skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are good at doing something, in this example that something being making money, ceasing that activity means doing something you are less good at. I don't think many people have the discipline or curiosity to say: "Well that was fun, I figured it out, time to learn something new". It's a brain thing, we get a dopamine reward by succeeding. Moving on requires breaking that addiction. In my opinion, it's not unlike any other addiction.
Bradley Kuhn also wrote an article with regard to recent matters with RMS, which was submitted on HN a couple of days ago, and (I think) received inadequate attention:

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21262282
I think DoNotPay's first use case was disputing parking tickets. Basically the founder made it as a teen after getting a ton of his own parking tickets and the app helped dispute and overturn something like 160,000+ parking tickets for users in the US and UK.

http://money.com/money/4387657/donotpay-chat-bot-traffic-tic...
Pushed out by money.

There are efforts to fund politics on small donations. I'm on board.

Consider looking into them.

Honestly, the citizens will have no place at the policy table, until they take some seats on their own dime.

So, that's happening. Ideally, other changes can be made, but to even get at those, some power is required.
I still can't understand why Perl is easily dismissed as "LOL line noise" but Haskell's apparently fine. At least dipping into Perl you can take on the line noise slowly so you have time to absorb each new technique, and you can write it just fine with hardly any of that if you want, and it won't hurt a thing—Haskell seems to dump all that on you up front, and it seems to require it, idiomatically. It's very off-putting.
We aren't curing aging any time soon are we :(?
Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags
> You could put a local AI model into the Nest

Why do you even need AI for this? This kind of task is solvable pretty easily and is really only an ML task in the most broad of senses.
You laugh, but this story from a few months ago is crazy https://nypost.com/2019/07/24/fbi-agent-brother-to-cop-accus...

Some redditors who were at the bar posted on how he was with agents that were bartenders
Unpopular opinion: as a "technical" person, Mozilla and Firefox's behavior over the last few years really should raise red flags in the technical community. The various so-called "experiments" with advertising and other features might have helped with the bottom line, but it erodes confidence at a time where people are more conscious of privacy-related matters. Even the open source advocates should consider that huge parts of Pocket are still closed source

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/31/mozilla-ad-on-firefoxs-ne...

[2] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/06/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-...

[3] https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-...

[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/

[5] https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75
> paying the ransom is no _guarantee_ you actually recover

I’ve only helped recover from ransomware once about 2 years ago. When we ran the decryption program provided after paying it decrypted ~97% of the data. Some files were just permanently corrupted. Windows Server with ECC memory fwiw.

Fun note but the owner wanted to reboot after decryption and I yelled “No!” across the room, wanting to clone the known good data first. Good thing too, a reboot started the encryption all over again… good times.

I heard they were hit again but took my advice and setup Backblaze.
On the analysis side.
Olympics Marathon Moved Out of Tokyo over Heat Concerns
My complaint is with 'government-run businesses', which will always have such issues. It stems from not being responsible for efficiency or profitability.
>End of the day, the computer is an imperative device, and your training helps you understand that.

Well... it's complicated. A CPU is imperative. An ALU is functional. A GPU is vectorized functional.
Seconded. I wouldn't mind contributing to it. Maybe if even the rules engine was released.
It's too bad that property taxes are the only way that a government can get money.
A couple of weeks in my case. It's not any more difficult than remembering that the -> is the cache-miss operator in C++.

You also don't have to learn the entire universe of Haskell before being productive in it. I still have no idea what profunctors, comonads, and other things are and I'm shipping production Haskell code.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/incoming-democrat-chair...

Overheard on Amtrak in some cases (strange since Amtrak does offer roomettes).
IIRC almost all the signs in the swiss alps are time, not distance. Which makes sense given how steep many of them are -- even if it's not your pace, it's a quick summary of distance + elevation. Perhaps this is less needed in Czech terrain.

They are also coloured by difficulty, not length -- yellow will be a big wide road, red a mountain path, blue may expect you to have brought crampons.
Melatonin and Melanin are closely related chemicals that are used all over the body and are synthesized in the body through related mechanisms and pathways. Melatonin is used in the sleep-wake cycle and melanin is used by the skin to darken it and protect from solar radiation. When you need to sleep and when you need solar protection tend to be inversely related. The interaction between these processes is still being studied and is likely to involve many other things currently not under study.

