skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other replies talk about how Promises can be implemented as monads. Aside from that, you can come up with your own, too.

One monad that I occasionally use is something I'll call "Tracked". For "return" (when we make a new instance of the monad) we store a pair (initialValue, initialValue). For "bind" (when we act on what's in the monad) we only ever touch the second value in the pair, returning (initialValue, transformedValue).

That way, you can know where this piece of data came from. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Tracked<Result<T>>: when one of your Results is an exception, then you can check what piece of data ended up triggering that exception. Yes, you could do this without the Tracked monad, but doing it monadically means that most of your functions don't need to know or care about tracking the initial data; you can just Apply those simpler functions and the Tracked instance will do it for you.
Most sites start that way. That was our policy on reddit too. If it was legal it was allowed. But you can see where that leads -- as you get bigger you attract a crowd that may be legal, but not one you want to support.

The best analogy is that I support your right to spew your hate speech if you want, but I'm not going to open my house and let you do it in my living room.

Most sites eventually decide that they don't want to be associated with that speech and clamp down.
> So I think people know that's what's going on.

Addicts generally know at some level that they are addicted. The core problem is more that addicts can't break the compulsive behavior without a significant intervention.
Don't forget marketing budgets. It's not unheard of for the really heavy hitters to spend at least as much marketing a game as developing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...
>Also, companies like banks regular scour business records for similarly named businesses, which means the window for fraud is smaller

can't they also scour the certificate transparency logs as well? I'd imagine that's easier and more reliable than scouring the public records of hundreds or thousands of jurisdictions.
I used to work for ClassicCars.com ... there's a LOT of variation to VINs before 1980, they standardized in the early-mid 70's, used to know the specific year.
No, I think most content platforms in the US ban things like Nazism, hate communities, etc.
Plenty of places, but maybe I misunderstood it. I thought it was illegal at least in the United States and Japan. I don’t know for sure, I don’t live in either country.
"Reasonably well-know" for linguistic theories.

Sure, if "most cited academic author of the 20th century" is reasonable [1].

Also, there's a deep connection between automata and abstract languages - an abstract language can be described by the class of automaton that can accept it and vice-versa, at least in the case of finite automaton, pushdown automaton and Turing machines go, you have regular, context-free and context-sensitive language (known as ... "the Chomsky Hierarchy").

[1] http://news.mit.edu/1992/citation-0415
> There are however lampposts everywhere. There is some talk of adding charging points to lampposts but I think there are only very small-scale trials at the moment.

Look on the Ubitricity website, they have maps of their installations in London, there are over a thousand already and anyone can pull up and use them using the qr code system.

https://portal.ubitricity.co.uk/map
So, the real question is: are the censorship policies going to be reversed?

To be specific, is adult content going to be kosher on Tumblr again? Because if not, I'd have very little faith in the platform (and I do have an account there).
> Right then. Quoting papers makes you a reliable expert and able to make claims about medicine and science and health.

Does being a researcher or doctor make you a reliable expert and able to make claims about medicine and science and health?

It is very good to doubt papers. In doing so you are doubting countless scientists [many of whom perform poor studies] though. There isn't any thing epistemologically sacred about doctors or scientists.

Not defending the site itself, but a person who does a study roundup of various claims made with citations has some value. You can't expect him to interpret the studies well, that's still up to you, but that's fine. Unlike a doctor, our internet rando doing the link roundup isn't presuming any authority. But he is giving a lot more information, with more citations that you can further examine, than a typical doctor.
> The publishers use it

You mean those same publishers who now say that AMP is bullshit, doesn't deliver on any of the original promises and causes problems? https://digiday.com/media/google-amp-beat-facebook-instant-a...

> as we demonstrated above with Bing's A/B testing, the users want it.

Users want faster webpages. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Good to know, and agree, teacher wages should be higher.
There are predictions based on various scenarios.

you can see them in more detail here: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/4/

And the various probabilities that we will stay below X degrees under the various scenarios can be found in figure 14.3 here:
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/14/

I think you are seeing an artifact of how difficult it is to explain things to non-scientists (and non-scientists misinterpreting the claims).

It also tends to be difficult to find these kinds of good sources with a generic google search and no prior knowledge of the appropriate search terms. Using google scholar instead can be helpful sometimes in weeding out non-science answers for science questions.
No. To be an Uber driver you are required to have a better car than what is (practically) required to drive a taxi: newer, clean, etc. Plus the reputation system makes it more difficult to not comply.
I think we're seeing the beginnings of them, but they definitely have a headwind. It's definitely too early to say they're happening, but there's a possibility for the first time in my lifetime, IMO.

