skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the goal programming languages optimize for is somewhere between, on the one hand, "learnability" / "time to fluency"; and, on the other, "power/expressivity when fluent." When you multiply these measures together, gives you an area measured in "productivity over time of each man-hour invested into the project by population of developers of various stages of fluency with the language" (where for an average developer on the project, any given man-hour is partially spent writing code, and partially spent becoming more fluent in the language.)

APL-likes (and Forth-likes, and Lisps when you use the macro features) are a bit too far on the "power when fluent" axis, at the expense of learnability, and so the total area of the product is small. Might be good for one-man projects, but not for large ones.

Minimal languages like ASM or Java, where there are just a few primitives and everything else is design patterns, trade high "learnability" for low "power when fluent", and so also have a reduced optimization product.

Most languages aim somewhere in the middle, though often with a bias toward the side where they think the optimum might truly lie; for example, Go is slightly on the "learnable" side, and Rust is slightly on the "power when fluent" side, but both seem to be generally more productive per average-programmer-man-hour invested into FOSS projects than languages that more heavily favour just one axis.

(Side-note: I'd love to see some real numbers crunched on this. A comparison of rival FOSS projects to implement some shared standard in different languages would make for a pretty good "natural experiment" to look at productivity over. First thing that springs to mind for me personally are the rival Ethereum clients of Geth (= Go) and Parity (= Rust), but I'm sure you can think of your own examples.)
You’ll also have the option to use customer feedback, if you think that makes sense.

Take a look at Lyft’s post-ride survey. Rate your ride, plus a set of chips that let people express what stood out about the driver, plus a comment field. Very simple & quick to complete.
It is a good thing that Google is charging for it's products. They are converting users from products to customers. I am looking forward to Google Search Pro without any ads.
It was ahead of its time and was during the golden era of anime.
My social network for dog walkers definitely needs 5 9's. Thank you for the insight.
Can you elaborate? I’m not familiar with the current state of graphics research. Can a high end GPU today do this, and if not, how far are the fastest high-quality algorithms from realtime today?
I will usually doodle a diagram flow of the expected process or customer interaction. Sometimes it translates directly into program logic, sometimes not so much.

Slightly different but I like to reason in states and will often draw up cellular automata to represent the different states of the system and how to move from one to another.
Blizzard denies reports that it's banning Twitch viewers for pro-Hong Kong chat
Make a new Podcast?
I don’t really use Mailjet for now, but admire their work and think MJML is one of the biggest innovations we’ve seen in the email space in quite some time. Hoping that keeps up in the coming years under Mailgun.
Real-time communications.

There's a hell of a lot more to building and scaling voice and video than you think, and tons more parts of the world are going to "come more online" with higher-bandwidth telecommunications access in the coming decades.
It's almost like a massive evil corporation is leveraging monopoly status in other areas to push their web browser.

History sure does rhyme.

Of course this time the monopolists are also funding their "competition" in exchange for market share protection in other areas. So that's new.
While i appreciate the type safety that Rust may provide (even if it is overblown and only just a little, it can still be useful - e.g. while i prefer C, i do like C++'s "enum class"), my two main issues are that it is only a single implementation (and that implementation looks is too Unix-y with the Windows versions looking bolted at the side) and -especially- too slow.

I get annoyed when my C builds take more than a few seconds and a major reason i avoid C++ for my own stuff (C++'s complexity is another reason) and i hear that Rust has worse compile times than C++. This is enough for me to stay away from it.

But if Rust manages to get an implementation that feels at home at Windows with a full IDE and debugger and also gets around C-like compilation speeds, then i'd like to check it out.
> But good luck with that; I think the data shows that it's not a very pronounced effect.

Yes, you're right, H1-B visas and offshoring have done wonders for the average US software engineer's wages.
Lower latency across the globe is likely irrelevant to people that colocate in the same data centers as the exchanges to reduce latency.

Then again, maybe it's useful for arbitrage between different exchanges, where they would likely have equipment next to each exchange, and have a wide distance between them.
Just import your CA
> Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue?

A browser dedicated to websites that exists for reasons other than serving ads? Sign me up!
Earlier post: https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1131103570856632321
FCC licensing in space...
I just tried here and it’s not working. Do I need to change any settings?
Promising new CRISPR “prime editor” uses more precise editing mechanism
We could have had a carbon tax years ago and this is a clear example of the deception that corporations have done in order to avoid that outcome.
I imagine I would have loved that.
almost certain he also got SoftBank /WeWork to defend him in any future case.
That's sort of how art works, though. You hone your sensibility as an artist, and then you 'know it when you see it'. Anno et al looked at the fonts, and they saw it was good. Explaining why it's good is quite another thing altogether. Artists are always being surprised by how things 'click' or how the viewer notices patterns the artists weren't even (consciously) aware of putting in. (And to a certain degree, if you could adequately explain and convey it in words, why would you bother with the art in the first place?)

