more faculty members to use and create more OER.
Amm, so this is gone.
It seems to me that you are trying too hard to build a detailed conquest map of an unknown (to yourself) territory. How about you stop torturing that partner of yours with your own perceived inadequacy, how about you drop all them things that you can't seemingly carry on, how about you start with a habit journal and go from there? Pick one habit: exercise for half an hour every other day. Feel around what being that person is like.
Visualise new outcome, pick an additional habit, journal. Feel.

And don't spend all of that time in your own head, go outside and do things. Pick up a skill and use it. Get paid. Feel.

Heed. I was you. I am you. No more. Cheers.
See also: Drag kings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_king). (Usually) female people called "king".
As a matter of fact, I keep aa set of udio books on my phone specifically as a sleep aid. I find that listening to a steady voice puts me straight to sleep within a few minutes.
Predicting Restaurant Facility Closures
A followup if anyone is still reading, I originally didn't mention that they're basically attempting to eliminate the mice on the islands not just control the population.

"the only battle-tested and proven method to ensure the mice do not return. Nearly 50 other methods that were explored such as using contraceptives, individual traps, pathogens and others were deemed infeasible or unable to end the mouse problem for good."
Yep. My guess is that they're making clear the Model S is on a higher tier than Model 3 by giving it even more autonomy for a lower price. Understandable move since M3 is known to have eaten up some sales of both S and X
And did this happen because you chose a specific language?

There are really few languages that can sink a project and that too only happens they're used in a domain that's uncharacteristic for them. E.g: writing a web app in classic VB. Windows GUI app in VB would be fine.
It was specifically the publicising of his role in the Bengal famine that was my primary motivation to contend that Churchill's character is no longer - since the last couple of years even - held quite so highly.

Dresden is a much trickier call AFAIK, I don't think this is used widely as an indication of Churchill being morally deficient.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Quite the opposite: minimum wage increase will eliminate many low-skilled jobs and will make it harder "to say 'no' to the amazon warehouse gig".
DIY Tiny Robot
Amazon Prime Day could usher in a new wave of fear-based social media usage
Floating Cloud cities on Venus makes more sense. 1g, 1atm, habitable temperature, endless CO2. We'd need Oxygen and Water but that's true on Mars too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
Machines will never think. Have you noticed that a thought always is about something? A machine cannot do this.
"To streamline our offerings" means "to streamline and simplify our production"

The past was always about "prices can be lowered (or the margin becomes better) when the production scales". Now production is back-scaled. It seems they hit some production peak were more doesn't mean better margin.

Or in other words: "we need more margin on the higher priced versions to be able to lower the price on the cheap version without hurting our overall margin that much."
The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
I usually stick with light subjects that don't require a great deal of concentration. If I get lost I'll just jump back 30 seconds or a minute. I've found that dense books don't work as audiobooks. I need to concentrate too much and reread often.
It is fortunate that companies found these 1099 loopholes.
Without these loopholes, low-skilled candidates would have much harder time to find and keep their jobs.

It is amazing how many commenters on Hacker News do NOT understand basic economic model of supply and demand.
In this case it's a roaming surcharge not the kid spending money in the store.
I run a few startups on Haskell. Most of the work is boring imperative stuff. While it sounds like the company interviewing you were probing to see if you understand traversals and bifunctors, your proposed solution would have been given a thumbs up in code review on my team.

FWIW, I would have written your function as

f = bitraverse id id

No "double nested flatMap lambda contraption" necessary.

Ah, it looks like you can even just use `bisequence`, which is equivalent to `bitraverse id id`. So you didn't actually need to implement anything!
Can We Make a “Class Level Relationship” in Laravel? (vs. Object Level)
There's no proof really that above standard talent prefers or uses functional programming languages.

Indeed, this is a reductionist view, like saying the best engineers are those that use a specific tool, not those that have access to a broad body of engineering knowledge and real-world experience.
This list bills itself as "apps that help promote the open web", then lists apps that have relished in removing freedom of speech.

For example, Overcast participated in the de-personing witchhunt of Alex Jones / Infowars by removing it from their directory, then celebrated on Twitter as if he was stamping out "hate speech".

How is blatant political censorship worthy of "the open web"?
Oxygen and water exist in ample supply on Mars - not at all on Venus.
Google Protest Leader Leaves
We would have done the same in the UK, except it was foiled by an anti nuclear movement which is still informing the environmental movement today. It's a heart breaking own goal.
Not so much an article about the 50th anniversary, but just the main article about Apollo 11.