As far as unionization, there seems to be a trend of newsrooms organizing, I've seen a burger place trying to unionize where I live, and more and more people are talking about unionizing in the games space. With tech workers, we're not there yet, but efforts like the anti-ICE stuff could be a first step down that path.

As far as regulation, all the senators running for president support the Green New Deal, and so do a handful of congress members. And locally, several cities have passed laws providing paid sick leave, including in Texas.

These are frankly all pretty small, but taken together, I think they show that things could change.
Freedom of speech according to the law is different than private companies granting the same protections.

Also, with a lot of these platforms, you're also getting freedom of distribution, which is not a right guaranteed by law.
Things I Wish I Had Known About Serverless
quibbles: There are also back country fees and the back country and Donohue are access limited, though not by lottery.
I'm curious why you would choose to maintain Verizon's policy changes that alienated the majority of the user-base.
Why would it be disastrous? If we are just computer bits/bytes then are we really as valuable as we claim? Is our life still valuable?

Our claim is that humanity is the most valuable thing in the universe right now because as far as we know we're the only life with intelligence. If we're just computer bytes then we're not even human, we're AI's a dime a dozen at that, and it's even then possible that we might even be in a nested simulation of another simulated universe which could go on and on making us even less and less unique.

I mean, I love my kids and want to live for them and see all their moments -- but as a collective species if we are just simulated it doesn't seem so bad then if the lights go out on all of us as we aren't even real. It's not the end of the world, since we're just bits in a computer in the real world.
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp
California has okay wines, but cheese? Please, you're the country of spray cheese and cubes of mozzarella
Highly recommend first reading the wikipedia entry on working memory capacity. Nelson Cowan's work showing that a limit of 4 +- 1 pops up quite a bit, and subsequent investigations of why earlier research got 7 is key here. 7 shows up when people are allowed to subvocalize, and are being tested on "verbalizable" material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#Capacity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#cite_note-23
I live in New England and take my Model 3 on long ski trips all the time.

Remember, an electric motor has much more torque than a gas motor. The only obstacle is battery cost.

BTW, go look up Ford's video of the F150 conversion to EV that they did. It towed a crazy amount of weight.
An EV charging station just requires a nearby transformer with spare capacity and a bit of digging. Here in Oslo (Norway) they're peppered all across town.

Check out this[1] map of them. It's slightly misleading since it counts one station which can charge either CCS or CHAdeMO as two, but still. To get a sense of scale, driving from Lysaker on the left to Manglerud on the right is about 15 minutes.

A fair number of them have been put up by the local government, but the rest are commercial.

[1]: https://www.ladestasjoner.no/kart/?lat=59.9138688&lng=10.752...
mine was also the sacred chao, followed by the uv fnord and later by the eye in the pyramid in flame, where the flames also light up in uv.
That's an extremely normal workplace. I've checked out tons of workplaces in my city, and for the ones that actually have chargers, the standard seems to be $2/hr for the first couple of hours and $4/hr thereafter. A workplace that's willing to give up money to help people buy EVs would be uncommonly generous.
We? So I take it you work at Automattic? Any insights about the decision to buy Tumblr?
Nope.

>Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com. “It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.”
Out of curiosity, who, specifically, is "they" -- is it the government for government services/taxes, or is it private companies for identifying you for taxation or employment eligibility purposes, or by private organizations (banks, credit cards) as an attestation of identity?
> As you get more all electrics, you'll see more chargers showing up at restaurants and shopping centers, encouraging you to "charge while you spend".

Reading a lot of these replies makes me think that Austin must be ahead of the game. I can't think of the last time I went to a grocery store that they didn't have a charging station available.
Their brand wasn't particularly strong in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for years it was widely known as a home to porn and people blogging about genders. I never knew anyone personally who hosted anything on Tumblr.

Maybe it could be turned around, but it's pretty old-school at this point and seems hardly better to me than MySpace.
I guess the bigger question here is if Amazon is going to be cool with this practice for current employees in the long run.
My assumption is that two things are happening:

1) Tumblr has turned into such a disaster that Verizon is looking to dump it ASAP, and they're asking for fire sale prices.

2) Automattic thinks they can turn Tumblr around. They will probably get a lot of good will if they reverse the porn ban, and that alone will draw a lot of attention to Tumblr. And if that fails, then Automattic has 200 new employees they can put to work on their in-house projects. At worst, it's an acquihire, and if #1 is correct, it's a cheap acquihire.
The problem is, who is Google to decide who examine is?

This is the fears of a lot of people, that Google isn't using any particularly objective criteria, but just reflecting pretty much the same biases you can see on display in dozens of HN posts here.

