skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Precisely my experience as well! I also wish Edwin would get some sort of corporate backing so that Idris could be funded to get into production-ready mode. Idris2 is much faster (both compilation wise as well as execution wise) than Idris1, but the standard library is not done (as are parts of the language itself).

I would love to be able to write production code in Idris rather than patching together a million Haskell extensions.
Apple used Object Pascal to write their OSes until they bought NeXT.
You may be interested in https://able.bio

Myself and a partner are building this, here are a few points:

- It's a community to read and write about building things with technology

- Clean, fast and light UX + Markdown editor (https://able.bio/new)

- Bootstrapped with low overheads. No outside investment removes pressure to grow at all costs and the lapse on integrity that we see more of each day.

- No data lock-in. Export your posts in a single JSON file (containing Markdown + HTML versions) accompanied by all images.

- We're finishing up a big set of data portability / data respect features, which we plan to announce soon.

The aim is to build a community of capable people with a genuine interest in technology and attach a job board to the site. Companies can then pay to display their vacancies on the job board and users can take a look whenever they like. No popups, banners or any of that dodgy/spammy crap getting in between users and the reading/writing. In this age we see integrity towards our users as a differentiator.

Building it is fairly straightforward and fun. Some learnings we've gained in terms of 'jumpstarting' it:

- a lot of people are vehemently sceptical after the Medium debacle.

- creating a feed that prioritises good content without "censoring" dev spam or trivial posts is tricky when coming off a smaller user base. For example, upvotes can have outsized effects.

- getting regular volume of good content so that people use Able as source of news/inspiration/learning.

We've had some great posts from people but we need just that little bit more to get the flywheel going. As soon as someone posts something, activity on the site goes up but then dies down again. It's the classic building vs. promoting trade-off. However, we've chosen to get data portability and respect right first as we believe this is fundamental. We're wrapping that up now and then have loads of learnings and ideas we want write about.

We feel that same potential 'renaissance' you're talking about and this is how we want to try and activate it. If you feel inclined, have a look and let us know what you think.
Or maybe you do, but simply refuse to play the game due to ethical and moral grounds.
I think this is sadly very true - trying to actually be a kind person really limits how well you can play "the game".

There's no good solution to this either - if there was more kindness in the world, then that would just create even more opportunities for the people playing the game to get ahead, because they would have more victims to exploit.
That's why I switched to Adguard Home: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html
You can make custom configurations per device, OS or a different label you give them. So you can have your wife see their ads while still blocking your smart TV from calling home.
He said success, not wealth. Yes, obviously someone inheriting their parents' billion dollar business is wealthy, but I wouldn't consider them successful unless they've done something on their own.
Nearly 100,000 people have died of COVID19 and there’s good evidence that this is a substantial undercount. All this in a context where we shut down transmission vectors (being indoors, with lots of people). Most estimates I’ve seen suggest we’ll hit 150k-200k deaths by end of year. 2017-2018 flu season killed about 80,000 with no mitigation efforts. Just on the face of it, this virus is far more than 2x deadlier than the flu.
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What tech company has the best free food?
Was talking with some Facebook and Google friends. They say the food is good at FB/G but it's not exceptional. What tech company has the best free food out there?
Yep really safe, Google and Microsoft security centers can confirm that.
Please add RSS to the site. Would've loved to subscribe via my Feedly reader.
"Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!" ― Llonio (Lloyd Alexander)
Just like the GC-vs-non-GC debate, emotions like yours are perfectly understandable, if not fully justifiable. We are humans, after all.
> The next time Facebook needs a public relations injection, it should consider using someone other than the co-founder of Onavo.

It seems like they knew exactly what they where doing. They want money and I don't believe for a second that the most ethical road is where the money is, you have to be able to say no to money and Facebook clearly shows us time and time again that money has the highest priority.

The highest value seems to be in companies that brand themselves as trustworthy but really isn't. No matter if it is Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Google or Nestle.
Hydrogen tops out at 142 MJ / kg. Disappointing that so few here are aware of this basic fact.

It seems obvious that if you want the density of liquid fuels, hydrogen is the answer. Compromising yourself with a lower energy density substance stands as a very difficult problem to solve.
2011 is the context: a height of the start-up wave, ascendance of FB--presumably due to "genius". The implication being that if you are really smarter than others you must have the rewards to show it. Hopefully this would be received today as a tone-deaf denial of privilege. The great myth of meritocracy has been blown apart.
Personally I had very much opposite experience with Google Ads support. For the person who buy ads it's exceptional and with available phone support even if you only buy ads for $100. They can literally explain how every single thing work on their system, giving advice on how to improve campaigns or fix something.