If you are into space stuff, and haven't seen it yet, there were some pretty cool projects going on on Youtube in preparation for the 50th anniversary:

- CuriousMarc's restoration series of an actual ACG [0]

- Applied Science made a replica DSKY electroluminescent glass panel display [1]

- Project Egress: A maker collaboration on building a replica of the Apollo 11 door (Adam Savage, Jimmy Diresta, This old tony, Blondihacks, etc) [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2o_Sp2-aBo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23projectegres...
Show HN: Giving away control of my life to my instagram followers
The placement of the engines has nothing to do with metal fatigue from thousands of repeated 40,000 feet cruises with a pressurized cabin anyway; no German jet fighter was pressurized, so it's doubtful that they understood the technology either.

Also, the only Nazi aircraft of any type with root-integrated jet engines is the obscure Horton 229 prototype - and apart from that single cosmetic similarity, it has absolutely nothing in common with the de Havilland Comet.
It’s surface mining of topsoil. Topsoil takes years and years to form and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Soil has structure and it’s alive. Soil biome holds not just water but also air and nutrients and bacteria and mycelium and has its own eco system.

Someone told me that you can indeed create soil by composting..well..that’s still compost. Not soil. Compost spread and left undisturbed by tilling will help soil regenerate. Instead ..we create fluffy soil by tilling and then we add amendments( and chemicals and toxic weed killers)..all life in the soil is ripped and tilled and eroded away as the structure of soil is gone...it is death..instead of acting as a carbon sink, we have changed soil by growing food and releasing more carbon into the atmosphere. Tillage farming is the most destructive thing we have ever done to this planet. And then it became fossil fuel dependent. The food we eat to live is what’s going to kill us. Farming... It’s literally going to kill us. It’s an open air factory... surface mining operation..it’s not ‘natural’. We are better off moving 50% of annuals grown for food to indoor farming like hydroponics and aquaponics... And stick to growing grains and perennials and trees and nuts etc outdoors which can be bought back into the fold of regenerative Ag. Tomatoes? Better indoors. Strawberries? Better indoors. Lettuce? Oh good grief! Certainly better indoors. So much to do.especially as tech breakthroughs..first amongst them is energy. New forms of capturing energy to mKe indoor farming sustainable. Nutrient management and disposal. Maybe more organic ways to formulate indoor Ag nutrients. Etc etc. but mostly not being reliant on dirty electricity and on the power grid for indoor energy needs. That bothers me the most.
Predation is an example of a fight that is NOT avoided. I have all species in mind. I am almost directly quoting Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene.” A raccoon does not attack a grizzly bear because of a simple size comparison. Thus, the lives of both animals are spared and a fight is avoided.
HBO to Air Epic Miniseries 'From the Earth to the Moon' Ahead of Blu-ray Release
There is so much scope here for a hydrogen economy to take off. Run at 32gw all the time, when demand is 16gw, send that energy into generating hydrogen/and or batteries. It's the ideal use case for 'always on' nuclear.
Criteo's framework relies on Bluetooth more than Wifi IIRC. They love telling you about how accurate their bluetooth beacons are.
I wish someone would make a netflix for audiobooks. I'm guessing licensing is an issue.
But the example is only performing vector operations. You could perhaps normalize the distances of a number of vectors with a softmax or something to produce a probability across a set, but what's being presented in the paper is the "closest" vector following the operations in terms of cosine distance.
I think it's because functional programming does take a bit more learning to get going with it.

That's because there are higher level abstractions like monads, bind, type classes etc

These take more time to learn but once you know they make modelling some problems much easier.

I do think a lot problems in programming come from businesses wanting everything to be easy to understand and to require little training and education.

As opposed to highly trained people who know their craft.

This as a business decision is fair enough. But you can't then complain your software is buggy or it takes to long to build something because you haven't built higher level abstractions. You made that decision.
Ot maybe it's because of all the poison in processed food meant to make people want to eat more of it and also drive down costs with unhealthy filler ingredients and cheaper alternative ingredients
I read this book last year, because someone mentioned it here in HN (maybe it was you, MattPalmer?) and I can only second this.

It is really very interesting, applicable to a wide range of situations, and very readable.
Just a reminder that in 40mins time the real time simulation will take off:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Currently this feature in Audible is implemented in a way that makes it unusable for me: I add 10 min timer. Almost falling asleep when the time us up, but not fully, so I would like to continue. So I gently press play on my headset. But then the timer is off, so if I fall asleep it will play for hours. So to combat that, I have to bring up my phone and add a new timer. This takes me out of the almost-falling-asleep, and back to square one.
Wall Street finds blockchain hard to tame after early euphoria
yes, you should be happy. You not just managed to understand but also managed to translate what I wrote into much more readable form.

