skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that you need C/C++ expertise to build packages, which creates a barriers between users of packages and makers of packages.

The vast majority of Python packages are in pure Python and require no C/++ skills at all.
Say Julia is all LLVM is like saying Haskell is all C code because that is what it outputs. That is simply a fantastically ignorant statement.

If LLVM was what mattered every dynamic language would have slapped it in the back. I am sorry but it just isn't that simple.
When Assange starts shitting coal.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dna-from-genealogy-site-used-t...

They caught him because a relative had submitted their DNA.

>Investigators compared the DNA collected from a crime scene of the Golden State Killer to online genetic profiles and found a match: a relative of the man police have identified as Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, who was arrested Tuesday at his suburban Sacramento home.

The same sort of scenario is possible for medical related things.

"John Smith has these health risks, oh look he's listed as the father of our client Jane smith so she likely carries these health risks. Adjust her rate/drop her policy".

That said, I willingly gave my DNA to 23andme & Ancestry.com, I find the stuff interesting and worth the potential future risks. Once whole genome falls below a few hundred dollars I plan to have that done too.
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I think there's a place for synchronous communication as long as it's followed up by sufficient asynchronous communication such that people aren't left out.

Sometimes it's a lot faster/easier to be able to get on a 5-10 minute call to discuss something and be able to look at it together instead of sending messages back and forth for a week trying to get a point across / understand someone else's point.
Why wouldn't they just install and use a boring old corporate style XMPP system with auditing? Everything would be open source and entirely under their control.

Why would you want something that had to send traffic outside of the VPN?
But what about the KKK and NRA's board ?

Oh the humanity

Also: Very cool to see diversity issues finally influencing money.
Very good point, re-sales chances almost zero not allowing for product enhancements perhaps.

I use a blood test service (https://www.getlivesmart.com/) every six months but I can measure changes to my markets based on interventions to my lifestyle that they suggest post GP review. To me that type of service is worth it.
Does anyone? Is there a case where an entrenched two party system for broken up?
Unlikely, given Blackrock and State Street are apparently leading the way. From the article:

> The mandate is the latest in a series of signals that non-diverse boards and management are unacceptable. BlackRock Inc. and State Street Global Advisors are voting against directors at companies without a female director.

BlackRock AUM: ~$6.9T, State Street AUM: ~$2.8T, Goldman Sachs AUM: ~$1.5T.

(Morgan Stanley AUM ~$2T, JPM ~$2.6T)
That is why dynamic languages shine. Because types are objects like any other object you can use the same tools to deal with types as other code. It is one of the reasons why meta programming tends to be much harder to achieve in statically typed languages.
Hear here!

Now, where are the statistical metrics and causal inference assessments?
What about Caucasian immigrants? Does my white privilege counterbalance my immigrant struggle?
It's more complicated than that. A single light switch stores exactly 1 bit of information. Its either on or off and both positions convey the exact same amount of information.
The requirement is

NOT (ALL(d.ethnicity=caucasian AND d.gender=male AND d.orientation=hetrosexual for d in directors))

It's not like Goldman won't do business with any company with straight white men on their board.
The vulnerable are often underbanked. They might not have a bank account, debit or credit card, or smartphone with Venmo/Cash app/(whatever app is popular today).

Cash is the easiest way to help vulnerable groups. If a homeless person wants to buy a cheeseburger, its better to accept the cash rather than have him fill out FORM NY-892-F INDIVIDUAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT CREDIT ACCOUNT CREATION FORM, proposing to send a monthly bill to his non-existent address, or non-existent email.
Has there been any studies to determine that a diverse board is actually valuable? I'm genuinely asking, because I subscribe to the "get the best people for the job" theory of doing things. I find it to be racist/sexist/whatever discriminatory word applies to have a hard line in the opposite. In my experience, forced diversity is a good way to shoe horn people into roles they won't be successful in.

None of that is to say that there isn't discrimination, but there is not an equal distribution of individuals in each field.
It that true, though? Does an electronic storage device with full storage have more electrons in it? I don't know enough about how modern memory works to say for sure.
GHC was released in 1992 and has a large amount of language options it supports (over 100 now, I think) https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...

I don't think the issue here is due to static typing, but due to the age and complexity of the language implementation. It's not trivial to figure out how all of those extensions interact with each other and your changes.
A law which itself has not yet been constitutionally tested and is the subject of lawsuits:

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653318005/california-becomes-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/14/this-stat...
Could the delay, in part, be there are more checks and balances that are thoroughly checked? Likewise the populations and level of development are at very different levels not only with population size to compare but also with the amount of workers in different positions there will be in China compared to in the US and Canada for development related work.