In general, unless you are under the close supervision of your doctor, I would HIGHLY AVOID injecting peptides or really any other thing into you. In relation to just melanin and melatonin, the interactions are complicated and not well understood. We likely do not have the full picture of what melanin is doing in your body and there could be big problems. There also could be no problems at all. That said, I would not want to be the test cases for a M&M conference on this.

I do not think that people on /r/peptides are doing anything but unnecessarily putting their health at risk and (possibly) doing harm to their families, friends, and other relationships. As we know so little about this area of research, the risks are not well constrained and could result in death or worse. When it comes to health and wellness, especially biochemically, it is much better to leave it to ethical and well trained medical researchers that know what to look out for and how to help when things go bad. Auto-biochem hacking is a hard pass from me for now.
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Shows how valuable they considered it to their business (i.e. zero).
Marc Benioff says it's time to break up Facebook
Actions speak louder than words, and the actions of Mozilla in the last few years surrounding so-called "experiments" makes Google look like the more trustworthy actor wrt browser components. At least Google never called ads "user-enhancing"

[1] https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504
> How much would a localized AI cost to implement

Not much, because you're probably doing regression and I doubt this tasks needs neural nets. Well, it is definitely solvable without NNs at the very least.
por que no los dos?
Daily exposure to blue light may accelerate aging, even if it doesn't reach eyes
Tagging hotels as “eco-friendly” led to drop in bookings for those hotels
The Vaccine License – A Software License That Saves Lives
> Can I use lambdas?

Not ones that capture anything from the environment. I'm not sure about ones that don't, but I imagine you can use them.

> pattern matching?

Yes.

> list compression

List comprehensions, you mean? They don't exist in OCaml, but if they did, they would have to allocate a result list. So no.

> for example, can I dedicate one core to one thread and guarantee that GC will never touch that thread?

I don't think so, maybe someone else can chime in. But more importantly, this is a one-in-a-million use case that is a far cry from "functional programming is always bloated and slow and unpredictable". GC is well-understood, advanced, and comfortably fast enough for most applications. And for other cases, if you really need that hot innermost part, write it in C and call that from OCaml if you're paranoid about it.
I haven't - but that's a good idea! Might have to do another post...
Which entries on the checklist do you feel are not appropriate to include in a security assessment?
Do not try and make the computer functional. That's impossible. Instead, only realize the truth... THERE IS NO COMPUTER. Then you will see that it not the computer that is functional, it is yourself.
Today I learned that “frog” is a hate word. What’s the politically correct alternative here?
Atlassian Acquires Code Barrel, Makers of Automation for Jira
I have a 4 year degree in "Biology" and all I learned was that life does a little bit of everything everywhere.

There are patterns which we classify, but there are rule breakers at every turn because our classifications are not truth
I initially thought this had something to do with the "leJOS" JVM for Lego Mindstorms[1][2].

What's the use case for a distributed operating system? HPC? Or is it just for resilience?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeJOS

[2] http://www.lejos.org/
Which boxes on this checklist are not components of browser security? I'm nothing like an expert on cybersecurity, but they generally seem relevant to me.

Conversely, what boxes would you say are missing?
VirtualBox, I keep work in separate VM.
Some Older Teslas Won't Charge and Screen Stops Working
California should abolish the income tax like WA/NV/FL and watch people move back in droves.
No. You could do this with any model that has feedback built in. I don't think you'd even need something as complicated as Q-learning but any type of reinforcement "learning" method would work. You're basically teaching a PID that has a clock.
Michael Douglas said it best: "It's not about the money. It's about winning."
That may be true in principle, but in reality an average user password meets none of those requirements either.
This is very much in the security training government and military have to take annually as well.
Time for them to pivot into using the latin verb "legō".

Although they will have to purge the pictures of lego bricks.

Even then they might not be safe. Legal trolls like Bethesda would go after you for making scrollOS.
I'd do that as a zsh plugin. If you do one that's oh-my-zsh compatible, it'll work with most of the frameworks, and you can install it by hand if you're running bare ZSH.

Then they just need to occasionally `git pull` to get updates to your company script collection.

I wrote a brief set of guidelines at https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins/blob/master/W...

If you have them use a ZSH framework, (I recommend https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen for load speed), the good ones can handle the periodic pulls for you automagically.
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> how do people find real-life things on the internet?

