skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the clear eyed approach to what Haskell's future may look like. I look forward to seeing the fresh ideas the programming language community continues to bring forward in this area. Does anyone know if these slides came from a talk that was recorded?
> Again it’s not like the victim of a sexual assault is saying thank god I was rapped by a non-officer.

Aside from the fact that such a victim may very well feel that way (or more likely the inverse: I wish the person who raped me had not been an officer so I could seek justice) this observation seems orthogonal to the point since it is a question of perception.

The person who has not (yet) been raped is justified in being more fearful of a random police officer than of another random human because there is the perception (and indeed often the reality) that the police officer is able to act with impunity.

Also, for some groups, each interaction with a stranger comes with a small chance that they are a criminal who seeks to do you harm, but interacting with police carries a near 100% chance that they are suspicious of you and carefully watching your every move looking to find any justification to bust you.

I am not black and I am more fearful/wary of police officers than other strangers on the street. I never even considered the actual odds before.

I have been pepper sprayed by police officers for consuming cannabis in public. I have been mugged in the night by a black man with a gun. The mugger never pointed his gun at me. When he found the food stamps in my wallet he gave it back to me and told me to "stay safe". I am more scared of random police officers than I am of black men I encounter.
> If it was a good design, then people wouldn't complain about it.

In that case, I submit that good design doesn't exist. I've never seen a major redesign that wasn't widely complained about.
> 100 spots and every voter votes on every one of them

So then all the Senators should just be from California, Texas, New York, and Florida.
Haha neat tool. Thanks!
Incorrect, the bump we are seeing now looks like it perfectly correlates to the protest. The initial spread you would see in the beginning few weeks wouldn't be noticeable, but it's laying the seeds. It's about 4-6 weeks after we see the effects of those early sees from exponential growth.
The distinction between Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens sapiens is more or less a legacy from a time where we didn't know how fuzzy the definition of 'species' was. For all intents and purposes all three are the same species of full-fledged humans and there's scant evidence humans from either denomination would even treat each other differently.
I got a 1 liner that adds a DNS record to cloudflare, with a free account and they handle all the https for my cool web demos.

Or my other 1 liner cron job that runs certbot for other demos.
yeah, most people I ask about Google Earth say "I looked at my house", or "I'm going on vacation and checked out the location".
None of these are "killer apps", or "daily use" features. After you've got selected your college, is there anything that you will use google earth for afterward?

It's an AMAZING product, I'm not taking away from the product, but the use doesn't justify the effort.
See the reply I just posted. You are comparing a Italy to a massive nation. We only had uncontrolled community spread in a few areas in the Mid-Atlantic and New England, MI and LA. Other than that, we had very few cases and locked down burning through all potential goodwill while there was nothing to lock down over.

Compare the states of New York and New Jersey to the country of Italy. That is a more fair comparison. Not USA -> Italy.

One more thing. Italy didn't beat it. As soon as free movement is restored to the EU, it will spread again. The only thing that would prevent that is the ballyhooed theory that there is latent immunity in 40-60% of the population. If that is the case, than yes Lombardy is in the clear.

But if that is the case, then we also ruined the economy over a disease that was only going to infect a quarter of the people feared, and kill even less. Changes the math, doesn't it?

Edit: Fixed my stupidity about regions of my own country.
That video implies that google.com reads the clipboard. Is google really spying on my clipboard everytime I go to search?
Would you like to live like the Chinese? No.

Would you like to have the same death rates as Italy (much higher than US)? No.

Is the disease eradicated in either country? No.

The story of who did better remains to be written.

If anything California shut down way too soon. That's the problem that no one seems to talk about.
I wonder why it isn't anywhere to be found on the home page then.
It's not a mistaken belief. People have been paying forever for meet and greets, intros, and connections--ultimately it's just an expected value evaluation. There are plenty of celebrities and icons that will make a lot of money off of tools like this. Just look at the success of Cameo. A requirement for such a startup to be successful might be that they require the celebrity to open the email and respond, in order that the customer feels their message has gotten through, but I bet there are celebrities with so much clout that they could probably make money for doing less.
For some reason headlines always seem to be number of cases or positive test results, and maybe then the number in the hospital is mentioned

The problem is that in a lot of places, the information about hospital use isn't available, isn't timely, or isn't reliable.

Hospital owners and their lobbying groups have blocked some states and county health departments from reporting such information, claiming it's "proprietary information."

One of the Las Vegas newspapers had a series of articles about it. The hospital lobbying group actually somehow "prohibited" the state from releasing the information, as if hospitals have some kind of authority over the government.
It's almost like it's spilling over from Mexico into Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and S California, and moving north from LA.

Many outlying areas of Mexico appear to be out of control. Chihuahua, for example, has a 21% fatality rate.
Try the breville "quick touch" microwave.

