skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top comment on YouTube raises a valid point:

> I've programmed both functional and non-functional (not necessarily OO) programming languages for ~2 decades now. This misses the point. Even if functional programming helps you reason about ADTs and data flow, monads, etc, it has the opposite effect for helping you reason about what the machine is doing. You have no control over execution, memory layout, garbage collection, you name it. FP will always occupy a niche because of where it sits in the abstraction hierarchy. I'm a real time graphics programmer and if I can't mentally map (in rough terms, specific if necessary) what assembly my code is going to generate, the language is a non-starter. This is true for any company at scale. FP can be used at the fringe or the edge, but the core part demands efficiency.
I think a device with a camera/microphone should have a physical on/off button and a LED which indicates when it's on. At least, that's how I would design it.
That's just lazy.
And we do seem to have wiped out/outcompeted Neanderthals etc.

> fire-cooking, rock-throwing domesticating niche

Just knowing if that was the evolutionary pressure along the path would be enough for me (even if it could have been another ape or a corvid or whatever - or maybe they are on that path now?)

BTW Matt Ridley has the theory that division of labour (trade enabling specialization) was the gradient.
My guess would be that someone maintaining the main index isn’t maintaining the sorted indices. With Algolia, you have a duplicated index for each type of sort and direction that you want to support.
How much would an average BTC transaction cost with proper carbon emissions pricing? Carbon emissions are already priced in Europe.
yaml is not nice, but just quote every string that is a string and many corner cases go away.
Same example of baking a cake to explain functional programming in R by Hadley Wickham. A good presentation.

https://speakerdeck.com/hadley/the-joy-of-functional-program...
The inconsistencies are not named dark matter. But the leading explanation for the inconsistency is, quite abtly named: It's particles with a mass (=matter) which interact electromagnetically so weakly that they are non-visible (=dark).
Rapid Ring App
Haha, that sounds like the C++ inheritance joke.
Sunglasses with Speakers and BuiltIn Mic Kaleo Classic GoVision USA
Alas, this post suffers from mathematician syndrome ("first, assume cows are spherical..."). Actual buffet queues can't be modeled like this; because of the physical constraints, they should be modeled as particle flows and hence take into account that one person cannot occupy the same space as another, and the overhead of routing, blocking etc.

While I agree that the 'default' buffet queue is inefficient, I don't agree with the proposed methodology of finding an improvement.

(also, I missed a literature study - there is so so so much research on this already)
There are two annoying things that keep me from using ddg by default:

* the way they do scrolling by up and down arrow buttons.

* "load more" button instead of normal pagination.

But sometimes I have to use ddg when google forces me to solve recaptcha (this often happens when I connect via mobile network).
So functionally it's roughly equivalent to a Gizmotron https://www.gizmotron.com/ with extra solenoids to push the wheels up and down. Actually the Gizmo is better in several respects: it doesn't block the fretboard (though it can be an obstacle for the picking/plucking hand), doesn't prevent string bending and by now seems to have a less staccato and less harsh-sounding string activation.
Can you give an example of those places?
That, or he hates the HN hug of death.
Except for fact than in balloon analogy, ant is moving in a direction by balloon surface, while in our case our "balloon" is perfectly still in all directions.

Imagine that balloon is not inflated at all, but ant magically moves 70mm instead of 10mm. How this is possible???

I can accept, that our part of Laniakea is expanding, but not whole Universe.
I think the parent was talking about the domestic conversation around the Brexit vote.

The red lines weren't drawn until after that vote.
China grants Tesla car manufacturing certificate, says industry ministry
Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie prompts?
I am finding this to have become a major distraction, not only because it steals in sum a few minutes of every day, but because it is a major distraction that disrupts my train of thought, when e.g. looking up on thesaurus. It doesnt help that many sites think it appropriate to prompt again every week.
I have seen people say this on HN over and over again. But it's not like most people who start businesses lacks vision. If you got a vision and start to earn enough money to sustain yourself you are free to hunt whatever vision you want.

> constant input and a nagging push to improve what you're doing

I get why this can be good, but honestly it sounds terrible when you lay it out like that. If I want to be nagged on, I would just get married.
Google Funds Climate Deniers
We have tons of Functional code and it's growing every day. What is hard is hiring developers who have a decent background in it because there are so many maintenance and legacy systems out there and so many lazy developers who aren't staying current.

I will tell you, I typically don't hire a Java developer who hasn't done any streams programming at the very least. And that's not even really FP, but if someone can't understand immutability, lambdas, predicates, functions as first class objects, and how to solve coding problems in this fashion, then they're of little use because we're working with frameworks now that assume you know all this.

