skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone here feel the need for PopSQL?

I am asking this because I was building on a similar idea a couple years back as a side project. I lost track but got curious seeing PopSQL.
Maybe Google is realizing that the carriers' monetization of your personal data is turning the carriers, even more than before, into Google's competitors.

Google wants to keep your data for themselves.

In this light, the wording of the headline is a nice PR win for Google. Makes me wonder if they perhaps wrote that headline themselves and fed it to the news services.
Yes, Woz is one of my all times favourites.
A few comments @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736713
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So it seems that you are sort of talking about a function that is memoizable but not pure. Pure has no mutation of any global state. So hypothetically touching the heap means not pure - if somehow others can see it.
"This is getting worse because US is now poor. In old time, only patriots believe those propaganda. But now the media hires well-educated writers, YouTube opinion leaders to write seemingly objective articles that credit Trump exclusively with the economy growth. The lower classes in the US has already believed in those propaganda faithfully because the messages match perfectly what they have experienced.
We need to be afraid of them. Because even if neo-nazism disappears now, they will continue to defend Trump and his beliefs."

Wondering if I am wrong? Even if I am wrong, how wrong???
Same on Chrome on Android, and on Firefox the boxes demo minimap was off the screen and the text demo page was much shorter for some reason.
I kinda miss the days of the early "Wiki Wiki"s. These days, most wikis I encounter are "intranet" ones, serving as some kind of documentation site. Most often using rather heavyweight implementations like MediaWiki that allow for all kinds of hierarchical organization, CMS-like features etc.

But in its simplest form, you had just a small sliver of code that allowed you to edit text files that then were rendered as HTML to the user dynamically, the most important "markup" being a translation of WikiWords to hrefs, allowing you to easily link together PageAboutFoo to PageAboutBar.

That's it. There were some very minimal implementations that did this with e.g. a few lines of Perl.

Everything else is either luxury or bloat.
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Hello everyone. In no particular order, I have observed more articles submitted and up-voted for the following news sources. Whether unconscious bias or otherwise, due to their popularity on HN, I tend to trust these sources more than others: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, LWN, Github, WSJ, AVC, Atlas Obscura, CityLab, Stratechery.

Is there an official top-10 list? Do others have a list of top-10 news sites that you trust and follow regularly?
Is there a way to mod that out of the game?

Everything I read about Squad makes me really not want to support anything they do, but KSP is one of the coolest games in recent history. It's a real shame the original devs didn't stay in control.
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Would the locals be OK with a gigantic coal or gas power plant nearby? One with equivalent output? That's (on a macro scale) the real question here. If we are to believe the world is going to pass the point of no return in "12 years", I'd say making a lake unsuitable for recreation ranks pretty low on the list of priorities.
I'm not defending Chinese dictatorship. And since you did not grow up educated in the US system like I was, I hardly see how you can claim I'm incorrect in stating that the US education system teaches us how democracy (particularly US democracy) is the best (if still flawed) system. That was my original point in my original post. I'm not sure why you are derailing it and turning this into a "me supporting China" thing. I do not support their regime (though I admit I"m also not subject to their regime so I'd have no reason to support them), but that doesn't mean that I also got brainwashed by the US education system.
https://www.sharetechnote.com

I'm not familiar with the lower layers but found the website above helpful to get an introduction.
As an aside, tobacco marketing was incredibly scummy even by the low standards of the advertising industry. I once happened to chat with some people who maintain the library of internal tobacco industry materials: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

