skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>people aren’t going to pay much for this if they perceive it as being only for ‘casual’ use.

You don't need people paying much for this to be monetarily successful. You just need many people paying a little bit.

I honestly believe that if GarageBand was multiplatform, browser-based, and priced at something around $10-15/mo (as opposed to being free, but native and limited to apple devices only), it would make a lot of money, despite not being a full replacement for software targeted at people who are professionally making music (like Bitwig, Ableton, Logic Pro, etc.). A simplified video editing service would make way more than that, because the number of casual users who need to make simple changes to a video is way larger than the number of casual users who want to mix or edit a simple track.
JS isn't really a functional language, it's an imperative, prototype-based language with partial functional support that allows multiple coding styles, like most of the popular scripting languages.
Disclaimer: These are novel chemicals and most sources you can find them from are questionable at best. Don't even consider using these without deeply researching the risks from the specific peptide, the quality control of the supplier, as well as the inherent risks of injecting substances of questionable purity.

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BPC-157 is a really interesting peptide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPC-157

"It has been tested in animal trials for cytoprotective and wound healing activities. BPC-157 can contribute to wound healing due to muscle and tendon rejuvenating properties through accelerating the rate of angiogenic repair."

It is cheap and readily available (on Amazon even!), when injected it appears to greatly accelerate recovery from injuries - it's been called the "Wolverine drug" (as in the x-men character with superhuman healing powers). It requires injection, so its use is most common in bodybuilders who are aren't as averse to injecting questionable substances.

Many stories from people claiming it successfully repaired years-old tendon injuries and such. Some claim that oral administration can help with gut issues as well.

Some select testimonials:
Rotator cuff injury recovery - https://www.reddit.com/r/Peptides/comments/8iqbv9/bpc_157_is...

Bicep tendon rupture recovery - https://www.reddit.com/r/powerlifting/comments/5ewi2j/bpc157...

Non-surgical repair of rat achilles tendon - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16583442

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Melanotan is another interesting one - it's an injectable peptide that increases melanin in the skin. From the image journals I've seen reporting progress over time, it definitely is highly effective - one individual used for several months and went from a pasty caucasian to looking Indian or almost Black. He decided to discontinue his trial when his friends started making 'blackface' comments.

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I think it's a really exciting area of research, and I'm glad the people willing to take these risks post about it so readily on the /r/Peptides subreddit. Not for me, but I'm glad they're publishing the results of their n=1 studies!
I think you may be underestimating this issue. It is leading to one of the most heinous and vile things someone can do on an internet forum, shadow banning, akin to putting them in an isolation cell; only worse worse, basically transporting them there without even letting them know they are/were put there and users keep commenting and contributing while being essentially locked away and lost in an authoritarian prison cell where no one can hear them. It's downright sick and depraved and one of the worst practices of the tech sector today for which there is zero justification regardless of what unapproved things were said.

There is a real sickness on the net today where "moderators" have come to think of themselves as the thought police, but even worse, not just thought police of an authoritarian regime, but a kind of self-anointed little dictator that rules over the user rabble at will and upon whim.

If you want to silence people, at least have the spine of any other run of the mill authoritarian and tell users their fundamental human right to speech and expression was taken from them … don't just silently transport them to digital purgatory. Again, it is a vile act that only the most depraved people would excuse, let alone endorse, no matter what unapproved things were thought and said … which are only words/characters on a screen that can be dismissed and ignored.

Ok, I've said my peace. It's a sick and depraved practice and I cannot stand by just not say something when the topic comes up while digital regimes like HN, reddit have, what are essentially digital version of hellish totalitarian regime isolation cells that "mods" disappear people/accounts to.
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Last I saw the favorable comparison for the upcoming performance improvements was "now uses as little battery and performs as well as Chrome"... so I'll try it—I mean I do use it pretty often anyway in short bursts—but there's a ways between that and Safari.

[EDIT] to be clear, I'm rooting for them. I've used Firefox since it was Phoenix. And Firebird. Back then I evangelized it, hard. I've not loved it since somewhere in the 2.x range, but I wish I could again. It's just, you know, been a while.
I wonder what criteria is used to determine "the most operationally optimal seat in the restaurant".

If it's a standard formula that most agents use because it's tried and true, then it could be viable to bug one or two tables in select restaurants in the DC area.

Basically, cast a wide net and see what information you get.

Same could apply at restaurants where business deals are discussed in order to perform insider trading, but unless they have a "movers and shakers" booth or room, it would be harder to pick the right table. Probably easier to pay waiters for intel.
Standing for Voice and Free Expression
I found this title subtly wrong, and it took me a little while to realize why: my accent doesn't have the Mary–marry–merry merger, so "Be Wary" and "Be Merry" don't rhyme for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
I am not denying your experience, but I am from the US and this is not my experience at all. It's called a "refund".