I don't disagree that there's likely an overabundance of thinkers over doers, something like 6-8% of people in the US go into trades school vs. 68% in Germany as an example.
We call this phase the PoC effort (proff of concept). Rough draft, I like that too.
Sounds good. I would definitely pay $2-3/month for a good "money" app that consolidates views in to all my spending and provides insight in to where my money is going.

How does "Sign in with Apple" work if I want to share Funded with my somebody on another device that has their own Apple ID?
> an electric bike (even a small motorbike) is a great choice for daily commutes.

As soon as a motorbike will be invented that can run on snowy roads, I'll agree with you.
Can you imagine something like this happening in America?
Aldi Nord is pretty much like any Edeka.
10 opportunities to charge for the fix, 10 opportunities for a broke buyer to decline the fix.
Is 128-bit security still considered strong in 2020
They have provided consular assistance and lobbied for his return. That's all they can do.

And far worse things have happened to Australian citizens abroad than solitary detention.
It'll be interesting to see how that pans out. Intellectually, this isn't really any different to affirmative action (enforcing opportunities for long time discriminated against classes), which has ultimately been approved by the supreme court.
I'd say that is up to the reader to interpret. "Now" is very contextual I'd say.
We could use a leader that attempts to stop the silent civil war that is this sort of identity politics.

Unfortunately, current powers won't let them, and getting popular support for this idea is hard when polarizing is so easy.
It also has a pretty generous free tier, so if you're not using very ephemeral creds and you don't need auto rotation, it's a fantastic option (disclaimer though I work at SSM and am biased - glad to hear you also like the product :)
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Thank you for this recommendation. The prosthetic/ramp analogy for external time structure was very helpful.
It looks like modern refrigerators are considered about 3x as efficient as pre-70s refrigerators, so let's say that a straight swap of a size-equivalent refrigerator of average efficiency will cost 100kWh/year.

...and that's where you're wrong. These are the most efficient as of 2020:

https://www.energystar.gov/most-efficient/me-certified-refri...

The top of that list is a 5.1cft model that uses 186kWh/year. The next one is also roughly the same size and uses 202kWh/year, followed by an 8.8cft that uses 294kWh/year. 100kWh/year is, frankly speaking, impossible. Mine has 9cft.

That "calculator" is being very deceptive by grouping everything "before 1980" together. The 60s and 70s models are certainly far more power-hungry because they made them bigger and with thinner insulation (more interior space) and things like defrost heaters, but the ones before that are not.

This DOE paper talks in detail about the changes that improved efficiency

...and none of the energy usage figures they quote are anywhere near the 300kWh/year range. A look at the real numbers shows just how efficient these early models are.
(What you call types are not what those who work in programming language theory call types. I disagree but this is an old and well worn argument and I'm not really interested in revisiting it.)
Totally agree - and, generally, the adults I know who were raised this way may be super talented but have so little creativity - at music school I knew this Korean violinist who was just amazing classical player, she could tell you the pitch of the brake squeal on a subway, but watching her try to improvise was painful.
There's a lot of pressure from other parents to compare kids, I think that's how that culture perpetuates at least here in the US. I just don't play that game.

(edit) This is also why I hate standardized testing which places kids is "advanced" and "normal" (implicitly slow) classes - everyone develops at their own rates, but the system implicitly assumes that early advancement rates are indicative of future advancement rates, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
LLVM isn't all that matters, but Julia is built on 4 million lines of statically typed code, so maybe tone down your dynamic typing boosting a bit?
Sorry, I think I misunderstood your comment.

The answer is my opinion is still no I'm afraid.

I think we assume things shrink and commoditise because technology we use daily has often done that (say home computer parts). But other technologies, especially industrial ones, have not.

Cars for instance are bigger and offer more diversity and less commoditisation than ever before.

Similarly, we've had coal power plants for a long long time. And they are larger than ever. Do you know anyone with a mini coal plant? Neither do i.

Nuclear specifically shows no likely hood of shrinking or commoditising in my opinion. Large fixed costs make shrinking hard. A wide diversity of requirements from customers and interconnectedness makes commoditisation hard.

Maybe rolls toyce have solved 2 problems when no one else has solved 1, but I'm skeptical...
Well, to be fair to them, in America, we have rural hicks in the midwest hunting rabbits, squirrels, snakes, hamsters, and other mammals for recreational food. These are wild animals that possibly carry rabies and other diseases. And didn’t the Hantavirus from the 90s originate from infected rodents in the United States?

Do you want to educate these fellow Americans to not consume such possibly infected wildlife? Because surely, they live in America, and they ought to know better.