I've been using NNs to generate poems and Irish music lately based on pairwise comparison of poems/music (based on https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/ ), and it's definitely striking how fast I can make the evaluation of which one is better, but then how long it would take to reread or relisten to them and verbalize what exactly made one better than the other.
It does matter because he would have to agree to participate and to sit down with the person who runs the site, Peter Adams, and let Peter take his picture(s).
> we are often invisible, for many reasons

Like? I'd really like to know the reasons. Also, who is "we"? Biological women? Also please explain, as I initially asked, why it matters what gender you are. (Or race, hair or eye color you have, height or whatever attributes you think is "invisible" to others and hence underrepresented)
OpenShift and Docker are apple and oranges.
I'm inclined to think I just added some honesty.
When they've used it in their 'research and development to better understand your preferences and offer you better services' or whatnot, do you seriously believe that isn't to interact with ad targeting and all the other ways they use the models?
As a non-American, I don't trust the American Government not to compel Google to provide them access to my data.
HireVue’s face-scanning algorithm decides whether you deserve the job
It's not that he is a genius but that his investors were complete idiots.
Things You Can Do to Live in the Present
If Exxon and all the other fossil fuel companies had not spent large sums of money to suppress climate research, perhaps we would have started moving away from fossil fuels and become concerned about climate change sooner, or be more concerned about the impending climate catastrophe.
Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian: they can craft any narrative by choosing which tweets to show in your timeline. The ultimate out-of-context quoting machine. 140 character limits was set in place for a reason.
Go ahead and vote if you wish, but please do not add “me too” comments to our bug tracker.
seeing rich saudis queue in a glorified Paris mall to buy way way overpriced faux leather bags, a truth occured to me: the west truly scammed the oil out of their land, not by force, but by smart appeal to greed.
I think helps expose the actual (bidirectional) flow of information - web sites give you stuff because you give them stuff.

Usually you give them personal info about what you do on their site so that they can monetize you, in return you get news, messaging, etc.

If you're unwilling to give them that stuff, maybe it's OK that they are unwilling to give you their (presumably valuable, because you're requesting it) stuff (articles, videos, etc).

Often when I get "we won't show this to you with an adblocker on", I simply turn it off for that page. I want to read that article and I'm happy to exchange some personal info to get it for free. At least in this context I have the chance to opt-in.

I agree that there are probably a lot of places where anti-content-blocking tools are overused (i.e. services that I have already actually paid $$ for), and probably other situations where I'd like more options ("plz disable adblocker OR pay us $0.05 for this article [obviously need some way to pay that doesn't in turn expose my personal info]")
It's clearly stated that the tax level is 20%, not a tax-haven at all. Estonia in general is very far from the ultra-liberal country it has been depicted in the past (especially by the US Republicans): it has average EU taxation, minimum wage, taxpayer-funded public healthcare, ...
This isn't about learnability or time to fluency, it is about readability. The & issue i mention for example isn't about how easy it is to learn about references, but about how readable is when, e.g, you are reading some patch in a code review and you miss someone forgetting it when returning a huge collection which can causes severe performance issues.

These are mostly orthogonal issues to how easy and/or powerful a language is.
Guess you haven't worked with any large companies... They're always the ones that cause these kinds of problems, not the small flexible ones. Those large companies are also the ones that will pay the most to solve their problems via external services (both due to number of users and how slow it would be to deal with internally).

"That is managed by X department, we can put in a change request and we'll probably get a timeline for the fix at the beginning of next quarter. We'll re-evaluate if you can help with our issue once they get back to us."

... and you'll never hear from them again.
A high bandwidth dynamically directed laser-based mesh network of 12k-42k tiny satellites 340 km above the earth is a pretty ballsy concept to begin with.

I'm curious about who came up with this idea. It's kind of brilliant.
Even baby's have a computing device: the brain.

When do they get clearance to use their brains?
The use of Christian symbolism as nothing more than an aesthetic is somewhat common is Japanese fiction. I wouldn’t say it made no sense though.

The bad guys say humanity is fundamentally incapable of opening up to each other. Shinji proves that it can be done and is worth pursuing, although it is fundamentally difficult. He discovers acceptance of himself through his connections with his peers. He acknowledges that everyone must go through life at a pace they don’t get to choose, and that the inevitably of death doesn’t erase the meaning of existence.
A revenue neutral carbon tax that puts money back into people’s pockets at that.
Would be fine with equivalency - that's a democratizing force. Will also spur more innovation in this area on behalf of HFT firms.
CircuitHub (a company I co-founded) and Habito (UK mortgage broker) stand out in my head as startups (in the PG sense of the word http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html) that use primarily Haskell and have direct startup competition using more conventional stacks.