Which individuals? How do you know these people?

Also I don't agree with your perspective on tax withholding. If you don't want your employer to withhold taxes, I think they have to stop withholding taxes. It's a convenient default, in my opinion.
> If you like it, encourage the kid by pressing the Star button :)

I'd humbly suggest not teaching him to not use internet points as motivation.
Awesome advice! Thank you for the link.

Sadly, the author of “Haskell in production” breaks many of the rules in part 2 and code reads like ascii-art :(
I don't have a general purpose solution to comparison across types -- it generally takes the form of wrapping whatever might have yielded a `nil` value in a `case` expression. Not a big deal, but in cases where the rest of the computation would be garbage if a `nil` crept in, I would prefer if I could just Let It Crash.
Which was itself renamed to brickOS at the behest of LEGO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrickOS

Way back in 2004, I used brickOS via Cygwin to build a LEGO robot capable of playing Connect4... the event was a competition by rtlToronto, jokingly called Deep Yellow. Amazingly, there are some pics still online here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=71985
Then keep quiet.

I agree completely with @foopdoopfoop.
I don't understand why advocates for gun ownership need always be painted as crazy or having some kind of bizarre inadequacy that necessitates gun ownership rather than something reasonable and logical.

The 2nd Amendment protects the rights of the people. It enables the populace to stand up to it's government and loudly say 'you work for us.' It's ideological.

Liberty comes at a cost. If you are free, you are free to succeed as well as fail. If you are free to own guns, you accept that there are those out there who will misuse this. It's part of the system. There are better ways to solve the problem than just taking away guns. We can try to solve the root of these problems. The people who are against so called 'assault rifles' end up supporting measures that will be essentially ineffective at solving any of the actual problems.

This is not unique to people who are anti-gun, but it is still foolish. Always putting band-aids on problems rather than fixing the root causes because it's easier to do a band-aid solution.

As a side note, firearms as self defense are an indispensable tool. For example, I for one support The Pink Pistols, which advocates for the gun ownership of marginalized LGBT groups.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes spearheads $10M "anti-monopoly" fund
It's not just homelessness. How would you live in this state making 50k/yr? 40k? The state is completely dystopian outside of tech, especially once you get out of San Francisco (hell I was there yesterday - place seems pretty damn poor to me)

Just as an anecdote I live in a 650 sq ft 1 bedroom apartment. The previous tenants were a family of four. My good friend lives a block away - he's cycled through phases of 3-4 room mates in a run-down 2 bedroom apartment.

There are millions of people in this state packed together like sardines and paying 40-50% of their meager income for that privilege.

This state is riddled with economic inequality, we may not be a poor economy but we have an enormous number of poor people shouldering its weight.
> This is ridiculous.

Perhaps, but why let a perfectly useful argument for cheaper housing go to waste, just because it's nonsense?
In addition to what buerkle said, build more... what? The amount of property is fixed and already owned. The state isn't somehow making more land in places people want to live, so there's no real opportunity for the state to get more tax dollars that way.

Additionally, Prop 13 is kind of a disincentive to build higher-density buildings because if you tear down a building and build a new one, your tax base will go up to match the newly assessed property value rather than remain at the artificially low level it was at before.
The Maynard Tape Primer
I'm not sure that matters to a government. It certainly matters to the company on the receiving end of such an order, but is a sovereign state going to let other states' legislation pre-empt their own?
Grant Sanderson manages to combine his compelling narrative style with elegant animations.
The solution to the chosen puzzle only depends on very straightforward mathematical knowledge. Grant shows a possible route towards discovering the invariants that rule this puzzle.

It is a kind of puzzle to try out on your own, knowing that a rather simple mathematical reasoning solves it. It doesn't rely on some obscure mathematical knowledge as might be suspected from an Olympiad problem.

If you want to see Grant Sanderson, instead of only hearing his voice, he uploaded a Q&A where he explains his motivations. Mainly, creating educational math videos that other people would not be able to create.
... and now we are discussing statewide rent control, which is prop 13 for renters and has the same effect of grandfathering in existing residents and discouraging growth.

I often feel like the whole state and local governmental edifice in this state needs to be liquidated. All of it. Both parties. The incompetence especially in urban planning and infrastructure is just unbelievable.
Good-paying jobs are good for business–and this MIT professor has the receipts
I remember when I started with Java at University.

Like, "hello, what is a method? What the hell is a class? Come on, stop kidding me, objects have methods???? How do I call them? Wait, how do I _write_ a method?"
Call me ol' fashioned, but if I'm not administrating hundreds or thousands of micro-services... I just use "Plain Ol' Unix Processes on ZFS," or as I lovingly call it "POUPZ."

I can honestly say this exact issue is impossible for anyone who POUPZ. If you haven't tried POUPZ in production, or even POUPZ at home, my recommendation is to give it a try.