They had horror story after horror story. The one that sticks with me is them building a campaign to target developmentally disabled adults, because they were especially loyal addicts once hooked.
Also the main point of the article was that the safety deposit boxes aren't even safe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
It's a pure function because it doesn't do any IO. It returns an action that, when run, performs the IO. Because it's a pure function, we have referential transparency, we can safely replace the function call with its computed value (the action) anywhere in the program.
Patronizing or not, it's true. And it's better to admit that amongst ourselves so that we can protect adolescents as they're developing. Otherwise, you might end up with companies taking advantage of this fact and getting teenagers addicted to something pretty much everyone knows is terrible for you now, and those very same teenagers might start defending them, making cases for personal responsibility when they don't even have the proper brain parts to have any
I think you're missing the point. When the evidence started to mount, there was an orchestrated campaign to mislead. https://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/TobaccoExplained.pdf
He should to a TODO app.
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Nobody is proposing a ban on nicotine gum and patches. Any actual addicts will be able to get their fix. So a ban on another nicotine delivery system doesn't seem to me like a big risk for, say, Colombian cartels smuggling in black-lab vape cartridges.
China is not a totalitarian dictatorship.
In general actually people who have access to western medias are educated enough to think differently, not to take the media's view wholly. I am sure many of them would just defend China out of pride (apply to people living in China), for others, mostly oversea Chinese, they have seen the world and concludes that is the right view to hold, and they don't have to follow western media's (CNN, BBC) view on things. I personally would not be so much pro-China if the news is not as biased as it is to be honest.
I know this is just for the US but just to clarify. The Prime Video included in your Prime subscription is only available in a few countries (US, DE, GB,...) all other countries have primevideo.com which is a stand-alone video only subscription.
Isn't that erroneous, in the sense that printf() has side-effects, breaking the "pure" promise?
I suspect there is a lot of cognitive dissonance involved. I remember having dinner with a developer who worked on pokie machines. He fully believed that there was nothing wrong with the machines and that people just needed to have self control. This is someone who's job involved programming the highly addictive things.
what could be more american than selectively enforcing some law in the interest of private actors? :)
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Just anecdotally I know about 0 people who buy things off iTunes, and maybe 20-30 people who watch Netflix regularly. Just because 1 out of 100 people spend $5 to buy something on iTunes in a blue moon does not make the data source any stronger than say 100 episodes watched on Netflix in the same period, not to mention voluntary thumb ups/downs.
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> You can even promise a func is pure without even implementing it in the same translation unit!

Actually that's the main point, as if it's in the same TU, the compiler can probably figure out a function is pure.
There are plenty of smart addicts out there. That's the whole deal with addiction, after all: it bypasses rational choice.
I worked at a firm who’s stated goal was for all the street to have the Terminal on one monitor and our product on the other. Our application was sophisticated and advanced, but it was a web app. The Bloomberg didn’t really do what the app did, but it felt so much better. Responsive, native, dense, and has keybindings. Using the Terminal makes you feel powerful and in control: it is extension of yourself.

Our app on the other hand looked and felt like all the other “modern” web apps: low information density, slow, no keybindings, and frustrating. Also it logged you out every 30 minutes! It was a total joke and we had a hard time getting people to use the product.

I think companies make the mistake on just focusing on features, especially with web apps. Performance is absolutely critical and the #1 prerequisite for a good product. But despite research and studies on how users care about performance a lot, developers don’t seem to. Every repeats mantras like “programmer time is more important”, “... the root of all evil”, “just wait a year or two and your app will be 2x faster!”, etc etc.

With the end of exponentially increasing single threaded performance, I think developers are recently starting to realize how valuable performance is. Hopefully this trend continues and we software engineers start making software we are actually proud of.

The current state of development and developers is inexcusable and sad. The slow crap we make is honestly sickening.
> In fall of 2011, when a forced lull in kernel development

Can anyone speak to, or link to, what this is referencing?
No, in D any statement prefixed with `debug` does not get its purity checked. `debug` prefixed code is enabled via a command line switch, otherwise it is excised.

I.e. it's for conditionally inserting debugging code where you don't care about purity, you just want to find the bug.
Every time I read one of these my heart freezes up at the possibility someone has beat me to market. Then I remember why I spent 3 years in R&D.
As far as I can tell, Linux is the most popular operating system if you take into account everything that runs Linux, including Android phones.
And I gave up on Step Functions... Probably announced at the next summit but we needed it 18 months ago... our move to AWS was beneficial with just that
> It's a little known fact but the kind of FP programming we do in Scala tends to be more pure than what happens in OCaml, F#, Erlang, Clojure and others.

I have only dabbled in Scala, but IMHO it's more suited as an OCaml with first-class modules. Why not use Haskell, if you don't need the JVM?
Being able to share queries was one of the more attractive things about Looker in the beginning.
Sounds like Linus started it, worked on it for a year or so, and it has been maintained by someone else for ~7 years.
TL:DR;

1. User engagement drives blood pressure reduction

2. Hypertensive Crisis: Even moderate engagement can help you catch a hypertensive crisis.

3. The strongest correlation between blood pressure reduction and activity level is linked to 10 minutes of walking per day.

4. Users who lowered their blood pressure also reported lower BMI.
I have a question from you. How, as a pro-China person, do you view the Dalai Lama? Because I see a certain inconsistency that nobody can explain to me: the DL insists he doesn't care about the complete autonomy or independence [0] of Tibet, just faving a bit more freedom so that people can practice their religion and cultivate their culture. This, in my opinion, is a moderate view, and in no way a threat to the integrity of China. But somehow the Chinese freak out whenever the DL is mentioned. Why is that? If anything, I'd say the DL could help in keeping peace in Tibet. Seems absurd to me. And I'm wondering what is the official Chinese opinion about this.

[0] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/past-is-past-tibet-not-seeki...