We come across tons of others, I keep meaning to write down a list.
Assuming this is sarcastic. If so, A+ would read again.
Redirects are often cached as well, but caching error pages for a short while is usually done to mitigate DoS attempts; if the cache can be repeatedly bypassed for certain resources, those resources may serve as targets.
Wouldn't hurt to embolden the line between work and life. It's okay to not pick up the phone sometimes.
Powering Tencent Billing Platform with Apache Pulsar
Shkreli got busted for fraud, not fiduciary duty. He paid our investors in one investment with profits from another.

Unlike Elon Musk he didn’t do so publicly and with shareholder approval.
It's overly expensive, but Netgear does have an AX Orbi system. https://www.netgear.com/orbi/rbk852.aspx
Ask HN: Hackernewsers who have been told they have x month/year left to live
How has it felt being told that you have x month/year left to live, how did you cope with it and did you eventually beat it.

Asking as I am feeling really sick and fear a life threatening diagnostic (although praying and hopeful that it is not the case), when I get around to seeing a doctor, also just wondering in part.
I think every business is doing that. Apple with annoying storage full messages which I had to cave in just last month and pay.
This guy is pretty far left (to the point that he banned meat in his offices). I doubt conservatives and libertarians are going to be bending over backwards to defend him.
Also, passwords.
Thanks. I was having a "this sounds like something out of ... out of what?" feeling about this.

It's out of Snow Crash, of course!
Not necessary for the fully abled.
Wow, I always thought the UK was more focused on govt oversight than the US. Here in the US, building inspections have to be organized through government/municipal agencies. Whether they are subcontracted out is related to the size of the city/county but I know in at least 2 medium-large cities (250k-500k people) they have dedicated building inspectors on the payroll as govt employees.

Edit: Of course it would be irresponsible to say that they were consistent. Each inspector has their own ideas of "that should really be 2x12, not 2x10", or "that stairway is too steep", or "that should look more like the other houses", etc. But I do see value in forcing everyone facing a semi consistent set of rules.
I wonder if taking the JAMStack route won't prevent you to become a real alternative to Medium by making ActivityPub (federation) implementation harder ?
Can each of those be turned on or off per device, and dont get sneakily turned back on during upgrades?
Maybe not the specifics, but "get a passing security audit" is high-level enough that a CEO might consider it important.
Not OP, but here are 2 slightly different links that might be of interest:

https://github.com/tweag/funflow - A library for running computational workflows

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/14417-build-systems-a-l... - a recent Haskell eXchange talk about build systems (corresponding paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...)
Are you sure those weren't just regular ads without any personalization ? This seem like the kind of ad which is very broad and could fit most men (how to talk to woman, how to get a job, ...)
> Certain keywords in searches would prompt email notifications too.

That is so unbelievably disgusting. This kind of abusive invasion of privacy should be a crime.
And equivalent rights also exists in France, allowing squatters to enter people's home while they are on holidays, changing the locks and showing proof of living here (like a bill) and they're very difficult to evict.
You just made that up.
Unveiling IPs Behind Cloudflare
VC funding for developing a TV show property?
Hi there, I am a creative and a total VC novice.
I've written a satire of the First Family, in the vein of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. It is funny at first, then quite tragic. Entitled National Anthem. Currently the project is in website form - text and images.

https://nationalanthem.us/

Kind of a novel/script/comic book thing. Totally original. The social media campaign is nearly finished and quite good.

My question is thus: are there VCs who get involved in developing entertainment? National
Anthem is dark yet hilarious, and could make a great series for Netflix or Amazon or Hulu.

Thnx in advance for any guidance.

Ken Brady
NYC
It's 50 years later and we still don't have a carbon tax even though everyone has known about global warming basically the whole time and much more comprehensive research than Exxon ever did is now public domain. There is about a 0% chance this would have been different if Exxon had released its research.
A Conversation with the Authors of the Art of Electronics
thehftguy sometimes has very good articles, but it's obvious he doesn't know/understand much about the container landscape. He would be correct if he said, "The demise of Docker swarm and rise of Kubernetes"

For those that don't know, Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. That means when you have lots of containers, hundreds or thousands and lots of servers to run them on. Instead of wiring them manually and deploying them manually, kubernetes make's it easy. kubernetes will decide which server to run them on and wire them together, if a server goes down, it will restart the down containers on new servers provided you have the capacity.

Imagine that docker is a computer program, kubernetes is the operating system.
One thing I love about anime is that when the authors really want to drive home a thematic concept they throw in these humble observations about the human condition and demonstrate it in the most absurd contexts.

Evangelion does this. I would highly recommend Mob Psycho 100 for this as well (by the one punch man guy, and similar but not sarcastic)
Playing with Numbers (2000)
> Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian

not sure if gp's point has anything to do with twitter itself or character limits.
Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
>A lot of ink has been spilled about how cooky Adam and his wife are but I really liked the WeGrow idea of providing schooling / daycare.