Originally I was planning to put them all on Facebook because I was expecting our market to be there (young adult who want to do something with friends). I was only taking ads on Google because even with the exact name, the result was too far. I was planning to remove it but as the CPC was much lower than on Facebook, I kept it with a few dollars per day.

> I'll do a web search, or possibly open Google Maps on my phone and search for it.

That what seems to be happening. Google Maps is one of our best source of conversion. During the first 12 months my SO asked most people where they found the escape room and a majority were from Google Maps. On Google My Business their stats show that in the past 30 days it was displayed 20k times, which is quite good. The CTR isn't amazing but it's still something and the number of calls is actually not too bad considering that I don't expect most people to use the call button of Google Maps to book.

I'll probably try to pay for ads on Google Maps and Waze soon.
Jane Street does a fair bit of high-performance OCaml...
>Siri is listening (both on phones and on Apple' homepod), Alexa is listening, Cortana is listening, ...

I've disabled Siri and Cortana to the best of my ability (and I don't own any Amazon devices with a microphone). Of course I can't actually be sure that that means that they're really not listening, but it's absurd to imply that just because one owns a smart phone they must give up all hope of privacy.
Right. Usually workarounds actually, you know, work :-P
They don't want their trademark turning into a noun (or a verb), just like Velcro doesn't want their trademark to be used to refer to "hook and loop" [1]. It's not unreasonable for them to try to protect their trademark.

1 - https://youtu.be/rRi8LptvFZY
From the Gita:

The demoniac person thinks: "So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will also be killed. I am the lord of everything, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice." In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance.
No kidding, good luck guys and gals. Let me know how that goes in twenty years.
Are you implying you can't trust someone if you ask for their identity before making a transaction/trade/deal?
The case is specifically being made about dark matter, and in particular about the galactic rotation curves that are the primary motivation for the dark matter hypothesis. Dark energy has a completely different basis that wouldn't be subject to this particular alternative hypothesis -- though the very general point of "maybe the approximations we're using are too simple" does still apply. Though really they apply to pretty much any open question.
> griefer trap

Seems like a compelling idea.

Related: Microsoft are looking at using AI to detect abusive in-game chat. [0]

> When personal reputation was on the line, no one violated trust.

This approach hasn't worked for Facebook, for whatever reason. Perhaps Facebook triggers the 'road rage' mentality more than gaming does.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50054725
At the same time, they passed rent control, and the jurisdictions that have the worst housing crises have the strongest rent control.

Once a few people rent out their ADUs and then find that they can't evict their tenants as their needs change, very few people are going to be willing to invest the several hundred thousand necessary to permit and build one.
> Or perhaps that, in general, the government should step in to prevent people from taking undue risks in exchange for money?

Yes, literally why OHS exists and should continue to exist.

> $4,000 seems like a perfectly reasonable and fair price for someone to undertake the risks associated with kidney donation.

Who is going to need that sum, but also afford all the post-op medical care and time off? In case of complication, who is responsible? Something tells me if you're needing that sum, you're not going to have the medical coverage required to take care of yourself. Iran seems to have a higher level of general healthcare coverage than America [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Iran
It's not a right to be free from competition from the government. The reason we allow corporations is so they can serve the public good, but if the public good would be better served by the government providing that service then there's no reason society shouldn't do that.
Sounds like a phone.

I have had internal combustion engine cars where the lead-acid battery would not stay charged, and that will cause the screen, engine, everything else to not work.
Governments and corporations are filled with deceitful, self-serving, corrupt people. If there is a monetary interest, the transaction will take place. If that has to happen under the radar, it will. The agencies will excuse their actions by citing "defense". It is in the interest of National Security, therefore, that the data is handed/sold to the government, and the mechanism of this transfer is classified owing to National Security interests. Or maybe it's easier than that. Maybe Google is just a government agency. An Alphabet agency.
Its not the distribution of the wealth that's the problem:

Myriad state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200 percent above the poverty line receive benefits, according to the California Policy Center. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments, and “other public welfare,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Unfortunately, California, with 12 percent of the American population, is home today to roughly one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients. The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.