I think you'll be pretty glad for once that you POUPZ where you eat.
DNS Propagation Checker Tools to Test Domain Status Worldwide
> You have claimed that there are, but so far, you have have not presented any details.

You can measure stars and watch the distances accelerate, or look at how the redshift of a star changes over time instead of staying static. These might take a while to do, but this is about what we can measure, not what we already have.

> As shown in the previous paragraph, the relevant differences must be causally dependent on what form the expansion takes, so you have to make assumptions about the latter in order to deduce the former.

This is that part where I see a breakdown in your logic. It's very possible that we can make measurements on Earth that would tell us exactly how our telescopes would differ from a distant galaxy. In that case, there would be no circularity.

Note that the proposition "We can only get this data by going to another galaxy and using telescopes there." is not part of this scenario.
Jersey Barriers
> one individual used for several months and went from a pasty caucasian to looking Indian or almost Black

Crazy to think there's people out there doing this not for a high, maybe not even for science, but for...?
A country’s third-most spoken language can be surprising
You can ask me anything about PH launch.

Thanks :)
Again, that's just very rarely needed. The server is concurrent and if you have very heavy stuff you use background jobs. This doesn't only work for Rails, this is what java, .net, php etc etc are all doing and it works. I'll be interested intellectually to see what Elixir can do but I just don't see how it solves anything that isn't solved already.
The debt was out of statute, so probably not taxable.
The web site for DoNotPay looks completely different: "The World's First Robot Lawyer". (A bad claim to make.) It's mostly about parking tickets.
This is the controversy. If I am the American site, my response to said German tourist is, "No, I operate under the laws of America and therefore am bound by no European decision." I.e. Europe has no jurisdiction over data stored outside her borders, and the citizen transmitted said data. It is indeed a reach, and unenforceable by Europe unless she personally sanctions company share-holders and agents from entry.
Available Alternative to Ubersuggest Today
Really what you want is a flow field, since this is mainly a problem of many actors with a few shared goals: pathfinding can be computed once every turn and reused by everyone
Referring to Microsoft's original announcement post of OAM, (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/10/16/annou...), the problem of defining application workflows and their dependencies that OAM is addressing is genuine. We have also faced this problem as part of providing Kubernetes-native platform stacks to our customers.

It will be interesting to see how OAM evolves, especially since it is coming from the same team that is leading the charge on Helm and CNAB (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/12/04/annou...).

Here is what we have learnt about this space in the last one and a half years.

Application portability -
While the point about application portability is true, if an organization has decided to adopt Kubernetes, the portability requirement is solved by Kubernetes itself to a large extent. If your application platform workflows are built as Kubernetes YAMLs, then they can be run on any cluster. Kubernetes YAMLs of built-in resources (Pod, Secret, etc.) and Custom Resources (MySQL, Postgres, etc.) can be leveraged to create such Kubernetes-native platform workflows. Our learning has been that a solution that focuses on solving the platform workflows problem on Kubernetes needs to augment existing Kubernetes tools such as Helm, Kustomize, etc. We have been developing such a tool (https://github.com/cloud-ark/kubeplus). Check out this blog post which provides detailed comparison between existing tools. https://medium.com/@cloudark/discovery-and-binding-of-kubern...

On separation of concern between Devs & Ops -
Again with adoption of Kubernetes, our observation has been that Kubernetes YAML and the tooling around it such as Helm is becoming a common language of communication between Devs & Ops. In our view the goal for anyone developing new tools/frameworks in this space should be to help break the barriers that have existed between Dev and Ops teams further. One way we are trying to do this is by extending the vocabulary of ‘as-Code’ systems from the Infrastructure world to the ‘platform’ world of application development teams.
Check out some of our work in this space primarily focusing on Kubernetes Custom Resources here - https://cloudark.io/platform-as-code
Sure it is, it just moves the trust to trusting the verified person and away from simply trusting the system.
prgmr.com has an updated netboot installer: https://prgmr.com/blog/2019/10/17/openbsd.html
Financially, the primary problem of California is that the state spends more than it has, no matter how much comes in. Raising taxes will just increase spending even more. There is no concern whatsoever that spending more than you have consistently causes a problem at some point.
I wouldn’t blame them. The project even goes as far as to so show LEGO-like bricks on the webpage.
In the UK, if you want to close a company you must do the same (pay ~£300 to post notice in a paper that your company is closing).

I think the idea is that anyone who the company owes money to can file a claim before any remaining funds are distributed.

Of course there are much better and more cost-effective ways of doing this (even pre-internet). It’s just absurd rent-seeking by unproductive leeches on the economy as far as I can tell.
That doesn't seem to be the case. A relatively fast machine can't gzip anywhere near 120 MB/s unless the data ultra compressible. Zstd is multithreaded, but single threaded it's speed isn't that fast either.