People get very upset when you tell them that the OOP patterns they learned are less useful these days.
Who is the end user of that data?
How Many BTC Is Outside the Main Bitcoin Blockchain?
Ah yes, I didn't remeber at first why that domain was added to my hosts blacklist.
If they don't realize it, they don't get taxed on it. I read the comment as stating they are getting taxed every year.
Vehemently agreeing with you. Fingerprints are identification, not authentication or authorization.
Adam Neumann’s Relationship with the Kabbalah Centre Helped Build WeWork
The various states would love to have as much data as they can on every citizen. Therefore, we're all state targets.
I'd rather have a baking class that takes an argument for what I want to bake, either bread or cake, and spares me the details of how baking is done. I don't have to know that a preheated oven is one that is at 175 grades etc
Do you have fingers?
This article is pretty sloppy, mixing up students in different parts of the process. And given the headline about ranking students "before they apply", the opening anecdote is seriously misleading. The student visited the university website after applying, so the tracking software linked the visit back to the profile full of information the student had directly provided to the school's admissions office. That feels skeevy, especially if they aren't clear about it when you are applying, but the implication given the headline is that this detailed profile just popped up the first time the student visited the university website, which is not the case.

None of this is remotely new, of course. Colleges have been collecting information from standardized test companies and market researchers and building profiles of individual students for decades. I got mailboxes full of solicitations to apply to X or Y school 25 years ago when I was in high school, and now my daughter is dealing with the same.

Later, the article gets around to actual conflicts of interest and ethical issues. But the headline and the opening story are grossly misleading.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I understand the difference now.
The thing about success is that it's addictive. Particularly with the mindset that you seem to have currently. I'm not judging, and I don't know you, so this is just the feeling I get from your post. You seem to be ambitious and on the trajectory for massive success.

It's easy to justify putting in extra hard work now if you tell yourself that the struggle is only temporary. That once this success materializes, you can relax, take it easy and just "work for fun". Some people pull that off.

Ultimately though, we are all human, and one thing humans do is get addicted to the adrenaline. Particularly if we come out having accomplished something after the struggle. Particularly those of us who have this innate drive to push the envelope. You might relax for a little while afterwards and savor the fruits of your labor, but soon you'll get restless. You'll yearn for the feeling of acute focus, that rush of adrenaline and that state of being on top of the world when things come together and you pull off something big.

This is what drives many already accomplished people to continue. It is a self fulfilling prophecy as well, because it takes this sort of drive to get there in the first place, and it's the same drive that prevents your from ever stopping. Take Musk for example. He has generational wealth. He could sit back, put his money in some safe assets and neither him nor the following 10 generations would have to ever work in their life again. Bezos could have long ago retired and just enjoyed his wealth. The thing is, once you have FU$, it all becomes a game. You no longer need the money, but you still want the feeling of success and prove to yourself that you can do well.

You should take care of that drive. Don't let it consume you. It should be a tool, a means to an end, not the thing that defines you wholly.
Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
Nothing’s wrong with some dark humor but careful not to also deliver the joke wit too much conviction. If everyone is kind of in on it or the observation can be substantiated then go for it, but the article also shouldn’t underplay the “shit-colored” glasses that some people with depression have (that may or may not color the perspective of the depressed as much as the delusions of the optimistic).

I say this because I have met people with depression who definitely do distort things constantly with no logical basis, and try and slip in their viewpoints as jokes. I’ve typically found these depressed individuals to be especially unpalatable when they stop making sense.
Isn't the ryzen 9 3950x 16core as well, but with a much lower TDP? (Whatever that means in this case). Comparing tdp is pretty useless.
> to the modern world

To the USA, the technology was apparently already in use in Europe.
The fact that it's the only site I've seen that demonstrates the ability to read HTTP referral headers from hacker news shows who the real hacker is...
Not very elegantly drawn parallels to current cultural discussions. You can measure it by the prevalence of the name "Trump".

It should rather be an indignation of the current norm to actually do attach privileges to race/sex/believes.

It was actually brought back 5-10 years ago, or at least was most noticeable at the time, which doesn't really seem be the next renaissance of social sciences or anthropology in my opinion. On the contrary. And I very much believe new anthropologist knowledge would mostly be framed to confirm current dogma. Not that this would be a historical exception.

I think it is worth thinking about how a relativisation done wrong can quickly become absolutist again, something that might just have happened.