And if you’re on a deserted island, then you’d probably eat these animals too, if you wanted to survive.

And sharing food on the lazy Susan is perfectly fine, just use a sterile serving spoon, and don’t lick the handle. Don’t you eat dinner this way with your own family meals?

Currently, the scientists don’t know yet where this vector originated from. And they are locking down the city out of an abundance of caution.

Perhaps this episode will force them to implement strict meat sourcing requirements. Such as, all meat sold for consumption, must come from a farm, and pass a food handling certification process.

This is clearly a very expensive operation and administration, but they just quarantined a city, so that is an even more expensive and politically damaging event.

The first step in preventing such an outbreak from happening again in the future, is in personal education, and a reinforcement of following basic hygiene practices. Perhaps this event will finally trigger the China central government to mandate such a national education process for everyone.
My first though was attach pistol to top of it, just so it looks comically menacing.
> if they start making aerodynamically efficient cars...

I chose my last car exactly because it was NOT aerodynamically efficient: I want comfort in my car, anc confort means space, especially vertical space!
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you can store gcp secrets, in multiple regions, so you pay for every region 0.06 cent, i.e. if you only want one region you only pay 0.06 cent
I don't keep up with Scala and Clojure that much since I am not a JVM guy but I was always under the impression that Scala being older has ALWAYS had a lead on Clojure.

However the Scala hype seems to have died down years ago while you see more enthusiasm around Clojure.

> I tried 3 times to learn functional programming by learning Haskell and it never clicked.

LISP (Racket) and Julia helped me most with functional programming. For Haskell type of functional programming I think Swift actually helped me most.

But I find many of the same problems with Swift as with Haskell. Understanding type mistakes can be really hard. You struggle much longer with figuring out type problems than you would in a dynamic language.

I think advocates of these super statically typed languages completely overestimate the complexity the average human mind is capable of dealing with. Perhaps because the creators are super smart themselves ;-)
I'm afraid we're not far off from having to formalize some sort of numerical Diversity Score. Determining position on the totem pole is becoming too complicated.
Fantastic.

Now please someone do something similar with Apple developer documentation.
But your clothes smelling like sticking your nose into a bag of washing powder feels sooooooo clean
I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. The website even admits to being controlled by a communist organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the...
> (He leaves that part out of his story.)

No, he doesn't.
Australian Federal Police is already investigating war crimes committed by the Defence Force:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/afp-travels-to-afghan...

The media has had plenty of information about alleged war crimes so I doubt Wikileaks is going to offer anything new.
For the purposes of this discussion, do Asians and Jews count as "not diverse"?

It's hard to keep track sometimes.
> Private groups are a thing on the roadmap that will enable folks to have their own topic specif stuff. So, if a bunch of republicans want to talk right wing things, they can do so without pissing off the democrats who want nothing to do with it, and without getting blocked out of the network. We're not there yet, but it's definitely in the plan.

I think this is a tremendously naive TBH. There is an awful lot of internet regulatory discourse that is focused on "we must stop these people talking anywhere" much more so than "I don't want to see these people."

It feels like Planetary needs to decide what it wants to be. If it's a decentralised censorship resistant network then it should just scrap it's T&Cs as they're meaningless. If it's not then the decentralised parts feel useless as it's actually just centralised in truth.
The best part of learning an instrument is that it usually just takes a couple of months of deliberate practice before you can play well enough to enjoy yourself. You don't need to have the finer details in place in order to play a song.
> any studies to determine that a diverse board is actually valuable?

At least for gender, the evidence is mixed [1].

It’s a complicated question. For example, the evidence is compelling for French companies [2].

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/03/when-and-why-diversity-improves-your...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...
It's sad to see these kinds of discriminatory practices. Especially when they're backed up with the use of government force. We were supposed to be moving away from judging people based on their skin and sexual preferences.
previously, on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18904625
Except this is not about enforcing opportunities for a certain group but to prevent a group certain privileges based on their skin color and sexual orientation.

Discrimination is not right because you think you have the right motives, the law is also very clear about this.
Big issue with Haskell adoption is the number of hoops you have to jump through to write efficient code in it. Haskell abstracts away the idea of a procedural VM implementing the code underneath, but you often need that exposed to finagle your code into a form that’s efficient.

Haskell programming ethos is opposed to that, the language wants people to focus on the semantics of computation not the method. Yet we must be able to specify computation method if we want our programs to operate efficiently.

The truth is that the Haskell compiler will never be able to automatically translate idiomatic Haskell code into something that’s competitive with C in the common case. once you start finagling your haskell code to compete with C you’ve negated the point of using Haskell to begin with.
Status only matters if the other party cares about it.

