skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a person who is well acquainted with the topic disqualifies you from forming a valid opinion about how well known the language is. If you research the language's popularity, you will mainly find articles concluding that it is obscure and basically dead. HN is a great place to learn new things, but as a repository of knowledge it is useful to curate titles so that they are concise and accurate.
No, I don't consider an established tech company with "millions of downloads that businesses rely on" choosing a webstack devkit for their mobile development serious.
In terms of margin the X sales are still significant. S/X sales are still the only thing that provides any consistent profit to Tesla.
my bad, my informations could be outdated.

based on http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...:

The fat tail queries go against PostgreSQL and the long tail queries go against Solr. For shorter queries PostgreSQL takes precedence. Long tail fills in Instance Answers where nothing else catches.

It seems that Bing is now a part of their sources indeed: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources
Why is this a spam link?
I agree with your statement, but maybe it's more accurate to say its speculation/hype about future return on investment. I think the real question (for me at least) is whether that return on investment is in share price increase (like Amazon) or in dividends and the value of assets (like the majority of other public companies).
The web post-wasm could be a whole different beast from what the web was originally supposed to be.

Not that the current situation is idyllic, but I fear a post-wasm web would be even more opaque and less inspectable.
It's certainly not the thing that tops my worry list. It's more like yet another drop in the growing lake.
I wonder how this would go down in Australia. Precedent set from Gamer's vs Natwest is that the buyer retains ownership rights, so long as they purchased the product in good faith that the seller owned the original product or had the right to sell it. So if I buy your stolen car without knowing it is actually yours and was stolen, I retain ownership of the car and you have no legal remedy to retrieve it from me.

https://jade.io/article/67364
On the other hand, I’ve found it way easier to script complicated workflows with x-callback-url and Shortcuts on my iPad than on my laptop. Replacing some of the shortcuts I use daily on my MacBook would probably involve busting out Xcode and making a full-blown app. I can sure, but making a shortcut (augmented with Python or JavaScript as needed) is easy and fun.
Oh duh. And it sounds like iOS doesn't support that for PWAs yet?
I have the same problems regarding Wordpress so it definitely won’t be that.

I’d look into static site generators but the problems with them is that I will always be tempted to tinker with it which is why I went with a hosted solution.

I will look into Substack as I’ve seen it used quite a bit around here recently. If not, I’ll see what Squarespace has to offer.

I actually tried emailing the owner of Svbtle (the platform I used) about removing GA but haven’t had a reply.
I think here it is important to note, that the definition of Functional Programming is kind of fluid and has changed considerably over the decades.

For a long time, there was no distinction between pure- and non-pure FP langauges and Lisp was certainly considered a FP lang. Yes, Lisps are typically not pure FP, but they are still FP (unless you define FP to mean pure FP, but that's kind of not in line with usage of the terms).

That being said, much Lisp code (CL or Scheme alike) is probably as functional in style as Python code.
Are there any precendents of official mods deemed unofficial ?
I linked the example here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186046

But tlrd is: if you "apt install some-utility", then "pip install something else", you may have upgraded packages that some-utility relies on but is not compatible with the new version anymore.
Is it? They still lost close to $800 million this last year. And the company is growing slower than it ever was.
I dunno. My bullish view has more to do with Tesla using the vehicle market as an entry point to the broader energy market.

If the Tesla cars start throwing off profit and make the company self-sustaining, their vertically-integrated energy thing opens the kind of insanely huge global energy market. They're not just going to eat Ford's lunch - but also Chevron, Saudi Aramco and your local energy company.
The more frustrating problem, is that when I moved across country, I threw out my CD collection. A huge box full. I will always regret not just packing it with everything else. My thinking at the time was, "when am I ever going to put a disc in a CD-player ever again. I have all the 192~ish VBR rips!"
Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)
> We also introduced in-app purchases, where our customers can buy various software updates, such as basic Autopilot, FSD, acceleration boost and additional premium features.Software will continue to play a growing role in our business model.

I forsee an ingress-style mobile game and "pay 1$ to outmuscle that guy on the highway/arrive faster at work" features.
I tried running an rpi on a lead acid battery and a 40w panel. It seemed to be running fine for the first 2 weeks but then I think it had a few days where it drained the battery to 0 which ruined it and then it was turning off every night. I'm not sure what to do with the setup now since it seems like lead acid is not the way to go but all of the DIY solar charge controllers use lead acid.
Odd, most of the smartest tech people I know fled the cities years ago. The city is where you go when you arent the brightest, because all the easy jobs are there.
It seems odd to not even mention God in this article. I get that theism isn't fashionable, but it seems strange to write him out of the history altogether, and to mention Alistair Macintyre's thoughts without connecting them to his Catholic thinking.