> banal observation that the people who studied other cultures taught us to appreciate diversity

The word diversity is currently nearly synonymous with categorical moral imperatives, it is even prevalent in the subtext of this very sentence, which is nearly the opposite of the classical meaning and pretty much a primary target of what these anthropologist criticized.
I highly doubt many judges in California or the Ninth circuit will look at this situation and blame the user, especially when they aren't the ones with access to the recordings.
Your argument is correct for FaceID, but it does not transfer to TouchID. The fingerprints of twins are not more similar to one another than that of two random people.
Ask HN: Neural Network Topology?
The topology of neural networks fascinates me because it's like a physical connectivity network and the parameter choices (#nodes, #layers) are much less obvious.

Has anyone found a good resource that talks about NN topology choices?
And you don't see any benefit of not having to put your phone in a ziplock bag?
Functional programming? absolutely 100% yes.

Functional programming languages? well, it depends on the problem.

If performance is an important issue, most of the time functional programming languages are a big 'no'.
In case you are in the EU, this is a pretty clear case of a GDPR violation [1], you might want to raise this with you data protection agency. (They might have no resources to assists you though)

[1] https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/, https://gdpr.eu/Recital-42-Burden-of-proof-and-requirements-...
I actually don't know of any functional programming languages that don't have syntactic and semantic support for writing step-by-step algorithms.
> if you are one of those people like me who stays to watch all a film’s credits

Sometimes I do, I almost left the cinema two times during Ad astra though, such a painful movie to watch.
Forbes article has slightly more information, including the fact that the Note10 should have the same vulnerability, and it explains that it's not just any screen protector, but a particular type of wraparound screen protector that manages to confuse the sensor.
Samsung's reaction (a recommendation to only use authorized accessories) is completely off the mark considering that the real problem is someone could steal your device and then use an unauthorized accessory to access your info.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/10/15/samsung-...
You're wrong. They are not arguing in bad faith, because they are not arguing with you at all.

They are informing you of what their products do, and what the products should likely do in the future.

Debate, or argument, implies, at minimum, a two way discussion. That's not what's been going on. And I'm not sure that a debate ever will happen? The only politically palatable people even concerned about their loss of privacy are a few activists and people in the tech industry. (Can't really count on the pedophiles and the terrorists to be of any help in gaining the support of the larger populace.)

Even worse, it's not even like the moms, grandmoms, grandpas, teenage girls, hell raising ex convict uncles, etc don't know that they lose their privacy to google, facebook, and youtube. They do know that they lose their privacy, and they just don't care anymore.

Actually, maybe they never did care? I don't even know?

It's sad.
It's a business in that in the long run revenue has to exceed expenses, and if it doesn't, eventually the institution will cease to exist.

I agree with you that most of these schemes are wastes of money, but spending money on recruiting itself is a required part of operating a higher education institution.
The headline article talks extensively about how this is not the case.
It does. If their light switch doesn't work when I press it I'm annoyed. The fact that I care makes me as stakeholder.

It's just that traditionally my opinion didn't matter much and my stake was tiny.
The Geography of Desperation in America
Nah, just having a problem with the hug of death would be an explanation for redirecting to a polite static message saying "sorry, my site can't handle the load when HN links to it". What he has done instead is excessively diskish.
> People can tell if they have seen it lots of times before they start to shut it down.

Yeah, I can buy that. So now please scroll to the top of the thread and see the topic - the question why some people don't want to discuss politics at work. Exactly because of that - because it very predictably leads to nothing good.

But unlike the anti-intellectual position we're discussing in this corner of the thread, opposing political topics at work because of their inflammatory nature is a rational, consistent, and smart position. Nobody is telling a particular political position is wrong - just that work is not a right place for off-topic, highly emotional discussions. "Don't discuss politics at work" is the equivalent of "don't let junior admins manage public-facing databases with sensitive data without supervision".

And as for the anti-intellectuals, the reason they like to do the "don't do/don't want to" -> "can't do" substitution is because without it, if viewed calmly and rationally, they would reveal themselves to be similar to anti-vaxxers, in terms of pushing positions unsubstantiated by evidence but emotionally appealing.
They are most likely asking because the main competitor to Android devices also has an always listening assistant.
Regarding the supply problem:
The supply could be inflated and deflated with crypto backed stablecoins to adjust for whatever the market needs

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se2CDsmMqvE
The PHR Stack and the Uprise of Services
Boasian anthropology is not science. Races exist. Darwinism is truth.

"Boas did not arrive at the position from a disinterested, scientific inquiry into a vexed if
controversial question. . . . There is no doubt that he had a deep interest in collecting
evidence and designing arguments that would rebut or refute an ideological outlook—
racism—which he considered restrictive upon individuals and undesirable for society.
. . . there is a persistent interest in pressing his social values upon the profession and
the public. (Degler 1991, 82–83)"
There's no value to a robber of unlocking an iPhone with a fingerprint. Unless the phone is dissociated with an iCloud account (which requires entering the user's Apple ID and password) it's useless for anything other than for spare parts.
> It doesn't really matter too much if it's taxed twice, the majority of people with 10 million dollars in a portfolio are passive investors of whatever liquid and hedgeable assets are available.