$ lscpu | grep name
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz

$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10240 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.145168 s, 7.2 GB/s

real 0m0.147s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.111s

$ time dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=102400 | gzip > /dev/null
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 5.36061 s, 196 MB/s

real 0m5.364s
user 0m5.317s
sys 0m0.472s

$ time dd if=/dev/urandom bs=10240 count=102400 | gzip > /dev/null
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 27.3478 s, 38.3 MB/s

real 0m27.352s
user 0m27.169s
sys 0m10.119s

$ time dd if=biggestwords bs=10240 count=102400 | gzip > /dev/null
10642+1 records in
10642+1 records out
108981378 bytes (109 MB) copied, 6.66068 s, 16.4 MB/s

real 0m6.669s
user 0m6.667s
sys 0m0.249s

$ time dd if=biggestwords bs=10240 count=102400 | gzip -1 > /dev/null
10642+1 records in
10642+1 records out
108981378 bytes (109 MB) copied, 1.53539 s, 71.0 MB/s

real 0m1.540s
user 0m1.522s
sys 0m0.138s

$ time dd if=biggestwords of=/dev/null bs=10240 count=102400
10642+1 records in
10642+1 records out
108981378 bytes (109 MB) copied, 0.0407698 s, 2.7 GB/s

real 0m0.043s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m0.036s

Biggestwords is simply /usr/share/dict/words concatenated to itself 22 times so as to provide ~100 MB of data.

If you can get good enough compression it might still be worthwhile to compress. But it's pretty rare in my experience.
Assuming Gitlab is based in the United States, I wouldn’t expect them to unilaterally deny service to the Chinese communist regime. That’s a situation where I would advocate for Congress to impose economic sanctions.
US laws are for US citizens. Note the many and onerous restrictions that prevent US law enforcement agencies from blowing up US citizens from drone aircraft, which self evidently do not apply to noncitizens.
I wonder if, by the time we factor in all the costs of putting everything on a computer and online, securely, it's going to look like it would have been a pretty alright idea to leave most of it the way it had been in the distant past of 30ish years ago.
Great post, I will also add it to https://k8s.af (Kubernetes Failure Stories)
Many residents are opposing any new construction, fearing that this would lower their properties values (or even will just slow down growth). It's quite nice setup when you own very expensive property and don't have to pay much in taxes to own it (and that property gets more and more expensive without much hustle on your side)
IBM Q Experience
Yes, but with 5G, I now have high speed internet on your block too, and so does everyone else.
Foodstuffs and liquid on the list too. So...they're going to starve them?
> Who is making any claim about demonstrating the opposite?

I guess I misunderstood when you said "That actually demonstrates the opposite"...
Would that change the situation in terms of what the US government can require?
Loan sharking and debt collection
Funny because I see fp as tdd^2 + IO on the side (npi) thus bringing all the benefits you like from oop. Only difference is I think a few decades of culture using these bu default leading to terse syntax and idioms.
I think you exceeded your "quota" of quotation marks.
I highly recommend using CUE for the configuration part. I may not have mentioned this, but CUE is a superset of JSON, You can write the config in CUE then compile the config into a final unified JSON file to be fed into another system. You can separate the orchestration and configuration of a system through an actual data transport system.
We seem to have no good solution to this. Capitalism/cowboy development: ship crap fast, break stuff, accrue regulations. Socialism/planned economy: have meetings to plan meetings to discuss requirements forever and nothing ever happens.

While both were government funded, the "cowboy" approach of ArpaNet and IP vs the OSI network protocol consortia are a great case study.
Not raising taxes, and letting public services decay, or having to rely on a car-centric transportation system that made sense in 1960, but is exploding under its own weight in 2019 also has the side effect of encouraging those with mobility to relocate elsewhere - or better yet, not move to California at all.

I would never relocate to California if I had any other options, because of how wretched the transportation infrastructure is in all of its metro areas.
Same reason they use public apt/rubygems/npm/etc. Same reason they use a secured, but public, Github/Gitlab. Same reason many use hosted CI, bug tracker, APM, etc.
Fine. Distance/type then, though those terms aren't very helpful it seems. Looking at the map provided in a different comment, I just don't get it. I guess what I'm saying is that the colors don't line up with anything obviously useful. I still have to know which links I need unless I'm just doing a single segment. And If I need to know which links I need, the colors don't add any useful information.

https://mapy.hiking.sk/?zoom=11&lat=6261583.4553&lon=2274012...
> but not everything in the world is glue code, and as soon as you need to do something O(n) on your dataset, you’re either paying an enormous performance penalty or you’re not writing that bit in Python.

And yet Python has one of the richest and most widely used scientific computing stacks. If writing performant code in a friendly language is all that important, then Julia stands as a more reasonable alternative than does some functional language.