I also think it's ridiculous to neglect God in a discussion of the quest for meaning, because I think it's obvious he's the only possible source of objective meaning and everything else is "let's make something up and muddle along". But it is not odd for writers to ignore that.
If this is not the appropriate channel to ask these questions, could you :do your job: and point me to it?
Ads and Exposure.

Ads: Make a native app and a PWA, put a banner at the bottom. You'll get more from the native app.

Exposure: I made some stupid apps and without any SEO I get 10K-50K installs, you can't get that with a PWA and Google Search.

I'm 100% for PWA because I can't take anymore monopole shit from google play and his rules, but that's the reality.
A quick test for "willingly" as you put it, is not due to force, fraud, or fear.

I would think that a ransom situation would likely qualify as some type of duress. Deciding whether the criminal act is "theft" (ie. stolen) or "fraud" or something else is probably missing the point.

And certainly, some aspect in the exchange (pay money for this encryption key) did not involve permission: the encryption of the files!

But, how to restore things after a wrong has occurred? I agree with your point that there is a risk of committing a greater wrong against an innocent party. Hence the special protections of currency as a unique type of property in the article. Does bitcoin fit this model? An interesting discussion!
Boldly going where no GRUB has gone before
I learned web development using openacs around 2005. I got alot of value out of the experience.

ad_proc and online documentation was awesome.

I also had to figure many things out from first principles because documentation was all for PHP and Apache, not aolserver and tcl.
I wish my timing was that good. I've been using MIDI for decades and not ever noticed it when stuff was setup correctly.

I mean, I play guitars and pedal steel, banjo, dobro, accordion, etc. all acoustically (or, more likely, "in the analog domain"). Maybe I just need to practice more or listen harder.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve my timing and/or hearing to experience this?
The growth will come from China, where there's still plenty of EV incentives by the government. Growth in US will depend on new EV incentives IMO
They may be just about breaking even... WSB style
I don't think investment thesis based on the body language of the CEO are great ways to place your money.
You can't invent new syntax — the curly braces gotta curly-brace — but you can do whatever else you want.
ML was implemented in Stanford Lisp on a DEC10. The layout of the language is very lispy. Make parens around functions non-optional and add them around let, and a couple other constructs makes the code almost indistinguishable from lisp. First-class functions everywhere, linked lists, and garbage collection were also very-much tied to lisp at the time. Initially being implemented on top of Lisp is probably a key reason these were present.
It doesn't. The ethernet is connected to a USB 2.0 bus. Yes the link trains at 1 gbps, but it's limited by the slow bus.
Why is separating pure functional code from imperative / side effect causing code easier to reason about? You still have to have the side-effect somewhere.

Why are immutable data structures easier to reason about? They still produce the same results.

None of the above are proven facts, but they are generally agreed upon principles that a number of people have observed. And I happen to believe them as well.

Overall my opinion of why it's easier is that like most optimizations it reduces the number of states/cases you have to think about in the "common path". With a solid abstraction you rarely need to think about the internals, with explicit code you need to check and think through all of the edge cases.

filter() (or map, or ...) is probably the best simple case I can think about. There is more room for bugs in an explicit (ex. for (int = 0; i < ...) {}) than in a filter over a collection / enumerable. When reading the code you need to think through base and termination conditions as well as confirm aggregation is happening correctly. With a filter() you don't have to do it / be explicit about it. Obviously you still need to know what filter means (which means you know it's implementation) but you don't need to focus on the details, only the filter condition: the signal amid the noise. The rest is pushed behind a solid reusable abstraction. Again thinking about it in isolation if someone just introduced the filter function to you you might look at it an say it really doesn't add much and if anything obscures my code I don't see the value. But after adopting it, and it's related family of monadic collection operations, code can now be written at a much denser, fewer off-by-one errors, higher signal to noise, level of abstraction. It's provided structure and common abstractions to unstructured iteration. To the point you begin to think in these abstractions (which I think is a benefit).

Another example are parser combinators. There is nothing that parser combinators do that can't be done by hand. But one of the primary way they simplify coding is by hiding away conditional (and looping logic). "?*.." , | and & concepts. Parser combinators also benefit in simplifying things by building an algebra for users to work in with nice closed operations. But again that only became possible by abstracting away the conditional and looping logic and making these nice simple abstractions that can be easily combined.

So my summary is, my view is that abstracting over control flow code does a lot to simplify logic. A lot of logic involving looping has already been abstracted over and included in languages and libraries (in general "functional programming" styles). Now that the low hanging fruit has been incorporated I think next will be the next layer of non-looping conditional logic.
Super excited to see this. If you live in California please head on over to http://www.decrimca.org/
We're working to get state wide decriminalization on the ballot in November and we need signatures! If you buy a button ($5) they'll send you a petition sheet. There are also signature locations and volunteers in every county in the state.
He should be happy that he wasn't reprimanded more for faking the largest corporate buyout of all time...
Agreed. The vast majority of humans who are doing “real work” on computers use just one or two applications. The vast minority of people are software developers and IT workers.