Why should I trust examine on this matter? Well, why should I trust Google? Who is Google? Is Google staffed with doctors? Is Google a well-known expert in the field of medical practices? Did Google undertake a careful review? Or is there some contract employee whose knee-jerk 60 second reaction from the same bias set as a number of HN commenters here now being stamped with Google's imprimatur and now the simply the default answer?

Why would we expect Google's decision is based on... on anything in particular at all? Who can show me their criteria? Who can show me their particular analysis of their criteria for this particular site? This site at least references papers; where is Google's defense of their opinion of their site? Did they read the papers and decide they were being used deceptively? Why should I give Google even the slightest bit of credence on this or any other matter not related to their core competencies in the tech industry?

(An example of where their competencies would be relevant would be in determining who is spamming the system, creating circular sites to boost each other, gaming the SEO by presenting different pages to Google and not-Google, etc. But as they get farther and farther into deciding based on content the Pandora's box is opened ever wider.)

Repeat these questions for any number of sites on this matter, then repeat for any number of subject matters.

(What's the solution? Beats me. Right now I'm just on problem identification.)
Like what other people mentioned in this thread about prioritization.

It's not hard to justify focusing on the most popular browser (which "so just happens" to be Chrome) over a browser that is less popular and not even a system default on Windows or MacOS.

Devs write bad code, gets fixed only in Chrome. Or devs test only in Chrome from the start because they don't have time to test everywhere and if it doesn't even work in Chrome you get bad looks, so it only works well in Chrome.
I suppose that may be the case in some strange places, but it's definitely not the norm.
> The problem that these “garage orphans” don’t get is that society doesn’t owe anyone a free parking space

Nobody owes anyone anything. But a lot of things in the society exist because "We would rather live in the world where X rather than in the world where X isn't". Car ownership is a societal norm in US, so most people are going to buy and own cars, at least for a while longer. And people are going to park these cars somewhere, whether you like it or not. I would rather we had regulated street parking than unregulated free for all.
Yep, but the US never developed any alternative form of universal identification so people gravitated towards the SSN for that purpose, even though it was explicitly not to be used for that.

What other options are there? Most other potential identifiers are full of pitfalls like input error, collisions, having things change, or simply being unknown by the citizen. Even something as simple as name, birthdate, and place of birth is chock full of problems. People transcribe records wrong, or were born out of the country in a place with no recordkeeping that no longer exists to parents who have since died.

SSNs are far less complex and error prone. Their only major downside is that they only work for people who have them, which means your app can only service legal citizen Americans.
The problem was caused because I didn't know that there was a code path that passed in a bare string instead of a list, though. It's hard to write tests for situations you aren't aware of.
Based on his profile, he's the founder.
The MBTA found that CNG buses had the lowest lifecycle cost and cost per greenhouse gas reduction. Diesel-electric hybrids have maintenance issues, and battery electric and hydrogen buses have significant capital costs which makes it difficult to realize the significantly lower operational costs.

https://www.abettercity.org/docs/Alternative%20Propulsion%20...

However, even pure diesel buses are much more efficient at moving people than single-occupancy vehicles.

It's also worthwhile to note that a real plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions would necessarily include substantial capital outlays: not just bus charging infrastructure but grade-separated rail, dedicated busways, bus rapid transit, cycle and scooter infrastructure, etc. etc. Not to mention all the other climate adaptions that need to happen at an infrastructure level.
Rust or any other language that has bounds checking enabled by default.
You can still find them even in the suburbs of Minneapolis, though I haven't personally seen anyone use them in years.
Taxi drivers do this with some frequency.

Then box the Uber car and call the police.
I think "charging time" is the wrong metric to think about. The relevant metric is "miles/h". The model 3 may have a giant battery pack that takes forever to charge fully, but it's also very efficient so whatever electricity you get into it corresponds to more miles. All that matters for the situation to be sustainable is that you drive less than the amount of miles that you can charge while not driving, on average. That's a simple comparison between miles driven, the current you can charge at, and the number of hours you can charge per day.
We can fit a hard-cased cello in it, with one seat folded down, but that reduced rear seat to one person. But yeah, hatchback would have been better.
Hacker’s iPhone charging cable can hijack your computer
This paints a pretty clear picture:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=tumblr&geo=US
We have all the technology we need: Applied ecology for food systems, "Food forest" is a search term to try...

"Greening the Desert" Geoff Lawton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69kRsC_CgQ https://permies.com/wiki/2584/Greening-Desert-updates-Geoff-...

Converts salt desert to productive ecologically harmonious fig trees etc. in two years.