It's very much opposite when it's come to AdSense, but again they don't really care when some webmaster lose his source of income since there will be other webmasters to replace him.
Because you're an idiot too. Also me. We're all just muppets, with blind spots, distorted perspectives and emotions that override reason. Some idiots are just lucky in the right ways at the right times.

Hey, at least it's consistent.
Most enterprise apps that I encounter seem to be massively overcomplicated for what they actually do.

I think the big issue is every app I use/develop in the enterprise needs single sign on and fine grained access control.
Those modern requirements create a minimum layer of complexity that really slows things down.

But yeah, the whole enterprise programming world really missed an opportunity with JavaFX. For all the shit they get being able to deploy desktop apps in a virtual environment is really powerful.
I do think the CDC numbers seem strange - when I search for "flu IFR" and "coronavirus IFR" what I find for flu is 0.04-0.2% and for coronavirus it's more like 0.4-1%. So these CDC best estimates seem to make the comparison more favorable than the numbers found in other places. It seems like a factor 6 or so difference is realistic, which makes it quite a bit more serious than the flu.

One thing that worries me more about coronavirus than the flu is that it can cause lasting lung damage. I personally think that the higher mortality and the possibility of permanent damage in people who survive justify restrictions, but I guess that's a matter of opinion.
And sometimes that game is rack up lots of debt. I’m only in my mid-30s but I’ve already seen multiple occasions of people being swindled by someone they thought was a multimillionaire in lending them $10,000. If you can’t understand where someone’s wealth cane from, there’s a chance it doesn’t exist.
I think people like Cuban and Branson are good examples of those who "make their own luck", where they're running the business version of Monte Carlo simulation until something sticks. They definitely have the right mindset and skillset to do things like run a business successfully, but obviously the probability of success increases with the number of attempts.
Why you should understand (a little) about TCP (2015)
There is already a name for this type of interaction. It's called sales.
Imagine if we could put a metal object in the sky that would allow us to talk to anyone in the world instantly?

Imagine if we could take someones blood, clean it, and put it back ..

Imagine if we could gain access to the NSA's extensive documents and discover what they're really doing with that tax-payer money ..

I mean, Imagine ..
I'm very surprised when I realized that nano hadn't support undo/redo until recently (undo Enabled by default around 2016).
Really? So is being smart completely useless, or does it help everywhere except with getting rich?
> people in the US kind of have them sometimes, assuming they’re the right color or have enough money

Complete hyperbole. Squint as hard as you can but the poorest minority in America is still better off than almost anyone in China. Yes we have a racial profiling problem but on the whole we have our rights much more than "kind of sometimes."

Yeah, we have an incompetent administration this time around. At least we have real elections with more than one real candidate.

Last part is a total non sequitur and would make as much sense flipped around.
What do you call people like me who is an anti-materialist and believes the religious impulse that a vow of poverty will make it easier to achieve enlightenment -- but keeps falling ass backwards into money.
No, but starting with wealth makes it much easier to succeed at other things.
Thank you for stating the obvious! My point was that there are cheaper and better git GUI tools - many of them free, some paid, yet, cheaper. $100 is way too much for something you get better and for free or less. For example, VS Code + plugins like Git Lens is better than Sublime Merge.
The fact that you're on it is 90% of the strategy.
Unfortunately C# and the rest of .NET ecosystem (and for that matter Java and rest of JVM) are not fully 64bit capable to this day and will probably not be fully 64bit capable for the next decade if ever.
What do I mean with this? .NET and JVM native arrays use 32bit indexes and most standard container classes also use 32bit indexes so you cannot have more than 2^31 elements.
Who needs that many elements in the array?
No-one who develops in these environments...because they can't have them so they move to something that can.
Yes. 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A).
It's comparing 0.4% and 0.2% but not mentioning infectiousness (covid-19 appears more transmissible). 0.4% of a very large number will be considerably more people than 0.2% of a much smaller number.

It says we do precisely nothing for flu and that's incorrect. We have internationally coordinated programmes of vaccine development and we have annual programmes to vaccinate as many vulnerable people and healthcare workers as possible. We have programmes of flu monitoring and surveillance that tell us what strains of flu are circulating, who is being affected by it, and whether we need to create more surge capacity.

Notice that flu always puts pressure on healthcare systems -- hospitals get fuller, and they often try not to book as many elective surgeries during winter -- but they're not, even in bad flu seasons, overwhelmed. We don't have temporary morgues set up in container lorries in car parks. Funeral homes don't get overwhelmed.
The grand parent comment probably made the same mistake because there isn't any country where the mean mother age at first birth is 32 or 33, that is, 6 years more than US 26.3 or 26.9 (depending on sources).
>>> forced to think like a programmer

That is the failure of every ORM and visual programming tool I have seen.