Not sure if it is still in production, but it definitely has jogger knobs for power and time, and both can be modified while it operates. I’ve bought two (I gave first one to my parents because I loved the usability). Only flaw that I have noticed is that the writing wears off the start and stop buttons.
Obligatory inconvergent plug, one of the titans of generative art: https://inconvergent.net/
For my simple self-publishing needs .. because I didn't make a self-signed cert for my Debian-based server, have not purchased a commercial cert, and do not want the short-term expire on LetsEncrypt.

edit- I do not have javascript-driven pages, they are PDFs or simple content
Kubectl Cheatsheet – Optimized for Usability
The link is to insecure HTTP. I think that site just doesn't support HTTPS.
Im not sure, but the Oculus Quest is constantly sold out right now...so I imagine there is going to be some growth in this space.
The only advantage I can see it where videos are not allowed to autoplay you would want a gif to play somethig small.
> I made two visits to Canada last year, and bought gas at random outlets. At no point did it feel significantly more expensive than California prices - I converted in my head every time I filled up.

This is another point. Canada is a huge place, where gas prices vary wildly even within provinces. Gas in north Ontario is often much more expensive than south. Sometimes the price in St. Catherines is 20 cents cheaper than gas in the GTA because of the 'gas wars' their stations are famous for.

> I compared prices from the same outlet: Costco. That's as apples-to-apples as you can get.

You can cherry pick information to say whatever you want. You compared a single daily station price in Vancouver to a single daily station price in CA. Costco also requires a membership and they use cheap gas to lure people in, it's not a traditional gas station (though I may look into a membership now...). This is also a time in history when gas is unusually cheap. I suggest you look at averages. There is good reason for the price difference. Although Canada produces a lot of crude, we refine almost none of it so we import pretty much all of the finished product.

That money you're saving on the apartment in Vancouver vs Mountain View basically works out to that 10k USD extra you would spend on tax you worked out earlier as well (but of course you would not make anywhere close to the same salary in Vancouver or Toronto).

If you want to move to Canada I encourage you to do so, it seems like you would be happy if you did. But to go back to my original point, if you move to a major Canadian city from a major American one with purely financial motivations, you will be sorely disappointed.

Also I wanted to work this in somewhere: https://xkcd.com/180/
This is the MacOS 11 thread all over again. Apparently no one on HN has been through a redesign...

For those of you complaining, congratulations, you've discovered ~ nostalgia ~

In two weeks you'll inevitably find the old design ugly, and forget GitHub ever looked any other way.

In 5 years, each will get another round of improved designs, and there will be a thread on HN full of people complaining about how the new design sucks and how 5 years ago was "the good old days."

The new GitHub design is objectively better.
The new MacOS 11 design is objectively better.

"Low information density" means less clutter. You find the information that matters quicker.
Changes to padding/visual separation/sizing/etc. all provide similar context to which information is important, and how items relate.
"Flat design" isn't some trend, flat icons are just easier to quickly recognize, and look far more crisp.

In both threads the degree of negativity is disappointing. Can we not have one or two positive comments on how crisp the new commit graph colors look, how nice the transparent pin dragging interface is, or how the action buttons are more prominent? Not to mention the entire code/README page. The flat rounded corner borders are very clean!

If you really don't like the rounded borders, use wget
Typically Steven posts the recording of the video within a couple of days.

https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Functional-Programming-Group/e...
Welcome to hacker news. I hope your first day is pleasant.
So the ARMV8.1 extensions aren't for emulating x86, they're a reflection of how concurrency hardware has changed over the years.

It used to be that (and you can see this in the RISC ISAs from the 80s/90s, but AIUI this is what happend in x86 microcode as well)

* the CPU would read a line and lock it for modifications in cache.

* the CPU core would do the modification

* the CPU would write the new value down to L2 with an unlock, and L2 would now allow this cache line to be accessed

So you're looking at ~15 cycles of contention from L2 through the CPU core and back down to L2 of a lock for that line.

If this all looks really close to a subset of hardware transnational memory when you realize that the store can fail and the CPU has to do it again if some resource limit exceeded, you're not alone.

Then somebody figured out that you can just stick an ALU directly in L2, and send the ALU ops down to it in the memory requests instead of locking lines. That reduces the contention time to around a couple cycles. These ALU ops can also be easily included in the coherency protocol, allowing remote NUMA RMW atomics without thrashing cache lines like you'd normally need to.

This is why you see both in the RISC-V A extension as well. The underlying hardware has implementations in both models. I've heard rumors that earlier ARM tried to do macro op fusion to build atomic RMWs out of common sequences, but there were enough versions of that in the wild that it didn't give the benefits they were expecting.