> "The past is past. We now have to look into the future," he said.

> "We are not seeking independence... We want to stay with China. We want more development," the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people said.
Yes. That file in particular has seen little change.
AWS is a hard sell after GCP. It feels duct-taped together in comparison, IMO, and the UI is just bad across the board.

Disclosure: ex-Googler, hold no shares in the company, GCP user.
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Tanenbaum claims (or did, a few years ago) that the most popular operating system is Minix.

Obviously it's impossible to prove one way or the other...
The problem is that I don't think about switching tabs anymore, it's really completely brainless.

To the point that I sometimes do it in the middle of talking to people (while sitting behind my desk), who will point it out to me, and then I will close the tab. And then re-open it a few seconds later while still talking to them. ctrl-T O enter, for old.reddit.com. It's really a true habit.

There is an extension where you can limit the number of tabs you have open, I'm going to try that again. Limiting myself to 1 should lead to some conscious thought, after those keystrokes fail a few times.
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"Whenever reading a headline that a new treatment has been found that kills cancer cells in a petri dish, keep in mind that so does a handgun."
It's not a matter of personal responsibility, but of statistics. If you have a population of a few dozen million which is targeted by an addictive product which is heavily marketed a proportion of them will end up using that product for a long time.

And if said product is harmful, one has a public health issue on their hands. The sad thing is that we've already been on a similar path once with normal cigarettes: the lying, deceitful marketing, the people dying in droves, addicts proudly proclaiming their rights to self-determination.
You're mistaken. What you're thinking of is a pointer to a _volatile_ ; for a regular pointer, you only need one load - even if it's not a pointer-to-const. See:

https://godbolt.org/z/XWW9Nq
We use BigQuery where I work, it has a "saved queries" feature. I suppose this could be like a poor man's BigQuery?
I got quite excited by that entry. My immediate reaction was 'oh, that's really cool'. But after thinking a little further, I can't think of an audience that both uses SQL frequently and also couldn't use a git repo. What kind of user demographic did you have in mind?
> "Disney broke the law when attempting to replace its IT department with guest workers. Proof enough?"

You're lying again: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/judge-says-disney-didn...

Will you stop spreading false information? And will you stop making up false accusations?
> I can travel anywhere in the world and find a place to stay within an hour, and do so frequently

Could you not do this before? Just book a plane ticket at the airline desk and ask for an empty room once you arrive at a hotel?
I'm in India and we use primevideo.com. It does come as part of the Amazon Prime subscription.
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From participating in that, my experience was that it’s really hard to disrupt in cybersecurity because businesses are skeptical about using young companies with no reputation and a beta product.

So it’s hard to start showing revenue or traction to get funded. The hunt for revenue then also forces you to focus on things like phishing protection instead of discovering zero days.
Is it a better experience over SSI app? I am not a expert diver, but used that app during my open water certification and it was painful for me as a developer, though I was surprised people made their peace with it.
John Carmack doesn't work hard to eliminate 3ms of frame latency simply because of personal passion. In VR applications, latency kills and will make people sick. Those hard fought ms are needed. You only have 11 ms per frame at 90 Hz.

As someone who works in the performance arena myself I feel like a lot of the work I do is undoing the mistakes that the attitude that it's OK to not care about performance so I'll just do it the 'easy' way. It's pretty much a form of technical debt that is somehow culturally acceptable. For years we've had Moore's law covering everyone's asses but perhaps there will be a reckoning yet.
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I'm no expert on quitting smoking, but I understand that vaping is much more effective than other nicotine supplement methods because it replicates the physical habit of smoking, the inhaling and exhaling of the vapor.
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> I suspect there is a lot of cognitive dissonance involved

Edit : Some more context

I find it fascinating what people do to get rid of the dissonance. In India, we have a heavily regulated tobacco industry. In a debate , I remember someone from a cigarette manufacturing company (who don't manufacture any other tobacco products) commenting that relative to beedi [1] and chew-able tobacco, cigarettes are better because they are less harmful and bring in more revenues to the government!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beedi
The tweet you linked to does not demonstrate your claim; neither does the ZDNet article.
I disagree. Call-out culture is not karma. Karma is equal reward for good as punishment for bad. Call-out culture is informational natural selection that benefits the most outraging story, whether or not it's even true.
C++, rather than C, but there was a GOTW post about this years ago, which explains the situation in detail.

http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/081.htm
“It’s for profit” is a knee-jerk, relatively thought-free answer.

