skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy to get started, undoubtedly yes.

Easy to be a Python black belt certainly not.

While it looks like piecemeal to adopt metaprogramming, decorators, multiple inheritance, slots, operator overloading, extension of built in types, generators, async/await, their use combined in the hands of clever programmers, is anything but easy.

Doing Python since version 1.6.
There's an interesting related study which was looking for causes of road rage, and found a correlation with the number of bumper stickers [1]. The content of the bumper stickers didn't matter, just whether or not there were bumper stickers. The conclusion was in how people interpreted the space of a car. More bumper stickers indicated that somebody viewed the car and the space that it occupied as personal space, rather than as transportation, or as a way to use a shared resource.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080613/full/news.2008.889.h...
Sure. Uber definitely did better taxi dispatch. But if Kalanick had kept working on Red Swoosh, does anybody really believe taxi dispatch today would be just like it was in 2005?

I'd say no. The cab industry was already tracking vehicle GPS circa 2005: http://www.taxi-library.org/mccurdy.htm

Google Maps Android launched in 2008. It doesn't take a genius to say, "What if..." And people did. Like this 2010 paper about experiments with Java apps to do taxi dispatch in Singapore: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dddc/21e65523932240164d2bb4...

So people are giving Uber credit for something that would have happened anyhow. And they're doing that because Kalanick was the one most willing to burn money and break laws, not because he was such a creative genius.
https://medium.com/@mbostock/command-line-cartography-part-1...

Alt. for java devs:

http://geoserver.org/about/

https://geotools.org/about.html

https://sis.apache.org/
You are confusing anecdotes with the bigger system. Holland tunnel is a problem once in a while not all the time.
To understand this perspective better, step back and ask yourself how much do you trust the US healthcare system and pharmaceutical industry to have your best interests as it’s top priority?

Given everyone’s various degrees of lack of trust in a highly corrupt and inefficient system, it’s perhaps easier to see how people “throw the baby out with the bathwater” when it comes to understanding science & medicine relative to the industries that profit from their corrupt establishment. If you don’t trust the messenger, how can you trust the message?
Ask HN: What are climate science problems approachable/solvable with AI and ML?
The question that needs to be answered is, what is the marginal impact of taking an ICE off the road and replacing it with a BEV?

Using the current mix of renewables is a form of double counting. No more renewable energy is being fed in to the grid, however more is coming from dirty sources.

Reductio ad absurdum, what happens if all of Germany's cars were BEV overnight? I've seen estimates that the load on the grid would be increased by 20%. Surely you'd agree that using the current mix of renewables would no longer make sense calculating their environmental impact. So why does that change at the margins?

The answer is that it doesn't. The math is the same. With the exceptions we've both pointed out.
Personally I’m not horrified that a charging circuit gets hot when it’s under the highest possible load, given that the cooling solution in place (the fan) detects it and ramps up.

To my mind that’s just the cooling solution working as intended.
I can see memories, but struggle to remember words I heard.

Coping strategies: lots of notes!!!
From my perspective, it isn't cut-and-dry. The quick response I give is:

If you are developing a business application and no one dies if something goes wrong for a few hours, the answer is "hell no". Productivity takes a hit for no strong upside to the biz.

If you are developing a safety-critical system, the answer is "maybe". This one is more obvious.

The more complex reasoning is that ultimately, almost every software system has to interface with the outside world in some way. Putting your functional programming layer as your principal interface between your internal and external domains is an extremely high-cost endeavor due to the complexity of handling things you can't predict. If your system is safety-critical, and you have extensive control over the external domain (e.g. dedicated, redundant sensor networks), you might be able to justify this added complexity because you can control many more variables than you would be able to otherwise.

An alternative approach that seems ideal to me at this time is to use imperative techniques as the principal architecture, and then use functional within that domain in the specific cases where it can be justified. Good examples of this would be C#/LINQ, or even invocation of F# from C# (e.g. rules engine). Imperative is extremely good at handling side-effects and managing exceptions. Functional is deterministic if you can keep it on rails. Using both where most suitable w/ interop between seems to be the most productive approach.