However, all that being said, atomics are orthogonal to what I'm talking about. It's x86's TSO model, and how it _lacks_ barriers in places that ARM requires them, with no context just from the instruction stream about where they're necessary that's the problem here, not emulating the explicit atomic sequences.
The worst part for me is the rounded avatars (the other rounded stuff is okay). So many pictures on github weren't built for rounding. My own avatar is cut off as well. I hope they revert it, but if it sticks around for a while I guess I'll have to update my avatar.
Yes, exactly plotting Lombardy and New York show very similar trends.

To be fair, in my opinion neither region "defeated" the virus - they just ran out of people that could be easily infected.

The seropositivity in NYC is probably pushing 30-40 percent now.
Yes but their improvment of quality of life as absolutely nothing to do with them using plastic, which is what the subject of the conversation is about.
>I suppose if i had and axe to grind against NYT it might be "obvious".

Like I said, I hope to be wrong, but I am cynical about the motives of NYT, especially given this quote from the blog post: "He told me it would be a ___mostly___ positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation." (emphasis mine) - that's a reporter buttering up Scott Alexander to get a quote and compliance until the hit piece drops.

When that article drops, we'll see. If it is balanced and fair I will own up to being wrong. Gladly. I just don't thinks so.
Well, I want my device to only be usable to me unless I say otherwise. When I sell it I'll sell it unlocked.
You use personal anecdote when we instead have dozens of services that catalogue exactly how popular browsers are. Look it up!
People interpret your words in context of an existing framework of understanding.

If I tell you "we're adding a button to the help page", you understand that "button" means "software GUI element" and "help page" means "hypetext page on the world wide web". You do not immediately get out needle and thread and start poking holes in paper.

The challenge, then, is telling people that the framework itself is wrong. In order to understand what you're saying, your words have already gone through and been filtered by the very framework you are trying to change.

VR really suffers from this. How do you get someone excited about VR by showing them flat images of it on a typical display? You can't. If you could translate the experience to a flat display then, by definition, VR wouldn't really be adding anything.

By letting a person experience the thing itself directly, you sidestep a lot of that framework and context. You don't need to get the point across in metaphor, analogies, or simulation. You don't need a persuasive map when you can literally drop them into the territory and let them both draw their own map and directly see for themselves in what ways the map is lacking.
I collected some links on generative of art if anyone is interested

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/art/generative-art#links
To treat this in good faith, I point to here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200313231227/https://slatestar...

"A subreddit devoted to insulting and mocking me personally and Culture War thread participants in general got started; it now has over 2,000 readers." That is SneerClub.

"Some people found my real name and started posting it on Twitter. Some people made entire accounts devoted to doxxing me in Twitter discussions whenever an opportunity came up. A few people just messaged me letting me know they knew my real name and reminding me that they could do this if they wanted to.

Some people started messaging my real-life friends, telling them to stop being friends with me because I supported racists and sexists and Nazis. Somebody posted a monetary reward for information that could be used to discredit me.

One person called the clinic where I worked, pretended to be a patient, and tried to get me fired.

... I had a nervous breakdown. It wasn’t even that bad a nervous breakdown. I was able to keep working through it. I just sort of broke off all human contact for a couple of weeks and stayed in my room freaking out instead.

... The first few [subreddit mods] I approached were positive; some had similar experiences to mine; one admitted that even though he personally was not involved with the CW thread and only dealt with other parts of the subreddit, he taught at a college and felt like his job would not be safe so long as the subreddit and CW thread were affiliated. Apparently the problem was bigger than just me, and other people had been dealing with it in silence."
I wonder how/if it supports unaligned jumps which x86 supports IIRC. The consequence of unaligned jumps is that it can effectively make it impossible to know the set of instructions a binary might use.
I've heard from some long-time Haskellers that there is no point in continuing using the language after the advent of Rust.

EDIT: I should have clarified I guess - interested to hear the opposite arguments (as a neutral (C++) person :)).
As long as you turn it off I'm happy. My work Mac makes too many invited noises.
That's what the NYT said it was going to be.

That's what Scott Alexander said the NYT writer said. Everything we know about this story is entirely his portrayal and version of it. You can give it as much credence as you like but it is, so far, one party's representation.
So the current administration botches the response to a pandemic but the media is blame because they politicized it?

Healthcare is a political issue. Pretty much everything is a political issue. To pretend otherwise is to bury your head in the sand.
damn this looks awesome!
I can live on much less than $80k and I actually currently do. But $2 million actually sounds like a reasonable goal. If I can get it down to $1 million then that will be achievable.
I switched to Ubuntu for work about a year ago, I've done zero fiddling since the day I set it up. Linux has really come a long way even in the last 5 years, IMO. I still have a 2015 MBP that I use for my personal work and it's still solid.
They are saying $100M in transactions have taken place on their app store, and a handful of the most popular titles have made $2M each. Not that developers are burning $5 to make $1.
> If anything California shut down way too soon. That's the problem that no one seems to talk about.