Lawyers, accountants, nurses, doctors, paramedics, tree surgeons, baristas, plumbers, electricians, shop assistants, mechanics, jewellers, cleaners... most of these people - if they want to use computers at all - want them to be less complicated, they don’t generally care about interoperability between applications, and iPad in some cases fits the bill. Its simplicity for some of these use cases is an enabler.

To my mind there seems to be two independent narratives at play here:

- “is the iPad better than a general purpose computer?” for many use cases, yes it is.

- “Is it perfect?” Perhaps not yet. But it’s more perfect for those use cases than what came before.
Eat less times a day, eat more meat and less vegetables. Look for Carnivore Diet.
What Bitcoin Wallets Have Worst Reputation and Why
People shorted the stock expecting the company and Elon will go under. They didn't go under and this Q4 despite not being spectacular in any number is "beating the market expectations" because the market expected the company not to continue operations.
It does if you're using thin provisioning.
Sure! But there are also folks who have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Survivorship bias.
The model 3 and S already have that range or more. You'll only get ~350km out of that at highway speeds though. The supercharger network makes it perfectly reasonable but it's not yet ideal. Other EVs tend to be far behind still. Most can't charge fast enough and even the ones that do don't have enough charging infrastructure in most places. We're getting very close to mass adoption but will still need 5-10 years more depending on location to get enough battery improvement and charging deployment to make it a no-brainer to get the EV over the pretty good plugin-hybrid models that exist right now.
Home routers are just a general purpose CPU (ARM or MIPS) running a trimmed down OS. Thats why you can install openWRT on a lot of them and run arbitrary code.
I use an iPad Pro as my "laptop". I just ssh to somewhere with the right tools.
Yeah, if you choose to pay people more in stock, its easy to make your non-GAAP numbers look good.
R&D was at $356 million in Q4 18 and $345 million in Q4 19. For the year, it moved from 1.4 billion in 18 to just over 1.3 billion in 19. I don't see how these minor differences were a major factor.
Leaving aside any fallout from Brexit, there’s a world of difference between “can” and “has”.

Until safeguards are proven to work and we have examples where they actually haven’t been applied then they effectively don’t exist.
I wouldn't hold your breath on that.
Can you provide any links to sites that take current data and use better models to forecast? This site strikes me as a useful first step. But clearly there are better approaches, I have only seen predictions in papers, not in an equivalent site.
not with buying options - your max loss is just what you buy it for.
I just wished their was fairer representation online of impact on people's lives when drugs get brought up. I never done drugs. But still, I suffered thanks to people who chose drugs as a way cope - and it's soul sucking.

The problem with decriminalizing/legalizing recreational drugs is its interpreted as officials of the state validating drugs as a coping skill.

In almost all cases, getting high is maladaptive coping style.

My anecdote from being raised by substance abusers: Makes you think you're smart, maybe even makes you look competent to other people. Until you don't have the drug anymore, in which case you're left with an anxious person who can't cope with difficult circumstances.

It's excruciating to have to endure loved ones who become dependent on substances. It saps the energy out of you to deal with. Their brain is rewired to get high - at the expense of their social connections, family, reputation, and so on.

Suffering and enduring a drug abuser is a silent pain. The incentive for users to get high and for rehab clinics to make money show why the conversation is so lopsided.
Everyone in this thread getting offended by casual use of the term "real work" is missing the point. The iPad can obviously be used for "real work" -- but the point of this argument is not to criticize people and the work that they do, it's to criticize the limitations of the iPad's operating system.

Computer power users like composability, interoperability, "unix philosophy" / "do one thing well" -- whatever you want to call it -- because it's a powerful tool.

RodgerTheGreat summed it up really well:

> On a desktop, any user can invent new workflows. On an ipad, a user can only buy them wholesale. Users are at the mercy of the degree of forethought the app developers put into their designs.

Power users are frustrated because we like the iPad hardware and want to be able to use it, but Apple seems to have latched onto the idea that good tablet design requires them to sacrifice this idea. I and many others don't believe this is necessarily a requirement. Yes, the form factor is different, and you need to be careful with input methods, but good composability should still be possible, and could even be better than on a PC -- but Apple doesn't seem interested in actually trying. That's the criticism.
If you're willing to pay a $400 premium for such a device, you could just Velcro an iPad to a MacBook.
> I guess the hard to understand part is: how does a $50B company that is growing revenue at 1% annually more than double its market cap in 3 months.

This is just my opinion:

The way people were valuing Tesla is a massively valuable stock with a high potential of blowing up.