The ultimate status game is truly showing that you don’t care that the other person is X, has done X, their dad/uncle is X, wants you to think X but rather are dealing with the person in front of you right then and there and what they are able to bring to the table at that time.

The reverse is incredibly powerful too. Those that have been most impressive to me throughout life are when they seemed like a totally “normal” person and then later I found out something about their “status” that others would have gloated endlessly about.
Sounds plausible, but the police disagrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
I think the core difference is that AA is supportive, whereas this measure is punitive. Since we're all dealing w finite resources you could argue they're the same but it doesn't seem as easy an argument.
In "The Regulation of Emotion": "the experimenter burned scented candles in the room, which she presented as part of her research on aromatherapy. She told some participants that the candles would freeze their current mode state for about an hour. The rest were told that the candles would not affect their moods."
> Only 15-17% of the population get that reaction (it's called trypophobia)

Most people still think these seed pods look sorta weird.
Sure, but the large packages which are the big selling point for scientific computing are for the most part C/C++

- NumPy
- Pandas
- TensorFlow

etc.

In contrast the most popular scientific packages in Julia are almost all pure Julia.
Kill your self if you think this is good.
No disagreement here. I should have used “person” rather than citizen. I made the distinction in my other comment
As I was reading this I began to wonder if there were confounding factors here.

The original study did mention controlling for age, gender, and income... though I can't help but think that there can easily be other confounding factors. Maybe parents who read to their kids altogether spent more time with them and it's that kind of attachment that really had the benefits. Maybe it's the simple act of holding your child that's giving them the benefits.

Also, whenever a study like this comes out I can't help but think of the mechanism that could be causing this. Why would reading to a child have substantial more benefits than screen time? What if the screen time were a reading simulation app? What if you read a book to your child that happened to be on an iPad? What if you held the child and showed them a reading simulation app without actually reading to them yourself?

Some part of me doesn't think it's as simple as "screen bad, book good"
I don't know about a lot. I live in Tromsø, Norway (69N). There aren't many populated areas this far north. And even here, solar is pretty decent for a lot of uses (Esp in combination with insulation to reduce the need for heating).

We also have quite a lot of precipitation - but again, solar isn't hopeless even here.

As for seasonal storage, I suspect some kind of kinetic/potential energy storage might be better than batteries? Like lifting a weight, or pumping a liquid up hill/up a tower?
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Scala and Haskell are complex because it's creators wanted that way, not because they are typed FP. Take a look at Elm, it's very simple and clean syntax.
I dont think a 501(c)(4) can IPO, and even if it could, it would probably not be tax efficient to do so.

Similar considerations probably apply to the various chapters of the KKK (it's not a single organisation) too.

(I realise your comment wasn't serious, but this is a serious forum, so have a serious response.)
Procecuting a foreign citizen that helped uncover war crimes is by all measures of a sane mind a much worse precedent. And that even while accounting for the "what goes around comes around"-rules of diplomacy.
If you accept that ubiquitous surveillance, for which this is one of several technical enablers, is technically feasible, is being implemented by multiple parties, and is basically happening, the only logical conclusion is that there is going to be way more of this stuff happening in the next years/decades. This will become normal; whether we like it or not.

IMHO trying to stop this or slow it down is an exercise in futility. It may postpone the inevitable outcome for some short time but the outcome is inevitably going to be multiple parties tracking our every move either openly or covertly.

I would like to emphasize the notion that it's not just going to be a handful of parties doing this. This stuff is rapidly becoming a commodity. Just because you are in the US or Germany (in my case) does not mean, Russia, North Korea, Iran, China, etc. are not tracking you (in addition to your 'friendly' local secret service). Assume the worst; you probably are already on file in multiple countries in some form. Also, who says it's just going to be just nation states? Several big corporations exist now that basically have a bigger valuation than the GDP of most countries.

The fact that the parties that are going to do the tracking are mutually hostile (or at least not very friendly), also represents an opportunity: they'll be watching each other. Effectively nobody is excluded from being under surveillance; including those doing the surveillance. That means anyone breaking laws has to worry about being observed doing so and has to assume that he/she is going to be found out in case something inappropriate happens. IMHO this is a good thing and effectively the only defense we'll have against this being abused and enforcing any privacy legislation.
Weigh an SSD before and after storing data on it? That's so easy to do I have no idea why such an article would leave it as a theoretical.

edit: since I have been downvoted, perhaps someone would like to clarify how my description differs from, "taking mass measurements of a digital data storage device when it has full memory. If it has more mass than when the device’s memory is cleared, then that would show the mass-energy-information equivalence is correct."