What?
You make a good point. See Croatia for a similar example in the EU. However we have the advantage of final control over our borders (sovereignty is pooled upwards, not flowed downwards here) - so we are better able to tailor our response and deal with problem areas (Sweden, greater Lisbon).
Because it remains the fastest way to launch and iterate on a product, even in 2020. You could certainly augment it with a React or Vue on the front-end, but Rails is pretty unbeatable even now.
The sidebar it had seems to waste too much space, though. It's just 5 links meant for navigation. They'd be better arranged horizontally. I can agree that it's clearer than what we had a few days ago, having only 1 navbar instead of 2, but that's also because it has a lot less features than GitHub has now.
I did the same. It’s strange to buy a Safari extension on the App Store, but I bought stopthemadness and 1Blocker and I’ve been satisfied for years.
Scott Aaronson has a great reply to a question that directly answers what you're asking, I will quote it below in full and link to it:

>Would you say that you, personally, have ever experienced true free will? And if so in what situation(s)?

I would say that I exerted the “maximum amount of free will” (at least, the maximum that I’ve experienced) in those rare cases when I did something not because the people around me wanted or expected me to do it, or because it was the natural thing to do for someone in my situation, but simply because I wanted to and damn what people around me thought.

Here are some examples:

– In 1994, when I pushed my parents and the administrators at Hong Kong International School to let me start skipping grades.

– In 1996, when I left home at age 15, to attend a program at Clarkson University that I’d literally learned about from a mass-mailed brochure.

– In 2000, when I set up a website called “In Defense of NaderTrading” to try to prevent the election of George W. Bush. (Had I exerted my free will some more, and gotten more attention for the site, maybe we would’ve gotten just 539 more vote-swaps in Florida…)

– In 2001, when I dropped everything else I was doing to work on a ridiculously ambitious problem, one that even Andris Ambainis hadn’t solved: namely, lower-bounding the quantum query complexity of distinguishing 1-to-1 from 2-to-1 functions

– In 2002, when I decided to waste a month building a huge zoo of complexity classes, and another month reading and reviewing Stephen Wolfram’s book (despite being a totally unknown grad student)

– In 2005, when I started a blog called (of all things) “Shtetl-Optimized”

– In 2006, when I asked my boss, Ray Laflamme at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, if I could teach a crazy course called “Quantum Computing Since Democritus”

– In 2009, when I spent a whole weekend in a difficult, contentious, incredibly personal email exchange with some postdoc in Princeton who I barely knew, then accepted her invitation to take the train there to continue arguing in person. (Over the next 3 years, that postdoc would become my girlfriend, fiancee, wife, then mother of my first child.)

With these examples in mind, I can finally explain something that seems to have perplexed many people: namely, why I reacted to SneerClub and its fellow travelers, not merely as some annoying nobodies shitposting on social media, but as an existential threat, a coronavirus of the mind. And this despite the fact that, at least 3/4 of the time, I’m politically closer to the sneerers than to those they attack.

The reason is that, with laser precision, the sneerers target the urge to “exercise one’s free will.” Like, they spend hours perfecting and refining mental kryptonite against the impulses of nerds like me to say what they’re thinking or do what they want, and damn the disapproval or the quizzical looks of those around them. The sneerers’ worldview, even when one happens to agree with them, is poisonous to the little hothouse flower of nerdian freedom that led to almost everything that was good in my life.

Source: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4684#comment-1833463
Sure, let's just take politics out of things that affect people.
lol. The idea that people in cancel culture aren't literally the institution right now.

This is the hilarious thing about this worldview. As you people gain more and more power you have to keep positioning yourself as the underdog.

You're not the first ideology to do this, and you won't be the last. EVERYBODY sees right through this even though you all pretend not to... but most importantly the kids see right through it. This is why Gen Z hates millennials so much.
This is certainly true if you insist on living a 10 minute walk to your office downtown. But there's plenty of cheaper options just a 30-45 minute train/bus ride away (can't speak to biking or driving).

This isn't true of Vancouver and I'm not sure why.
What is the death rate of Italy given demographics? Is it still "much higher than [the] US"?
As a Rustacean, I find that silly. There's a lot to love about Haskell.

I'd be interested in hearing from your Haskellers what it is about Rust that renders Haskell obsolete. As it stands, I can only construct straw men, and I'm not really willing to do that.
I agree. I dislike the Mac UI, particularly Finder. The one Mac tool I use and love is the screenshot shortcuts. Other than that, 99% of my time is spent in the terminal and Sublime Text, and Firefox.
Your child's teachers make well over the 90th percentile for kindergarten teachers.[1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252012.htm