(But i happen to think that being forced to think like a programmer is good - on the order of being forced to think like a literate person would have been a few hundred years ago)

But interesting if you can do it.
Which leads to the following:
How do you measure if someone is a good president? What measurements do you use to claim Trump is not a good president?

Surely it can't be approval ratings since you can't expect public to understand nuances behind the decisions and what the president actually has to be doing? It can't be just GDP because GDP might have been going up anyway? It can't be what the president is saying in public and how many of those facts are wrong since this doesn't mean what actual decisions the president is making.
I think that product template could use either `aria-hidden="true"` or `aria-label="bear"` HTML attributes for screen readers sake (and reconsider title and OG properties); not an expert in this area nor having SR at hand, but I guess that

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would sound like 'pharyngeal voiced fricative - bullet - letter ain - bullet - glottal stop', what is hardly beneficial for screen reader users. Cool Unicode "picture" though, it's a pity such doodles hurts accessibility (sad smiley).
There's also hydrogen fuel cells to consider, which at 142 MJ / kg and 50% efficiency looks like this:

1 kg * 142 MJ / kg * 50% = 71 MJ mechanical

The dominant solution above all else.
The first part of your comment is my sentiment watching this from Europe. I disagree with the second part though.
And that many smart people have better things to do with their time than making more money. I have everything I need and really want. I much rather play with my three year old son in the garden than being able to afford a new Tesla.
People call people idiots instead of trying to understand how they made a mistake because of fundamental attribution error. We all do it.

People are predominantly successful because of luck. Opportunity, connections, upbringing, all luck. Yes, you still need to make the right decision at the right time.

There is a pernicious tendency to make a fallacious argument for intelligence because of success; that is, people become convinced of intelligence because of success. The most obvious example today is the president of the USA. He is convinced of his own intelligence because clearly he is one of the most successful people in the country. I don't think many reasonable people would argue for his genius. On the other end of the spectrum, it seems obvious to me that in the billions of poor people on this planet there is an unknown genius unable to escape his or her circumstances.

We make mistakes. We don't try to understand the mistakes of others as we call them idiots. We are not necessarily capable of succeeding even if we are smarter than those that have.
This is a stressful stage of life for a lot of people. The quarter life crisis is very real. Young people tend to have young kids, or roommates, or tiny apartments, and working from home is a larger strain, especially at the entry/junior level which is a stressful rat race in many fields. Plus you don't have much wealth built up if you do get laid off, and little experience on your resume to justify being rehired quickly.
Anyone want to hazard a guess at the total comp of a VP @Facebook? Curious

I hope there are more people at the top with the integrity to stand up for injustice like Tim Bray. I have all the respect in the world for someone who puts their neck on the line for what they believe in. Thank you Tim @tbray

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-...
What I mean is that while the compiler is strict its fairly easy to throw something together that mostly works. The large standard library really helps there. It's certainly not as easy as in Python though.
Isn't a day on HN unless someone complains about web development while pining for the days when they were building command line calculators in COBOL on their mainframes while sipping espresso with Turing and Dijkstra.
I agree with the premise of this article. That armchair quarterbacking is rarely helpful and usually oversimplified.

But I dislike the common implication in the headline, which is that intelligence somehow always equates to wealth.

First of all, it's not always easy to judge how wealthy another person is, no matter their profession or outward appearance.

Secondly, I think we all need to disuade ourselves of the notion that everyone in the world wants to become wealthy. Plenty of extremely intelligent people are perfectly happy where they are and are perhaps smarter for not chasing wealth like all those genius entrepreneurs. Just look at the lives of those we idolize so much for their success. Do you really want that life? A lot don't. And there is a good chance people more intelligent than those "successful" people don't want that life either.

Additionally, I know quite a few wealthy people that are rather dim. But they were hard workers and an opportunity presented itself because they were at the right place at the right time and they took advantage of that opportunity and worked it dry.
> if you are a cashier at McDonald's, you can technically say that you "process high-frequency cash transactions for multi-billion dollar company on rotating supply-demand cycle"

I'm not sure this is technically accurate. The transactions a cashier at McDonald's handles would usually be "for" the franchise where they work, not for McDonald's itself.
Is there a more powerful political position he could have?
Yes you can. You just had to pop out of the right vagina.
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Sure, but 2x deadlier than the flu just means 2 flu seasons. It's not great, but we don't do half-lockdowns fur 1 flu season. Why do a full lockdown for the equivalent of two flu seasons?
Google support in general (and YouTube specifically) is one of the most incompetent, entitled, and utterly useless systems that exist. Your feeling of YT doing their best doesn't match the reality of how incapable, slow and unhelpful they are. There are many stories of YouTube channels being taken down, receiving strikes for false copyright claims, or just demonetized based on the whims of some virtue signaling employee.