From the looks of things, Tesla has crossed into prolonged profitability. It's not a huge increase in revenue, but it is a big decrease in the chance of bankruptcy. Additionally, because Tesla can self fund and doesn't have to rely on the markets to raise money, they don't have to care very much about short sellers driving the price down.

The bull case (robo-taxis, etc.) is still there, but the chance of Tesla going bankrupt is much lower than 1 year ago, so the stock has shot up.
We'll take 'decentralized' out of the title above, so hopefully people can discuss the project itself and not debate definitions.
For a number of reasons, but the main one is what I said in my comment -- it's important to me to minimize data leakage, even for relatively trivial data.

In this age of Big Data, when it's relatively inexpensive to weave together a large number of small data points to come up with an overall profile that is truly invasive, I have to consider every byte that is sent to be a risk, and to be avoided when at all possible.
It will ~cannibalize~ eat Toyota Rav 4 and Ford Escape sales as well.
Home Price-to-Income Ratios
I've heard the theory that the music you like/hear/is new to you at 14 is the music that you stick with for life.
They weren't profitable in 2019 though.
Uh huh.

That's a really good way to ensure that a movement to boycott any of your products gets off the ground. Also yet another page in the saga of how businesses are trying to utilize legal asymmetry to dwindle consumers and creative's out of their rights through draconian contract terms with no process for a good-faith "meeting of the minds" by two individuals of "equal-standing" to actually hash something out.

In fact, this type of thing has widespread repercussions for affecting the way in which two parties come together to do casual business.

For heaven sake, one is buying a game, not getting married. Should a business Start being that dictating abusive terms to that degree and I'd make sure I become an extremely vocal figure against doing business with said business to anyone who'll listen, and I hope others who understand the ramifications and what is at stake will do the same.
Shorts got squeezed?
Yeah the slow-downs are killing me on my Mac book. Everything starts off fine but after a few hours (usually right when I'm in the zone) the whole system just grinds.

I've started experimenting with coding on a remote docker host using vscode's remote connection feature.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else had gone down this path?
R&D hasn't been up to depreciation for a year.
Things Americans need to learn from the rest of the world’s health care systems
Please don’t add a mouse cursor to iOS, No!

I assume you're talking about iPadOS.

I use the new mouse support in iPadOS all the time, and absolutely love it when I'm using my iPad like it's a laptop computer at my desk. It's so much more comfortable and ergonomic than constantly reaching up and pawing at the screen.
I.e. in effect being killed by the US "justice" system.
This is an intentional design decision in the language - not having lambda functions / functions as first-class citizens makes the code easier to optimize internally.
Responded here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186544
This.

I developed a number of Air mobile apps back in 2012-2014 and all the blame is on Adobe. Flash was extremely inefficient and Adobe didn't want to invest the necessary resources to properly bring it to the mobile world.

Adobe cancelled AS4 (aka Flash Next) which would have made Air a very competitive crossplatform solution. They shifted all its resources into HTML5 to throw a bone to the Flash community and it was a complete failure.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=actionscript-...

Don't get me wrong, it probably made economical sense for Adobe but it was a shame.
Problems with mushrooms?
This article is about psilocybin mushrooms though, not whatever abusable substances you're talking about.
As a TSLA ahareholder I'm enjoying this ride but am honestly equally puzzled. The numbers are not good. On a related note: FB has been profitable for years, is growing earnings each year by more than 20% and just beat wall street expectations, which wall street rewards with -6% on after-markets trading. Huh?!
Tesla delivered ~250k cars in 2018 and ~360k cars in 2019. In the 4th quarter, they had a run rate of >400k, and it is expected that 2020 will produce at least 500k. I'm purely focused on why people see it as a growth story, despite some numbers implying otherwise.

Its a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the industry, so I wouldn't expect it to be possible to tease out the impact on other manufacturers in a reliable way.
Given that if this particular CEO were to, like, physically die (or even just throw in the towel) _Tesla_ would immediately die, I challenge this view of the situation. Even in its current, more stable state, this is a good signal that things are going well - this is not something most people can fake, certainly not people "on the spectrum" like Elon.
I do!

TCL is perhaps my favorite scripting language of all time.
OK...? I said nothing about the fact there are many more people who lost money or that this isn't akin to gambling.

But there are few investments outside of options that can turn a few hundred dollars into $1M in a matter of weeks.
npm watch on a host mounted volume is a pretty good way to kill performance though.
Tracking Karoo Basin “Firewalkers”: Footprints of Dinosaurs and Mammaliaforms
I don't disagree with you on this, but I hope you are also including alcohol?
I'd suggest to first fix the accounting. So you introduce a tax which is exactly nulled by a subsidy. This is much easier to get through Congress. Once you have the accounting in place, you can start pushing to lower the subsidies.