That said, I didn't mean to hate on academia. I just wanted to describe what creating a field looks like. They made a lot of effort and had the best of intentions but end of the day they all had to earn a living working for the man. That is the real issue and it lives outside academia for the most part. I also think of academia as the archivers of knowledge. They never take that as a compliment but it really is.

I attempted to illustrate the different mind set [be it poorly]. Academics are respectful by default. 13 year olds are the exact opposite.

To try a thought experiment: Imagine releasing software after you've insulted every programmer you know and made fun of every last bit of code they wrote. To put it mildly: You might want to have another look at your creation. You might want to do that every day for the next 2 weeks. You might want to scrap that feature if you cant sign of on it as the closest thing to perfection humanly possible.
But the point is "things" did not and are not getting better. It's literally right there in the title of the shared article you don't even need to click or read it.
I got this crazy idea of people voting on Instagram on what I should do and do whatever is voted the most.

First thing I put out was whether I should quit my job and pursue my ideas full time or stay at my job and pursue my ideas in the free time. 52% voted the former and I quit my job.

This is a fun experiment I am doing, please participate if you can
I emailed the bank and they replied that they do not sell notes to collectors. They go into circulation.

There might be a nice little side-business for somebody that wants to get fresh new notes and sell them to people like us.
As someone who works in manufacturing, I can't count the number of times I've been told to "just make it work". And, in reality, sometimes that truly is the best option in the immediate term to get a system working so you can make enhancements later. But I think that's the operative phrase: so you can enhance later.

The challenge is that once the immediate fire is out, it's easy to simply leave things in a half-baked state. That accumulates as technical debt.

Thankfully, most of the instances where I have had to deal with this has been purely software and not affected the lives and comfort of operators on the floor like with Tesla. But I can see how this happens. Even if the 'tent' becomes a permanent installation, I hope they spend the time and money to improve it to the necessary working standards that employees deserve.
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> Honest question, have you ever actually worked with decently written micro-services?

As decently as is possible, yes.

> You don't send complicated objects, you send relatively simple objects.

Right, which limits how powerful the overall system you can build is. That was my whole point.

> And you don't do it by hand, grpc and thrift have existed for a long time.

Sure, but they have pretty anaemic type systems and a lot of stuff is just inherently high-effort to serialize (see the recent post about defunctionalising the continuation).

> I'd argue that part of good decoupling, in functional or micro-services programming, is making sure you only communicate simple objects around.

Functional programming gives you more tools to interleave complicated constructions while still enforcing that all your concerns are treated orthogonally. For example you can form a free monad structure that contains commands that will be interpreted by one particular service, but interleaved with other computations that will be implemented by other services or directly. The types ensure that everything's properly decoupled, but you can still represent all the complexity that's there in the actual problem. You can't do that with microservices.
Hacker News is basically a list of problems that need solving, or startups/libraries/repos/products that are trying to solve a problem. World hunger is probably one of the biggest problems, so frankly this should be pinned to the top of the home page until somebody finds a way to solve it ;)
Not really, especially with IQ being the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo it is, and culturally biased. And that's before we add the actual damage to cognition nurturing in a poor, in conflict, etc., environment does, or the opportunity gaps said children have growing up...
> In fact, we have a large number of employees who request to work on GA4 based on what they hear from colleagues and what they have seen first-hand

Wonder if the Tesla spokesman has a desk there. Off the top of my head I can't imagine a reason why the tent would be such a great place to work. Equal maybe but certainly not better than a factory building that was not put up in a hurry to meet demands.

In any manufacturing job the "get it done" mantra is pretty much guaranteed to rear its head from time to time. Issuing such a strong blanket rejection for every single point really undermines the rejection.
> My guess would be that this is actually known by a lot of people in rocketry, since UDMH/NTO is a standard propellant - the Proton is entirely fueled with it.

Nah, the older engineers who would have known got aged out of the system a long time ago. Younger engineers are better than old ones.
Did the US weaponize ticks to spread Lyme disease?
That's basically what we have to do as a SAML service provider. Most SAML identity providers don't release identifying information—out of apathy or ignorance usually, not because of privacy concerns—so we take whatever (hopefully persistent) identifier we're given, re-identify the user at registration time, and call it a day.
Find out the book your school is using for first year, it's likely Stewart's 'Early Transcendentals' Calculus or possibly Gilbert Strangs book (my online school used it for Math 101) https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-tex... with the bonus of Strang's book being Calculus is explained in the first chapter and the entire rest of the book is just exercises and applications.

Go through all the exercises, looking up the things you don't remember in the rest of the resources mentioned here already. Maybe your school offers some kind of advanced placement and by doing this you can also skip a semester of single variable calculus saving yourself tuition costs.