A quick corollary could be: "If you are exclusively using functional techniques to build your application, you are probably making a mistake".
The first two are total bullshit metrics.

Basically any Github metric in isolation doesn't mean much. Anecdotally, I once worked on a ML framework in Rust[0]. For at least a few months after release the metrics looked good on paper (Top 5 Rust project by stars at the time) and also had a few smaller contributors. Sadly next to no actual adoption and no healthy community around it that was able to pick it up after we had to stop maintenance.

Downloads are about as bad. Just have one or a few users that have CI or deployment patterns that download the package a lot, and your numbers lost any meaning.

[0]: https://github.com/autumnai/leaf
Samson Mow: Bitcoin Is Just the Beginning for the Lightning Network
> What makes you so sure we couldn't survive without taxis, given that we have the densest subway network in the United States, even more bus lines than that, and Citibike?

lmao imagine high paid consultants politicians and tv celebrities on Citibike.
> Haskell was used in the first programming class at university and that was excellent.

I don't think getting started in haskell is that hard. If you're just doing theoretical exercises like building data structures and their related operations then it might even be easier than other languages.

Building a bigger application that does things like create a mini game or act as the backend for a web service, you know the cool stuff, becomes a lot harder.
As someone who likes to be outdoors, I can attest to the quite remarkable frequency and persistence of lawn-mowing, anywhere within earshot of human settlement. If I could swap a passing Heaviside for each gas lawnmower I hear, I would take the trade.
Or is it more about being corrupted by false information on social media? I know some anti vaxxers and it feels charitable to them to say its because they analyzed and studied healthcare and therefore mistrust its vaccines.

Rather, the occams razor is that they are just wrong and misled. They got into anti vax propaganda on FB or elsewhere, its straight misinformation, feeling of parental superiority, and conspiracy thinking. Given they hold numerous false views about vaccines like risks with autism and arsenic, its clearly bad information that is virally infecting people via social media.

And downvoted for disagreeing civilly, have to love it, is this reddit?
That's interesting, my default view in memories is usually third person, often from above and to the side or some other perspective view. I have to concentrate on recalling detail in order to view my memories from a first person perspective. The third person recollection always seems to be more about the spatial relationships between people and things and is certainly not photographic, more like a conceptual understanding with images. Almost a diorama or a scene acted out on a stage. Weirdly this also shows up in my dreams although I do dream in the first person frequently.
A few years ago, I found a promotional offer on lowendbox.com for chicagovps.net, but currently there are none that cheap.

However, keep in mind that low price often comes at a cost. For example, cloudatcost had a cheap VPS with a onetime payment for life (yeah, I know, too good to be true), but then retroactively invented a maintenance fee. Also several days of downtime were not uncommon.
> separate the infrastructure from the data delivery portion

How is that achievable without regulatory action?
'Not sure how your personal story is relevant here.'

Just pointing out that there is a reason why people are presumed innocent until proven guilty?

Adding 'allegedly' doesn't detract from what your saying.
Fuck everyone with disabilities yeah? ALS? Just walk a few blocks! Parkinson's? Just walk a few blocks! Dystrophy? Just walk a few blocks!

Life isn't hard enough for these individuals so let's kick it up a notch by rolling out exclusively ableist transportation.
What do they do?

Of the countries you listed I’ve only been to japan. Besides great public transit street parking is mostly prohibited and many streets naturally aren’t well suited for cars at all, turning them into something very similar to German pedestrian zones.
How will it become more efficient to force more people onto the trains? You haven't traveled with the L train recently.
One NASA image tells dozens of stories
Which proves my point.