Automating thins is fine, and even getting things wrong is okay. YouTube is nothing without the content that's on it, so it goes without saying that any money-making channel deserves expedited support, especially in cases like this one.
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I did a couple of small projects in Python using wxWidgets recently, and I was surprised at how easy it was (as well as how consistent the results were between Windows and Mac OS).
Not just America, but all nations have decided that let's gut out the local manufacturing of goods, allow complete exploitation of labor in one country and then reap the benefits. Now there is only one place that knows how to make stuff. Executives benefited tremendously at the expense of their homeplace. This way the entire fabric of the country tears apart and gets so tangled that voices of reason, science, truth and liberty gets drowned and no one knows what to believe anymore. The state of democracy is in danger. From top-bottom to left-right, the entire nation is dividing and these troughs will not be easily coalesced. Don't worry, services are starting to go to this centralized authoritarian regime too, not just physical goods.
Why would it shorten the growth period compared to mainstream platforms, where there are far more users who could join the community? Is there any evidence that this is the case?
He did become President of the USA so I think the answer is yes.
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Seems nice, but it would be nicer if I can sign in to the app. Sign In With Google doesn't work.
Because at the low level, everyone is an idiot.
The real reason is likely HN's broken auto-capitalization system.
Luck just determines specific momentary opportunities that that have the potential to set you in the right direction. The thing is, you need to be prepared to take advantage of those opportunities, as well as work on increasing the occurrence rate of those opportunities.

It’s like playing blackjack. Ultimately, it all comes down to luck, but you are significantly increasing your chances of winning by employing certain (legitimate) strategies rather than playing your hand randomly and hoping for luck to hit you.
Isn't antidepressants in America one of the reasons of the opioid crisis...?
Less 'add perspective' than 'spinning' or 'trying to manage a situation'.

> that we still have a bigger chunk of people in jail

Provide a citation. I believe this figure is true for the US (you are saying you are in the US I take it?), so cite it. It's a strong and damning figure so bring it to the front.

> Han Chinese don't go to prison just for criticizing the government

Do other ethnicities? Why does ethnicity matter here? Does ethnicity make a difference in chinese law?

> They go to prison if they start getting organized, holding meetings, being an alternative political party

In this respect the US and the UK are better because you don't. Mind, I've no great trust in the government not to 'keep an eye on troublemakers' as they'd put it, in fact there's a long history of infiltrating groups in an immoral and downright illegal way sometimes, but they strongly tend not to end up in prison.

> Xinjiang...

I've not heard of this. Could you provide some pointers please? (genuinely curious)
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This was the most recent one: Dr Dolores J. Cahill PhD Immunology and molecular biologist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ti6isM-NY

I'll hop by later a drop some more if you want
Are you born in the west, male and white? If you are you're lucky. And those traits will allow you, even against your best efforts to fall upwards over your lifetime.

Also, you have a couch, and get to sit on it, that's a lucky thing to do.

To be lazy is an indulgence that not all unlucky people have.
Today information is so easy to get that a lot of people think they know everything about every subject. But, like you said, reading the rules of the game does not mean you know how to play.

When a company like Netflix launches a new product it is possible they thought about this with different teams for a long time. Then it's very naive to comment on the internet to say they are wrong and made a stupid mistake.
And in lots of cases you don't need to be smart to build a successful business - time and place often matter the most.
Speaking here of my own experience.

So yeah, often idiots can be super rich and its absolutely ok.

Also you can be a genius going something without resources and connections, so there are millions of reasons why you can be way smarter than the rich guy on top while you are not rich at all.
To add to the confusion, the CDC website is calling this number CFR (not IFR), which doesn't make sense to me at all.
> One thing that worries me more about coronavirus than the flu is that it can cause lasting lung damage.

Flu can also cause lasting lung damage. All diseases inducing pneumonia can do that. I have seen no evidence that these things are more prevalent in corona than in influenza. The reason we see so many articles about the rare effects in corona and not the flu is that corona is a hot topic and news is drumming up scare stories about it for clicks.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30209189/
actually, it' timeless.
This hurt one of my competitors, they couldn't support 64 bit machines for a long time because they were using Delphi.
Or social skills, many highly gifted also have less developed social skills.
Is this an opensource project that lets you self host or some paywalled thing ?