I'm not wading into that debate. I'm just concerned with accurate use of terminology, as multiple people in this discussion seem to be playing fast-and-loose with it.
Sounds very cool! Something I would like to achieve one day :) Thanks for sharing, good to know there are people with similar values that "made it".
I think partial application and pipe operators make this so very intuitive though:

[butter, sugar, walnuts] |>
mix() |>
splitIntoPans(pans = 3) |>
bake(time = 30, temp = 175) |>
cool(time = 5)
This is true!!! The real problem for me is the IP's. You really do need a DDR SDRAM controller for a lot of real project. Or a PCIE IP to communicate with external resources. If I just use the proprietary tooling it's just a click away to integrated this into a project. Open source has no answer for this as of yet.

Now that we have some nice FPGA's we can use I think this is the next biggest hurdle.
Because simple is better than perfect.
The fact that the math here is wrong is quite concerning. Probabilities are not additive - 1 in 6 dice rolls will produce a 5, it doesn't mean if I roll 6 times I am guaranteed a 5.
> Also whoever decided to put the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone should be prevented from designing phones ever again.

Why? My phone has a fingerprint reader on the back, and I quite like it- I don't have to move my fingers much to use it, it's also the lock button, which makes it rather easy to "log in" to the phone.

Just tested it- less than one second to log in via finger, and it works almost all the time. (I've had motor oil on my fingers and it's still worked, not that that's a good idea...)

Also people who suggest serious consequences for failure to abide by a personal opinion should, IMO, stop talking.
'It feels like running on trampolines' – Kipchoge and Kosgei's marathon trainers
I didn't even realize google had a podcast app. I just installed it and you're right, I can't subscribe to a podcast since I have disabled web activity history. That's a particularly egregious dark pattern.
If my guess is right, that's because your company's product had their own proprietary language (MDL).

But, that was OK too, because if my guess is right, your company's product also had FAR FAR FAR better COM bindings than Autocad did for 99% of what you'd want to automate.
Insufficiently C-like languages get ignored, according to:
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
The government itself doing the things these corporation do would generate loads of outrage. For whatever reason it's a lot more acceptable for a company to collect all this data so you can play music with your voice and then the government can secretly collect it all later if they wish.
> Silver ants travel 108 times their body length per second and have stride rate 10 times that of Usain Bolt ... the ants covered 85.5cm per second in 47 strides.

Does this make them the/one of the fastest animals?

Things like this really make me wonder what the other sentient species out there must be specialized in, compared to us.
Why bother launching a webbrowser then? Save ram:

curl wttr.in
I wonder - has Google became with "no-privacy" by default ?
> coherent inner logic in the abstractions

Umm, I recall in The Innocen Anthropologist the author said that grain threshing areas are closely associated with fertility of women. Doesn't really fit.

I do agree anthroplogy matters because so much of tech is about people not tech.
Venmo, the service exclusively available in the United States?
https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235225428-Signing-U...
Including the term "Go" is very misleading: Go also refers to a game. That might be why there was interest before the language was a thing.

Just in case somebody didn't know that
Far from it. Although Dapr borrowed the Actor Framework and Stateful features from Service Fabric, There are a couple of major differences.
a) Stateful services: Your code + data wont' live together on dapr. You would need an additional I/O hop to access cosmos or redis [or your own state provider] to get to the data. In service fabric, once you hit a partition the data lives right there on that node. You will get much lower latency for reliable collection reads with Service Fabric.
b) Service fabric runs classic .net and .net core. Dapr is only for .net core projects. This is a big deal for users who have vast assets on classic .net
c) With external state provider, partitioning becomes a little murky on dapr. Service fabric gives you range and named partitions with replicas. I am not clear how dapr handles replicas or it delegates that to kubernetes or the underlying orchestrator.
d) Service Fabric roadmap: https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric#service-fabric-r...
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages [2009]
It's a business in that in the long run revenue has to exceed expenses, and if it doesn't, eventually the institution will cease to exist.

Or it needs to be subsidised by another source of money (tax, benefactors, patents, research, sports, etc) if the benefit to society makes it worth keeping around even if it runs at a loss.
Business Glossary Best Practices
Many functional languages acknowledge this and are not pretending to have low-level language facilities. Instead, they have built-in mechanisms (FFI) to interface with those low level languages whenever needed.