Try and have kids then we should talk.
I do all my data science on linux machines (Kubuntu, but it shouldn't matter), so, like +1.
Executing that strategy has a cost much higher than the risk of vaccine complications. So it's not the best strategy by any means.
> The world is full of special cases, of corner cases, of exceptions, of holes, of particular conditions, of differences for first or last element, and other irregularities; it is also full of sequential events.

Yes. All of which are modelled in Haskell in a pretty straightforward manner. I’d argue Haskell models adversity like this better than most languages.

> but not with many real-world problems.

Haskell is a general purpose language. People use it to solve real world problems every day. I do. My colleagues do. A huge amount of people do.

> Well, one may say that answering with questions could fit the bill...

I see. So trying to define the terms to enable constructive discourse is elitist. Got it.

If you want me to be more concrete and assertive, fine. No problem. Here we go.

You are wrong.
On the other hand, available public transportation also increases economic mobility and decreases overall costs of the working poor. The ability to own, park, maintain a car is a large cliff, even in the cheapest of states. The ability to get to most jobs without a car in a reasonable time drastically decreases hurdles to economic mobility.

(and also of the middle class, whether that's the underinsured or carrying insurance against under insured divers.
Yes today, because manhattan takes som of the traffic. Forcing it around would increase congestion.
> The vpn clients encrypt their search terms and vpn relays encrypt their search indexes, and perform ElGamal Homomorphic private set intersection with MINHASH in Elliptic Curve Field.

Can I get this phrase on a T-shirt?
> Eventually you can't offer any more carrots and you have to start using a stick.

At least you're open that you want to force them to do what you prefer, instead of what's best for them. Most people who want to force their preferences on others are not so clear-eyed.
Depends on the venue; I've played things like coffee shops that required us and the people putting the show on to bring everything inc. drums and a PA system.

That's also specific to musicians, like I said there's a bunch of things that have these same types of requirements. Catering comes to mind off the top of my head, and they have to worry about temperature control for their products as a safety concern. I've never seen a caterer on a subway lol.
what a downer
Friendly reminder that German compounds aren't that special compared to English ones. We just don't separate their components with spaces.
It's the grouping, amount, frequency, and unsolved health issues around early childhood issues such as SIDS and autism that freaked parents out.

The fact that the only answers to the questions and concerns is to employ shaming tactics is not compelling or rational enough to push parents with major concerns into doing it.

The medical communities modus operandi of "we have a drug or pill for that", especially around opioids for instance, has created distrust amongst a lot of people also that had recent interactions with doctors.

It is kind of a perfect storm of issues in my opinion.
>Am I supposed to be able "vividly recollect" like some sort of imaginary first-person shooter?

Apparently many people can. I mostly can't. Interestingly, I learned this while reading a comic where a plot point was certain memories being visualized in black-and-white versus color. The fact that the author took it as given that you could visualize memories in such detail that color could be discerned was mind blowing. I wonder how many other things we take as given based on our own mental experiences but which aren't close to universal.
Even if you have the technologist, it's just too much work and it's soul breaking to go over every CVE, try to understand if the CVE is a real vulnerability or not and what it is about. They don't bother most of the time to explain what is the issue or what's the fix.
Not that I diagree it's a contrived situation but it does happen. I've seen it with my own eyes driving in rush hour traffic going between 30-40 mph and having a 3-5yr old girl run directly into traffic from the front yard of her house. Brakes were applied, car hit girl, dad ran from porch directly to girl, picked her up, rushed to hospital. I have no idea if she was hurt or not. The car clearly hit her, possibly by 1-inch meaning if the car had managed to stop 1-inch shorter maybe she would not have been hit. 30 or 60 cars were basically moving as a block down a 4 lane street (2 lanes each side). The car that hit the girl is the middle of the pack meaning the girl ran directly between cars. I was in the inner lane, car that hit girl was in outer lane (closer to houses). Somewhere like this, speed limit 45mph

https://goo.gl/maps/iDXj3wnFrhbrdzYQ8
I love these gaming story. Reminds me of the EVE online stories which also have crazy espionage going on.
Well, I'm just pointing out that "easy" is not something that can be attributed to a programming language based on cute, pseudo-code like samples online.