And you know who gets hit the worse when we enact punitive "climate change" policies? The poor:

Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. On some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50 percent higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced ‘energy poverty’—defined as energy expenditures exceeding 10 percent of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15 percent of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17 percent of median income in some areas. “The impacts on the poorest households are not only the largest,” states Winegarden. “They are clearly unaffordable.”

The fact California is a one-party state is also a huge cause:

California’s de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem. With a permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-poverty-capital...
Sure for hardware, real time, embedded use cases (and probably others), makes sense.

Does it matter for data analysis and most web apps, infra as code, etc? Which data scientists do you know fetishize how Python is laying out memory?

OOP is a hot mess. Yes, I know, you’re all very well versed in how to use it “right”, but the concept enables a mess. It’s the C of coding paradigms when it would be great to have a paradigm that pushes towards Rust, and reduces the chance for hot messes from the start.

Most of this work is organizing run of the mill business information. Why it works from a math perspective is more universally applicable and interesting anyway.
You can control it from anywhere so if you're coming home earlier than normal or know you need to pre-cool the house because you're having a party later you can do it from your phone. Or just being able to control it from anywhere in the house, this can be done with X10 or something but that requires additional hardware to bridge between the X10 network and the internet. Most IoT devices are similar and use wifi and a central server because it's the most convenient option for configuration, with both sides hitting a central API you don't have to worry about ensuring clients discover all the devices on the home network and it's then trivial to allow control from outside the home.
The principle of deficit spending is to spend when in a recession and repay when in an expansion. California _always_ overspends, no matter how much comes in. This is not financially sustainable, and when you consider that much of that is the pension system and retirement savings, quite un-ethical. I've seen plenty of people rag on private pensions for investing the money back into the company to prop it up, and justly so; the same people tend to over-look the same behavior when it is a public entity in question. California is having to tax businesses further to pay for the pensions of current retirees; paying out via those currently paying in is referred to as a Ponzi Scheme when conducted by a private entity.

More importantly, most of California's spending is not to drive growth, but to keep its head above water. Investment is one thing, but never borrow to pay operating expenses if you can help it.
Apple would (hopefully) test it before releasing it on a new product.
I've been playing around with Elixir and rewrote a small Rails app in Phoenix to get used to it. In the end, the benefits are not big enough to make the switch

Pros:

- Less magic. It's a lot easier to figure out what's going on under the hood.
- Phoenix is an improved Rails. Ecto is more flexible, the generators make more sense and everything is better organized.
- FP leads to cleaner code. The difference to a neatly organized Rails (with POROs & service objects) is not big though.
- Tooling/Mix is excellent.
- Elixirforum is a great place full of helpful people.

Cons:

- Small ecosystem and lower productivity. I often had to spend 1-2 days to write a feature where with Rails I'd download a gem and it's done.
- Elixir gets hyped up due to BEAM, OTP, stability, fault tolerance... - however, apart from some very niche cases most of its features can be replicated with background queues, Kubernetes, etc.
- Speed & hosting costs. Elixir is a bit faster than Ruby and the footprint is smaller. But a powerful VPS + CDN is so cheap nowadays that it doesn't matter much at my scale.
- It's an absolute niche language. There aren't many tutorials, SO answers or solutions for small problems - you often have to figure it out on your own.

Overall I'd say that Elixir is fun to work with and ist well thought-through. At the end of the day I only care about shipping products though. Writing my admin backend in clean FP code is nice, but I rather download a gem like Administrate and be done with it - so I have more time to focus on my core features.

From a business perspective I don't see many cases for Elixir: A small shop is more productive with Rails/JS/Python due to the vast ecosystems - and a bigger company will have trouble finding enough devs.
Government. Medicine. Capitalism?
Mail app using Gmail on iOS 13 resending old emails
Okay, so is "after using elixir for too long, I really need a holiday" a more contrasted version than the hype ;) ?
Folks... This is the most confusing thread I ever participated.

In my post I just mentioned which beverage my customers prefer, I never implied that Starbucks is closing or should close...
Previous Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912065
This seems to be a universal property of governments. Or of budgets, really. Within major corporations departments tend to spend up to the limit of their budget (and then some, with debt) regardless of whether it's efficient, and then continue to do until the parent company goes bankrupt.

Eliminating Prop 13 would at least fix some of the misincentives in the housing market so that senior citizens living alone could afford to downsize to a 1BR condo and free up the empty 4BR house for a family with 3 kids.