Here's a talk "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture" by Toby Hemenway (RIP) where he talks about how we got into this mess and how we might get out.

http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b7zJ-hx_c

Integrated carbon-neutral fuel production: http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/518

And it's fun! I have no idea why people are not more keen. I think it's psychological or spiritual.

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People are talking about what to do at high levels. We might see e.g. Bangladesh unilaterally geoengineering the weather:
https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...

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Personally, I think our problems are spiritual in nature. Like avip said in a sib comment, it will take a global mobilization. In any event, the limiting factor is not technology.
This is a (rambling) underrated pro comment and you should turn each of these little vignettes into blog posts.
> Filing your electric car is at least an hour if you have a DC fast charger and that gets you only 80% full.

“At least an hour” to 80% charge. I don’t think there’s a car on the market for which this is the case.

People will charge in a variety of way. Some people in apartments will have block parking for which there will be chargers, some people will go to superchargers or similar, some will do it at the gym, some at the train station, some shopping, some at work, others will have chargers for on street parking. Other people will use car sharing schemes which have dedicated chargers. Ultimately cars are parked for hundreds of hours a week and you only need a tiny fraction of that for charging.
Does anyone want to try to elucidate whatever bull case Yahoo! modeled out to buy it in the first place? Because God knows anyone with a brain should have probably been able to see that it was going to be a disaster.
Uber rides are incredibly cheap in Colombia, too. A 20 minute uberX ride across Medellin probably costs around $4.
You said a lot of stuff, and that wasn't my takeaway from it.

What's completely one-sided is development patterns and land regulation in much of the developed world and especially in the United States that favor detached housing and single occupancy vehicle commutes over any other form.
I also don't see a lot of Tumblr links out anymore. Occasionally screenshots on Reddit, or cultural references.
I once reported a similar XSS session hijacking bug in the LMS our district used in highschool. The response? Something along the lines of "hmm, maybe you just shouldn't do that"
photomatt is Matt Mullenweg founder and CEO of Automattic.
Huh, I never even thought to check the profile. I learn something new everyday.
Gotcha, that’s actually the time of peak demand and adding a whole new class of high power consumption during that time is indeed scary. In the UK for example where it’s tea time then as well and a bunch of people put on electric kettles. Utilities do a lot of work during that time load balancing and borrowing from other regions for extra power.
The problem is filling a gas powered car takes minutes so you can easily fit it into your day - charging a Tesla is probably closer to 30 for a decent range top up.

The former can be done on the way to work, as can the latter, but the latter requires a bigger shift in behaviour to achieve.

Yes, it's not the end of the world, but to pretend there's zero problem ignores reality somewhat.
The big issue right now is even if parents wanted to it's hard to impossible to completely lock an account of out spending money buying these short of removing all payment features from the account.
I never knew anyone personally who hosted anything on Tumblr.

My impression is that most people used it pseudonymously, to speak to things they didn't want associated with their public identity, so perhaps you knew people who hosted on Tumblr but didn't know that you knew them.
Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
Or you know, people being sick of the mess brasil had become under the previous governments?
With Verizon selling off chunks of Yahoo like Flickr and Tumblr, what did they even want from Yahoo?
photomatt co-founded automattic. https://ma.tt/
I got an email yesterday asking to confirm I wanted to keep a very old account. I wonder if they are firming up their user stats?
It's acceptable to cut corners and ship shoddy software to consumers, because if anyone points out the flaws, they're being "irresponsible". The responsibility to protect customers is therefore shifted away from the vendors onto researchers. Pretty sweet deal, because good quality security engineering is expensive!
The island he’s singled out was flown over within days of her disappearance and the pilot did not see any signs of an airplane.

It would be wonderful to finally solve this mystery, but it’s not as though this idea is some recent breakthrough. It was thought of at the time, which is why the pilot was sent to look.
I never use Uber in my country of residence but it was a boon in Colombia (and other countries where taxis have a questionable reputation).

One correction though: Based on what I’ve read, express kidnappings might have happened more often in the past but hardly anymore today. It’s more likely to be robbed at gunpoint from guys on a motorbike, and they like to target taxis (although other cars as well).
A lot of the reason for those long commutes is that housing in dense, urban areas served by public transit is too expensive. Affordable housing is a climate change issue.
> Right then. Quoting papers makes you a reliable expert and able to make claims about medicine and science and health.

> No, I think I understand why Google has de-ranked this one.

So by this logic why is Wikipedia the top rank for like 90% of these kinds of searches. It's exactly the same isn't it, except anyone can come on and incorrectly change Wikipedia briefly until a moderator corrects it.
My comment was -2 points within a minute or so of being posted - so def a fairly active group of someone type involved.

Very interesting to see the level of downvoting here paired with complaints about google downvoting the site they are promoting.