Yeah, and everyone likes the idea of self-driving, solar-powered Tesla robo-taxis, too. Finding things that people want is easy; providing that product or service at a profit is much harder.

At the end of the day, WeWork is a real-estate company. 25% of the world's wealth is tied up in this industry. It's old, and efficient. Borrowing long, lending short is a surefire way to get crushed in a recession. This is known.
The ultimate failing up
Some chunk of that was loans secured by stock. Presumably the $500M line-of-credit is to refinance.
Has been said many times before but the problem is that you look like any other bot that also doesn't save cookies or have any past history. How do you expect recaptcha to identify you from those bots? Or more, how do you expect the websites to identify bots and stop things like credential stuffing attacks (even if recaptcha isn't perfect at stopping those either) without heavily investing in things like the anti-bot systems banks use?
This is great to see! One gripe I still have with Firefox is how poorly it handles video playback (controls and energy consumption) compared to Safari. This makes me want to use Firefox more often, but Safari will still remain my daily driver because of native full screen video and PiP mode.
I am not a Firefox user but know that matching Webkit performance on macOS is going to be very hard.

So just fired a test on my Macbook Air - Safari 13 vs Firefox 70.

Opened top 10 links from techmeme. Both windows in background.

Firefox 70:
Energy use 30-200; CPU 20-25%; Threads 82

Safari 13:
Energy use 0.1-5; CPU 2-5%; Threads 11

If this is to celebrate I can only imagine what the things looked like before this release. Save for Apple fiddling with the energy use numbers (VW style) this means that my battery is going to last 4-5x longer with Safari. Can anyone replicate this for the sake of argument?

Edit: uploaded screenshots https://imgur.com/a/4L64ShP
so they really want his ass out of there.
Machine Learning for Humans.pdf
For something similar, I use a Firefox docker container whose data settings are saved to the ephemeral disk which disappears once the browser closes. It's just a standard Firefox (or Chrome, or Brave, or..) otherwise.

I use the same mechanism - but with persisting user data - for things like banking etc. in which I only open that one site.
Not to mention the complete lack of type safety (there are unsafe-style casts even in the example code.)
So OpenGL wasn't allowing partial viewport "dirtying" on macOS. Does that mean Firefox on Linux has an opportunity for a similar gain?
Serious question: while I totally agree with most of this, why bother building e.g. RPMs or DEB packages when you can just stamp out a docker container? I've had a lot of success using docker as _just_ a packaging mechanism and nothing else. Is there some fundamental bit I'm missing for why that's a bad idea?

At my last company we implemented a couple of different services as just an AWS provided AMI with a small init script that would install docker if necessary, pull our container, and run it with the ports mounted properly. That worked great in ASGs and totally obviated the need to think about machine provisioning beyond 3 or 4 simple steps that everyone understood. I feel like Docker gets a bad rap _because_ of Kubernetes, when in fact Docker on its own solves a real problem in a pretty elegant way.
If you already have IT staff in-house it ends up being a duplication of roles and an added layer of complexity. I get some servers and/or resources can benefit from autoscale. USGS gets slammed after a major earthquake so having autoscale capability is important. Or you want to co-locate some servers (payroll) for disaster recovery purposes. There are some legitimate uses cases, but often cloud just feels like renting servers that you could own and manage in-house.
Not an expert either, but if such a thing was allowed, you could arrange to buy expensive stuff you want to have on a regular basis (I would assume this is not uncommon for CEOs) and then just agree orally with the seller to cancel the transactions when the stock is down, go through with it when the stock is up.
As to your question of promising areas, I see two major opportunities in health that are coming online in the near future:

* psychedelics as medicine

* gut/microbiome
I mean, it basically is. The English, French, and Latin words are all very similar. I'm not going to embarrass myself with improper Latin declensions, but suffice it to say that "UTC" still works as a compromise initialism if you want to say it in Latin as well.
Yes, but. That same argument gets used for, say, raising cattle, where the water used is quickly cycled out as organics (mostly urine). It doesn't produce the kind of toxic waste that something like a large fabric dyeing operation does.

The argument also doesn't distinguish what the water is used for. Even things like cooling get written off as water "consumed". It's an appeal to emotion, and reeks of fallacy.
I must be in the minority then, because rust's syntax doesn't bother me in the least.

The only exception is the method::<Type>() that's sometimes necessary.

When I write or read rust code the symbols just sort of disappear.
Some platforms have really terrible HTTP apis. Your choices usually end up as:

a) don't support that platform and lose out on that audience

b) embed your own HTTP library with your client

c) do everything with POST and always return HTTP 200, because every http library supports that.

Or I guess

d) use C, but with headers to pretend that you're seeing an action other than POST.
Is Masayoshi Son in his own personal 'Brewster's millions' situation somehow?