You don't see "Python is easy" examples with full test suite attached to them, explaining that, well, you are in for a ride without those.

As for your comment: I can believe that production breaking typos may have been at a similar level. I don't believe that the effort to reach that level was the same, though.
I find it weird how everyone wants to blame social media for all of our problems. Like there wasn't dumb pseudoscience and conspiracies being spread constantly and fringe political groups before Twitter.

I have a feeling it's because it's an obvious change so everyone blames the surface level platforms (like they blamed TV and video games in the past). Which then offers them an easy "solution" to censor our way out of them as a panacea and then they can blame the tech companies and regulators and politicians for not “doing something” to make humans less dumb.

Editorializing hundreds of millions of people’s daily thoughts and opinions on our way to utopia!
This. Back when I was in middle school learning about what a reliable source was and wasn't, major newspapers were taught as citation-worthy. I wasn't allowed to cite my textbook, but I could cite the New York Times.

I still respect the New York Times but even they've jumped the gun so many times recently it's hard not to question. If I was less educated and didn't understand the economic/social forces driving them and how to account for that I'd probably just write them off entirely as many have done.

Same goes for government agencies and the medical establishment. People have literally been killed, sometimes slowly and painfully on account of their corrupt advice.

Edit: Lot of down-votes all of a sudden. For the record I'm not endorsing anti-vaxxers. Just saying in a world where skepticism of institutions is rightly warranted many will take it too far.
That’s great. Not sure what point you’re making though :)
"There is a risk of harm from the vaccine itself" - A very low risk. And the risk from the disease itself is much higher.
> musl appeals to me because [...] is not a GNU project

I don't see the logic in this. There are tons of other GNU & GPL code on your machine.
WTO authorized the tariffs. This started way before trump. Read the article before blaming trump as sole cause
>I couldn't find any serious research of it

Where did you look? The keywords echolocation and blind returns hundreds of relevant articles in google scholar. Many of them from serious journals.
Our current vehicle are great for many things and the improvements to them have increased safety and reduced deaths of occupants, blah blah blah.

Let's regulate these death machines to roads where they can be death machines, like highways, in the city you switch to driving an open air buggy whose seat belt is there to help you not slide out of a slippery plastic seat.
And honestly, I’m not sure the businesspeople have it wrong here. Maybe I can guarantee that there’s no real issue in our current build; how do I know that nobody will ever change things in a way that exposes the vulnerability? What’s the control against a lazy or bad engineer saying “this other CVE can be ignored because I don’t personally see how to exploit it”?
COLEMAK? is that the "other obscure layout"?
Ideally, the West Hide Highway and FDR would be torn up, buried, etc. They're ruining almost the entire waterfront for most of Lower Manhattan.
"Alibaba, an e-commerce giant based in Hangzhou, announced its first RISC-V chip in July"
Good point, he was a doctor who had release a groundbreaking study so it was pretty rational to get worried about it.

On a tangent: what has your post been down-voted? It's a good well reasoned reply to my comment. It should be getting up-votes.
Came here to make sure this point was made. The increased death of bicyclists, pedestrians is a pretty easy thing to measure. There are other things that are overlooked or at least not mentioned due to smartphone users driving-

1) increased commute times because distracted drivers don’t follow the flow of traffic well
2) increased likelihood of collisions as traffic starts and stops on highways. I’m certain I see more rear end collisions on the freeway in the last 10 years than the prior 10.
3) Lost productivity at work.
This article hints at, but doesn't fully articulate, the irony of two apparently very different disciplines applied upon each other.

Vaccine-resistance, as a mental-state looks akin to the immune system, which normally confers disease immunity but, when running amok can trigger allergies.