There is a deeper answer, and the door to it is seeing that different people can have very different underlying beliefs and motivations, which are not necessarily morally better or worse, just different.
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Twitter says China used fake accounts to manipulate Hong Kong
Can't vouch for this company, but it is apparently happening.

https://solarfoods.fi

They supposedly create "proteins...produced from CO2, water, and electricity." According to their numbers, yield per unit of water is 10x soy and at least 500x beef.
One big difference is that Apple isn't producing any of the content on Apple Music, while they seem to be planning to produce a fair bit of the content for TV+
Totally agree! but then the question becomes how to fit that in the UI in a way that doesn't break HN's minimalism.
A fun thought experiment: how would you go about incentivizing the clients who hire web developers to create fast loading pages but still have Javascript functionality? More importantly, who is in a position to incentivize clients who care more about tracking and marketing than performance?
Yep, for me it's also quite flaky. When I mentioned this to a friend, he asked me if I was kidding -- it always worked for him.
I certainly hope not. Maybe we should wait to post those until after some good discussion has been seeded
If you haven't seen it, The Insider (1999) is well worth watching. It's based on a true story about a whistleblower in the tobacco industry. In the film the CEO knows nicotine is addictive and perjures himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)
We are hosted in infrastructure that doesn't let us change this (although we are currently migrating a lot of the content off on to another site that we do control). Like many developers, we can only do what we can with the tools we have, but we are changing it.
Regardless of whether or not they should be treated differently, the regulations as they stand now do treat them differently. If you don't like that, the solution is to change that, not to creatively interpret "wire fraud" to mean anything a jury decides is bad.
In a typical IO function, the first 10% of the code returns a monad-bind that holds the remaining 90% of the code in a closure. The pieces are pure, but the whole isn't meaningfully pure.
Really? After watching the first two seasons, I got around to reading the first book, and when season 3 rolled around, I just couldn't handle the unnecessary tv drama any longer.

Kids: go read the books!
HN doesn't block VPNs. What are you observing that leads you to say that?
I believe that term had already been used before (I'd at least seen it on twitter)
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Just saw about Python Humble bundle [1]. Al Sweigart, author of some of the books in the bundle, put up a post on reddit [2] adding details about the books in the bundle. Python Software Foundation gets benefited from this bundle.

[1] https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-programming-no-starch-books

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/csl01v/humble_book_bundle_python_programming_by_no/
I don't see the point of banning particular flavors. People use them for the nicotine. I haven't heard anyone clamoring to ban flavored alcohol, which is another life-destroying poison product that's illegal for children.
Apparently the new rules dont apply to state funded independent media, just state controlled. So here in Australia for example, the ABC / SBS government funded (but independent) media would be safe.
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In Australia here, gambling is a bit of a problem across the country, but the governments make so much tax revenue it is allowed to continue.

I know someone who works for one of the big betting companies here. He writes software that aids in direct targeting of problem gamblers based on their social profiles and anything else they can get their hands on.

Pushing drugs is bad but pushing gambling is totally legal.

Suffice to say I'm not a huge fan of said bloke, I think you're selling your soul to the devil, so to speak.
It won't be the same, right? Per the article, GCP will be charging on active instances.
Up next, Juul v2 with MAOIs added.
Just because someone's capable of voting or driving a car it doesn't mean they're doing a good job at it - it's just that they're now past the bare minimum required to qualify.

Anyway, the biggest problem here's not the brain, since adults get addicted just as well.

The problem's that some truly evil people have created yet another addictive product, spent a lot of money to market it and now the poor sods using it are stuck with the ill health and addiction.

And the rest of us have to pick up the pieces while the miserable bastards which invented this get rich. Oh how I hope they're thrown in a dungeon.
Better blind all the Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter employees then. I’m pretty sure my right hand is going numb from clutching my phone all day...
From the website:

>Multiplayer/Modding
>The technological developments made to the foundations of Kerbal Space Program 2 will build on the beloved modding capabilities of the original game, as well as deliver on the long-requested addition of multiplayer. Soon players will be able to share the challenges of deep space exploration. More details on these features will be revealed at a later time.
I think it was around that time that the kernel.org servers were compromised so perhaps that's it.
Is there somewhere I can listen to these two spots?
Read without any JS: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/116

Reduces from 1.2 MB to around 500 KB.
The US is in an awful state. But they don't treat their own people as bad as China has.

Is there an equivalent instance of the Tiananmen Square massacre in the US? (I'm asking, I don't know).

The US has their fair share of issues but freedom to speak against the government has always been a big thing.
If internet was 50 of that you would have to be subscribed to 5 of these to pay that much. That seems like way more than I've ever had since cord cutting. On top of that it's highly likely people will drop one or two a lot more easily when their current fav show is done.
Perhaps worth noting that the author is very left-wing and used to be a member of a Troskyst group. The end of capitalism is a matter of ideology for the author.