It is implied that some medical sociologists now consider vaccine-resistant thinking as a kind of allergy to benign societal forces and are planning a social vaccination program to eradicate such wrong-headedness.

As an aside, the word meme was used near to its original sense - as Dawkins defined it - in the last chapter of his classic "The Selfish Gene".
How it is integral? (I have aphantasia). I don’t see anything in my daily life that would require the capability of visually representing events of the past. I remember the facts and circumstances, and even some visual “contours” or traces, but it is a far cry from seeing a picture like I see the reality.
Surprised this was downvoted. From a purely self-interested perspective it makes sense. For anyone who's not aware of the (very low) risk of harm from various vaccines, see https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm. "Life-threatening severe illness with organ failure (about 1 person in 250,000). More than half the people who suffer this side effect die.", for instance, is a side effect of the yellow fever vaccination, which might still be a higher chance than the chance of catching yellow fever, especially if everybody else has been vaccinated against it.

Of course it doesn't hold so well when not everybody else has been vaccinated, as then the chance of catching the disease is higher. That's presumably why OP added the qualifier "everybody else is vaccinated".
I agree. It looks promising but IIUC it is just a new chemotherapy drug. The general idea of killing cells that reproduce is common in many (most?) of the chemotherapy drugs, so they produce nasty side effects like perhaps killing the bone marrow that also have (healthy) cells with a fast preproduction cicle.

I really don't understand the evolutionary/Darwinian spin. It doesn't make sense, it looks like a buzzword. They just (try to) kill all the cells that reproduce like other chemotherapy drugs.
as a person who has worked in pharma and knows many company-leaders in that space, I gotta say it's painful to read things like this. Many of us are in this business because we thought it would help people, and many of the reasons we can't get things done are due to systemic problems in human health care, not because the leadership is grubbing as much money as it can.
> great engineering being trumped by globalised economics

The art of engineering is not to create a beautiful machine, it's to build something that does the job as efficiently as possible.

It's easy to build a machine that does something, it's hard to build it so it can also be manufactured cheaply. See e.g. the Juicero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero#Controversies).
I think you’re giving them too much credit.

I don’t think it’s based in science, or distrust of a “corrupt“ or untrustworthy system. It seems to be a combination of cult-like group-think, misplaced parental emotions, and social media-driven fear-mongering, all brought together by a determinedly anti-intellectual anti-science stance.
Imagine you spent a career learning the piano. Would you expect to pick up the violin as if you were an expert?

Would it be reasonable to declare violin sucks! I've played piano for 30 years, vibrato is so hard it must be wrong, tell me why I should learn the violin?

Actually probably a lot will come with you, your dexterity and music theory will be quite useful, as will your ear.

But really, the instruments are very different and if you want to level up your sense of pitch or really learn how to sing a melody, the violin can be great for that...
A dirty grid just means the electric car needs to be kept in service a little longer to be greener than an ICE car, but it's still well within the lifetime of the vehicle. It's [roughly, from memory] service life of 12-18 months for a clean grid, and around 5 years for a dirty grid. The above is about how quickly the lower CO2 per mile of an EV offsets the CO2 required to build the car (which mostly means building the battery). Even with a dirty grid, EVs produce much less CO2 per mile than ICE.
For most of my adult life, I've felt that I have a problem with my memory. I cannot recall much of my past life. I can know things happen, and there are a few circumstances that I can recall visually. The visual recollections are retrieved as a series of photos, not like a video.

A few years ago, I discovered that I had a vitamin B12 deficiency. B12 is a contributor to memory, so I was hopeful that by clearing up the deficiency, my memory would improve. I'd have to say I don't think so, but it's a pretty subjective question. At least, I can say it was not dramatic, if improved at all.

Otherwise, I am quite introverted, on the spectrum. I focus on my thoughts much more than what is going on around me, and that strikes me as a more likely cause. The events are not imprinted because I am not paying attention.
They take the subway, tho